Dual wielding volcanoes, killing through the west

Chapter 808: The Second Stage is Even More Heaven-Defying

"Did we win?" Ren used his katana to support himself as he stood up, asking expectantly, "Is he really dead?"

"Uh……"

Zhang Renfeng had no strength left to speak; he only felt the aftershocks in his mouth and a slight numbness.

Striking a vital point is the fastest and most direct way to kill someone.

But it has to be the wolf that makes the move, adding the penetrating power of sonic speed, to pierce through the super defense of "Qi Hardness + Golden Bell Cover" in one strike, and correctly transmit the force to the vital point.

As a price... Zhang Renfeng temporarily bound Lu Aniu's hands and feet, and inevitably, he also absorbed nearly half the force of the sonic boom. Even through Lu Aniu's body, he personally experienced the power of a "sonic boom."

After being struck, Lu Aniu became motionless; his heart and breathing stopped abruptly.

In this situation, we can tentatively assume that the tactic was successful.

……

"I've never seen... such an opponent, he's too formidable..."

Wolf's brows furrowed slightly. Compared to the injuries she had endured, her expression seemed far too nonchalant—the strain of continuous sonic booms on the body was unimaginable. Both of her arms had been completely destroyed by the sound barrier, flesh torn open, bones exposed.

She swung her arms twice, and with two cracking sounds, her bones straightened, and the flesh began to slowly heal itself. Compressing a wound that would normally take years to heal into a matter of seconds undoubtedly generates a massive amount of pain signals in the body. The fact that the wolf could still stand at this moment already showed that its physical condition far surpassed that of an ordinary person.

Even at such a heavy price, no marks could be left on Lu Aniu's body.

"...It's not certain yet. He still has the Divine Illumination Technique; things might change." After catching his breath, Zhang Renfeng quickly said, "Wolf, go...go get Ren's katana and take his head..."

……

"good eyesight."

Lu Aniu's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened without warning, revealing a hideous smile to the girl in front of him.

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"boom----!!!"

With a swift turn, he elbowed Zhang Renfeng in the temple, nearly burying his head in the ground. Soil and gravel, under this pure violence, were softly flung out like raindrops. Using the recoil, Lu Aniu instantly broke free of his restraints, a joyful smile spreading across his face.

Push off the ground, stand up, and spin around.

It touched the ground again with such lightness, as if it had escaped gravity.

Yes, joyful, genuinely joyful.

Even just a moment ago, he was indeed briefly taken away from this world by the combined attack of these two.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Ren drew his sword and stepped forward, but was grabbed by the shoulder. With a loud thud, he was thrown into the ground, sword and all, before he could do anything.

The stat difference between dual swords is so great that they're practically in different games; this outcome was predictable to everyone.

From the very beginning, the only ones truly qualified to compete with him were Zhang Renfeng and Lang!

……

"That move just now... its speed, power, and accuracy were all at their peak. If it weren't for me, I'm afraid I would have been smashed to pieces by now."

Driven by some force, his silver-white hair stood up one strand at a time, instantly making his hairstyle incredibly wild.

The wolf keenly sensed that as the other's hair stood on end, something was changing within him. It was as if something that had been compressed was now beginning to release little by little. A narrow vortex of energy emanated from him, spreading outwards, the low-lying weeds being the best evidence of it.

Lu Aniu's continuous internal energy made him the center of a vortex within a radius of a hundred miles.

The wolf felt the oppressive aura emanating from the air, and a bead of cold sweat trickled down its forehead. "Innate Skill?!"

“…Heh…” Lu Aniu stretched his shoulders and neck, making a cracking sound. “You have a good eye.”

"Alright, little girl, let me see the martial arts technique you possess..."

"What's the trick this time?"

……

"boom!!!"

He pushed her towards her from a distance with a palm strike.

Wolf truly lived up to her reputation as a genius. Although she didn't see any attack, the signal from her "intuition" couldn't be clearer. With a light touch of her toes, she nimbly dodged the silent and colorless killing move, and the instant she landed, she pressed her body down to the ground and charged towards her opponent!

