this infinite world

——Victory.

——A complete victory.

Watching Haihu turn into pieces and disappear in the wind like every other strong magnetic field master who died in this world before, leaving no trace at all, and even unable to sense the slightest breath of the other party in the void, Zheng Zha seemed to have put down all his burdens and let out a long breath.

Release, liberation, catharsis... Zheng Zha's heart was filled with mixed emotions. Despite the hardships, twists and turns, wounds all over his body, and even the fact that most of his body had turned into nothingness, Zheng Zha still persisted to the end and won the battle... The strong man from the main god space outside the world defeated the most brutal, most powerful, and most domineering ultimate sea tiger, and laughed to the last moment.

To be fair, this battle with the Ultimate Sea Tiger was the most dangerous battle Zheng Zha had ever faced. Even the battles with Zhang Jie in Final Destination, the clone Zheng Zha who killed him twice in Resident Evil 2, and the Fei Mian who consumed more than a thousand life causal points of Chu Xuan were no match for him.

No matter how powerful the enemies were or how dangerous the situation was, Zheng Zha always had reliable teammates fighting alongside him, and he was accustomed to Yang Yun's command, Chu Xuan's analysis, Zhan Lan's mental scanning, and the help of many partners.

Zheng Zha’s past victories were all inseparable from his teammates, and this long-awaited solo fight was truly a brand new experience… Fortunately, in this fist-to-fist, eye-to-eye one-on-one clash of real men, it was Zheng Zha who broke through in desperation and emerged with superior skills.

"It's been a long time since I've felt this kind of life-or-death situation, where I can only rely on my own strength to break through..."

The aftermath of their fistfight destroyed countless billions of miles of space, turning the stars and even the universe into a blank space, but the world's ability to repair itself was incomparably strong. In just a few minutes, the surrounding vacuum was completely filled, and Zheng Zha quickly used his new ability to absorb energy from the universe to repair his body.

The dried-up body was refilled with energy, and the lost flesh and blood began to regenerate rapidly. Zheng Zha, who had grown a new body, even had the leisure to make himself a set of clothes to cover up his body full of masculine beauty.

The man moved his arms and legs, feeling the condition of his body, as if thinking about something.

——By the way, can I be considered to have comprehended the “energy” of the four elements?
The way to repair the body is not the reorganization of cells in the rotating magnetic field, but the ability to control the four elements. Zheng Zha had long heard Yang Yun talk about the fourth and fifth levels, which are the differences between the so-called "saints" and "immortals". In addition to the differences in the nature of life forms and the sublimation of basic factors, the biggest difference is the "energy" of the four elements, that is, from the beginning of the mortal body, to the direction of "I will not perish if the heaven and earth do not perish".

Since then, Zheng Zha has already cracked three of the mysteries of the four elements of earth, fire, water and wind, namely "time", "space" and the "energy" that he has just mastered... Only the last and most difficult "matter" has not yet been cultivated.

——Alas, I won’t count on the “immortals” on the road of cultivation. It’s better for me to continue on the path of gene lock. I remember Yang Yun said before that to become a saint, one must not only get rid of obsessions and sever the self, but also master the power of one of the four elements, and also need something called “sainthood”…

——Logically speaking, with my current strength, I should have been able to launch a breakthrough to the fifth level long ago. After all, there are also people like Feimian who have achieved the fifth level of immortals just by understanding the way of time. But now there is not even the slightest movement... I don’t know what’s going on. Could it be that as long as the sainthood doesn’t fall on my head, I will be stuck at the advanced fourth level?

Although his strength was countless times greater than that of a regular fourth-order advanced warrior, Zheng Zha, who was still in this realm, sighed and decided to ask Yang Yun for details after returning to the main god space... But before he could fully comprehend the experience and insights of this battle, he seemed to feel something and turned his head to look to his side.

And there, Bai Wunan and Sha Antian, who had watched the entire battle between Zheng Zha and the Ultimate Sea Tiger, were walking side by side.

"Do you want to fight again?"

Looking at the two people in front of him who were in a completely unattended state and even had a much stronger aura than when they first met, Zheng Zha frowned, raised his right hand that had just been repaired, clenched it into a fist, and shook his fist at them: "If you want to fight me now, then come on."

"Let alone three days, even if the battle lasts another thirty days, or three hundred days, I will definitely accompany you."

——This is a lie.

Although Zheng Zha achieved a breakthrough in desperate situations and gained insight into the deep mysteries of the way of energy, he is still only at the beginning of his journey. It will take a lot of time and practice for him to completely integrate these new insights into his blood, transform them into his instincts, and use them skillfully in fierce battles.

If he was facing a weak opponent, it would be fine. Zheng Zha could still overpower him with his strength. However, when the opponent standing in front of him was of the same level, even a momentary flaw would be enough to determine the outcome, and could even lead to fatal consequences.

