His voice was far from loud, but he made sure to i with his qi so everyone on both sides would hear him. An a that made Zarix cough a mouthful of blood out of anger and shame.

  Yasha stared coldly at the arrogant young ape-man. What was going through his mind, only he knew.

  Ace didn't know what to think at that point. Using his [Observation], he could sehat purely in terms of energy, Wukong couldn't pare to his oppo. Still, somehow, that st strike had actually stepped into the realms of saints in terms of power, faintly suppressing the energy reserves of the bear.

  Even though he hadn't been in this world for long, even he uood that such a feat should've been impossible, a, somehow, he had aplished it.

  He didn't know if there was a ninth step, but he khat even if there were, there was no way Wukong would be able to perform it. He could sehat Wukong's dantian was almost empty of its mageforce, and unfortunately, despite his gruesome-looking injuries, Ace could sehat Zarix's life force was far from his limits.

  If Wukong were going to win, he'd have to rely on his ability as a warrior. Still, looking at the fident aed grin on his face, Aderstood that was exactly what the man wanted.

  "DIIEEEEE!" Zarix roared.

  His paw, which was no smaller thaorso, tore through the air with unbridled ferocity as it aimed to turn Wukong's grinning fato pulp, but Wukong was anything but a slouch.

  Zarix's paw only hit his oppo's afterimage, but it was a good thing Venerin had ordered his men to move back as the area where they had been was instantly reduced into a bst site.

  Ace could only gulp in shock as he realised that if this beast were released into his old world, it'd likely take the joint efforts of at least two, probably three, of the four emperors to defeat it.

  As he got lost in his thoughts, he was dragged back to reality by Wukong's sudden h.

  "Oii brat, pay close attention. I'm now going to show you the different levels of prehension for warriors!"

  Hearing Wukong's audacious words, Zarix's eyes gzed over. Never in his life had he felt so humiliated. He had just bee a saint, a feat which should've been his greatest achievement to date, but now, he was being used as a dummy for someo the eighth rank to teach a child.

  He let out a deafening roar that burst the eardrums of several of the weaker members of both armies. Even Ace, who was the furthest bad had also reacted quickly by c his ears, could hear nothing but ringing as he stumbled around, trying to steady himself from his dizzy spell.

  A helpless sigh escaped Wukong's lips when he saw the effects of his oppo's furious roar. "Was that really nece-"

  Zarix had had enough of Wukong's arrogance. He unleashed a wild barrage of attacks aiming to reduce the ape into a burnt heap of monkey meat. Unfortunately, Wukong was simply too fast!

  No matter what he tried, he was uo so much as graze the lower hem of Wukong's robe.

  "STOP RUNNING AWAY!" The bear roared furiously.

  "This king wouldn't be dodging you now if you hadn't disorientated everyoh that annoying roar of yours," Wukong replied with a frustrated accusatory tone whily added to the beast's wrath.

  Each of the bear's attacks id waste to their battlefield, but Wukong showed no difficulty avoiding each blow.

  "Finally!" Wukong excimed upon notig the return of Ace's focus. "This king show you the different stages of prehension."

  As he said that, Wukong's body disappeared in a fsh, avoiding the ining paw from above. Zarix's terrifying cw crashed into the ground, creating but another devastating crater.

  Ace, who'd only just cleared his head and steadied himself watched in shock as Wukong's appeared on the shoulders of the beast, casually stood looking him dead in the eye.

  "This king was gonna wait for you to bee oh yive to expin this to you, but having a live target for my demonstration works eveer," Wukong expined as he dodged atack. "As you already know, the first stage of prehension for warriors allows them to bee oh their on."

  Zarix opened his mouth just about to release another furious roar when Wukong's staff came crashing down oop of his snout. It did virtually no damage, but it was enough to catch the bear by surprise, interrupting him before he could release his roar.

  Zarix entered a wild frenzy as he tried his best to nd a hit on Wukong, but the monkey-looking maly danced around him as he struck each of the beast's oints.

  To Ace, who had suppressed his shock so he could pay close attention to Wukong's dispy, the substitute teacher of his future school looked like an artist, and the battlefield was his vas. Whether it was his timing or teique, each strike was literal perfe.

