Dual Stat Cap Breakthrough

One strike became a thousand strikes; a thousand strikes became one strike.

This was the ultimate realm Gouki had comprehended after reaching a certain level in the path of the Assassination Fist and the road of the Asura.

Its name was One! Instant! Thousand! Strikes!

And the final blow Cheng Tian achieved against World-Ender Nergigante by using time stop had, by sheer coincidence, converged with the One! Instant! Thousand! Strikes! Gouki had comprehended, meeting at a crossroads.

Their principles, rules, purposes, and everything else were entirely different, yet they had inexplicably met at the same crossroads. Neither side had ever expected this.

Looking over Gouki's life, very few people had ever gotten along with him harmoniously. The Lone Bird played by players in Monster Hunter World counted as one, while the street fighter likewise played by players in Street Fighter 6's story mode counted as another.

So Gouki's attitude toward Cheng Tian had actually been rather ordinary, even carrying a faint hostility.

That hostility was not directed at Cheng Tian himself, but at the external power he possessed—his dissatisfaction with the Orochi Power.

Yet at this very moment, Cheng Tian had combined weak Strength, fake Agility, reliable Spirit, and standard Charm to achieve the ultimate realm Gouki had spent nearly half his life reaching. That was clearly not something Gouki could easily accept.

With senses far beyond human limits, Gouki could not precisely identify the existence of time stop, but he could detect the disharmony surrounding Cheng Tian and Nergigante.

Though it looked like another manifestation of One! Instant! Thousand! Strikes!, it carried a discontinuity similar to frames being removed during video editing.

But at the same time, Gouki had to admit that Cheng Tian had most likely used some unorthodox demonic trick again, yet turning a thousand strikes into