A Nirvana Realm Demonic Beast!

Immediately afterward, amid the howl of a fierce wind, an enormous black shadow every bit as massive as the Titan Giant Ape suddenly leaped down from the nearby cliff.

Boom!

The earth shook violently, sending countless shattered rocks flying into the sky.

What appeared before the Titan Giant Ape was actually a gigantic ape-like Demonic Beast covered in black fur!

This was none other than a high-ranking Demonic Beast unique to the Ancient Battlefield of the Martial Universe-the Back-Arm Demon Ape!

And judging by the powerful Yuan Power fluctuations emanating from its body, this Back-Arm Demon Ape had reached at least the peak of the Form Creation Realm!

At the sight of this terrifying beast that had suddenly appeared, the Titan Giant Ape's muscles tensed.

He abruptly bared his fangs and assumed a battle stance as though facing a formidable enemy.

To him, when two giant beasts met in this primeval forest where the weak were meat for the strong, a fight to the death over territory was inevitable.

At the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Watching the scene on the sky screen, the Sky Azure Bull Python could not help growing nervous.

"Er Ming may have a powerful body, but that black ape's aura seems even fiercer than that whatever-it-was Form Creation Realm flood dragon from before."

"This will definitely be a bitter battle."

On Shrek Academy's sports field.

Yu Xiaogang, who had been filled with panic over Dai Mubai being crippled just moments earlier, had now found another opportunity to show his stuff.

He slapped his thigh and pointed at the sky screen, declaring loudly.

"Everyone, look!"

"This is the instinct to slaughter one's own kind!"

"But don't worry. The Titan Giant Ape is a true forest overlord of our Douluo Continent."

"How noble his bloodline is! Even Titled Douluo would struggle to withstand his monstrous strength head-on."

"Even if that black gorilla matches him in size, under the absolute suppression of his bloodline, the Titan Giant Ape will definitely tear it to pieces!"

Hearing the Grandmaster's utterly confident analysis.

The surrounding students perked up, their eyes fixed on the light screen.

They, too, wanted to see whether a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast from the Douluo Continent could regain a little lost ground in this higher-dimensional world.

Yet what happened defied everyone's expectations.

On the sky screen, the Back-Arm Demon Ape at the peak of the Form Creation Realm did not attack.

It merely scratched its furry head, a trace of humanlike confusion flashing through its enormous eyes.

It leaned toward the Titan Giant Ape, twitched its nose, and sniffed him carefully like a dog.

Faced with this sudden action.

The Titan Giant Ape froze as well, not daring to make any rash moves for the moment.

"Roar?"

The Back-Arm Demon Ape uttered a low call in the language of beasts.

To make things easier for the people of the Douluo Continent watching, the sky screen very considerately displayed a line of golden translated subtitles at the bottom of the light screen.

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: Hey, big guy, are you one of us apes too? Why don't you have even a trace of Yuan Power fluctuations?]

Seeing this line of subtitles.

The Titan Giant Ape blinked in bewilderment.

Although he possessed a hundred thousand years of wisdom, this was his first time encountering a Demonic Beast from another world that would chat with him like this.

Seeing that the Titan Giant Ape did not speak.

The Back-Arm Demon Ape grinned, revealing two rows of large yellow teeth.

It stepped forward and patted the Titan Giant Ape on the shoulder with easy familiarity.

Thump!

That slap carried the terrifying force of the peak of the Form Creation Realm.

The Titan Giant Ape's enormous body involuntarily sank, and he nearly landed on his backside.

"Hiss!"

The Titan Giant Ape sucked in a cold breath, towering waves instantly surging through his heart.

The strength of this black gorilla's casual pat was actually far greater than his own, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: Looks like you're a defective specimen born unable to cultivate Yuan Power.]

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: Still, considering you're one of us apes and managed to grow so sturdy, you probably ate some heavenly treasure by accident.]

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: Fate brought us together. Here, this is your reward.]

As the subtitles scrolled.

The Back-Arm Demon Ape casually rummaged around its crotch and pulled out a bright red fruit that gave off a rich, unusual fragrance.

It casually tossed it at the Titan Giant Ape's feet as though throwing away trash.

This was a Fire Yuan Fruit, an extremely ordinary spirit fruit in the Martial Universe.

The Titan Giant Ape hesitated before reaching out with his enormous hand, picking up the fruit, and swallowing it in one gulp.

Boom!

The instant the fruit entered his stomach, the Titan Giant Ape's eyes went wide.

An immense surge of incomparably pure energy instantly exploded inside him.

Under the impact of this energy, his cultivation, which had been stuck at the hundred-thousand-year bottleneck for so long, actually showed faint signs of loosening!

