On the other side of the secret realm...
Two streaks of light, one black and one red, clashed rapidly in midair. Deafening booms and occasional collapses in space testified to the ferocity of their battle.
Clang!
After a tremendous crash, the two streaks of light were hurled backward in opposite directions. Two figures emerged in the air, staring at each other from afar.
One was Huangfu Long, bare-chested, his muscles hard as stone and his bulging veins like coiling dragons. His face brimmed with fighting spirit.
A flowing, blood-red barrier enveloped Huangfu Long. Beneath it, a layer of pitch-black armor covered his body-the Armament Haki Lin Yu had taught him.
Armament Haki truly seemed tailor-made for Huangfu Long. In a remarkably short time, his mastery had already caught up with Lin Yu's. Even his use of Ryuo was extraordinarily deft!
His opponent was the so-called realm guardian, Shouyi.
Shouyi's body had undergone a complete transformation. His human form was gone, replaced by a hideous, pitch-black body covered in barbs. Two enormous tusks gleaming with cold light protruded from his mouth, and bull horns towered above his head. Had Lin Yu been there, he would have recognized the form immediately.
Shouyi looked much like the monster the Eternal Night Church had awakened in Banyan City. Apart from the missing armor, there was virtually no difference.
"Ahem...!"
Shouyi's coughing broke the tense silence between them. He glanced down at a wound on his chest that glowed with bloody light. Black energy surged around him, instantly knocking away the bloody glow clinging to the wound. The injury then began healing at a terrifying speed.
"I'm getting old. Getting old! Young people these days really are extraordinary!"
Shouyi looked at Huangfu Long, whose fighting spirit soared in the distance, and sighed softly.
"Hahaha! You