Above Destiny

Chapter 728 The Tortoise and the Bird

boom!.!
At that moment, the vast dueling arena beneath everyone's feet, and even the entire island, seemed to tremble violently for a moment, shaking incessantly.

A surge of energy erupted, sending shockwaves soaring into the sky, as if a bomb had exploded in the arena.

Amidst the aftershocks, fragments flew like bullets, only to be stopped by the hastily erected barrier. Had it not been for prior precautions, the spectators in the stands would have been blown away by the terrifying impact.

Now, everyone instinctively stood up and looked at the scene, dumbfounded.

speechless.

The desolate ruins' all-out attack, with its terrifying quality and explosive power surpassing its rank, was a hammer blow that carried all of Kzober's strength, hovering in mid-air.

It stopped before that raised finger.

It's been blocked...!
A fragile mage of the entropy system, relying on strength to clash head-on with the mechanisms of the desolate ruins, ended up with a draw? How could someone have such a bizarre dream?

Is this reasonable? !
Even if you could kill Kzober with magic damage in one hit, it wouldn't be this outrageous!

"Oh——"

As Chun Jun's perception accelerated, Ji Jue, who had witnessed the entire process, couldn't help but applaud in amazement: "You can even do micro-management like that?"

The answer is 'mechanism'.

A mechanism that Ji Jue is also extremely familiar with: Blessing Chain - [Shock and Roar]!
The Entropy System is a can opener specifically designed for those with magic resistance and a "turtle shell" effect. It can convert burst energy into pure physical force, a simple and brutal way to turn magic damage into physical damage.

It looks simple, but once you get the hang of it, you'll discover its endless mysteries and variations. Those who have immersed themselves in it for a long time can even perform partial, incomplete transformations through precise manipulation, allowing both to coexist. A single move can inflict both magical and physical damage; physical damage first breaks through armor, followed by magical damage for a devastating blow…

Moreover, Ji Jue can even switch between purple lightning and black flames and material impact several times during the brief moment of contact and explosion by manipulating Zhanlu, thus avoiding the enemy's targeted defenses and the damage-sharing mechanism of "Immovable Mountain" that can only focus on one place to the greatest extent.

But now, Lou Yanyue's actions have opened a completely new door for him.

They're definitely professionals; they executed this routine flawlessly.

In that fleeting moment, Lou Yanyue had actually converted all the destructive power of entropy into pure physical force within herself. With such exquisite micro-management, not only did it not harm her fragile body, but she also forcefully withstood the full force of the desolate ruins' attack through the converted physical output!

A fragile mage transforms into an unparalleled powerhouse with maxed-out stats!
This is pure showing off!

For Lou Yanyue, there were countless ways to deal with this attack.

She chose the most difficult, troublesome, and flashy one, and the one that showed the most contempt for her opponent...

"That's it?"

At this moment, as the giant hammer abruptly stopped, Lou Yanyue raised her eyes, finally looking directly at her opponent. She sneered and offered her assessment:
"generally."

If that's all you've got, then die!
Before Kzober could even react, a burst of intense light erupted from the raised finger, unleashing a terrifying power even greater than before.

That was the Entropy-based Chosen One among the Twelve Supreme Virtues, recognized as the most skilled at destruction, unleashing his full power!

Without any preparation, without any preparatory movement, and without any need for any build-up, in the blink of an eye, boundless light and heat burst forth from the fingertips, but instead of spreading, they converged into a single line and shot towards the giant hammer at the fingertips, towards Kzober!

It seemed like a casual release of spiritual energy, a strike that could be made anywhere, yet it made Ji Jue sit up straight, stare intently, and gasp in shock.

Utilization rate!
The utilization rate is too high!

This attack produced no visible flames or lightning, nor did it release any spiritual energy or ashes.

It was as if, under the extremely ideal conditions of a laboratory, the spiritual matter was instantly burned away, and this power was completely transformed into the purest and most direct heat.

The energy consumed and transformed from spiritual matter has almost reached 100%!
That is precisely why there is no upper limit to limit it, and it can minimize the constraints of marginal effects to the greatest extent, thus achieving unlimited explosive growth!
Just confront them!

As the spiritual energy frame burns inward, the damage increases rapidly. Theoretically, as long as enough is invested, it can achieve destructive power approaching that of a fusion bomb without limit!
"This is called 'shining as bright as the sun and stars'! Never seen it before, have you?"

Lou Feng's cold laughter rang in his ears, mocking Ji Jue's dumbfounded look: "The ascending entropy system is the mainstream of my family, and then the mirror."

The legacy of the embers began with me…

Wow! That's really impressive!

Ji Jue suddenly realized, and was not at all upset by Lou Feng's mockery. He sincerely exclaimed, "No wonder you're so bad."

"You surnamed Ji, I fucking—"

The furious curses that followed were completely drowned out by the loud noise in the arena.

