Gao Qing and the long-haired man drew in a sharp breath. Watching the brutal and violent scene unfold below, even as a mere spectator, Gao Qing felt her eyelids twitching uncontrollably from time to time.
She couldn’t help but blurt out, "Could it be... are we about to witness an unprecedented battle today? A Divine Servant Level slaughtering a Divine Envoy Level powerhouse?"
"It’s too soon to say that..."
The short-haired man spoke softly, "A Strong Divine Envoy with an A+ strength rating... isn’t as simple as you’d imagine..."
Gao Qing’s expression faltered, and she subconsciously looked down.
Lu Yuan had almost slammed the red-haired man entirely into the mountainside before him.
Large swathes of earth and stone collapsed, and chunks of rubble rumbled down, completely burying the red-haired man in moments.
The prolonged, high-frequency bursts of exertion left even Lu Yuan, with his constitution of 19 points, feeling the strain of excessive stamina consumption and a touch of fatigue.
He panted lightly, gradually steadying his breathing.
His massive, burly figure stood amidst the earth and rubble, like an unshakeable monument.
From start to finish, he had slammed the red-haired man from the Crow God Sect a full one hundred and thirty-two times, practically demolishing this small stone forest in the process.
However, Lu Yuan’s expression showed no hint of relaxation; instead, it grew even more solemn than before.
He seems... not to be seriously injured?!
Lu Yuan’s incredibly sharp hearing could faintly pick up the red-haired man’s still steady and strong heartbeat.
His fully-honed instincts seemed to perceive... an ever-intensifying sense of crisis, gradually emanating from the Stone Pestle before him.
I don’t believe you’re really this tough... Today, you die! Not even the Crow God can save you!
Lu Yuan took a deep breath.
His chest swelled slightly, the muscles across it tensing like steel cables.
Both Death Qi and the Ten Thousand Refining Crane Bone Strength surged within him.
That previous flurry of wild blows hadn’t been without its benefits; at least, he was growing increasingly proficient in coordinating these two powers.
"Spirit Crane Skill: Crane Shadow Floating in the Air!"
Lu Yuan aimed a devastating punch straight at the location of the Stone Pestle.
Visions of the Spirit Crane and a crow flickered alternately in his mind.
This punch directly blasted through layers of rubble, its terrifying pressure slamming into the earth like an incredibly powerful pile driver.
The ground in a small area around Lu Yuan violently shuddered from the force of this punch.
A large crater appeared instantly.
However... Lu Yuan’s expression turned utterly grim.
He slowly retracted his fist, his gaze withdrawing from the empty crater before him.
His gaze then shifted upward, to a spot roughly ten meters away... where he spotted the red-haired man’s current figure.
"Very few people have ever pushed me this far..."
The red-haired man, Calophis, stood beneath a dense red pine.
At this moment, the Death Qi around him had almost entirely dissipated.
His once-magnificent robes were tattered, his red hair was disheveled, and his face and body were covered in dust.
His former elegance and composure had vanished, leaving him looking somewhat battered.
"You truly are remarkable. No wonder you’ve caused me so much trouble..."
The red-haired man stared coldly and expressionlessly at Lu Yuan, then reached up and gently removed the silver-patterned mask from his face.
Lu Yuan’s pupils contracted.
He saw that the part of the red-haired man’s face previously hidden by the mask was covered in fine, dense crow feathers.
Following that, the red-haired man also ripped off his black robe.
His complete external appearance was now fully revealed to Lu Yuan.
He was incredibly tall, nearly two meters.
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However, large patches of his body were covered with black, crow-like feathers.
Some areas even featured strange, protruding joints, yet they didn’t appear particularly ugly.
At first glance, he resembled a hybrid Crowman from a fantasy novel, perhaps one with a third crow lineage?!
Wisps of Death Qi began to reconverge around him, but this time, they no longer swirled about his form.
Instead, they condensed upon his body, forming large, beautiful black patterns.
They resembled tattoos, or perhaps he had donned a mysterious, ornate garment.
"Suddenly, I find myself interested in you..."
Calophis’s exquisite, wine-red hair cascaded down, and at some point, even his eyes had turned red.
He gazed at Lu Yuan dispassionately and said in a low voice, speaking fluent Ancient Lingual, "If you choose to submit now, I might be willing to grant you the opportunity to kiss my feet..."
"Kiss... your mother!"
BOOM! A deafening blast erupted.
Accompanied by a sound like silk tearing as he ripped through the air, Lu Yuan’s figure instantly crossed the ten-meter distance, suddenly appearing right before Calophis.
"Spirit Crane Skill: Mistakenly Picked Immortal Orchid!"
The five fingers of his Moon Snatching glove spread wide, their sharp tips wreathed in both Vigor and Death Qi, tearing visible, long, faint black streams through the air.
A red glint flickered in Calophis’s eyes as he casually raised a hand.
As the Moon Snatching claws made contact with Calophis’s palm, Lu Yuan felt as if his strike had landed on a thick, hard steel plate.
But with the power of this grasp, combined with the sharpness of Moon Snatching, even a real steel plate should have been torn apart!
He stared at the black patterns on Calophis’s palm, formed from condensed Death Qi. Suddenly, as if a thought struck him, his gaze turned graver.
"Spirit Crane Skill: Crane Shadow Floating in the Air!"
Lu Yuan then threw another punch, his fist tearing through the air and generating massive, circular white shockwaves right in front of Calophis.