Seeing this strike succeed, both of their eyes glowed brightly, but they suddenly froze within a tenth of a breath.

The sight they anticipated of Su Mu being smashed into pieces did not occur.

Within Su Mu’s body, the Vajra Body, Red Fire Technique, Molten Fire Skill, Iron Cloth Shirt, and the other eight Martial Arts were operating simultaneously, and at that moment, the exquisite White Jade Treasure Pearl in his Dantian began spinning rapidly.

Waves of immense Gang Force surged out of the Dantian, and beneath Su Mu’s flame-wrapped flesh, the shadow of a massive golden bell, measuring a full nineteen feet, suddenly appeared. Instantly, the shadow solidified into a substantial golden bell over an inch thick.

On it, the manes of two fierce tigers were vividly detailed, and every flowing Buddhist script was clearly visible. Amid the intense golden light, the sound of Buddhist scripture chanting faintly resonated in the field.

The Vajra Temple had the Buddhist heritage of Qingzhou Longfu Temple, and the Vajra Body included an advanced Middle-Grade Martial Art progression, the Sixth-Grade Buddhist Dharma being the Prajna Golden Bell. If Zen Heart were present at this moment, he would surely clap his hands in amazement at the scene before him.

Zen Heart had observed the shadow of the Vajra Temple in Su Mu’s Martial Arts, and now, with the Vajra Body at the core, eight complete Cross-Training Martial Arts fused to form Su Mu’s self-created Sixth-Grade Martial Art, the Molten Fire Golden Bell. Empowered by Gang Force, it displayed a terrifying might greater than the Prajna Golden Bell handed down by Longfu Temple.

Self-created Martial Arts surpassing the original canon, just as blue surpasses indigo — that’s exactly it.

Previously, under the augmentation of Pill Force, it was merely a thirteen-foot illusory golden bell, with only one illusory tiger manifesting. Now, it had directly transformed into a terrifying substantial nineteen-foot bell. The bell body had transitioned from one illusory tiger to two tigers appearing together, encircled by Buddhist hymns.

Clang! Clang!

The Chained Giant Axe and Sword Light almost simultaneously rained down on the nearly substantive golden bell, erupting two earth-shattering peals. The bell’s sonorous chime echoed through the entire Academy, then spread to hover over Shuangbai Town.

In an instant, the residents of Shuangbai Town awoke from their slumber, startled.

Nonetheless, the giant axe, struck violently upon the inch-thick Gang Force-generated golden bell, could not advance an inch. Likewise, the Sword Light, the golden bell merely swayed slightly from their combined force, unscathed.

The next breath.

A resounding Tiger Roar echoed atop the golden bell, and the golden bell began to spin.

"Hmm?"

"Not good!"

The burly man and the Blind Swordsman, who was emerging with his sword from the ruins, had their pupils suddenly contract. Having crawled out from piles of bodies, their acute sense of impending doom made them immediately feel a strong crisis, prompting them to withdraw instantly, though it was too late.

Standing proudly in place, Su Mu suddenly put his hands together, causing the Buddhist chant to rise as if the Furious Eyes Vajra were issuing a wrathful reprimand while subduing demons.

Molten Fire Golden Body and Molten Fire Golden Bell!

Golden ripples, visible to the naked eye and nearly substantive, radiated one after another from the golden bell. The Red Fire Technique could reflect an opponent’s attack, while the Vajra Body could reflect the opponent’s power based on relative strength.

The Molten Fire Golden Body combined these aspects, so the stronger and more furious the opponent’s attack, the more horrifying the counterattack’s damage would be.

In front of the full twenty-two lines of Martial Arts Power from Su Mu, tempered through Fifth Refining Force, both men, who could look down upon the Three Counties and even be considered strong in the Commandery City, were weaklings, pitifully small.

Buzzing sounds!

The high-speed spinning golden bell sent the giant axe flying backward, shattering the Sword Light into pieces. Instantly, both men felt a terrifying counterforce, like thunder out of nowhere, reverberate back at them.

Wow!

The Blind Swordsman’s clothes shattered inch by inch; the bones in his arms cracked and broke instantly, and blood gushed from his seven orifices. Just as he leaped out of the ruins, his body once again flew backward into them, even more miserable and tragic than before.

On the other side, the burly man was equally wretched. Amid the counterforce, his mountainous body was first staggered by the rebounding giant axe, then completely flung away. Amid the sound of bones breaking, he was brutally smashed to the ground like a kickball, bounced several times, leaving several pits before smashing through the courtyard wall and flying dozens of feet before stabilizing.

"Cough, cough, cough... cough, cough..."

Blood continuously oozed from the burly man’s drooping arms, as he spewed several mouthfuls of black blood in shock and incomprehension.

Looking down, the edge of the unsharpened, nearly palm-thick giant axe was shattered, filled with cracks on the axe body.

Their full-force strike, potent enough to threaten ordinary Fifth-Grade Martial Artists, failed to injure Li Feiyu in the least. Instead, they suffered a punishing backlash, ending up with broken bones and severed tendons.

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