So fast!
Zeng Tian's heart jolted as he watched the dark-gold blades blot out the sky and reach him almost instantly. He immediately pushed his speed to its limit, slipping between the streaks of dark-gold light by the narrowest of margins.
Then Zeng Tian glanced behind him, and his pupils abruptly contracted.
Ten dark-gold blades had torn through the ground for a thousand meters behind him. Everything in their path had been reduced to dust, leaving only gloomy spatial rifts that were rapidly healing.
So this was the power of Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Dreadclaw? It was terrifying beyond belief!
"Roar!"
But just then, Xiong Jun let out a furious roar. He swung both claws relentlessly, sending dozens of dark-gold blades identical to the previous ones flying toward Zeng Tian.
"This thing can actually be fired instantly?"
As Xiong Jun slashed wildly, the hundred-meter-long dark-gold blades sealed off almost all the space around them. Even Zeng Tian could no longer slip between them.
After all, these Dark Gold Dreadclaws could tear through space. Nearly all the surrounding space had now been ripped open by them, and accidentally touching a spatial rift might prove even more terrifying than facing a Dark Gold Dreadclaw head-on.
Faced with this situation, Zeng Tian unhesitatingly unleashed the strongest move he could currently use: Heat Wave Storm!
Zeng Tian spewed scorching red air from his mouth as the wings on his back beat furiously. A blazing-red storm instantly formed on the battlefield, and several red tornadoes dozens of meters tall sprang up together, meeting the dark-gold blades hurtling through the air.
As one of Zeng Tian's strongest combination techniques, Heat Wave Storm far surpassed every move he had used before.
Moreover, Heat Wave Storm was an area attack that could cover a three-hundred-meter radius, making it almost impossible to dodge.
With Sunny Day amplifying it, this was arguably the strongest attack Zeng Tian had ever unleashed.
Had the Scarlet King faced this attack instead, even his considerable Fire-type resistance would not have saved him from being severely injured in an instant.
Even so, against Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Dreadclaws, Heat Wave Storm held out for less than a second before the ever-growing barrage of dark-gold blades utterly shattered it.
"I didn't expect Xiong Jun to be pushed this far."
At the sight, Di Tian shifted slightly, preparing to intervene.
He had originally thought Zeng Tian would quickly exhaust his Soul Power by fighting that way, but Xiong Jun's reaction had been far more intense than he had anticipated.
Aside from Sky-Rending Claw, Xiong Jun was now giving it his all. Zeng Tian could already be proud of himself for pushing Xiong Jun to this point.
After all, even the Myriad Demon King and the others had never pushed Xiong Jun this far.
Even Di Tian would have to take Xiong Jun's current attacks a little seriously.
"Hm?"
Just before Di Tian intervened, he suddenly paused, and a rare hint of a smile appeared on his face.
"Interesting. Even after fighting this hard, he still has a trump card he hasn't used?"
A thousand meters away, the instant Heat Wave Storm collapsed, Zeng Tian began spinning rapidly, his entire body engulfed in roaring flames.
At the same time, dozens of enormous red Flame Whips appeared. They spun rapidly under Zeng Tian's control, eventually forming a dense, circular defensive net together.
The defensive net was roughly twenty meters in diameter and hung in midair like an enormous sun.
The next moment, countless dark-gold blades hurtled through the air, slashing into the defensive net one after another.
Although the dark-gold blades distorted the defensive net formed from Flame Whips, they failed to break through it.
Instead, beneath the shocked gazes of the Ferocious Beasts, the fiery net reflected every one of Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Dreadclaws back at him.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...
The reflected dark-gold blades collided with the fresh ones, whipping up a violent storm.
"Damn, is that move really that powerful? It can even reflect Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Dreadclaws at full strength!"
Far away, atop another small hill, the Scarlet King watched the red sun Zeng Tian had become continually deflect Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Dreadclaws. He couldn't help swallowing hard.
Since Zeng Tian almost never used this move when fighting him, he had once assumed it was only useful in lower-level battles.
But now it seemed the move was anything but useless. It was so useful that he simply wasn't worthy of making Zeng Tian unleash it.
With that thought, the Scarlet King immediately made up his mind. Once this battle is over, I'll ask Zeng Tian to teach me this move right away. If I master it, even Xiong Jun probably won't be able to do anything to me.
That was right-this was the strongest defensive move Zeng Tian currently possessed, Counter Punch Shield!
Through Zeng Tian's constant improvements, Counter Punch Shield now fell only slightly short of Protect in defensive power, while also being able to reflect an opponent's moves.
"It held!"
Seeing Counter Punch Shield successfully reflect Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Dreadclaws, Zeng Tian couldn't help letting out a sigh of relief.
In truth, he hadn't been sure whether his ordinary Counter Punch Shield could withstand Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Dreadclaws.
Especially when Xiong Jun was unleashing them so frequently.
But now it seemed that, once Dark Gold Dreadclaw was divided among all those individual claw slashes, its power was dispersed considerably. His current Counter Punch Shield was strong enough to deflect them.
Still, I can't let my guard down. Counter Punch Shield is already deforming. If he concentrates his attacks even a little, he could break through.
Zeng Tian reminded himself inwardly.
Normally, Counter Punch Shield would not deform. This time, however, it had warped severely, proving that blocking Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Dreadclaws had already brought it close to its limit.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Xiong Jun was also startled to see that Zeng Tian could actually reflect his Dark Gold Dreadclaws.
But after that shock, a tremendous surge of rage flooded his mind.
Being suppressed by Di Tian was one thing, but now I can't even suppress his successor, a Soul Beast with only ten thousand years of cultivation. I refuse to accept this!!!
As he kept swinging his claws, Xiong Jun's aura rose higher and higher, and his fury grew with it.
At the same time, the lucid light in Xiong Jun's eyes was gradually replaced by blood-red rage.
A savage, terrifying aura began swirling around him. His body swelled, and the color of his fur subtly changed as well.
The next moment, with a roar from Xiong Jun that reverberated for dozens of kilometers, a pair of sharp claws cleaved straight toward Zeng Tian as though splitting heaven and earth apart.
"Xiong Jun, don't you dare!"
At the sight, Di Tian was both shocked and furious. He had never imagined Xiong Jun would dare use Sky-Rending Claw in a sparring match.
And his target was the successor Di Tian had only just chosen!