Xing You's leg was like a whip that caused the void itself to shake as he executed his kick. The dark cloud of genetic energy split in two.

The whip extended forth and struck a mountain, causing it to explode in a shower of boulders and dust.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!"

Zhang Lie punched forward. The black serpent behind him shot forth toward the whip in an instant.

The serpent exploded into a flurry of dark clouds.

As Zhang Lie activated his monarch-grade limitless universe soulshard, he glowed with stellar radiance, like a burning star. Starlight flowed through his body in phantasmagorical colors.

The starlight's allure captivated all onlookers.

Zhang Lie's body transformed into a glaze of the dark cosmos, as though the Milky Way itself flowed through his body. His aura grew tremendously. He punched forward and caused the very stars to explode.

His fist struck with overwhelming force, bolstered by the starlight of the Milky Way.

Xing You blocked with both arms, but even so, he was forced back. His blood grew heated, and his purple hair billowed in the sudden wind. His eyes lit up, and two lances shot out of his pupils, bright and blinding.

Zhang Lie activated his dragonwolf soulshard. His russet fur seemed to glimmer with stellar radiance, each hair a shining star, as though he were draped with the entirety of the Milky Way. His four limbs were armored with a dragon's scales, each a burning golden sun. The two soulshards' power combined.

A dragon's horns grew out of Zhang Lie's forehead, shining with stellar radiance, surrounded by galactic starlight. To others, he would seem to have the boundless energy of a new galaxy.

Zhang Lie swiped forward with his claws and blocked the light.Xing You slammed down with his right palm, cupping it and forming an orb of lightning that quickly grew as large as a mountain. It smashed down toward Zhang Lie.

Starlight surrounded Zhang Lie. Countless stars whizzed away from his body. His pitch-black genetic energy seemed like the astral void, with shining stars scattered throughout.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!"

His genetic energy condensed into a black dragon, whose scales were each a star.

The stars inlaid in its body formed a long stellar river, Zhang Lie's monarch-grade limitless universe soulshard was changing the very nature of his genetic energy, from pitch-black to dotted with starlight, as though it were a sample from the galaxy.

The galactic genetic energy shone with twinkling stars, which transformed into dragons that shot out alongside Zhang Lie's punch.

Lightning and starlight erupted through the air. The next moment, a wave of annihilation exploded around the dragons. Pitch-black energy swallowed everything in the vicinity like a storm at sea, covering up the sky and swallowing up the lightning.

The explosion was like a black hole that sucked up everything in sight, land, sea, and sky alike.

Xing You roared in outrage. Ripples of energy filled his mouth and spread outward before transforming into a titanic wave of energy, wild and unbridled. The void shuddered as he struck, causing several mountains below them to explode in a frightening scene. The waves of annihilating energy were barely blocked by the surrounding landscape.

Xing You waved a hand. A divine hum emanated from him as lightning flashed between his hands. A golden lance appeared, formed from lightning and ripples of energy, which Xing You thrust toward Zhang Lie's forehead.

Genetic energy burst forth from Zhang Lie as though there were hundreds, thousands of dragons surging throughout his body. Each muscle formed a dragon.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Hundred Dragons Soaring]!"

A horde of dragons launched out of Zhang Lie's left arm as he expended half his genetic energy in one supercharged attack.

Howling with the force of thunder, the hundred stellar dragons soared through the air.

Xing You's lance pierced through the stellar dragons and caused a storm of annihilation to appear.

At the same time, the spear tip exploded, transforming into a wave of lightning that swamped the arena. Arcs of lightning flashed every which way, as though a golden wave of energy were towering over the two combatants.

The golden lightning and pitch-black storm intersected in the air. The energy of annihilation wasn't suppressed by the golden lightning; rather, it devoured the lightning and grew stronger as it continued to spread and extend outwards.Xing You clasped his hands together to form the Stargod Seal, the ultimate technique of the Stargods, which could isolate all material presence in the world.

Xing You had trained the Stargod Seal to an extreme. He used it now to block the energy of annihilation and the glow of golden lightning from reaching him.

Zhang Lie unsheathed Guicang, slicing apart the energy of annihilation before him to protect himself.

Coolly, Xing You again clasped both hands together, one the sky and the other the earth. The entire realm trembled in their wake.

Xing You's body glowed with incandescent light. The radiance of heaven shone down on him; the tableau almost seemed apocalyptic. Light washed over the arena.

Stars fell from the sky, forming a stellar river that drowned Zhang Lie within, a tribulation from the universe itself.

"[The Boundless Blade: Yawning Wave]!"

Zhang Lie raised his pointer finger high into the air, manifesting a sword will that rose into the heavens, strong beyond human understanding, vast as the ocean.

Even the world seemed to submit to this attack; it divided in twain.

Lightning parted around Zhang Lie as he calmly stood still.

Heaven and earth were drenched in tribulatory lightning; only Zhang Lie was unscathed.

"[Stargod Seal]!"

Xing You shouted, reinforcing the seal in his palms once and again. Incredible light poured out from him and surged forth like a tsunami, completely occluding the arena."[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!"

The temperature dropped to sub-zero values, and a strong wind buffeted the battlefield. Blood-colored frost appeared around the two combatants.

A stellar river materialized in the air. As though the doors to hell had just been thrown open, tens of thousands of serpents rushed out in a flood.

Each serpent was pitch-black like the abyss, like the dark of night, and speckled with starlight, a miniaturized version of the Milky Way. The serpents were guides and ferrymen both, leading departed souls into sky and space, freed from the mortal coil.

As Zhang Lie's sword swung down, the stellar river struck the mortal world.