Chapter 946: Arrogance

"All of you, come at me together!"

This was Li Pin's response.

"You have one month!"

Li Pin acted as if he didn't notice the Creators' expressions turning cold, killing intent surging from them.

"Use this one month's time to defeat me! By the end, I might recognize your effort and let you live. Otherwise...."

He swept his finger across the six Creators.

"This starry cosmos will be your graveyard."

His words caused all the Supremes to change their expressions drastically.

Among them, Supreme Primordial, who knew Li Pin best, couldn't help feeling helpless.

They knew Li Pin had always been arrogant, but did he not understand the current situation? He was already at a disadvantage facing three Creators, yet he was now challenging all six to come at him at once? Creator Li alone was much stronger than the rest!

The coldness and killing intent in the eyes of Creators Li, Miao Ya, Yong Yao, Yun Ting, Tian Zhu, and Guang Ling surged to their peak after hearing Li Pin's words.

Each of them had been a legendary figure during the Ancient Astral World era! When had they ever been underestimated and humiliated like this?

To think that a mere junior who had cultivated for four hundred-odd years had the gall to insult them as such, especially when all his achievements could be attributed to the Eternal's inheritance!

Creator Yun Ting's inner spirit fluctuations swept past like a frost-laced chill wind. "What outrageous arrogance!"

Creator Tian Zhu stepped forward coldly. "If that is your choice... then it's simple."

A blazing white halo burst forth from behind Tian Zhu, just like those of Creators Miao Ya and Yong Yao.

"Let me destroy your Divine Body and shatter your True Spirit. Without the shroud of the light of your True Spirit, every secret buried deep in your soul, including the Eternal's legacy you'd rather die than reveal, will all be ours!"

The expressions of Primordial, Great Heaven, and the others turned taut with worry.

Li Pin was already at a disadvantage. If another Creator joined the battle, it would be the final straw that broke the camel's back. Li Pin's defeat would accelerate exponentially.

"You guys have no shame to be fighting with numbers!" Supreme Great Heaven shouted sternly and strode forward.

"Do you truly think the Human Race has no one?"

Supreme Primordial, Supreme Genesis, Supreme Ordainment, and the others followed close behind.

Supreme Regalheaven, seeing Li Pin still look calm and unhurried, silently considered whether he should also act or not.

At that moment, Li Pin's voice rang out.

"Stand down!"

The human Supremes, who had been about to enter the battlefield, froze. Disbelief crossed their expressions.

"Origin?"

"You should all know me by now," said Li Pin calmly. "I dare say this because I'm certain. Now that I've reached Liberation, I am far stronger than any of you can imagine. It's just that I know, even if I claimed I could crush them easily, you still wouldn't believe me, so..."

He looked at the several Creators in the field. "Let them come. And let me see whether they truly have enough potential to earn the right to survive."

Hearing Li Pin's words, Supreme Genesis, Supreme Primordial, Supreme Ordainment, and the others fell into thought, recalling the moments throughout his life. Though still filled with doubt, they relaxed slightly.

Yes. Li Pin had indeed never done anything he wasn't confident in. Though he had been criticized countless times for arrogance and disrespect, in the end, facts always proved that it was never Li Pin who was arrogant, but his opponents.

Would it be the same this time too?

Supreme Regalheaven observed Li Pin's composed posture. "So... you really possess a trump card capable of turning the tide?"

At last, the tension in his heart eased.

"Good...."

***

"You want us to earn the right to survive?"

Hearing Li Pin's tone, as if their lives were already in his hands, Creator Yun Ting could no longer hold back and roared, "Li Pin! You are truly arrogant beyond belief! I can't bear to wait another moment. I can't wait to see how your soul will beg in agony before me once I crush your Divine Body and shatter your True Spirit!"

Yun Ting, bursting with murderous intent, stirred up blazing white flames and radiance, leaping into the battlefield.

In an instant, the power of the five Creators united as one. Even though the spacetime around Li Pin had twisted to the extreme, the halo infused with destructive force continued advancing toward him.

"What is going on?" muttered Transcendent Black White.

Compared to the Creators, he seemed somewhat doubtful and uneasy.

"According to the information we've obtained about Origin, he... did defy expectations again and again, but..."

He really wanted to say such a thing could never happen to them. After all, each of them already stood at the pinnacle of the cultivation world. But this scene still caused Transcendent Black White to feel a vague sense of unease.

