In the sky between the layers.
Two figures rapidly flickered, appearing and disappearing in an instant, like two constantly shining bubbles, or flashing red and blue dots.
Rongxin grew more and more alarmed as he fought. No matter what move he used, the opponent’s moves were exactly the same as his!
The most terrifying part was that the opponent’s moves were actually slightly more powerful than his!
"Void Jade!!" Rongxin grabbed with both hands, conjuring two blue-green jade-like discs from thin air.
This was the powerful killing move he created by using energy from his own furnace, combined with the surrounding airflow.
It was the pinnacle of his martial arts expertise, accumulated over hundreds of years.
’Void Jade.’ Zhang Rongfang likewise raised both hands, gathering similar blue-green jade discs in his palms.
The speed was only slightly slower than Rongxin’s.
"Kill!!" Rongxin abruptly charged forward, throwing the jade disc with all his strength.
Shhh!!
The discs clashed in an instant, silently merging, deforming, twisting, and then explosively shattering.
Remarkably, Zhang Rongfang’s disc still had some remaining, flying heavily toward Rongxin.
Bang!
Rongxin’s body shuddered violently, his chest hit, sending him flying back, his body covered in blood.
As he looked at the others again, he found Laf and Zhaoyu Pavilion had already opened the sky curtain, attempting to escape.
"You guys!!?" His eyes blazed with anger, his entire body suddenly glowing blue.
The furnace in his chest became even more dazzlingly bright.
"Since I can’t escape, none of you should think about running!!"
Whoosh!
His entire body suddenly ignited in blue flames.
The flames leaped upward over ten meters, resembling a giant torch.
Shared Burning Skill!
The furnace in Rongxin’s chest started pulsing at high speed, emitting a series of dull thuds.
A massive wave, far more oppressive than before, began to spread from his body.
"Shared Burning Skill!?" Upon sensing the wave, Laf and Zhaoyu Pavilion’s expressions changed slightly, hastening their escape.
With the furnace enhancing his body, it simultaneously connected his consciousness and the furnace, forming a whole.
In this state, executing martial arts moves would greatly amplify their effects.
However, as the energy core, the furnace itself also had its limit of explosive power.
Meaning its maximum power.
This was the Shared Burning Skill.
As the name implies, using it meant a great risk of burning together with the enemy.
Its power was naturally immense.
For the holder of the Heart-Burning Furnace, if Zhenyin was an ordinary killing move, then the Shared Burning Skill was the ultimate attack reserved for the most dangerous moments.
After using it, one would temporarily fall into a state of absolute weakness.
At this moment, Rongxin was engulfed in blue flames, his right hand raised high, as waves of air burst around him, pushing everything away, forbidding any approach.
Zhang Rongfang’s expression remained unchanged, raising his right hand as well.
"Shared Burning Skill? I can do it too."
His palm also ignited in blue flames, quickly spreading across his body.
"Then let’s die together!!" A manic gleam flashed in Rongxin’s eyes.
"Divine Wind Like a Mirror!!"
He clenched his hand.
Crack.
Countless cracks suddenly erupted around his palm.
It was as if the space around his hand was a smooth, icy mirror.
In that instant, all the mirrors shattered simultaneously, bursting into countless translucent air fragments.
The cracks and fragments disregarded distance, appearing almost instantly within a thousand-meter radius.
BOOM!!!!
In an instant, Zhang Rongfang and the entire surrounding space were shattered, turning into countless fragments, like scattered building blocks, slowly melting and disappearing.
"It... it’s over...." Rongxin gasped heavily, the blue flames on him rapidly dimming.
The Shared Burning Skill could erupt with a destructive force over thirty times his usual power in an instant.
This multiplier came at the cost of extreme furnace overdraft.
Whether speed, strength, or mental consciousness, he couldn’t bear such excessive overload.
Thus, after using it, he inevitably fell into a state of complete weakness.
"With absolute air control, in the moment of extreme eruption, unleash a full-force shockwave. This purely destructive move can annihilate any target hit by me in an instant.
Added to the suppression from the power of the furnace, even regenerative abilities couldn’t take effect!"
It was as if Rongxin was trying to reassure himself, yet his gaze remained fixed where Zhang Rongfang had stood moments before.
"Under such absolute destructive force, even an Evil Spirit Elephant... it’s impossible...."
Suddenly, his words ceased.
His eyes widened significantly, staring blankly at the scene before him, utterly speechless.
Right where Zhang Rongfang had stood, a brand new, intact figure rapidly reformed, taking shape once again.
That was Zhang Rongfang, who had just been shattered!!
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Hiss!
The sky curtain was suddenly torn apart.
At the base of the fissure, Laf and Zhaoyu Pavilion soared upward, swiftly leaving this inlet.
The two quickly flew through the crack, arriving at the surface.
Just as they had just found their footing, the Moon God also flew out from the bottom of the fissure, following closely, landing on the ground.
"Moon God, you....!?" Zhaoyu Pavilion at this moment looked at the Moon God again, always feeling that this person’s face was full of deceit.
It was all calculated, just to lure them into a trap.
But as she looked at the Moon God, she discovered that he was looking at this side with a strange gaze.
