Cultivation: I Have a Skill Level Panel

Xiao Chen nodded. "It seems this journey won’t be as easy as I thought..."

"Huh?!"

Gu Yun’s head snapped up. A crimson figure streaked across the sky above. The figure glanced down at them inadvertently, seemed to startle, and then stopped abruptly!

"It’s him!!"

Gu Yun’s sharp gaze pierced through the void and clouds, and he instantly recognized the figure suspended in the sky as Jiang Qingfeng.

He would recognize that man even if he were reduced to ashes!

’Why is Jiang Qingfeng in such a wretched state?’

’Could the devastation on the ground below be the result of a battle between Jiang Qingfeng and some other expert?’ Gu Yun wondered, a flicker of doubt in his mind.

But his heart quickly sank.

"To think I’d run into you here. It must be fate," Jiang Qingfeng mused, his profound gaze piercing through the void.

Then, his voice turned bone-chilling. "In that case, I’ll just have to eliminate you while I’m at it. Now, die!!"

A crimson light flashed in Jiang Qingfeng’s eyes. A terrifying, bloody Dao Rhythm coiled around him as, without a moment’s hesitation, he raised his hand and thrust a palm forward!

In an instant, a terrifying Blood Palm, hundreds of miles wide and imbued with a dreadful Dao Rhythm, blotted out the sky. It crushed through layers of space as it descended, seeking to annihilate Gu Yun and Xiao Chen!

Gu Yun immediately felt an immense pressure, as if a mountain had been dropped on his shoulders. He stared up at the colossal Blood Palm that blotted out the sky. It felt as if the palm contained an entire world, one that was crushing space itself as it came to annihilate him. His expression grew impossibly grim.

"Brother Xiao, get out of here!" Gu Yun yelled to Xiao Chen at his side during the critical moment.

"Huh? With a great enemy before us, Brother Gu, do you take me for someone who would flee to save his own skin?" Xiao Chen’s expression was grave as he spoke in a low, firm voice.

"This man is in the Tongxuan Realm, and his grudge is with me. This has nothing to do with you, Brother Xiao. You’ll just get caught in the crossfire if you stay.

So please, Brother Xiao, you must leave now!" Gu Yun said, shaking his head, his words coming out in a rapid-fire burst.

Then, Gu Yun stomped forward. The terrifying force of his step sent shockwaves through the very air, causing space to crack and shatter like a mirror.

An ocean of True Yuan erupted from his body, and a terrifying might surged outward in all directions like a torrential flood!

Gu Yun looked to the sky, a flicker of lightning dancing in his eyes.

Immediately after, terrifying arcs of lightning coiled around his body until he resembled a fearsome Thunder God, radiating an overwhelming power.

At the same time, lightning surged for a hundred miles in every direction, tearing across the sky with constant, deafening roars, transforming the area into a veritable Thunder Domain!

"Jiang the Dog, go to hell!"

With a furious roar, Gu Yun raised his hand. The lightning from a hundred miles around converged, forming a colossal Thunderous Hand that pulsed with a trace of Thunder Dao Rhythm.

Like the hand of Celestial Punishment itself, it tore through the sky, crashing toward the giant blood-red palm above with immense, heavenly might!

BOOM!

The Blood Sea Divine Palm and the Hand of Celestial Punishment collided violently in midair, instantly triggering a terrifying explosion. The surrounding space shattered in great swaths like glass, revealing a pitch-black, abyssal void. Horrifying shockwaves blasted outwards, kicking up cataclysmic storms!

The shockwave jolted Xiao Chen, who had already retreated hundreds of miles away.

’Brother Gu is this powerful?!’

Meanwhile, Jiang Qingfeng, standing tall in the sky above, was no less shocked than Xiao Chen.

Jiang Qingfeng’s eyes narrowed.

’How long has it been? How is this brat already so strong?!’

’If I had known, I would have done whatever it took to kill him last time!’ Jiang Qingfeng thought, a pang of regret striking him.

’But it’s not too late to kill him now!’

A monstrous killing intent surged within him.

The Dao Rhythm around him began to spin wildly.

His Heaven-Reaching Magical Power erupted.

The very heavens and earth began to tremble.

"If you do not die, my heart will know no peace.

So die for me now!!"