Lu Sheng truly was not afraid of Gongsun Zhang Lan. Though she too was a Spirit Focus expert who cultivated both inner and outer arts, even among those of the same level, there were stronger and weaker ones.
Their realms might be the same, but he bore the power of three great internal arts—equivalent to the cultivation of an ordinary person over a hundred years. If word of that got out, it would be simply horrifying. No one would believe it.
Setting everything else aside, if Lu Sheng merely compared internal strength and fought someone head-on, he could drag them to death alive.
Ever since his exchange with Li Shunxi, Lu Sheng had gained a deeper understanding of his own strength and internal cultivation.
The Black Fiend Skill was powerful, but not in quite the way he had imagined. Rather, after his modifier had enhanced it, it had become far too potent, instantly granting him the deep inner force that others needed decades to attain. Coupled with his reckless expenditure of that inner force, it would have been strange if the destructive power had not been immense.
And when he thought back, he had first practiced the Jade Crane Skill. Only after its inner qi had accumulated to the extent of several decades' worth for an ordinary person had he begun cultivating the Black Fiend Skill. Thus, when he truly began using the Black Fiend Skill, he had already had the Jade Crane Skill supporting him from behind.
With two great internal arts within him, the Jade Crane Skill provided the Black Fiend Skill with incomparably powerful qi recovery and an enormous reserve of inner force. From the very beginning, the power it could unleash far surpassed its normal state.
That was why it seemed so overwhelmingly powerful.
Even water