Chapter 202

The sound of the cage shattering had not yet fully faded when Xue Lingyun was already standing beyond the scattered fragments of light.

He lowered his head and glanced at the remnants of starlight by his feet. The fragments were still falling, but they had dimmed by more than half before reaching the ground, like embers snuffed out by the wind.

He did not stop after walking out of the cage. After taking two steps, he adjusted his breathing. The movement was slight; only the rhythm of his chest rising and falling was a beat faster than usual before he suppressed it again.

He sensed the state of his Soul Power. The consumption from that strike had been less than he had expected.

The four Soul Rings had already regained their intact radiance from edge to center, maintaining a steady rotation.

The feedback from the shattering Starlight Cage clearly reached Xu Jiujiu. She sensed that layer of connection snap.

She had no way to unleash her Fifth Soul Skill a second time. Forming that cage had consumed a tremendous amount of her star power reserves, and when it was shattered, part of it had backlashed upon her. Her remaining Soul Power was only enough to maintain the continued operation of Star's Protection and Starshine Art. He looked at the starlight barrier stretching across the Arena and walked toward it at an unhurried pace.

When he reached the starlight barrier, he did not slow down. His First and Third Soul Rings lit up simultaneously, yellow and purple light overlapping as they spun beneath his feet. He raised his right hand, fingers slightly spread, hovering less than a fist's distance from the surface of the barrier. The compressed impact of Imperial Zen Shock erupted the instant his fist landed. The Collapse Mark