It had failed!
After struggling for so long, it had only managed to leave behind that single sentence.
The faint glow that had barely remained within its heart faded away as well.
But in the very next second.
That light shone again.
It appeared in a form that could no longer be clearly recognized.
Buzz!
The sound of wind and thunder erupted in every direction.
Shiko stared at it seriously.
Within this space.
He sensed that indescribable aura.
Only then did he finally understand.
That existence had truly been defeated by him.
"Hmph."
Shiko drew in a deep breath.
His tense body slowly relaxed at that moment.
Everything that had just happened had taken place on the cosmic battlefield.
Countless streams of dazzling light shone around him.
The stars flickered, shaking within Shiko's heart.
He gazed out over the vast mountains and rivers.
This power was so immense that even Shiko's soul seemed to tremble inside his body.
It was as if something deep within him had unfolded a new set of claws.
Shiko raised his hand.
His eyes shifted slightly, still carrying an unconcealable shock.
Ever since he had become this powerful, it had been a long time since anything had made him feel this kind of instinctive pressure.
A flash of lightning tore through the void.
Had the storm and thunder opened a path through this cosmic region?
And yet.
At that exact moment.
A special energy fluctuation suddenly appeared behind Shiko.
He turned around.
A figure rushed out from the void and came charging at him.
This was actually another living existence.
He wore an old blue-green robe, and his eyes were deep and ancient.
In his hand was a massive sword.
Flames burned along the blade.
That strike seemed as if it wanted to consume half the life in the universe.
"You!"
"You still dare to come here?!"
A trace of anger rose in Shiko's heart.
This power had actually ignored the storm raging through this place.
But in the span of a single instant, it had returned.
The Six Great Sovereigns.
These beings had arrived with the might of cosmic rulers.
Their pressure had climbed to an unstoppable level.
Without another word.
They had come to decide life and death.
The moment they struck, there was no hesitation.
The sword tips of those figures rose together, pointing toward the endless layers of space.
Every commander linked the golden light around them.
Their bodies seemed to transform into an immense storm.
This.
This was the strongest wind.
Beneath the golden sword light, the fighters roared.
"Ahhh!"
"Ahhh!"
In the cosmic space.
One of them swung the golden sword and directly split open the energy barrier.
"Even if tens of thousands stand in my way, I will cut them down. If I do not kill you, then there is no reason for the tip of this golden sword to remain."
His voice fell.
Then he spoke again.
"Brother, once I cut you down, I will draw those four overlapping layers of power back out of your body."
The next instant.
His golden pupils fixed onto Shiko.
They carried an invisible, mysterious pressure.
The assault came.
The undying soul behind the attack seemed to be mocking Shiko's insignificance.
At that moment.
Shiko felt an unprecedented pressure descend upon him.
He knew very well that he could still fight, and that his power could still strengthen his combat ability.
But in this situation, the only option was to dodge.
The enemy's formation had already expanded to an unimaginable degree.
"To witness a formation of this level before you die is already an honor!"
"Dodge if you can!"
"The true blade is here!"
A flowing stream of light shot out from beneath the enemy's sword and surged forward.
The man himself stood motionless.
But that sword light swept toward Shiko with terrifying force.
The surrounding sky and earth shook.
This person was frightening to the extreme.
Shiko's long sword had already been forced stiff by the exchange just now.
Facing this kind of battle.
He had no time to hesitate.
A terrifying sword light pounced from the distance.
And it seemed to have already predicted the evasive technique Shiko wanted to use.
The slash fell successfully.
Immediately afterward.
Another cut descended toward Shiko's chest.
The massive sword struck him in an instant.
The three layers of cosmic energy around him were cut apart and shattered like dust.
It was not over yet.
Behind that first strike, a second attack arrived.
Bzzzt!
Bzzzt!
Bzzzt!
Bzzzt!
The sword lights flew out of the universe like meteors.
They carried a killing force that wanted to wipe out blood and life itself.
It was like a shocking storm.
Shiko stood right at the center of that violent wind.
