In the midst of battle, Li Qi's Dao voice echoed through the cosmos.
With his words, the demonic qi slowly swirled, forming a nebula of demonic qi within the boundless void.
A voice came from within the nebula. "Even the Heavenly Demon's name couldn't scare you off? The Li Qi of the rumors was timid and cautious. Yet after only a few years, you possess such courage? Was the intelligence wrong, or are you truly such a genius?"
Li Qi was somewhat surprised.
He had not expected the other party to admit it so directly.
Logically speaking, someone who hid their identity and plotted in the shadows should not have been so forthright. Yet after being exposed, they immediately admitted it...
That meant this disguise had probably been nothing more than a casual convenience. It was not important in the first place.
Li Qi said nothing more. Instead, his Inner Heaven and Earth unfolded once again, sealing off the surroundings and locking the demonic qi within, refusing to allow the other party to escape.
Li Qi continued to unleash his power.
The stars and planets around them, which had only barely maintained their forms amid the recent collapse, were effortlessly blown over like feathers. Such destructive force easily overturned the planets' orbital momentum.
Many young planets that had only just coalesced had their rotational axes knocked askew. They were forced into highly eccentric orbits, swaying in unnatural postures. Their cores' rotation collapsed, their inner cores caved in, their magnetic fields fell into chaos, magma flooded across their surfaces, earthquakes ran rampant, and volcanoes erupted.
An ocean of matter was hurled into cosmic space. The air in the atmospheres ionized and neared white heat. Even the celestial bodies themselves were torn apart, only to quickly gather again under gravity's pull and