A Brand New Legend

The energy storm spread wildly from him like a flood, making even the void tremble. It seemed as though the depths of the universe had been stirred by the tempest, letting out faint, mournful cries.

Within that aura, the savagery of a Saiyan collided and fused with the majesty of a god, erupting into an unstoppable pressure capable of swallowing everything.

That presence seemed to be declaring to the boundless darkness: a new legend had been born.

Vados had no choice but to raise an arm before her face. For the first time, she felt that she needed to defend herself seriously.

Through the gaps between her fingers, she saw the figure standing at the center of the light—his long hair whipping wildly. He looked neither like a god nor a demon, but rather like the embodiment of both.

Vados murmured, "Have Saiyans really become this powerful?" Unable to help herself, she took a step back. Rings of ripples spread through the void beneath her feet, as though space itself had been startled awake by her movement.

Even her usually calm purple eyes now held a trace of panic.

The mass of energy in the distance continued to expand. The crimson of a God of Destruction and the silver-white of an angel intertwined, their light so piercing that it made one's heart tremble.

She served the laws and had witnessed the universe for hundreds of millions of years. Never once had she retreated a single step before an opponent.

Yet now, she had instinctively stepped back.

"This... is impossible..." She could barely hear her own voice. Her slender fingers clenched tightly around her staff, her knuckles turning white.

The divine artifact that had accompanied her for countless years flickered unsteadily at its crystal orb, as if it too were studying Chen Feng in disbelief.

"A mortal body, a carbon-based lifeform... How could it bear and control two completely different supreme energies, both at the level of an angel? This violates every known law..."

Chen Feng smiled.

It was not an arrogant laugh, but the calmness of someone who understood completely, from the bottom of his heart, exactly what he was doing.

Energy flowed around him, unaffected by his emotions. Instead, it became even more condensed. The crimson and silver-white spiraled around his body like two ancient dragons, merging at last into a faint halo that seemed to carry the chaotic colors from the birth of the universe.

"Vados." He spoke softly, yet his voice pierced through every sound and echoed across the empty Realm of Destruction, each word as solid as stone.

"Saiyans have never been the limited 'humans' you imagine them to be."

He raised one hand, palm upward. The chaotic halo gathered, leaped, and flickered like a living creature.

"In our bloodline lies the instinct to challenge, evolve, and erupt in the face of adversity. Limits?" He paused, his gaze blazing as he stared directly at the angel. "Limits are meant to be broken."

"Gulp..."

In the distance, Champa could not help but shudder, a difficult swallowing sound coming from his throat.

His round face, usually filled with arrogance, was now pale as paper, while beads of cold sweat rolled down his forehead.

Both his legs had stopped obeying him, and his teeth chattered uncontrollably.

He had lived for millions of years and seen the rise and fall of universes, as well as battles among the strong. Yet now, nothing remained in him but fear.

"M-Monster..." Champa's lips trembled as he forced out the words in fragments.

He instinctively wanted to hide behind Vados, only to realize that he could barely move at all.

"He... he really is a monster... Vados! Are we... are we...?"

Vados ignored him.

She drew a deep breath. It was no ordinary breath; it was as though she intended to draw all the surrounding spatial laws into her body.

She raised her staff. It let out a low hum, and the crystal orb at its tip suddenly erupted with silver light brighter than a star! The light was no longer gentle. It was filled with holiness and sharpness, like countless silver needles, illuminating space while beginning to repel and purify the chaotic energy Chen Feng had released.

"Lord Chen Feng..." Vados finally spoke, her voice cold as ice. "You are the most unbelievable and most powerful mortal being I have ever seen since I began serving. There is no second."

She held her staff horizontally before her, taking on an entirely new opening stance. Silver light surged around her, outlining behind her a pair of enormous, indistinct wings formed from light and laws.

"However," her golden eyes fixed on Chen Feng, her tone resolute, "if you think that this power that overturns all reason is enough to shake the authority of an angel and cross the divide between gods and mortals—"

She deliberately paused. Patterns of laws flashed through her golden eyes like lightning, and the entire space let out a deep, strained groan.

"—then you are far too naive."

Vados pushed her aura to its limit. The laws resonated, and her entire body seemed on the verge of merging with space itself.

The smile on Chen Feng's face only became more apparent.

It was neither the tension of facing a powerful enemy nor killing intent.

It was an excitement so pure it reached the extreme—like a lonely mountaineer encountering another of his kind at the summit, like an obsessed seeker of the Dao glimpsing a new world while lost in confusion.

A worthy opponent meeting an equal talent—perhaps that was what this was.

The halo around him abruptly contracted and vanished into his body. His presence disappeared in an instant, as though his entire being had become a bottomless void of "nothingness."

Yet the pressure he gave off was ten times stronger than when he had released his energy before.

"Very good."

Chen Feng said only two words.

The next second—

Without any warning, without any eruption of energy, without an afterimage, the space where he had been standing suddenly became empty, as though it had been erased by an eraser.

He had simply vanished into thin air.

Only Vados's contracting golden pupils remained, along with Champa's finally unleashed scream, piercingly sharp within the deathly silent void where energy surged beneath the surface.

The battle had only now truly crossed beyond the boundaries of form and entered an unpredictable domain.

Chen Feng's figure vanished without a trace.

It was not an afterimage left by high-speed movement. He had truly, completely disappeared, as if he had never existed in that space.

Vados's pupils contracted. Her body reacted faster than her mind—silver-white light erupted, and her Ultra Instinct state surged to its peak in an instant.

Her senses spread like mercury, catching every wisp of energy and every tremor of dust.

The air froze, and time itself seemed to slow.

But she was still too late.

The instant her sensory net had just spread out, the space directly before her rippled like water struck by a stone, sending out a ring of transparent waves.

Chen Feng stepped out from the center of the ripples, less than a meter away from her.

The aura around him was no longer merely burning. It had become a thick, liquid-like, boiling golden-red vortex, with his right fist at its core.