The next day, Luo Feng and Lin Hongyi stepped out of the Gobi region.

The earth seemed to have been cleaved apart by a single saber; towering perilous peaks suddenly jutted up from the flat ground, imposing and majestic.

Seas of cloud surged, and the mountain wind was as sharp as a blade.

Boom boom boom boom...

Atop a jagged peak, two figures were clashing.

Every time they crossed blows, the surrounding heaven and earth Yuan Qi went violently berserk, and the sound of air exploding was like Thunderbolt, rumbling without cease.

Lin Hongyi’s whole body shimmered with a Glaze-like golden radiance, her dress snapping in the wind. She lightly raised her right leg, and the airflow around her immediately roiled abnormally, clouds and mist sweeping out.

"Mountain Opening Style!"

Swish!

Her leg swept down, and the sea of clouds within a thousand meters ahead was instantly split apart. A fierce golden light condensed into a gigantic golden battle saber, descending to envelop Luo Feng.

Feeling the terrifying power contained in this kick, Luo Feng did not dare to be careless. He fully roused the Yuan Qi in his body, and behind him the void condensed into a Floating Slaughter Demon Image with sixteen arms. Then he blasted out a punch wreathed in blinding flames straight on.

Rumble!

The battle saber hacked onto the fist force, and a brutal shockwave radiated in all directions. Thick fissures spread out with the two as the center, and in the blink of an eye the entire mountaintop completely collapsed.

Crack!

The golden battle saber shattered. Lin Hongyi’s figure staggered back a few steps, then, like a swallow returning in spring, she flipped lightly in midair and followed up with a second move.

"Merging Mountain Style!"

Standing in the void, Lin Hongyi’s hair danced wildly; dazzling golden light burst from her pupils. Her pair of palms, like they’d been cast from gold and jade, suddenly came together before her chest.

Boom boom boom...

The earth trembled. All the peaks within a thousand meters crumbled, shattered rocks floating into the air, then surging toward Luo Feng like a mountain-toppling tsunami.

Impressive!

Luo Feng felt the pressure mounting; golden flames ignited over his body.

"Step of Sky-Burning Monarch!"

With a low shout, Luo Feng’s body leaned back slightly, and a tyrannical, peerlessly overbearing aura erupted from within him as he stepped out.

Boom!

The space around them suddenly shuddered; a ring of golden ripples spread out. Every piece of stone entering the range began to pulverize and burn. The entire sky turned into a sea of fire, even forming flaming tornadoes that howled toward Lin Hongyi.

Inwardly, Lin Hongyi couldn’t help but admire him. What she admired was not the Martial Arts or Cultivation Technique Luo Feng practiced, but that invincible battle intent and spirit—on a narrow path, the brave wins. At any time, Luo Feng’s spirit gave people a sense of exposed sharpness, never retreating in the slightest, carrying the bearing of a peerless Saber man.

A competitive urge rose in her heart. A faint smile curled at Lin Hongyi’s rosy lips as she punched out, shattering the incoming flame tornado into nothingness. The golden-jade radiance on her body suddenly blazed; a vast Grand Momentum merged into her flesh.

In that instant, the winds and clouds within a thousand li fell abruptly still, and even the blazing sun hanging high seemed to lose its former brilliance. Golden-jade light flowed over Lin Hongyi’s body, extending into the void to form five colossal, half-real, half-illusory mountain shadows. Her slender figure dove down from the sky, carrying a ferocious, unstoppable aura of "if gods block, kill gods; if buddhas block, kill buddhas."

"Five Peaks Demon Suppression!"

Boom boom boom boom...

The five mountain shadows suddenly merged into one, and with Lin Hongyi as the core, formed a gigantic Glaze-like perilous peak. Carrying a world-annihilating presence, it rolled straight toward Luo Feng, even twisting the Demon Avatar behind him, as if it could be torn to shreds at any time.

