Clang!
Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer met Chen Shuang's Blue Silver Overlord Spear and immediately separated. In that brief instant, Tang San felt an incredibly powerful force surge through the spear. He staggered back several steps before regaining his balance.
That single exchange had revealed that the strength hidden within this seemingly delicate girl's body was no less than his own-perhaps even greater.
Tang San had forged iron since childhood, hammering away whenever he had time. Aside from cultivating and keeping Xiao Wu company, all he did was forge iron.
Tang San was thirteen now. He could safely say that he had spent half those thirteen years forging iron, building up the strength he possessed today.
But where had Chen Shuang, who looked just like a noble young lady, gotten such monstrous strength? Tang San could only conclude that she had been born with it.
There was no time for Tang San to think further. The black-and-blue shadow of a spear appeared before him again, so fast that he barely reacted in time.
Almost on reflex, Tang San twisted sideways, dodging in an ungainly scramble.
The black-and-blue spear whistled past like lightning, missing Tang San's throat by a hair's breadth and leaving him drenched in cold sweat.
For a moment, the sensation brought back the feeling of fighting a spear-wielding intruder at the Tang Sect in his previous life.
Under that crushing pressure, Tang San gritted his teeth, continuing to stack the Chaotic Cloak as he fought Chen Shuang.
Boom!
With a sound like the air itself shattering, spear and hammer collided in a thunderous crash, sending a shock wave surging in every direction.
Both retreated several steps again, but this time they fell back almost the same distance, indicating that their strength had suddenly begun to even out.
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