Chapter 619: Tier Nine

Xuan Jian felt cold sweat dripping down his forehead as he listened to Li Pin's words. An avatar of an Astral God shouldn't sweat, as they weren't capable of having physical reactions like normal people. Yet, as sentient beings, their instincts still led them to find ways to express their emotions.

An Eternal Solar Flare! An Eternal Solar Flare was right before Li Pin!

While not a so-called almighty being, an Eternal Solar Flare was still a cornerstone in any faction, a cosmic light capable of supporting an entire group. In the grand universe, they commanded respect as a formidable force.

In the mundane world Xuan Jian came from, it could be likened to the boundary between commoners and nobles. The avatar of such a being could easily achieve a Power Level equivalent to the eighth tier.

If the Eternal Solar Flare invested enough energy, resources, and Divine Weapons into this avatar, it could unleash Tier Nine Power Level fairly easily.

In fact, based on the opponent's confident demeanor and the fearless way he faced Xuan Jian, it was clear this avatar possessed tier nine power.

A Tier Nine Astral God avatar....

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Heh,

" As Xuan Jian desperately tried to contact reinforcements, the young man's laughter turned into a cold sneer. "Li Pin, thanks to the Mara Divine Treasury Hall, I've managed to look through your information. Everyone knows you're arrogant and dismissive, but I never imagined you'd be this reckless."

In the next moment, his expression sharpened, and a bone-chilling murderous aura radiated from him. "Who do you think you are? An Eternal Solar Flare stands before you! That's a being whose influence in the Astral World is vast enough to establish a city, control a nation! Like the blazing sun, it shines eternally! Do you think an Astral God's combat-specialized avatar can protect you!?"

The Eternal Solar Flare suddenly spread his arms wide. "You're dreaming!"

Sensing the young man's murderous intent, Xuan Jian quickly shouted, "Li Pin, you—"

Almost immediately, Li Pin's voice cut him off. "Step aside!"

He took a step forward, bypassing Xuan Jian. At the same time, dense energy began to awaken and churn within him. But after a brief moment, the energy was fully retracted and returned within him.

Vaguely, Xuan Jian thought he had glimpsed an immense planet inside Li Pin's body, a massive celestial body with a diameter of tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

As the planet rotated, it poured terrifying energy and mass into Li Pin's body. Yet, thanks to his powerful mental spirit and absolute mastery over his own powers, these forces didn't affect the outside world at all. He even managed to prevent any damage to the planet beneath him, which was only about 20,000 kilometers in diameter.

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The energy intensity, energy level, combined with perfect control over it, was so extraordinary that even Xuan Jian couldn't help but feel awe and a sense of inferiority.

Xuan Jian was suddenly awakened from his stupor.

No!

I am Li Pin's protector, responsible for ensuring his safety. How could—

By the time he snapped back to reality, Li Pin had already crossed the void with long strides.

"A formidable Eternal Solar Flare," Li Pin said.

By manipulating gravity and electromagnetic forces, Li Pin twisted the fabric of space, creating a downward slope. He then used the thrust from the planet's magnetic field to accelerate toward the young man.

The sensation was as though a planet, hundreds of thousands of kilometers in diameter, had been suddenly accelerated to an unimaginable speed and collided with the sun.

Before they even made contact, the gravitational fields of the two celestial bodies had already merged into one, making it impossible for either to escape.

With Li Pin's battle intent surging, a red glow radiated from him. "Let's see if your power lives up to your words and truly surprises me!"

Stage Two Limit Break State!

Li Pin's opponent might not be a Cosmic Radiance, but he was still an Eternal Solar Flare with a piece of Cosmic Radiance Divine Weapon. Therefore, Li Pin remained completely focused.

In his Stage Two Limit Break State, he used the most primal method to execute his strength. He channelled his energy and energy level into a single point with perfect control and incredible speed before striking toward the young man.

With the World Heart enhancing his state, he targeted the young man's weakest point.

The destructive power of a planet with hundreds of thousands of kilometers in diameter, coupled with its terrifying kinetic energy, was already unimaginable. Adding to that, Li Pin concentrated all that power into the force of his fist. It was akin to compressing a Jupiter-sized planet to the size of a fist and releasing all its energy through a physical strike.

The young man's pupils dilated. "

Hmm!?

"

Li Pin's attack hadn't even connected, yet the gravitational disturbance between them caused the cold, arrogant young man to tense up.

