"What-are you kidding me? How can you still move?!"
Xu Xiaoyu was utterly stunned.
Even his hands slowed for a beat.
This was the first time he had seen someone caught by his sister Xu Xiaoyan's first Soul Skill remain unaffected.
"Take a guess."
Li Zha raised his foot and delivered an explosive kick straight at Xu Xiaoyu!
Boom!
Xu Xiaoyu flew backward, smashing through tree after tree before his body dissipated and he was transported out of the Spirit Ascension Platform.
Spear in hand, Li Zha charged at Xu Xiaoyan.
Xu Xiaoyan's pupils contracted. "Brother! How is this possible? Why doesn't my Soul Skill work on you?"
Li Zha gave no further answer and thrust his spear down.
Xu Xiaoyan shuddered in fright and hurriedly pressed her emergency escape device to get out.
"Tch. Playing saint without the strength to back it up? You're asking to die."
Li Zha landed.
He moved swiftly onward, and within minutes, someone suddenly appeared before him.
"Brother Li Zha."
Li Zha stopped and saw that it was Tang Wulin.
"Li Zha, even though I already know there's a huge gap between us, I still want to fight you, here and now!"
Tang Wulin spread his hands, and Blue Silver Grass appeared in them, covered in gold and red lines. His fighting spirit soared.
"Oh?"
Li Zha was somewhat surprised.
This was his first time meeting someone so unafraid of death.
"Even if you hadn't challenged me, I was going to send you flying today."
Li Zha chuckled and immediately launched his attack.
"Come on, Brother Li Zza. I just want to see how big the gap between us really is. I'll catch up to you someday!"
"Blue Silver Grass, Entanglement!"
Tang Wulin waved one hand, and masses of Blue Silver Grass sprouted from the ground, swiftly wrapping around Li Zha's legs.
Tang Wulin's Blue Silver Grass had one particular trait: toughness. As long as his soul power had not run out, his Blue Silver Grass could not be torn apart.
Seeing his Blue Silver Grass take effect, Tang Wulin immediately drew a heavy silver Forging Hammer with his other hand and swung it at Li Zha.
"Nice work, Wulin!"
Behind him, Xie Xie cheered with both hands raised!
As Tang Wulin's classmate and companion, he knew perfectly well that their soul power levels lagged behind Li Zha's, putting them at a disadvantage.
But Tang Wulin had something other Soul Masters could not match: an exceptionally powerful physique!
There was no doubt that Tang Wulin had chosen exactly the right way to fight.
Quickly bind Li Zha, then close the distance. That way, if it came down to a contest of raw strength, he might make up for the difference in soul power levels.
Unfortunately, Xie Xie had gotten it completely wrong, because Tang Wulin's strength came from the Golden Dragon King.
Li Zha's physical strength, however, far surpassed even the Elf King's.
"Interesting."
As Tang Wulin's Forging Hammer descended before him, Li Zha looked up with a chuckle and caught it in one hand.
"What?!"
Tang Wulin was stunned.
"H-how can you be stronger than me?!"
Tang Wulin could not believe it.
Ever since he was born, his appetite had far exceeded that of ordinary children, and his strength had likewise far exceeded that of Soul Masters his age.
It was precisely this tremendous strength that had allowed him to make such rapid progress in forging.
It was also this brute strength that had allowed him to defeat Xie Xie.
That had given him positive reinforcement in his pursuit of Soul Master cultivation, driving him to keep advancing and catching up.
Those past successes made Tang Wulin all the more shocked now that someone could actually overpower him.
He had caught a two-handed, mountain-cleaving hammer strike with just one hand!
Tang Wulin knew very clearly just how terrifying Li Zha's strength was!
"What the hell! He caught a mountain-cleaving strike with one hand! Wulin's strength is a full four thousand kilograms! Does this Li Zha have over ten thousand kilograms of strength in one hand?!"
Xie Xie was dumbfounded.
What kid barely over ten had ten thousand kilograms of strength in one hand?
He was a goddamn human liquid machine!
Faced with their shock, Li Zha merely sneered and squeezed with one hand. Tang Wulin's Forging Hammer immediately began to deform and crack.
"This is bad!"
Seeing the state of his heavy silver Forging Hammer, Tang Wulin immediately realized that his opponent had deliberately refrained from breaking free of the Blue Silver Grass. He had simply been waiting for Tang Wulin to deliver himself into his hands.
Sure enough,
the next moment,
Li Zha broke free of the Blue Silver Grass, draining Tang Wulin's soul power completely in the process.
"You're out!"
Li Zha pressed one hand downward, his five fingers forming a claw as he instantly reached for Tang Wulin's head.
