Li Yundong threw that punch and immediately felt a profound sense of release, the stifling pressure in his chest completely gone. Seeing Lin Youfa staring wide-eyed at the fist print left on the limousine, he decided not to press the attack further.

Lin Youfa stared for a long moment, then suddenly threw his head back and roared with laughter: "Good, good, good! Excellent, truly exhilarating! I never expected such a master cultivator in the mainland!"

Lin Youfa ripped his fragmented gown apart with a tearing sound, revealing a frame like a scarecrow. He took a deep breath, placed both hands on his chest, and slapped them forcefully, letting out a sharp hei-ha sound. Immediately, he pulled out a talisman from somewhere. The talisman burned rapidly into ash in his hand, which he then swallowed, chanting rhythmically: "Mao Shan sending strike true divine power, Eight Great Marshals display your majesty!! By urgent law, to the Great Emperor who suppresses demons in the Three Realms, with your divine might forever guarding, Great Sage Emperor Guan, I summon you to my body!!!"

As the surrounding crowd watched him perform this ritual, utterly stunned, a sudden series of sharp cracking sounds erupted from Lin Youfa’s skeletal frame. His muscles began to swell at incredible speed, instantly transforming him into a powerfully built, muscular young man!

Lin Youfa appeared to have aged twenty years in an instant, his eyes wide open like those of a fierce leopard. With an overwhelming presence, he cupped his hands toward Li Yundong: "Let me reintroduce myself! Lin Youfa, Divine Fist Sect under the lineage of the Nine Dragons Yellow Immortal! True Man Li, I request your guidance!"

"Yellow Immortal? Shen Da?" Su Chan gasped softly in surprise.

Zhou Qin, who was already reeling from the superhuman strength Li Yundong displayed and Lin Youfa's terrifying transformation, immediately asked upon hearing Su Chan, "What is the Yellow Immortal, and what is Shen Da?"

Su Chan looked deeply nervous as she told Zhou Qin, "It's a lineage of cultivation popular in Guangdong and Hong Kong. It originated from the Boxers in the North, and after being suppressed, it eventually spread to the Guangdong and Hong Kong area!"

Su Chan shouted loudly to Li Yundong: "Yundong, this is the Shen Da technique! Run, don't fight him!"

Li Yundong didn't have time to answer when Lin Youfa suddenly brought down an open palm strike from the air!

This palm strike whistled down. Li Yundong felt a sudden tightness in his chest, as if a towering, broad-shouldered giant, wielding the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade, was cleaving down towards him!

A sensation of extreme danger flashed through Li Yundong’s mind, and he immediately brought his fists up to block!

With a dull bang, Li Yundong shuddered violently. Even with the protective energy of his Golden Core, the blow still sent a searing pain up his wrists, making them feel momentarily paralyzed.

"Who exactly is this old man!" Li Yundong was deeply shaken!

Lin Youfa’s muscles and bones had now expanded by more than double their previous size. The man had transformed from a short, skinny elder barely five feet tall into a compact, muscular figure of about six feet. He was bare-chested, every muscle seemingly poised to explode. His eyes glittered with fierce, piercing light, so sharp they were unbearable to look at directly; an ordinary person looking for too long would feel their eyes sting!

Seeing Li Yundong successfully block his hand-blade attack, Lin Youfa let out a hearty laugh: "Good! Few among the younger generation can catch this strike barehanded! No wonder my disciple Huang Yifei was no match for you!"

Li Yundong’s heart tightened: "You are Huang Yifei's master?"

Lin Youfa cupped his hands respectfully: "My disciple is clumsy and dull, please forgive his shortcomings! True Man Li, may I ask what sect or lineage you belong to, and who your master is?"

Seeing Li Yundong's powerful and vigorous aura despite his youth, Lin Youfa instinctively assumed he hailed from a renowned, established sect. Only disciples from major inner halls, nurtured from childhood with countless medicinal infusions, could achieve such skill at such an early age!

Li Yundong’s mind was a whirl of shock and confusion. He stammered, "What sect or lineage? I have no master, no sect at all!"

Lin Youfa took this as evasion and sneered coldly: "Very well, it seems I must probe for myself! True Man Li, please do not hold back!"

