Heaven and Earth Were Born with Me, All Things Are One with Me!

This was a world of numbers. To fight across ranks, aside from the necessary Law Comprehension, datafied strength was the most important factor.

Apprentice Level, Planetary Level... every minor rank was twice as strong as the one before it.

When the Future Realm Lord Golden Horn Beast slaughtered an Immortal Legion Lord, or when a Marquis Immortal fought, their strength was likewise measured in thousands of times the Domain Lord Power.

Even at the Venerable level, combat power was still measured in hundreds of millions of times the Domain Lord Power.

Once one's Law Comprehension met the standard, one's power level was sufficient, and one possessed a means of Grinding Down Divine Body—such as Star-Devouring Grass, Wu-Slaying Wings, or venom—killing across ranks was only natural.

But he was only at the Planetary Level now. There was no need to discuss so many conditions.

Therefore, Jiang Zhe's confidence in facing four thousand tons with his normal thousand-ton strength was not arrogance. It was confidence born from careful calculations.

"Anna, you can transform into Armor, right? How effective is your defense?"

Oriana acted first.

A layer of ancient Dim Bronze Metallic Film spread across the SS-Grade Combat Suit, giving it the unique sense of history and weight of an old bronze artifact.

"Master, combined with the Black God Set, the double reduction will make the damage Li NanSheng can inflict upon you negligible."

A glint flashed through Jiang Zhe's eyes. He touched the Eight Treasures Alligator Dragon Spear wrapped in cloth strips on his back, and the Martial Warrior Soul that craved fist-to-fist combat seemed ready to ignite.

Oriana reminded him at the right moment, "Master, if you choose close combat, you may end up in a miserable state."

"Mm... how strong is my Physical Quality now?"

"Your current punch force is 243.8 tons. In terms of Physical Quality alone, you are not far from a Greater War God."

Oriana then presented detailed data.

"Master, before you used Dragon Blood, my estimate places your Physical Quality at roughly one hundred to one hundred ten tons. Dragon Blood and Psychic Power interacted with each other, producing an effect of roughly 2.4 times on you—far surpassing the amplification received by other members of your race after using Dragon Blood."

Jiang Zhe nodded slightly.

Oriana had not yet been born back then. She had calculated all of this from known data, but overall, the estimates were fairly accurate.

"Even if you can unleash twelvefold amplification, you would only reach nearly three thousand tons of force. You would still be short of Li NanSheng's normal level by the impact force of a single throwing knife."

"There is also something you misunderstood. The Eight Treasures Alligator Dragon Spear cannot easily pierce the Black God Set!"

"Your grandfather had to amplify his normal three-thousand-ton strength to over twenty thousand tons before he pierced the Black God Set and killed a Planetary Level opponent."

Jiang Zhe frowned, then suddenly remembered something. Understanding dawned on his face.

He had nearly overlooked a crucial detail!

When Luo Feng, at the first rank of the Planetary Level, used Psychic Power to control an F-Grade Metal Red Copper Mixed Mother Fragment, even cutting through the Black God Set had been extremely difficult.

"I understand. I'll be careful later." Jiang Zhe's expression became much more serious, and he no longer carried the confidence from before.

He accepted advice. He would not stubbornly insist otherwise just because his calculations had been wrong.

Throwing knives rose one after another behind him. As Jiang Zhe sensed the number of throwing knives he could control at full strength, he was somewhat astonished, but soon felt much more reassured.

Four throwing knives drilled through the rock layers to open a path. Jiang Zhe entered the tunnel and rapidly approached the surface.

"Anna, confirm Li NanSheng's Positioning again."

"He is eighty-four kilometers away in the southeast, at high altitude." Within a few breaths, Oriana hacked into the Earth Network and used Satellite Technology to locate Li NanSheng.

"Maintain your current speed. You are expected to encounter Li NanSheng in seventy-three seconds."

"During the battle, do not land on the ground under any circumstances. A Planetary Level fighter can use the ground as leverage and unleash speed highly unfavorable to you."

"Reliable!" Jiang Zhe gave Oriana a thumbs-up in front of his chest. "Got it."

