Wu Pifu naturally would not underestimate this humanoid figure of light formed from obsession.
Judging by the pressure it radiated, even if something was wrong with its state, even if it had lost all reason and only its obsession remained active, its strength was likely the greatest Wu Pifu had ever encountered. It far surpassed the Ascendant Bodies, Sources, Primordial Evils, and even the Heavenly Dao of transcendence-level great worlds that he had seen. In terms of total power alone, they were not even worthy to carry this being's shoes.
But its power was extremely dispersed. If its total power amounted to ten thousand, it likely could not even wield one part of it. Its essence was not an intelligent lifeform, but an obsession—a kind of directional thought. In that regard, it resembled the Heavenly Dao, belonging to the category of pan-consciousness. Moreover, this obsession came from the Immortal Clan of the multiversal cosmos. Its essence was one becoming ten thousand, then ten thousand gathering into one, infecting and spreading through everything around it. So long as he was not infected by it, what Wu Pifu faced was really only about one ten-thousandth of this obsession.
It was merely a counterattack from an obsession with eternal life and unaging existence that had been disturbed.
As the humanoid figure of light lunged at him, Wu Pifu raised the Deathbound Zanpakutō and met it with a slash. A violent explosive shockwave erupted between blade and light. In an instant, the entire earth exploded and rose into the air. Wu Pifu was hurled hundreds of miles away amid the dust, while the place where he had been standing had become a massive crater.
By all reason, everyone in that crater besides him and the humanoid figure of light should have been reduced to