"Bang!"
Amid the tremendous impact, everyone, including Mu Zhixing, watched in astonishment as Xu Taiping cracked the Black Pagoda Su Chan had condensed from the power of Wuji's Unrestricted Method with a single punch.
Staring at the alarming cracks across the Black Pagoda, Mu Zhixing froze briefly, then murmured gravely:
"Among the martial artists I know, apart from that senior in the Great Sage Realm, those who could unleash such power with one punch could be counted on one hand."
Almost the instant Mu Zhixing spoke, a thunderous boom rang out, and thousands upon thousands of black flying swords suddenly shot out of the crack-riddled Black Pagoda with a succession of whistles.
More frightening still, the black swords flying out of the Black Pagoda seemed inexhaustible, shooting out without pause.
Everyone's heart jolted at the sight.
In their eyes, against such numbers, Xu Taiping's fist force would soon be exhausted.
"Boom!"
Just then, Xu Taiping's Raging Thunder Form unleashed its first punch of the second stage.
"Bang!"
Amid a deafening clash of metal and stone, the golden fist shadow, still carrying the might of eighteen hundred punches, shattered a vast swath of black flying swords before it.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!"
After that punch, just as before, the fist force of the Raging Thunder Form lived up to its name, seemingly without end as it hammered relentlessly into the black flying swords streaming from the pagoda.
"Clang!"
As fist and sword remained locked in stalemate, a piercing sword cry rang out, and the Demon God Weapon Taotie suddenly flew straight out of the pagoda, its tip pointing skyward.
The next moment, seven neatly aligned recesses appeared along the Taotie Sword's blade with a series of cracks, as though the blade were splitting open.
Then Su Chan's voice came from