Chapter 20: Xuan Zi Driven to Desperation, the Overbearing Du Busi
Xuan Zi stood suspended in the air, the greasy chicken leg in his hand now crushed out of shape, his amber eyes filled with violent rage.
He had not expected the Body Sect to be this...
"Damn it!"
"Du Busi!"
Xuan Zi let out a thunderous roar, his voice, wrapped in spirit power, causing the trees to rustle.
"Do you have any idea who that brat from your Body Sect injured? That is the great-grandson of Elder Mu En!"
Xuan Zi had clearly come looking for trouble.
But he needed a reason...
"Openly snatching a Spirit Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest and severely injuring the descendant of our Sea God Pavilion's Pavilion Master—I see that your Body Sect isn't here for a spirit ring at all."
"You are here for deliberate retaliation, intending to start an all-out war with Shrek!"
Opposite him, Du Busi stood with his arms crossed, floating in mid-air.
His burly frame exuded a mountain-like pressure, and his dark green hair danced wildly in the wind.
Facing Xuan Zi's fury!
He merely sneered, his eyes filled with disdain.
"Deliberate retaliation? Xuan Zi, you old dog, you're the same as always, only knowing how to pin labels on others."
Du Busi's voice was not loud.
Yet it carried a piercing power that struck straight at the soul.
"Spirit Beasts are ownerless things; they belong to those capable of taking them."
"If your Shrek people can't hold onto things, that just makes you trash. What does that have to do with my Body Sect?"
"You!"
Xuan Zi trembled with rage, his spirit power surging around him.
"Stop farting over there!"
Du Busi's expression suddenly darkened.
Immediately, a dark green light flared around him, and a terrifying pressure instantly pushed back Xuan Zi's aura.
"Want to fight? I'm ready anytime."
"If you don't want to fight, then tuck your tail between your legs and get lost. If that old guy Mu En is still alive, remember to pass a message to him for me."
Du Busi displayed an incomparably overbearing posture at this moment.
He waved his large hand.
"Boom—!"
The energy of heaven and earth suddenly erupted.
"The Body Sect acts just this overbearingly! Not convinced? Let him come and talk to me personally!"
"Du Busi, you!"
Just as the two were at daggers drawn and a great battle was about to break out.
A transparent ripple spread through the void without warning.
Immediately after, a young figure stepped slowly out of the distorted space.
Blood-colored killing intent, not yet fully dissipated, lingered around him.
Most shocking of all were those eyes.
The complex Mangekyo Sharingan within his right eye condensed a chilling and eerie light that pierced the heart.
Seeing the newcomer, Du Busi was slightly stunned.
Then he frowned and scolded: "You brat, didn't I tell you not to come?"
Princess Vina stood behind, looking aggrieved.
How could I have stopped him...
Lin Sheng did not turn back; his gaze was locked onto Xuan Zi like ten-thousand-year-old ice.
The hatred and mockery contained in that gaze were so intense that the surrounding temperature dropped by several degrees.
"Lin Sheng?"
Xuan Zi keenly captured this name.
Sensing the strange and powerful mental fluctuation remaining on the youth, he instantly realized.
"So you are the one who injured Bei Bei and Tang Ya, and killed the spirit ring Tang Ya needed, right?"
Lin Sheng looked directly at this nominal second-in-command of Shrek.
The corners of his mouth curled into a look of extreme disgust, and he said coldly: "People from Shrek, after all these years, are still so detestable."
"I hit them, so what? I snatched it, so what? What are you going to do about it?"
Lin Sheng's indifferent words seemed to make the very world go silent.
Although Du Busi's strength was not quite up to Mu En's, it was definitely not something Shrek could easily shake.
He had the Body Sect as his backing.
There was indeed no need to fear Shrek.
What's more...
This grudge was irreconcilable!
"What a rampant brat!"
Xuan Zi laughed in anger, the chicken leg bone in his hand crushed into powder and scattered by the wind.
He had been famous for many years.
When had he ever been so insulted to his face by a junior under twenty?
"Thinking you can be arrogant just because the Body Sect is backing you? So young and yet so vicious."
"If I don't teach you a lesson today, you will surely become a scourge to the continent in the future!"
"Obediently come with me back to Shrek and apologize."
As soon as these words were spoken.
The mockery on Du Busi's face deepened, and he gathered his spirit power, intending to make a move.
"Are you farting?"
Lin Sheng seemed to have heard the most absurd joke in the world, laughing up at the sky, his laughter filled with mockery.
"Xuan Zi, did you eat too many chicken legs that you're even spouting nonsense so fluently?"
Lin Sheng's laughter stopped abruptly, his tone becoming incomparably cold.
"What qualifications do you have to talk about rules and lessons here?"
"As a leading Elder of Shrek, you failed to supervise your subordinates strictly, allowing your disciples to run rampant in the forest—that's the first. You claim to be a top expert of the continent, yet you are greedy for food."
"Clutching that stinking chicken leg of yours while neglecting your duty, allowing Evil Soul Masters to escape right under your nose, causing the deaths of so many innocent lives—do you have the right to say that?"
Lin Sheng was merciless at this moment.
If not for his lack of strength, he would have already attacked Xuan Zi!
"Shut up!" Xuan Zi's eyes turned bloodshot instantly.
"What? Did I hit a sore spot?"
Lin Sheng gave a cold smile.
"I'll kill you, old man!"
Xuan Zi was completely broken.
What he could least face was the stain from years ago when he led the team, where his negligence led to the tragic death of students and the escape of Evil Soul Masters.
Now, his scar was being ripped open in public by Lin Sheng.
The spirit power of the Taotie Divine Ox within him instantly erupted, and a huge, earthy-yellow claw of light tore through the sky, striking directly at Lin Sheng.
"Boom—!"
"Do you think I don't exist?"
Du Busi snorted angrily, his figure flashing to block in front of Lin Sheng.
He simply threw a punch.
The dark green fist shadow collided with the giant ox claw, and amidst the roaring sound, the intense shockwave uprooted the trees below!
In the aftermath of that violent explosion.
Lin Sheng's figure stood tall like a pine tree, letting the wild wind mess up his hair.
Through the dust-filled sky, he stared fixedly at Xuan Zi with those blood-colored Sharingan.
"Xuan Zi, do you really not remember what happened six years ago?"
Lin Sheng's voice was very soft, yet it carried a chilling coldness that made one's hair stand on end.
Xuan Zi was slightly stunned. Six years ago?
Countless images flashed through his mind, yet he could never remember where he had seen Lin Sheng.
"It seems you are quick to forget."
Lin Sheng smiled, his Mangekyo Sharingan spinning non-stop, as if he were about to take action in the next moment.
The killing intent in his eyes grew stronger.
"But it doesn't matter. Whether you remember or not is no longer important."
Lin Sheng tilted his head slightly.
The look in the corner of his eyes carried undisguised killing intent, and he finally left behind words that made Xuan Zi's face turn livid.
"Xuan Zi, one day, I will go to the Sea God Pavilion and use your blood as a sacrifice."
After saying that, Lin Sheng's pupils, swirling with blood-colored light, bloomed with a distorted light.
In mid-air, only Xuan Zi was left standing alone.
He watched the direction in which the youth had left, and a chill he had never felt before inexplicably rose in his heart.
"That guy... what eerie eyes."
"How the hell did I offend him..."