Poo!!
Suddenly, Zhaoyu Pavilion felt a pain in her back.
Her eyes instantly went blank, looking down at her own chest.
There, at some unknown time, appeared a familiar arm, piercing through her back and coming out from her chest.
"Is this the power of the furnace?" A voice belonging to Rongxin slowly spread from behind her.
Zhang Rongfang, bearing the face and physique of Rongxin, had silently appeared behind her.
"No illusions, no divine might, just sheer strength and speed...."
As Zhang Rongfang spoke, his body began rapidly transforming into the appearance of Zhaoyu Pavilion.
Face, body shape, even clothing, and even hair color, all changed to completely match.
This scene took no more than two seconds from start to finish.
Watching this, Laf couldn’t help but step back, with cold sweat trickling down his face.
Even the Moon God, who was once Zhang Rongfang’s mentor, couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart at this moment.
Feeling the furnace aura from Zhang Rongfang that was identical to Zhaoyu Pavilion’s at this moment.
Without putting himself in Laf’s shoes, he could still sense Laf’s panic at this moment.
Swish.
Zhang Rongfang’s arm automatically spread out dark red blood water, like a big mouth, instantly wrapping Zhaoyu Pavilion’s entire body, swallowing her.
In just a few seconds, Zhaoyu Pavilion quickly shrank, dissolved, and disappeared into the dark red blood water.
"Oh? The power of two furnaces can’t fully stack?" Zhang Rongfang at this moment pressed his chest’s furnace with slight surprise.
"But it doesn’t matter..." He turned his body, and the flesh on his back rapidly swelled, having another body grown in the blink of an eye.
It was clearly the male body belonging to Rongxin.
At this moment, he became a combination of Rongxin and Zhaoyu Pavilion.
Swoosh!
The two furnaces ignited flames simultaneously from the front and back, with blue and red flames bursting together.
"Red Sea Burns the Sky!" "Void Jade!!"
The voices of Rongxin and Zhaoyu Pavilion sounded at the same time.
The red light exploded, followed by a flash of blue-black, causing the two to disappear from the spot instantly.
Laf shivered in his heart, let out a low growl, and clasped his hands to the right diagonal downwards.
The furnace martial arts he practiced, the Black Sand Yama Path, unleashed its killing move, Yama Sand, without a sound.
A large expanse of black-gold fine sand blasted out through the gaps between his fingers.
From afar, it resembled a hazy black-gold mist, beautiful and magnificent.
But this hazy black-gold mist was actually a terrifying substance that could completely grind anything it touched into the finest dust.
This seemingly mist-like thing was actually innumerable extremely fine metallic dust, immensely heavy.
And under the furnace’s magnetic-like control, it spun at high speed, creating a grinder-like effect.
"Kill!!"
Laf pressed down with both hands with all his strength, and the preemptive judgment ensured he was certain of his attack’s location.
"Shared Burning Skill: That Which Is As Sea and Sky."
"Shared Burning Skill: Divine Wind As A Mirror!"
At the same time, at the location of his attack, Zhang Rongfang’s body rapidly appeared, with blue and red flames igniting on the two faces simultaneously.
It was the dazzling furnace glow triggered by the simultaneous activation of the shared burning skill.
"You!!?" Laf never expected that the opponent would execute a final lethal move right upon meeting.
Using the shared burning skill, which sacrifices oneself to kill the enemy, actually bursting two kinds at the same time!!?
But no matter how he reacted, everything was already too late.
Laf’s entire body contracted like lightning, curling into a black ball, with countless black crystals rapidly appearing outside, forming a defensive layer.
At the one-thousandth of a second simultaneously.
A vast red flame suddenly spread and exploded in front of him.
Circle after circle of red light, like waves, burst out from the furnace within Zhang Rongfang.
Along with the red light, the shared burning skill Divine Wind As A Mirror belonging to Rongxin spread out.
Numerous blue cracks spread out with the red light, also extending and spreading in all directions.
Centered on him, densely packed cracks suddenly appeared within a thousand meters around him.
The red light radiated out, baking and drying this thousand-meter range.
The black earth cracked, shattered, lifting countless dust.
The air twisted, steamed, becoming ever drier, with the temperature rapidly soaring from a dozen degrees to hundreds, even thousands, or two thousand degrees!
The soil and rocks began turning red, slowly melting.
Centering on Zhang Rongfang, a kilometer’s range instantly became a massive red light ball.
Tremendous destructive energy, in the form of high temperature and air shockwaves, indiscriminately destroyed everything within it.
Boom!
Suddenly, a blast of black light slammed through the surface of the light-ball.
The black light, burning entirely, burst through the air at a stunning speed, shooting explosively into the distance.
The light-ball at the original site rapidly shrank, faded, and extinguished.
Revealing Zhang Rongfang quietly standing there.
He had regained his original appearance, black hair, red eyes, clad in a blood robe, with a pale complexion.
"Interesting. At the last moment, his weight increased by at least a thousand times. Caught off guard, I couldn’t control it and let him escape."
He looked towards the Moon God quietly standing in the distance.
"Master, .... it seems the outside world isn’t as beautiful as you once thought."