Chapter 642: Iron Plate

Looking at the Ai Sa, who had completed his transformation and reached a height of over two meters, everyone felt a suffocating pressure come over them.

"How is this possible?"

"It's only been a few decades! How has he grown to this extent already?! How can the gap between us... be so great!?"

"What... what kind of monster are we fighting against!?"

"A prodigy has come to compete for Astral God Yin Luo's inheritance! How has the cultivation world... become this outrageous?"

Ai Sa's current form was tall and sturdy, with glittering golden light emanating from him. In his presence, even an Eternal Solar Flare as strong as Yuan Xiangguang felt his breath stagnate for a while.

Yuan Xiangguang was so overwhelmed that he forgot he didn’t actually need to breathe like a normal human.

He muttered in disbelief, "So this is... what a true prodigy is supposed to be like?"

Yuan Xiangguang was someone who had been referred to as a supreme genius back in the day as well. It had always been him shocking others with his exceptional talent, never the other way around. Today, however, he finally had a taste of that feeling for himself as he stood before Ai Sa.

Li Pin, who was in the middle of the joint attack of the two Astral Gods, also looked toward the figure that was emitting terrifying energy fluctuations. He muttered, "So strong...."

The gap between energy intensities in the millions and just over a hundred thousand was enough to create an overwhelming advantage. It was like comparing an archer to a gunner. Both could kill, but arrows could only pierce the body, while cannonballs could completely annihilate their target, leaving nothing behind.

"Do you feel that? This is power!" roared Ai Sa.

Ai Sa raised his right hand high in the air, and a terrifying energy fluctuation began to coalesce in his hand.

It was clear that energy with intensities of over one million exceeded the limits of his control. The ball of energy that coagulated under his watch held terrifying, destructive energy. As it was recklessly released, a terrifying force erupted. It was as if a sun had been compressed to an extreme.

The compression alone had caused a violent energy vortex to form in the air above the gaseous planet under Ai Sa’s feet. This compressed ball of light pulled countless storms and energies inside the planet, causing drastic shifts on its surface. Hurricanes equivalent to dozens of magnitudes constantly formed. Even the structure of the entire gaseous planet was being distorted.

"What power...." Ji Fenglei's expression turned taut. "He will detonate this planet under our feet. When that happens, this planet will be like a stellar kryptonite flash. Its lifelong energy will be released in an instant, forming a destructive fluctuation that will destroy this part of the universe. It will turn hundreds of millions of kilometers in a radius into a dead zone..."

Yuan Xiangguang’s eyes were suffused with powerlessness as he muttered, "Unless an Astral God descends with their true body, or the World-Anchor Astral God strips himself from the Astral World, no one can fight against power! "

Ai Sa, who had condensed this terrifying ball of light, didn't stop for a second to sacrifice this energy and cast it directly at the core of the many Astral God Avatars and combat-specialized avatars.

"All of you should die!" he roared.

These Astral God avatars and combat-specialized avatars wanted to run but couldn't.

As each Astral God realized the consequences of failure, pained expressions crossed their faces. "We've...failed..."

In that instant, a light like a supernova explosion erupted, engulfing everything in the starry sky before them.

Zi Zhongtian sighed. "It's over."

He knew that their plan had failed when Ai Sa transformed for the second time and displayed an energy intensity that was close to a million. This Golden Emperor Clan's prodigy was worthy of the honorable titles relating to Golden and Emperor.

The talent Ai Sa displayed was enough to draw the eyes of any top existence toward him. Even some of the big names who originally looked at the Golden Emperor Clan with disdain were no exception.

Some of the great figures who had originally intended to give the Golden Emperor Clan a hard time might even change their attitudes after Ai Sa displayed his true talent.

After all, with the talent that Ai Sa displayed, he would inevitably be another Light of Ark if he managed to obtain Astral God Yin Luo’s inheritance.

The consequences of offending a race with only one Cosmic Radiance Astral God and offending a race with two could not be compared. That was especially true if there was no direct conflict of interest, but merely an indirect dispute or a difference in approach.

Li Pin looked at this scene with marvel. "Ai Sa is stronger than I expected!"

He was completely overjoyed. This genius from the Golden Emperor Clan hadn't let him down in the slightest.

Since Ai Sa had already displayed his strongest form to start clearing the field, Li Pin wouldn’t allow himself to show too much weakness. After all, with the main course on its way, why waste any more time on appetizers?

"Let's wrap this battle up then," muttered Li Pin.

He instantly charged toward Shang Jinzhao. "Before the great battle arrives, let me finish cleaning up the battlefield so that no one can disturb us!"

Faced with the full might of Li Pin's Natal Planet, the space around Shang Jinzhao rapidly distorted and compressed, forming a binding force so terrifying that it was like an extreme celestial body. It seemed to make it impossible for Shang Jinzhao to get out of the way.

Shang Jinzhao raged. "Li Pin!"

He had willingly admitted defeat after witnessing Ai Sa's second transformation and his display of a dominant power that made it impossible to fight against him.

But at this moment, Li Pin attacked him.

All the rage he felt over his inability to do anything about Ai Sa was immediately focused on Li Pin.

