Under the searing heat covering the vast area.
The already pockmarked ground soon began cracking apart across great stretches with a series of sharp snaps.
Then thick slabs of stone were thrust upward by heat rising from underground, exploding one after another into showers of debris that vanished in the distorted, scorching air.
Clusters of crimson flames soon ignited within that violently twisting air, turning the entire battlefield into a sea of fire.
Everywhere one looked, crimson flames churned fiercely.
"Y-your martial soul... why doesn't it look like the ones I saw in the Origin Land? Why is it so much bigger than theirs?!"
Li Zhan stood frozen in place, staring up at the sky-blotting martial soul dharma form before him, his eyes filled with incredulous shock.
So they had martial souls in the Origin Land too...
Gu Qing raised his eyebrows slightly.
With a thought, he released a vast amount of mental power to envelop his body.
Then, aided by psychic control, his feet slowly left the ground. He rose straight up dozens of meters into the air, disappearing completely into the martial soul dharma form's chest.
Only after all that was done.
Did Gu Qing leisurely lower his head, looking down from above at Li Zhan, who stood only a few meters tall below. As though regarding an ant he could crush at will, he said flatly:
"You've got it wrong. I'm not too big. You and the others are too small."
"What's the use of being big? You have to be hard!"
With that, Li Zhan drove his feet into the ground. With a bang, he stamped out a crater half a meter deep and charged straight at Gu Qing's seventy-meter-tall martial soul dharma form, taking his own ten-meter-tall humanoid energy giant with him.
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