The Great Battle

Xiao Yang's blood-red eyes shone with an eerie light as he fixed them on the Double Pupil Bird before him. His gaze turned scorching, and an almost instinctive craving rose within him!

A craving to devour the pair of innate Double Pupils possessed by the Double Pupil Bird.

Of course, this creature was not a true Divine Double Pupil Bird. It had merely inherited a portion of its bloodline. A genuine Divine Double Pupil Bird possessed strength far beyond that of a Dou Di.

After absorbing the Heavenly Demon Blood Eyes, that instinct told Xiao Yang that as long as he absorbed this pair of Double Pupils, the Heavenly Demon Blood Eyes would undergo another evolution.

Slowly drawing Tensa Zangetsu from his waist, Xiao Yang roared, "Bankai!"

Black-red Reiatsu mixed with golden Dou Qi and shot into the sky. A golden Dou Qi armor in the form of the Virgo Gold Saint Cloth covered his entire body, while violent, heavy black-red Reiatsu completely enveloped the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Wings behind him. Those black wings made him resemble a Fallen Angel from the Western myths of his previous life. Divinity and demonic nature intertwined within him, and the powers of light and darkness fused completely into one!

At that moment, Xiao Yang's aura surged explosively, climbing all the way from Peak Dou King to Peak Dou Emperor!

It matched the magical beast before him, a roc-like creature with platinum-white wings!

His blade rose and fell without the slightest hesitation. A supremely brilliant slash of light, like a bright moon rising into the night sky, came crashing down upon the roc-like magical beast!

"Screech!" With a piercing cry, the space before it suddenly twisted and formed a barrier, blocking Xiao Yang's strike!

"Interesting. Spatial abilities like Zi Yan's?" Xiao Yang muttered. "Tch, this just got troublesome."

As a former webnovel writer, he was all too familiar with the saying: "Space reigns supreme, time is king; when fate does not emerge, karma rules as emperor!"

Space and time were the foundational laws that constructed an entire world—even an entire universe. The slightest error in either time or space could bring about the collapse of the whole universe.

That was why Xiao Yang had always dismissed those idiotic claims from his previous life about "Dou Di-level fighters being planet-busters."

What a joke. The Heavenly Tomb created by a Dou Di could freely control the flow of time, while in worlds like the one Xiao Yang had lived in during his previous life, even a minor disruption in the flow of time could easily overturn the laws of physics. By then, forget blowing up a planet—the entire universe would be destroyed along with it.

Fantasy worlds, where great power belonged to the individual, stood far above mortals whose lifespans did not exceed a hundred years and who were constrained by so-called physical laws.

And they talked about Dou Zongs destroying cities? The mushroom bombs from his previous life that had flattened two cities in Little Japan had not even caused the slightest ripple in space.

With the technology of Xiao Yang's previous life, the only thing that could even slightly touch upon the spatial level was antimatter annihilation bombs, which still existed only in theoretical concepts.

The collision of matter and antimatter could trigger spatial annihilation!

A Dou Zong could tear through space with a casual gesture. Such destructive power was more than sufficient to destroy a planet.

All he could say was that some idiots truly had no idea how vast the world was, knowing absolutely nothing about the destructive power of fantasy worlds.

How long had it even been since Copernicus was tied to the stake and burned to death? A bunch of uncivilized barbarians!

And they dared use their so-called science to measure fantasy? Absolutely ridiculous!

Without even physical comparisons or actual measurements and calculations, they made judgments based on nothing but imagination. That was not science—it was bullshit.

So Xiao Yang had never believed that nonsense. The only things he believed in were those he had personally experienced.

Only practice was the sole criterion for testing truth. That was something the predecessors had taught them long ago.

(The power standards follow the author's own settings. I will not accept certain people trying to teach me how to write my book for no reason!

Fantasy is the crystallization of authors' imagination—the ultimate form of romanticism.

Generation after generation, veteran authors and readers built magnificent and gorgeous worlds together with us, only for certain people now to try and restrict them with so-called science, power levels, and whatever fucking mathematical models. It's completely laughable! I'm so pissed off!)

Slowly exhaling a breath of stale air and suppressing his somewhat chaotic thoughts, Xiao Yang looked at the distorted spatial barrier before the roc-like magical beast. He put away his blade as golden light burst from his entire body. Heaven-Tier Fighting Skill—Vajra Glazed Body, activate!

Xiao Yang transformed into a golden giant dozens of meters tall. His enormous, radiant golden fist smashed fiercely into the twisted spatial barrier ahead!

Thunder roared in the silence. The space ahead shattered beneath that punch. Xiao Yang had thought this unexpected sneak attack would finish the opponent, but he had to admit that he had underestimated its speed.

The Double Pupil Descendant's supreme speed was no exaggeration. Xiao Yang saw only a silver bolt of lightning streak across the sky and flash through the void. With a single flap of its wings, it easily evaded his punch!

Then, all of a sudden, the previously clear sky darkened. Thick clouds rapidly gathered overhead, and silver lightning could be seen slithering through them like silver snakes.

Xiao Yang could not help but freeze. "What the hell is going on?"

"It's the Transformation Lightning Tribulation!" Zi Yan's voice rang out. "That big bird couldn't suppress the fluctuations of its power during its fight with you. It broke through the threshold of the Seventh Rank, so it attracted the Transformation Lightning Tribulation!"

"What the hell?" Xiao Yang was instantly overjoyed. "Something this good can happen?"

The Transformation Tribulation was not easy to endure. Even if it managed to survive by luck, it would still be blasted senseless. At that point, Xiao Yang would only need to collect the kill.

Boom!

The silver lightning within the dark clouds converged with increasing ferocity. Eventually, the atmosphere across the entire sky became incomparably oppressive. Roughly ten seconds later, the clouds suddenly split open, and a bolt of silver lightning burst forth with a thunderous roar. Like an enormous silver python, it shot down from the clouds, its target being the large bird not far from Xiao Yang!

On the Douqi Continent, alchemists could likewise trigger lightning tribulations when refining high-grade medicinal pills. Alchemists would often invite powerful experts to help them withstand the tribulation.

The Transformation Tribulation was the same. One could also ask powerful experts for help in resisting it.

This differed somewhat from many cultivation novels. The more people there were to block the lightning, the stronger the tribulation would become.

But clearly, Xiao Yang was not stupid enough to help that bird take lightning strikes for no reason.

However, that big bird was no pushover either. It was obviously highly intelligent. It flew straight toward Xiao Yang, clearly intending to drag him down with it.

Suddenly, inspiration flashed through Xiao Yang's mind. His hands quietly formed seals. At the same time, the wings behind his back beat furiously as he pushed his speed to the limit, leading the big bird in circles!

A moment later, Xiao Yang stopped and faced the large bird from afar.

A humanlike sneer flashed through its strange pupils. "What, not running anymore?"

Xiao Yang raised his right hand, lightning glimmering in his palm. "Heh. I'm rather curious—if all the power of the lightning tribulation were triggered in a single instant and struck you at the same time, what would happen?"

"What do you mean?!" The enormous platinum-white eagle-shaped magical beast's expression changed drastically when it saw Xiao Yang's raised right hand and the lightning blazing in his palm. "What are you going to do?"

A curve lifted at the corner of Xiao Yang's mouth. "Nothing much. I'm just redirecting this lightning tribulation to you. And while I'm at it, I'll let you witness the Taoist Five Thunder Rectification Method—the command of heaven and earth, the dominion of thunder!"

Xiao Yang swept his right hand downward. "Be reduced to ash together with the thunder's roar—

Thunder Law Qilin!"