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Chapter 267: The gap in contention
"Very good. Let me see your limits!"
Chen Beiwu swept a fingertip through the air. His essence, qi, and spirit poured out in full, forming a [Jianmu of Duguang, Celestial River Ascending to the Arcane, Five Elements and One Qi Transforming into a Dragon Landscape] that slowly unfurled.
Combat in the Strife Realm differed from combat in the real world.
If he pushed his heaven-bestowed initial scenery to its limit in the real world, Chen Beiwu did not know whether even Golden Egg's terrifyingly powerful body could withstand the enhancement of their shared beast-cultivation landscape without suffering serious injury-or even dying.
But he would certainly be the first to fall unconscious from depleted essence, qi, and spirit and exhausted divine sense and magic power.
Combat in the Strife Realm carried no such concerns.
If he died, he died. Once Chen Beiwu left the Strife Realm, he would be a hale and hearty man again, suffering at most minor injuries that required a period of recuperation.
Boom!
The instant the landscape manifested, the Heaven and Earth Spirit Vigor sealed within the lava cage began to rage, reflecting one landscape vision after another.
A heaven-piercing Jianmu rose from the earth. Its branches resembled azure dragons coiling through the sky, piercing the clouds and connecting the thirty-six celestial heavens. Its leaves bore mountains and rivers, suppressing the earth's veins.
A silver river cascaded from the ninth heaven and intersected the heaven-piercing Jianmu, revealing a pair of golden dragon eyes that flickered in and out of sight.
In the direction those dragon eyes watched, a plump Golden Scale repeatedly leaped upward, attempting to swim against the silver river's current, cross the Five Elements Mountain shimmering with five-colored spiritual light, and ascend to the celestial realm.
"Jianmu pierces