Everyone present felt as if their brains had shriveled.
Usually, the brothers were hot-blooded; fights breaking out in the barracks over a momentary flare of temper was nothing unusual.
But those had always been low-ranking Demon Suppression Guards.
When had two Captains ever openly come to blows before everyone's eyes?
What left everyone even more dumbfounded was that Jiang Yuechu, a girl who looked so slender and delicate, had sent Song Ren flying with a single kick?!
That was Song Ren!
A veteran Captain who had spent years in the Demon Suppression Bureau!
A genuine Bone Resonance Realm martial artist!
How could he... be so utterly unable to withstand one blow?
Just how terrifying was this newly appointed Captain Jiang's strength?!!
Countless gazes converged on the humanoid crater.
"Cough... cough, cough..."
Song Ren braced himself against the wall and struggled to his feet. Every time he coughed, bloody foam spilled from the corner of his mouth.
A piercing pain shot through the spot on his chest where he had been kicked, as though several bones had broken.
Yet the pain in his body was far less than the shock in his heart.
No one knew his own strength better than he did.
Only through the Song Clan's resources and years of training in the Demon Suppression Bureau had he barely squeezed across the threshold into Bone Resonance a few years ago.
He might not compare to those so-called prodigies.
But damn it, he was still a Bone Resonance martial artist!
Even when sparring against those Captains in the camp who had reached the peak of Bone Resonance, he had never lost so cleanly, so completely!
Thinking back to that kick just now...
That force had been nothing like the surging vitality and blood of an ordinary martial artist.
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