"Purple"!

The next second, Jiang Bai appeared behind Gildarts like a ghost, his fist, wrapped in Telekinesis, silently slamming into Gildarts's back.

However, Gildarts seemed to have eyes in the back of his head; without turning around, he swung his elbow backward.

"Bang--!"

As their fists and elbows clashed, a powerful shockwave exploded outwards from the two men, lifting a layer of ground within a hundred meters radius.

Jiang Bai retreated instantly upon contact, landing lightly ten meters away, his face still bearing that lazy expression.

Gildarts slowly turned around, stretched his elbows from the collision, and a hint of approval flashed in his eyes.

"Not bad, kid. Your speed and strength are both impeccable."

He grinned, revealing a set of white teeth. "However, with this level of physical skill alone, you can't last more than thirty minutes."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Gildarts vanished from his spot. The next second, his mountain-like body appeared before Jiang Bai, delivering a powerful punch imbued with "Crush" magic, aimed squarely at Jiang Bai's face!

Even before the fist landed, the terrifying pressure that seemed capable of crushing everything into dust was already overwhelming.

However, this punch, powerful enough to shatter mountains, began to slow down rapidly when it was about a meter away from Jiang Bai, as if it had sunk into a thick swamp.

In the end, Gildarts' fist stopped less than a centimeter away from Jiang Bai's nose, unable to advance even an inch further.

"Oh? Is this the legendary 'Infinity'?"

Gildarts stared at his frozen fist, his face showing no surprise, but rather intense curiosity. "What interesting magic," he said, "That it can prevent any attack from reaching you."

Jiang Bai curled his lip, about to say something sarcastic.

Suddenly, his expression changed slightly for the first time.

Gildarts withdrew his fist, but the nature of the "Crush" magic on his palm changed.

It was no longer a violent destruction, but a more subtle and eerie fluctuation.

Super Advanced Destruction Magic: Disassembly!

Gildarts did not attack again, but instead pointed his palm at Jiang Bai. The invisible Disassembly wave spread out like ripples, touching the invisible "Infinity" barrier around Jiang Bai.

There was no Heavenly Movement explosion, nor any violent energy collision.

But Jiang Bai clearly felt that his absolute defensive space, constructed of magic, began to disintegrate little by little the moment it came into contact with that Disassembly wave, being dismantled from the most basic level and reduced to pure magic particles.

Although the collapse was slow, the automatic, eternally static nature of "Infinity" was shaken from the outside for the first time!

"This is..."

Jiang Bai's eyes narrowed. He had no choice but to actively mobilize the magic power within his body to repair and maintain the stability of the "Infinity" barrier in order to resist the all-pervasive Disassembly power.

A continuous, albeit small, but absolutely not negligible, drain on magical energy has begun.

"Haha! It seems your 'Infinity' isn't truly Infinity after all, kid!"

Gildarts saw through this and let out a hearty laugh, "It's not insurmountable, it just requires the right method! My 'Disassembly' can directly affect the spell's incantation itself! As long as I continue, your mana will eventually be exhausted!"

Gildarts' words, like a thunderclap, revealed the key to this battle.

This is no longer a one-sided defense and ineffective attack, but a tug-of-war between magical reserves and willpower!

Jiang Bai instantly understood his current predicament.

If you only passively defend, you will undoubtedly lose.

"Tsk, as expected of the strongest man in the guild, what a nuisance."

For the first time, Jiang Bai abandoned his languid demeanor, and his eyes sharpened.

He couldn't wait any longer!

"Azure."

Jiang Bai raised his right hand, and a deep purple light formed at his fingertip.

A terrifying gravitational force erupted instantly, no longer targeting Gildarts himself, but the very ground beneath his feet!

"Boom!"

The entire wasteland was pulled apart by this gravitational force, instantly cracking and collapsing to form a huge crater, attempting to swallow Gildarts.

"Trying to disrupt my rhythm like this? How naive!"

Gildarts' feet seemed rooted to the ground. Facing the terrifying gravity coming from beneath his feet, he neither dodged nor avoided it, but simply slammed his other hand into the ground!

"Crush!"

The violent destructive magic flowed down his arm and into the earth, not to fight against the gravity of "Azure", but to more irrationally shake the space itself, which was distorted by gravity, along with the land and rocks, into the most primitive particles!

Gravity lost its point of application and dissipated instantly.

But the moment Gildarts dispelled "Azure," he had to interrupt the maintenance of the "Disassembly" magic.

Jiang Bai seized this opportunity and disappeared again.

This time, he didn't choose to get close, but instead appeared hundreds of meters in the air.

His left hand held the "Azure" of gravity, while his right hand held the "Radiant" of repulsion.

Two diametrically opposed, extreme forces, under his control, slowly approached each other.

"Uncle, your warm-up is over."

Jiang Bai's voice came from high above, carrying an unprecedented solemnity.

"This next move is also the first time I'm using it. I haven't fully mastered it yet. Underestimating it could be fatal."

Gildarts looked up, feeling the terrifying magic in the sky that made even him tremble, and his smile grew even brighter.

"I couldn't ask for more!"

He tossed the wine jug aside, assumed a full-on stance, and poured all the "Crush" magic he had cultivated throughout his life into his right fist!

"Come on, kid! Let me see what you've got!"

High in the air, Jiang Bai clasped his hands together.

"Hollow Technique-- "

On the ground, Gildarts abruptly stepped back with his right foot, causing the earth beneath his feet to crack inch by inch.

"Dispelling Evil and Revealing Truth-- "

Two terrifying energies, powerful enough to alter the terrain, reached their peak simultaneously!

""Water chestnut"!"

"One day!"

A beam of purplish-black light, containing endless nothingness, descended from the sky.

A golden fist-shaped beam of light, seemingly capable of Crush everything in the world, shot upwards against the heavens.

The next second, two forces representing the ultimate forms of two different rules collided violently in the center of this desolate plain!