A perfect strike, hitting its mark.

Heng Qiu immediately spat out blood and fell to the ground, unable to get up.

Ye Cang glanced at him, thinking, "So fragile...taken out with a single kick."

As Ye Cang turned to leave, Heng Qiu suddenly rose to his feet!

Ye Cang suddenly felt an intense killing intent behind him.

*Poof!*

Before Ye Cang could turn around, a pillar of fire erupted beneath his feet.

The pillar of fire rose higher and higher, and the scorching heat caused Ye Cang, who was struggling to resist, great pain. "Damn it! This guy is really something!"

Just then, who knows if Heng Qiu's brain was crammed with peas or if he'd taken the wrong medicine before leaving the house.

He slammed his left hammer into the ground, and while attacking Ye Cang, he simultaneously attacked Luke.

*Poof!*

Luke suddenly felt his feet becoming hot. He knew that this was likely the same attack aimed at Ye Cang, so he rolled away to dodge.

In an instant, a soaring pillar of fire erupted from the ground where Luke had been standing.

Luke thought, "Luckily, I reacted in time, or I would have been sent to the heavens by this pillar of fire. Damn it! He's already attacking me! I have no reason to just stand here and offer moral support!"

*Boom!*

Luke unleashed a long-range Aura Bomb, aiming it at Ye Cang.

Ye Cang, struck by the horizontal Aura Bomb, which had no killing intent, was able to use its penetrating force to break free from the soaring pillar of fire.

Before Ye Cang and Luke could exchange glances…

Heng Qiu gripped his hammers tightly and slammed them into the ground simultaneously. *Poof! Poof!*

Once again, Luke and Ye Cang felt heat and fire beneath their feet.

Having learned from their previous experience, the two reacted even faster than before.

Ye Cang's hands were already scorched by the intense heat, and his arms were somewhat injured, but even so, his evasion was still at its peak.

Luke, however, didn't use his signature dodging technique.

Instead, he unleashed a reverse Aura Bomb. *Poof!*

Using the force of antimatter, Luke was propelled away. He was now more than twenty meters away from Heng Qiu.

As for Ye Cang, he was still jumping back and forth, dodging each of Heng Qiu's fire pillar attacks.

Suddenly!

Luke used his signature dodging technique: the rolling dodge. He rolled on the ground in a curved trajectory from a long distance and came behind Heng Qiu.

At this moment, although Heng Qiu had been wary of Luke, he didn't expect Luke to be able to roll behind him from more than twenty meters away.

Heng Qiu thought, "This is bad! I'm still in the after-animation of my attack."

*Boom!*

A fully charged, super-heavy backhand punch slammed into Heng Qiu's face.

With this punch, Heng Qiu was instantly sent flying more than thirty meters away. He thought, "Just now… just now, was I hit by a punch? But why do I feel like I was hit by a siege cannon?"

While Heng Qiu had not yet completely shaken off the inertial force of the impact, Ye Cang seized the opportunity, leaped up, and came crashing down on Heng Qiu's face with an aerial stomp.

Heng Qiu, seeing this, was so frightened that he almost lost control of his bladder.

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, quickly crossed his hands and rotated them, using the momentum and clockwise inertial force to narrowly avoid Ye Cang's head-exploding strike!

Heng Qiu thought, "Good heavens... I almost had to sit at the same table as Jian Jue for dinner."

Just as Heng Qiu landed and had just rolled once, Luke directly grabbed Heng Qiu's throat of fate, like picking up a husky with one hand, and aimed him at Ye Cang.

Signaling Ye Cang to follow up with an attack on Heng Qiu!

The instant Heng Qiu was lifted, Ye Cang unleashed a high-level reverse right spin kick towards Heng Qiu's face, "Chronospace Null Zone: Nyr鳞!"

Heng Qiu's pupils instantly dilated countless times, and he thought, "My ancestors! This leg technique will definitely cost me my life!"

Heng Qiu gritted his teeth and slammed his hammers together.

