Fu Lei bared his white teeth. His solid muscles looked ready to burst through his uniform, and his already hulking frame seemed even more imposing, like a black tower cast from iron.
The moment he appeared in the contaminated zone, his searing, surging Life Force washed over it like a great river swelling into flood, breaking Beherit's mental restraints.
Lu Yao and Gao Pao felt as if they'd been granted a new lease on life. They broke free of the suffocating sensation of plunging into an abyss and falling into an icy pit.
Their strength gave out, and they dropped to their knees, like goldfish leaping out of a fish tank, gasping for breath.
Gao Pao seemed to see his savior and cried out:
"Instructor!"
Although he and Zhao Su had often cursed Fu Lei in private, denouncing him as heartless,
in that moment, Gao Pao could hardly stop himself from hugging Fu Lei's dark face, slick as if it had been polished with shoe wax, and kissing it twice.
He was just that glad to see him!
"What's the big deal about picking on the youngsters?"
Fu Lei strode forward, grabbed them both like sandbags, and flung them behind him.
"How about you and me have some fun? Let's see just how strong you are after your fallen comrades turned into Fallen Ones, neither human nor ghost!"
The instructor from Yellow Springs Training Camp wasted no words. He bent low and stepped forward, his spine snapping like a great dragon and setting his muscles in motion. Life Radiance coursed freely through every part of his body!
He raised a hand and drove out a punch.
Boom!
The air rumbled like a thunderclap, collapsing inward before exploding!
The domineering force within it was like the fierce heat and light radiating