Before Zi Yan could even understand what had happened, the battle was already over.
Looking at the red and white splattered across the ground and the headless corpse beside the hall entrance, Zi Yan ran over with a cry of "Wow!" and grabbed Zhou Changqing's hand.
"You big meanie, when did you get so strong?"
Under the girl's sparkling, wide-eyed gaze, Zhou Changqing's lips curved slightly. "Did you think all that suffering in Thousand Thunder Valley was for nothing? Ever heard of a Flesh-Body Dou Zong?"
Ever since his body had broken through to the Dou Zong level, he had never revealed its strength before outsiders.
It was perfectly normal that the little girl did not know exactly how strong he was now.
"A Flesh-Body Dou Zong?"
Zi Yan was a little confused. She had never heard the term before.
She knew some people focused on tempering their bodies to improve their combat strength, but the gains were limited and would never exceed their cultivation. It merely supplemented their Dou Qi.
Body-Tempering Dou Techniques and Secret Techniques were examples of that.
Some exceptionally gifted Magical Beasts also possessed bodies so powerful that they surpassed the level of their own Dou Qi.
She herself was one such example.
Of course, Zi Yan was no fool. From the term alone, she understood that Zhou Changqing's body must have reached a level comparable to the strength of a Dou Zong expert!
With a body that powerful, he was more of a Magical Beast than she was.
Had she not witnessed Zhou Changqing tempering his body in Thousand Thunder Valley, watching it grow visibly stronger day by day, she might even have wondered which of them was actually the Magical Beast.
Besides, although Zi Yan had known his body was strong, she had never