The passengers aboard the starship watched the radiance through the portholes, holding their breath one after another, forgetting even to cry out.
Once the light faded, the sight in the void silenced everyone for a moment.
Chen Xuan stood exactly where he had been, without moving an inch, his palm still extended forward. A thin, chaos-colored membrane of light separated his palm from the star pirate leader's fist. Thin as a cicada's wing yet indestructible, it blocked every last trace of the raging power of the law of destruction outside his palm.
The star pirate leader with crimson-gold pupils was frozen in midair in a forward-lunging posture. The dark red scales on his right arm fractured inch by inch, starting at his knuckles. Cracks spread up his arm, only stopping once they reached his shoulder blade.
For the first time, genuine terror appeared in his eyes.
"You..." His voice was dry. "What power is this?"
"Chaos." Chen Xuan withdrew his palm, his tone as calm as though he were stating a simple, common fact. "Your law of destruction is pure, but its level isn't high enough."
In the next instant, he moved.
Without any buildup or warning, Chen Xuan streaked through the void like a bolt of chaos-colored lightning. With the five fingers of his right hand pressed together into a blade, he thrust toward the star pirate leader's chest.
The movement did not look fast; it even carried a measure of ease and casualness. Yet the star pirate leader at the fourth layer of the Saint Realm discovered that he had no time to dodge. An invisible force pressed in from every direction, briefly pinning his body in place.
This was the suppressive property unique to chaos power. Fusing the underlying laws of a hundred divine bodies from the