Su Chen looked at the Black Buddha in front of him in astonishnt. During past battles, Black Buddha had never exhibited this kind of situation.
Moreover, listening to its tone, it didn't seem like so sort of intelligence autonomously evolved by these Mist Embers. Instead, it was sowhat like Black Buddha personally controlling the Phantom Image.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have said the word "really".
Could it be? A Slight Stir in One's Heart, he rembered that Black Buddha's Advent Body.
The more Su Chen thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. Perhaps because that Advent Body was very close to these Mist Embers, it could use so thod to descend its consciousness into these Mist Embers.
As his Thoughts churned, he saw Black Buddha look around, seemingly sensing sothing. Only after a mont did it say with a hint of awe: "This is a combat illusion..."
The Mist Embers entangling the Bronze Sect's Starfire were ford by him fusing his own power with Mist Source. It carried Divine Power characteristics and would have different forms of manifestation targeting different targets.
Theoretically speaking, it was similar to Evil God Power. As long as you could endure it, you could be unaffected by Erosion. But theory was just theory; in the Dust Star Sea over the past nearly ten thousand years, no one had ever succeeded.
He had previously guessed multiple tis what kind of thod this person Purifying Mist Cinders had used to succeed. He truly hadn't expected it to be in the form of frontal combat.
Black Buddha seemingly sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect you to actually perform Purification of the Mist Embers in this manner. This Phantom Image of mine was condensed with Divine Power, possessing endless thods within the sa Tier. For you to actually be able to defeat it is truly..."
Su Chen was exceedingly familiar with Lao Hei, but this was his first ti facing the other party as himself. He pondered for a mont and said: "For you, this Great Eldritch God, to personally descend, it shouldn't be to marvel at how incredible I am, right?"
"Haha." Black Buddha laughed twice. That pair of deep eyes stared fixedly at him, making the back of his head run cold. "This connection between you and can be considered quite ancient. Since discovering you on that Barren Planet, you've actually walked step by step to reach this point today. If not for Qin Tianlin last ti..."
Thinking of this, his expression withdrew, seemingly thinking of so unpleasant matters. He shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's all in the past. Right now, you are finally about to fall into my hands..."
Black Buddha appeared quite pleased: "You probably haven't experienced it before, so let show you the true might of the Mist Embers..."
As Black Buddha's voice fell, the black oil churning on the surface of his body rapidly solidified. An icy and gloomy Aura spread out like a tide, carrying a heavy sense of oppression that perated every inch of Space.
The already dim light around them was also sucked away, leaving almost nothing but his ghastly silhouetted figure. A faint sll of sulfur and decay drifted in the air, burrowing into the nasal cavity and sending chills down one's spine.
The might it exuded actually grew stronger and stronger. Su Chen only felt his skin tightening, stimulated by the icy and gloomy Aura. The strength of this Phantom Image of Black Buddha before his eyes was increasing, climbing upwards beyond the 7th-Tier.
"Is this guy trying to break through the restriction?" Su Chen's brows furrowed tightly. "No, there fundantally is no restriction. These Mist Embers are inherently his thod; it's just that previously no one was controlling them. Now that he is personally controlling them, naturally he won't create an environnt for equal-tier combat. He wants to directly take down."
If this Black Buddha wanted to mobilize the power of the Mist Embers to fight him, he definitely couldn't fight.
Su Chen's mind raced. "Right now, I still have one use of 'Great Sovereign, Save '. It should be able to take out of here. I can only wait until I get out and kill that Advent Body first."
Previously, he had kept Black Buddha's Advent Body to exploit him for resources. But given the current situation, if he didn't kill that He Peiting, it would probably be very difficult to purify these Mist Embers.
This kind of unforeseen event was unexpected. Su Chen could only sigh at the fact that a Great Eldritch God truly had many thods.
With A Slight Stir in One's Heart, just as he was about to make a move, he suddenly heard a faint "sizzle" sound coming from all around.
"This is..." Su Chen seed to catch a glimpse of sothing from the corner of his eye. He looked up, only to see the boundless, gloomy black curtain above his head seemingly torn open by a rift.
Incomparably resplendent flas descended from the sky. Rolling streams of fire illuminated the entire space. Every single Flalet tumbled and shifted like a living creature, emitting a scorching heatwave and perated with a strange, burnt aroma.
"Starfire?" Su Chen was astonished.
