"Bang—!"
At the instant the atmosphere in the alley abruptly changed, a terrifying explosion rang out.
It was the sound of the asphalt road being crushed beneath a foot.
Rearguard Water suddenly took a step forward. As the ground beneath him shattered, he shot toward Fang Li with an explosive wind like a shockwave in tow.
He was so fast that even the air trembled.
"—!"
Fang Li's eyes narrowed at once.
Before he could do anything more than react, Rearguard Water had already darted before him.
Somehow, a rod had appeared in his hand.
It was a metal rod over five meters long, more than twice Rearguard Water's height. It resembled both a knight's lance and the metal framework of an umbrella made from a building's steel reinforcement bars.
Gripping that metal rod, Rearguard Water swung it down.
"Rumble...!"
Amid a horrifying roar, the air directly burst apart along the metal rod's path.
It was an exceedingly terrifying blow.
With that one strike, let alone a human body, even the earth itself would be smashed down.
Before such a blow, a human skull was as fragile as tofu, and human flesh as weak as scraps of paper. The instant it was touched, it would become minced meat and spatter filthy blood across the ground.
Carrying such dreadful power, the enormous metal rod turned the atmosphere into a turbulent gale that swept through the surroundings.
"Clang—!"
The next second, a resounding metallic collision rang out, as though it could shake the heavens.
"Crack crack crack...!"
The instant the metallic impact echoed, the alley's ground and walls shuddered violently at its center. Like glass struck heavily, they shattered apart.
For a moment, shattered stones flew into the sky and a violent gale swept over the ground. The place where the enormous