Moreover, Zheng Zha had suffered too much damage in the last fight with the Ultimate Sea Tiger. Even though he was madly absorbing cosmic energy to heal himself, he had only recovered 75% of his combat effectiveness... On the other hand, the two people in front of him seemed to have upgraded on the spot. The energy fluctuations on their bodies increased crazily in a way that Zheng Zha could not understand at all, and they were even slightly above the Ultimate Sea Tiger.

Zheng Zha, who had never cultivated magnetic field power and had never been infected by the unique power system of this universe, did not know that all this had a reason. Each of the ten ultimate masters had practiced hard for a long time. With such a long period of accumulation, their own souls were naturally powerful and the energy stored in their bodies was terrifying.

But there is gain and loss. After the strong magnetic field person turns into fragments and dies, their soul will be absorbed by the person who killed him as a "trophy", and the energy conversion efficiency is completely intact. In addition to Bai Wunan who has practiced the longest, Sha Antian and Ultimate Haihu have absorbed the souls of Wuji, Sangxiong, and the righteous Bai Wunan (Shi Tianwu), and Guan Yuetong took the initiative to sacrifice, which is how they became so strong.

In other words, Zheng Zha did not understand the power of magnetic fields, and did not absorb all of his "trophies", which allowed Bai Wunan and Sha Antian to take advantage and upgrade on the spot... Zheng Zha, who did not realize this, secretly lamented that these magnetic field lunatics were simply unreasonable when they started cheating, while trying to intimidate the two of them, and at the same time, he had quietly pressed the return button.

What? You said that if you can't win, then running away is not a hero? If you really can't win, then you have to go ahead head-on, and it's foolish to bury your own life. Besides, Zheng Zha's purpose of returning this time has been achieved. Even if he returns to the main god space now, it will be a complete merit. At worst, he can return to this world again in the future and fight another battle.

"No, we have no such intention."

But what surprised Zheng Zha was that it was not Bai Wunan who spoke, but Sha Antian who had been looking at him with an inexplicable look since the beginning. The black-eyed man did not say anything else, but made it clear that he had no intention of becoming an enemy of Zheng Zha: "You fought with Haihu to protect the remaining humans in this universe... Now that Haihu is dead, there is no hatred between us, so why would we fight?"

"Even since you did what I wanted to do but hesitated to do, and awakened the remaining 'humanity' in me, I want to thank you."

As he said this, Sha Antian actually bowed his head slightly to Zheng Zha to show his respect.

"Uh……"

Zheng Zha has always been a person who is soft-hearted and not hard-hearted. If Sha Antian came up and shouted for war, it would be fine, but now that the other party has taken the initiative to make his attitude clear, he didn't know what to say for a moment. He could only look at Bai Wunan on the other side, showing a questioning intention.

"Don't look at me, my friend. Since you helped me avoid a disaster, I should be happy. Why would I attack you?"

Bai Wunan was a man who knew the current situation. Seeing Zheng Zha's eyes turned away, he spoke in advance: "An Tian just told me your origins. Since you came from outside our universe, and chose to reject the power of the magnetic field until the end, and defeated Haihu with your own strength, then the prize of this final battle will be useless to you, and we have no reason to fight."

——So there are prizes for this battle?!

Hearing this, Zheng Zha, who only wanted to practice and fight with strong people of the same level, was stunned. It was not until then that Zheng Zha realized that what these crazy magnetic field guys were fighting for was not the title of "the strongest", but a real prize... Although this title is also quite useful.

From this perspective, the magnetic field force that Zheng Zha had rejected from the beginning was exactly the "ticket" for this battle. His rash participation in this battle was like suddenly jumping out and beating up a contestant at the world's number one martial arts tournament, but not being able to receive the prize money because he did not sign up; or like suddenly entering a Holy Grail war, winning all the way, but being unable to summon the Holy Grail because he was not a magician...

Not to mention the misunderstandings between the few people, since the other party clearly expressed goodwill, Zheng Zha, who had not yet fully recovered, was naturally happy to be free. At the same time, his curiosity could not help but rise: "Then tell me, what will the final winner of this so-called ultimate battle get?"

"It's okay to tell you, it's 'time'."

Sha Antian replied calmly: "In other words, it is a power that goes beyond the limit and is hard for us to imagine even now. With this power, one can turn back time, revive the dead, evolve life at will, reorganize lost souls, destroy the entire universe, and open it up again... All kinds of incredible powers will be in the hands of the winner."

"By then, he will become a true 'God'."

“…It sounds unreliable.”

Hearing Sha Antian exaggerate the "power" of the prize, Zheng Zha immediately complained. In his opinion, there is no universal power system in the world... Well, maybe the gene lock is an exception.

Even if the winner of the final battle can really do these things, he has only replaced the world will of this world and become the master of a plane of a universe in a shell.

Perhaps within the world, the winner of the final battle can be omnipotent, but this power is both a reward and a shackle. If he goes to the outer plane, I am afraid that his power will be reduced to one tenth. Unless this person is like Yang Yun, who can take the whole world into his body and use it as his energy source... But refining this real universe into his body is like a python swallowing an elephant, which is basically impossible.

