Soul power.
Unparalleled soul power.
That power surged skyward from Xuan Zi's body, like a raging sea.
A golden pillar of light pierced heaven and earth, shredding the clouds overhead into dust. Its overwhelming aura crushed outward in every direction like an invisible wall. Before that aura, the dark green radiance of Du Busì's Golden-Level Awakening was like flimsy paper, completely suppressed before it could last even a single breath.
"Is this for real?!!"
The same thought rose in both Du Busì's mind and that of Gu Xingyue, who had been battered into a dusty mess by the shock waves in the distance.
Du Busì's reaction was instinctive.
Almost reflexively, she lifted her foot and retreated dozens of yards, putting distance between them before taking a guarded stance again, her arms crossed before her as she drove her soul power to its fullest.
She stared at the figure slowly rising from the crater, her pupils abruptly contracting.
Gu Xingyue reacted differently.
Holding Huo Yutong, he crouched behind a massive rock overturned by the blast, the blood at the corner of his mouth not yet wiped clean.
He stared at Xuan Zi's figure soaring into the sky, and a strange sense of déjà vu suddenly flooded his mind-my heavens-back after being enraged three times??!!
His fists clenched involuntarily.
Lady Xuan Zi, lead us in another charge.
That was right. In other words-Xuan Zi had won.
"Yo, Du Busì. Hello there." Xuan Zi stood high in the sky, grinning.
Blood still hung at the corner of her mouth, her white hair was disheveled, and the wounds covering her body had not healed. Yet her eyes were frighteningly bright, golden light churning deep within her pupils as though two suns burned in her eyes.
Du Busì unconsciously puffed out her chest, suppressing