Grinding

"That's very bold."

Gu Jinlai nodded.

He looked at Zhang Lu: "I defeated your people, and you're angry?"

At the same time, his body rapidly expanded.

His 1.9-meter frame instantly transformed into a 3-meter-tall giant.

At the same time, the armor that had transformed into Spirit Artifact was also revealed.

He plunged his heavy sword into the ground.

Discard the sword.

"So... come and kill me."

"Boom!"

All the Qi and Blood in his body Gu Jinlai erupted, and the power of his body, tempered by the eternal furnace, transformed into a surging torrent that flowed into his right hand, aiming to capture and kill Zhang Lü.

"You really think I'm afraid of you?"

"Dragon Slayer - Heaven Sweep!"

Faced with the explosive power of Qi and Blood that had erupted from Gu Jinlai, Zhang Lu opened his eyes wide in anger and charged forward to meet his body head-on.

He didn't use a sword, but instead...

Hand.

He wore a pair of hands that resembled boxing gloves, but with extremely sharp fingers.

Just as the two were about to collide, his body twisted at an incredible speed, and his hands, as if forged from diamond, reached out to Gu Jinlai.

A shockwave of Gang Qi slammed into his arm as the two crossed paths.

With a single blow, it felt as if a miniature bomb was inside the wrist and the back of the hand, detonated Gu Jinlai an instant...

"Crack..."

The heavy armor, gleaming with a metallic sheen, deformed and cracked at the arm!

It was actually torn apart by his Gang Qi.

This is...

A state of perfection!

"I, Zhang Lu, rose from nothing to become the Star Guardian of the Meteorite Guard. I never relied on my background or status, but on the hard work and dedication I put in! Over the years, I have killed countless Spirit Refining. Gu Jinlai, do you really think that you can fight me by simply condensing Demonic Beasts body?! Today, I will show you what true power is!"

With a sharp whistle, Zhang Lu, who had shattered the Gu Jinlai arm armor with a single blow, did not pause for the slightest.

Taking advantage of the moment Gu Jinlai had just turned around and was unable to exert his strength, he pushed the advantage of his subtle power to the limit. He took a step, turned around rapidly, and flashed in front of Gu Jinlai. His right hand, which was flashing with golden light, burst out with Gang Qi and fiercely grabbed at Gu Jinlai's throat.

"Dragon Capture - Void Shatter!"

As he made his grab, his internal True Qi roared, as if a tiger's roar and a dragon's cry could be heard, as if a mad dragon had awakened and roared out of his body.

"Die!"

The Gang Qi collided.

Gu Jinlai the grab could even reach the neck, bloodstains had already appeared.

At the critical moment, Gu Jinlai's body sank, his left foot stomped on the ground, slightly bent, and with a burst of violent force, his bent left foot suddenly straightened.

"Boom!"

The ground was cracked by flying stone chips.

Conquer the world and the four seas!

Speed burst!

He ignored Zhang Lu's grab and rammed into his body.

At this moment, he had no weapon in his hand.

But he himself is the strongest weapon.

His body was like a furnace in full operation, and the power of his Qi and Blood and qi that was instantly unleashed transformed him into a prehistoric beast, rampaging and smashing all life and matter in his way to dust.

"Um!?"

The sudden outburst, a Gu Jinlai, caused Zhang Lu's strike aimed at his neck to fall onto his shoulder.

Although he was confident that his Gang Qi and the semi- Spirit Artifact- level "Six Gods Gloves" in his hand would shatter the armor on Gu Jinlai's shoulder and even crush his shoulder blade, he would inevitably be hit by Gu Jinlai while he shattered and tore Gu Jinlai's entire shoulder blade.

Given the strength of the opponent's Demonic Beasts physique, even with the double protection of his armor and True Qi, he would still inevitably suffer broken bones and severe internal injuries from this collision.

Once the internal organs are severely damaged...

Upon realizing this, Zhang Lu abruptly stopped, and his True Qi erupted from his feet.

The divine sense of the Spirit Refining True Person, combined with the precise micro-management of his own power by the Transcendent Martial Arts, made it as if an energy jet was installed under his feet, allowing him to easily retreat several meters away and avoid the fierce impact that had been coming from Gu Jinlai.

Not only that, as he retreated in an instant, his arm trembled, and a roar of a tiger and a cry of a dragon echoed through the void once again, aiming to seize and kill the arm that had lost the protection of its precious armor for the Gu Jinlai.

With a single grab, his Gang Qi surged outwards, tearing through the void at an incredible speed, leaving no trace whatsoever.

Capture the Dragon - Limitless!

If someone gets caught in this attack, their arm will be torn to shreds Gu Jinlai.

"Is this all the power you have?! Straightforward and without any variation or technique? At this level, you can easily crush those newly ascended Spirit Refining with your absolute advantage. But I, Zhang Lu, have honed my skills in the Spirit Refining path for twenty years. My Yin Spirit is about to be condensed, and I also possess Transcendent Martial Arts. My true True Qi has been tempered a thousand times. With just you by yourself, what makes you think you can stand against me?!"

Zhang Lu let out a sharp whistle.

"You're fast?"

A profound voice, resounding Gu Jinlai, echoed.

The next moment, it seemed as if a blazing, dazzling sun rose before Zhang Lu's "eyes".

The Great Sun is Boundless.

It radiates a dazzling brilliance that is hard to look at directly.

Under this dazzling light, he felt as if his thoughts were slowing down.

"Wrong!"

Zhang Lu quickly realized what was going on.

His divine sense had been honed to its limit, and he was on the verge of becoming Spirit Transformation. He was awakened in just a moment when faced with the divine light of the great sun.