"Starfire!" Black Buddha's face was icy and gloomy. The vertical pupil on his head radiated a bewitching black gleam, and Black Substance from the surroundings spread over to annihilate that fire stream. However, his continuously climbing Aura also suddenly stalled.
The "sizzling" sound from outside grew increasingly obvious as wisps of light penetrated through.
This Starfire is helping ... Su Chen was deep in thought. It made sense; he had already purified the outer and middle layers of Mist Embers. The Core Fog-Embers and the Starfire were originally in a state of mutual check and balance, not at a disadvantage.
If Black Buddha ignored everything and only dealt with him, the Starfire would naturally inflict Erosion from the outside.
"This Starfire..." Black Buddha's expression wasn't very pleasant. He was forced to mobilize the vast majority of the Mist Embers' power to resist the Starfire, otherwise it could suppress him in reverse.
"The remaining power is only enough to elevate by one Tier, that's enough..." Black Buddha felt the Phantom Image's current strength. With his own accumulation, and suppressing the other party by one Tier, naturally he could defeat him.
"Hmph..." His feet landed on the ground, Black Buddha stood up like a human, his voice drifting over: "Calculating the ti, it should have been thousands of years since I've engaged in frontal combat with anyone. I shall have a good ti playing with you..."
Before he finished speaking, his deanor suddenly changed. He saw Su Chen's figure silently disappear from his original spot like a handful of ash smoke.
Imdiately after, he actually felt a bone-piercing chill rising from his heart.
Boom!
Like a hundred thunderbolts detonating simultaneously, he could clearly feel the air by his ears vibrating and tearing, soundwaves echoing and air currents rolling.
Glancing from the corner of his eye, at so unknown ti, Su Chen had already appeared by his side. His fist montum smashed over like a mountain peak. The air was compressed until it twisted and deford, exploding outward in ripples Visible to the Naked Eye.
His skin flowed with a deep and bizarre blood-gold color, the hue seemingly seeping out from the depths of his bone marrow. Extrely dense Golden Thunder light erupted from his surroundings. Black Buddha could only see a pair of apathetic eyes.
"This..." The black oil on the surface of Black Buddha's body, which was almost solidified, was blown into violent trembling by the howling air currents.
At this mont, he felt Su Chen's body was as solid as a star core, its density reaching an Unimaginable level, far surpassing the 8th-Tier!
Black oil intertwined, and shield light blood by Black Buddha's side, layering upon each other. However, before it even had ti to emit a sound, it was crushed to pieces.
Boom!
An air blast erupted, sweeping across this Mist Embers space. Black Buddha's body exploded on the spot, turning into countless specks of oil that splattered outward before coalescing in the distance.
"You indeed haven't fought anyone for a very long ti..." Su Chen felt the terrifying power surging within his body.
He went all out the mont he attacked, even using unprecedented full power. He had already elevated all seven Mystic Tools to the 9th-Tier; the enhancent brought by this was truly too terrifying.
The reason he could do this was not just because World-Slaying Manifestation had recently reduced the consumption of Enhanced Secret Tools.
The fundantal reason lay in the vigor pill in his stomach, no wait... it was the Great Heaven Pill.
The effect this thing exerted was truly beyond his imagination. He was currently using the Eternal Physique while simultaneously draining the nutrients from the Great Heaven Pill, rapidly converting them into Physical Stamina.
It was equivalent to all consumption being borne by the Great Heaven Pill.
Seven types of Mystic Tools, all enhanced to the 9th-Tier; this kind of consumption could be called astonishing. Even at his Peak Condition, it would be difficult to endure.
However, this terrifying consumption falling on this Great Heaven Pill seemingly didn't cause much of a stir. It only slowly shrank at a speed that was very difficult to see with the naked eye.
"How is it possible that this is still a 7th-Tier Class-User..." Black Buddha's body coalesced into form, but it could be clearly seen that it seed to have shrunk sowhat. "Such terrifying physical strength..."
However, although he was surprised, he seemingly still had a certain degree of confidence.
"Guess..."
Even though what was being consud was the Great Heaven Pill and not his own Physical Stamina, Su Chen didn't waste ti. His figure flashed, like a star moving laterally, setting off boiling howling sounds.
"So what... if your physical strength is high?" Black Buddha lowered his head slightly. The vertical pupil on his head suddenly blood with dark light, pouring out like ink, instantly dyeing the surrounding shadows into bottomless gloom, enveloping the charging Su Chen within.
What he excelled at was not close combat, but spiritual gu...
