"You held back when you fought me before?" Lin Jingyu blurted out as realization dawned.
Xu Yang had not been recruited by any faction, so he could not possibly have obtained the same resources as Lin Jingyu. Yet his physique was still a shade stronger now. The only explanation was that Xu Yang had not used his full strength in their previous fight.
"Take a guess!" Xu Yang said with a smile.
Suppressing his surging blood energy, he looked as though his entire body had been cast in gold. He strode forward, cracking the ground underfoot, and charged at Lin Jingyu again.
"Do you think I don't exist?"
Sun Tao's voice drifted over. The black sun behind him erupted with dark radiance, and a scorching sword beam tore through the air toward Lin Jingyu's head.
Lin Jingyu's blood energy was still churning. Not daring to take the attack head-on, he could only dodge aside.
Boom!
Sun Tao's sword beam struck the ground, carving a fissure more than a hundred feet long and filling the air with dust.
Lin Jingyu had barely breathed a sigh of relief when Xu Yang's golden fist punched through the air toward him, like a meteor from beyond the heavens, utterly domineering.
"Heavenly Astral Tyrant Body!"
Lin Jingyu roared, driving his Body-Tempering Method to its limit. His muscles swelled, and a layer of astral energy, condensed until it seemed solid, covered his body.
At the same time, he threw a punch, intercepting the golden fist in the nick of time.
Bang!
Their fists collided with a thunderous rumble, and a savage blast of air exploded outward.
Both men trembled all over, their bones and sinews rumbling, light flickering across their bodies as their blood energy surged like waves.
Boom!
Amid the ripples visible to the naked