"Click——"

Such a drastic change in movement naturally reopened the still-healing wound on the wolf's arm, but the wolf had no choice.

Like an arrow released from a bow, in those few seconds of her dash, she attacked from the side, her toes barely touching the ground as she leaped into the air. Using the power of her twisting waist, she completed a rotation and leg bend in mid-air, adjusting her angle to the optimal position.

With a high roundhouse kick, the arch of the foot was fully extended, and it went straight for Lu Aniu's head!

……

"Coo coo—!!"

In the nick of time, the girl couldn't help but wonder if there was something wrong with her ears.

She actually heard the croaking of frogs.

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"boom-----!!!"

Zhang Renfeng gritted his teeth, violently shook off the mud and pebbles from his head, and just as he got up, he saw the wolf's body swing through the air in a straight line, crashing into the second floor of the chapel. The force was so great, like a giant boulder thrown by a catapult, that it instantly ripped the entire second floor of the chapel off.

The only saving grace was that she had managed to snatch the large bell; otherwise, she might have crashed headfirst into it and suffered even more serious injuries.

"Wolf!"

The smoke had not yet dissipated, and stones were still falling down with a thud, the cracks gradually spreading to the building's surface.

Zhang Renfeng rushed over, but before he had run a few steps, he heard the sound of wolves in the dust – at least he was sure she was still alive, which put him at ease.

But then, what she said made his heart clench suddenly.

"Senior brother... be careful of him..."

"Toad Kung Fu..."

……

"Toad Kung Fu?!" Zhang Renfeng was astonished. Looking over there, he saw that Lu Aniu had not adopted that very undignified "toad-on-the-ground" posture.

Instead, he simply squatted, one hand on the ground, as if preparing for a sprint. His cheeks swelled as he inhaled, his silver hair standing proudly upright. In no time, his cheeks swelled to an almost inhuman degree.

"Cuckoo!"

The croaking sound of a frog is almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

"Thump—!!!"

The next moment, Lu Aniu demonstrated the true terrifying aspect of this skill: his feet stomped off the ground, crushing everything in their path, as if creating an earthquake out of thin air! If it were just the Toad Skill, it would be fine, but he also had the strength of the thirteenth level of the Prajna Skill as a foundation. The combination of the two generated a jumping force... almost instantly, he arrived in front of Zhang Renfeng.

Start from zero frame.

Their eyes met.

But... he didn't throw a punch, a palm strike, or a claw strike.

"Snapped!"

Lu Aniu opened his arms and tightly hugged Zhang Renfeng's body, then bent his legs in an instant and did a high leg raise.

He slammed his foot down onto the ground!

Using the incredible jumping power of the Toad Style, the two who were "locked" together transformed into a phantom and soared straight into the sky!

Chapter 809: My presious, mine...

Pulling onions out of dry land!

This was the first time in Zhang Renfeng's life that he had been so close to the sky.

A strong wind swept across his cheek, parting his hair like tiny knives. As they climbed higher, everything below seemed incredibly small. From this vantage point, the half-ruined chapel, which held the secrets of the Gilded Cult and the Illuminati, resembled an insignificant little beetle. The cliff that had silently bore witness to this great battle didn't seem so wide after all.

What truly divides this world is the sky and the sea.

……

"drink!"

At the peak of his ascent, Zhang Renfeng swung his arm in a counterattack, breaking free from Lu Aniu's grip. As he instinctively tried to stomp his feet to generate power, he discovered that his feet had suddenly slipped into thin air, and his waist lurched, nearly causing him to twist his ankle.

All his stances, skills, and even his entire fighting system were honed on the ground.

Like Antaeus in Greek mythology, once off the ground, even with immense strength, he wouldn't know how to use it. But given his personality, even if he lost all his technique and was left with only wild, uncontrolled punches, he would still swing them wide and aim for the opponent's face!

