The spear's tip tore through the open sky, dense thunder-plasma crackling and snapping.

Like the wrath of the heavens given form, the sheer spectacle of it was enough to make ordinary people avert their eyes.

Shen Yi watched it in silence, eyes flickering with sharp focus.

With the golden eagle divine ability bolstering his sight, the entire spear's speed slowed to a fraction — and yet even so, his pupils contracted slightly.

This was the Mixed Origin technique he'd wanted so badly to witness.

What played out before him now was already beyond every technique he'd ever seen.

Whether Twin-Harmony True Intent or anything else, they were all straightforward applications of qi, condensing it into a physical form.

But this — the man had genuinely, through a mortal body, set heaven's lightning itself in motion.

Where did the lightning come from? Qi transmuted into it?

His blue-green robe billowed, and beneath it the crimson dragon-tiger pattern across his skin rose slowly to the surface.

Shen Yi shook the lingering lightning arcs off his body with a surge of dense demon qi, and when the spear closed to within three inches, threw the Unfettered Wind-Riding Art into full force.

A translocation art at Perfection — a hundred zhang of distance in a single breath.

And yet against that spear, there was nowhere to go.

Shen Yi barely managed to angle himself clear of the vital points. Dark hair lifted in the wind, and a savage glint flashed through his eyes.

He dropped any thought of continuing to evade.

Three demon kings roared in unison within his body, their overwhelming force pouring entirely into his right arm.

"What kind of brute—?!"

Under Perfected Master Changqing's watching eyes, Shen Yi didn't change expression, and drove a fist straight at the thunder-spear.

Crack!

Thunder-plasma that could reduce flesh and bone to cinders in an instant splashed off the edge of his knuckles. Red light blazed across the skin — his path infant fighting back with everything it had — but beyond the path infant, the skin and flesh themselves were formidable beyond comprehension.

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