Lin Guang's figure once again dodged the massive slashing grid, appearing behind Wu Nuo like a ghost.

"...!"

Wu Nuo frowned slightly without turning back. The gray flames in his eyes also blazed fiercely as he layered a high-density web defense across the [Impermeable] space before his fist.

The crimson fist, wrapped in flames, struck the three-centimeter gap of space around Wu Nuo's body.

Bang!

Boom!

The kinetic energy of the physical blow and the explosive flames collided with the [Impermeable] in two separate impacts, detonating a ring of visible white airwaves that instantly crushed the road beneath them into a cracked, shallow pit several meters in diameter.

It was blocked.

Too bad. To break the [Impermeable], unless you forcibly overwhelm it with a higher Energy Level, it's impenetra—

Just as this thought surfaced in Wu Nuo's mind—

Boom!

Lin Guang's figure abruptly appeared before him, his other fist already slamming into Wu Nuo's chest.

Nearly in the blink of an eye—mere tenths of a second after the first physical and flame strikes were intercepted—the same dual impact erupted again from the youth's left fist.

And this time, it had almost penetrated 2.5 centimeters deep!

"!!!"

In that instant, the overflowing flames intertwined with the residual waves of the invisible slashes, slicing a discarded car on the roadside cleanly in half, then detonating it instantly into a towering fireball!

—How is this possible? Such precise micro-control of his power!

Wu Nuo remained completely unharmed, but his eyes once again showed astonishment.

Being able to seamlessly switch between two forms with perfect timing was already an incredible feat. One misstep, and he would have been cut by the slashes.

That alone made Lin Guang—still unscathed so far—worthy of being called a once-in-a-generation genius.

But to then control his own power with such exquisite precision on top of that... that was simply beyond comprehension.

Even the masters recorded in his sect's history—those who had immersed themselves in the [Thirty-Three Cavern Heavens] for over a century, returned through borrowed bodies, and awakened in the modern era—might not necessarily be Wu Nuo's match at the same realm. Yet Lin Guang could find his weaknesses in actual combat?

At that moment.

The "tension" he hadn't felt since mastering the [Thirty-Three Cavern Heavens] finally reawakened in this [Strongest] fighter.

"...Ha!"

But the instant he realized this fact, Wu Nuo, for some reason, burst into a wild laugh again. His laughter echoed through the night sky illuminated by the blazing flames.

"Hahahahahaha!!"

Every collision between the crimson flames and the invisible slashes exploded into brilliant firelight and distorted spatial ripples, turning the battlefield's center into something resembling a natural disaster.

In truth, Wu Nuo had long known this wasn't a fair duel.

Whether in total curse power or technique performance, Wu Nuo was confident he was overwhelmingly superior to the youth before him.

He was already at the peak of the second Energy Level—even in Wind Capital, a place where mystery had only begun to awaken, this was the highest level currently permitted by the environment.

The youth before him was, at best, just barely entering the middle stage of the second Energy Level's threshold.

That was already impressive enough to overshadow nearly everyone of the new generation.

But it wasn't enough to face Wu Nuo.

Because the gap in their total power was massive!

For Wu Nuo, if Lin Guang didn't choose to switch to attack mode, every one of his punches and kicks would just be ordinary strikes—too weak to have any effect on breaking the [Impermeable].

To pierce the [Impermeable], he had to completely abandon defense in exchange for full power output, relying solely on dodging to evade Wu Nuo's dangerously lethal slashes.

It was like dancing on a razor's edge—one mistake, and he'd be cut, with zero margin for error.

And that wasn't even considering that Wu Nuo's current slash output was far from his limit. If he went all out, even that defense mode might not hold.

In other words.

Whether it was attrition or power output, Wu Nuo believed he would inevitably win.

—But that's the mindset of a loser.

The true [Strongest] was naturally strong in every aspect.

Bullying him for being younger, having less training time, and crushing him through sheer power... that was far too boring!

Boom!!

Amidst the rolling flames and residual slashing waves, two figures shot out simultaneously.

Their high-speed movements briefly froze in a moment of relative stillness, gray and red flames trailing four ghostly arcs of fire through the air.

—Those were the fires blazing deep within their pupils as they stared into each other's eyes.

Wu Nuo's smile grew even more unhinged, while Lin Guang remained expressionless.

Fine, then! Let's compete in what you're best at—your micro-control and reaction speed!

If you can do it, why can't I?

You can catch the upper limit of my technique's response? I can catch the instant you switch forms, too!

That moment of your attack is equally your weakness.

So let's bet on it... whose reaction is faster!

In that instant.

Boom!

Mud flew, and the ground shook.

Wu Nuo had suddenly halted from a supersonic high-speed movement with no inertia, channeling all that kinetic energy into the ground, causing the tremor. But he himself remained completely unaffected, rooted in place like a nail, his eyes fixed on Lin Guang as if nothing else existed in the world.

He was going to focus his mind completely.

Meanwhile, the crimson meteor still racing at high speed compressed its blazing radiance to the absolute limit in that same moment.

Wu Nuo murmured to himself:

Now is defense mode.

But in the instant he closes in and is about to strike me, he'll switch to attack mode—that's my chance.

The moment this thought arose—

Lin Guang also crouched low.

In that instant, all the flames and kinetic energy converged into his right fist as if absorbed entirely, transforming him into a single streak of magnificent blood-red fire.

A straightforward punch, no tricks, aimed directly at Wu Nuo's face.

In what felt like frozen time, Wu Nuo's eyes traced the arc of that punch.

Several slashes followed his hand gestures, poised to strike, waiting for the flaw in the opponent's form switch.

1 second.

0.5 seconds.

0.1 seconds.

0.05 seconds.

0.01 seconds.

The distance between them closed rapidly.

Brown pupils and red pupils locked onto each other, each waiting for the instant the other made a move.

The fist had nearly pressed against his [Impermeable], but Lin Guang's force field showed no sign of changing.

...Chickening out?

Wu Nuo frowned slightly.

Too bad—I was just getting ready to—

"?!"

In the final instant before the fist fully made contact.

In the moment Wu Nuo believed Lin Guang had given up on this attack—

Lin Guang's force field erupted like boiling fury.

Then came—

Two distinct impacts, so short they were nearly unimaginable, yet undeniably present.

Under the youth's freakish micro-control, the error between his punch's curse power eruption and its physical impact was compressed to an astonishing 0.001 seconds!

This had exceeded the response limit of Wu Nuo's technique!

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