I can't hear you, I can't hear you at all!
With the skill as brilliant as the sun and stars, a beam of light shot out straight through, burning through the giant hammer in the blink of an eye, vaporizing the matter in the center to create a hole that roared towards Kzober's heart.

Kzober roared, his four eyes wide open, gleaming with an iron-gray light. Before him, stone walls and iron ramparts rose from the ground, their colors as brilliant as gold, their grandeur as lofty as mountains.

Iwaki Blood Rock.

In the past, the sheer cliffs of Iwaki Castle rose up in front of him.

Damn it, who's afraid of who!
Kzober unleashes his full power: Come on, let's go head-to-head!

Then he saw Lou Yanyue's contemptuous sneer.

Therefore, those who are self-taught and unorthodox are the ones who love to be self-righteous and make assumptions... indulging in unrealistic daydreams!
She snapped her fingers instantly, and the straight beam of light that shot out actually changed direction right in front of the Shield of the Rock City!

A 90-degree turn!
A spiritual crystal appeared like a prism, refracting a brilliance as bright as the sun and stars. It changed direction, and then another prism took its turn. After a bend, the intense light pierced through the unsuspecting back of Kzober, tearing through the iron shell with unstoppable force. It carved a crack in the heavy armor covering him and went straight in, unleashing its full power!
boom!
A muffled thud emanated from his burly body, and blood seeped from Kzober's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, as if he had swallowed a bomb, or even worse.

It was burned through!

A burst of light emanated from his chest and landed on the Rock City Shield that he had just raised.

But when he turned around to defend himself, he saw prisms floating in the air, like stars, swirling endlessly.

The intense light split in two, then in four, then in eight, until finally, the entire dueling arena was covered by beams of intense light.

At first glance, it looks like stepping into an old-fashioned disco, with spinning disco balls that make you dizzy. But for Kzober, such a dazzling scene is nothing short of cruel torture.

Even though the damage of the Sun and Stars is reduced by one level with each refraction, transfer, and split, when the base value is large enough, even after four or five splits and reductions, it is still enough to burn long, narrow valleys on the ground of the duel arena and easily poke straight cracks in the walls.

Everything inside the venue seemed to have been thrown into a juicer, disintegrating under the high-speed rotating light blade.

Even though it was just the aftershock, the entire stands were still shaking precariously, and everyone was terrified, retreating again and again.

At this moment, the terrifying defensive power of the desolate ruins became apparent!

Kzober roared, Kzober howled, Kzober was injured, Kzober was in a sorry state... But after being fed so much power for so long, even a hundred Ji Jue would have been choked to death, his roar was still full of energy.

Sorry, I have the numbers too!
For those in the Desolate Ruins who are at an extraordinary level, as long as they are careful not to be hit in vital areas by moves like "Shining Like the Sun and Stars," any injuries they sustain will at most result in minor cuts and bruises.

But as for where exactly the crux of the matter lies...

Haha, that's a good question. Whether there are any vital points in the desolate ruins is still debatable.

There's no way around it, the scale is just too big. The most important things in the Wasteland are quality and quantity. Once the quality is improved on both sides, and then combined with various exquisite mechanisms, the whole thing exudes a kind of mouthwatering beauty.

You have a spiked club, I have a skullcap!
This is how our turtle-style strategy works.

As a result, the situation on the field entered a tedious cycle between desolation and entropy.

Consumption!
Layered armor! Layered armor! Layered armor!

Output! Output! Output!

Either you can't keep up with my armor stacking speed, and I'll wear you down, or I'll run out of mana and my damage output will stop, and you'll wear me down!
That's why Lou Yanyue's expression grew increasingly grim as she recalled the shadows of the past...

During a competition within the Security Bureau, Chaocheng and Yacheng were vying for supremacy, and she had a duel with Wenwen.

With Minerva's protective aura, his offense and defense were off the charts. He didn't even need to use any special techniques or bring out his dragon fire. Under the suppression of his superior and reborn status, his simple and unadorned numerical values ​​completely overwhelmed Lou Yanyue, leaving a shadow that the spirited little girl could never erase for the rest of her life.

Even after the fight, when everyone was getting together for dinner, they forcibly changed the wine that Lou Yanyue wanted to drink to soothe her soul into juice!

What kind of alcohol should we drink?

A minor was sitting at the same table as Xiao An!
And Xiao An ended up drinking the juice!
To put it simply, from rank to strength, from bust size to age, from the workplace to the dinner table, the multi-dimensional and multi-faceted bullying completely shut Lou Yanyue down.

Now, the scene is gradually becoming just like it was back then...

Lou Yanyue reacted violently!
"You son of a bitch, why don't you fight back!"

Lou Yanyue's face turned ashen, her eyes flashing with cold light, but her smile grew increasingly cruel: "Fine, fine, you like turtles, huh? I'll let you turtle as much as you want!"

boom! ! !
With one hand maintaining the raging storm as bright as the sun and stars, her other hand was raised, reaching towards the sky, and in an instant, dark clouds stretched for miles, and lightning flashed and surged.