Saying this, he cupped his hands once more, snapped his eyes open, and a blinding divine light shot forth from them, fierce as raging flames!

Lin Youfa let out a fierce shout that immediately caused those nearby to feel their chests tighten and their ears ring in pain as they clutched them. Li Yundong was also jarred, his vital energy surging violently, making it difficult to consolidate his breath.

Lin Youfa stomped his foot, and his body shot forward like a cannonball toward Li Yundong!

Thanks to the body tempering provided by his Human Yuan Golden Core, Li Yundong’s inner energy was stronger and more profound than Lin Youfa's. However, lacking formal cultivation, he could only barely cope with brute force confrontation. Facing such a formidable cultivator, he had no idea how to respond.

Seeing this, Su Chan immediately leaped to Li Yundong’s side, grabbed him, and with a swift movement, the two floated lightly over Lin Youfa’s head, landing on the opposite side of the stretch limousine.

Lin Youfa missed his mark. He halted abruptly and shot backward, drawing his head in, hunching his shoulders, flexing his back, and bending his knees, resembling a retracted tortoise as he crashed with a resounding boom against the side of the limousine with his hardened back.

Just as Li Yundong and Su Chan landed, the car beside them groaned under the impact and began to tilt toward them. They acted with perfect synchronicity, both striking the vehicle with a palm. With a sharp bang, they halted the limo’s forward momentum.

Liu Chuan, watching from the side, was on the verge of tears. He watched helplessly as several more dents appeared on his vehicle and cried out hoarsely, "My car!!"

After his move was blocked by Li Yundong and Su Chan, Lin Youfa saw the long car obstructing him. With a sudden kick, he sent the front end of the vehicle flying upward, then slapped the undercarriage, sending the entire car hurtling sideways.

Li Yundong felt a wave of horror, staring blankly. Su Chan grabbed him and whispered urgently, "Let's go, not here!"

With that, she pulled Li Yundong away in a few swift bounds, leaving the growing crowd of onlookers near the school gate.

Lin Youfa let out a cold snort: "Where do you think you're going!" He pursued rapidly, and as he reached the edge of the crowd, he suddenly sprang upwards, launching himself nearly six feet high, flipping over the human wall with ease.

The students at the gate were frozen, dumbstruck. If Liu Chuan’s luxurious stretch limousine hadn't been lying upside down, its wheels spinning uselessly, they might have suspected the whole thing was a dream!

Zhou Qin stared at the retreating figures of Li Yundong and Su Chan, her heart hammering wildly: They truly were not ordinary people!

Ke Lu, who had just been criticizing Li Yundong, was slack-jawed, while Zhuang Hui giggled nervously, "A-am I dreaming?"

Ke Lu stammered back, "I... I don't know. How could such a thing possibly happen in this world?"

Liu Chuan knelt there, his face vacant, murmuring dazedly, "My car..."

Only He Shao’s expression was unpredictable; he watched the receding figures of Li Yundong and the others disappear from view with a mixture of shock and terror.

As Li Yundong sprinted alongside Su Chan, he demanded, "Who exactly is that guy? How can he be so strong? He kicked over a limousine with one move! Is he even human?"

People are always harder on others than they are on themselves, and Li Yundong was no exception. When he had punched a limo sideways half a meter while suspended in the air, he hadn't considered himself superhuman, but Lin Youfa kicking a car over seemed completely unacceptable to him.

Su Chan gritted her teeth, her eyes flickering as if debating whether to tell Li Yundong the truth.

Li Yundong pressed angrily, "How much longer are you going to keep secrets from me? Who are you, really? And who is he?"

Su Chan clenched her jaw and admitted, "He's a cultivator, just like me! But he belongs to the Divine Fist Sect, and what he just used was the Divine Strike technique!"

Li Yundong and Su Chan moved with dazzling agility, darting through the streets like two young people parkouring, attracting stares from passersby. He shouted while running, "What is Shen Da!"

Su Chan flipped as she crossed the street, easily clearing a passing car, and explained, "It means inviting a god to possess you!"

"Inviting a god to possess him?!" Li Yundong wanted to laugh but held it in. The explanation sounded utterly absurd, yet everything he had just witnessed prevented him from dismissing it. "What kind of 'inviting a god'? What god did he invite? How could that transform him from a withered old man into a mighty warrior?"

