"Make your move," Lu Yang said calmly.
Murong Ling didn't waste words either. A mighty surge of vitality burst from him and shot into the sky, gathering above his head into the shape of a giant bear.
"Roar!"
The giant bear let out a roar. Its vast sound waves formed invisible hammers that crashed down hard toward Lu Yang.
Lu Yang's expression remained unchanged. A thin layer of Vitality Barrier burst forth around him.
The moment the sound waves drew near, the Vitality Barrier silently ground them to pieces.
"These two have such powerful vitality!"
The warriors watching from nearby couldn't help but marvel at the sight.
The current martial arts system of the Nine Provinces World placed greater emphasis on martial intent and martial true essence than on vitality and the physical body.
Below the Fifth Realm, there were still quite a number of martial artists who followed the path of vitality and the physical body.
But above the Fifth Realm, most warriors chose to return to the mainstream.
There was no other reason. Methods for cultivating vitality and the physical body were exceedingly rare, and their cultivation was dozens, even hundreds of times more difficult than improving true essence.
Yet the increase in combat strength was nowhere near proportional.
As martial cultivation entered its middle and later stages, those who followed the path of vitality or became Body Cultivators grew increasingly scarce.
The two were now Seventh-Realm Kings, yet they possessed vitality of such formidable strength. Across the Nine Provinces, they were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.
"The Four Great Families of Savage Province worship Eternal Heaven and have always followed the paths of vitality and the Path of Transformation, so that's nothing unusual. But Lu Yang clearly rose to prominence in Qing Province. How