I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

Li Suisui blocked the attack with both hands, flying backwards for hundreds of meters before crashing into a small mountain, embedding herself in it. The surrounding earth trembled slightly.

"Think you have an advantage in a two-on-one situation? No matter how many of you three-legged cats there are, you're useless against a lion!"

Shen Tu Guang snorted coldly and reached out to grab Xue Jing.

At this moment, Xue Jing's body had taken shape. He stretched out a finger, and with a crackling sound, two curved, magnificent crimson-gold dragon horns burning with flames and lightning grew from the top of his head.

The intense flames and lightning converged and compressed at his fingertips, and with a boom, a thick flame and lightning beam more than a meter in diameter shot out.

Shen Tu Guang simply tilted his head, neither dodging nor avoiding, and took the beam of light directly at close range.

"Om-"

The crimson-gold beam of light passed through the body, extending hundreds of meters into the air before dissipating, leaving behind crackling traces of tiny flames everywhere in the air.

Shen Tu Guang's upper body clothing disappeared completely, revealing an exaggeratedly muscular physique and countless scars of all kinds, silently telling the story of the countless battles he had experienced.

At this moment, he was almost completely unharmed, except that his hair and eyebrows were charred and curled, and there were still some traces of flame lightning remaining on his hair.

"You're not even qualified to light my cigarette!"

He paused slightly amidst the shouting.

Suddenly, an invisible rift opened in the void beside him, from which dozens of black roots extended, rapidly growing larger until they formed a massive clump of roots that almost blotted out the sky, twisting and reaching towards Shen Tu Guang.

"Useless work!"

With disdainful words, he casually flicked the stem that reached out to him, shattering it into pieces. Wood chips flew everywhere, and the seemingly steel-hard dragon cherry wood became as brittle as a crunchy shark in his hands.

Then Shentu Guang reached out and grabbed Xue Jing's neck, squeezing hard.

Without any sense of grasping anything, Xue Jing had already vanished from the spot.

A hundred meters away, next to a small black flame, Xue Jing appeared out of thin air, half-squatting on the ground, looking at Shen Tu Guang.

After his superhuman eyesight scanned Shen Tu Guang from head to toe, Xue Jing nodded.

'It's a success... let's see how it goes from here on out.'

'Next, I need to attract his attention and stall for time as much as possible...'

An invisible rift opened beside him, and Xue Jing reached in, slowly pulling out an ancient and beautiful longsword from the void.

GOD-519·The Unsharpened Blade.

"Feathering·God's avoidance."

A unique technique that releases spiritual energy outwards, permeates the shadow flames, and then uses 'feathering' to control and condense it.

Black lightning flashed across the longsword, cutting through the void as it slashed towards Shen Tu Guang, who had already arrived before him.

The extremely sharp blade tip was pinched between two fingers and instantly froze. Black lightning patterns, as if shattering the void, swept across the fingers and unstoppably onto Shen Tu Guang's body.

Like a gentle breeze, Shen Tu Guang merely tossed his hair back, his expression remaining unchanged.

The Ascension and Divine Evasion technique, which targets mental and willpower-based attacks, is completely ineffective against someone like him who possesses extremely strong dynamic energy.

He was about to snap the long sword in two with a flick of his wrist, but then his expression changed.

"Hmm? An unsharpenable blade?"

Upon recognizing the true nature of the long sword held by Xue Jing, Shen Tu Guang's eyes lit up.

"And there's an unexpected bonus—this knife is mine now!"

Seeing that he liked it, Xue Jing just smiled and casually released the hilt of the knife in his hand. He then jumped back and landed dozens of meters away, and the unsharpened blade fell into Shen Tu Guang's hands.

Then the invisible rift beside him opened again, and Xue Jing reached out again, pulling out an ancient giant sword taller than himself from the void.

He lightly twirled the greatsword in his hand, flicking it in a flourish, the massive blade tearing through the air with a dull thud.

"Forgotten Greatsword...you brat, your luck is just too good."

Shen Tu Guang looked interested.

Compared to the Unsharpened Blade, the Forgotten Greatsword suited his taste better.

"But now... they're all mine."

Shen Tu Guang, whose attention was constantly being drawn to Xue Jing, did not notice.

My entire body was covered with countless tiny, invisible silver-red flower seeds.

These flower seeds burrowed into the tiny crevices of his skin, took root, and gradually blossomed into countless tiny buds...

……

Chapter 356 Your only reason for defeat is that you became my enemy (4K)

While attacking with the Dragon Cherry root, Xue Jing controlled the newly contracted 'man-eating flower' seeds, causing them to instantly multiply and grow, producing countless miniature flower seeds that attached themselves to the Dragon Cherry root.

When Shen Tu Guang smashed all the roots, the flower seeds attached to them were also scattered, covering the surface of Shen Tu Guang's bare upper body.

This is a special iron-based plant that originated in the Sea of ​​Steel, and it is completely different from the carbon-based plants of the present world.

The carnivorous plant, which ranks first in danger level in the Steel Tree Sea Examination Area, has tiny flower seeds that can even absorb 'nutrients' from inorganic materials such as steel.

Everything that is attached to the miniature flower seeds will gradually wither, become brittle, and die... until it is finally 'bloomed all over' and drained dry.

If the mission in the bracelet hadn't contained detailed information about the man-eating flower, even Xue Jing would have suffered some losses against this ability.

