Angel Staff and Star Strike

She raised the Angel Staff in her hand with exquisite grace and lightly traced a circle before her.

The silver light dripping from the tip of the staff was as pure as fresh snow, but it was not meant for attack.

The radiance swiftly spread outward, condensing into a translucent wall of light covered in tiny divine runes, directly separating her from Chen Feng.

The next second, Chen Feng's energy blast slammed violently into the wall of light, erupting into a tangled burst of blue and silver radiance.

Rampaging energy scattered like a tidal wave, even shredding several small distant meteoroids into dust.

The wall of light trembled violently, but it did not shatter.

The roar of energy still echoed through the void, yet Vados's voice carried through it all.

Her usual gentleness and teasing were gone, leaving only the solemnity and resolve of an angel. "Lord Chen Feng, are you truly going to push this match to this point?"

"Absolutely." Chen Feng answered decisively, without a trace of hesitation.

He slowly drew back his right fist and held it at his waist.

An even more terrifying energy gathered and compressed within his palm, its low hum like countless bolts of thunder pressing against the chest.

Judging by the way he was gathering power, his next strike might truly punch through a star.

Vados stared at him, her gaze complicated. In the end, she let out a soft sigh.

That sigh held both helplessness and fighting spirit that had been ignited.

"If that is the case..." she murmured. The light around her staff suddenly withdrew, and then an even more vast, more sacred silver radiance erupted from her center!

That light was not merely an aura. It resembled liquid mercury, yet also the living first light of the universe, surging and swirling around her.

Vados pushed Ultra Instinct to its limit.

Her figure blurred within the silver light, as though she had melted into it. The outline of her body nearly vanished.

In the next instant, she transformed directly into a pure streak of silver light. She was no longer moving so much as leaping—or folding space itself—her trajectory strange and impossible to grasp.

In the vast dark void, she left behind streak after streak of afterimages, instantly surrounding Chen Feng from every angle.

In Chen Feng's eyes, ice-blue fighting spirit flared like boiling magma, suddenly becoming incomparably intense.

The corners of his lips curled into an excited, almost crazed smile.

"Good!" he roared, his force and voice exploding together.

His blue aura had already been soaring skyward, but now it swelled violently, its color deepening as though it were about to turn into night itself.

The surrounding space warped under the heat, rippling like water.

He abandoned defense altogether and charged straight at the silver streak of light!

Bang! Boom! Thud—!

Two ultimate forces collided head-on in the void of the universe. There were no unnecessary techniques, no flashy names—only the most direct and extreme contest of power and speed.

Blue and silver streaks of light crossed madly, collided, then separated, moving too fast for the naked eye to follow.

Every collision erupted into a burst of light brighter than a supernova, while energy shockwaves spread outward without restraint.

The aftermath of their battle swept across distant stars, dimming even the light of suns and causing planetary orbits to tremble faintly.

Even so, the core space where they fought remained stable, showing no sign of collapse or cracking—it was space Chen Feng had secretly reinforced beforehand. He had long anticipated just how insane this collision would be.

In the distance, the God of Destruction Champa had gone rigid in midair.

With his arms folded, the arrogance and amused expression had vanished from his fat face, leaving only gravity—and even a trace of deeply buried panic.

He had originally thought that as long as Vados made a move, the situation would be easily brought under control.

But what part of this fierce battle could possibly be called "easy"? This Saiyan, Chen Feng, was absurdly powerful, his energy like a bottomless abyss. Most frightening of all were his utterly calm mind and unfathomable potential.

"This... monster..." Champa rasped, forcing out the words through gritted teeth. "How much is he still hiding? Can Vados... really win?"

No one could answer him.

Ahead on the battlefield, the intertwined blue and silver radiance silently spoke of the battle's savagery.

The void of the universe had become their exclusive arena.

From certain angles, the golden and silver lights were no longer merely intertwined. They were madly eroding, devouring, and exploding against each other, like two vast cosmic torrents of opposing yet equally boundless natures crashing together.

Every burst of light briefly illuminated the vast starfield, making billions of stars dim in comparison.

The battle had reached its climax.

In the boundless universe, stars hung like scattered diamonds against the eternal black curtain.

And within that dead silence, two extreme energies clashed fiercely—one golden, as blazing as a stellar eruption; the other silver, as cold as flowing moonlight.

Every collision was like the impact of two supernovas. Light tore apart the darkness, while ripples of energy spread like tides, making even the distant stardust tremble faintly.

Chen Feng turned into a bolt of blue lightning, erupting with all his strength as his attacks descended like a storm.

The blue aura around him surged and churned like a deep-sea vortex. Every punch carried enough force to shatter stars, and when his leg shadows swept past, cracks like shattered glass appeared in space itself.

He was so fast that thousands upon thousands of afterimages stretched across the void, as though countless Chen Fengs were lunging at Vados from every direction at once. Fist winds and energy beams wove together into a vast net of destruction.

Yet at the center of the storm, Vados remained exceptionally calm.

Her silver-white hair drifted gently amid the turbulent energy currents. She held her staff, her feet utterly still, while her body adjusted by mere millimeters—this was not evasion at all, but something more like a "natural" avoidance.

Chen Feng's heavy punch skimmed past her ear, the wind it kicked up lifting the loose strands before her forehead. His knee strike swept past three inches from her waist, its fierce force doing no more than stir the hem of her dress.

Every attack was calmly avoided at the instant it should have landed, as though she had foreseen it all.

It was as if she had already seen through the flow of every force and the trajectory of every move.

So this is Ultra Instinct at the angel level... Chen Feng's heart tightened.

He felt as though he was not fighting a person, but challenging the order of the entire universe.

Vados's body seemed fused with the laws of physics. Her movements had no windup and no pause, as natural as wind rustling leaves or water flowing around stone.

Her Ultra Instinct was far more seamless and unfathomable than the version he had forced out through sheer will.

"Lord Chen Feng, your offensive is indeed fierce, but your speed... can still be faster." Vados's voice passed softly through the roar of explosions and rang directly in Chen Feng's mind, carrying a hint of appreciation as well as an aloof superiority.

As soon as she finished speaking, she lightly tapped her staff.

Silver light bloomed from its tip in an instant. An extremely thin, highly condensed beam shot out soundlessly, swallowing even the faint starlight of the universe in its path.

Chen Feng twisted aside at the limit, but the beam still grazed the armor on his left shoulder—there was no explosion, only a faint, crisp sound like glazed glass shattering.

The armor, which could withstand the heat of a star, had been silently sliced open with a neat gash. Silver light spread along the edges of the crack like a living thing.

Chen Feng retreated with the momentum, the tips of his feet kicking up rings of air in the void. He did not steady himself until he was dozens of meters away.

He lowered his head to glance at the crack in his shoulder armor, then suddenly smiled. The battle intent in his eyes flared like fire.