No sooner had the words left his mouth than Fang Ling, moving like a serpent, somehow appeared behind Lu Ren. Her slender, jade-white fingers turned into life-taking hooks, silently tearing through the air and seizing the back of Lu Ren's neck before he could react.
Crack!
As though unaware, Lu Ren's right foot did not slow but struck with even greater force, nearly carrying all his strength!
Trying to trade injury for injury?!
Fang Ling's eyes turned cold. Her dark hair whipped wildly in the wind as her fingers became steel claws. Yet the instant she drove them down, veins like coiled serpents abruptly rose across Lu Ren's neck!
Those veins possessed a toughness she had never seen before, like an ancient teng serpent wrapped around Lu Ren's throat. Even with more than a dozen divine abilities condensed into the restrained force at her fingertips, she could not pierce through with that claw!
Boom!
Lu Ren's right foot slammed heavily into Luo Xuzi's waist. In the next instant, Luo Xuzi's expression changed drastically, his features twisting beyond recognition as though rendered in an entirely different style. His body folded nearly in half, kicked into a U shape.
Like a cannonball leaving its barrel, he crashed hard into the courtyard wall, which stood like an iron pillar. His entire body was smashed into something like pressed meat, plastered tightly against the wall.
Without even looking at Luo Xuzi, whom he had kicked into a puddle against the wall, Lu Ren endured the sharp pain at the back of his tough neck. He twisted at the waist, muscles throughout his body layering and linking together. The gaps between his two rows of ribs had long been filled by extended bone. With that force coursing through him, the immense power generated by his