The Australian Continent was vast and boundless.

In the thirty-odd years since humanity had vanished, the ecological environment here had recovered to an extremely primitive state.

More than three hundred meters in the air, a figure clad in heavy black Armor flew slowly, sweeping the land below with eyesight sharper than an eagle's as he searched for his target.

An aura comparable to that of a King Level Monster radiated outward, and no flying monster dared approach to seek death.

Suddenly, a black dot speeding toward him from afar caught his attention.

With his extraordinary vision, he could see clearly that it was a Psychic Master wearing brass Armor, with a rod-like object wrapped in cloth strips strapped to his back.

Two meters sixty. The Eight Treasures Alligator Dragon Spear!

This person's identity was obvious!

Li NanSheng accelerated, rushing toward Jiang Zhe as Jiang Zhe rushed toward him. Yet he frowned slightly. "Why has he changed Combat Suits? And why is he flying toward me?"

But these were only minor issues, and he did not take them to heart. A tiger would never think a wolfhound could kill it.

He cared more about Jiang Zhe's flying speed. He quickly estimated an accurate figure, and delight appeared beneath his black faceplate.

"As expected, he should be a Mid-Level War God Psychic Master. His flying speed is slightly slower than mine. Once I get closer, this brat definitely won't be able to escape!"

"The Eight Treasures Alligator Dragon Spear!"

Li NanSheng's gaze grew increasingly fervent.

"Once I get it, I'll hide and first evade the investigation that may follow."

"Then I'll lie low and wait. Once my cultivation approaches Hong's, I'll definitely use it to seize the position of Strongest on Earth in one stroke!"

On the other side, Jiang Zhe was also comparing the figure before him with the photo Oriana had sent into his mind.

In the photo was a gaunt middle-aged man in a dark-green Combat Suit, holding a spear as he battled the Roaring Whale King.

Then he looked at the person opposite him.

He was a black-armored warrior with a Hulk Physique, looking very much like America's Ice and Snow Emperor.

Jiang Zhe clicked his tongue inwardly. "Anna, if you hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have believed he was Li NanSheng. This disguise is far too convincing."

"Master, control your speed. You are flying too fast. You might frighten him away."

"It's only two kilometers. Two or three seconds. Let's just rush over and kill him!"

Jiang Zhe laughed loudly. His Psychic Power surged out at full force, driving his flying speed beyond Mach 2 and rapidly closing the distance with Li NanSheng.

Three hundred meters. He had entered the Psychic Power Radiation Range!

Fourteen throwing knives shot out from behind Jiang Zhe. At the terrifying speed of tens of times the speed of sound, they appeared almost as if teleporting around every vital point on Li NanSheng's body.

Li NanSheng was still wondering about Jiang Zhe's sudden increase in speed.

Then the fourteen throwing knives struck at full power, every one carrying an impact force of a thousand tons.

Together, they carried nearly fifteen thousand tons of impact force!

Earth's martial warriors had flaws in their Force Amplification Technique. They could not amplify their bodily defense and could only rely on the Black God Set to compensate.

Yet even after the Black God Set weakened the attack, the remaining brutal impact was enough to give Li NanSheng a hard time.

Nearly fifteen hundred tons in all!

The force spread throughout every part of Li NanSheng's body without any reduction. The horrifying blow made him violently spit out a mouthful of blood.

His internal organs seemed to have shattered. Horror appeared on Li NanSheng's face.

Who was this person?

He even suspected that he was fighting Fourth Chairman Ister!

"How can he possess such terrifying Psychic Master cultivation?" Li NanSheng roared hysterically in his heart.

"Is he Planetary Level?!"

"No, he's still standing on a shield. He can't fly through the air on his own!"

But that answer was even more despairing.

Under the black faceplate, Li NanSheng's face turned ashen.

More than twenty years of planning had completely turned to bubbles at this moment. He knew he would never obtain the Eight Treasures Alligator Dragon Spear.

The current Jiang Family had three Planetary Level powers. Who would dare offend them over a weapon?

