Wang Long, dressed in black and wearing a thoroughly bewildered expression,
watched Lin Xuankong walk toward him step by step and finally began to slowly come back to his senses.
He swallowed hard.
"A Peak Fifth Tier Life Tier Gene Expert detonated all the source energy in his body in an instant, at such close range, and yet you didn't die. No—not only did you not die, you barely seem injured at all. How did you do it? Those Ice Shields you deployed just now—their defense and their ability to offset the blast's power were actually that strong?"
Lin Xuankong shook his head slightly.
"Those Ice Shields I condensed in an instant might have been as tough as Peak Fifth Tier alloys, but they could never have withstood the terrifying power of a Fifth Tier Life Tier expert's self-detonation. After all, even a Fourth Tier Super Expert at that distance could not possibly have emerged uninjured!
Besides, I was injured. The second and third ribs on my left side suffered small cracks, my chest cavity was jolted badly enough to sustain wounds, and one of my arms was dislocated from the impact. But they've all healed already."
Upon hearing this, Wang Long became even more unable to make sense of it. "Only those injuries? That was the self-detonation of a Peak Fifth Tier Life Tier expert! Even a Fourth Tier Super Expert standing where you were would probably have had their internal organs shaken apart and their bones shattered! You... Since those Ice Shields did not offset Ma Chao's terrifying explosive power, then as a Fifth Tier Life Tier Gene Expert who took the blast head-on—and even shielded Han Liu and me from the spreading explosion—how exactly did you survive that terrifying self-detonation?"
A cold smile appeared on Lin Xuankong's