62: Shadow clone! Powerful physical body!

"Whoosh—"

Eighteen golden beams of light, piercing the sky and earth, broke through the water and shot straight into the sky, pointing directly at the winged snow leopard in mid-air.

Talent Divine Power: Turning Stone into Gold!

Wang Lili reacted quickly, immediately dodging to the side.

But she only avoided most of the golden light, failing to avoid the rest.

The golden light struck her left wing, and her bat-like left wing was quietly covered with a layer of gold.

"What's going on?"

Wang Lili felt her left wing become stiff and quickly lost sensation.

With her left wing incapacitated, Wang Lili could not maintain her flight, and her massive body plummeted straight towards the river surface.

"Splash!"

Nine golden dragon heads slowly emerged from the water.

Cold glints flickered in their nine pairs of shattered golden vertical pupils.

The next second, the Flood Dragon's eyes once again shot out eighteen golden lights.

This time, the winged snow leopard could not make an effective dodge and could only watch as the golden light sprayed onto her body.

"Swish—"

Her body was quietly stained with a layer of golden light, and then, under the infiltration of the golden light, its atomic structure rapidly changed.

The golden light soon disappeared.

However, the winged snow leopard, except for her head, all turned golden.

Her golden body seemed to be cast from gold, reflecting dazzling light under the sunlight.

Wang Lili was not dead, at least not yet, but she was in despair.

Because her body had completely lost sensation and showed no reaction.

"Nine-Headed Golden Flood Dragon transformation, Turning Stone into Gold, how can there be such a transformation?"

The next second, Wang Lili's consciousness plunged into endless darkness.

She died!

Turning Stone into Gold is irreversible; once the body structure is transformed into an alloy, it can no longer be changed back.

This is unsolvable!

"Wife!!!"

The Youming Shadow Leopard, who was entangled with Jiang Shengnan in the distance, had bloodshot eyes.

The Youming Shadow Leopard's eyes instantly turned red, staring intently at Zhang Fan, with bone-deep hatred bursting from his eyes.

Li Shuangkui was completely enraged; his wife had been with him day and night, and they had supported each other through countless crises.

They were each other's spiritual support, and also each other's only remaining family in this world!

Now, his wife was dead!

His only family member was dead!

"Beast!!!"

"I want you dead!"

"I will cut you into a thousand pieces! Execute you by slow slicing! Grind your bones to ashes!"

"Swish—"

The Youming Shadow Leopard flapped his wings, transforming into a black stream of light that shot towards Zhang Fan.

In his rage, the Youming Shadow Leopard's speed reached its peak, almost instantly reaching Zhang Fan's front.

"Stop him!"

The Five-Clawed Black Dragon flicked his dragon tail, and amidst the crashing waves, a water dragon rushed out of the water and collided with the Youming Shadow Leopard.

The Black Dragon is of the water element and can fully control water flow to launch attacks!

Unexpectedly, the Youming Shadow Leopard suddenly split into two; one crashed into the water dragon, and the other continued to charge towards Zhang Fan.

"Not good!"

The Five-Clawed Black Dragon secretly thought it was bad.

The reason the Youming Shadow Leopard is called the Youming Shadow Leopard is, firstly, his extreme speed, running like a black shadow.

Secondly, it is because of the Youming Shadow Leopard's Talent Divine Power—Shadow Clone!

The Youming Shadow Leopard can create a Shadow Clone exactly like his main body to attack enemies.

The Shadow Clone possesses self-awareness and all the main body's abilities.

Therefore.

The Shadow Clone can briefly unleash combat power no less than that of the main body!

Li Shuangkui is in the Core Formation Realm, and the Shadow Clone can also exert Core Formation Realm combat power for a limited time.

Zhang Fan is in danger!

Zhang Fan quickly sank to the bottom of the river; he never thought of contending with a Core Formation Realm cultivator, not to mention whether he could win.

Even if he could barely contend with a Core Formation Realm cultivator, he wouldn't want to!

Zhang Fan likes to use absolute level advantage to crush and bully enemies, but he hates being crushed by the opponent's level!

Challenging across realms?

That doesn't exist!

This kind of thing should be left to those chunibyo geniuses.

Zhang Fan prefers to crush those of the same level and bully those weaker than himself!

Zhang Fan escaped fast enough, but the Youming Shadow Leopard's speed was even faster.

Just as Zhang Fan's body below the neck sank into the water, the Youming Shadow Leopard charged over.

