Declaration of the Blue Sun

There was not the slightest hint of arrogance in his smile, nor any deliberately feigned calm.

As natural as breathing, he simply stood there quietly, as if everything were only to be expected.

The originally tranquil aura around him suddenly began to glimmer.

"I told you, I am the King of the Saiyans, the master of Planet Sadala." His tone was calm, but the flicker of blue starlight in his eyes seemed to come alive.

"As for the rest—"

Before he could finish, the faint glow around him suddenly exploded.

Boom!

A dark-blue aura erupted from his body like a supernova.

This was no longer a halo of light curling around him, but flames as real as liquid, burning madly and making him look like a blue sun suddenly born in the cosmos.

At the edges of the aura, space warped slightly under the intense heat, while tiny arcs of electricity crackled.

"We'll talk after the fight!" The moment his words fell, the space where he had been standing abruptly collapsed inward with a muffled sonic boom.

In the blink of an eye, he had become a blue comet tearing through the darkness, leaving only a transparent ripple slowly spreading from where he had stood.

Too fast!

Vados's icy-blue pupils suddenly contracted.

Almost the instant Chen Feng vanished, every trace of emotion faded from her silver-gray eyes, leaving behind only a terrifyingly calm blankness.

Ultra Instinct—the ultimate state in which the body reacted before the mind—activated automatically.

Her silver-white figure became weightless, hazy, and ethereal.

Time seemed to slow in her perception.

Yet even so, that blue comet still exceeded her limits.

She could only hold her staff horizontally at her side.

The next second, a blinding blue streak skimmed past her shoulder.

A palm wreathed in boiling blue flames, its two fingers pressed together like a blade, tore through space and chopped brutally at the middle of the staff with force enough to cleave stars apart!

Clang—!!!

It was not a crisp collision, but a deafening crash like two metallic planets slamming into each other!

A visible shockwave burst outward in ripples, instantly reducing the floating debris nearby to dust.

At the point where the staff and palm collided, a white flash brighter than a star erupted—the destructive gleam born from energy and divine matter compressed to their absolute limit.

An indescribably immense force surged through Vados along the staff.

This was not brute strength, but a vibration that pierced through everything, sweeping across her entire body in an instant.

For the first time, her featherlight figure lost control and drifted backward. Each step sent silver-white energy ripples through the void, and she retreated seven steps before barely stabilizing herself.

And Chen Feng? After that strike, he stood firm, the boiling blue aura around him not disturbed in the slightest.

He slowly withdrew his hand and looked at Vados, his gaze still calm.

"Your strength and speed have both increased." Vados's voice remained composed. She gently rotated her slightly numb wrist as the crystal ball atop her staff flickered intensely. "And... the increase is somewhat absurd."

Chen Feng did not answer, nor did he need to.

He bent his knees slightly, and the void beneath his feet cracked into a web of fractures—space could not withstand the pressure and let out a low whine.

Bang!

He vanished again.

This time, he did not charge in a straight line.

In an instant, his figure flashed dozens of times from different directions, leaving countless blue afterimages that had yet to fade, surrounding Vados from all sides.

Every afterimage attacked in unison: heavy blue-flame-wreathed fists smashing toward her face, sharp whip-like kicks sweeping at her waist, iron-hard elbows driving into her back, knees crashing into her abdomen like comets... This was no longer a simple layering of attacks, but a seamless three-dimensional killing net, compressing even the gaps between moments to the absolute limit.

Vados's silver-white figure darted through the net.

She pushed Ultra Instinct to its limit, her whole body seeming to become a wisp of light. A thousandth of a second before each attack reached her, she shifted, twisted, tilted her head, and spun with the smallest and most precise movements.

Fist winds grazed her hair, leg shadows swept past her waist. Every dodge was perilously close, yet every time she avoided it by exactly enough.

Her movements were as graceful as a dance, carrying an inhuman beauty of absolute precision.

But her heart was sinking.

The pressure kept piling on, layer after layer, without end.

Every strike from Chen Feng carried more concentrated energy than the last, was faster, and landed with greater viciousness.

What made her scalp tingle even more was that his attack rhythm was not fixed at all.

With every exchange, he adjusted, learning and analyzing her evasions and movement patterns at astonishing speed, like a top-tier hunter.

"He's adapting... No, he's analyzing my Ultra Instinct."

At last, ripples stirred in Vados's thoughts.

This was not brute-force suppression at all, but combat wisdom and adaptive ability terrifying to the extreme.

As Chen Feng moved at high speed, his figure nearly merged into a vast blue sea of light.

The longer he fought, the more fluid his movements became. The aura around him no longer merely erupted—it coiled and flowed like a living thing, perfectly matching every movement and becoming an extension of his body.

His attacks grew faster and faster, his predictions more and more precise, and his control of force increasingly ruthless.

The space Vados had once been able to evade through with ease was gradually compressed by that blue sea of light, until she could scarcely breathe.

Finally, amid a rapid barrage of jabs, Vados bent backward in an arc that was nearly perfect in theory in order to evade a strike aimed directly at her throat.

But almost at the same instant, as though Chen Feng had long predicted her dodge, his left leg—which should have missed—whipped up from an angle no one could have anticipated. The blue flame at his toe brushed the end of her staff.

"Sizzle—"

With a soft sound, a scorch mark appeared at the tip of the staff.

Though it had only been the lightest touch, Vados's flawless domain of "Ultra Instinct" had developed its first crack.

Chen Feng's offensive slowed slightly, but the pressure he gave off did not lessen in the slightest.

He stood several meters away, blue aura streaming behind him like a cape in the wind. His voice carried through the roar of energy, clear and calm.

"Lady Vados," he said, his gaze blazing as though he had already seen through the essence of her evasion, "your Ultra Instinct is indeed a divine technique, but it is not without flaws."

Vados's brows furrowed faintly. In her silver-white eyes, that absolute calm finally reflected Chen Feng's burning blue figure.

She steadied her subtly uneven breathing. Her voice remained cool, though now it carried a hint of inquiry.

"Oh? Do tell."

"Consumption."

Chen Feng gave a low shout and threw out his right fist. The blue flames around it roared like a raging dragon, tearing apart the frozen void between them.

That power was both pure and tyrannical, forcing Vados to retreat. The tips of her feet sent rings of silver ripples spreading across the invisible spatial barrier.

"Maintaining Ultra Instinct burns an enormous amount of stamina and mental energy. May I ask, honored Angel, how much longer can this perfect body of yours hold out?"

Vados fell silent.

She hovered amid the shattered starlight, and the incomparably beautiful face showed the faintest trace of disturbance.

Chen Feng had struck directly at the heart of the matter.

Ultra Instinct was a divine realm beyond mortal combat arts. Body and mind became one; intent moved, and the body followed. It could evade nearly all attacks, physical or energy-based.

But that very "perfection" was its heaviest burden.

Every second required the body's instincts to overpower thought, madly consuming the fundamental power she possessed as an Angel.

That was not bottomless.

"And I," Chen Feng spoke again, his voice so steady it made hearts tremble.

The blue aura around him had not weakened after the fierce battle. Instead, it had become denser and deeper, as though the blue of an entire ocean and the energy of a stellar core had been compressed against the surface of his body, slowly circulating.

"Full-Power Super Saiyan Blue... in my current state, I can last a long time. Long enough to—"

He raised his eyes, icy-blue pupils locking onto Vados. "Long enough to wait until you're exhausted."

Vados drew in a soft breath, and it seemed to stir the thin cosmic energy around them.