Scheming

The sacred, magnificent Body Illumination made Lu Li look more like a true Celestial than Arishem, with his suit of armor.

Unfortunately, appearances meant nothing. The Law of the Jungle was the eternal, unchanging truth of the universe.

Arishem gathered a sun in his hands, then shoved it forward, sending a brilliant, scorching torrent hurtling toward Lu Li.

The star's energy illuminated the entire galaxy. Earth looked like a glass marble beneath a spotlight, and the burst of light was so blinding that no one could even open their eyes.

But an attack powerful enough to destroy a star was nothing to Lu Li. A fusion strike wasn't some heaven-defying trick.

Body Illumination suddenly flared. Lu Li drew on the mass of six spirit stars, forming a gravitational vortex before him to block the oncoming torrent.

The vortex shimmered with starlight and clashed with the sun's radiance, then churned it apart.

Lu Li raised a hand and seized the moon. At a thought, he laid down a dense web of Mental Energy Coils—over a hundred million of them.

He was going to use the moon as a bullet and unleash Yuan Magnetic Divine Thunder.

The moon shot forward at once, hurtling toward Arishem at near-light speed.

The celestial body couldn't withstand such enormous kinetic energy. It broke apart into dust halfway there, then shattered further into a plasma state. To the people of Earth, it looked like a comet.

Arishem had initially tried to dodge, but the thing tracked its target automatically, immediately adjusting its trajectory and charging straight at him.

Arishem had no choice but to raise an arm to block it, intricate patterns lighting up across his arm.

Brilliant light burst forth. Arishem blocked the strike, his arm slightly deformed, but it was nothing serious.

But right after,