Boom!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only an utterly muffled thunderclap, as though even space and time had been shaken.
At the instant of collision, the Dragon-Man Giant God felt as though he had struck an ancient divine mountain harder than anything imaginable, one that bore the weight of the entire world.
For a moment, the giant god's strength deadlocked with An Jing's fist force.
Yet in that very moment, the ground behind both sides seemed to hang suspended in the void, vast swathes of it collapsing and sinking away.
The ruined stretch spread backward all the way until it struck the region where Ancestral Mountain and Haomiao Lake stood.
At once, ripples upon ripples rose across the lake's waters, which had always been still as a mirror.
"Not good!" Only then did Cang Anqi react. "There's no room left to dissipate the force!"
The next instant, from An Jing's direction, a backlash force far exceeding the power of his own punch—condensed to the absolute extreme—surged back along the giant god's arm!
It was as though the very earth itself were throwing a punch at him!
And that punch was so fast that before his own fist could even be crushed or pierced through, that savage force had already sent it hurtling bodily backward!
Crack! Crack-crack-crack!
The crisp sounds of splintering bones came in a dense barrage like exploding firecrackers. Bone shattered, flesh burst apart, and the life essence that had been forcibly unified instantly spiraled out of control.
Then, beneath the incomprehending gazes of everyone present, the Dragon-Man Giant God's entire arm bent backward at an extraordinarily bizarre angle. The tough dragon scales covering it, the knotted muscles, even the most resilient bones within, all cracked inch by inch under that terrifying rebounding force before exploding apart!
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