"Aunt Ling, Brother Huo Xuan is a Three-Star Dou Zong, and he even possesses a heavenly flame. This fight isn't fair to me!"
Shen Luo faced Huo Xuan from afar in the sky.
Fire Fairy furrowed her brows. She recalled that Old Man Shennong was indeed skilled only in refining medicine, not in combat. Presumably, Shen Luo had never practiced any powerful Dou Techniques either.
"Shen Luo has a point. How about this? If you can last against Huo Xuan for the time it takes an incense stick to burn, we'll count this match as your victory."
"What? Grand Elder, isn't that unfair to me?" Huo Xuan protested.
Shen Luo's eyes darted about before settling on Fire Fairy's voluptuous figure. "Aunt Ling, I don't need that incense stick's worth of time, either. If I happen to win, besides the stakes for this match, I want you... to serve me... something down below."
"Down below?" Fire Fairy looked utterly puzzled.
This child probably hasn't had much good food in the Shennong Mountain Range. Here in the Yan Clan's territory, what delicacies of mountain and sea couldn't we provide?
"Very well. If you happen to defeat Huo Xuan, besides agreeing unconditionally to one request, I'll also have Huo Zhi cook noodles for you as an extra reward."
Shen Luo shook his head. "No, I don't want Huo Zhi's noodles. I want yours."
Fire Fairy burst into a chuckle. At her level, she had long since ceased partaking of mortal food. Asking her to cook personally really did put her in a difficult spot.
"All right, all right. That isn't an unreasonable request. If you win, Aunt Ling will serve you her noodles."
"But don't complain if Aunt Ling's don't taste good!"
"I won't, I won't. Make them nice and juicy. I like drinking the juices!"
Shen Luo nodded in satisfaction, sneaking a glance at Fire Fairy's flat lower abdomen before turning his gaze to Huo Xuan opposite him. "Brother Huo Xuan, make your move."
Huo Xuan narrowed his eyes. A blue-green flame gathered in his hand, and the aura of a Three-Star Dou Zong roared forth.
This brat actually wants the Grand Elder to cook for him? What a fool's dream!
Anger rose in his heart. Fire Fairy was the Yan Clan's Grand Elder, and her strength had reached that of a Late-Stage Seven-Star Dou Saint. She ranked among the top ten figures on the entire Dou Qi Continent. If word spread that she had cooked for this brat, where would that leave his dignity?
At that thought, the flames around Huo Xuan intensified further.
"Blazing Flame Palm!"
Behind Huo Xuan, a palm imprint roughly a thousand feet across rapidly formed. As though drawn by some force, the energy of heaven and earth continually converged on the increasingly solid imprint.
This Dou Technique was not particularly high-ranked within the Yan Clan, merely Low Earth Tier. Yet bolstered by the eight desolations destruction flame and Huo Xuan's Three-Star Dou Zong Dou Qi, this palm strike still carried the power to destroy heaven and earth.
"Ha!" Huo Xuan roared, and the thousand-foot palm imprint hurtled toward Shen Luo.
Shen Luo steadied himself, his robes snapping in the wind. He stepped forward with his right foot, and an aura of supreme might and dominance instantly swept across the battlefield.
A king descended from the heavens, wrathful and ferocious.
Fire Fairy's heart trembled, the peaks of her bosom rising and falling slightly. "What... what an overbearing aura," she murmured.
Shen Luo stood in the void, the blood and vital energy within him surging like a peerless savage beast awakening from slumber. His imposing figure resembled a mountain, and every inch of his skin shone with a rich purple light.
His blood seemed to be purple-the unique hallmark of the heavenly tyrant body. It coursed through him with a constant, low rumble, while mighty Dou Qi poured into every limb and bone.
The heavenly tyrant body-unrivaled in the flesh.
Feeling the power within him, far beyond that of a One-Star Dou Zong, Shen Luo's eyes lit with a hint of amusement. As the flaming palm imprint reached him in an instant, he clenched his fist. Dou Qi surged, and he punched savagely forward.
