A terrifying, apocalyptic pressure suddenly descended upon the high heavens, almost instantly enveloping the entire capital city of the Silver Deer Kingdom!
An offensive exchange at the genuine Void Realm bracket was, to every single native mortal and low-tier cultivator present, nothing short of an unimaginable manifestation of Heavenly Might and Divine Punishment.
Down on the cobblestone streets, the common people slammed their wooden doors and window shutters tightly shut, huddling inside the darkest corners of their homes, trembling uncontrollably as the foundations of the city vibrated.
Up in the mid-air airspace, the Human Race Martial Artists who had been actively engaging the demon vanguard completely paused their movements. Turning their gazes in unison toward the absolute center of the battlefield, they stared at the two figures standing defiant against the backdrop of the roiling dark clouds, their faces filled with profound, unadulterated shock.
"This kind of pressure... even the legendary patriarch of our Silver Deer Royal Academy could never achieve it!"
"Above the Heaven Realm... it must be an existence occupying a tier far above the Heaven Realm!"
"Look at how young that human kid is, yet he's packing that kind of extreme combat power. Who on earth is he?"
"But look at the other one—it's a Demon! I personally saw it emerge directly from the core of those rolling, Demonic Qi-filled black vortexes!"
The localized human forces were thrown into absolute panic, never expecting that such a game-breaking, high-tier entity would actually be commanding the enemy's faction. This was a worst-case scenario. The native elite frowned deeply; facing an opponent of this caliber, even if every single Martial Artist in the kingdom swarmed it together, they would merely be serving themselves up as a light snack to accelerate its clear speed.
"Then who is the youth standing opposite it? The demon attacked him first, so he couldn't possibly be aligned with the horde, right?"
"No, he's a defender! I watched him launch himself straight up from the second floor of that downtown inn."
"He's a completely new face in our registry, but daring to stand unblinking before a Demon that clearly transcends the Heaven Realm proves that he is very likely packing a Void-grade cultivation engine himself!"
"When did our small Silver Deer Kingdom manage to acquire a hidden powerhouse of this caliber?"
Dozens of native Origin Realm experts tracked Li Xuanxiao's silhouette, their eyes swimming with an intense mixture of doubt, curiosity, and desperate hope.
Yet, compared to the frantic astonishment vibrating through the human lines, the invading Demon Race ranks displayed nothing but pure, unadulterated contempt. Their bloodshot eyes swept continuously over Li Xuanxiao, their predatory arrogance completely unconcealed.
They had witnessed firsthand exactly how terrifying the green-eyed commander truly was. That delicate, immature teenage appearance was nothing but a deceptive facade designed to lower the guard of naive prey! The commander was a genuine Void Realm apex predator—an existence capable of instantly deleting a Heaven Realm demon officer with a casual flick of his wrist.
How dare this rogue human insect stand in his path!
"Lord Eton, grind his bones to dust! Give him a taste of our absolute dominance!"
"Daring to step into your line of sight, the brat is truly courting a structural deletion!"
"Lord Eton, execute him immediately so we can finally start parsing the feast down in the city!"
Boom—
As the surrounding environmental Luck squeezed inward from all directions like an invisible hydraulic press, attempting to lock down his joints, Li Xuanxiao couldn't help but let out a dry, amused chuckle.
Is that really the extent of your output?
A mere runaway Devil scrap... laughable, absolutely laughable!
Facing a multi-classed Martial Artist who cultivated two distinct core Void-tier Cultivation Systems simultaneously and could dynamically summon two entirely separate frequencies of planetary Luck, this creature actually thought it could suppress him using basic environmental weight. It was the metaphysical equivalent of trying to display a crude wooden staff in front of Guan Gong's legendary Glaive!
Without a single wasted motion, Li Xuanxiao activated his internal channels, mobilizing both his Martial Dao Luck and his newly baptized Buddhist Path Luck simultaneously, and violently returned the atmospheric pressure!
Crack—
The green-eyed youth, Eton, raised an elegant eyebrow, a flicker of genuine surprise finally cracking his aristocratic composure. Although he had only casually elevated his left hand to initiate the suppression, the actual volume of localized Devil Luck he had mobilized was immense. An ordinary human cultivator, even one who had successfully broken through to the early layers of the Void Realm, would have found their meridians shattered under the weight of that single move.
