A Card In Hand

Chapter 92: The Young People of Today are Just Too Weak!

Li Ao, like a meteor falling, shot down into the earth, stirring up a cloud of dust and dirt.

The energy-transformed Iron Giant lost its main consciousness support.

It could no longer maintain its form.

It gradually became transparent, swiftly dissipating, returning to Li Ao’s body.

The silver shadow, after a single strike, quietly vanished.

Then reappeared.

Now hovering at the edge of the deep crater where Li Ao had fallen.

The silver shadow lightly touched down, as light as a falling leaf.

He leaned slightly over the edge of the pit, peered down for a moment, then swiftly turned and twisted his waist, striking the muddy ground with his right palm.

Instantly, the entire pit exploded like a massive volcano erupting, rumbling loudly, with countless mud and rocks spewing out, especially at the bottom where Li Ao was blasted upwards, his figure shooting up into the sky most distinctly.

A ring of shockwave spread along the ground, causing the entire testing ground to shake violently as if there was a severe earthquake.

The silver shadow, standing upright, casually snapped his fingers.

Snap!

Li Ao, flying back towards the sky, suddenly found his right ankle entangled by a silver ribbon.

It stretched longer and thinner, getting tighter and tighter.

When the silver ribbon stretched to about five hundred meters,

It was clearly close to its limit.

Just as it seemed about to snap,

The silver shadow pointed his right hand towards the pit.

As if commanded or like a spring stretched to its limit and about to break, the ribbon violently contracted, pulling back the ascending Li Ao with such force that his body, once more like a meteor, thunderously crashed back into the pit.

“Get up!” commanded the silver shadow, as his left palm immediately struck the ground.

With this strike.

The ground was undisturbed without any reaction.

Yet inside the pit, a dull, heavy thud sounded.

Strangely, no dust or rocks flew up, only Li Ao seemed to be hit by a terrifying force, shooting up into the sky, whizzing straight up to the sky.

Reaching the five hundred meter limit once again, the silver shadow chuckled softly and pointed his right hand at the pit again, the silver ribbon once more skillfully pulling Li Ao back, forcing him to accelerate like a meteor back into the pit.

“Having fun? Feels good, doesn’t it? Want to play again?” the silver shadow asked as he struck the ground with his right palm for the third time.

Boom!

Unlike the second strike where only Li Ao was blasted without any disturbance, the third one reverted to the volcanic eruption-like explosion of the first strike, with millions of particles of mud and dirt shooting into the sky. Unfortunately, there was no sight of Li Ao flying out this time.

“Huh?” the silver shadow said with a hint of surprise.

What happened? Why did his move fail?

The silver shadow then condensed a silver energy ball in his hand.

He threw it harshly into the pit.

Inside the deep pit.

Similarly, flashes of light kept flickering, growing brighter and closer.

A high-speed oscillating blade wave, carrying a piercing howl, shot up into the sky, colliding mid-air with a fiercely slammed silver energy ball.

The two collided, and the chaotic source energy exploded violently at the moment of impact.

Boom!

A tremendous explosion ensued.

The ground around the deep pit collapsed and shattered, blasting up into the air, the silver shadow realizing something was amiss, swung its fist downward… However, an even faster fist shot out from the broken, flying dirt, striking heavily like a cannonball at the silver shadow’s face.

It was Li Ao.

He burst from the exploded ground, punching the silver shadow and sending it spiraling into the air.

The silver shadow, struck by his fist, spiraled and flew more than three hundred meters before gradually stabilizing its figure.

Now, the silver shadow began to adjust its body, returning to its head-up, feet-down orientation.

Then, it hovered in the sky.

The whole figure appeared as light as floating dust.

The Silver Shadow slightly twisted his neck and gently wiped the corner of his lips with his finger, where a bruise inflicted by Li Ao was rapidly healing.

“Kid, you’re learning quite fast! Since that’s the case, I’ll join you for a bit of a warm-up!”

Having said that, the Silver Shadow swiftly dove toward Li Ao on the ground.

His speed was incredibly fast.

Zzzzzz…

The Silver Shadow’s fist began to glow.

And countless currents of electricity wildly converged, tearing out long trails of electric sparks behind him.

Even before his punch struck, the ground was already subjected to a terrifying, invisible pressure, causing the loose soil and cracks in the rocks to burst apart.

In the distance, the imposter who was viciously kicking Fuxi had to pause, barely resisting the overwhelming invisible pressure from the thunderous punch by slightly supporting himself with his hands against the sky.

Further away, the fake Long Tai also ceased his attack.

He cast aside Tie Zheng.

With a hint of fear, he looked towards the fierce battlefield far away: “Madman, he’s truly a madman. Is he planning to destroy the proving ground?”

Tie Zheng knelt on the ground, one hand painfully clutching his chest and the other straining to keep from falling.

Blood.

Unstoppably spurted from his mouth…

Those who had previously battled with Li Ao, the black giants, now lay collapsed on the ground, their bodies shattered from Li Ao’s strikes and now cracking further under the mountainous pressure of the thunderous punch, sending black shards flying everywhere.

Li Ao’s pupils slightly contracted.

Underneath his feet.

The ground was gradually sinking, forming a massive circle.

Facing the thunderous punch from the Silver Shadow descending from the sky, Li Ao’s eyes blazed with a warlike fervor. He tore off his tattered clothes in one swift motion, and his blood as hot as an active volcano surged forth, magically transforming into a suit of steel armor around his body.

His right arm vibrated, and his blood energy transformed at high speed, extending a ten-meter-long steel arm with a clanging noise.

Li Ao’s enormous right hand heavily pressed against the ground.

Boom!

Instantly, he propelled his body into mid-air.