Killing intent began to boil in Shang Jinzhao’s eyes as he looked at Li Pin. "It's all your fault! If not for you getting in the way, we would have already crushed Ai Sa with thunderous force or even killed him! How could there have been so many variables if not for you?! You still dare to dangle in front of us like a clown!? You are asking for death! Great Sun Heart-Incinerating Sword!"

Zi Zhongtian, who was nearby, was similarly infuriated. "We may not be able to kill Ai Sa, but we surely can kill you! Taiyuan Divine Light! Terrorize!"

The two Eternal Solar Flares utilized their inner spirit secret art to the extreme. In their fury and desperation, their Burnout States were activated at full capacity.

If earlier they had planned to reserve some of their strength to fight against Ai Sa, at this moment, the brilliant light had already covered and illuminated them without any reservation. It seemed like they were planning on settling everything in one powerful blow.

A flaming sword that burned the inner spirit, and an inner spirit shackle that weighed more than a mountain. Under the reinforcement of these divine weapons, they simultaneously blasted into Li Pin's inner spirit lake.

Even with the World Heart, which was a Solar Flare Divine Item, Li Pin still found it hard to remain completely unaffected.

In addition to Zi Zhongtian and Shang Jinzhao, Ji Fenglei also transformed into a blade of radiance. His entire power coalesced into a single point, like a particle of light, ripping through the air in an instant.

This was a coordinated triple attack.

𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Assisted by Shang Jinzhao and Zi Zhongtian, Ji Fenglei launched his sword attack, pouring out his utmost strength in an overwhelming strike!

With Shang Jinzhao and Zi Zhongtian locking Li Pin down, Ji Fenglei would blast through Li Pin’s Eternal Light, Absolute Darkness, then his Mini Astral World, before finally penetrating his Natal Planet, causing it to collapse from the inside and go up in smoke.

By then, the extermination would be completed, and this was the perfect coordination of the three Solar Flare combat-specialized avatars.

Just as the two's inner spirit secret art shattered the amplification of the World Heart's inner spirit resistance and broke Li Pin's Inner Spirit Mirror, rays of light, as dazzling as diamonds, projected from the depths of the Inner Spirit.

Under the illumination of these rays, it was as if a layer of battle armor had been added to his Inner Spirit mirror, an indestructible silver-colored battle armor.

Wherever the light passed, everything it touched, whether it was the blazing brilliance that ignited inner spirit flames or the Taiyuan Radiance Beam, so heavy it could stall thought itself, collided like striking a Divine Mountain, and at the same time, like a tsunami crashing into a sea cliff.

On impact, they shattered and dissolved. That light was unshakable. Nothing could make it dim even a little. This was the power of the Dao!

"Originally... I found the way you use the power of the inner spirit refreshing. I wanted to see if I could be inspired to go even further through this level of encounter, but I never thought that... Ai Sa would transform. "

If he had wanted to use their power to comprehend the True Spirit... that was no longer necessary.

Under the power that even the Cosmic Radiance Divine Weapon could not shake, the so-called inner spirit secret arts were utterly meaningless.

Li Pin carried the impact of the two Astral Gods' secret arts, pinched his fingers into a sword, and fiercely pointed it forward. The sharp radiance precisely fell upon Ji Fenglei's light-particle strike, which seemed to transform into a streaming brilliance.

As everyone knew, the effects of forces were mutual.

Ji Fenglei's sword itself was pursuing the power of light, striving to transform itself into a stream of radiance. With the help of terrifying speed, he stabbed out a sword similar to a light particle strike.

However, when such a force met a structure not at a breaking point but instead perfectly stable and unshakably solid, the resulting recoil... would cause it to disintegrate.

Ji Fenglei was like an egg that had crashed into a stone. First, a large number of cracks appeared on the blade of the sword. Immediately afterward, the cracks spread rapidly, filling the entire body at an incredible speed.

A soft sound seemed to resound in the void.

Boom.

Under Ji Fenglei’s shocked and dismayed gaze, his carefully crafted combat-specialized avatar crumbled apart, cracking into countless fine pieces.

Zi Zhongtian and Shang Jinzhao’s pupils dilated with shock, their faces falling.

"What's going on!?"

"Our inner spirit secret arts didn't have any effect on him! It's like his inner spirit has transformed into a rock... unshakeable and indestructible! This is also an inner spirit secret art!?"

"The study of inner spirit secret arts requires an incomparably long period. Only someone who has become an Eternal Solar Flare and gained a firm foothold in the Astral World would spend great effort and expense to study it. This is so that they can gain insight into the nature of the inner spirit and thereby condense the True Spirit! How could Li Pin have mastered an inner spirit secret art?!”

If this wasn’t an inner spirit secret art, then there was only one possibility left—this was a gift!

Special beings like the Golden Emperor Clan, Yan Ling'er, and most of the prodigies would possess special gifts!

Those who possessed gifts may not be one hundred percent prodigies, but as long as the gifts weren't bad, they wouldn't be much worse off compared to true prodigies!

They were actually fighting against a prodigy! An existence that was said to be the future of the Human Race, often prefixed with the title “Human Prodigy”!

"We've kicked the iron plate by taking on Ai Sa, and we've also kicked the iron plate by attacking Li Pin as well!?"

The two people that we had schemed against happened to both be prodigies? What kind of luck was this? Can ordinary people still survive in this world?