"Let's give it our all," Creator Li said. "Though I didn't wish to take it this far, the current situation leaves us no room for further hesitation, otherwise..."

Even though he was the most powerful existence of the Ancient Astral World, he showed a hint of worry in his eyes. "I fear we may truly fail. And once we do..."

"The starry cosmos will be beyond saving." Transcendent Black White finished his sentence. "So, we cannot fail!"

His expression was resolute. "Even if our actions aren't exactly honorable, at this moment we have no choice. If, in the future, we must face any sins or punishment, let us bear it alone!"

Creator Li nodded slightly.

Perhaps they were wrong, or perhaps Li Pin was right. But no one was truly omniscient or omnipotent. No one could fully perceive time and space or peer into the future.

All they could do was follow the path they believed in and do everything within their means to accomplish their mission of saving the starry cosmos.

With that resolve, Creator Li no longer hesitated and stepped forward into the battle.

"Gather all your power to me, I'll direct it!"

The inner spirit fluctuations of this strongest being from the Ancient Astral World echoed across the battlefield.

"Origin!"

Supreme Genesis, Supreme Primordial, Supreme Great Heaven, and the other human Supremes all wore tense expressions.

Even though each of them had absolute faith in Li Pin, this was six Creators attacking him at the same time!

"Trust him!" Supreme Regalheaven said firmly.

The other Human Supremes nodded, but none spoke. The atmosphere in the arena grew so heavy it nearly turned tangible.

To the distant observing Supremes, this scene felt almost unbelievable.

"The Human Supremes still aren't taking action?"

"It's six against one now, and the humans still maintain such astonishing strategic restraint? And these so-called Creators, who claim to bring the right path, this is all they've got?"

"Regalheaven's strength is no less than any Creator's. He could at least hold back two of them, so why is he watching from the sidelines? Could there be internal strife within the human race? Is Regalheaven wary of Origin's strength threatening his position as the universe's strongest, so he lets these foreign Creators besiege Origin to kill with a borrowed blade?"

These Supremes were all speculating, some even bearing malicious thoughts.

As Creator Li joined the battlefield, the situation changed visibly. Previously, Li Pin had barely managed to hold on against three, even four Creators, relying on his mastery of spacetime power.

But with six Creators attacking together, their tactics had become increasingly elusive and unpredictable. Even though Li Pin's control over spacetime was more refined, his situation was becoming dangerously unstable.

Soon after, under Creator Li's guidance, a blazing white beam compressed from untold stellar force swept across Li Pin's spacetime domain. Its power suddenly plummeted, pulling his spatial distortion straight toward that zone.

However, immediately afterward, another beam surged dramatically, piercing through the time distortion centered around him in an instant.

The energy of the attack exceeded the distortion's defensive limit.

After piercing through his warped spacetime, the blazing white energy beam swept through him with devastating force.

In the blink of an eye, most of Li Pin's body was annihilated.

Both Li Pin and these Creators had methods to stabilize their energies, so even massive bodily annihilation was no more than surface wounds to them. But the breach of Li Pin's spatial barrier already signified that the tide had turned in the Creators' favor.

"Again!" Creator Li let out a low bellow.

The power of the other five Creators surged toward him again, and another refined and extremely swift shift followed.

Once the spacetime barrier had been broken, a second time was inevitable.

As the blazing white radiance swept across once more, this time over seventy percent of Li Pin's body was annihilated!

This scene nearly made the Human Supremes rise from their seats in unison.

"Trust him!" Supreme Regalheaven emphasized strongly.

After hearing him, the Supremes didn't step forward, but their gazes remained locked on the six Creators surrounding Li Pin.

In another probing attack, Li Pin's spacetime shield was breached again. This time around, eighty percent of his body was annihilated.

He was now a sliver away from total annihilation, leaving no room for recovery.

"Does he still have no other means?"

"And he said a month? Not even half a month has passed, and Origin can't hold on."

"So, what trump card does he have? Who gave him the courage to utter such arrogant statements that Creators Li and the others only had one month?"

One after another, the Supremes were puzzled.

Yet Creators Li, Yong Yao, Miao Ya, and the others grew increasingly cautious with each move.

But even with caution, now that they had probed Li Pin's limits, reducing him to ninety percent annihilation took only a few days.

The several Creators exchanged glances.

Li Pin's death was at hand. Only the slightest nudge was needed, and he'd fall into complete annihilation, his existence erased.