"Roar!"

The Titan Giant Ape gave an excited, low roar.

Just one unremarkable fruit was actually worth a hundred years of painstaking cultivation on the Douluo Continent!

This Martial Universe truly had treasures strewn everywhere!

At this sight.

The entire Douluo Continent instantly erupted.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, the Sky Azure Bull Python's enormous eyes filled with disbelief.

"One fruit could make Er Ming's aura surge instantly?"

"Aren't the heavenly treasures of that world a little too outrageous?"

Meanwhile, at Shrek Academy.

Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang was stunned for quite some time.

But he soon recovered, clasped his hands behind his back, and burst into a smug laugh.

"Hahaha! Did you see that?"

"This is the bloodline suppression I was talking about!"

"That otherworldly Demonic Beast must have been won over by the Titan Giant Ape's kingly, domineering aura, so it willingly offered up a treasure and acknowledged him as its boss!"

"As long as the Titan Giant Ape can gather a group of underlings in this world, he'll absolutely sweep through this forest!"

Hearing Yu Xiaogang's commentary.

The surrounding students nodded, their eyes filled with envy.

Even Tang San was secretly astonished.

It seems that as long as I don't provoke those top sects, surviving in the wilderness still offers opportunities to obtain tremendous fortune.

If I could get that kind of fruit too...

Tang San could not help swallowing, his yearning for that higher-dimensional world growing ever stronger.

Yet the scene on the sky screen soon mercilessly shattered Yu Xiaogang's fantasy.

After eating the fruit, the Titan Giant Ape excitedly pounded his chest and let out a thunderous cheer.

"Roar!!!"

The roar of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast instantly reverberated over the entire forest.

This was his usual way of proclaiming sovereignty over his territory on the Douluo Continent.

But before he could finish his second roar.

The Back-Arm Demon Ape's expression changed drastically, and it slapped the back of the Titan Giant Ape's head hard.

Smack!

That powerful, heavy slap sent the Titan Giant Ape staggering, his entire head buzzing.

"What are you roaring for? Do you want to die?"

As the Back-Arm Demon Ape roared in a hushed voice, subtitles quickly appeared.

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: You idiot! Shut up right now!]

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: This is deep inside the Ancient Battlefield! This is that lord's territory!]

The Titan Giant Ape felt terribly aggrieved after being slapped.

But considering the fruit the other party had just given him and that terrifying strength, he could only lower his head pitifully and ask in the language of beasts.

[Titan Giant Ape: That lord? Who?]

Hearing this question, the Back-Arm Demon Ape's face filled with fear.

It shrank back its neck and cautiously pointed toward the deepest part of the mountain range.

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: You country bumpkin, you don't even know the lord of this mountain range?]

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: It's the absolute overlord of the surrounding hundred thousand li-an Ancient Heavenly Demon Tiger whose strength has reached the Nirvana Realm!]

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: It usually sleeps deep in the mountains.]

[If that roar of yours had woken it up, it would have swallowed both of us in one bite as a snack!]

Meanwhile, after clearly reading those lines of subtitles on the sky screen.

Every Soul Master and Soul Beast across the Douluo Continent was so shocked that their scalps tingled.

The Nirvana Realm?!

The Nirvana Realm again!

That Yuan Sect expert who had casually refined a Ten-Thousand-Year Gale Demon Wolf earlier had been in the Nirvana Realm!

That was an existence truly capable of walking through the air and destroying heaven and earth with a mere gesture!

And a Nirvana Realm Demonic Beast actually lurked in this remote wilderness too?!

And it was even just the lord of a single mountain range?!

The Star Dou Great Forest.

The Sky Azure Bull Python's enormous body shuddered violently, its huge eyes filled with horror.

"A Nirvana Realm Ancient Heavenly Demon Tiger..."

"No wonder Er Ming's roar scared that black ape so badly."

"Compared with an existence of that level, we so-called Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts probably don't stand much chance of winning."

Meanwhile, at Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang, who had just confidently declared that the Titan Giant Ape could take in underlings and sweep through the forest.

Had now been slapped in the face once again.

"H-how could there be a Nirvana Realm Demonic Beast in this forest?"

"This defies all reason!"

In the scene, after hearing the Back-Arm Demon Ape's warning.

The Titan Giant Ape also shrank back his neck in fright and hurriedly covered his mouth with his hands, not even daring to breathe heavily.

As an intelligent Soul Beast, he could naturally sense the deadly threat faintly emanating from the depths of this mountain range.

The Back-Arm Demon Ape sighed.

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: Forget it. A fool like you will get eaten by some other Demonic Beast sooner or later if you're out here alone.]

