The Heaven Gate City Lord didn't hesitate in the slightest. He unleashed several waves of fist force and pushed his mental power to its limits. The two of them had clearly come fully prepared.
It wasn't that they hadn't seen Li Zhen at first; they simply hadn't taken him seriously. An eighth-rank fighter charging over to get himself killed? After all, Qin Shigang had spotted him, so there was no reason the two of them wouldn't.
But they had never imagined this eighth-rank fighter would be so powerful. Especially that move—he, a ninth-rank fighter, couldn't even unleash an attack like it.
Li Zhen's Void Breaker swept through everything like a storm, instantly shattering the Heaven Gate City Lord's defenses. Even the Heaven Gate Tree's branches were pulverized beneath Li Zhen's Void Breaker.
Then a powerful sword aura cleaved into the Heaven Gate Tree. If the Heaven Gate City Lord and the Heaven Gate Tree hadn't desperately tried to stop it beforehand, that single strike might have split the tree in two.
"Elder Qin, are you all right?" Li Zhen had already flown over to Qin Shigang. He steadied him and asked.
Qin Shigang shook his head. For a moment, he could hardly believe what he was seeing. He felt dazed. Not long ago, he had watched Li Zhen and Zhang Tao enter the Catacombs together. Back then, they had only been Rank 6, and had just achieved Essence Blood Unity, right? How long had it been? One of them had become the head of the Culture Academy, while the other could fight a ninth-rank fighter despite being only Rank 8?
Was he just too useless, or were those two freakishly talented?
In the end, Qin Shigang decided that Li Zhen and Zhang Tao were simply freakishly talented. Who else could