This assault was endless.
Shiko's aura began to riot.
Billions of sword lights erupted from his body.
They wrapped around him, forming a dense sword net.
Clang, clang, clang!
Under the thunderous onslaught, a sword slashed down at an angle.
Shiko used the sword net to break apart that attack.
Only then did he manage to protect himself.
However.
After that attack ended.
A new attack immediately arrived.
"Dodge!"
Energy condensed in Shiko's mouth.
The next second.
A terrifying beam blasted out.
It was a blood-red wave of destructive energy.
All of Shiko's power had been fused into it.
It carried cosmic force that surpassed ordinary understanding.
The beam tore through the air.
It could easily destroy even a massive energy attack.
Faced with this strike.
Shiko neither retreated nor advanced recklessly.
The enemy's helm suddenly lit up.
Another great-sword attack descended.
He stepped across a layer of space.
Then his counterattack moved from behind Shiko.
Immediately afterward.
Shiko raised his right hand.
At his fingertips.
This time, he did not pause in the slightest.
All of his golden energy gathered there.
Blast!
A golden light erupted.
A golden energy wave came roaring over.
Shiko took it head-on.
For a brief instant, the impact forced the light apart.
Then golden radiance burst outward.
The entire space was covered by the brilliance of lightning.
The Sixth Extreme.
The power of the Eight Extremes seemed to be drawn into that strike.
This attack carried even stronger killing force than every previous one.
An undying will.
A killing intent that would not stop until its target was dead.
Shiko heard it.
Then he roared.
He was furious.
His power erupted violently.
Everything beside him was instantly ground into powder.
The dust that had settled on this mountain for countless ages was swept away again and again.
Boom!
It was as if countless layers of the world were collapsing at once.
This time, Shiko truly wanted to strike back.
However.
The opponent did not stop at this level.
He had merely entered the next phase.
Shiko rushed forward.
The savagery in his eyes did not fade from beginning to end.
Another explosion rang out.
The enemy's attack fell once more.
A gigantic cosmic sword came slashing toward him.
It kept detonating in midair.
Boom!
This time, a terrifying golden pillar of light actually rushed straight toward Shiko.
The energy came surging forward.
Shiko's expression changed.
He recognized the technique used by that light sword.
There was no mistake.
It was the same kind of battle technique that the light sword had used before.
Direct and overwhelming.
How ridiculous.
Even if Shiko used his own body to withstand this kind of terrifying attack, a few slashes would be enough to end his life.
The enemy had forced the battle to this point.
And now he had suddenly used such a fierce technique to deal with Shiko.
What advantage did Shiko have left?
The current Shiko had already pushed himself to the limit.
A deathly light rose in his heart.
But very quickly.
He gritted his teeth.
Because he had realized that this technique was not simple.
It was an infinitely amplified impact technique.
Whether one called it a strike or a charge, the essence was the same.
The user poured all of his power and energy into direct contact.
Although it lasted only a few seconds.
Although there was no time to unfold thousands of movements.
If the goal was to make the battle forceful enough.
Then this was more than enough.
This combat stance.
This technique.
It was a skill that relied on direct contact with the opponent.
And the enemy was using that special attack energy again and again, forcing contact with Shiko's body.
The golden power released by the blade in his hand also drew out a powerful suppression from Shiko.
It struck straight at him.
If it landed.
It would not only completely break through Shiko's body.
It would also shatter the golden light around him.
This was no longer a simple collision.
It was a terrifying technique whose very nature had changed.
Facing this kind of attack.
Shiko naturally could not waver in the slightest.
He immediately stepped back.
Then he crossed both arms in front of himself.
His feet dug firmly into place.
He wanted to endure this strike with the strength of his own body.
Boom!
"Ahhh!"
His body was instantly blasted a great distance away.
The Rebirth power on Shiko's body released a thunderous roar.
Boom!
That energy surged up from behind him.
It transformed into golden blades of light.
Shiko endured another wave of attacks.
Every slash and every killing blow landed with astonishing force.
