"Ha, Brother, this foolish younger brother's cultivation has improved somewhat this time, 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 challenge than a request for guidance, and he could not afford to lose that much face. Now that he had finally caught up in cultivation, he naturally would not let such an opportunity for a spar pass him by!
"Very well!" Upon hearing this, Mu Jizi pondered for a moment before nodding. "Only real combat can reveal one's own shortcomings!"
"Excellent!" Kunpeng was overjoyed. Then, with one step, he left Two Sages Island and stood in the void above the North Sea.
Though Two Sages Island was not small, when the two of them used all kinds of methods in battle, they would be unable to restrain the overflow of their magical power. They might very well destroy the island's plants and spirit beasts, turning a fine island into a scene of utter devastation!
But above the North Sea, they could fight without restraint and without such concerns!
"You still haven't changed that impatient temperament of yours, Brother!" With a single stride, Mu Jizi crossed from afar to stand opposite Kunpeng, shaking his head as he walked.
Kunpeng did not reply. His gaze merely turned sharp in an instant!
The two stood far apart in the void. An immense aura rose spontaneously, their long robes stirring without wind as surging magical power erupted from their bodies!
"Brother, be careful!" With a roar, Kunpeng leaped up and soared into the heavens, transforming into his true form. For a moment, the sunlight was blotted out, and an enormous shadow stretching tens of thousands of miles hung above Mu Jizi's head.
That enormous shadow was Kunpeng's Roc true form!
Kunpeng spread his wings and dove down, his massive talons descending with an incomparably tyrannical and overwhelming might!
At this moment, the formidable power of Kunpeng's true form burst forth. As his talons descended, spiritual energy ran wild, and even space rippled, as though it could not bear that single strike!
The enormous talons were like the hand of heaven reaching down, flickering with lightning. There was not the slightest flourish—only absolute power and boundless truth!
Facing this claw strike, Mu Jizi was not flustered in the least. The instant the talons descended, he moved 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 talons of Kunpeng's true form, Mu Jizi himself was like an ant—not even worthy of being called one. Much less that single finger upon his hand!
Yet this tiny speck, with one finger extended, erupted with an aura not one bit weaker than that of Kunpeng's enormous talons! It was even stronger!
That finger seemed capable of piercing the heavens. Like the brilliance of an ultimate point, it was dazzling beyond compare. In less than one ten-thousandth of an instant, his index finger shot upward and actually grew to the size of one talon on Kunpeng's massive claw!
Using a point to break a surface!
In an instant, finger and talon collided in the void!
"Rumble—!"
Innate spiritual energy went berserk, and space could not withstand the pressure. At that moment, the two men's overwhelming power forcibly tore open a spatial rift!
Time and space seemed to have stopped at that moment. Their finger and talon faced each other, frozen there, and for an instant, not the slightest sound emerged!
But after one breath, with a heaven-shaking boom, the finger and talon rebounded apart, and their bodies both flew backward! Only after retreating a thousand miles did they finally dissipate the force of that blow!
"Brother, what tremendous strength! My Roc Form descended from above and held the momentum of occupying the high ground, 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 slightly from the pain by instinct!
"Brother, have you forgotten that when we crossed the tribulation of transformation, I shattered the tribulation clouds with a single blow?" Mu Jizi smiled faintly, as though he had not been the one to unleash that overwhelming strike. "My true form is a nanmu tree, and I naturally excel in strength! In speed, I cannot compare to your Roc Form. But when it comes to strength, Brother, you are far inferior to me!"
"Oh? Speed?" Kunpeng's eyes lit up slightly upon hearing this! Then his body moved, transforming into his true form. This time, with a spread of his wings, his true body was only several dozen meters in size. Though he was still huge compared to Mu Jizi, he appeared frail compared to before!
However, this smaller body was twice as fast as before!
With a flicker, Kunpeng's body moved as swiftly as lightning. The eye could not catch even his shadow; only divine sense could barely track him. Yet Kunpeng moved with the winding momentum of dragons and snakes, like lightning—not striking straight down, but shifting without any trace, turning at will: left, right, up, down. It was exceedingly strange!
Mu Jizi's expression gradually turned solemn. He did not possess such speed, so he could only wait for his opponent to strike first, then launch his attack afterward to gain the upper hand!
In an instant, he stood still as a mountain, like an ancient tree supporting the heavens, upright and imposing!
"Whoosh!"
A wing cut through like a bolt of lightning, as though a dazzling river of stars swept past. Kunpeng slashed out with one wing, like the sharpest blade in the world. It made the air hiss, and a piercing aura spread outward!
The wing sliced through the air and struck at Mu Jizi, seeming intent on sweeping him into two halves with a single stroke!
In that 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 downward like an axe or halberd, carrying an overwhelming aura capable of shattering space as it slammed toward Kunpeng's Roc Form!
In an instant, Mu Jizi's speed was unexpectedly not slow at all. Kunpeng had not anticipated it. However, his Roc true form was, after all, a wind-attributed mutated lightning body and was exceptionally sensitive to spatial disturbances. The moment Mu Jizi appeared above him, he sensed it. With one flap of his wings, he sped away so quickly that only an afterimage remained!
Mu Jizi's kick struck the afterimage directly, then passed through it. His body continued plummeting with that momentum, and a feeling of having strength but nowhere to use it rose within him!
"Whoosh!"
At that 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 of having strength with nowhere to use it, his old force fading and new force not yet born, he suddenly moved.
In a flash, like lightning, he extended a claw and fiercely grabbed at Mu Jizi's head as Mu Jizi plummeted at extreme speed!
The claw tips emitted a chillingly sharp aura. If that strike landed, Mu Jizi's head might very well be lost forever!
"Hah, stop for me!"
At that critical moment, Mu Jizi let out a thunderous shout. A continuous aura spread outward, and his body stood rigidly still in the void by relying on that aura. Meanwhile, Kunpeng's lightning-like body and claws slowed considerably in that instant, making for a most bizarre sight...
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