Of course, although he successfully sprinkled the flower seeds on Shen Tu Guang, Xue Jing did not think that this alone would be enough to defeat him.

He was an ultimate limit-breaker; his physical strength, vitality, and various other indicators had reached an unbelievable level.

Although he was caught off guard and fell victim to this trick, he was able to notice the abnormality on his body as the flower bud gradually opened and grew larger.

The effect of the flower seed is at most to reduce his vitality and temporarily apply a defensive debuff to his body, making him 'withered, brittle, and brittle'.

And this is exactly what Xue Jing wanted.

"Ka-ka-ka-"

The blade of Zhaoye was held in Shentu Guang's hand, and it kept struggling and trembling on its own, trying to break free from Shentu Guang's grasp.

An indestructible blade that recognizes its master will not yield to another's hand until its master sincerely admits defeat.

Seeing this, Xue Jing used his feathering ability to control its body and calm it down.

He then gripped the Forgotten Greatsword with both hands, took a deep breath, and used breathing techniques to circulate his skin, muscles, bones, and blood.

This action startled Shen Tu Guang slightly.

"This brat hasn't even broken through his limit yet."

Those who break through the limits of heaven and man by leaping over the dragon gate with their physical body and reversing the boundaries of heaven and man with their spirit are characterized not by their powerful physical body, but by their ability to cover their entire body with their consciousness and directly control the internal workings of their body without any medium.

Once the limit is successfully broken, even someone who is not a martial artist and has never practiced any martial arts can easily control their body through their consciousness, twist their body into a rope, and unleash an attack that pushes their body's potential to the limit.

Xue Jing still needs to mobilize his body through the inefficient method of breathing techniques, which clearly indicates that he has not yet broken through the limits.

This is seriously inconsistent with his combat strength... Although Shen Tu Guang thinks this level of combat strength is nothing, if you add the premise that he has not yet broken through the limit, then it really surprises him.

"No wonder the Commander treats you so differently, kid."

Shen Tu Guang's lion-like, grotesque eyes narrowed.

The next moment, Xue Jing flashed and appeared in front of him, slamming down the huge Forgotten Greatsword in his hand, causing the void to tremble, with the force of splitting mountains and parting seas.

At the same time, Li Suisui also rushed in from Shentu Guang's rear flank.

At this moment, Li Suisui was no longer empty-handed, but holding a strange weapon in each of her hands.

The weapon had a crescent-shaped blade, which looked similar to Illidan's Warglaives of Azzinoth.

The difference lies in the fact that its handle and blade are separate, connected in the middle by a ball bearing structure, allowing the blade to slide freely up and down, which is quite unique.

This weapon is so difficult to use that it's not even worth using to attack people. You could easily injure yourself by just holding it and shaking it around.

The two attacked Shen Tu Guang almost simultaneously, with an error margin of no more than 0.01 seconds.

"The Awakening of Insects - Submerged Abyss".

"The Flow of All Things in the Universe - The Withered Mystery..."

The massive blow of the greatsword was blocked by Shen Tu Guang raising his unsharpened blade. During the collision, Shen Tu Guang remained unmoved, but the ground beneath his feet suddenly sank, creating a crater tens of meters in diameter and more than half a meter deep, centered on him.

The dust was blown out in a ring by the bursting airflow, forming a brief dust storm in a small area.

With incredible angle and speed, Li Suisui slashed Shen Tu Guang with her twin blades. When she reappeared, she was already in front of Shen Tu Guang, her twin blades crossed together.

In an instant, countless agonizing sounds of knives cutting echoed across Shen Tu Guang's back, arms, thighs, chest, abdomen, and neck.

But afterwards, he was almost unharmed, except for countless red scratches of varying depths all over his body.

"A bite like an insect."

Shen Tu Guang snorted disdainfully.

……

As time went on, the battle continued unabated.

After witnessing Xue Jing's numerous life-saving abilities to avoid harm, and because he was not affected by the abilities of his divine organs, Li Suisui silently reached a tacit understanding with Xue Jing.

Xue Jing was the main force, drawing Shen Tu Guang's main targets for damage, while he himself served as a support, roaming the perimeter and waiting for an opportunity to steal damage.

The two launched attack after attack, but all were in vain. Shen Tu Guang's extremely tough body was almost unharmed, and his equally astonishing speed made him too lazy to dodge the attacks from beginning to end.

Li Suisui originally wanted to give up decisively, run away first, and find a way to get revenge later... but seeing that Xue Jing always looked like he had no idea and was not planning to continue fighting, she thought that he might have a way, so she persisted until now.

The battle between the powerful individuals at the second level of breaking through limits was quite a spectacle, but it didn't attract much attention in the desolate wilderness. However, many examiners and students who had come out of the Sea of ​​Steel returned to the border area in fear after witnessing this scene.

Only a few bold individuals, who were also curious about the strong, dared to stay and watch the battle.

"boom--!"

Li Suisui was glared at by the lion's eyes, and his body suddenly froze in mid-air. He was kicked in the chest and abdomen, and his body was almost kicked through. A lot of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. He endured the pain, and with a slash of his egg knife, he spun and slashed at Shen Tu Guang's flesh.

"Ok?"

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the red marks on Shen Tu Guang's body were deeper than before after this cut.