Half a month later,
Somewhere in the Divine Wood Secret Realm.
"Zhang Meng, you damned traitor! Have you really set your heart on being Gongsun Lan's dog?!"
Amid an enraged curse, a thunderous crash erupted. The earth shook, row after row of massive trees toppled, and rolling smoke and dust surged skyward, nearly staining half the sky yellow!
Wei Tianxing staggered up from the ground and rode an escape light as he fled towards the distance in a sorry state.
Boom!
Almost at the same moment, the air grew as viscous as water. Behind him, a gigantic shadow like a mountain seemed to emerge, solemn and imposing. A fist blasted into the air, seemingly punching through space itself. Terrifying force swept out like a tsunami, tearing a long ravine several zhang wide across the ground!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
An overwhelming aura pressed down from behind. Wei Tianxing gritted his teeth and forcibly twisted his body in the split-second between lightning and flint. His flowing light veered aside as the force, hundreds or even a thousand zhang long, swept past him at close range, almost blasting a passage through the void itself!
The powerful dispersed force whipped up a terrifying storm, nearly sweeping away half the forest!
"Hmph, Wei Tianxing, why waste your breath on verbal sparring? Since Gongsun Lan promised to let me glimpse the truth of that legend, then in exchange, it is only natural for This Seat to clear out a few competitors for him!"
Behind him,
The oppressive gigantic figure slowly emerged. A sturdy, half-naked man was suspended in mid-air, blazing aura rising like flames for more than ten zhang around his body. Streams of air pressure pushed away the surrounding space and trees, his might astonishing and exuding a powerful sense of oppression.
With his arms