Defeat

Before this, Shen Jiliang had believed that dealing with a junior who was merely at the True Essence Sixth Layer would be easy to accomplish as long as he made a move.

This was his confidence in his own strength.

The thing that had fallen into that kid Zhang's hands would ultimately end up in his own, and once he handed it over to that person, it would surely be a great merit.

Yet he had never expected Zhang Qingyuan's strength to be so difficult to deal with.

Even less had he expected that after a fierce battle in which both sides had gone all out, he would still be utterly unable to do anything to his opponent!

Thinking of the words he had boasted before the others earlier, Shen Jiliang became so ashamed and enraged that fury nearly burned away all his reason!

"Show mercy?"

Across from Shen Jiliang, Zhang Qingyuan floated in the high altitude, the corners of his lips curling upward.

"Have you still not understood? In that battle just now, I merely used you as a whetstone. With such little strength, where did you get the right to act so presumptuously before me?!"

"You said you came from Divine Fire Peak. I have heard that it is one of the Inner Sect Eight Factions, renowned for its Fire Attribute methods. Yet from what I see, your methods in the path of fire are nothing special."

"Let me teach you what kind of power flames truly are!"

Before even greater fury could Fill Shen Jiliang's chest, Zhang Qingyuan took a step forward.

In an instant,

the vast ocean-like water vapor sweeping through the sky reversed At This Moment. In the blink of an eye, it transformed into incomparably scorching hot flames that swept across the heavens, as