"Yo, brat, you're pretty cocky. A mere first-grade Spirit Adept, and you dare..."
Before he could finish, the mocking smile on Ling Shui's face suddenly froze.
An astonishing surge of spiritual power erupted from Lu Chen's body, his aura climbing steadily higher!
"A second-grade Spirit Adept?!"
Ling Shui, the red-spotted woman, and Sun Yourong all stared in shock.
"Lu Chen, when did you break through to second grade?" Sun Yourong's eyes widened, disbelief written all over her face.
She clearly remembered that Lu Chen had still been a first-grade Spirit Adept before.
How had he suddenly...
Lu Chen kept his gaze locked on Ling Shui and the woman as he answered blandly, "Today. Just now."
Sun Yourong was speechless.
No... how did breaking through a realm come as easily to him as eating and drinking?
"Hmph, so what if you're second grade? It'll merely take a little more effort."
Ling Shui snorted coldly. With a light tap of his toe on the red-spotted woman's shoulder, he floated gracefully into the air and hovered overhead.
"Madam, leave that girl to you. I'll deal with this brat."
"As you command, Husband."
The red-spotted woman answered and lifted the wolf-toothed hammer from the ground.
The massive hammer, weighing a thousand jin, seemed as light as nothing in her hands. Each casual swing stirred up gusts of foul wind.
"A body cultivator!"
Sun Yourong's pupils contracted slightly. She had not expected this seemingly delicate woman to be a body cultivator who followed the path of brute force.
But that worked out perfectly—so was she!
A fierce gleam flashed through the red-spotted woman's eyes. Dragging the wolf-toothed hammer across the ground, she sent sparks flying in every direction, the piercing scrape tearing through the silence.
She burst forward and charged straight at Sun Yourong!
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