Gabriel didn't even have time to react before a hammer smashed him in the mouth, sending him flying.

He crashed heavily to the ground, got up, opened his mouth, and spat out a mouthful of shattered teeth, his lips already swelling into sausages.

"Aaaah!!!"

Gabriel let out a hysterical roar, and the berserk power of a Saint-tier erupted, forming a blazing pillar of light, like a torch being lit.

Qiao Yu's act of hitting him in the mouth had completely enraged this proud Second Divine Guard.

Gabriel brought his hands together in a circle, and about half a second later, a deep red flame appeared in his palm.

Unlike the gloomy and cold aura of the Underworld Fire, the flame in Gabriel's hand possessed a scorching and dazzling light, and Qiao Yu could clearly feel the temperature around him rising madly.

The surging deep red flames gave off an extremely fierce feeling, and Gabriel's face became extremely grim in the light of the flames.

He slowly closed his hands, compressing the deep red flames frantically, until finally, they formed a semi-transparent deep red lotus flower!

"Red Lotus Flame!!!"

Gabriel roared and pushed the lotus flower in his hand forward. The tightly closed bud instantly bloomed, each petal radiating a deadly beauty.

The red lotus turned into a raging fire and swept towards Qiao Yu, the air along the way emitting a burnt smell.

Qiao Yu's eyes narrowed involuntarily. Gabriel was, after all, the Second Divine Guard, and his strength should not be underestimated.

"Then let's see whose fire is stronger!"

"Underworld Fire!"

Dark black flames surged from Qiao Yu's body, sweeping towards the Red Lotus Flame. The moment the Underworld Fire appeared, the surrounding temperature dropped a few degrees.

The two flames quickly intertwined, heat and extreme cold constantly colliding in the air.

"I can't beat Ganfufu playing with fire! I, Gabriel, refuse to believe that my control over flames is inferior to you, an Emperor-tier kid!"

Gabriel looked insane, he was completely going all out.

Qiao Yu's face also became very solemn. The Underworld Fire was undoubtedly stronger than Gabriel's Red Lotus Flame, but he simply didn't know how to unleash the power of the Underworld Fire.

With the ebb and flow of power, the two flames strangely formed a fragile balance.

As Qiao Yu and Gabriel poured in more and more power, the violent energy of the Underworld Fire and the Red Lotus Flame piled up on each other, and even the void began to twist.

Finally, the energy gathered by the two flames became more and more, the balance was broken, and it finally exploded with a bang!

Boom!!!

A terrifying explosion resounded throughout the entire Western Alliance! A mushroom cloud rose into the sky, as if a nuclear explosion had occurred.

Black and deep red flames intertwined, sweeping everything away, and even the invisible space rippled.

A charred pit was blasted into the ground, every inch of the land scorched, and the deathly aura of the Underworld Fire was enough to make this land barren for a hundred years.

In the face of such a terrifying explosion, Qiao Yu and Gabriel, who were closest to it, bore the brunt of the impact, their bodies clearly feeling the power of the explosion.

Qiao Yu was swept away by the shock wave of the explosion, his whole body flying out and crashing heavily to the ground, his body sliding out a long gully.

He was already seriously injured when he killed Xing Dehai, and at this time his injuries were further aggravated. More fine cracks appeared on his body, as if he would shatter in the next second.

If Qiao Yu was like this, Gabriel was even more of a mess.

He was blown away and fell to the ground after vomiting three liters of blood.

Fresh blood kept pouring from his mouth with his panting, and it looked like he was about to die.

Gabriel lay on the ground, gazing at the sky, his eyes full of regret.

"Every time I lose to Ganfufu, it's because my body is not as strong as his. Now I'm losing to you, and it's still because my body is not as strong as yours."

"I'm not reconciled... I'm not reconciled..."

As Gabriel spoke, blood kept pouring from his mouth, and finally his head tilted and he stopped moving.

His eyes widened, staring fixedly at the sky, his appearance clearly one of dying without closing his eyes.

