Roar!
The Calamity-Quelling Beast charged at Hua Linglong.
Hua Linglong snorted coldly. Rather than retreating, she advanced, her long legs tapping lightly against the ground as she swept past like a flower petal dancing on the wind, deftly evading the two crushing punches.
Boom!
Both arms slammed into the ground, scattering rubble and smashing two huge craters into the earth.
Hua Linglong seized the opening and closed in, her delicate hands blurring into palm shadows as she struck the Calamity-Quelling Beast's smooth hide.
Yet when her palm landed, she felt as though she had struck silk coated in oil. Most of her power slid away, with only twenty or thirty percent actually taking effect.
"What a slippery beast!" Hua Linglong frowned slightly, spun, and sent force energy surging as she chopped a knife-hand strike toward the Calamity-Quelling Beast's neck.
The Calamity-Quelling Beast neither dodged nor ducked, allowing the knife-hand strike to land.
Sssht!
As her hand swept across it, the smooth hide dented slightly, then dispersed most of the force, leaving only a faint white mark.
Hua Linglong's expression remained unchanged. Unleashing her footwork, she seemed to become a drifting, elusive blur of flowers, circling the Calamity-Quelling Beast without pause. Her palms flew, their shadows raining down on it like falling blossoms.
But the Calamity-Quelling Beast's slippery skin was truly bizarre. Of the full power striking its body, at most thirty or forty percent had any effect.
Even so, Hua Linglong was a Transforming Force Grandmaster, and every palm strike carried immense transforming force. Under her relentless barrage, the Calamity-Quelling Beast staggered backward again and again, the deep blue radiance covering its body dimming somewhat.
"You're already this troublesome right after reaching the third tier. What would happen if you had time to consolidate your cultivation?" Hua Linglong sneered, her