Time slowly passed, and more than ten minutes went by in the blink of an eye.
Suddenly, the aura on Zhou Hong's body changed drastically. A powerful surge of energy swept towards everyone like a heatwave.
"Ah, the Heartbeat Realm." The young man fighting Zhou Hong instantly sensed the change in Zhou Hong's aura and immediately judged that it was the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm.
"How is this possible? He actually broke through to the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm in the midst of battle." The other young talents from Potu Continent also noticed the change in Zhou Hong. None of them were clearer than these people about what the aura of the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm felt like, because they had two teammates in that realm.
It was Gu Daochen and the others who, being less knowledgeable, didn't notice at first. They only realized that Zhou Hong had broken through to the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm when the onlookers from the other side screamed out.
"Hahaha." At this moment, Zhou Hong let out a loud laugh. He hadn't expected that he could break through so quickly by refining spiritual medicine in the Sub-world while fighting, without even needing to go into seclusion.
"How could you directly break through to the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm?" The man fighting Zhou Hong looked at him incredulously.
"I was already at a bottleneck, so I just broke through," Zhou Hong snorted lightly, too lazy to explain further. Now, Zhou Hong was in the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm, while the man before him was in the late stage of Fusion. Zhou Hong could crush him with just one finger.
In the cultivation world, a difference of one realm was like the difference between heaven and earth.
Of course, there were still instances of defeating enemies across realms. If the weaker party possessed extremely powerful magical artifacts, they might be able to defeat enemies of a higher realm.
"I didn't expect that a small Purple Cloud Continent could have a genius like you." The young man stopped, seemingly unwilling to fight Zhou Hong anymore. He knew they were no longer in the same league.
"Now, it's time for you guys to get lost," Zhou Hong said.
"Don't get cocky. We still have two people who went out to purchase supplies. They'll be back soon, and they are also in the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm. I don't believe you, having just broken through to the Heartbeat Realm, can defeat them." Su Dan Novel Network.
Just then, two young men arrived from a distance of the ruined temple.
Seeing the two young men, the group on the other side quickly shouted, "Da Wei, Brother Gao, you're back!"
"You're finished! Our two geniuses in the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm are back. They are super geniuses newly promoted in the past year from our Potu Continent," said the young man who had been fighting Zhou Hong earlier.
"Hmph," Zhou Hong snorted dismissively. If they were at the same level, Zhou Hong didn't believe he would still lose.
At this moment, Gu Daochen, Jiang Caiyue, and the others also ran to Zhou Hong's side, looking at him with adoration.
"Zhou Hong, you're too amazing! Early stage of the Heartbeat Realm, my heavens! At your age, breaking through to the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm, let alone our Purple Cloud Continent, even some continents stronger than ours wouldn't have such top-tier geniuses!" Gu Daochen's eyes were full of worship.
"That's right, Zhou Hong. You can definitely enter the top 200 in the assessment now."
"My heavens, top 200! If this were to spread back to the Purple Cloud Continent, it would be unimaginable...!"
The four companions were incredibly impressed by Zhou Hong. They were in the early stage of Fusion, and Zhou Hong was a whole major realm stronger than them.
"Heh heh." Zhou Hong just smiled slightly.
Meanwhile, the more than ten people from Potu Continent gathered around the two young men who had returned, seemingly explaining what had happened here.
After about a few minutes, the two youths who had returned from purchasing supplies walked directly in front of Zhou Hong.
"Kid, you...!"
"Slap!" As one of the early stage Heartbeat Realm men was about to arrogantly say something to Zhou Hong, Zhou Hong, without a word, slapped him away several meters.
"Ah?" The others from Potu Continent were stunned. They couldn't believe that Zhou Hong, having just broken through to the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm, was already so powerful that he could slap one of their early stage Heartbeat Realm geniuses away.
"Hmph." Zhou Hong snorted lightly. If he, also in the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm, couldn't defeat them instantly, he would be truly wasting his cheat.
However, the reason Zhou Hong could instantly slap the opponent away was due to some characteristics of the Sub-world.
That is, at the moment of attack, Zhou Hong entered the Sub-world. After 0.000 seconds, he reappeared before them. The time difference was the reaction time for the opponent, but because the time was too short, most people couldn't react. Therefore, Zhou Hong could so easily slap the opponent across the face.
Otherwise, Zhou Hong would have probably been discovered as soon as he raised his hand.
This move was something Zhou Hong had just thought of.
Zhou Hong named it "Instant Strike."
As the name suggested, it was a move that could instantly strike the enemy.
With this move, Zhou Hong believed he could not only deal with opponents of the same level but even those a level higher, although the effect might not be as pronounced.
"Do you want to come up too?" Zhou Hong asked, looking at the other early stage Heartbeat Realm youth.
"How did you attack just now? Why was your speed so fast?" The early stage Heartbeat Realm youth didn't rush forward immediately. Instead, he asked with curiosity, because Zhou Hong's attack speed just now was too fast, so fast it was like teleportation.
"You want to know? Then I'll let you experience it," Zhou Hong said.
"Heh heh, Da Wei was definitely too careless just now. Using the same move on me is impossible."
"Is that so." Zhou Hong curled his lips slightly and used Instant Strike again.
"Slap!" The result was the same as before. The opponent didn't react at all, as if their reaction time had been skipped, or as if the process of Zhou Hong raising his hand to slap had been skipped. As soon as he raised his palm, it directly landed on his face.
"Boom!" The opponent was sent flying several meters away.
Gu Daochen and the others behind Zhou Hong were dumbfounded. He had only just broken through to the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm, and his strength was already so formidable.
"Scram," Zhou Hong roared.
"You win this time." The two early stage Heartbeat Realm youths, incredibly embarrassed, climbed up from the ground. Although they hadn't used any offensive moves, they were already filled with apprehension towards Zhou Hong given his incredible speed.
"Let's go, this place is for them." The dozen or so young talents from Potu Continent packed their belongings and gave the open space in front of the ruined temple to Zhou Hong and his group.
A few minutes later, they left in disgrace.
"Zhou Hong, you're so cool!" Jiang Caiyue said, her face full of infatuation.
"Yeah, if Nalan Yunzhu knew you had entered the early stage of the Heartbeat Realm now, she would probably regret breaking off your engagement even more," Lu Yilong also chuckled. At this moment, their worship of Zhou Hong was like a continuous, rolling river.