Passing Keisha

Passing Keisha

"Xu Yi!"

"Xu Yi!"

"Don't die on me!"

"If I really killed you by mistake, I'd feel guilty for a hundred years!"

"This goddess doesn't want to feel guilty for a hundred years!"

Di Lena shouted into the sea of flames. In her heated state, she had recklessly hurled out solar energy without restraint. It had felt great, but if she had taken someone's life because of it, her conscience would not rest easy.

"Why would you feel guilty for a hundred years?" a calm voice asked.

"Because this goddess is immortal. Living for millions of years is easy.

Feeling guilty for a hundred years is already the highest standard of courtesy."

Di Lena answered instinctively, but then she suddenly felt a chill run down her back.

At some point, Xu Yi had appeared behind her, smiling.

It was rather frightening.

"Damn, Xu Yi, when did you get behind me?" Di Lena asked, patting her chest.

"I was here the whole time. You were just too foolish to notice," Xu Yi said.

"...Heh heh. I think you were scared," Di Lena stubbornly retorted.

"Alright, keep going. Defeat me with your strongest power," Xu Yi said.

"You asked for it. If I really kill you by mistake, I won't feel guilty. By Earth's customs, at most I'll burn some paper offerings for you every year," Di Lena said.

"You're quite kind, aren't you?" Xu Yi laughed, amused by this slightly silly Sun Goddess.

"Of course."

"Take this!"

"Super: Da Da Da Da: Solar Shockwave!"

Di Lena mobilized solar energy and fired a planet-destroying ray that pierced through the Void.

Before absolute energy suppression, technique was almost insignificant.

If Di Lena could unleash all her power on Earth, then the Taotie would not have dared invade later.

But the cost was too great. Earth itself might endure such intense energy fluctuations, but humanity could not.

Such a powerful energy eruption could very likely alter Earth's climate directly, turning it into a fireball and burning countless lives to death.

This time, Xu Yi did not dodge. He merely opened his mouth and unleashed a breath attack, forcibly blowing out the scorching planet-destroying ray.

That breath continued without end, eventually blowing Di Lena's hair into wild disarray and sending her entire body crashing into an asteroid.

"What a huge breath."

"But why does it smell somewhat fresh and fragrant?"

Di Lena muttered to herself. Though she had been beaten, she was not angry in the slightest. Instead, she felt oddly refreshed.

"Why are you enjoying this so much?" Xu Yi asked.

"Battle is meant to be enjoyed."

"Cosmic War Mode, Second Stage!"

Di Lena activated the Stellar Drive Algorithm again. This time, it was no longer an energy attack—she drove the nearest stars into motion!

One, two, three... three stars of varying sizes hurtled toward Xu Yi together.

Driving stars was also one of the methods of the Lieyang Civilization.

However, this was more or less Di Lena's current limit. A Tech God was not limitless; there were limits.

The essence of driving stars was using stellar drives to analyze stars and make them serve one's purposes. With sufficient algorithmic analysis, the impossible could become possible, turning decay into wonder.

But algorithms ultimately had limits. It was impossible to control every star in the Universe with a single algorithm.

Facing the approach of three stars, Xu Yi remained as calm as ever.

Now this was getting a little interesting.

Judging by this display alone, Di Lena was already stronger than many Cultivators.

After all, most Cultivators were still confined to the surface of a planet.

Di Lena, meanwhile, directly controlled stars. In an ordinary cultivation world, a single stellar impact could instantly wipe out an entire civilization.

"Admit defeat, Xu Yi. Even this goddess can't control this move," Di Lena said. She was drenched in fragrant sweat, and her stamina had been greatly depleted.

"Admit defeat? Hahaha!"

"Sun Goddess Di Lena, these three stars have earned my recognition of your strength."

"Not bad. I had a lot of fun."

"But it's time to end this!"

Xu Yi mobilized his Magical Power, mysterious ripples of Dao Rhyme spreading across his body. He casually said, "Immortal Art: True Essence Great Hand!"

He extended a palm. As Xu Yi's Magical Power condensed in the Void, a Nebula storm swept through the Universe, accompanied by Thunder and Lightning. At the center of the storm, a golden palm reached down through the Void.

If stars were enormous, surpassing Earth by millions upon millions of times—

Then before Xu Yi's True Essence Great Hand, they were as fragile as marbles.

"??" Di Lena.

The True Essence Great Hand enveloped the three stars and clenched tightly.

Boom.

With a muffled sound, the three stars turned into smoky particles and vanished.

"??"

Di Lena sat limply upon an asteroid, her expression vacant.

Her face looked as though she had been completely broken, her Dao heart shattered and her entire worldview blown apart.

The image of that True Essence Great Hand crushing stars kept replaying in her mind.

Was that really something a person could do? Wasn't the power of the sun supposed to be the Universe's strongest force of destruction, capable of melting any existence before it? Yet someone had crushed it with one hand—and crushed three stars at once?

Then tell her, what was real? The True Essence Great Hand dispersed under Xu Yi's control, while Xu Yi remained as composed as he had been from the start.

"I... I lost. I'm completely convinced."

In the end, Di Lena spoke weakly, though her words still carried a sense of grievance.

She wanted to cry. This was not fair at all. It was not a fair battle.

She had given it everything she had, yet Xu Yi had effortlessly crushed the ultimate move she had been so proud of.

The Chat Group's voice rang out. "Ding, Side Quest successfully completed: Defeat Sun Goddess Di Lena. Received Three Thousand Points."

"Are you even human, Xu Yi?" Di Lena asked, the light gone from her eyes.

"Of course I am." Xu Yi walked over as he spoke.

"Then why are you so strong? Do you think crushing three stars with one hand is reasonable?" Di Lena asked.

"Of course it's reasonable." Xu Yi smiled.

"...I... This goddess finally understands why Sun Wukong was helplessly suppressed." Di Lena said.

"Oh, actually, you did quite well. You gave me a slight surprise," Xu Yi said.

"A slight surprise?" Di Lena stared at him intensely.

"Haha, don't lose heart. After all, I'm invincible. Losing to me isn't shameful. You still have plenty of potential," Xu Yi said.

"Stop talking. My chest feels tight. Let me recover for a moment," Leina said gloomily.

Xu Yi looked toward an asteroid in the distance and said, "Since you're here, why not come out?"

"? There's someone else here?" Di Lena asked in surprise.

As soon as she spoke, Angel King Keisha slowly walked out from behind an asteroid with alluring curves.

"Angel." Di Lena recognized Keisha's wings at a glance.

Keisha was still dressed in silver armor, King's Long Johns, and a Heavenly Blade Cape. She looked imposing and majestic without losing any of her authority.

Keisha's heart was far from calm, because she had just witnessed the entire battle.

In particular, seeing Xu Yi destroy three stars with one hand had been immensely shocking.

Even Keisha herself was nowhere near capable of such a feat.

She had not left the Angel Nebula for many years, yet such a powerful expert had already emerged in the Universe.

"If I said I was just passing by, would you believe me?" Keisha looked at Xu Yi, her tone calm.

Angels were arrogant only toward the weak. Toward those stronger than themselves, they were respectful, even worshipful.