Yet, the youth standing before him not only stood completely unaffected, but was actively mounting a ferocious, dual-layered counter-suppression!
"Interesting. You're a strange specimen," Eton's lips curved upward into a cold, clinical smile. He brought both of his hands forward, crossing his forearms to erect an invisible, high-density kinetic barrier right in front of his chest.
The massive tidal wave of dual Luck that Li Xuanxiao had unleashed crashed entirely onto the transparent wall.
Shatter—
The exact millisecond the energies collided, Eton's facial expression violently contorted, turning completely pale!
"Two entirely distinct frequencies of Luck?! How is this mathematically possible?!"
The invisible barrier didn't even register a defensive calculation—it was instantly pulverized into cosmic dust. Sensing the lethal trajectory of the residual energy, Eton frantically agitated his internal reserves, utilizing an advanced spatial evasion technique to instantly flash-step several thousand meters away from his original coordinates.
After narrowly dodging the sweeping wake of the dual-system Luck wave, Eton looked back at Li Xuanxiao, a thick layer of lingering fear visible in the depths of his green pupils. His eyes were wide; his previous look of casual complacency had completely vanished, replaced by a dark, heavy seriousness he had never felt since crossing the boundary into the Central Continent.
Furthermore, under the sheer purifying impact of Li Xuanxiao's dual-channeled Luck, the roiling, toxic Demonic Qi that had blanketed the sky was completely burned away. Golden sunlight pierced through the fractured cloud matrix once more, illuminating the terrain below and thoroughly dispelling the artificial darkness.
Seeing the sky clear and the enemy commander forced into a defensive retreat, the human Martial Artists felt a massive surge of adrenaline.
"The unfamiliar youth... he actually won the opening exchange!"
"No wonder he took flight alone without asking for backup! His raw aura completely eclipses that monster's!"
"Thank the heavens he happened to be patronizing that inn today; otherwise, relying on our local defenses alone, our entire kingdom would have been wiped from the map within the hour!"
While the human forces erupted into cheers, the surrounding Demon horde was thrown into a state of absolute chaos and existential panic.
"What is happening? Lord Eton's opening move was completely turned back?"
"Did you feel that? The kid's passive aura didn't just match Lord Eton—it cracked his primary defense!"
"Lord Eton's absolute barrier was deleted in a single frame, and he was forced to deploy an emergency escape art just to reset his positioning."
"Does this mean... our supreme commander is operating at a structural disadvantage?!"
Numerous mid-tier demons exchanged horrified glances, their moral completely breaking. They had never anticipated that the seemingly invincible Lord Eton would suffer a severe setback against a completely unranked human youth who had appeared out of nowhere.
Eton narrowed his green eyes into sharp slits, staring quietly at Li Xuanxiao across the void. "Why is Your Excellency capable of wielding two entirely conflicting frequencies of world Luck? What legacy art are you running?"
Li Xuanxiao didn't even bother to blink. Don't ask questions you aren't cleared for, monster. If you want an answer, just log it under 'Absolute Genius'.
He had zero interest in entering a dialogue with a target from the Heavenly Abyss; his only operational objective right now was to liquidate the entity and harvest its premium DVP payout. He had slaughtered plenty of ordinary demons over the past month, but a genuine member of the Devil Race? Today was like a maiden's first time riding in a bridal sedan—a completely fresh, unboxing experience!
"Time to test the scaling," Li Xuanxiao muttered.
He mobilized his core reserves and immediately unleashed his primary Void-grade single-target Martial Art: 「Vortex Star Ripple」!
As a highly concentrated, localized offensive technique, 「Vortex Star Ripple」 was perfectly tailored for an isolated duel. The moment his dual-system Luck was channeled into the skill structure, it felt as though the kinetic rotation of the surrounding cosmos was being forcibly pulled into his orbit.
A massive, glowing stellar vortex began to spin violently around Li Xuanxiao's frame. It looked as though countless miniature cosmic meteors were encircling his body, each brilliant star trail burning with a blinding, dazzling radiance that warped the local light rays. The edge of the starlight was razor-sharp, slicing through the atmospheric layers like physical blades, screaming with a fierce, lethal might!