Su Chan replied, "The Great Emperor who suppresses demons in the Three Realms, with his Divine Might forever guarding, the Great Sage Emperor Guan!"

Li Yundong was utterly confused by the string of names: "What? Can't you put it simply?"

Su Chan yelled back, "The Martial Saint, Guan Yu!!"

Li Yundong immediately swore loudly: "Damn it! Are you trying to scare me to death? Can't he summon a slightly less significant deity?"

Su Chan was about to reply when they heard a commotion and cursing growing louder behind them. She turned her head and saw Lin Youfa relentlessly pursuing them, barreling through, causing chaos and shouting curses.

She immediately pointed toward a park not far off: "Run in there, find somewhere less crowded!"

It was mid-afternoon. In the park, a group of elderly men and women were playing instruments in a pavilion, singing a piece from The Ballad of Su San. The old man playing the erhu finished a cascading, rapid xipi introductory passage, and an old woman began singing the line, "Su San left Hongtong County, coming to the main street..." just as she was about to strike the pose of flicking her sleeve, when two figures flashed past their vision with such speed that the sheet music on the erhu player's stand was swept up and fluttered into the air.

The group of seniors hadn't recovered before the sheets of music had barely settled on the ground, and then another figure thundered past like a freight train, his foot smashing the scattered music into fragments on the pavement.

The elders and grandmothers stood motionless, like stone statues, staring blankly at the three retreating figures. The once pleasant pavilion was now a scene of utter disarray and desolation.

Li Yundong glanced back at the closing figure of Lin Youfa and couldn't help asking Su Chan, "Where are we running to? There are people everywhere here!"

Su Chan pointed toward a small grove of trees nearby: "In there!"

The two darted quickly into the grove of lychee trees. Seeing they were alone, Su Chan stopped and swiftly pulled a golden hairpin from her bosom, pointing it at Lin Youfa: "Take this!"

With a swish, the golden hairpin transformed into a streak of golden lightning, darting toward Lin Youfa's eyes in the blink of an eye!

Lin Youfa was both startled and enraged. He clapped his palms together, catching the hairpin mid-flight in his hand, and growled menacingly, "What a malicious woman!"

Su Chan didn't bother arguing. She only intended to subdue this Divine Fist Sect practitioner as quickly as possible. The young girl's figure blurred into a wisp of light smoke, moving so fast that Li Yundong could barely follow her with his naked eye!

Li Yundong saw Su Chan seem to multiply, encircling Lin Youfa in a blur where it was impossible to distinguish afterimages from her true body. Su Chan struck with palms, jabbed with fingers, and attacked with flying kicks, aiming every move at Lin Youfa’s vital points, forcing him into a purely defensive posture, eliciting continuous roars of frustration.

Lin Youfa roared, shocked and furious: "What kind of demoness are you from! Li Yundong, if you have the nerve, face me yourself!"

As he shouted, he felt a sharp sting at the back of his neck. Lin Youfa bellowed, spun around, and threw a punch, instantly shattering one of Su Chan's afterimages. He touched the back of his neck and felt a single black strand of hair piercing his Tianzhu acupoint.

Lin Youfa was shaken to the core: This demoness is terrifyingly powerful. If she can pierce my Tianzhu point, she could just as easily pierce my vital Gaohuang death point. I fear I am no match for her!

Having made up his mind, Lin Youfa stomped his foot and shouted loudly: "Fine, demoness! I will remember this debt!" With that, he turned and fled.

When Lin Youfa retreated, Su Chan did not pursue. Her body solidified, and the surrounding afterimages instantly merged back into her singular form.

Su Chan glanced contemptuously at Lin Youfa's retreating figure, spitting inwardly. Just as she was about to proudly seek praise and reward from Li Yundong, she turned around to find Li Yundong looking at her with a strange, distant expression—the look one gives a stranger.

Su Chan’s heart jolted. She lowered her head and shuffled nervously toward Li Yundong, tugging at the hem of her clothes, unable to speak.

Li Yundong remained silent for a long time, then slowly sighed: "Su Chan, who exactly are you?"

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