"Die!"

The Youming Shadow Leopard's five claws were like hooks, viciously grabbing at Zhang Fan's head.

"Screech—"

The sharp claws scraped against his head, producing a burst of sparks and leaving five claw marks on the golden scales.

Other than that, they failed to break through the golden scales on Zhang Fan's body.

"Hmm?"

Zhang Fan and Li Shuangkui were both stunned simultaneously; the Flood Dragon and the Panther stared at each other, neither expecting such a result.

"Why is his scale armor defense so tough?"

This was Li Shuangkui's thought.

"Isn't he in the Core Formation Realm? Why didn't he break my scales?"

This was Zhang Fan's thought!

"Die!"

After a brief moment of Stunned, Li Shuangkui launched another attack.

"Swish, swish, swish—"

His body transformed into streaks of afterimages, his claws striking like a torrential storm, fiercely attacking Zhang Fan.

All nine of Zhang Fan's heads suffered a furious beating.

Zhang Fan wanted to sink to the bottom of the water and escape, but his nine heads were too cumbersome.

He could escape this one, but not that one; the Youming Shadow Leopard casually grabbed him and pulled Zhang Fan out of the river.

As a result, Zhang Fan wanted to escape but couldn't; his speed was completely suppressed!

Zhang Fan wanted to activate Turning Stone into Gold, but the Youming Shadow Leopard was too fast; he would be interrupted while still charging up.

Fortunately.

The Nine-Headed Golden Flood Dragon's scale armor defense was surprisingly strong!

No matter how furiously the Youming Shadow Leopard attacked, he couldn't break through Zhang Fan's defense.

"I underestimated myself too much!"

"These past few days, I've been cultivating with Divine Tree Juice, and what has improved the fastest has never been my cultivation, but my physical body!"

"It's always been my physical body!"

"After my physical body reached its bottleneck, it stopped absorbing Congenital One Qi!"

"Only then did the Congenital One Qi start gathering in my Dantian, and my cultivation began to improve!"

"That means my physical body strength is stronger than my cultivation!"

In fact, it's not just Zhang Fan; all Titan Warriors are like this. When refining Qi Refining, the physical body always consumes first.

The remaining, excess Congenital One Qi is then stored in the Dantian!

This process is the same as the human body accumulating energy.

The human body absorbs energy from food, first for daily consumption.

Excess energy is then stored as fat.

Qi Refining is also like this!

This means that physical strength always precedes cultivation!

"The question is, my cultivation is at the Foundation Establishment mid-stage, what about my physical body?"

"What realm is my physical body in?"

Zhang Fan wasn't sure, but he guessed it was at least Foundation Establishment peak!

Only a Foundation Establishment peak physical body, combined with the Nine-Headed Golden Flood Dragon's scale armor defense, could withstand Core Formation attacks!

"Foundation Establishment peak!!!"

Zhang Fan took a deep breath, and a sharp light flashed in his shattered golden vertical pupils.

The next second, his body rapidly changed; his heads disappeared one by one, and the golden scales also vanished.

Immediately after.

Pieces of silver scales with a metallic texture emerged…

Zhang Fan actually transformed directly from the Nine-Headed Golden Flood Dragon into the Steel Sea Dragon!

Compared to the Nine-Headed Golden Flood Dragon transformation, the Steel Sea Dragon transformation has stronger defense, stronger power, and crucially, it can fly!

"This... this is..."

Seeing Zhang Fan's new transformation, Li Shuangkui looked utterly bewildered.

Guo Mi, who was hiding at the bottom of the river, closely observing the battle, also looked utterly bewildered.

Jiang Shengnan, who was currently engaged in fierce combat with Li Shuangkui's main body, was equally bewildered.

He changed again!

Zhang Fan transformed again!

How many transformations does he have?

"Roar—"

Just as the three were stunned, Zhang Fan, who had transformed into the Steel Sea Dragon, opened his gaping maw and let out a roar towards the sky.

The rolling dragon roar was like a thunderclap, shaking the river surface with a buzzing tremor.

Zhang Fan violently flicked his dragon tail, directly rushing out of the water, soaring into the sky, and pouncing towards the Youming Shadow Leopard.

"Annihilation Dragon Breath!"

The Steel Sea Dragon opened his mouth and exhaled, spewing out rolling white mist, like surging waves, rushing towards the Youming Shadow Leopard.

"Not good!"