Gu Xunchao's surprise attack from behind didn't bother Mu Jinyu in the slightest.
After he calmly suppressed the people from Dan Pavilion, time didn't allow him to turn around and confront Gu Xunchao; the sight made Xiao Yang's heart jump with apprehension!
However, just as Gu Xunchao's fist, which produced a sonic boom, was about to strike the back of Mu Jinyu's head...
"Clang!!"
All of a sudden.
An ancient Bronze Cauldron Furnace, engraved with mountains, rivers, and plants, suddenly appeared out of thin air, initially the size of a wine jar, but then it violently expanded in the wind. In moments, it had grown to over a meter tall, perfectly shielding Mu Jinyu's back!
Gu Xunchao's full-force punch landed right on the Cauldron Furnace without missing by a hair's breadth!
"Is that the Shennong Cauldron?!"
Wang Mao, pinned to the ground, unable to move, saw the Cauldron Furnace suddenly appear behind Mu Jinyu and couldn't help but cry out in his mind!
After the shock, he was very puzzled: how did Mu Jinyu manage to hide such a large Cauldron Furnace and take it out again?
Could it be that he possessed a Magical Treasure capable of "Carrying Mt. Sumeru in a Mustard Seed"?
"Wah Wah Wah..."
When Gu Xunchao's fist struck the Shennong Cauldron, it felt like his fist was about to burst, and he howled in pain.
His lifetime of hand techniques had been almost completely ruined by this oversight!
At that moment, Mu Jinyu finally turned around leisurely, smiling at Gu Xunchao who was covering his right fist with his left hand, incessantly howling and cursing.
Gu Xunchao's just-now punch, which contained his life's cultivation, could have blasted a tank to pieces, but the Shennong Cauldron was bolstered by Mu Jinyu's mana. Combined with the innate toughness of the Cauldron's material, it naturally wouldn't be easily broken by Gu Xunchao!
Instead, he would suffer the consequences of the recoil!
"Rumble Rumble!!"
Just then, a thunderclap exploded!
It carried an endless majesty and righteousness that made all evil spirits hide away in fear, daring not to act rashly.
It wasn't the sound of someone's battle, but the actual sound of thunder!
It turned out that the sky had already been overcast, and a heavy rain was due tonight. However, their continuous actions as God Realm experts, stirring and dispersing nature's spiritual energy, had brought the storm earlier than expected!
"Rumble Rumble!!"
"Whoosh Whoosh..."
With another clap of thunder, the sky suddenly released a dense and fierce downpour!!
The people from Dan Pavilion lying on the ground, unable to move, felt their faces sting from the rain as they couldn't gather the strength to break through the deluge.
Mu Jinyu remained standing in place, a spiral of True Qi automatically forming above his head, scattering the bullet-like rain away, leaving his clothes still dry.
Gu Xunchao was the same, although his fist was excruciatingly painful, he wasn't drenched by the sudden rain, which would have been extremely embarrassing.
Mu Jinyu looked at Gu Xunchao, not engaging him immediately in combat but instead used his fingers to cast a spell, commanding the Shennong Cauldron to shrink and fit back into his pocket, while saying, "Gu Xunchao, ranked thirty-first in the Divine Rankings, you entered the Energy Transformation stage through the External Skill Eagle Claw Technique, and then broke through to the God Realm from the outside to the inside, basing your entire cultivation in your hands. Now, will you continue to use the Eagle Claw Technique?!"
He retracted the Shennong Cauldron, not wanting to continue resisting with it against Gu Xunchao, fearing that the precious Alchemy Furnace, in case it couldn't endure the direct hits, would be destroyed — that would be a loss too great to justify!
"Hehe..."
Listening to Mu Jinyu's words, Gu Xunchao suppressed the pain in his hand and then looked gleefully at the Shennong Cauldron as it shrank to the size of a wine jar and was put away by Mu Jinyu, exclaiming with surprise:
"A Magical Treasure, so that Alchemy Furnace is actually a Magical Treasure, haha, very good, very good..."