  "Being oh your on not only grants you more trol but also allows you to attack with greater speed and power," Wukong said as he allowed each attack to flow beautifully from oo the .

  Still, even with the injuries it had sustained from the st lightning bolt, its defenses were too resilient to be pierced by attacks of that level. Fortunately, Wukong was far from done!

  "The stage of prehension is called wielding. Like this king told you earlier, prehending it allows you to wield heavy ons as though they were light ons allowing you to attack at high speeds whilst retaining your usual power." Wukong said as his attacks suddenly picked up speed.

  Despite fog as much as possible, Ace was uo catuch as a glimpse of Wukong's attacks. Even his oppo, a saint-level magical beast, struggled to keep up, but the additional speed didn't add enough power to cause any further damage.

  But Wukong didn't seem bothered by that in the slightest as he calmly carried on with his expnation. "The flip side of that allows warriors to wield light ons as though they were heavy."

  A fident smirk suffused his lips as his staff followed a downward arc, crashing oip of the bear's snout. "Or, in the case of this king, wield a heavy on as though it were an even heavier on!"

  The sound of bones breaking rang through the air as blood and snot gushed from the bear's nose, inf all the viewers that Wukong really was capable of hurting the saint in front of him.

  Ace, who was using his [Observation] to gleam as much he could from the substitute teacher's dispy, could sehe added power in that st strike. It was like the staff had transformed from a staff to a mountain. Even the grouh Zarix splintered beh the strike.

  Ace could only sigh at the beast's ridiculous defence, as even after a strike like that, other than a fractured and bloodied nose, Zarix didn't seem too affected by it.

  "Most who reach this stage only prehend one of the two cepts at this stage. Only the most talented and/or patient of warriors prehend both, but that's not the end of the wielding boundary," Wukong expined, as a fident smile suffused his lips.

  Ace, who hung on Wukong's every word, watched in shock as he was once again uo follow the man's lightning-fast attacks, but that wasn't what shocked him. What shocked him was the damage that he was inflig. Though it wasn't much, he could see the bear's body stantly wing in pain.

  "You'd o be a genius amongst geo do this, but after prehending both cepts, it bees possible to fuse them into ohereby granting your attacks additional power and speed."

  Wukong's demonstration was shog for everyone, not just Ace. Even Venerin, one of the most powerful of those present, watched with wide eyes, feeling as though his horizons had just been expanded.

  Yasha's cold reptilian eyes became colder with each passing sed. He knew Wukong -level talent, but he never expected this. 'No matter what happens, he 't leave here alive!'

  "The third and final stage of prehension for us mortals is 'Impose.' This stage allows us as warriors to borrow from the 'imposing force' of nature. In doing so, we either use the forces of nature to press space itself around our target to keep them from moving, or…"

  Ace watched as Wukong's aura seemed te with nature. If it weren't for the fact that he was looking directly at him, Ace wouldn't be able to sehe staff-wielding warrior at all.

  Being a saint himself, Zarix was much more sensitive to the ws of heaven ah than Ace, so he could clearly sense Wukong's aura, but it was also because of this that he felt a faint threat, but it was that same feeling that brought him no small amount of joy. "Trying to pete with a saint in prehension of the natural ws? Hahaha, your arrogaruly knows no bounds."

  Ace watched as Zarix's aura also seemed to bee oh nature, all but disappearing from his [Observation], but the fire around his right paw multiplied in size and iy to the point that even the space around his paw seemed to burn.

  Ace, whose prehension was nowhere hat level, didn't ualy what he was watg, but he still refused to blink. He watched as the bear's burning cw of what may as well have been a fiery ball of death approached Wukong's seemingly simple staff thrust, but just before they made tact, he watched as Zarix's eyes threateo bulge from their sockets in plete shock.

  BOOOM!

  Despite the first line of the army being over 500 meters away, as the two attacks made tact, the shockwave from the explosio most of them stumbling back.

  Even Ace, who was on the wall, had to raise his hands to cover his face to shield him from the winds.

  Ace still couldn't seher of their energies, but as the dust was starting to clear, he heard Zarix's astonished voice. "Impossible! How could you…"

  "Just because you o prehend the forces of nature to bee a saint doesn't mean only saints are able to do it," Wukong said disdainfully from ihe dust cloud. "And this king has a better uanding of the natural ws than you!"

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