Chapter 85: One Punch Instantly Kills

Li Mu's words were not loud, yet they rang crystal clear in everyone's ears, making them feel deafening.

The atmosphere of the huge Inner Peak arena suddenly became dead silent.

Sun Songwen, Liu Guanyu and others, as well as the Xuan Yue Feng disciples who had just been crazily mocking and jeering.

They only felt that Li Mu's single sentence was like an invisible slap that struck their faces hard.

It made each of them feel a burning pain on their faces!

Didn't you say Li Mu only hesitated because he was cowardly, so he wouldn't dare to step forward for the assessment?

Didn't you say that if Li Mu could complete half of the assessment, they'd have to burn high incense?

Sorry…

Is there a possibility that Li Mu didn't join the assessment at first because…

Is it because, for him, such an assessment is like child's play, offering him no difficulty at all!

Just like going home to walk the dog, a little seriousness!

And then…

And then, he breezed through the assessment!

Seeing Li Mu's mocking, disdainful smile.

This made Liu Guanyu, Sun Songwen and other Xuan Yue Feng disciples' faces turn extremely ugly, their silver teeth chattering, yet they had no way to argue.

No way!

The gap between the two sides is too huge!

So huge that even the chance to argue wasn't left for Liu Guanyu!

"Enough, enough!"

"Li Mu, come back quickly!"

Seeing that after clearing the Inner Peak assessment Li Mu still had the leisure to go back and taunt Liu Guanyu and Sun Songwen, Wu Zhengyong felt both pleased in his heart and more nervous, hurriedly urging Li Mu to return.

It should be known that the Inner Peak assessment is not without danger!

After all, the Demon Race is still a Demon Race!

Even though they are trapped by a formation, their ferocity is still hard to suppress.

About ten years ago, the Ziyang Sect had a prodigy of heaven, who, also during the Inner Peak assessment, was naturally heroic like Li Mu.

Without any effort!

He easily breezed through the Inner Peak assessment!

But after clearing the assessment, this disciple was still unsatisfied!

He even voluntarily approached the Demon Race!

Who would have thought!

The Demon Race trapped in the formation suddenly erupted with ferocity, letting out a beastly roar that terrified the disciple to the point of death, causing him to freeze on the ground.

Taking advantage of this, the Demon Race stretched its claws from the cage and pierced the disciple's heart!

Because of such a blood-soaked precedent, Wu Zhengyong's first reaction to Li Mu's clearing the assessment was not celebration but anxious urging for Li Mu to come back quickly.

"Good!"

Seeing Wu Zhengyong looking anxiously toward him, Li Mu, having finished all the taunts, decided to head back.

But at that moment…

"Roar!"

The lizard man suddenly let out a sharp roar!

The terrifying demonic aura, as red as blood, suddenly amplified dozens of times, turning into a blood-colored storm that slammed toward Li Mu, as if to crush his mind.

"Oh?"

Li Mu, noticing the lizard man's sudden change, halted and turned to look behind.

He saw that the golden formation originally branded on the lizard man's left chest began to tremble wildly.

With each tremor, the golden light dimmed compared to before, and as the formation's suppressive power waned, the lizard man actually spoke!

"Human…"

"So hungry!"

"I'm so hungry!"

"I will eat you!"

"I will crush your skull, drink your fresh blood, I will eat your living heart!"

Seeing the lizard man speak, Wu Zhengyong felt his heart skip a beat and immediately charged at Li Mu, shouting loudly.

"Li Mu, run!"

"The formation is malfunctioning!"

"The monster is breaking out of the cage!"

"Too late!"

The lizard man gave a cold smile, and thick saliva dripped from its fang‑filled maw, while the Xuan Iron fence before it crumbled like dough under its claws.

Its metallic, cold‑glinting claws were now within arm's reach of Li Mu!

Wu Zhengyong pushed his footwork to the limit, and his divine aura surged ahead of him.

At this distance, it was right next to him!

Moreover, the lizard man cunningly feigned weakness to lull Li Mu into complacency!

And taking advantage of Li Mu's turn, it suddenly struck!

First it unleashed the strongest demonic aura to intimidate, then, while Li Mu's back was turned, it attacked!

Facing such a cunning and fierce attack!

Not to mention before, Li Mu had never dealt with the Demon Race.

Even if it were Wu Zhengyong, who has rich combat experience with the Demon Race, he probably couldn't mount any resistance; even if he didn't die, he'd lose half his life!

Just as Wu Zhengyong was anxiously wanting to intervene and save the person, a scene that left him stunned appeared!

Only saw.

Li Mu seemed to have eyes growing on the back of his head; he clenched his right hand into a fist, and without even looking, he threw a punch straight behind him.

"Pa, pa, pa..."

The force of Li Mu's punch was unimaginable; even the air in front of him seemed unable to withstand such a punch aura, emitting successive cracking sounds.

And that lizard person, who had been planning to sneak attack while Li Mu turned around carelessly, had its entire face begin to twist and deform under Li Mu's punch.

Those rows of stark white, sharp fangs shattered like porcelain, falling away one after another.

Accompanied by a series of tremendous explosive sounds, that lizard person was directly blasted away by Li Mu's punch!

The lizard person consecutively smashed through several stone pillars standing in the dojo, finally its body crashed into the rock wall, twitched a few times, and then fell completely still!

One punch!

Instant kill!

Wu Zhengyong was dumbfounded.

This...

Is this my hallucination?

Just now, I must not be hallucinating what's before my eyes!

Since arriving at the Inner Peak Dojo, Li Mu has never concealed his true cultivation realm.

So, as long as you're not blind, you can see that Li Mu's true cultivation is Ten Grade Lian Qi Realm Peak!

This is absolutely certain.

But...

The power of Ten Grade Lian Qi Realm Peak is only a hundred thousand kilograms; when did it become so terrifying?

Wu Zhengyong was closest to Li Mu, so he saw it crystal clear!

Just now, from Li Mu's body, he felt not a trace of true qi fluctuation.

This means!

That punch just now, Li Mu didn't use any technique or martial skill; it was pure reliance on his physical strength!

He has seen countless Qi Refining Realm cultivators before.

Even after living eight lifetimes, he had never seen a Qi Refining Realm cultivator with physical strength as formidable as Li Mu's!

Even if that second-rank demon general–level lizard person could only exert half its strength due to the formation's restriction, that would already be impressive.

Yet even so, the shock from Li Mu's one-punch instant kill left Wu Zhengyong unable to recover for a long time.

And at this moment.

Not only Wu Zhengyong was dumbfounded; on the vast Inner Peak Dojo grounds, it was as if a heavy snow had suddenly fallen!

Everyone stood frozen in place, eyes locked on Li Mu, who still maintained his punching pose.

Then...

A second-rank demon general lizard person?

Killed with just one punch?

On the Inner Peak Dojo, everyone only came to their senses at this point, asking in disbelief.

But his question received no answer.

Because everyone already knew the answer in their hearts, the lizard person's corpse embedded in the rock wall, impossible to dig out, was enough to explain everything.