Chapter 66: A Narrow Encounter
The sudden, crushing victory struck every heart present like the most earthshaking clap of thunder.
Behind Chen Yue, Ma Jun had already steeled himself to die, ready to risk everything and take the blade for his junior brother.
Now his eyes bulged as he watched He Chong's severed arm fly through the air and the man crash to the ground, howling. Then he looked at Qian Jun, battered and stumbling back in terror. His mind went completely blank.
What had just happened? His junior brother... had done it with one slash?
In the distance, Yu Kan was just as stunned.
He had already fallen into despair, but Chen Yue had brought him an incomparable surprise!
Yet no one was more shaken than Zhao Mang, who was slowly approaching.
The cruel grin and mocking look had vanished from his face, replaced by a grim expression tangled with disbelief and suspicion.
He stared at Chen Yue's back as the young man stood with his blade lowered, then looked at the mangled He Chong and the still-shaken Qian Jun.
Zhao Mang knew that even if he brought the full strength of his Muscle Refining Realm cultivation to bear, he could defeat He Chong and Qian Jun working together—but he could never do it so effortlessly, or produce such a terrifying result with a single slash!
What kind of overwhelming power, speed, and explosive strength did that take?
Was this kid named Chen Yue really only at the Skin Refining Realm? No, that couldn't be right. That speed and strength just now... had he broken through to the Muscle Refining Realm too?
But even if they were both at the Muscle Refining Realm, how could the gap between them be so vast?
In the middle of the battlefield, Chen