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: From now on, you can follow me. I happen to need a laborer to haul timber in these mountains.]

[Back-Arm Demon Ape: As long as you behave and do as you're told, you'll get your share of benefits.]

With that, the Back-Arm Demon Ape unceremoniously turned around and motioned for the Titan Giant Ape to follow.

The mighty overlord of the Douluo Continent's Star Dou Great Forest.

The hundred-thousand-year-old Titan Giant Ape.

Could now only meekly follow behind like a downtrodden pushover, reduced to an ape doing menial labor.

The light screen slowly froze.

[Number Four Explorer, Titan Giant Ape.]

[Encountered a Demonic Beast at the peak of the Form Creation Realm in the Martial Universe, the Back-Arm Demon Ape.]

[Status: Under another's control.]

[Current identity: Reduced to a laboring underling of the Back-Arm Demon Ape, eking out a precarious existence alongside it under a Nirvana Realm Demonic Beast.]

[Live broadcast temporarily paused.]

At this moment, all living beings on the Douluo Continent had become completely numb.

The world's greatest support, Titled Douluo, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts-what did any of them amount to?

In that world, they were all jokes at the very bottom.

And just then.

The majestic voice from the sky screen rang out again, utterly devoid of emotion.

[Switching to Number Five Explorer's perspective...]

As ripples flowed across the screen.

The fifth explorer's figure finally appeared within the screen of light.

This was also the most controversial name in this exploration, and the one everyone looked down on the most.

Heaven Dou Empire, commoner!

Seeing this name, Yu Xiaogang, whose heart had already turned to dead ashes, could not help but brighten.

He straightened his back, as though he had regained the confidence to point out how the world should be run.

"Everyone, look!"

"This is a commoner!"

Yu Xiaogang was so excited that even his voice trembled as he pointed at the sky screen and shouted to the Shrek students around him.

"On our Douluo Continent, anyone who hasn't awakened a Martial Soul and doesn't have innate full Soul Power is trash for life!"

"This is an ironclad law, and the foundational theory of my Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul!"

"Even level forty-eight Yu Tianming and level ninety-five Ghost Douluo suffered defeat in that world, their broken halberds sinking into the sand."

"This commoner who doesn't even have a Martial Soul definitely won't survive ten seconds!"

"Just watch. Very soon, he'll be crushed to death by that world's heavy air, just like that Wang Er before him, or bitten to death by a passing stray dog!"

Hearing the Grandmaster's utterly confident verdict.

Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others around him nodded repeatedly, as though they had found a pitiful shred of comfort in those words.

"The Grandmaster is right."

"Even geniuses like us took a beating. How could a commoner possibly survive?"

"He'll probably be smashed into pulp the moment he lands."

Just as everyone from Douluo fully expected this commoner to die a gruesome death before their eyes.

The image within the screen of light finally became completely clear.

They saw that this commoner named Li Si had not fallen into some remote mountain forest.

Instead, he had landed directly on a broad, bustling training ground in Yan City of the Great Yan Dynasty!

Several large banners fluttered in the wind around the training ground, bearing the four large characters "Crazy Blade."

This was precisely where the Crazy Blade Sect, one of Yan City's major powers, was recruiting outer disciples!

At that moment, several hundred ordinary people of varying ages, dressed in coarse hemp clothing, stood on the training ground.

And Li Si had landed right at the back of the crowd.

Feeling the heavy Heaven and Earth Yuan Power around him, Li Si, who had not a trace of Soul Power, felt his legs give way and dropped to his knees with a thud, trembling uncontrollably all over.

"It's over, it's over. I'm going to die..."

Li Si's face was filled with terror as he closed his eyes and waited for death to arrive.

Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang at Shrek Academy laughed even more smugly.

"Hahaha! Did you all see that!"

"He can't even stand steadily. This piece of trash's time is almost up!"

But before Yu Xiaogang's laughter had even faded.

In the image, a burly Crazy Blade Sect instructor with a brutal-looking face walked straight up to Li Si, carrying a long whip.

Looking at Li Si trembling on his knees, the instructor could not help but frown.

"You're all skin and bones, boy. Why are you shaking like that?"

"If you want to join our Crazy Blade Sect, being timid alone won't do!"

The instructor snorted coldly, casually ladled a bowl of thick soup with a pungent medicinal smell from the large vat beside him, and held it straight out to Li Si.

"Hurry up and drink this bowl of Body Tempering Soup!"

"Then go practice the basic Through-Back Fist twice with everyone else. Let me see whether you're qualified to stay and do odd jobs!"

Looking at the medicinal soup held out before him.