Divine flames surged all over Lu Chen as he struck with sweeping, unrestrained movements, fierce beyond compare, like a god of war descending into the world.
The Purple Mansion Saintess moved her delicate hands with effortless grace, untouched by mortal dust, like an immortal maiden from the Heavenly Palace.
Though their bearing differed vastly, the power they unleashed was terrifying. Space was blasted apart again and again, while the mountains below collapsed one after another.
The watching cultivators retreated repeatedly, stunned by the strength the two displayed. Neither Lu Chen nor the Purple Mansion Saintess had been particularly renowned before. This was the first time they had revealed their true strength to the world.
The Divine Phoenix Secret Art Lu Chen displayed had come from the Fire Clan's Saint Spirit, who had emerged into the world already at complete perfection and might since have attained the Dao as an Ancient Emperor. Such a supreme secret art was in no way inferior to those created by a Great Emperor.
Boom!
His fist, crystalline as divine iron, nearly punched through space, scattering the white clouds for miles around and shaking all eight directions.
Clang!
Like drifting clouds and flowing streams, the Purple Mansion Saintess evaded his ferocious fist and brushed past, tracing the trajectories of the Dao to seal Lu Chen's hands.
Smack!
Lu Chen swept a leg across like an immortal wing cleaving the sky, while she condensed a Dao Diagram to neutralize it.
Lu Chen resembled a blazing sun capable of melting heaven and earth, the pinnacle of unyielding yang. His sweeping strikes possessed peerless martial might as he sought to shatter the Dao through sheer force.
The Purple Mansion Saintess, meanwhile, possessed an ethereal grace beyond the mortal world. She merged with the peaks and became one with the