"This solid, hard-hitting skill shows that your master has taught you a lot..."

Lu Aniu, however, was already accustomed to high-altitude combat. His control over distance far surpassed Zhang Renfeng's at the moment. With just a few dodges, he rendered Zhang Renfeng's punches and kicks useless. He even had the energy to throw out a sarcastic remark.

"pity."

"He didn't teach you everything he knew; for example... this move!"

With fingers bent, palm turned into claw, a flash of dark light suddenly appeared, and it went straight for Zhang Renfeng's face!

"laugh!"

Blood splattered.

The claws left marks, the instant they touched the skin like piercing through rotten earth, leaving three horizontal scars across Zhang Renfeng's face, stretching from his eyebrows to his cheeks. Before Zhang Renfeng could react, hot blood already soaked into the corners of his eyes. This was the first time in a long time that someone had broken his defenses; he had even almost forgotten what "pain" itself tasted like.

He instinctively raised his hand and wiped away the blood flowing from the wound.

In a clear field of vision, what was rapidly approaching was Lu Aniu's right leg, straight as a battle axe, slashing down from mid-air!

"Thump—!!"

One kick.

From the sky to the ground, Zhang Renfeng was given no chance to retaliate. His body drew a straight line without any fluctuation, falling straight down.

When he slammed into the ground, it was like a pebble falling into a pond, creating ripples of earth and grass. A strong, earthy smell, mixed with the scent of grass roots, wafted out, and those delicate grass roots, upon being struck, floated up like willow catkins!

Lu Aniu was still falling, but he acted with incredible skill: he twisted his body in mid-air, his waist and back always in a straight line. He threw out both fists at the same time, landing like a superhero, straight up and straight down, heading straight down in the direction where Zhang Renfeng had landed.

With the aid of gravity, his strike appeared exceptionally powerful.

"boom------!!"

The ground was almost completely ripped up, like a shooting star falling to earth. After the violent collision, a cloud of dust blotted out the sky.

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"……cough……"

My hands and feet were paralyzed, and I could clearly feel the softness of the soil and the fragrance of the grass roots, but I couldn't muster any strength.

Powerlessness.

A feeling of utter helplessness, like drowning, gripped him like a bone-deep infection, consuming him. Zhang Renfeng spat out a mouthful of blood, his jaw clenched so tightly his gums trembled as he tried to stand. But in the end, he could only manage to lift his upper body slightly.

"What a powerful body!" Lu Aniu pushed aside the dust and stood at the edge of the crater Zhang Renfeng had created, casting a complicated look at him. "From a height of over a hundred meters, without any cover, he just fell straight down like that... If it were an ordinary person, a hundred of them would have been turned into mincemeat."

"You only have a slight displacement of your diaphragm, it's simply divine."

"..." Zhang Renfeng's eyes showed no sign of giving up; instead, they became even fiercer as he stared intently at him.

"Boom!"

In a matter of seconds, he had regained control of his right hand, clenched it into a fist, and slammed it hard into the wet, mushy soil.

"Even turning over is so difficult, do you still want to keep fighting?" Lu Aniu didn't take him seriously and said with a smile, "With the strength of the two of you, if you cultivate for another fifty years, you might actually be able to fight me..."

"...to exchange a few blows..."

As he was speaking, his voice suddenly stopped.

Because when he said "you two," he naturally didn't include Zhang Renfeng, nor the blonde girl who had unleashed a sonic attack that nearly killed him. Lu Aniu unconsciously looked at her, but froze for a moment, like Columbus discovering a new continent, his eyes filled with shock!

Her arm.

Just now, when used as a weapon, it exceeded the speed of sound and unleashed tremendous destructive power, causing the tendons and bones to protrude and Bloodthorn Ula's arm... to have already healed almost exactly as it was at the beginning. If it weren't for the few shallow wounds still remaining, Lu Aniu would have wondered if those two incredibly penetrating sonic attacks were just his imagination.