But it was useless. If the fat man had remained where he was and maintained the rhythm of his spells, it would have been one thing. Yet the moment he retreated, his focus scattered. As his rhythm changed, flaws appeared in the tide of spells. Lu Ye's combat experience was extraordinarily rich; though those tiny flaws vanished in an instant, he caught them with perfect precision and closed the distance to the fat man even faster.
Panic began to show on the fat man's face. Several of his spell casts went wrong, making the situation increasingly dire.
In less than ten breaths, the distance between them had shrunk to thirty meters!
Lu Ye leaped high, like an eagle striking the vault of heaven. As he fell, his long saber wheeled like the moon.
The fat man's face turned deathly pale, as if he had been frightened senseless. Feeling the savage might of that slash, he cried out, "My life is finished!"
Though he said so, he viciously threw a punch in Lu Ye's direction.
With that punch, the Void shook. The fist he had thrown rapidly enlarged, becoming the size of a house in the blink of an eye. It blocked the light from the sky and concealed his own figure as well.
The pallor vanished from the fat man's face, replaced by a sly grin Lu Ye could not see.
Against anyone familiar with him, this tactic would naturally have been useless. But today was his first encounter with Lu Ye. How could Lu Ye know what abilities he possessed? With such a sudden attack, he was certain Lu Ye would not be able to evade it.
Everything before this had been an act, all for the explosive eruption of this one punch.
Who would have thought that a