But in an instant, his cheeks twitched. This ti, he truly lost his color, a hint of the Unimaginable flashing past: "Spirit-Flesh Unity, how can you be in Spirit-Flesh Unity?"
If his Main Body was here, even against a Spirit-Flesh Unity Morning Star Tier, he had confidence in playing with the other party until they wished for death. But right now, this was only a Mist Embers Projection, and the strength he could display was strictly shackled.
Carrying an unshakeable montum, Su Chen smashed a fist onto the vertical pupil on his head.
Bang!
Amidst the muffled sound of impact, even Black Buddha felt a bout of dizziness. Su Chen had Spirit-Flesh Unity; low-level ntal attacks were completely useless against him, making him look like a living target just now.
"It actually didn't break?" Su Chen was surprised. Looking at the large black head before him, the sizzling sounds around them were becoming increasingly dense.
He understood; so it had drained the power of the Mist Embers.
Black Buddha fell silent. If he drained the power of the Mist Embers to deal with Su Chen, the Starfire would co over to annihilate him.
Once he resisted the Starfire, Su Chen would gain the upper hand.
This was a dead end; he already saw the conclusion... Bang!
His body exploded, once again smashed to pieces. This ti... even the speed of coalescence had slowed down significantly.
"This last bit of Mist Embers is also going to be purified." Black Buddha muttered to himself, the bewitching light in his eyes flashing past. "This Su Chen... how exactly did he do it? I can't drag this out any longer..."
"Lao Hei..." Su Chen looked down at him. "You didn't let enjoy myself to the fullest."
Lao Hei? Black Buddha's expression went dead. To actually dare address him like this...
Su Chen leaned forward and plumted, like the falling sky, truly resembling colliding teorites.
Boom!
Within the pure tyrannical power, wisps of lightning arcs were mixed in. The great sound was like silence. The ground split open with fissures, closely followed by spreading in all directions, carrying along this Mist Embers space and completely shattering it.
These Core Fog-Embers were indeed extraordinary. Su Chen didn't even fall out imdiately. He could only see the incomparably deep black around him gradually fading, turning grayish-white.
Before the outside scene truly beca clear, he heard the howling sound of the Starfire.
Until a certain mont, his vision completely cleared up. He was sowhat dazed. He saw that the Flalet had already transford into a pillar of light shooting into the sky, blanketing the entire Firmant, an inverted sea of fire, exceptionally magnificent.
Before his eyes, a mass of Mist Source condensed into sothing resembling a solid entity. Su Chen reached out and grabbed it, and text surfaced on the Status Panel—
[Great Exalted Crimson Fla Responding Thunder has discovered you purified the Mist Embers and hopes you can feed this mass of Mist Source to him...]
"I know you want it, but I temporarily can't give it to you right now. You will definitely fall asleep after eating it, and I don't know what the situation outside is like yet." Su Chen wasn't in a hurry to feed it to the Great Exalted, temporarily putting it away.
"Tch... how do I get out?" Su Chen muttered a sentence. Then he blanked, seeing a resplendent fire stream drift over, forming a rainbow belt beneath his feet.
...
Outside the Bronze Sect's defensive barrier, a fleet had already deployed. The quantity wasn't considered large; a rough estimate would be around a thousand ships. They were all gathered on both sides of the massive central mothership.
The blade-like streamlined hulls had their surfaces covered with matte composite armor. The bows had several rows of faintly glowing energy array interfaces, shimring with a fine glimr like scales.
"The Bronze Sect is quite cautious. Even though they withdrew so people, none of them were Su Chen."
In the command room, before the porthole, Han Xiao looked at the area wrapped by the Energy Barrier not far away.
Behind them, there were also massive amounts of battleships and spaceships gathering and standing by. But similar to them, a fleet of this scale wouldn't play a huge role in high-tier combat; it was rely acting as a central command center.
They had acted beforehand, having long since deployed personnel in several places while monitoring spatial fluctuations. Once there were Star Gates, the warp would be tracked.
However, up until now, they hadn't discovered the target figure.
As for so other minor figures, they hadn't made a move yet, to avoid alerting the enemy, letting them leave freely.
"It is exactly as we estimated; the Starfire is not supplying energy. The energy supply cos from the Bronze Core." God-Defying King Lu Feng crossed his arms. In front of him was a projection with the rough structure of the Bronze Sect's Starfire and its surroundings displayed on it.
It was currently undergoing data analysis. The Starfire appeared grayish-white, and the energy pathways erged from the Bronze Core.
