"Phew... phew..."
Amid the boundless sea, a figure stood upright, rising and falling with the waves.
His mouth hung slightly open as he panted in great heaving breaths.
His once-handsome face now looked rather savage.
Even more savage were the dense wounds covering his body.
His shoulders, neck, arms, waist, abdomen, thighs, joints, and fingers all bore wounds great and small. Flesh curled back, and blood flowed without cease.
To Luo Chen, this was an utterly inconceivable thing.
With Source Power within him, even when the Nether Earth Dragon had destroyed half his body with a single strike, he could have consumed most of his Source Power and rapidly reassembled himself.
For wounds to remain unhealed for so long as they did now, there were only two possibilities.
One was that his Source Power had been overly depleted, leaving him no time to heal the wounds large and small.
The other was that the enemy's attacks carried some unique attribute, making the wounds exceptionally difficult to recover from.
And at this moment, both circumstances had appeared on Luo Chen at once.
"She is even stronger than I imagined!"
Luo Chen drew a deep breath, then pressed his lips tightly together. His Crimson-Eyed Golden Pupils had long since opened, staring fixedly at everything around him.
Through their continuous clashes, Luo Chen had gradually uncovered some of the secrets behind Qing Shuang's body-tempering method.
Like him, she was not a traditional Body Refinement Cultivator and had not taken the path of Qi and Blood Transformation.
Yet unlike him, who drew upon vast external resources and turned them into boundless physical might, Qing Shuang's strength in body tempering lay in her main body!
Her main body was the divine bird Qing Luan from Immortal God legends!
Unlike ordinary demon beasts, who focused on