"I never expected that today, I could not only acquire the Tai Sui Stone but also obtain a Magical Treasure Level Alchemy Furnace. Dragon King, oh Dragon King, you truly are my little wealth-bringer!"
Hearing Gu Xunchao's wild laughter, Mu Jinyu couldn't help frowning slightly, wondering if this guy had gone mad?
Who gave him the courage to believe that he, with his right hand crippled, could battle against him?
And he even coveted his Alchemy Furnace?
Just as Mu Jinyu was puzzled,
Gu Xunchao had already stopped his wild laughter and then, with a cold gaze fixed on Mu Jinyu, sneered, "Dragon King, you must be very perplexed, right? Wondering where my confidence comes from, to contend with you even with an injured right hand?"
"Unfortunately for you, the one mistake you should never have made was to underestimate someone with the surname Gu. Did you think the extent of my reliance was just the perfectly trained Eagle Claw Technique? Sorry, that was just a smokescreen I threw out, my real trump card has always been in my legs, never in my hands. It's just that all the enemies who knew about it, who have witnessed it, are all already dead!"
"Screech!!"
Following this, Gu Xunchao's voice dropped.
He suddenly uttered a bird-like cry from his mouth and then his entire body abruptly soared into the air!
"Boom!!"
Just at that moment, Thunder Light appeared in the sky again, and Gu Xunchao, standing in mid-air, bathed in the light of the thunder, his divine might vast and impregnable, looked as though the Thunder God himself had descended!
After that, he stomped down toward Mu Jinyu, a terrifying momentum like a mountain collapse or a surging wave, overwhelming and pressing down on Mu Jinyu!
"Holy shit!"
Standing below, Mu Jinyu, witnessing Gu Xunchao's move that utilized the Eagle Claw Technique with his feet, couldn't help but curse out loud.
He had calculated a thousand possibilities but never expected that Gu Xunchao's training of the Eagle Claw Technique was actually focused on his feet!
The Eagle Claw Technique that he showed off in combat was all just intentionally revealed smokescreens!
This caught him completely off guard!
"Whoosh whoosh!!"
Gu Xunchao spread his arms wide, like eagle's wings flapping, roaring like thunder, emitting a terrifying sonic boom. His speed in the downward rush was so fast it was as if a real eagle was diving for its prey from high in the sky!
"Zap!"
The speed of the impact was so great that Gu Xunchao's cloth shoes were instantly torn apart, exposing his calloused feet.
His feet pressed together, toes an inch long and hooked, indeed somewhat resembling eagle claws!
They reached straight for Mu Jinyu's head, as if to burst his skull with one claw!
Standing to the side, Xiao Yang, Liu Qingqing, and their family, drenched in the downpour, were stunned by the scene.
Xiao Yang felt extremely worried about Mu Jinyu's situation, inwardly lamenting that Mu Jinyu had been too careless and underestimated his opponent.
If he hadn't assumed that Gu Xunchao, with his injured right hand, was no match for him and hadn't put away that Furnace Cauldron Treasure, he might have been able to use it to defend against Gu Xunchao's attack right now!
But unfortunately, he had put away the Furnace Cauldron Treasure, and now that Gu Xunchao had launched an attack with such a unique move, it caught him utterly unprepared, and Mu Jinyu had no time to take out the magical treasure to block Gu Xunchao's attack!
"One wonders if this Dragon King can withstand Gu Xunchao's Eagle Claw Technique!"
Xiao Yang thought to himself with a sigh.
Jian Ruyan, standing to the side providing cover for Gu Xiyan, upon witnessing this scene, also felt her heart leap. However, she was too far to lend any help to Mu Jinyu.
She could only pray in her heart that Mu Jinyu still had some tactics up his sleeve to cope with this!