That mirror image was still at the First Layer of Spirit Transformation.
It possessed a Single Spiritual Root, an Earth-Grade Golden Core, and an Inferior Nascent Soul.
At Xu Changqing's peak, he could have crushed an opponent like this with a single finger.
But now, his cultivation had fallen to the Nascent Soul realm, a full major realm below his opponent.
The mirror image did not wait for him to compose himself, much less give him a chance to catch his breath.
The moment the third question ended, it closed in like a ghost. A palm wrapped in dark-green power of law struck straight at Xu Changqing's chest without the slightest flourish.
There was no technique to this palm strike at all—only the most direct, most brutal attack of law.
Wood-Element Law compressed to its limit transformed into sharp phantom vines that shot from the palm wind. Wherever they passed, the air was ripped into piercing shrieks.
Almost instinctively, Xu Changqing raised his hand and met the strike head-on.
Boom!
The instant their palms collided, the hundred-zhang expanse of grayish-white ground beneath his feet cracked apart. Dense fissures spread in every direction like a spiderweb.
The violent aftershock of the laws shook the air within dozens of zhang into a vacuum. The shockwave swept shattered stone chips outward, forming a visible ring of air.
Xu Changqing was blasted dozens of zhang backward by that strike. His feet plowed two deep trenches through the ground, and everything below his ankles sank into the shattered earth and stone.
The other party was clearly only at the First Layer of Spirit Transformation, and its physique was far inferior to his. Yet through the purity of its Wood-Element Law and that fearless will to attack, it forcibly suppressed him in raw power.
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