*Poof!*

Instantly, Heng Qiu's entire body emitted an ultra-high temperature flame, engulfing his entire being.

Seeing this, Luke quickly released his grip and shouted, "Ye Cang, be careful!"

No sooner said than done, Ye Cang's kick was already at its maximum speed, and it was obviously too late to retract the attack.

*Bang!*

A deadly Nyr鳞 collided with the swirling flames, instantly erupting into an intense white aurora.

Two seconds later…

All that was heard was…

*Boom!*

Heng Qiu, engulfed in flames, was once again sent flying more than twenty meters away.

At this time, the flames swirling around Heng Qiu's body were gradually receding.

After the swirling flames around him dissipated, Heng Qiu himself had completely transformed into a flame demon.

Ye Cang and Luke both cautioned each other in unison, "Friend, be careful!"

These simple four words, these seemingly unremarkable, uneventful four words…

Yet, in every second, they demonstrated Luke's sincerity, his loyalty, and his courage.

And Ye Cang, even more so, showed the burning fire in his heart and the bond hidden beneath his gloomy, cold, and inarticulate exterior.

The two of them were using their own ways to protect the friendship and loyalty between them.

In this world of fickle affections and indifference, it was truly rare that the two of them could maintain such childlike, innocent, and pure friendship!

Heng Qiu's entire body was covered in flames, like a demonic soul from hell, about to devour and scorch them both.

Suddenly!

Heng Qiu disappeared from his original location.

*Whoosh!*

In an instant, Heng Qiu appeared between Ye Cang and Luke and delivered a soaring double sidekick, blasting them apart.

*Poof!*

The two flew off in opposite directions.

Standing tall where he was, Heng Qiu said with a bored expression, "You two little brats aren't bad. No wonder you could defeat the two Northwest Domain Guards."

"I… Heng Qiu, acknowledge your strength. But… today is also the day of your death!"

Ye Cang didn't care about all that and smashed a Chronospace Null Zone: Guǐ Kū at Heng Qiu.

Who knew that Heng Qiu wouldn't dodge or evade. He just took Ye Cang's super finishing move, which was enough to instantly kill demons, head-on!

*Rumble!*

The ultimate move reappeared!

The earth, unable to withstand this move that could make demons weep, immediately cracked.

At the same time, the earth centered on Ye Cang and Heng Qiu trembled and caved in, sinking more than half a meter.

*Hiss…*

It sounded like a flame being extinguished by water.

Ye Cang looked up and saw the flame demon Heng Qiu standing there, staring straight at him.

Without time to think, Ye Cang immediately followed up with a high sweep kick, his calf transforming into a hook at maximum speed, swinging out in a large arc, "Chronospace Null Zone: Ying Ze!"

*Bang!*

Another of Ye Cang's finishing moves struck Heng Qiu's cheek, but Heng Qiu remained motionless.

As for Heng Qiu's face, only a small puff of flame-like smoke appeared and then dissipated.

Heng Qiu still said with a bored expression, "Not bad, kid. This kick actually caused me some superficial damage."

Ye Cang was still in the after-animation of his kick, suspended in the air.

"Damn it! This is not good!" Ye Cang knew that something bad was about to happen.

*Pu!*

Heng Qiu grabbed Ye Cang's ankle that he had used for the kick. "Kid! Game over… game… over."

Luke looked towards Ye Cang and could only hear a series of flame explosions.

*Poof! Poof poof poof poof poof poof poof…*

Heng Qiu's fire fists came out one after another, slamming into Ye Cang. "Hahahaha… wonderful, wonderful! I haven't felt this good in a long time!"

Luke instantly sensed that the killing intent of the flame demon Heng Qiu was getting stronger and stronger, while the life force of Ye Cang was getting weaker and weaker.

Without time to think, Luke immediately urged his fighting spirit and roared as he charged towards Heng Qiu, "Old bastard! If you have the guts, come at your daddy! Don't bully my friend!"