As Chen Cheng charged in, the skinny man and the others set their stances, shouted sharply, then unleashed their signature divine abilities, finally forming an armless human-rod avatar.
Though it had lost both arms, with merely a single snort, this avatar's power surpassed even the damage caused by the two arms the bearded men had condensed earlier.
At that snort, Chen Cheng's Divine Soul avatar shuddered, nearly being snorted right out of his body.
"Damn, Heng-Ha Twin Energies—shaking the Divine Soul."
Chen Cheng steadied his spirit, then narrowed his eyes and said to the skinny man and the others:
"I'll have a go too."
Among the Ancient Martial Arts Chen Cheng practiced was the Heng-Ha Twin Energies Breathing Method. Coupled with his current spirit avatar, while it was not the original Heng-Ha Twin Energies divine ability, it could still achieve a similar effect.
"Heng! Ha!"
At that single cry, his voice spread outward. Splash, splash, splash—the Jin River Mouth, already trembling endlessly from the aftershocks of battle, now seemed to have come to a boil. Countless fish, shrimp, crabs, and turtles floated up from the water.
Clearly, Chen Cheng's shout had directly shattered the fragile souls of these ordinary aquatic creatures.
The skinny man and the others did not fare well either. Chen Cheng's cry had been like a thunderclap exploding beside their ears and deep within their souls.
The instinctive fear of thunder that humans were born with nearly caused them, like those ordinary aquatic creatures, to have their Divine Souls scattered and perish here.
"Urgent!"
The skinny man and the others changed their hand seals. The Deity Avatar they had manifested instantly swelled by an unknown number of zhang, one foot stomping down at Chen Cheng as though the vault of heaven itself had collapsed.
"Getting bigger, are