Defeated!
It had truly taken only one punch—clean and decisive to the extreme. If Upper True Haoyuan had not intervened in time, Zhen Gao would have been beaten to death on the spot!
At that moment, even the Great True Lords showed strange expressions. As for the Dharma Power Dao True Lords present, and the Star Lords watching from afar through various Array Treasures, disbelief gradually crept across their faces. At Lu Yang's fingertips, the lingering glow of the Calamity Baleful Light was especially blinding.
Was he really this strong?
Everyone could tell that Lu Yang had not attacked at all in the beginning. He had simply allowed Zhen Gao to attack him, only throwing that punch at the very last moment.
It was the first punch, and also the last.
If Lu Yang had not deliberately held back, if he had unleashed such a ferocious attack with his first punch, would Zhen Gao not have died on the spot before Upper True Haoyuan could react?
He wasn't actually that bad.
Lu Yang chuckled inwardly. The Calamity Baleful Light required the Rebirth Aspect to bear the harm and store power through being struck before it could erupt with its greatest might.
So he had not taken those blows for nothing.
The reason he had allowed Zhen Gao to attack him was partly because he had confidence in his Dharma Body, and partly because he was strategically showing off. He had put some thought into it.
Otherwise, with Zhen Gao's miraculous method of dismantling profound spells, tracing them back to their origin, and turning them back into dharma power, Lu Yang could not have defeated him in a single move. He would have needed at least three moves, and Zhen Gao could still have struggled a little in between. But then,