The First Time I Led an Army into Battle Alone, I Ran Into a Tough Opponent Like Bai Yuchan (Continued)

A curse squeezed out from between the bird's beak:

"Who asked you to stick your nose in? Coming to expose my roots..."

Before it could finish speaking, Wu Song had already closed in.

Zos Omog had been parasitizing Heavenly Lord Xin for some days, lying dormant within Tongbai Palace all along without much chance to make a move.

Now that it had been driven into a corner, the ferocity ingrained in its bones as a Great Old One was instead stirred awake.

"Come on!"

It also wanted to see just how strong this close-combat form of the Thunder Department's commander-in-chief it was parasitizing truly was.

The thunder hammer was raised high.

Then smashed heavily against the thunder chisel!

"CLANG!!!"

The sound of metal striking metal was no sound made by ordinary iron.

It was the thunderous qi between heaven and earth, forcibly blasted into a roar by these two Thunder Department divine artifacts in the manner of a "hammer striking an anvil"!

A blue-violet bolt of shock thunder as thick as a roof beam burst from the point where hammer and chisel met.

Yet Wu Song neither dodged nor evaded—

He chose to charge straight into the lightning.

The Samantabhadra Golden Arm lay across his chest, its fist thrust forward as he punched directly into the heart of that shock thunder.

One punch plunged into the lightning!

Of everyone watching below, Lei Zhenzi knew best just how powerful those Thunder Department divine artifacts were.

Wu Song's life-risking style of trading blows truly made him break out in a cold sweat.

Who fought thunder at such close range with nothing but bare fists?

That was heavenly lightning!

Not fireworks set off at a temple fair!

But then he suddenly remembered.

When they had been on the ground earlier, Wu Song had