Eton's expression turned dead solemn. Having personally experienced the raw weight of Li Xuanxiao's dual-Luck output, his evaluation of the youth had reached an unprecedented level of threat analysis. The Martial Art currently manifesting before him was incomparably exquisite, causing his internal instincts to scream in warning.
Hum—
Eton's dark green pupils suddenly shifted, emitting a faint, eerie luminescence as his internal Devil Luck was fully mobilized. He crossed his hands tightly against his chest, dropping his head as his face assumed an expression of absolute, fanatical piety.
"Above the nineteen heavens, my Eternal Sovereign Lord... your loyal subject Eton humbly requests divine grace to descend upon this lower world, granting me the supreme might of absolute destruction!"
"In your holy, unnamable name, I summon the Divine Punishment. Let the enemies of the Abyss tremble in eternal fear!"
Following his rhythmic, chilling prayer, a strange, alien frequency of Luck abruptly ruptured the spatial fabric, descending squarely upon his physical frame.
[Divine Grace — May the Lord Have Mercy!]
Eton's dark green pupils suddenly collapsed, morphing into sharp, vertical reptilian slits. A terrifying, freezing aura emanated from his pores, causing his baseline energy signature to skyrocket like a breaking dam!
His combat power was scaling at an absurd, vertical velocity.
Li Xuanxiao's smirk immediately stiffened, his expression turning incredibly grave. Based on his initial sensory audit, he had calculated the opponent's baseline cultivation level to be roughly around the Fourth Layer of the Void Realm—functionally identical to his own current tier.
But right now, under the influence of this bizarre buff, the creature's aura had violently breached the barrier, rocketing straight into the Late Stage of the Void Realm!
Son of a bitch... your Devil Race can actually cheat and summon active Gods mid-fight?!
Li Xuanxiao's eyelids twitched aggressively. It turned out the Human Race's recorded intelligence regarding the anomalies of the Heavenly Abyss was still far too limited. To have an opponent's baseline realm suddenly jump three entire brackets in the middle of an exchange—who could comfortably tank that kind of scaling?
Furthermore, the vertical leap in cultivation realm was merely the primer; the subsequent environmental phenomenon manifesting in the upper atmosphere was significantly more horrific. It looked as though a localized hyper-storm was gathering and brewing within the cloud matrix, hidden but completely primed to detonate the airspace.
Eton looked down at Li Xuanxiao from his elevated position, his blade-like vertical slits filled with a chilling, detached judgment, as if he were an ancient deity passing a sentence of absolute execution upon a mortal transgressor.
[Divine Punishment — Wrath of the Storm!]
BOOM—
Thick streaks of crimson lightning, looking like massive, coiling dragons, traversed aggressively through the black clouds, accompanied by a succession of deafening thunderclaps that threatened to burst the eardrums of the cultivators below. Fierce, localized hurricanes howled across the sky, tearing up debris as the entire landscape devolved into a scene of absolute, primordial chaos.
Within the center of the vortex, Eton's silhouette appeared and disappeared like a ghost, looking entirely as though he had unified with the storm itself, controlling a world-destroying kinetic engine. After reaching its absolute peak brewing threshold, countless crimson lightning bolts shot down from the sky like a volley of tactical missiles, ruthlessly blasting straight toward Li Xuanxiao's coordinates.
You absolute bastard!
Facing that suffocating, high-magnitude sense of environmental oppression, Li Xuanxiao cursed inwardly, his eyes widening.
Good! Excellent! Splendid! Summoning a God to tilt the board, is that the play?!
Using illegal external modifications to run your character sheet, are we?
If you can summon an engine... then this father will summon one too!
Without a single microsecond of hesitation, Li Xuanxiao pulled his awareness backward and violently slammed his mental focus onto his internal cheat interface.
"System God! Give me an immediate, absolute boost!"
Ding!
[Consuming 300,000,000 Demon Value Points!]
「Primordial Void Refining Art」 → has successfully broken through to the → [Perfection Realm!]
[Current Realm: Seventh Layer of the Void Realm (Late Void Stage)!]
BOOM—
The exact millisecond the digital light screen manifested across his vision, a massive, golden pillar of pure, unrestricted systemic energy erupted from his dantian, completely enveloping Li Xuanxiao's physical frame right as the crimson storm summoned by Eton crashed down upon his position...