The impacts struck him dozens of times in a row.
He was knocked through the air for hundreds of meters before finally falling back down.
When he landed, he exhaled heavily.
His body swayed in the violent wind.
But he was still standing.
Shiko gasped for breath.
The energy throughout his entire body had been shaken.
Only now did he understand how terrifying that golden star-forged sword truly was when it struck with full force.
It was not hard to guess that there was some unique power hidden within it.
As expected.
That power was almost unimaginable.
And precisely because of that.
Shiko understood why his heart had been pushed into such a state.
And you.
And you.
For the first time, blood-red tears seemed to rise in Shiko's eyes.
He knew.
Today's battle was a battle of life and death.
There was no difference between the two of them now.
Only one person could survive.
And the one who survived would become a god-slaying existence born through countless battles.
Shiko had not reached this point for the sake of anger alone.
Everything he had done.
Everything he had used.
None of it could stop here.
The next second.
He forced his power back to its peak.
All of his weapons and battle formations locked into place once more.
"Battle!"
His voice echoed through the sky.
It was like a streak of light.
There was no more hesitation in his eyes.
Only endless fury.
That golden light could pierce through the vast cosmic radiance.
Another sword strike appeared.
"I will not let you live!"
He slashed.
He carried all his rage forward.
A meteor-like mass of energy slammed toward his head.
There was fire.
There was light.
And both were blazing.
Shiko flashed away in an instant.
The sword strike split into more than a dozen attacks.
Blood and light crashed against that extraordinary shield.
"Useless!"
Seeing this scene, the enemy laughed with disdain.
As far as Shiko was concerned, the enemy's true goal was to completely seize this power.
That chaotic, overlapping golden radiance was meant to break through his greatest light.
At that moment, the opponent was like a golden sun.
Another explosion rang out.
All attacks.
All sword lights.
All sword-light attacks.
They seemed to begin detonating at once.
Each one had been strengthened by powerful origin energy.
Everything was destroyed.
When Shiko saw this scene, he could only let out a breath.
The net of attacks covered the sky.
Right now, the distance between him and the enemy was far too short.
The truly terrifying exchange had only just begun.
Then.
He moved.
He truly moved.
The entire space began to tremble.
Shiko felt the same tremor running through him.
How could the enemy possibly know how many battles he had survived to reach this point?
At such a close distance.
The attack was about to land on Shiko.
The next second.
The golden light around the enemy began to burst apart.
The light around the attack intertwined with it.
Then he unleashed over ten thousand rays of golden radiance.
This golden light was even more terrifying.
It invaded Shiko's power directly.
In an instant.
A vast number of attacks flew toward Shiko from every direction.
They sealed off his body.
They struck toward every direction around him.
They forced him to close the distance and meet the attack.
The greatest battle had just ended.
And now, Shiko began a true transformation.
The true birth of this cosmic power had given him this opportunity.
It had also given Shiko even more possibilities.
At this moment, Shiko's presence gradually dimmed.
At the end of this battle.
Under attacks that roared like a mad storm.
He could only use his life to withstand them.
He could only rely on his body to resist.
But in the end.
Boom!
His second Rebirth erupted.
With an ordinary body, he overturned impossibility.
That fatal strike turned into light.
It turned into a sword.
That fatal strike turned into light.
It turned into a sword.
He would not let the enemy live.
At the final moment.
Shiko let out a tremendous roar.
Amid the endless explosions.
Shiko finally used his own power to overturn the impossible.
He broke through every kind of attack in this universe.
Although his body had suffered considerable damage under the overwhelmingly powerful assault.
This will.
This will was not something anyone could shatter.
Suddenly, excitement surged within him.
After walking through Rebirth, Shiko had not died.
What was this?
A return from the brink of death.
There was only one possibility.
From that endless pressure.
His power had already been suppressed by more than half.
Next.
He suddenly moved forward with his long sword in hand.
"Yes."
"This is sword light."
"It is you."
"I am going to pierce through it."
"Come."
"Come!"
(End of Chapter)
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