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"Really? Actually, I think so too. I'm glad to agree with you."

Hearing that Zheng Zha was not deliberately belittling, but rather disagreed with this ultimate chicken-eating competition from the bottom of his heart, a hint of smile appeared in Sha Antian's eyes: "So, compared to the omnipotent ultimate power, I would rather call the 'prize' obtained by the winner a 'qualification'..."

"... a qualification to challenge the 'power' that controls the fate of all of us and has yet to show up."

——So, who is the Almighty?
Hearing a word he had never heard before, Zheng Zha was dumbfounded as he had not watched the plot of "The Ultimate Sea Tiger Martial God" and only had a vague impression of the work "Martial God".

But facing the confused Zheng Zha, Sha Antian did not explain to him, but suddenly asked a puzzling question: "Speaking of which, I have one last question for you."

"Even now, you still identify with those humans who are a different kind of life from us from the bottom of your heart... Or, the reason you fought with Haihu is because deep down in your heart, you still regard yourself as a 'human'?"

...Humans?!

When Zheng Zha heard this question, before he could answer, Bai Wunan looked up in surprise.

It should be noted that the ultimate strong are completely different from ordinary humans. Whether in terms of genes, physical strength, or the power they possess, the two are fundamentally different species, and this is even more so in Bai Wunan's opinion... In the era of the God of War 500,000 years ago, a strong man who killed 100,000 people could call himself a God of War. The earth was in chaos and wars, and the strong preyed on the weak. It was a scene of hell.

In the past, the White Warrior, who was the Emperor of the Earth, could say, "Without my wisdom and great power, ordinary fools would still only live in the painful world of war in the past." After that, he reincarnated continuously for 500,000 years, saw the joys and sorrows of the world, and experienced everything. The Ultimate White Warrior no longer recognized the so-called "human beings"...

Now, why does Sha Antian ask such a question?

"Of course!"

Faced with this strange question, Zheng Zha answered without hesitation: "No matter what I become, I will always fight as a human being... Instead, I want to ask you something."

"No matter what, before you became a strong magnetic field person and embarked on the path of cultivation, you should have been born as a human, right? Then why don't you acknowledge your origins after becoming stronger?"

...Yeah, why?
Facing Zheng Zha's most essential question, Bai Wunan was speechless. Although he was not the "human" Zheng Zha said, but an evil personality split from the real Bai Wunan, he could have found thousands of reasons. For example, he saw the ugliness of human nature, so he was disappointed with humans, and so on... But in front of Zheng Zha's soul-searching question, he could no longer say anything, leaving only a long sigh.

"I see... You, think so."

Different from Bai Wunan's reaction, Sha Antian nodded, as if he got the answer he wanted, and he smiled at his old acquaintance who was both his enemy and friend, and closed his eyes with a smile: "Sorry, Wunan, I may disappoint you."

Along with this incoherent sentence, the next moment, a feeling that Zheng Zha was very familiar with emerged from Sha Antian. That was the power that he had mastered with great difficulty along the way, and it was also the source of his power to defeat the Ultimate Sea Tiger...

Gene lock!
The first stage of combat awareness, the second stage of muscle control, the third stage of brain control, and the fourth stage of gene control. Along with a dark spiritual light appearing on the man's body, countless shadows seemed to surround Sha Antian's body in a trance...

Zheng Zha, who was already numb, just watched the other party's realm soaring all the way, and finally stopped when he reached the same advanced fourth level as him!
"...My friend, this is your choice?"

Zheng Zha was still immersed in shock and had no time to come back to his senses, but Bai Wunan had already shifted his attention. Unable to overcome the hurdle in his heart, and unable to put aside the pain of the past 500,000 years, Bai Wunan could only quietly stare at Sha Antian, the man who had opened up such a big gap with him for the first time, even more distant than when the dual-core heart Shura Dao defeated the seventh-level war god, and slowly said, "In the end, have you decided to stand on the side of humans?"

"Well, just like I said, before we become the ultimate strong, or even the magnetic field strong, we are still 'human'... a kind of 'human' whose lifespan is only a hundred years and will die if injured. We looked down on it and did not recognize it before, but we have to acknowledge it at this ultimate moment. "

Sha Antian, whose aura had finally stabilized at the advanced fourth stage, opened his eyes and said to Bai Wunan, "While watching just now, I recalled some things, some memories that I had forgotten for a long time."

As he spoke, the man raised his head and looked up at the sky, gazing at an unknown place in the horizon, but he was definitely looking at the "powerful one" here, and said, "I want to see, not as the 'Benevolent Dark Emperor' Sha Antin, but as someone who has recovered the memories of the 'Heavenly Ruler' Bai Shounan, can I defy the manipulation of the powerful hand and get rid of this crisis that started with 'Tianwu'..."

"…It is also destined to be the fate of 'Tenwu'." (End of this chapter)