Luo Feng recognized this as the move Lin Hongyi had used against the Evil Saber. At that time she had not yet invoked her Grand Momentum, and the power already made even Evil Saber wary. Now, with Grand Momentum bolstering it, the might was in no way comparable to before. That explosive, fiery battle intent was like metal tempered a thousand times, brimming with a terrifying cutting edge capable of Gold-splitting and stone-piercing. If an ordinary person faced this strike, they would likely be scared half to death on the spot, their liver and gall shattered.

Buzz!

Expressionless, Luo Feng likewise pushed his Grand Momentum to the limit. The Demon Avatar behind him suddenly blazed with ferocity; its facial contours almost became solid reality.

"If you possess a steadfast heart, all things under heaven will submit beneath your feet. In this moment, you are the king. Destruction and survival, both lie between your single thought..."

Shui Linglong’s words flowed through Luo Feng’s heart like water.

Swish!

All of a sudden, his eyes snapped open wide, and two gazes like Thunderbolt pierced through the void. An astonishing aura burst from his body.

"Break!"

With a cold shout, Luo Feng stepped forward, eyes like blades, and punched out with a fist fused with Grand Momentum, carrying an intent realm to shatter all things.

Rumble!

His fist slammed into the mountain-shaped phantom surrounding Lin Hongyi. The space around them violently shook; nearby peaks couldn’t help but sway and, in an instant, sank shorter by a chunk.

Crack!

With a crisp snap, the mountain-shaped phantom around Lin Hongyi collapsed and vanished.

The next moment!

The two of them were blasted backward at the same time, unable to halt their bodies.

Swish!

Steadying himself, Luo Feng exhaled a long turbid breath and looked at Lin Hongyi, somewhat surprised. Just now, he hadn’t held back in the slightest with that punch, yet in a frontal clash he’d only managed to gain a slight upper hand.

One had to know, his Cultivation was a whole level higher than Lin Hongyi’s.

Lin Hongyi’s cheeks were flushed, her face beaded with hot sweat. Her chest heaved violently as she pushed the messy hair from her forehead back behind her ear. She looked at Luo Feng and said:

"I lost."

Luo Feng smiled faintly, walked over, and remarked with some emotion, "That last punch of yours was truly brilliant. I didn’t expect your Grand Momentum to be this fierce."

"This is nothing. Only when Grand Momentum reaches Great Accomplishment does one truly step through the threshold of cultivating Momentum. If my Grand Momentum were one degree stronger, reaching the Great Achievement Realm, you would never be my match. Even if you used the secret technique you employed against Evil Saber, it would be the same." Lin Hongyi said bluntly.

"The gap is that big?"

Luo Feng raised his brows. If he unleashed thirty percent of his Demon Qi, his strength would be enough to compete with late-stage Ninth Layer experts of the Spiritual Rotation Realm.

"Indeed."

Lin Hongyi nodded. "If the Grand Momentum before Great Accomplishment is a chunk of crude steel, then the Grand Momentum of the Great Achievement Realm is a Spirit Weapon tempered a thousand times. The difference between the two is like heaven and earth. When your Grand Momentum reaches Great Accomplishment, you’ll naturally understand."

Luo Feng was somewhat astonished at Lin Hongyi’s insight. Likely many Golden Palace elders might not match her in their understanding of Grand Momentum. This made him even more curious about Lin Hongyi’s identity.

Lin Hongyi swallowed a Spirit Pill to restore Yuan Qi, then glanced at the sky and said, "Let’s go. If we speed up, we should be able to reach Black Iron City before sunset."

...

Over the following stretch, the two of them hurried on their way without pause.

By dusk, the perilous peaks around them gradually faded away, replaced by a stretch of rolling hills.

The hills were pitch-black, devoid of any sign of life. Occasionally, a bleached skeleton could be seen scattered across the path, swaying in the wind. Against the backdrop of the golden evening glow, it all looked incomparably desolate.

"Huh..."

Gazing at the hills below, Luo Feng’s brows suddenly furrowed, and a hint of doubt surfaced in his eyes as he said, "The gravity here seems different from other places."