Tang Xiao VS Palpatine (Part 1)
"You're still completely devoid of originality, Darth Sidious." Darth Malthael grinned ferociously. "It seems you haven't improved much."
He raised a hand, and Darth Sidious's lightning was drawn to the other side. The bolts continuously gathered and compressed, eventually taking on a faint blood-red hue. Then, with a pointed finger, he sent the half-formed Crimson Lightning crashing toward Darth Sidious!
"You're too weak! Archangel of Death! Is this all you have?" Darth Sidious thrust out his hand. Without blocking or hesitating in the slightest, he pressed his palm directly against the lightning. In that instant, the bolt surged back toward Darth Malthael with several times its former strength!
Darth Malthael showed no courtesy either. He repeated the same move, caught the lightning, compressed and solidified it again, then reflected it once more!
The two kept strengthening and reflecting the bolt, causing its power to rise without end. What had begun as ordinary lightning gradually turned pale red, then blood-red, dark red, purplish-red... Under the pressure of the continuously condensing lightning, Darth Malthael and Darth Sidious both kept retreating, the distance between them widening.
The lightning between them grew ever stronger and denser, until it finally formed a terrifying sphere of lightning in the middle! The energy condensed within had reached its limit, warping even the surrounding space! Darth Malthael and Darth Sidious could no longer reflect the lightning, so they both used all their strength to push the sphere toward the other.
The terrible power tore apart everything around them. Even the hall of the temple they stood in began to collapse. Yet what was astonishing was that the materials making up the temple only crumbled; they did not disintegrate. Under the lightning sphere's power, not a single brick was damaged!
The others had