"Hm?" Li Xiaoya's divine sense suddenly stirred. Alarm rose within him. The fiery red liquid the Steel-Mouthed Fish King spat out carried a suffocating heat, blasting toward him like a volcanic eruption.
"Magma!" Li Xiaoya cried out. He slowed and stopped in midair, clenched one fist, then thrust out a palm with a thunderous boom. A gigantic, glittering golden palm swept toward the incoming magma to block it.
Bang! The fiery magma struck the enormous golden palm with a deafening crash. As though it had sprayed against a towering wall, the magma was forcibly driven back by Li Xiaoya. It splashed everywhere, raining through the sky with trails of scorching black smoke. As it landed on the water, it hissed like red-hot iron plunged into a basin. The lake churned, and great clouds of steam rose from its surface. Some magma landed on the Steel-Mouthed Fish King itself, but the beast seemed completely unharmed; it simply flowed off like water. The spectacle was truly staggering. Du Chengfeng and Iron Lady hurried about dodging the fiery magma raining from above, leaving them no time to attack the Steel-Mouthed Fish King.
The golden palms and fists Li Xiaoya unleashed were a divine ability he had gained only after mastering the fourth level of the Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art: Force Manifestation. As its name suggested, it converted a Body Refiner's physical strength into tangible, ranged attacks, completely compensating for the inability of Body Refiners to fight at a distance. Unlike divine abilities formed by gathering spiritual qi, Force Manifestation was a purer attack of strength rather than a spell, making it truly heaven-defying. Yet it had its drawbacks. Its range depended entirely on the cultivator's strength, and unlike constructs formed from spiritual qi, its attacks could not be steered around bends; they could only