Since their gravitational fields were now intertwined, the young man couldn't escape. The only thing he could do was react immediately and fight back with his most powerful means.

As his Solar Flare Divine Weapon glowed alongside numerous regular divine tools, his innate power and energy surged, breaking the limits of a typical avatar. For an Astral God, the limitation was never the maximum energy output, but the intensity of the energy.

With his energy far surpassing that of an ordinary Astral God's avatar, combined with his immense energy level, mastery of secret arts, and martial techniques, he swiftly brought his sword down to block Li Pin's powerful punch.

In that instant, his power level easily exceeded that of Xuan Jian, stepping into the Tier Nine Realm.

Buzz. buzz!

In the instant when Li Pin's fist collided with the young man's sword, the space within a radius of several dozen meters around them twisted. Shortly after, the distorted space shattered like a broken mirror, exploding into countless fragments that scattered in all directions.

Before these mirror-like voids could fully dissipate, the entire area within this space turned pitch black, devouring, shredding, and destroying everything.

A black hole had formed, a super-small black hole. It had formed from the collision of their powers.

Within it, all atoms and particles ceased to exist. Flesh, blood, energy bodies, photons, and electrons—none could survive. The suppressed, highly focused force annihilated everything.

If this strike had occurred in the Astral World, it could have burdened them both with hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of the Eternal Oblivion Force. A misstep might reduce an Astral God's overall Power Level by ten percent.

The young man's eyes were suffused with shock. "Impossible!"

Li Pin is only a Divine Being! Yet, he could clash with me, an Astral God wielding a Cosmic Radiance Divine Weapon, to release such destructive energy?

What did this mean? It meant Li Pin was on the same level as him!

"Good!" Li Pin roared.

In the next moment, the dark red light around him grew even more intense, and he bounced like a spring, accelerating again. He turned into a dark, fiery blaze as he charged at the young man, his aura surging once more, now even greater than before!

Stage Three Limit Break State!

Rumble!

The punch crushed everything in its path, yet not a single strand of energy escaped.

In the eyes of the young man, it felt as though a colossal star was rolling down behind that punch, bearing down with unstoppable might.

Especially terrifying was the energy it carried. If this punch were to strike any planet with a diameter of a million miles, it would instantly pierce through the planet’s crust. The penetrating power would then destroy the core, shatter its gravitational balance, and cause the planet to collapse.

No. It was even more frightening than a planet collapsing on its own.

The energy released from this blow would erupt from within, forcibly tearing the million-mile-wide planet apart from the inside out, like a firework exploding in the starry void, scattering into cosmic dust.

Billions of tons of rock and matter would be thrown into the universe at thousands of times the speed of sound, escaping into the deepest corners of space. In the endless drift, gravity would eventually shape them into planets, with diameters ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of kilometers.

Faced with this pressure, the young man's gaze grew colder. Utilizing his formidable inner spirit, he channeled every bit of energy he could summon into the sword in his hand.

"Break!"

Bang!

At the moment of impact, the young man shook violently. This time, he couldn't parry the blow as easily as before.

As their fist and sword collided, space twisted once more, briefly forming a terrifying black hole-like phenomenon.

Though the scene only lasted for a moment, the planet which Li Pin had chosen as their battlefield had already been torn apart by the black hole's gravitational force. It broke into countless billions of tons of matter that were drawn into the black hole.

The space quickly self-repaired after the black hole formed.

However, the matter pulled into space had become detached from the planet. It continued to drift towards the direction of the black hole. In the blink of an eye, a small asteroid belt began to form in space.

"Again!" exclaimed Li Pin.

After the collision, he erupted once more. Bathed in dark red light, he moved like a fast-moving dot, streaking in an elliptical arc toward the young man.

Each burst of terrifying energy released was evidence that their battle had reached a boiling point.

If this were in the Astral World, dozens, or even tens, of confrontations of this magnitude would have resulted in both of them falling into Eternal Oblivion, losing all their strength.

Even if one survived, they would be left with less than a tenth of their strength, clinging to life.

Xuan Jian, watching from the sidelines, was stunned. "Is... this Li Pin's true power!?"

Tier Nine! The power Li Pin unleashed in this moment is undeniably at the ninth tier!

He, the protector, was actually weaker than his client!

In that instant, Xuan Jian realized Li Pin hadn't been exaggerating when he claimed his strength surpassed his own. It was the truth.