But the next moment,
a flash of gold flickered through Tang Wulin's eyes.
Tang San came online to take over the fight.
"How dare you! If you harm so much as a hair on my son's head, I'll..."
Tang San's divine consciousness roared in fury.
Even knowing that dying here was not truly dying, there was still a chance of lasting damage!
Besides,
daring to attack Wulin already meant this brat had signed his own death warrant!
"Heh."
Seeing Tang San emerge, Li Zha suddenly stopped. "Tang San, or Tang Wulin, do you know what one thousand minus seven is?"
"What?"
Tang San froze.
Li Zha kicked Tang Wulin in the chest.
The blow instantly sent Tang Wulin flying.
Bang!
Tang Wulin smashed through a tree and landed on the ground.
"You still dare attack?! Insolence!"
Tang San's divine consciousness screamed.
"I asked you, what's one thousand minus seven?"
Li Zha stepped forward again, snatched Tang Wulin's emergency escape device away, then planted his foot on Tang Wulin's right hand.
"Aaaaah!"
Tang Wulin screamed, and Tang San's divine consciousness immediately panicked.
"I told you to stop! You bastard!"
"What's one thousand minus seven?"
Li Zha sat down and snapped one of Tang Wulin's fingers.
Crack.
The finger bone broke.
Tang San's divine consciousness truly panicked.
"It's 993! Stop! Let my son out!"
Tang San clearly understood the Spirit Ascension Platform's mechanisms very well.
He knew perfectly well that if Tang Wulin continued to endure this agonizing torture,
he might suffer lasting damage even after leaving the Spirit Ascension Platform.
"Subtract another seven!"
Li Zha snapped another finger bone.
"886! Stop!"
Tang San roared, his eyes bloodshot, panting like an ox.
In the distance,
Xie Xie could no longer stand by after seeing this and hurriedly rushed forward.
"Brother Li Zha, isn't this going too far?! Wulin only wanted to..."
Li Zha did not even turn to look. He hurled his spear backhanded, pinning Xie Xie to a tree and killing him.
Xie Xie abruptly reappeared in the real world and immediately looked anxiously toward the Screen.
"This is bad! Teacher Wu Changkong, hurry and save Tang Wulin! He can't get out now! It looks like that Li Zha is going to torture him to death!"
Xie Xie stared at the Screen.
As Li Zha snapped Tang Wulin's finger bones one by one, dread shrouded his heart.
"There's nothing I can do either."
Wu Changkong sighed.
"Bastard!"
Tang San cursed and withdrew his divine consciousness. He now knew that he had absolutely no power to intimidate this brat.
He might as well let Tang Wulin be killed and sent out as quickly as possible.
Tang Wulin dazedly realized that control of his body had returned, only for excruciating pain to hit him the next instant!
"What's 886 minus seven? Huh?!"
Li Zha crushed another finger bone.
"Aaaaah! It's... it's 779!"
"Aah!"
Tang Wulin howled in agony.
"Wulin, if we're friends, I'm happy to play around with you. But if we're enemies, I won't show mercy. What's 779 minus seven?!"
"Aah!"
Tang Wulin was drenched in sweat, his body trembling violently inside the apparatus.
With each question from Li Zha, Tang Wulin had no choice but to remain conscious and endure that savage, heart-piercing pain.
Just then,
Gu Yue and Na'er emerged.
Seeing Tang Wulin screaming, Gu Yue immediately shivered.
Before long,
Tang Wulin passed out from the intense pain and exited the Spirit Ascension Platform.
"Senior brother! You're so badass!"
Na'er clapped.
Na'er had already grown accustomed to Li Zha's cruelty.
Still feeling unsatisfied, Li Zha suddenly looked at Gu Yue. "Hey, if I remember right, you can't really die here, can you?"
"Gu Yue, Teacher told me to assess you. How about we do it right here?"
Gu Yue trembled. "Li Zha, y-you..."
"Heaven-and-Earth Silk."
The Heaven-and-Earth Silk in Li Zha's hand swiftly fluttered into motion.
"Ah!"
Before Gu Yue could react, the Heaven-and-Earth Silk bound her tightly, its red ribbons cinching around her fair flesh.
"Mmm..."
Gu Yue gave a muffled moan. Bound like this, she felt a strange sensation well up inside her.
She blinked her large eyes at Li Zha, mist gathering in her black pupils, her face flushed with embarrassment. The clothes over her chest were deliberately left open, making this look less like an assessment and more like some sort of erotic scene.
Gu Yue had originally intended to seduce Li Zha.
But now,
Why did this suddenly feel kind of good?
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