Chapter 556: Limit

Stage Three Limit Break State!

Several stellar months ago, Li Pin felt immense pressure from the Yu Clan's Astral God. He didn't dare slack off and pushed himself to the limit, relentlessly training in the Limit Break State.

As the deadline of three stellar months approached, he finally reached that breakthrough.

His intense training nearly made him miss the challenge set for the three stellar months.

Though he had achieved the breakthrough, he still couldn't enter this state as easily as his previous Limit Break and Stage Two Limit Break States. It required a powerful emotional trigger.

That trigger arrived when Yu Zhenxuan and the White Mirror Astral God's avatar fought before him, disregarding his presence entirely.

The Stage Three Limit Break State unleashed a power far surpassing any Astral God's avatar, with Divine-level energy and explosive force.

The World Heart granted unparalleled perception to identify weaknesses, and the Ruoxi Blade, with its Solar Flare Divine Weapon, added a transcendent strike that pierced through space-time.

With all of this together, Li Pin delivered a single, decisive blow to Yu Zhenxuan, whose power level was barely at the Tier Eight threshold.

Yu Zhenxuan had paid little attention to Li Pin, never truly focusing on the fight. In an instant, he was struck down.

A pure, destructive force ravaged his matter, energy, and spirit. He widened his eyes in disbelief, as if trying to comprehend how he had been so suddenly defeated. "How... is this possible...?"

But the darkness that followed—the collapse of atoms and the void—consumed his sight and senses, erasing his very existence. The combat-specialized avatar he had cultivated perished in that moment.

***

The sudden turn of events caused White Mirror to grow serious.

Before he could react, a brilliant light erupted once again from where Li Pin stood.

In the next instant, an overwhelming Sword Intent, as if to tear through his soul, charged toward him like a violent storm.

White Mirror quickly channeled his inner spirit to its peak to resist the force of the Sword Intent. However, this reduced his control over the energy within his avatar.

Fortunately, even with the slightly weakened control, it was more than enough to face a mere Divine Realm opponent.

Rumble, rumble!

A deafening thunderclap echoed through White Mirror's perception.

A sky filled with sharp and overwhelming sword light came crashing down upon his slash.

Even with the Reaper Blade, a Divine Weapon that elevated his energy and lethality to Divine levels, even with his exceptional control, surpassing that of any Divine Being, the moment those sword lights struck, his blade was shattered.

Each streak of sword qi from Li Pin's Solar Flare Divine Weapon was honed to the extreme, striking precisely at every force point of his attack.

Had White Mirror not been shaken by the overwhelming Sword Intent earlier, with his mastery over his own power, he might have been able to match Li Pin's strike. But because he had been forced to defend against the initial impact... he had lost the clash miserably.

A single flaw, no matter how small, could collapse a thousand-mile dam.

Li Pin's voice roared like thunder. "Counter me! Fight back! Strike me down!"

White Mirror felt the energy in his strike being crushed, piece by piece, but the relentless sword qi left him unable to respond. This feeling...

He had only experienced it once before. It had happened before he had become an Astral God, during a spar with an elder who had already reached that realm.

"Perfect Realm!? Is this... really the Perfect Realm!?"

No matter how unbelievable it seemed, White Mirror had to accept the reality before him.

This was the Perfect Realm!

Even if Li Pin had only achieved perfection in controlling Divine-level energy, it was still the Perfect Realm!

The hardest breakthrough was always going from zero to one.

Boom!

His inner spirit wavered, and the Reaper Blade could no longer withstand the storm of sword qi. In an explosion of brilliant energy, his blade shattered, releasing a violent energy surge in all directions.

"Let me see what gives you the audacity to treat me as if I am nothing!"

Amid the violent storm of destruction, Li Pin surged forward, his dazzling sword light slicing through the chaos. The momentum of his strike remained unbroken as it slashed through White Mirror.

"Not good!"

White Mirror acted decisively, pushing the power of his Singularity Pearl to the limit.

He tried to use Astral World Traversal to escape the battlefield, but before he could complete the move, the Astral World Fragment expanded into a Mini Astral World.

It significantly disrupted the normal flow of Astral World energy in the area, causing a slight delay in his teleportation.

"A Divine!"

It was only then that White Mirror was hit with a shocking reminder. He was not facing an Astral God!

He was facing a Divine Being, a "Heavenly Immortal" who could command an entire domain upon entering the Astral World.[1]

"Power! Show me your full power!"

Rumble, rumble!

The energy of his Natal Planet rained down relentlessly.