In the sky, Li Ao rotated his body to adjust his battle stance, his right hand clenched into a fist, fearlessly swinging it to meet the enemy’s thunderous punch…

The moment the fists collided.

The heavens and the earth changed color.

Time seemed to freeze for a second due to the terrifying impact.

Space twisted and cracked, with bizarre spatial rifts wildly spreading in all directions.

At the very center of the battle, where the fists collided, a small black hole appeared out of nowhere, devouring the electricity and shattered steel fragments.

A moment later, the Silver Shadow’s thunderous punch shattered Li Ao’s steel giant fist, continuing its unstoppable descent and blasting a path through the exploding steel debris.

Then, with incredible agility, it maneuvered around Li Ao’s adjusting right fist, striking precisely on Li Ao’s face.

The hit landed exactly where Li Ao had struck him with his Sky-Punch earlier, without the slightest deviation.

Boom!

The shockwave only began to erupt at this moment, further tearing and expanding the spatial rift.

Li Ao, struck in the face, shot towards the ground like a meteor, plunging into the previously formed deep pit at a speed surpassing the speed of sound. A layer of energy shockwave burst forth in the sky, and in less than half a second, another layer of impact wave spread from the position of the deep pit on the ground.

The dual shockwaves, carrying a terrifying sound like a mountain torrent and tsunami, swept across the outer space of the Bloodline Trial Field.

Fuxi and Tie Zheng, who were lying on the ground, were directly blown away.

Even the two enemies targeting them had to brace themselves with their hands in front of them, struggling to maintain their posture under the onslaught of the two shockwaves.

The deafening noise rendered their ears deaf instantly, and dust and sand filled the air, obscuring the sun and making it impossible to see what was happening at the center of the battlefield.

After what seemed like an eternity, the spatial rifts tearing through the Bloodline Trial Field slowly healed.

The terrifying mini black hole persisted for several seconds longer than the spatial rifts, gradually returning to normal under the laws of space.

The chaotic source energy formed a massive storm and still could not be vented, forming several tornadoes that whirled around the trial field.

These twisted columns of wind sucked in dust, sand, and rocks, turning into grey-black sandy tornadoes that swirled around each other, continuously drawing in the surrounding chaotic source energy and persisting indefinitely…

Once the sky cleared,

The silver shadow floated in midair as if nothing had happened.

Compared to when it had punched Li Ao, this unimaginably powerful silver shadow had merely risen a few dozen meters in altitude.

On the ground,

The deep pit had turned into a massive crater that was startling to behold.

Layers of sand spread and shifted, gradually forming a cone shape in the middle.

Li Ao was now deeply buried underground.

Completely out of sight.

It was unknown whether he was alive or dead.

“Ah, did I accidentally overexert myself and kill that kid? Has his life aura disappeared? The young people these days are really too weak! Back in our day, we had more than just this little test. Hmm, this could be troublesome. If that old guy asks, what should I say?” the silver shadow pondered with a finger on his chin: “Wait a minute, if he died from just that level of attack, then there’s really nothing to explain, he’s just a weakling. Just wait for the next newcomer with real potential to come in!”

“Terrifying!” the fake Fuxi couldn’t help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

“Thank goodness we didn’t go up against that kid!” the fake Long Tai also turned pale.

They were very clear about what level of existence the silver shadow was, and they also knew that a newcomer who needed the silver shadow to use his thunderous heavy punch to be completely taken down must be incredibly powerful.

Not to mention the outer space of the Bloodline Trial Field,

Even the inner layers,

There were few who could smoothly handle such a terrifying thunderous punch.

“Li Ao!”

Tie Zheng went mad, he got up and, with immense grief, charged towards the distant giant crater.

He hadn’t run twenty steps before he was suddenly grabbed around the waist and slammed to the ground with great force.

Tie Zheng was about to throw a punch when he realized that the person who had stopped him mid-way was Fuxi, his face swollen and bruised. Annoyed, he urged, “Go save Li Ao!”

Fuxi’s face was so swollen that his eyes were nearly shut, yet he was smiling. “Don’t be silly! None of us are dead. How could Little Li Ao possibly die? Would he still be the great demon lord if he could just die like that?”

“But his life force has vanished!” Tie Zheng didn’t share Fuxi’s confidence.

“I don’t care about any disappearance; he is definitely not dead!”

Fuxi was blindly certain, firmly believing that Li Ao was unharmed.

“Really?”

Tie Zheng desperately wanted to believe that Fuxi was telling the truth.

“I’m a wreck and even I’m not dead. How could he possibly die? Impossible!”

Fuxi’s reasoning was solid.

Although the reasoning was absurd, Tie Zheng inexplicably felt reassured.

Thinking about it, it made sense.

Li Ao, that guy.

He must possess an immortal body!

He definitely couldn’t just die here so easily… After all, previously, the frost from Shuanghan and the flames from Huo Mei, along with the breath of two dragons, had scorched him inside and out, yet he had been completely fine!

“Little Li Ao, you get up right now, I’m your boss, and I command you to stand up!”

Fuxi yelled towards the meteorite crater.

“Are you an idiot? You’re barely alive yourself, and you’re worrying about someone else?”

A fake Fuxi laughed heartily.

“It’s time to send you on your way.”

The impostor Long Tai advanced with large strides.

In the sky.

A carefree silvery shadow suddenly stiffened, then looked down at the ground in surprise.

At that moment, at the meteorite crater, the earth cracked open.

A twenty-meter-tall silver giant thunderously stood up, and then, a figure whose armor was shattered to its limits slowly levitated.

Rising to the head of the silver giant, he suddenly spread his arms wide.

And roared aloud.

Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh…

A beam of energy, bursting forth with life-force exceeding power, shot up from the top of his head into the sky!