Anyone who could break through to the Planetary Level would not lack willpower.

Li NanSheng quickly calmed down and prepared to brush off what had happened today.

"Who are you? Why did you suddenly attack me? Do you dare violate the First Chairman's decree, the 'Prohibition of Planetary Levels Attacking Each Other'?"

Li NanSheng played dumb and even accused Jiang Zhe first.

"Heh!" Jiang Zhe sneered. "Li NanSheng, I know every last bit of your dirty business. Just die here obediently!"

His name had been exposed in a single sentence, and Li NanSheng was horrified. He had no idea where he had revealed a flaw.

In his moment of distraction, the fourteen throwing knives struck again.

In the air, a "clumsy" councilor who flew by manipulating gravity did not have the ability to dodge those throwing knives.

It was as if a small hill had smashed into him again. Blood poured from Li NanSheng's mouth as though it cost nothing.

He pulled the long spear from his back and swept aside the throwing knives watching him like tigers, then erupted with all his strength and thrust an incomparably tricky spear strike at Jiang Zhe.

Li NanSheng held nothing back in this strike. He fought with deathly resolve.

But Jiang Zhe noticed that the trembling spear tip carried a flourishing Wood Realm. Countless vines seemed to grow through the air, seeking to entangle his body.

"Nirvana? Wood Realm?"

Jiang Zhe gave two strange chuckles. He paid no mind to the realm's influence and used Psychic Power to propel his body, easily breaking free and dodging aside.

His Psychic Power guided the fourteen throwing knives into Li NanSheng's back, blasting him over a hundred meters away.

"Master, watch out. He is trying to escape to the ground!"

Jiang Zhe saw it as well.

Just as Oriana had warned, Li NanSheng was using the momentum to plummet rapidly.

"According to footage preserved on the network, his Wood Attribute Special Ability allows him to control plants and draw upon their vitality to heal his injuries."

"Also, on the ground, he has something to leverage himself against and can unleash terrifying speed."

"Master, stop him. Once he lands, he'll be like a dragon entering the sea. His difficulty will immediately rise by an entire level."

The exchange between master and servant was completed in an instant.

"Die!" Jiang Zhe bellowed.

The Banner Mark hidden between his brows emerged, flashing with blood light.

Dark-purple mystic veins suddenly surfaced from his chest and rapidly crawled across his entire body, giving off an eerie aura.

But since his skin was tightly covered by the Black God Set and Armor, no one could see this bizarre sight.

Activate, Innate Arcane Technique!

Super Strength!

Under the twofold amplification of the dark-purple mystic veins, Jiang Zhe's speed, strength, defense, and many other aspects—along with his Soul Attack Power—all surged to a new level.

Psychic Power drove him closer to Li NanSheng at high speed.

The fourteen throwing knives served as the vanguard, trailing dazzling silver streams of light as they pursued Li NanSheng's back like swimming fish.

No, it should have been fifteen!

One "cone," resembling a spear tip, was mixed among the fourteen throwing knives, standing out like a crane among chickens.

Li NanSheng was focused solely on escaping to the ground and seemed entirely unaware.

In his view, at most he would be blasted once more and cough up a few mouthfuls of blood. There was no way he could be instantly killed by one blow.

"Spare him beneath the spear!"

Suddenly, an icy voice resounded throughout heaven and earth.

There was actually another Planetary Level powerhouse nearby, using Gene Primordial Energy to vibrate the voice and achieve the effect of Sound Transmission Over a Thousand Miles!

Jiang Zhe knew who had come and ignored him.

Li NanSheng, however, was slightly stunned. What spear? A bad feeling suddenly welled up within him, and he could not help turning his head for a look.

The object he had dreamed of day and night was enlarging before his eyes.

It viciously nailed itself into the center of his back!

The fourteen throwing knives struck the tail of the "cone" in succession, applying all the impact force they carried onto it.

Splat!

The Black God Set was pierced, and a heart-piercing pain struck him.

Everything happened too quickly to give Li NanSheng any time to react.