The clouds, like an iron curtain, multiplied and expanded rapidly, making the world even darker. In the resounding beats like heavenly drums, everyone could hardly breathe.

It was as if even the air had solidified, stuck in my lungs, and heavy clouds were pressing down on my soul, bringing my consciousness to the brink of dissipation.

The convergence of massive amounts of lightning began to send chills down everyone's spine.

Building momentum, building momentum, building momentum, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, in the endless accumulation, the magnitude begins to climb upwards by multiples of cubic magnitude.

As the lightning and fire gathered in the clouds, a long-lost tremor ran through him, making him feel increasingly uneasy.

As for Ji Jue, the moment Lou Yanyue grinned maliciously, he had already begun to retreat with Ming Kele.

Oh no, the girl's gone crazy!
With this move, the entire dueling arena, along with half the island, might be blown to smithereens.

And now, before anyone else could react, the sky has fallen.

The thunder that reached the heavens and the earth converged, like a giant pillar hundreds of meters high, completely engulfing the vast area within the dueling arena. Even though it was just the aftershock of the aftershock, it still caused the high walls of the dueling arena to crack, dissolve, and evaporate.

The massive grandstand, despite the support from all sides, was rapidly crumbling and falling apart, like a stone pillar left behind after being swept away by a flood, riddled with cracks.

Yet, while the scene outside the stadium was already so devastating, the scene inside seemed to have been reduced to scorched earth, with lava flowing and only slight depressions.

Not only did it fail to reach the theoretical maximum, it only dealt the minimum damage!
"Circles, huh."

Ji Jue sighed.

Old Chaoba is still Chaoba, and his experience and accumulation will only be richer. He did not fight Lou Yanyue head-on again. Instead, in the brief interval between the suppression of Zhaoru Xing and the thunder from the sky, he did not hesitate to open the circle realm!

Like a towering phantom made of piled-up rubble, it rose from the ground behind him!

That chaotic structure, even if it were to completely collapse in the next instant, would not be surprising. It was crooked and unstable, and the circle itself was not even completely complete. Yet, it managed to reduce Lou Yanyue's all-out attack to a level that it could completely handle.

Keep holding on!

Ji Jue could sense that the moment that tall tower appeared, everything within that range, the changes and flow of spiritual energy, was forcibly slowed down and weakened.

The closer one goes inward to the core of this boundless radiation zone, the stronger the change and stagnation will likely be. By the time it reaches Kzober, even the most earth-shattering eruption will likely be as slow as a tortoise's crawl.

The essence of entropy lies in motion and change!
However, Kzober's realm is designed to counter all changes, forcibly slowing down everything within it!
It's not rejection, it's an unbearable dulling!
The rate of temperature conduction and the efficiency of heat transfer are rapidly decreasing, which indirectly increases the boiling point, melting point and vaporization point, while minimizing the energy burst process.

As a result, even if the output is still there, the effect it can produce is rapidly decreasing by a factor of several.

We've been completely targeted!

Lou Yanyue follows the orthodox celestial path of the entropy system, which emphasizes massive-scale bombardment and inflicting damage with sheer numbers. Now, facing such a realm and desolate ruins, even if her numerical values ​​are high, it's useless if she can't unleash them.

However, the more Ji Jue looked, the more his brows furrowed.

I have a feeling that something's not right about the situation I'm in...

The angler's instincts and the craftsman's skeptical professional habit amplified that subtle unease. He couldn't pinpoint exactly what was wrong, but he instinctively felt that the surrounding area was far from complete.

It wasn't fully revealed at all!
But Lou Yanyue didn't care about all that.

Lou Yanyue was furious when she saw the tortoise in front of her use such a shameless and despicable tactic.

Literally...

I'm so angry! I'm going to explode!
In mid-air, the somewhat immature and slender body suddenly shattered, cracks appeared on the maniacal, laughing face, and flames erupted from behind the cracks.

The flames engulfed everything, including herself.

In the blink of an eye, her body was burned to ashes!
Yet, amidst the raging, spreading flames, a pair of azure wings slowly emerged, outlined and depicted by the flames, before suddenly unfurling... as if the blazing sun had descended, flames raging like a tidal wave, ravaging the desolate island, burning the seawater, causing the ocean to boil and spew forth mist.

Within the dark clouds, countless sparks rained down like a storm, covering the sky and the earth.

Even the smallest of stones, once triggered, can cause an unexpected and terrifying explosion, leaving a terrifying crater, and vaporizing all the iron and stone within the area!
"Oh no, Auntie's gone crazy again..."

Lou Feng's voice, filled with gasps of cold air, turned pitying: "Good luck to you!"

Dead silence, utter silence, as if even sound had been burned away.

The world was shrouded in darkness by dark clouds, but the scorched earth of the dueling arena was illuminated by a brutal crimson light, as if the sun had descended from the darkness and crowned the blue flames of the giant bird.

Lou Yanyue, reborn form revealed.

The Lou family's legacy.

——【Bifang】!
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