Han Xiao looked hesitant. "The person we sent To Contact Qin Yun has not been heard from to this day, but the Bronze Sect had put up their defenses in advance."
"If we don't have Qin Yun as an inside man, I'm afraid we'll have to expend a lot more effort..."
King Peng didn't look worried at all. "I utilized a spy of an extrely high caliber. He must have made contact with Qin Yun to be discovered."
"Regardless of the case, Qin Yun already knows about this matter. As for whether he will betray..."
King Peng narrowed his eyes slightly. "If he truly placed importance on the Bronze Sect, today's situation would not exist."
As they were scheming, Lu Feng's gaze flickered slightly. Looking behind that cyan barrier, silhouettes erged from the temporary command center. It was precisely Qing Cang and the Five Great Heads of Seats.
"Clay Chickens and Pottery Dogs." Lu Feng sneered. He had already disappeared from the battleship and appeared outside the cyan barrier.
"God-Defying King..." Qing Cang looked at the figure outside the barrier, his face solemn. A hint of fretfulness lurked between his brows, and his gaze occasionally shot towards the distant Starfire.
Imdiately after, he felt the other party's ntal fluctuations surging over: "Qing Cang, Qin Yun committed Alliance Slaying. The Royal Court, having obtained the permission of the four major sects—Profound Heaven Star Firmant, Sacred Cauldron, True Martial, and ourselves—has co to take Qin Yun into custody. Please open the barrier."
In the temporary command center behind Qing Cang and the others, a large number of the Bronze Sect's mid-to-high level mbers were gathered: Commanders Wan and Lan of the Sect Army, as well as the various Departnt Heads. Upon hearing this, their expressions all turned ugly.
This Lu Feng spoke too discourteously, completely disregarding them.
"To detain Qin Yun, there is no need for such a grand display. I will just dispatch soone to send him over," Qing Cang said coldly.
"Sending Qin Yun over is also acceptable. Additionally, there is one more matter," Lu Feng said indifferently. "After investigation, the mastermind behind the assassination of His Highness Vast Star Stream is precisely your Bronze Sect's Su Chen. When you send Qin Yun over, send him out along with him."
"Heh." Upon hearing this, Qing Cang instantly mocked, "Because you say so, it is so?"
"Lu Feng, cut the crap. You simply want to breach my Bronze Sect, swallow my Sect's Starfire, and kidnap Su Chen, that's all."
"Wrong." Another ntal fluctuation transmitted over as King Peng appeared. He sighed: "When the Bronze Ancient King was around, my Royal Court repeatedly extended olive branches."
"Even now that the Ancient King is not present, the Royal Court's conditions remain unchanged. Join my Royal Court, and the Bronze Ancient King will enjoy a status equal to The Emperor."
"You, Qing Cang, will also be under one person and above ten thousand." King Peng said sincerely, "We did not co for a massacre."
The Bronze Core was the core of the Bronze Sect, but it was not equivalent to the Bronze Sect. Every planet it governed and every Class-User added up together was the true Bronze Sect.
Right now, even if they truly breached the Bronze Core, it didn't an they had subverted the Bronze Sect. Instead, it would trigger an even greater Blood Feud, thereby leading to the Royal Court's territory suffering retaliatory attacks.
The Starry Expanse was too vast. No matter how many Morning Stars or 9th-Tiers they had, it would be very difficult to catch those scattered attackers, requiring an imnse amount of ti to purge them completely.
These kinds of blood and tears lessons were too nurous in the history of the Dust Star Sea. Eradicating a faction was far less cost-effective than supporting a puppet leader.
Upon hearing this, Qing Cang rely snorted coldly: "Wishful Thinking! Go ahead and try!"
"How about this," King Peng pondered. "Every Sect mber is the blood of the Bronze Sect, and also the future blood of the Royal Court. We also don't want to needlessly add to the slaughter."
"Why don't we make a bet? If we breach this Bronze Core, you will quickly lead your people to join the Royal Court, and the mbers of the Bronze Sect will be treated as mbers of the Royal Court. If it is verified that the mastermind behind the assassination of His Highness Vast Star Stream is not Su Chen, we will also cultivate him with all our effort."
"If we cannot breach it, we will naturally withdraw."
This was his confidence in dispelling the wrath of the Bronze Ancient King. As long as they incorporated more than half of the Bronze Sect into the Royal Court before the Bronze Ancient King erged.
By then, everyone would be one family. Where would talk of retaliation co from?
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