He lowered his head and saw the spear tip piercing through his chest, leaving behind an egg-sized hole that went clean through from front to back. The Black God Set rapidly closed, quickly sealing the opening.

But that was only the surface. His heart had already been shattered.

His Adam's apple bobbed, releasing two meaningless whimpers.

The light faded from Li NanSheng's eyes, leaving only frozen horror and unwillingness. His stiff corpse fell from the sky.

In the vision visible only to Jiang Zhe, an enormous number of light points—crossed out—Essence of Source scattered from the Planetary Level corpse and surged desperately into the Blood-Red Banner Mark between his brows.

This was a kill across a major realm. The harvest was unprecedentedly generous!

A sonic boom drew near. A brand-new Blood Red Triangular Fighter Jet hovered several hundred meters away from Jiang Zhe.

The hatch opened, and a black streak shot out.

That figure caught the falling corpse, rose to Jiang Zhe's altitude, and confronted him from over twenty meters away.

It was Hong!

This was the second time Jiang Zhe had seen him, and the first time he had faced the Strongest on Earth in person.

Especially since Hong was somewhat angry now.

One meter ninety tall, dressed in black clothes and black pants, with sharp short hair... at first glance, he gave off the aura of a spear about to pierce the heavens.

Rumble—

Jiang Zhe felt a roar in his mind. The surrounding heaven and earth seemed to twist, the sun hanging high in the sky vanished from his sight, and darkness surged like a tide to cover the land.

Within that pitch-black world, the brightest center was the black-haired man.

Jiang Zhe suffered enormous Mental Oppression. He felt that the person before him was a god, while he himself was a weak ant, a mayfly that could be annihilated by a single breath.

How was that possible!

What kind of joke was this?!

The excessive Mental Oppression stirred the defiance that had always lurked within Jiang Zhe's heart.

I may respect you, but you are not worthy of making me worship you as a god!

A transmigrator, nurtured by Earth, and infused by Divine Crystal—these three parties had jointly forged Jiang Zhe's special true spirit.

True spirit as marshal!

Willpower as General!

Consciousness as Soldier!

The instant resistance rose within his heart, he broke free from the domain's influence.

Meanwhile, the scriptures Jiang Zhe had read over the past sixteen years echoed faintly in his mind.

It was as if all the sages had come back to life, chanting and expounding them for him in unison.

Among them, one voice rose above the rest, growing clearer and clearer as it repeated a single line of scripture until it thundered in his ears.

—Heaven and earth were born with me; all things and I were one!

Jiang Zhe suddenly understood and jerked his head up.

Even Hong was moved by the divine light bursting from his eyes.

His gaze pierced through the pitch-black world, seeing the blazing sun hanging high and the winds and clouds converging...

"Old Immortal, this disciple understands!"

What Jiang Zhe did next turned the emotion in Hong's eyes into horror.

What was going on?

Not only had he broken free of my domain's influence, he had even slipped into my domain and become... become a part of it?

'NTR right in front of me'?

'I'm here to join this family'?

No!

What are you doing?

Stop right now!

For the first time, Hong found himself in such a sorry state. Forced into it, he hurriedly withdrew his domain, not daring to let Jiang Zhe continue "wandering" around inside it.

The darkness receded, and the blazing sun hung high overhead.

Jiang Zhe smacked his lips, still wanting more.

Just now, he had merged into Hong's domain and used his Psychic Power to probe its mysteries. To put it simply, it was like a medical student dissecting a frog.

Guys, the third round of recommendations is dead. I didn't make it through.

But I'm already very satisfied to have over 7,000 bookmarks.

I really wanted to post two chapters today, but halfway through, I realized the recommendations were gone, so the release date is no longer certain.

So I need to adjust the outline a little and start building up a backlog for what comes next.

The pace will pick up later on. You'll find that the timeline moves very quickly.

Thank you all for giving it everything on Tuesday. Sadly, I'm still too weak—I couldn't beat them.

Two chapters tomorrow. Love you guys!!!

Seriously, I'm truly satisfied with 7,000+ bookmarks. This is unprecedented for me!

Thank you! Thank you!