"Bang!"
Before Li Chuyang could react, the rebounding force slammed into his chest. He spat out another mouthful of blood, his feet leaving the ground as he flew backward even faster than he had charged in. Pain twisted his features in midair.
"Third body tempering..."
"How is that possible..."
Seeing Li Chuyang fall so easily-his attack repelled by a single palm strike before he could even get close to Xu Yang-Lu Jiang and the others nearly had their eyes pop out. They all sucked in cold breaths.
This was Li Chuyang, who had fought his way from thirtieth on the Cloud Ascension Rankings onto the Heavenly Strategy Wind and Cloud Rankings.
If the Cloud Ascension Rankings still existed, Li Chuyang would have placed within the top twenty at the very least. Yet even a genius like him could not withstand a single blow from Xu Yang. "Brother Li..." Lu Jiang cried out, instinctively reaching to catch Li Chuyang as he hurtled toward him.
But the instant his hands touched Li Chuyang, his expression changed drastically. Li Chuyang's entire body was spasming, and an overbearing force surged through his body into Lu Jiang.
"Bang!"
His body shuddered. Before he could dissipate the force, he flew backward along with Li Chuyang, and the two tumbled into a heap upon landing.
"Pfft!"
Li Chuyang rolled over and pushed himself up, only to spit out another mouthful of blood. His face was filled with horror.
"You... reached third body tempering?"
Remembering his earlier boast, when he had told Lu Jiang and the others to stand guard while he tested how much Xu Yang had improved, he burned with shame and anger. Now, he could not even withstand a single move from Xu Yang.
Although this was not the outside world, and his inferior body-tempering