Chapter 696 - Disparity in Strength (1/2)

“Holy Lady? What nonsense are you spouting?”

Xiao Luo laughed mockingly, exposing two rows of bloodied teeth, and it filled his bitter voice with doom. By now, the system had already healed up all his internal injuries. A strange vibration ran through him before his body suddenly erupted in a ferocious surge of energy. Xiao Luo slapped Curisa’s leg away and thrust his palms on the ground to power his body to an upright position.

Xiao Luo stood to his full height, looking ferocious as he viciously flexed his stiff arms. Instantly, Xiao Luo roared and his nether claws flashed toward Curisa’s stone-hard shoulders, using his momentum to embed all ten of his fingers deep into the flesh. Seizing his adversary, Xiao Luo viciously slammed Curisa’s body into a huge stone boulder in the park.

BOOM! CRASH! CRASH!

Following the impact, both fighters continued to grapple and smashed through every tree they passed. They not only broke the trunks but obliterated entire trees. The ground they stepped on collapsed under the assault, which threw turf and soil debris into the air like a cloud.

KABOOM!

A thunderous clap erupted when Xiao Luo once again slammed Curisa into the stone boulder, and this time, the rock exploded into a thousand fragments like it had been blown up by a bomb, throwing a shower of shale over a dozen meters around them.

Xiao Luo leaped into the air and delivered a blast of internal energy toward where the boulder had stood with his right palm.

WHOOSH!

A dragon-like roar accompanied the thrust of energy that Xiao Luo unleashed. The immense power that surged from his palm churned up a fierce wind and reverberated across the sprawling park, sounding like a massive explosion. The ground shook and collapsed as dust swirled and covered the sky.

The power Xiao Luo possessed astonished Su Li. Was this man truly her husband? How was it possible that he had exceeded the limit of any human?

Su Li stared at Xiao Luo and couldn’t help feeling he was like a stranger to her. She thought she knew everything about this man, but she was finally realizing that her understanding of him barely scratched the surface.

Ming was standing right beside her, and his expression changed a little. He wasn’t expecting Xiao Luo to be this strong.

When the dust cloud cleared, they saw a huge palm print about a meter deep gouged into the ground. It was so shocking that it almost numbed their senses—it looked like a giant had slammed his palm into the turf!

Xiao Luo landed lightly on the ground. His breathing was much more labored and his heart thumped rapidly. He had put all his strength into that palm and consumed an excessive amount of internal force. He searched in the pit for traces of Curisa but could not see him.

Was he smashed into smithereens?

Impossible! His opponent’s strength was greater than his, and despite using all his energy in that strike, he still wasn’t confident that he had killed his opponent. He thought, at most, the blow only injured Curisa.

Where did he go? Did he burrow underground?

Xiao Luo looked in the pit once again but still saw no sign of his opponent.

“You disgusting mortal! I have undoubtedly underestimated your skills, and you have changed my perspective of this filthy land!”

Curisa’s voice boomed from above. Xiao Luo hurriedly lifted his head to look upward, and his pupils instantly shrank. Curisa was hovering in the air with his legs crossed in a lotus position, about a dozen meters away. He looked like a god in his white robe, and his body seemed shrouded in a glowing silver light.

Su Li’s eyes were wide open and she couldn’t believe what she saw. How was it possible to float in the air? Just where did these two towering men with purple eyes come from?

“Get down!”

Xiao Luo shouted at Curisa, as he stood calmly and braced himself. Regardless of how strong his opponent was, Xiao Luo had no intentions of running away.

Curisa descended and landed lightly on the ground. There was fresh blood on his shoulders caused by Xiao Luo’s nether claws, but it didn’t seem to bother him. He stared at Xiao Luo with his cold purple eyes.

“Mm, it’s about time,” Ming said.

Curisa nodded his head in acknowledgment. He glared at Xiao Luo and said, “Mortal, I’ll consider it my loss if you can touch me!”

Xiao Luo wanted to talk no more. He gritted his bloodied teeth and charged like a ferocious beast, quickly closing the gap between him and Curisa. He clenched his clawed fist tightly, preparing to strike out in anger.