Yu Ci's body, which seemed ready to collapse at any moment, suddenly slammed into a protrusion on the cliff below. Like a massive rubber ball, he struck hard, boomed, and bounced back up—actually three parts faster than he had fallen—charging straight at the rapidly descending Sun Soul Banner. How did that look anything like someone frozen in shock?
That was the image visible to the eye. Within Tu Du's Yin Spirit perception, however, it was an entirely different scene.
The junior's blood and qi, boiling from violent exertion, abruptly gathered into a single mass at that instant, drawing every inch of muscle, tendon, bone, and flesh into a flawless sphere. Only because of this could he, in an instant, transmit the force of his downward fall through rebounding impact and transform it into an even fiercer upward charge.
That momentary change had pushed the potential of the human body's muscles, tendons, and bones to its absolute limit. In theory, after the physical body had been strengthened at the Long Breath realm, such movements could be achieved. But who could, in such a critical moment where a thousand pounds hung by a single hair, so perfectly control every muscle, tendon, bone, and scrap of flesh, making them fully conform to the theoretical structure, turning disadvantage into great advantage, and finally striking back with a reversed spear?
Tu Du had never seen anything like it below the level of Core Formation cultivators!
With that single rebound, the enormous impact force accumulated over nearly thirty li was hurled back upward in such a jaw-dropping fashion, without wasting even the slightest fraction!
Was that madness? No, that was gathering momentum!
The instant he became the target of Sword Qi, Tu Du could not help thinking: Could this have been premeditated too?
He could not