The echoes of their taunts hadn’t yet faded when man and beast unleashed their power, closing in on each other with ferocious intent.
BOOM! The Demon Emperor’s humanoid form stood over four ters tall, its two hands ford from countless converging tree roots. It swung its arms like two impossibly thick long whips, one lashing high and one low, viciously striking at Su Zhou’s lower body and throat!
At the sa ti, countless sharp, knife-like wooden thorns erupted from the Demon Emperor’s body as it charged forward, shrouded in a suffocating, poisonous miasma!
’Long-Sleeved Whip’ and ’Iron Mountain Lean!’
The Demon Emperor rarely fought personally, and its combat awareness was inferior to even the National Preceptor or so of its Demon Generals. But as the ruler of a nation, it had access to every Extraordinary Inheritance and Martial Arts Inheritance imaginable. Nearly a century of practice was enough for it to master these techniques to perfection!
"Close-quarters combat?"
In that instant, Su Zhou revealed a ferocious smile. The pores on his skin and the hairs on his head all stood on end—a result of the Gale, a result of the rapidly howling Gale!
BOOM! The Gale Shield activated! Four Gale Seeds—on his forehead, throat, chest, and lower abdon—lit up one by one. Under a powerful infusion of Spiritual Power, an unprecedented Gale ripped apart the clothes on Su Zhou’s upper body before solidifying into translucent armor!
Mustering all his strength to fuel the Gale Armor, Su Zhou faced the Demon Emperor’s mountain-like charge without dodging. He opened his arms and embraced the attack head-on, raising his left arm to block one whip and his right leg to parry the other. For a mont, he looked like a one-legged bronze statue!
CRACK! WHAP!
In an instant, Su Zhou’s left arm and right leg were beaten red and swollen by the Demon Emperor’s high-speed lashes. Large chunks of his skin were flayed open, and the muscle tissue underneath was beaten to a purplish-red pulp.
"AAAAH!"
But at the sa ti, the Demon Emperor also roared in pain. Su Zhou, now pressed against its body, was wreathed in the raging Gale Armor. The wooden thorns on its body, far from injuring Su Zhou, were all sliced off. An intense pain, like the cuts of a thousand tiny knives, coursed through its Spiritual Energy. In that instant, a full three inches of its wooden body were scraped away, sending a cloud of sawdust into the air!
BOOM! A surging, imnse force rippled out from their collision. The air crackled with explosive reports, and a gale forceful enough to tear the flesh from an ordinary person’s bones swept past, carving fissures into the floor of the Celestial Palace.
For a mont, man and beast separated after the brief exchange, both having sustained significant injuries. Su Zhou’s arm and leg were still trembling, while a human-shaped groove had been gouged into the Demon Emperor’s torso and lower body—the very tissue Su Zhou had scoured away with his body as a chainsaw!
But in the next instant, they both roared and lunged at each other once more!
BOOM! This ti, the Demon Emperor no longer tried to harm Su Zhou with its body. From the previous exchange, it had realized that Su Zhou’s physical durability was no less than its own, a mber of the Innate Level Divine Wood Clan... ’Could this be the Talent of the Dragon Vein? How infuriatingly jealous it makes !’
This jealousy morphed into power. The Demon Emperor straightened its arms, converging its five fingers into sharp points. No longer whips, they transford into two ironwood Long Spears, stabbing down from above toward Su Zhou’s head and heart. This ti, it had specifically enhanced the hardness of its arms so they wouldn’t be cut by the Gale Armor!
But Su Zhou let out a sharp cry of his own. He clenched his hands into fists, flexed his arms, and took a large step forward, turning them into hamrs for a hard strike! He first raised his right hand to et the Long Spear aiming for his heart, while his left hand swung upward in a low arc. Ignoring the attack aid at his head, he struck directly at the middle of the Demon Emperor’s arm!
BANG BANG BANG BANG! Their speeds were nearly identical, and their attacks landed at the sa ti. The instant spear-tip t iron hamr-fist, it was like thunder erupting on level ground. The piercing shockwave caused imnse pain in both of their eardrums!
"Ah! That hurts!" "AAAGH, you worthless fleshbag!"
After the exchange, man and beast cried out in unison and retreated ten steps.
Dizzy, Su Zhou gritted his teeth and raised his right fist. Blood stread down his forehead from a wound so deep the bone was visible. In the center of that sa hamr-fist, a sizable bloody hole had appeared! The Demon Emperor’s spear had snapped his ring finger, and the imnse force had knocked the bones of his entire palm out of alignnt!
The Demon Emperor’s face was also contorted in a snarl, its arms trembling. The spear-arm that had t Su Zhou’s hamr-fist now had its fingers bent askew, twisted together like a pretzel. As for the spear that had aid for Su Zhou’s head, it had been snapped in half by his upward-swinging hamr-fist, the broken limb sent flying to who knows where!
If both combatants had been ordinary people, they would have lost their ability to fight then and there. But unfortunately for them, neither was ordinary. So, with two cold snorts, the deep gash on a forehead squird and sealed shut. A severed finger was pressed back into its wound, muscles and blood vessels writhing like tiny worms to reconnect and beco whole again. On the other side, fingers twisted like a pretzel and a broken left arm were restored as if Ti itself were flowing backward, accompanied by the KAKA sound of shifting bones!
BOOM! This ti, it was Su Zhou who seized the initiative. He stomped down, his feet creating craters and cracks in the ground, and closed the distance to the Demon Emperor in a flash, as if shrinking the earth with each step. Activating the Gale Armor again, he seed to want a repeat of their first clash!
But the Demon Emperor’s reaction was just as fast. How could it not see through Su Zhou’s plan? It imdiately erupted with Wood Qi, using its full power to stomp on the floor of the Celestial Palace. The ground shook, and countless gnarled roots and wooden burls erupted to obstruct Su Zhou’s path, while the Demon Emperor itself took several quick steps forward and launched a kick at him!
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