"There's another expert!"
Ning Xiao's gaze sharpened as he stared at Lu Chen in the Beast Arena.
That punch had looked simple. It had lacked even the thunderous bone resonance and explosive force of Pei Yue's strike, yet the result when it landed on the Red-Back Gray Wolf, which had already entered the Bone-Forging Realm, had been anything but simple.
He had thought the only people truly worth remembering from this year's intake were Pei Yue, Su Mingrui, and a few others. Now it seemed that this Dragon-Tiger Guard, whom almost no one had mentioned before, was no ordinary fighter either.
At the center of the Beast Arena, Lu Chen slowly drew back his right fist, his shoulders relaxing with it.
That strike had been terribly hasty. He had not even used much force, merely drawing on his heavenly silkworm tendons to channel his entire body's strength together in an instant before driving out a punch.
Had he used Azure Dragon Force, Thunderclap Force, or White Tiger Evil-Breaking Force... that Red-Back Gray Wolf would probably have been dead already.
Several dozen paces away, the Red-Back Gray Wolf rolled across the ground a few times before finally staggering to its feet.
Compared to the monstrous ferocity it had displayed upon breaking through, however, it now looked rather bedraggled.
Its left cheek had swollen badly. Even beneath its thick fur, the deformation was obvious. Its head tilted unnaturally to the right, and blood mixed with thick saliva dripped steadily from the corner of its mouth.
That punch seemed to have thoroughly dazed it. After finding its footing, it did not immediately pounce again. Instead, it shook its head hard several times, its steps staggering along with the motion, as though the entire Beast Arena were still swaying slightly before its eyes.
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