Earth Shattered

That punch landed precisely in the instant when his Magnetic Field Rotation power stalled, directly blasting apart his Ultimate Protective Qi before crashing heavily into him.

Zhan Liu was sent flying with a boom like a baseball struck by a bat.

"Pfft!" He spewed blood and hurriedly tried to recover his energy, but Captain Marvel was already above him. Her long, sturdy leg rose high before crashing down like a battle-axe.

In his haste, he could only raise both hands in front of his chest, but they failed to stop it in the slightest. Her heavy leg smashed into his hands first, then drove them fiercely into his chest.

A series of crackling sounds rang out. His arms, which already had fractures in multiple places, along with several ribs, finally broke.

Zhan Liu plummeted toward the base below at an even greater speed than he had risen.

He was moving so fast that he surpassed the speed of sound, directly producing a sonic boom cloud in the sky.

His body slammed heavily into the base. At the instant he landed, he forced himself to activate Ultimate Cyclone Burst, channeling the immense energy into the ground.

With a tremendous boom, the entire base collapsed.

A crater suddenly appeared in the ground, a hundred meters across and a hundred feet deep.

Every agent inside the base died the instant Zhan Liu landed.

The machinery and equipment that had been fully calibrated and could have operated for a long time also malfunctioned under the impact of this energy, with most of it rendered useless.

The energy field that had been interfering with Current Drive and Magnetic Field Rotation vanished!

Captain Marvel frowned, both shocked and enraged.

She was a battle-hardened warrior as well. This fall should not have caused such severe consequences.

However, she did not understand the effects of the various qigong techniques of the Martial God World, much less guess that the blow suffered by the base had come entirely from the attack she had used against Zhan Liu.

Although the price was extremely heavy, the results were excellent.

Zhan Liu's arms hung limply at his sides, their shapes twisted. They were clearly broken, and without careful treatment and a long recovery, he could not possibly continue fighting.

His body, which had been as tough as steel and iron, was now sunken in everywhere and had become grotesquely misshapen. Clearly, he had suffered numerous fractures.

Countless external wounds covered him, blood steadily pouring from them.

Through Captain Marvel's senses, she could feel his vitality weakening further and further. He was finally going to die.

From this point on, even if she did not kill him, he would not live much longer.

But as a superhero, she naturally had to deliver a speech first.

"Surrender now, and I can guarantee that the judge will give you a fair trial."

"Heh... heh-heh... hahaha..."

Nearly half the bones in Zhan Liu's body were broken, and he could barely stand, but his madness did not diminish. Instead, it grew even more intense.

He stood half-bent, his arms hanging limply, laughing wildly.

"What, you think I can't keep fighting just because my arms are ruined?"

"What do you think a War God is?"

"Just a madman with a high enough combat rating?"

"Wrong!"

"A War God is a spirit, a spirit that pushes the evolution of the human body and develops it to its limits!"

"A War God is a will, a will that seeks to become the strongest, one that does not hesitate to risk its life and refuses to stop even in death!"

"You want me to surrender? Fine. Come and defeat me!"

"Magnetic Field Rotation, Twenty-Five Heavens! Ultimate Emperor Leg!"

After being ambushed and severely wounded, his arms crippled and his life hanging by a thread, he finally broke through once more, reaching the Twenty-Five Heavens of Magnetic Field Rotation.

This was a watershed. Only a War God who crossed this threshold could qualify as a true powerhouse.

Zhan Liu's attitude was unmistakable, and Captain Marvel became enraged as well.

"Stubborn fool!"

The two of them clashed again with earth-shaking force. This time, the energy impact was many times greater than before, and even Captain Marvel found it somewhat difficult to withstand.

"How is that possible? How did your strength increase so quickly?"

Every time Magnetic Field Rotation advanced by one Heaven, the increase in power was a qualitative transformation.

When Captain Marvel had first begun fighting Zhan Liu, he had only been at the Nine Heavens. But as the battle continued, he rose steadily, and now he had reached the Twenty-Five Heavens.

This increase in strength was not a matter of several times, but dozens or even hundreds of times.

In particular, every twenty-five Heavens represented a qualitative transformation.

The enormous shock wave flattened everything within several miles, leaving behind only a massive crater.

Precisely because the destruction was so thorough, a strange object appeared before them.

It was a cube-shaped object not much larger than a palm. It looked like a Rubik's Cube, floating in the air above the crater and radiating strange energy.

"This is... the Tesseract."

Captain Marvel immediately understood what Nick Fury had meant earlier when he said that a special object was needed to provide energy.

Captain Marvel's power came from the Tesseract. Now that she had found it, she naturally had to take it back.

Otherwise, if it fell into the hands of that madman on the other side and gave him power equal to her own, she feared she would no longer be able to suppress him. At that point, countless lives would inevitably be lost.

Zhan Liu also recognized the Space Stone. No wonder his power had been affected earlier.

Magnetic Field Rotation did not use an ordinary magnetic field, but the body's own life magnetic field, similar to the biological magnetic field of Superman in DC. Ordinary equipment designed to counter magnetic fields was ineffective against him.

He had not cared about strange things like the Space Stone, but the Sky Eye at his brow, in the area of his pineal gland, had yet to finish taking shape and was now urgently demanding the Space Stone. The sensation reached straight into his soul. It absolutely could not be wrong.

The things of this world belong to those with virtue.

Since it had appeared before me, this Space Stone is mine!

The two of them charged toward the Tesseract almost simultaneously, then attacked each other almost in perfect unison, both trying to stop the other from taking it.

But as their forces became entangled, the Tesseract was drawn into the clash, landing right between their colliding fists and legs.

In an instant, the Tesseract's outer shell surrounding the Space Stone shattered, and an oval-shaped gem appeared where it had been.

Then both their fists and legs struck the gem at the same time.

In the next instant, a violent explosion erupted.

A danger alarm suddenly rang out in Zhan Liu's mind. Almost subconsciously, he instinctively fled toward the sky at full speed.

Captain Marvel did the same thing at almost exactly the same moment.

Escaping danger was an instinct of all living things.

Within a few breaths, the two of them had reached Outer Space, where they looked back in lingering shock.

They saw a point of light slowly spreading and expanding, faster and faster. Within minutes, it had expanded across the entire planet.

Right before their eyes, Earth shattered.