Bang!
The thousand-foot palm imprint shattered beneath that heavy punch. Yet the force of the punch had not been exhausted, and it reached Huo Xuan in an instant.
Huo Xuan's expression changed. He brought both hands up before him, rapidly forming a shield of flame.
With a thunderous boom, Huo Xuan retreated a step, his expression grave. "This... how is this possible?"
"Wow, he's amazing!" Below, Huo Zhi's mouth fell open. He, too, had never expected Shen Luo to drive his brother Huo Xuan back with a single punch.
"Shen Luo, I only used half my strength just now. Next, I'll go all out!"
With that, Huo Xuan flickered forward, swiftly closing in on Shen Luo. The eight desolations destruction flame enveloped his entire body, and the temperature throughout the surrounding space soared.
He had been careless and suffered a humiliating setback. Now he would reclaim his standing and use his fists to show Shen Luo-and Fire Fairy-exactly why he, Huo Xuan, was the Yan Clan's young clan leader!
Shen Luo raised his brows. He wants to fight me hand to hand? Gazing at the flames filling the sky, his fighting spirit soared. Purple blood energy erupted, clashing fiercely with the flames in the void.
Purple blood stained the firmament; the tyrant body shook the eight desolations.
His supremely overbearing fist, carrying sky-high fighting spirit, met Huo Xuan, who had already become a man of fire.
Bang, bang, bang!
Those utterly domineering fists collided with Huo Xuan again and again. Huo Xuan's eight desolations destruction flame had its own extraordinary qualities, its towering blaze burning all things to ash.
The clang of metal rang incessantly through the sky. In just a few breaths, Huo Xuan and Shen Luo had exchanged blow after flesh-pounding blow, neither willing to yield to the other.
"Shen Luo, face my Eight Desolations Destruction Fist!" Huo Xuan roared. The temperature between heaven and earth suddenly climbed again. The eight desolations destruction flame, ranked sixth on the Heavenly Flame Rankings, swept across more than half the sky before finally gathering on Huo Xuan's right arm.
He would crush Shen Luo with his strongest, most domineering punch!
Below, Fire Fairy gently raised her right hand. Naturally, she knew the might of Huo Xuan's punch. If Shen Luo could not withstand it, she would immediately separate the combatants.
After all, Shen Luo was an alchemist by background. Although his physique was extraordinary, he held no advantage in Dou Techniques, cultivation methods, or bloodline.
The skyful of flames converged on a single point and smashed toward Shen Luo's chest. The surrounding void fractured layer upon layer, pitch-black fissures appearing one after another before swiftly sealing again.
Shen Luo frowned. An immense fighting spirit swept out of his body, and his purple blood energy, almost tangible, shot straight into the clouds.
He took a great stride forward. Dou Qi surged wildly, combining with the incomparably domineering physique of his heavenly tyrant body as he struck savagely at Huo Xuan.
The heavenly tyrant body represented the pinnacle of the flesh.
Even with the eight desolations destruction flame bolstering Huo Xuan, he felt no fear whatsoever.
The eight desolations destruction flame kept tearing countless wounds across his body, but they healed again in an instant. That extreme heat, which would strike terror into any ordinary Dou Zong, was greatly diminished before the heavenly tyrant body.
Bang!
Heaven and earth thundered. Two enormous energy storms began spreading across the sky, with the two men at their center.
Flames covered Fire Fairy's eyes as she peered through the chaotic energy of heaven and earth at the two combatants. Then her fine brows furrowed slightly, and disbelief spread across her face.
In the sky, the boundless flames and terrifying purple blood energy did not remain locked together for long before a figure was hurled backward out of the storm's center. It was Huo Xuan.
Huo Xuan's Dou Qi had dwindled, his right arm was numb, and who knew how many bones in his body had shattered. He steadied himself awkwardly in midair, then violently spat out a mouthful of blood.
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