Free Web NovelChapter 250: Strength and Weakness
The head-on clash between two Golden Core cultivators resembled that of two stellar warships—each spanning a hundred thousand meters and capable of destroying planets—firing at each other at point-blank range.
The real distance was nearly five hundred thousand kilometers, but for techniques that reached sub-light speeds, that distance made no real difference. It was no different from firing at point-blank range.
Both attacks manifested as swords of light that pierced through the starry sky. Yet the energy contained within Yaoguang’s strike was clearly a full level weaker than Mi Le’s Divine Six Yang Sword.
At the moment of collision, Yaoguang’s light sword was forced back. However, Yaoguang’s psychic thought far surpassed Mi Le’s.
As the two beams clashed and released their energy, every fraction of Yaoguang’s power was fully utilized, continuously neutralizing the force of the Divine Six Yang Sword.
Mi Le, on the other hand, had already finished his part the moment he unleashed the attack.
There was no precise control, no refined manipulation, no effort to maximize output. The technique was simply released, with significant energy wasted in the process.
Under these conditions, despite the energy behind Mi Le’s attack being more and of higher quality, Yaoguang relied on his absolute control to overturn the situation. In the end, the radiant beam of the Divine Six Yang Sword was shattered ten thousand kilometers before reaching him.
The blinding brilliance flared like cosmic fireworks before quickly fading.
Yaoguang’s star god body, now condensed to a thousand-meter scale, emerged.
He looked at Mi Le, five hundred thousand kilometers away, a trace of astonishment in his expression. "That’s it?!"
Isn't a Radiant Sun Golden Core supposed to rival a star? Well, the energy radiating from Mi Le did indeed give me the sensation of facing the sun from my previous life. But there's no way that, other than the energy, nothing else matches the strength of a star, right?
Wait... It’s not that they ignore everything except energy. It’s that they can’t manage anything else! They can only rely on the most primitive methods to utilize the immense power within them. The state of their Golden Core doesn't allow anything else. Yaoguang quickly grasped the truth.
The Golden Core cultivator from the Infinite Star Palace followed up with an attack.
It was almost identical to Mi Le’s Divine Six Yang Sword. The only difference was that the energy was compressed to a greater degree.
A dark-purple beam tore through the void at sub-light speed, like a planet-destroying cannon.
At the same time, Mi Le, whose previous strike had failed, condensed another attack. Once again, it was the Divine Six Yang Sword.
So it’s not that their methods are too simple. For them, this is simply the most efficient approach. Yaoguang understood.
His powerful psychic thought spread across the void. Thanks to this insight into the Void-Piercing Realm, he instantly discerned the energy structure of their attacks.
At the same time, countless methods of utilizing Golden Core power flowed through his mind. Among them was a secret art: Origin-Shattering Technique.
This technique disrupted the microscopic structure of matter, destabilizing any formations that were already unstable.
As for energy produced through nuclear fusion, like the attacks he was facing, it could easily dismantle and dissolve them, causing them to collapse naturally.
If he were facing a true Radiant Sun Golden Core cultivator, one whose attacks carried their psychic mind and will, the Origin-Shattering Technique would have been useless. But against these unconventional Golden Core cultivators, this technique, which normally required overwhelming superiority in psychic thought, was basically unstoppable.
With that realization, Yaoguang locked onto the incoming attacks from the Immortal Alliance and Infinite Star Palace. Raising a hand, a ripple of invisible energy spread from his fingertips.
But almost at the instant he activated the Origin-Shattering Technique, Janko, who blazed like a miniature sun, activated a special spirit treasure.
It emanated a force resembling psychic thought, a force that instantly disrupted Yaoguang’s perception, flipping yin and yang and throwing his senses into chaos.
Hmm?! Yaoguang's eyes widened in surprise.
Does the Infinite Star Palace have such methods?! If I were an ordinary Dharma Form cultivator, even at the peak, I would have fallen into a momentary daze.
Mi Le immediately activated another spirit treasure, a compass-like artifact. As energy poured into it, a fissure seemed to emerge from the spirit treasure, tearing into the void.
That fissure was like an elongated black hole, appearing suddenly yet containing the power to annihilate everything. Had Yaoguang truly been affected by the first spirit treasure and left in a confused state, then, once he was hit with this force, nearly at the Void-Piercing Realm, he would've been instantly torn to pieces despite having a third-tier star god body.
Unfortunately for the enemies, Yaoguang's realm had already reached the Void-Piercing Realm, and even the late stage of the Void-Piercing Realm.
Although only his realm had reached that level, while his actual cultivation remained far behind and his true spirit had yet to evolve a grotto-heaven, his psyche refinement realm far exceeded the Dharma Form Realm. Thanks to that, he regained clarity in an instant.
As the energy within his Crimson Golden Core erupted, he leaped away from the ruined star beneath him, instantly moving tens of thousands of kilometers.
