Chapter 385: Chapter 381: Strongest Surface Level

Li Tang felt that Zhao Guanlan’s combat habits were not very good.

Clearly controlling the whole situation and capable of a one-hit kill, yet he insisted on playing a cat-and-mouse game, toying with his opponent.

An Extraordinary One with such habits is either brain-dead or someone so invincibly confident from being unrivaled for too long that they don’t even consider the enemy a true opponent but merely a chess piece to be manipulated.

Now it seems that Zhao Guanlan is the latter.

Whatever the reason, this habit is a bad habit and can easily lead to failure.

Once failure occurs, there will be no turning back.

In this world, there’s no medicine for regret, nor is there any “time reversal” or “rebirth in another life”.

In high-level battles, failure often means the annihilation of both body and soul.

With the soul shattered, where would a second chance come from?

“You’re very smart.”

Zhao Guanlan’s lips curled slightly, his eyes glistening with a bloody light, as he said in a strange tone, “My favorite thing to kill is smart people.”

These words made Li Tang’s scalp tingle, ready to pull out his trump card at any moment to fight to the death.

However, Zhao Guanlan’s next words quickly changed Li Tang’s mind.

“Unfortunately…”

“I previously made a deal with the [Prophet], exchanging promises.”

“At least this time, I cannot kill you.”

Zhao Guanlan’s words left Li Tang completely confused.

He thought there should be no personal relationship between himself and Ma Ran. From the perspective of an Earthling, anyone from the Chuanke civilization is an invader and should be annihilated.

But…

The current situation suggested that Zhao Guanlan refrained from killing him because of a promise to Ma Ran?

Li Tang did not know that Zhao Guanlan refrained from killing him for a simple reason—it was forbidden!

Even though in the Youwen Illusion Realm, Li Tang had been at Zhao Guanlan’s mercy.

In reality, Li Tang himself didn’t realize that he was actually in an undefeatable position.

Not to mention the [Profound Immortal] medal, even with the [Sword Master] medal, it wouldn’t break through his defense.

If we also consider the [Demon’s Son], the combined combat power of these three avatars, using spatial attack methods, could indeed shatter Li Tang’s Space Shield, reducing him to dust without realizing how he died.

Not just Li Tang, even adding Adam and Eve would quickly meet their end.

But the problem is…

They have backgrounds and backing.

After killing these three, Earth would certainly face retaliatory strikes from the Chuanke civilization.

Ma Ran isn’t afraid of any form of revenge.

After all, with the [Sword Master] medal in hand, if things go south, he can tear open a spatial wormhole and escape to another planet, remaining invincible.

However…

Earth Civilization is no match for the Chuanke civilization.

Furthermore, Ma Ran’s plan required Li Tang.

The Eldest Prince Li Tang of Chuanke didn’t cause any trouble on Earth in his past life, instead finding an excuse to leave the planet without much existing enmity between the two sides.

This lays the foundation for utilization.

Since the first Earth Extraordinary Seminar, Ma Ran began to plan and strategize, aiming to use Jin Yina’s special abilities to turn Li Tang around, fully leveraging the Eldest Prince’s status to extract substantial resources from the Chuanke civilization.

As Earth Civilization grows stronger, enough to protect itself against Emperor Chuanke’s wrath, Ma Ran wouldn’t have to be so cautiously restrained.

Li Tang, full of doubts, was about to ask questions when Zhao Guanlan snapped his fingers.

Snap!

The last illusion vanished into dust in an instant.

The real sensation underfoot, the scent of grass and soil, glancing at the battle scars and Earth Extraordinaries around him, Li Tang finally confirmed he returned to reality!

“No nonsense.”

Looking down at Li Tang, Zhao Guanlan’s thin lips were slightly pursed, his tone playful, “Fight me.”

“If you can satisfy me, I’ll let you live.”

To Li Tang, these words were clearly meant for Earth’s people.

No matter what, Zhao Guanlan wouldn’t kill him.

But the real reason couldn’t be known by other Earthlings.

Thinking he understood the truth, Li Tang clenched his fists, black-blue shadows swirling, gloves appearing, and he launched an attack immediately!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Each punch landed like a bomb explosion.

On the street, the wind howled and lights raged.

Even the aftermath of their clash shattered the ground, collapsing surrounding buildings one by one.

Initially, before facing this person, Li Tang thought that the two Guardians Chuan and Adam were just too weak, which is why they were defeated with one move, assuming his own outcome would be different.

Human energy and talent are limited.

No matter how extraordinarily gifted someone is, they can’t be equally proficient in illusion techniques, thunder, lava, and body techniques combat, mastering each to perfection and an ultimate realm.

But…

As the fight went on, cold sweat began to appear on Li Tang’s forehead.

He finally understood…

Why Adam was pulling a long face after fighting this person.

Power, agility, flexibility, endurance, speed…

In terms of pure statistics, Zhao Guanlan, apart from spiritual power, was inferior to Li Tang in every aspect, yet he was the one being ground down from start to finish.

Absolutely no power to resist!

Not the slightest chance to strike back!

Every strike landed on Zhao Guanlan, yet caused no significant damage and even became nourishment, making him stronger!

The man across, whose confident smile never leaves his face, the [Profound Immortal] Zhao Guanlan…

His skill, nearly Heavenly!

Simply inhuman!

Such a sense of disparity is truly beyond words for outsiders.

Being able to maintain composure after dueling such a monster, not shutting down mentally on the spot, is quite impressive.

As for taking out [Vacuum Level] power and realm, then pulling out trump cards to force a crush?

Forget it!

In the vast Cosmos, demon-level geniuses are as common as carp crossing the river. Though surface-level defeating vacuum-level cases are rare, Chuanke civilization has records of many.

Li Tang was 100% certain, the moment he tried to reveal his trump card, the opponent would drag him into that terrifying illusion realm again, tormenting him to near death within it.

Realizing the gap between himself and Zhao Guanlan, Li Tang gradually began pulling his punches.

He discovered the most terrifying thing was…

Each Chuanke Royal Family, carrying a “Space Shield” device, could deflect any attack and energy, claimed to be immune to adding myriad laws onto the body.

Yet Zhao Guanlan’s seemingly ordinary punches and kicks always tore through the defense system of the Space Shield device, directly hitting the true body.

This was akin to a [Dimension Slash] spatial destruction skill!

Ignoring all defenses, straight to the body, an ultimate killing technique!

No wonder Adam, after being kicked away before, despite being furious and ashamed, eager to slaughter Earth immediately, chose to swallow his pride and fled hastily.

After several hundred rounds within just thirty seconds, Li Tang finally couldn’t bear the mental pressure and didn’t want to continue warring.

He willingly retreated, raising both hands, “I concede!”

“Just a [Surface Level] energy strength…”

“Managing to reach such a degree!”

“[Profound Immortal] Zhao Guanlan…”

“Among the strongest I’ve witnessed in my nearly two hundred years of life…”

“I am willing to call you the [Strongest Surface Level]!”

“In a fair duel, I’m not your match.”

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