Liang Yue offered her own understanding.
"Powerful martial artists can all control the energy within their bodies through cultivation, thereby achieving powerful combat techniques!"
"Eight years ago, I had already developed energy waves, enough to damage the surface of a watermelon from a distance. After the Great Mutation Era arrived, my body mutated, allowing me to control stronger energy. Only now can I achieve the level of projecting energy waves outward."
"But according to ancient legends, the most top-tier martial artists or energy cultivators of the ancient era could reach the level of treading the void and flying through the air!"
Liang Yue stared at Lie in the sky, her eyes shaking violently.
"I never thought I would actually get to see such a legendary existence!"
Upon hearing this, Uncle Yu suddenly had a moment of clarity.
Liang Yue nodded.
"In this nation where everyone practices martial arts, they have more favorable conditions to become grandmasters."
But after hearing this, Uncle Yu actually laughed instead.
He looked at Zhang Yi and Lie in the sky, completely unbothered by the outcome of this duel.
"But Zhang Yi's abilities are the perfect counter to grandmasters!"
...
After the sky-filling flames scattered, Zhang Yi stood calmly in place.
"The flames produced by energy waves are indeed very powerful. But this type of purely power-based attack is useless against me!"
Having said that, he slowly raised a finger, pointing at Lie.
The next moment, one of the countless Dimensional Gates before him opened, and the raging flames surged wildly back toward Lie in the exact same manner!
Sensing that familiar aura, Lie's expression began to sour.
"This is... my Explosive Flame Fist!"
"Boom!"
The flames returned exactly as they had come, slamming directly into Lie!
Caught off guard, he raised both arms to block this power!
But he was strong enough that his own attack had no small effect on him, and he was forcibly blasted several thousand meters backward through the air!
Zhang Yi abandoned using his sword. He wouldn't be foolish enough to engage in close-quarters combat with a martial arts grandmaster from Nash Kingdom.
So he pulled out two large handguns, White Owl, and continuously pulled the trigger at Lie!
The bullets were extremely fast, but after sensing the power within them, Lie's face twisted into a mocking grin.
"Attacks at this level can't hurt me at all!"
He simply shielded his face and let his boulder-like body take the hits!
After the raging flames scattered, Zhang Yi stood calmly in place.
The powerful Void Force touched his body but quickly dissipated entirely, unable to breach his hardened surface.
But then, dozens of terrifying forces exploded!
Like dozens of small black suns detonating on Lie's chest!
Origin bullets with demon-breaking power, plus nuclear warheads—these were lethal even to powerful Transcendents!
Lie had no idea how advanced the outside world's civilization had become, so this attack would leave him deeply regretting his arrogance.
The violent explosion devoured everything around, and an intense pain began to spread through Lie's body, tearing apart even his most pride-worthy muscles!
"This is..."
The confidence and mockery in Lie's eyes slowly turned to terror. In an instant, he was blasted away by this horrifying force, crashing through dozens of tall buildings and even the city wall!
Zhang Yi didn't hesitate. [Spatial Shifting] activated immediately as he pursued, then aimed both guns at Lie's body and pulled the trigger continuously, practically turning his handguns into machine guns!
Lie's body was embedded in the city wall, his chest blown into a bloody mess.
Before he could recover, Zhang Yi's bullets were already upon him!
This time, Lie dared not be careless. His expression changed, and he instantly dodged the bullets.
He grabbed a massive building hundreds of meters tall, uprooted it completely, and hurled it like a javelin straight at Zhang Yi!
"Although I know you can't understand my language, I'll still kindly remind you."
"Physical attacks are basically meaningless against me."
Having said that, Zhang Yi simply opened a Dimensional Gate.
The three thousand Dimensional Gates summoned by [Manifold Phenomena] had already formed a dense defensive barrier of over eighteen layers around him!
The flying giant tower didn't even cause a ripple in the Dimensional Gates, being directly swallowed into another dimension.
Zhang Yi waved his hand, and it fell from the sky, crashing toward Lie.
Lie sidestepped the falling tower, his gaze growing serious as he stared at Zhang Yi in the sky.
"This guy... is a spatial ability user? He's a bit troublesome to deal with."
"But I don't believe your defense is completely flawless!"
Lie gritted his teeth, took a step through the air, and appeared behind Zhang Yi in the next moment.
He pulled his right fist back like a drawn longbow and punched fiercely at Zhang Yi's Dimensional Gate!
"Boom!"
His powerful fist erupted with terrifying Explosive Flames, charging straight into Zhang Yi's dimensional space!
"As long as my power is strong enough, no defense is unbreakable!"
Zhang Yi aimed his right palm at Lie's direction. The terrifying Explosive Flames surged forward like a sea of fire burning the sky, leaving no room to escape within ten miles.
"There's only one way to break through my Dimensional Gates. That's by instantly unleashing power that surpasses spatial limits, destroying one of my three thousand minor worlds."
"But all power below that threshold, as long as it belongs to the physical realm, will be absorbed by me."
"And then... reflected!"
This was also why Zhang Yi was called [Absolute Defense]. Apart from absolute rule-based abilities, only those who far surpassed him in raw power could break his defense.
The prairie of flames was completely swallowed into Zhang Yi's dimensional space, then instantly returned to Lie in full!
Although Lie had prepared somewhat, he was still deeply shocked by Zhang Yi's unassailable defense.
The next moment, the Sword in the Tree erupted fully, like a massive expanding tree, spreading out in all directions from Zhang Yi's right hand!
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
Thick roots anchored themselves throughout Nash Kingdom, drawing power from the earth, then grew wildly again, forming a massive cage in the sky that closed in on Lie!
As Lie defended against his own power's attacks, he swung his fists, smashing at the troublesome vines.
Flames burned the vines, blazing fiercely. This should have been the ultimate counter to plant-type ability users, but sometimes, it wasn't necessarily the best advantage.
Because Lie's actions caused the vines to form a massive sea of fire around him, trapping him within it!
