AZI Volume 3 Chapter 53

Beneath his helmet, clear irritation appears on Long Hua's face, as he glances at Shao Tianming, while cutting down a practitioner.

(I doubt he managed to recognize me. In that case, is his grudge against practitioners simply that great?)

Narrowing his eyes, Long Hua doesn't mind using this chance—to see what a Sinner is capable of, when they're under the effects of Partial-Apotheosis.

Throwing a practitioner off, Long Hua turns towards Shao Tianming's direction, and in the next instance—

*Klang!* blocking off Shao Tianming's halberd with Bai Zhe, Long Hua rotates the Immortal Suppression Palm, and smashes his left fist in from the side—knocking the weapon out of Shao Tianming's grip.

As the halberd flies off, and bounces off the ground a few times, Shao Tianming thinks to take a step back, but before he can do that, Long Hua closes the distance between them, and grabs the former by their face.

*Boom!* applying strength into his left arm, Long Hua smashes Shao Tianming onto the ground—opening a crater with the latter's head at the center of it!

*Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!* lifting Shao Tianming up by his face, Long Hua proceeds to throw him down repeatedly—causing the crater's depth to gradually increase!

"Boss!"

Rushing towards their direction are Chen Lan and Li Zi Xiang, and towards their approach, Tian Cheng appears in front of Chen Lan—to block him off.

As Li Zi Xiang continues to approach, Long Hua clicks his tongue, and tosses Shao Tianming into the distance, prior to turning his attention towards Li Zi Xiang.

"…"

The moment Long Hua is within the effective range of her chain whip, Li Zi Xiang swings it towards the former's right hand.

"…"

Shrouds his right arm in sword Qi—to prevent the whip's thorns from ripping into his skin, Long Hua allows the chain to wrap around his wrist.

Pulling his right hand back, Long Hua pries Li Zi Xiang off the ground, and drags her forward, while forming a fist with his left hand.

"…!"

Instinctively, Li Zi Xiang positions her left hand in front of her face. However—

*Boom!* the force behind Long Hua's punch—turns out to be much more than Li Zi Xiang can hope to handle, as the back of her hand smashes onto her own face!

"Uh!"

As the chain whip is still wrapped around Long Hua's right hand, Li Zi Xiang isn't sent flying, and because of that—

"…!"

At the pull back of Long Hua's right hand, Li Zi Xiang finds herself being dragged forth once more.

With the intent to land a clean hit on her face, Long Hua raises his left fist again.

"Zi Xiang, release your grip!"

Closing in from the side, Shao Tianming shouts this aloud, while cleaving his halberd down towards Long Hua's left arm, which is in the middle of being thrown out.

As Li Zi Xiang releases her grip over the whip's handle, Long Hua snaps his attention to Shao Tianming, and—

"…"

Rotating the Immortal Suppression Palm in full force, Long Hua's left arm—beneath his sleeve, darkens up to his shoulder. Simultaneously, the left arm portion of his Sword Armor is also manifested.

*Klang! Chi! Chi! Chi!* finding it difficult to sever Long Hua's left arm—which is covered in two layers of defense, Shao Tianming widens his eyes beneath his helmet.

...…

Turning time back by a few moments, Tian Cheng—who had blocked Chen Lan off, slaps him in the face with Kun's scabbard, causing him to take three steps back.

"What is up with people wanting to hit me in the face today?!"

"…"

Without giving Chen Lan any time to regain his balance, Tian Cheng swings the scabbard once more, landing it onto Chen Lan's other cheek.

And just as she is about to lunge Kun towards Chen Lan's abdomen—

"Fire!"

Following Qing Yue's command, a giant calabash fires off a sphere of condensed energy towards Tian Cheng.

"…"

Raising her head, Tian Cheng swings Kun—sending out the last strand of Long Hua's sword Qi, to split the sphere of energy apart.

"Die!"

Exploiting this opening, Chen Lan raises his saber. However—

"…"

Faster than Chen Lan can hope to land his attack, Tian Cheng raises her lightning-shrouded right foot, and—

"…!!!"

Without holding anything back, Tian Cheng lands a kick directly onto Chen Lan's crotch—causing the latter's eyes to turn white.

"…"

*Klang!* fainting from the indescribable pain—without being given even the chance to scream, Chen Lan drops his saber onto the ground.

Momentarily, the weapon begins to vanish, as it gradually dissolves into particles of light.

"…"

Despite being a girl, Qing Yue can't help but tremble. For a brief instance, she thinks she may have seen the entirety of Chen Lan's skeleton—due to the electric shock that the latter had been subjected to.

*Klang! Chi! Chi! Chi!* hearing these series of noises, Tian Cheng turns her attention towards Long Hua's situation.

"…Hmm."

Choosing to ignore Qing Yue for now, Tian Cheng rushes over to Long Hua.

Appearing to the side of the halberd, Tian Cheng raises her left foot, and kicks it from below.

"…"

Despite his left arm being a bit numb from the halberd's cleave, Long Hua snaps to Shao Tianming, and throws out a kick.

"…"

In the same instance, Tian Cheng rotates her body, and lunges out Kun's scabbard.

"Uh!"

Simultaneously, Long Hua and Tian Cheng lands their attack onto Shao Tianming's chest—throwing him backwards!