At that very moment, the spatial fissure carrying the power of the Primordial Void struck the broken planet on which he had been standing. The terrifying black hole instantly dragged the planetary remnants into it, shredding them completely.
In the span of a single breath, a planetary remnant thirty thousand kilometers in diameter was completely swallowed by the fissure.
Yaoguang witnessed the entire scene through his psychic thought perception.
"Not bad. Looks like I underestimated you. Your strength may be lacking, but you certainly have quite a few good treasures." His expression turned slightly more serious.
As his psychic thought surged, he focused fully on the opponents.
After avoiding another spatial fissure unleashed by Mi Le, the ripples of the Origin-Shattering Technique he had unleashed spread rapidly toward Mi Le and Janko.
"He dodged it?!"
"Damn it! His Dharma Form Realm is definitely not newly broken through! What Feng Ao said is true. His Dharma Form Realm cultivation must have reached the peak, or even perfection! Otherwise, he couldn’t have shaken off the interference of the Chaotic Heaven Ruler so quickly!"
Mi Le and Janko’s expressions changed simultaneously.
These two spirit treasures were most effective on the first strike. Now that Yaoguang had avoided them...
"Again! Unleash the power of the Chaotic Heaven Ruler and create an opening for me. I refuse to believe he can withstand a top-tier spirit treasure!" Mi Le’s psychic consciousness surged.
Janko was naturally unwilling to accept defeat. His Golden Core trembled as even more energy burst forth from his body. Part of it condensed into an attack that pierced through the starry sky toward Yaoguang, while the other part was used to activate the Chaotic Heaven Ruler, interfering with Yaoguang’s psychic thought perception.
However, Yaoguang was ready for it. Although Janko was using a top-tier spirit treasure like the Chaotic Heaven Ruler, it failed to affect him in the slightest.
His powerful psychic thought broke through its interference, and the Origin-Shattering Technique he had unleashed collided directly with the beam piercing the starry sky.
Ripples spread outward. The beam, like thick ink dropped into the ocean, rapidly dissolved as the ripples expanded, failing to affect Yaoguang at all.
Instead, Yaoguang leaped once more.
With the star god’s control over gravity, he seemed to enter a gravitational slingshot state. In a single leap, he crossed tens of thousands of kilometers, rapidly closing the distance with the two Golden Core cultivators.
As he approached them, the spatial fissure that Mi Le had once again unleashed was easily avoided.
Without the interference of the Chaotic Heaven Ruler, those attacks could not escape Yaoguang’s psychic thought perception, no matter how swiftly the treasure unleashing them was activated.
As soon as Mi Le activated the treasure, Yaoguang had already calculated the trajectory of the fissure and where it would ultimately land.
"You guys are even weaker than I expected." When the distance between them shrank to just one hundred and fifty thousand kilometers, Yaoguang suddenly extended a finger.
It was once again the Origin-Shattering Technique, simple and straightforward.
But this time, instead of spreading in ripples to dissolve their attacks, it shot forward like the sword light of the Divine Six Yang Sword, piercing through space at an inconceivable speed and directly striking Mi Le, who posed the greater threat.
With a single strike, the blazing light surrounding Mi Le suddenly became unstable. Violent fluctuations arose as it began to collapse, like a star struck by a relativistic particle beam.
The difference was that the Origin-Shattering Technique inflicted even greater damage on stars, especially if the 'stars' were Golden Cores that already lacked stability.
With just one strike, Mi Le felt his Golden Core violently destabilize. Vast amounts of energy surged uncontrollably from within, showing signs of instability and imminent eruption.
"Crap! Stop him for me!" Mi Le's expression changed drastically. He no longer cared about attacking Yaoguang. Instead, his psychic consciousness spread deep into his Golden Core, attempting to stabilize it.
But the fact that he was asking Janko to stop Yaoguang meant that he had clearly overestimated the abilities of the cultivator from the Infinite Star Palace.
As Yaoguang advanced, his figure shifted, and another Origin-Shattering Technique struck out. Not only did it shatter Janko’s attack, but its remaining force continued forward, directly striking his Golden Core.
At that instant, Janko felt the entire structure of his Golden Core thrown into chaos, forcing him to retreat immediately.
"I can’t stop him! He’s mastered a technique that destabilizes the Golden Core! Unless we’re willing to die with him, we can’t hold him back!" Janko shouted a warning to Mi Le while retreating.
However, compared to Janko’s Chaotic Heaven Ruler, which could only interfere with psychic thought, the Void-Splitting Disk clearly possessed the power to truly kill Yaoguang if it struck. Because of that, Yaoguang paid no further attention to Janko.
After forcing him back with a single strike, Yaoguang had already closed to within fifty thousand kilometers of Mi Le. Guided by his psychic thought, the Origin-Shattering Technique in his hand showed no mercy as it struck toward the blazing sun Mi Le had transformed into.
After taking another hit, Mi Le, who had barely managed to keep his Golden Core stable, instantly felt it spiral out of control as its core structure began collapsing inward under the assault of the Origin-Shattering Technique.
