Awakening

"Guixu."

Li Pin stepped forward with sword in hand.

Before him, the God race monarch who had been bowing turned into a mass of flame, both in divine body and in spirit—a flame like a star, radiating boundless light, as though it could illuminate heaven and earth.

Pure radiance, mingled with destruction equal to the upper limit of a monarch's energy level, erupted out of control from within him, about to spread outward.

But...

Facing a God race monarch willing to pay any price, even to perish together with him in jade and stone, merely to strike one sword and drag him down with him, Li Pin showed not the slightest fear in his eyes.

Instead...

He met the attack head-on!

"Fine, as long as you can..."

Under the secret art Dao Exhausts Reincarnation, waves of radiance spilled from his "true spirit," directly freezing the void before him.

Within this utterly frozen environment, the God race monarch's burning divine body, blazing Mind Power, and the sword he intended to gather and unleash with the absolute conviction of staking everything on the line were all clearly displayed before Li Pin.

As his gaze gained Insight...

Everything was laid bare, with nowhere to hide.

"Block this sword of mine."

Following the trajectories of all spirit and energy.

This sword gathered from the past, struck out from the present, then accelerated through spacetime, transcending space, transcending time, and reaching straight into the future.

"Buzz buzz!"

The spirit of this God race monarch, who had already burned his divine body and Mind Power to their limits in preparation for a desperate final strike, jolted violently.

His thoughts...

Seemed to freeze on the spot in an instant.

Vaguely, he saw Li Pin draw his sword.

Yet in a haze, he did not see him draw