At this moment, Gu Jinlai had already taken a big step forward. The instant his right foot landed, the force of his whole body exploded through his thigh muscles, making him transform into a taut bowstring that shot out like an arrow, with the brilliance of a meteor hitting the moon, and crashed fiercely towards Zhang Lu!

As Gu Jinlai, standing three meters tall and carrying a terrifying shockwave, crashed down upon him, Zhang Lu's expression changed drastically.

Hide!?

It's too late!

We have no choice but to tough it out!

In the moment of crisis, Zhang Lu opened his eyes wide, took a deep breath, and his skin turned blood red. His body, which was only 1.8 meters tall, suddenly grew to 2 meters, just like in Gu Jinlai. The muscles in his hands bulged, and the veins on them were clearly visible.

"Dragon Slayer - Demon God Descends!"

The two clashed head-on without any fancy moves. Even though they were close enough that they didn't have enough distance to maximize their gravitational potential energy with their charge, the power that erupted instantly still made the ground beneath them tremble violently.

"Bang!"

A terrifying pressure exploded from the ground where the two stood, pulverizing sand and gravel into dust, which then scattered in all directions. The area within a radius of hundreds of meters was constantly shaking, as if an earthquake had occurred.

The two people involved in the collision...

Gu Jinlai, the approach has always been one of proactive collision, while Zhang Lu has been on the defensive.

Although Zhang Lu unleashed his forbidden technique immediately, when the Gu Jinlai three-meter-tall body, carrying the force of gravity, crashed into him, the terrifying and pure power still sent him flying. The penetrating force tore through his protective Gang Qi, pierced through his protective armor, and bombarded his internal organs. Even though his internal organs had become extremely strong after being tempered by the Organ Refining Blood Changing, they still ruptured and bled...

Fresh blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

However, the characteristic of the Transcendent Realm is that one has meticulous control over oneself.

Moreover, Zhang Lu is a True Person of Spirit Refining.

As the internal organs were torn apart, a surge of True Qi flowed rapidly, nourishing and suppressing the effects of the severe damage to the internal organs throughout the body.

This allows him to maintain his fighting strength at this moment.

With a twist of his body, he adjusted his center of gravity at an extremely fast speed while in mid-air, turning from being blown away to standing up.

Their feet even plowed two ten-meter-long trenches into the gravel ground.

"Good."

Gu Jinlai's aura surged rapidly. "You truly have not disappointed me!"

During this period, he fought against quite a few Spirit Refining True Person.

Although Yan Xuejian, Yang Kan, and even the Crimson Blade Ancestor, the leader of the Crimson Blood Sect, were all formidable, the battles against them were far from exhilarating.

In this situation, he never knew what level he was at.

As a Star Master at the peak of the Spirit Refining, Zhang Lu's strength is undeniable.

Aside from those at the Spirit Transformation stage, he was already among the strongest at the Spirit Refining stage.

Therefore, when he caught up with Zhang Lu, he abandoned his sword because he wanted to use him as a whetstone to test his limits.

Zhang Lu's performance...

He was very satisfied.

"Come on, now, use all your strength to take this punch!"

Gu Jinlai a long roar, the True Qi within the body, refined in the eternal furnace, gradually merges with the internal strength and integrates into the flesh.

Behind him, the divine light of the great sun radiated brilliantly, resonating with the eternal furnace operating within his body, as if illuminating a great sun in the void.

He clearly hadn't yet grasped the ultimate realm, yet with this punch, all the power in his body was mobilized.

The great sun, seemingly formed from an eternal furnace, suddenly plummeted from the void, carrying with it an aura that could incinerate everything and reduce all things to ashes, and struck Zhang Lu fiercely.

Before the fist even arrived, the intense heat from the divine sunlight had already scorched Zhang Lu's entire body, causing him excruciating pain.

"This martial art... shows traces of the Celestial Master's secret techniques!? Could it be... that he incorporated the Celestial Master's secret techniques into his fist techniques!?"

A fusion of fist techniques and the secret arts of the Celestial Master!?

How could that be!

The Celestial Master lineage has been passed down for ten thousand years, and no one has ever been able to achieve this level.

However, he knew that this style of boxing did indeed have the ability to influence people's minds.

If he continues to rely on his Movement Method to take risks, he could be killed instantly if he is not careful.

Faced with this tactic, there is no way to stop him except by killing him outright.

"Gu Jinlai, you have never been able to kill me!"

Zhang Lu let out a long roar, activated the forbidden technique, and his internal Qi and Blood surged violently. Facing the fierce attack that was like the falling sun, which had been unleashed Gu Jinlai, his spirit and will burned to the extreme.

He abandoned all distracting thoughts.

He threw a punch simply as a cultivator.

"Dragon Slayer - Slaughter the World!"

This world has dragons.

Before the appearance of Demonic Beasts, the dragon was the pinnacle of ferocious beasts.

In High Antiquity times, before the human cultivation system was perfected, all cultivators and living beings considered killing this terrifying creature the highest honor.

Zhang Lu, having unleashed the Dragon Slayer: Slaughter of the World, seemed to be burning himself out, his consciousness sublimating.

At this moment, he felt as if he had returned to the ancient times when dragons and beasts raged, and human sages fought fiercely against them, sacrificing their lives.

Even though the sun has fallen and everything has been destroyed Gu Jinlai, it still cannot suppress the determination of human sages to fight against heaven, earth, and all things to become the protagonist of the world.

If he can maintain this state, if he survives until the end of today...

The Spirit Transformation Realm is within reach.