Only at the moment of his death did Gabriel realize that refining the body was really useful for mages.

If he had been as strong as Qiao Yu, no, if his body had been half as strong as Qiao Yu's, the winner of this battle would have been him, Gabriel.

Unfortunately, there was no 'if'.

Qiao Yu stood up and staggered past Gabriel's body, continuing towards the Sacred Mountain.

Blood dripped into his eyes, blurring his vision, but Qiao Yu still walked forward, one step at a time.

"An Liya, hold on, we're almost there."

Qiao Yu's injuries were extremely serious. Fighting two Saint-tiers in a row had pushed his body to its limit.

Moreover, Xing Dehai and Gabriel were not ordinary Saint-tiers; their level among Saint-tier experts could be considered above average.

The reason Qiao Yu could continue to move forward was not only his powerful body, but also the willpower to save An Liya.

"You have to stop to recuperate and heal! If you continue to fight, your body will collapse!"

The Scholar Ghost's voice echoed in Qiao Yu's mind.

The injuries left by the Youming Open Heaven Fist had been constantly attacking Qiao Yu's body. His current situation was like a dam with a breach.

If the breach was repaired in time, everything would be fine, but if it was ignored, the water would continue to erode the breach.

The breach would become larger and larger, eventually leading to a collapse.

"Then let it collapse. Today, even if I turn the Western Alliance upside down, I will set foot on the Sacred Mountain!!!"

Qiao Yu raised his head, his eyes full of determination. Even if he died today, he would see Hermes before he died.

Forcibly suppressing his injuries, Qiao Yu activated all his strength, strode forward, and continued to speed ahead.

Now that he was very close to the Sacred Mountain, flying into the sky would only make him an easy target.

The outline of the Sacred Mountain slowly magnified in his eyes. As long as he went a little further, he could enter the Sacred Mountain. There was already a hint of joy in Qiao Yu's eyes.

However, a figure standing quietly in front of him instantly made Qiao Yu's heart sink to the bottom.

In the biting cold wind, the figure was naked to the waist, revealing eight-pack abs and a body of bulging muscles, as if he was not afraid of the cold at all.

An old face, a pair of rimless glasses, a staff in his hand, and a head of snow-white hair and beard intertwined and hung down in front of his chest.

If there was one opponent Qiao Yu feared meeting the most in the Western Alliance, besides the Grand Elder, it would be this old man in front of him.

The Dean of the Pantheon Academy, Ganfufu.

Even in his peak state, Qiao Yu was not confident that he could beat this Dean, let alone now that Qiao Yu was at the end of his rope.

Qiao Yu took a deep breath and tightly gripped the Zhulong Yanyue Blade.

Regardless of whether he could win or not, he had to fight this battle!

At this moment, Ganfufu in front of him suddenly made a move that shocked Qiao Yu.

"Oops! Where are my glasses?"

"How did my glasses fall?"

Ganfufu's rimless glasses suddenly fell to the ground, and then Ganfufu stepped on his glasses with a crack, crushing them to pieces!

"Oh! My God! What am I going to do without my glasses? I can't see anything without my glasses!"

Ganfufu looked up at the sky, reached out his hands like a blind man, and groped forward, as if he didn't see Qiao Yu at all.

Qiao Yu's face became very strange. He really wanted to ask if this Dean's acting could be any faker.

However, what came next was even more outrageous. When Ganfufu passed by Qiao Yu, he suddenly reached into his pocket, then threw a bottle down, and a scream startled Qiao Yu.

"Oh no! My God! How did my best healing medicine fall! Oh, I can't find it! Damn God!"

Ganfufu began to jump on the spot in a hurry, his face full of anxiety.

"That healing medicine was given to me by a Saint-tier healing mage, and you can just take it orally. How could it have fallen? Never mind, I'd better go get a new pair of glasses and come back to find my healing medicine!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ganfufu soared into the sky and flew away in the opposite direction from Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu: "..."