The residual energy in the universe had yet to completely subside, but Benjamin had already rallied once more.
In the starry sky torn apart by shockwaves, shattered asteroid debris still tumbled. Chaotic currents of dark gold and deep gray energy interwove like unhealed wounds, slowly spreading through the darkness.
At the heart of that chaos, the Dual Dharma Manifestation that had been defeated once again condensed.
Boom...
Dark golden light abruptly erupted from within the Dharma Image, like a divine sun rising from the depths of the void.
As another evolution of the Body Tempering Method came to an end, light surged outward along the Dharma Image's contours, illuminating the darkness for hundreds of thousands of kilometers around it. The Dharma Image had broad shoulders and back, its arms hanging low. The stern face on its back slowly raised its head, and three vertical golden eyes opened at once, their blade-like gazes locking firmly onto the planetary beast ahead.
That punch just now had been enough to blast apart an entire fleet of an ordinary civilization.
But to Benjamin, who had taken who knew how many punches already, it posed no threat at all.
Benjamin rolled the Dharma Image's shoulders.
Golden light flowed faintly around its joints, winding around its pair of arms as though about to form some strange phenomenon.
Unfortunately, Benjamin's grasp of the laws was still insufficient, and the pressure his opponent provided had begun to weaken, preventing that phenomenon from taking shape. Across from him, the planetary beast Benjamin had knocked back also steadied itself once more.
Although Benjamin's attacks were not weak, they had not inflicted much damage on it.
After all, it was simply too enormous.
A silhouette tens of thousands of kilometers tall stretched across the void, like an ancient demon god born