After a long while, the collapsed Mountain Cliff split open, and Pan Long jumped out.
He had recovered only twenty or thirty percent of his strength and looked a little weary. Yet the light in his eyes burned brighter than ever, and his face brimmed with confidence.
At a glance, he spotted Tie Ying lying unconscious in the grass at the foot of the mountain.
Pan Long burst out laughing and raised a hand toward the sky.
"Meteor, return!"
A streak of cold light whistled toward him and landed in his hand. It was the divine spear Meteor, which he had thrown moments earlier.
Pan Long looked down at it. His brow furrowed, and he sighed.
A new attribute had appeared on the divine spear: "Minor wear."
After bearing the full force of his strike and wounding Tie Ying, this Divine Artifact from the world of The Hero's Teacher showed visible wear.
Three or four more battles like that, and the Divine Artifact would probably fail.
Fire flashed. The little bird that was Bi Lingkong's Incarnation appeared and hopped over to Tie Ying. She studied the swelling on the back of his head for a while, then flew back and landed on Pan Long's shoulder.
"That was incredible!" she praised loudly. "Your strike scattered the True Qi throughout his body. You even shattered his cultivated power. And so a mighty peak Great Grandmaster, someone capable of trading blows with a weaker Demon God, fell and knocked himself out!"
Pan Long blinked. "The fall knocked him out?"
"That's right. He used every last bit of his vitality, energy, and spirit to block that spear. He was injured, but honestly, not that badly. He'd simply exhausted himself so completely that he had nothing left to protect his body," Bi Lingkong explained. "Then