Crimson Flame Breaks the Sky

She raised the Angel Staff before her and lightly turned her wrist. The crystal ball traced a beautiful silver halo through the air.

As if awakened, the silver light instantly surged into the ring, compressing and condensing until, in the blink of an eye, it formed a diamond-shaped shield of light. Runes flickered in and out of view, while multicolored light flowed across its surface.

The shield looked thin enough to shatter with a casual push, but its steady, oppressive presence instantly separated her from Chen Feng.

"Come." Vados's voice sounded as calm as ever, but her violet eyes shone like stars. "Let me see just how strong the legendary 'Super Saiyan God' really is."

Before her words had even faded, Chen Feng vanished—without the slightest warning or even a burst of power, as though his will and body had become one.

All that remained where he had stood was a faint distortion in space and a crimson afterimage. He had vanished completely.

This speed was far beyond what he had shown before.

The crimson figure streaked through the void of space, trailing a straight tail of light like a meteor flying in reverse—or a red blade forcibly cleaving space apart.

In an instant, he crossed the distance between them and appeared directly before Vados, separated only by that silver shield.

Chen Feng used no fancy technique. He simply threw a punch, direct and straightforward, driving it at Vados's chest.

The divine flames around his fist were no ordinary aura, but highly compressed crimson fire. A deep hum rang from his fist, and space itself seemed on the verge of giving way.

Vados's gaze sharpened. She swung her staff across to block, meeting Chen Feng's fist head-on without the slightest hesitation.

"Boom—!"

A muffled impact rang out, like two invisible planets crashing together.

A shockwave exploded outward in a widening ring. Crimson and silvery-white energy collided wildly in midair, crushing and annihilating each other as they erupted in blinding radiance, making even the surrounding stars seem dim.

The silver light around Vados shook violently. She let out a muffled grunt and slid back three steps as though standing on an invisible board, each step stamping a ring of silver energy into the void before she finally steadied herself.

Across from her, Chen Feng remained in his punching stance. His crimson aura stood as steady as a rock, and not even the corner of his clothing stirred.

"Your strength has indeed improved considerably." Vados steadied herself, her silver hair drifting gently in the aftermath. "But it is still far from enough."

The moment she finished speaking, her aura abruptly withdrew, and a faint silvery-white glow surfaced around her.

The realm of Ultra Instinct unfolded once more. Her entire body seemed to merge with space itself, her movements flowing as though they had been rehearsed countless times.

Chen Feng's fist came roaring in with crimson energy, yet it only brushed past her ear, lifting several strands of her hair.

A knee strike immediately followed toward her waist, but Vados turned lightly and evaded it with ease again.

Fist winds, leg shadows, elbow strikes, knee blows—Chen Feng's continuous assault was like striking empty air, producing only ripples after ripples while never touching Vados herself.

Yet Chen Feng was not anxious in the least. Instead, the fighting spirit in his eyes burned ever brighter.

His mouth stretched into a grin nearly reaching his ears, his white teeth gleaming excitedly in the energy's light.

"Yes, this is it!" His voice was a little hoarse, but his excitement was almost overflowing. "An Angel's Ultra Instinct... it really is incredible!"

While evading, Vados looked up and met Chen Feng's blazing eyes.

Her heart suddenly sank—this Saiyan was not passively taking hits at all.

He seemed to be enjoying every exchange, greedily drawing out every shred of exhilaration from the battle.

The way he looked now, he was nothing like a warrior driven into a corner. He was more like a beast that had starved for far too long and had finally caught the scent of prey worthy of matching him.

"Lord Chen Feng," Vados said, tapping her toe against the void as her figure drifted away from a wave of fist wind like mist, "you seem to be... enjoying yourself?"

"Enjoying myself? That's putting it mildly!" Chen Feng laughed loudly as his right fist blasted out a spiraling force of energy, twisting even space along with it.

Vados turned, and the blast grazed past her divine robe before exploding into a blinding flare in the distance.

"It's been far, far too long since I met an opponent who could make my blood boil!" As soon as he spoke, the crimson flames around him surged explosively, and his entire body became a bolt of red lightning that tore through the void.

In an instant, dozens of afterimages appeared in the air. Every one of them was punching, kicking, elbowing, and kneeing—every inch of Chen Feng's body seemed to have become a weapon, pressing in on Vados from all directions.

His fist winds tore apart the atmosphere, his leg shadows crushed through motes of light, and the dense barrage wove into a gigantic crimson net with almost no blind spots.

Vados remained calm. In her Ultra Instinct state, her movements no longer resembled mere evasion. It was more as though she danced with the wind and moved with the light.

At times she was as weightless as willow fluff; at others, like drifting clouds unfurling. She moved freely through the stormlike assault, so graceful that she seemed not to belong to this world.

Yet a hint of gravity finally surfaced in the silver-violet gleam of her eyes—Chen Feng's power was still rising, and his speed was still increasing.

Every time an attack missed, his next strike became fiercer and more ruthless, as though the monster inside him had not fully awakened yet, and battle was only slowly opening its eyes.

"This Saiyan..." Vados murmured inwardly. A small tear appeared along her robe's sleeve as she blocked a blade of energy. "Just how much is he still hiding?"

In the distance, Champa's plump body stiffened at the edge of a shattered floating island. The expression on his face had shifted from initial terror into excited, twisted ecstasy.

"Vados has the upper hand! She's completely suppressing him!" He clenched his fists so tightly that his nails nearly dug into his palms, vicious light flashing in his eyes. "That brat can't even touch the hem of her clothes! At this rate, Vados will definitely win!"

His thoughts began racing wildly, and he was practically drooling.

As long as Vados won, that damned Saiyan would be at his mercy.

Then he would personally cripple Chen Feng's limbs, crush his energy channels, and drag him high above Planet Sadala, forcing him to watch his companions one by one...

"No." Champa suddenly narrowed his eyes, the excitement on his face freezing.

He noticed that Chen Feng's offensive was growing more ferocious, while the distance Vados drifted back seemed slightly greater than before.

He held his breath and carefully sensed the aura surging from Chen Feng's body—that crimson blaze was not being suppressed by Vados at all. Instead, it burned ever more fiercely, like a spark set alight, rolling and roaring through the void and dyeing even the shattered stardust around them blood-red.

Chen Feng's figure looked small amid the surrounding silver light, but his power was like a wild beast breaking free of its shackles, still surging upward madly. Every breath he took made space itself tremble.

"How is this possible..." Champa's throat went dry, his voice nearly forced out.

He watched helplessly as Chen Feng, under Vados's near-perfect suppression, grew stronger instead of weaker. His crimson aura surged outward like a tide, dyeing the desolate universe in blazing red.

"He can still get stronger while being suppressed? What kind of monsters are Saiyans...?"

The battle continued, but its rhythm had quietly begun to change.

Chen Feng suddenly accelerated.

He was no longer merely enduring passively. He turned into streaks of crimson lightning, leaving countless afterimages in the void.

His fists fell like meteors, his kicks lashed through the air like long whips. His attacks grew faster and fiercer, his crimson aura seeming to sprout fangs, almost ready to swallow the entire universe.