In that instant, Vados's movements slowed.
Calling it slow was an exaggeration—it was only one-hundredth of a second.
An ordinary person would probably never notice such a difference in their entire life.
But in a battle at this level, that tiny delay was like an abyss suddenly splitting open between two shores.
Chen Feng's eyes immediately blazed, as if he had caught an extraordinarily precious signal.
All his feints and afterimages vanished in an instant.
As though ignoring the laws of time and space, his body appeared directly before the gap torn open by that "one-hundredth of a second."
This time, his right fist did not unleash its energy with savage violence. Instead, he compressed all its power into a single point.
At the edge of his fist, space twisted and collapsed, as though a tiny black hole had appeared and swallowed even the light.
"Bang—!"
The deep boom seemed to shake the very soul.
That punch ignored prediction and dismissed every trick, blasting straight through the light shield Vados had hastily raised and landing solidly in her lower abdomen.
For the first time, Vados's always-calm eyes revealed shock and pain.
A muffled groan escaped her throat. Her body could no longer maintain its elegant posture, bending like a swan struck by a heavy hammer.
Her long silver hair spilled loose, and she completely lost control.
Chen Feng gave her no chance to catch her breath.
His battle instincts made him seize this rare opportunity without mercy.
Before Vados could recover, his left hand clamped down on her shoulder like iron pincers, while his right hand seized her other side with lightning speed.
Before she could gather her divine power again, Chen Feng drove his right knee upward.
That knee strike carried energy interwoven with deep blue and dark red,