Yan Xiao was no pushover either. He roared, pointing a fiowards the sky, and a giant finger desded, carrying immense pressure.

  Li Kuangtu remained calm and unafraid.

  He tio form hand seals. As the giant finger approached, he abruptly raised his head, his eyes fshing with a sharp glint.

  Ba the Li family, he was the child who cried and g to Huang Xiujin after being called a coward.

  Back then, it seemed like everything could frighten him. Although no one called him timid, thinking baow, he truly was a crybaby, a pampered and useless young master.

  But now...

  He had experie all, endured hardships. He had worn the heaviest armor in the world, stumbled, and risen tless times ihunderfire Cave with the help of his elder siblings. No one knew how much sweat he had shed, no one knew how he used medial liquids every day to soothe his bruised and battered shoulders from the weight of the armor.

  Back then, he would still cry, secretly g at night, afraid that Sister Kuanghua would scold him for being a "useless brother."

  While venturing with his elders, he had felt fear in the S Forest, been scared witless when Uianqi provoked Golden Core cultivators, aricked by Uianming into sleeping with a human head, which made him vomit.

  Now...

  "There's nothing to fear."

  Seeing those struggling to resist the shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and even a few cowards fleeing, Li Kuangtu boldly raised his spear. He utilized the family's "Phantom Shadow Steps" teique, creating hundreds of illusory copies of himself, dodging Yan Xiao's giant finger and its oppressive aura. His spear pointed directly at Yan Xiao.

  He saw the terror in Yan Xiao's eyes and smiled slightly, his voice resounding across the etlefield!

  "To hell with coward!"

  "Now, I am the king of this battlefield!"

  Orike.

  Instant kill!

  Watg the fmes engulf Yan Xiao as he ierced through by the spear, Li Kuangtu remained silent, his icy gaze fixed on a fleeing cultivator at the peak of Foundatioablishment.

  He walked through the blood, the tip of his spear leaving trails of ripples on the ground, truly like a king surveying the battlefield.

  ...

  "Pfft!"

  In the chaotic battle, Li Kuanghua had already sprung into a at the very start!

  She also utilized the Azure Cloud Unfallen teique and the 'Phantom Shadow Steps', creating hundreds of illusory copies of herself. But these oppos were indeed geniuses.

  She stared bnkly at the crimson sword tip protruding from her left shoulder, dripping with blood, seemingly disoriented.

  "Bang!"

  There was no room for hesitation otlefield. A palm strike hit her from behind, sending Li Kuanghua plummeting from the sky.

  She turned in mid-air and saw the hidden Fake Core Formation expert. This oppo... was strong.

  "Sis!"

  "Kuanghua!"

  The voices of her useless younger brother and her elder brother reached her ears. The two monks didn't seem to notice her. Li Kuanghua was still in a daze.

  Her body trembled with pain.

  The deepest fears within her memory were awakened, as they always were during these moments.

  She remembered the time at the Hundred Fists Sect, when her wet nurse pricked her with needles, repeatedly held her head uer, and burhe soles of her feet with fire.

  No one khat the reason she wao cultivate with her elder brother was because she had secretly told Li Dalong that she wao bee stronger.

  That way, no one would dare bully her again.

  "Rip!"

  The sound of something tearing through the air echoed as a cultivator saw Li Kuanghua fall to the ground. Seizing the opportunity, he swung his axe with a force that seemed to unleash all his true energy!

  But at that very moment...

  Li Kuanghua, whose body had seemed so delicate, suddeed with power. Her muscles bulged, inch by inch, ripping her yellow dress apart, revealing the resilient animal hide garment she wore beh!

  "BOOM!"

  Her hand firmly grasped the bde of the axe. With tremendous force, her arm, now as thick as an adult's thigh and bulging with muscles, smmed into the ground!

  Her body, inally less than 1.6 meters tall, now stood at 1.8 meters, appearing even more muscur than Abbot Wuyou outside the Skyveil Sect's gates!

  Her eyes were bloodshot as she looked down at the terrified genius, her rge hand, veins bulging, gripping his neck.

  Even her angry shout had a hint of deliess to it.

  "You want to hit me?"

  "No one, no one bully me!"

  She brutally she cultivator's neck. His protective true energy was as fragile as thin paper against her palm!

  She was also... the only body cultivator in the Li family!

  [Your desdant, Li Kuanghua, repeatedly died within the Heaven-Pierg Coffin. She experienced endless pain and realized that only with a suffitly powerful body could she prevent such abuse from her wet nurse ever again!]

  [Ihunderfire Cave, she wore the armor that stantly suppressed her physical strength, enduring immense pressure. She gradually ied with the demon cultivators and obtained a body refining teique from one of them, being a body cultivator. Acquired profession — Ascetic Body Cultivator!]

  [Acquired Trait: Wrath of the Weak Girl!]

  [Normally, no one perceive her immense physical strength. When injured, she bees enraged, unleashing all her physical power. bat power increased by 20%!]

  That was why she always had a good retionship with the demon cultivators ihunderfire Cave. They gradually influenced her to use vulgar nguage. She o win their favor to obtain body-refining teiques from them!

  That was why, despite her talent being inferior to Li Kuangtu's and her determination not as strong as Li Kuangren's, she could always run more easily than both of them!

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

  The enraged Li Kuanghua pounded her fists otlefield, her pigtails flying wildly behind her. She caught the cultivator who had pierced her shoulder.

  Then, she pinned him to the ground and, under his despairing gaze, pummeled him with her fists until he ulpy mess!

  "Take a good look, you bastard!" she roared. "Who did you think you were hitting?!"

  Li Kuanghua, covered in blood, roared furiously.

  She was no lohat girl who suffered abuse but was too afraid to speak up. She no longer o tell anyone, no longer needed Huang Xiujin to take her to seek revenge.

  She had power, she had ferouscles, muscles capable of battling Fake Core Formation cultivators!

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