Chapter 303 - 26: First Supernal Battle, Limit-Breaking Dominance

"Are you going to keep hiding?"

The flat voice echoed down the street. Lu Chao stood calmly in place, gazing into the distance.

Passersby froze, stunned. In their line of sight, members of the patrol team lay strewn across the ground, vomiting blood, grievously wounded and unconscious.

Instinctively, the crowd followed Lu Chao’s gaze.

About seven or eight meters away, by the roadside, next to an SUV that was twisted and mangled from a collision, a strange sound came from a black sedan.

CLICK.

The car door opened, and a figure emerged.

He wore a black woolen overcoat over a suit vest, complete with a dark bow tie.

His features were fairly strong, but the bridge of his nose was slightly crooked, giving him a somewhat sinister air. His face wore an expression of surprise, his brow tightly furrowed with a hint of astonishment and confusion.

"A Secret Technique?"

"Or a body-hardening art?"

Tan Yue stared at Lu Chao, sizing him up and down, a vague sense of unease creeping over him.

Heavily wounding a peak Elite Level in a single move, with a body that could withstand bullets... This was already beyond the limits of the Elite Level.

But he distinctly remembered that just a few days ago, the man had only been at the peak of the Elite Level, and should have still been quite a ways from his limit.

WHOOSH!!

The thought had barely crossed his mind when Lu Chao was already right in front of him.

The seven or eight meters vanished in an instant. They were now only half a meter apart, their eyes locked, each filled with a cold light and malice.

"You seem surprised?"

Lu Chao asked coldly.

SWISH!!

A White Ash Fist Seal tore through the air as he threw a punch without a moment’s hesitation.

A fierce wind howled, carrying a power that could not be ignored. Tan Yue’s brow furrowed even tighter as he immediately channeled his Qi Flame and threw a punch to counter.

BOOM!!

A ring of white air blasted outward, spinning out from the two men and plowing into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust and debris.

The ground beneath their feet cracked and shuddered.

The fist, wreathed in silver-white Qi Flame, was stopped in mid-air, trembling slightly.

"You..."

Tan Yue’s eyelid twitched, and the feeling of dread in his heart intensified.

A ferocious power, in no way inferior to that of any Limit-Breaking Level expert, crashed down upon him, making him waver.

’This is already beyond the scope of a Mid-Level Martial Skill or Secret Technique.’

The next instant.

HUMMM!!

A brown Qi Flame suddenly erupted from his body, like an intangible aura extending half an inch from his skin.

The ground beneath Lu Chao’s feet cracked and trembled, fissures spreading outward.

His left fist, cocked at his waist, was enveloped in a brown Qi Flame tinged with gold. It issued a sound like crashing waves as he unleashed it, amplified by a three-layer Stacked Force.

BOOM!!

Tan Yue hastily thrust out his right palm to block the blow aimed at his torso.

A muffled explosion erupted. The colliding air currents turned into a gale, making the dead trees and green grass by the roadside rustle violently.

His body shuddered, and the ground beneath his feet was completely crushed, forming a shallow crater.

His pupils contracted as he stared intently at the brown Qi Flame flowing around Lu Chao’s body, like an intangible aura of power.

Disbelief, shock, confusion...

A myriad of emotions flashed across his face. He couldn’t comprehend how, in just a few short days, his opponent had transformed into a Limit-Breaking Level expert on par with himself.

And in that single moment of daze.

"You seem pretty weak."

The flat voice that reached his ears was laced with a condescending chill.

A sudden chill gripped Tan Yue’s heart. He then heard cracking sounds from within Lu Chao’s body as his frame instantly grew by half an inch, his skin taking on the color of aged bronze.

The brown Qi Flame swirling around his body solidified in color, seeming to grow heavier and more substantial as his entire presence surged by fifty percent.

WHOOSH!!

In a flash, he threw another punch backed by a three-layer Stacked Force.

In the span of a single breath, Lu Chao had activated both Copper Flesh and Iron Bones and unleashed his Thunder Extreme Secret Skill.

The White Ash Fist Seal, wreathed in the brown Qi Flame, shot forward like a meteor, aimed straight for his opponent’s face.

BOOM!!

The Fist Seals collided again. Tan Yue threw a hasty punch to defend himself.

It was like being hit by a truck. The ferocious power surged like a tsunami, sending him staggering back two steps before he crashed into the black sedan behind him.

The car shuddered, sliding several meters sideways in its parking space on the asphalt road before crashing into a dead tree in the landscaped median.

This scene left the surrounding passersby and Superpower Members utterly dumbfounded. Not far away, people inside the Superpower Bureau building noticed the commotion, and many walked over to the floor-to-ceiling windows, their gazes filled with shock and disbelief.

"How dare you!!"

Enraged, Tan Yue finally snapped out of his shock and disbelief.

He stabilized his staggering form, planting his feet where the black sedan had been and leaving two shallow indentations in the asphalt.

His eyes filled with killing intent and a cold light. His aura erupted as if he had activated some sort of Martial Skill or Secret Technique. The silver-white Qi Flame swirling around him carried an explosive quality.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!

Lu Chao paid him no mind, continuing to throw a relentless barrage of punches.

The Fist Seals, empowered by the brown Qi Flame, were like streaks of light as he threw more than a dozen punches in a single instant.

Thunder Fists and Fist Seals backed by a three-layer Stacked Force alternated, carrying his chilling intent and blurring into a flurry of afterimages.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!!

In the blink of an eye, the two had exchanged more than a dozen blows.

The asphalt road became riddled with cracks. Shockwaves blasted outward, kicking up gravel and dust.

Lu Chao actually advanced with steady steps, pressing Tan Yue back, keeping him on the defensive and unable to even raise his head.

He easily neutralized every incoming blast of silver Qi Flame. The heavy, solid nature of the Golden Stone Flame, combined with the Rock Martial Skill, was a Martial Artist’s greatest defense.

In contrast.

Tan Yue, on the other hand, found his arms trembling and his expression growing increasingly grim. He felt that every Fist Seal smashing into him was unbearably heavy and difficult to block, forcing him to rely on constant retreat to bleed off the force.

His eyes held both shock and vexation.

’This kid, Lu, just broke through to the Superpower Level! How can he be this strong?’

BAM!!

Another fist collided!

It was like two cannonballs exploding in mid-air, causing the ground to tremble and the air to roar.