"Bang, bang!"
Xu Taiping's feet had barely touched the ground when the Gurong Tribe strongman hurled two punches at him in succession. He dodged one, which smashed a nearby stone pillar to pieces.
The other struck his shoulder. The immense force in that fist sent him flying again, slamming heavily into the rock wall on the other side of the Karst Cave.
Yet although this punch seemed to have torn Xu Taiping's flesh open and left him utterly battered,
in truth, only Xu Taiping himself knew that flesh wounds of this degree could not damage the foundations of his physique at all.
"Once tempered into the Dragon Whale Physique, the physique is divided into three layers: outer, middle, and inner. As long as the blood vessels in the middle layer and the sinews and bones within remain unharmed, even the worst injuries can be repaired with the qi and blood within those vessels, sinews, and bones."
With the flesh of his shoulder torn open, Xu Taiping pushed himself swiftly up with one hand, his gaze locked on the Gurong Tribe strongman ahead as he murmured.
"Boom!"
Just as he was thinking this, the Gurong Tribe strongman suddenly swung up the bone hammer in his hand and smashed it straight at Xu Taiping.
"Whoosh!"
Already on his feet, Xu Taiping drew on what little blood qi remained in his blood vessels, sinews, and bones. He sharply twisted his feet and executed Sudden Wind Step, his figure vanishing from the spot with a boom.
"Bang!"
Almost at the same instant Xu Taiping vanished, the Gurong Tribe strongman's enormous bone hammer smashed heavily into the rock wall behind where he had stood, leaving a huge crater in the lava rock.
"Tap!"
Having flashed past with Sudden Wind Step, Xu Taiping appeared like a