This time, however, Li Pin's control over his Natal Planet's power was more refined than ever before.

If before, he had drowned his enemies with an ocean's worth of water... now, he extracted deuterium and tritium from that ocean, triggering nuclear fusion.

Under such circumstances, White Mirror Astral God felt as though he was bound by more than a dozen drops of the Primal Force Water.

At this critical moment, his combat-specialized avatar pushed his power to the absolute limit.

He slashed down the Reaper Blade in his hand with relentless force. "Break!"

Forbidden Heavenly Blade: Ruinous End!

Wherever the blade's light passed, everything was reduced to nothingness.

But before the blade's glow could tear through the Celestial Force Field, a figure had already rushed in.

It was Li Pin.

At this moment, he seemed to have merged completely with the Celestial Force Field. He was the force field, and the force field was him.

As the sword light of the Ruoxi Sword, driven by the force field and carrying the might of an entire world, crashed down, White Mirror had no choice but to twist his blade, forcing it to meet the strike.

This was no ordinary sword qi. It carried the full power of Li Pin's Natal Planet, equivalent to the full strength of a Divine Being condensed into a single attack.

Buzz, buzz!

The Forbidden Heavenly Blade: Ruinous End clashed head-on with the sword qi.

Yet, their impact did not unleash a cataclysmic shockwave. The void merely rippled with faint, insignificant waves.

For a moment, neither side held the advantage.

Before White Mirror could catch his breath, Li Pin's second strike followed immediately, carrying the full power of his Natal Planet once more. It condensed into pure sword qi before crashing down with devastating force.

An entire planet condensed into a single sword strike, the power it carried was beyond imagination. Even piercing through a star, collapsing it into a neutron star, or even a black hole, was not beyond reach.

Unlike Li Pin, who focused solely on attacking, White Mirror had to contend with both the sword qi and Ruoxi Sword's oppressive intent at the same time.

How could his reactions possibly match Li Pin's?

Faced with this overwhelming force, he had no way out. Just as his own attacks sealed off all avenues of escape, so did Li Pin's sword.

In an impossibly short time, Li Pin had already adapted to battle against an Astral God. His control over his power had reached perfection, every strike executed with the precision of an Astral God's avatar.

There was no way out. White Mirror had only one choice.

He swung his blade and met the attack head-on. "Break!"

Once more, a dazzling blade light, bright enough to end stars, slashed through the void. Once again, it clashed with the sword qi.

The same annihilation. The same rippling shockwaves.

Followed by... the third, fourth, sixth, and ninth strike...

White Mirror barely kept up in the second and third strikes.

By the fourth and fifth, the oppressive force of the Sword Intent grew overwhelming.

At the sixth and seventh, the sheer impact of its intent shook his very soul.

By the eighth and ninth... his inner spirit, strained to its limit, wavered on the brink of collapse.

At this moment, he already knew how this would end.

"Keep going! Keep going! With such a pathetic avatar, how dare you speak such arrogant words!?"

Li Pin's sword strikes rained down like a relentless hammer.

The weaker White Mirror's resistance grew, the fiercer his fury burned.

The raging fire of his inner spirit surged with every strike. The tenth, the twelfth, the fifteenth, the eighteenth...

Finally, when the nineteenth sword strike, powerful enough to collapse a star and trigger its destruction, descended, White Mirror's inner spirit, strained to its limit, faltered.

That single hesitation was the final straw.

The Astral God, codenamed White Mirror, lifted his gaze. "I've lost..."

He fixed his eyes on Li Pin, now fully merged with his Natal Planet, as if engraving the sight into his memory.

He knew this wouldn't be their last meeting.

A talent like this—if he survived—would one day have his name echoed across the entire Astral World.

And White Mirror... would be nothing more than a stepping stone to his legend. Because...

"A dignified Astral God's combat-specialized avatar... lost to a mere—"

Rumble, rumble!

The nineteenth sword strike hit without delay, crashing into White Mirror's avatar.

All of Li Pin's strength had been poured into that single swing. When the sword qi struck, only one outcome awaited the Astral God's combat-specialized avatar. White Mirror shattered.

"Divinity...."

With a sigh, this powerful avatar was destroyed across the physical, energy, and spiritual levels, thoroughly annihilated.

In the next moment, the avatar's demise triggered a terrifying shockwave, like a supernova, sweeping across the battlefield in the Dust Sea Asteroid Belt, lighting up the entire war zone.

1. Divine Being is the equivalent of Earth Immortals, refer back to Chapter 457 for reference. ☜