Worthy of You

That feeling was impossible to describe.

In that instant, he saw the sounds of growth, earth, sky, and death. Those distant echoes overlapped in one place, hidden where no one had noticed them, yet now they had become so clear.

So close at hand.

It was as though he only needed to raise his eyes to see them, tilt his ear to hear them, turn his thoughts to interfere with them, or even reach out and touch—

Bang!

A thunderous crash erupted.

The aged figure before him raised an arm, spread his fingers, and abruptly blocked Huai Shi's palm, clenching the invisible air with all his might.

With an explosive crack, razor-sharp currents of air scattered in every direction.

"Wake up, kid."

Old Man Luo still had half a steak in his mouth. He glared at the not-yet-awake Huai Shi and asked indistinctly, "You just opened your eyes and already want to tear the house apart?"

Still groggy as if waking from a long sleep, Huai Shi instinctively raised his hand and reached toward him again.

He did not clench it into a fist.

Instead, he relaxed it, spreading his five fingers as though cradling something, then gently pushed forward.

Old Man Luo's expression turned grave. He threw back his head and swallowed his lunch steak whole, his body turning iron-blue once more as he entered the Overlimit State.

Forward—with one punch!

At that instant, Huai Shi's pupils suddenly contracted. His heartbeat, pulse, breathing, the expansion and contraction of his muscles, the throbbing of his soul, the ripples of Source Matter, the operation of his Stigmata...

Every rhythm converged into one.

Following his movement, they gathered ahead.

Resonance!

Another thunderous blast rang out. The entire basement jolted, and countless specks of dust drifted down.

Old Man Luo's movement came to