The Two Clash, Each Displaying Their Might

"Ha, Brother, this foolish younger brother's cultivation has improved somewhat, and my hands are itching for a fight. How about the two of us spar?" Kunpeng rose to his feet, anticipation on his face. Ever since birth, his cultivation had always been lower than Mu Jizi's. Back then, asking Mu Jizi to spar was less a spar than asking for guidance, and he could not afford to lose that face. Now that he had finally caught up in cultivation, he naturally would not let such an opportunity slip by!

"Very well!" Mu Jizi pondered for a moment, then nodded. "Only in actual combat can one discover one's own shortcomings!"

"Excellent!" Kunpeng was overjoyed. With a single step, he left Two Sages Island and stood in the empty sky above the North Sea.

Though Two Sages Island was not small, when the two of them unleashed their various methods in battle, they would be unable to restrain the overflow of their own mana. They might very well destroy the island's spiritual beasts and vegetation, turning a fine island into a scene of utter devastation!

Above the North Sea, however, they could fight without restraint and need not be so concerned!

"Young Brother, that impatient temperament of yours has not changed at all!" With one stride, Mu Jizi crossed from afar to stand opposite Kunpeng, shaking his head as he walked.

Kunpeng did not answer. His gaze merely turned sharp in an instant!

The two stood far apart in the void. An immense aura rose up around them, their robes fluttering without wind as rolling mana erupted from their bodies!

"Brother, be careful!" With a roar, Kunpeng leapt upward, soaring straight into the sky and transforming into his true form. In an instant, the sunlight was blotted out, and an enormous shadow stretching tens of thousands of miles hovered above Mu Jizi's head.

That colossal shadow was the Great Peng true form Kunpeng had assumed!

Kunpeng spread his wings and dove down, his massive claws striking downward with an overbearing and unrivaled might!

At this moment, the overwhelming power of Kunpeng's true form erupted. As his claw descended, spiritual energy ran wild, and even the space around it rippled, as though it could not bear that single strike!

The gigantic claw was like heaven itself reaching down a hand. Lightning gleamed across it, devoid of any flashy embellishment—there was only absolute power and endless profound truth!

Facing this claw, Mu Jizi did not panic in the slightest. The instant it reached down, he flicked his wrist, clenched his hand into a fist, then extended his index finger and jabbed upward!

It was likewise a contest of pure power, without the slightest flourish. Yet compared to the claw of Kunpeng's true form, Mu Jizi himself was like an ant—no, not even an ant. Much less that single finger upon his hand!

Yet this tiny speck of a figure jabbed out with one finger, and the aura it unleashed was not at all weaker than that emitted by Kunpeng's enormous claw! It was even stronger!

With a single jab, it seemed capable of piercing the firmament. Like the dazzling brilliance at the pole, it shone with incomparable splendor. In less than one ten-thousandth of an instant, Mu Jizi's index finger, rising from below, had actually become as large as one of the talons on Kunpeng's giant claw!

Using a point to break a surface!

In an instant, finger and claw collided in the void!

"Rumble rumble rumble~~~~~"

Primordial spiritual energy went berserk. Unable to endure the pressure, space itself was torn open by the two men's overwhelming force, ripped alive into a spatial fissure!

At that moment, time and space seemed to have stopped. Their finger and claw met, frozen there, and for an instant, not a sound emerged!

But after one breath, a deafening "Boom!" exploded between heaven and earth. Finger and claw rebounded apart, and the two figures were sent flying back! Only after retreating a thousand miles did they finally dissipate the force of that blow!

"Brother, what strength! My Great Peng body struck downward and held the advantage of height, yet I still could not force Brother to reveal his true form!" Kunpeng flapped his wings and returned to human form. His right palm was now abnormally red, trembling faintly from the pain by instinct!

"Young Brother, have you forgotten? When we passed the tribulation of transformation, I shattered the tribulation clouds with a single strike!" Mu Jizi smiled faintly, as though he had not been the one to unleash that formidable blow. "My true form is a nanmu tree, and strength is what I excel at! In speed, I cannot compare with your Great Peng body. But in terms of strength, you are far inferior to me!"

"Oh? Speed?" Kunpeng's eyes lit up slightly at those words! Then his body shifted, transforming into his true form once more. This time, with a spread of his wings, his true form was only several dozen meters in size. Though it still appeared enormous beside Mu Jizi, compared to before, it seemed weak and small!

Yet this smaller body was twice as fast as before!

With one flash, Kunpeng moved as swiftly as lightning. The eye could not see even his shadow; only divine sense could barely track him. Yet Kunpeng now moved with the winding momentum of dragons and serpents, like lightning—not striking straight down, but shifting without trajectory, turning freely left or right, up or down. It was exceedingly strange!

Mu Jizi's expression gradually turned solemn. He did not possess such speed, so he could only wait for the opponent to move, then strike later and gain mastery!

In an instant, he stood still as a mountain, like an ancient towering tree standing upright beneath the heavens, grave and imposing!

"Swish!"

A wing slashed out like a streak of lightning, like a brilliant river of stars sweeping through the sky. Kunpeng's wing swept straight forth, like the sharpest blade in the world, slicing the air with a hissing sound as a razor-sharp aura spread outward!

The wing cut through the air toward Mu Jizi, seeming as though it would sweep him cleanly into two halves!

Within one thousandth of an instant, Mu Jizi's eyes flashed like lightning. His body suddenly moved and vanished, then reappeared above Kunpeng's true form. He kicked down like an axe or halberd, carrying an overwhelming aura that could shatter space as it struck at Kunpeng's Great Peng body!

In that instant, Mu Jizi's speed was actually not slow either. Kunpeng had not expected it, but his Great Peng true form was, after all, a wind-attributed mutated lightning body and exceptionally sensitive to space. The moment Mu Jizi appeared above his head, he sensed it. With a flap of his wings, he moved so quickly that he left behind only an afterimage!

Mu Jizi's kick struck the afterimage directly, then passed through it. Carried onward by that force, his body plummeted rapidly downward, and the sensation of having strength but nowhere to use it rose within him!

"Swish!"

At this moment, Kunpeng had not gone far at all. This was precisely the opportunity he had been waiting for. Taking advantage of Mu Jizi's state, where his old force was fading and new force had yet to arise, he suddenly moved!

In a flash, like lightning, he thrust out a claw and seized fiercely at Mu Jizi's rapidly falling head!

A chillingly sharp aura radiated from the claw tips. If that strike landed, Mu Jizi's head might very well be lost then and there!

"Ha! Stop for me!"

At this critical moment, Mu Jizi let out a thunderous shout. A continuous aura spread outward, and his body stood stiffly fixed in the void through that aura. Meanwhile, Kunpeng's lightning-like body and claw actually slowed considerably in that instant. It was truly strange beyond measure...