Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 127 Fierce Battle in the Rain, Eyes That Will Determine the Future

The Silver Demon King, which is thousands of kilometers high, was enveloped by the torrential rain, making it seem like an ordinary rain man.

However, the blazing beam of light unleashed by the Yuan Shen weapon was not aimed at the Silver Ghost King, but went straight for Xing Luo's true form!

The true form is Xingluo, not Yin Guiwang. This is the truth that Hunzhen confirmed when he observed Xingluo's breakthrough.

If one did not see it with their own eyes, no one would imagine that the Silver Demon King, who ruled half of the abyss, was merely an avatar.

From the moment Hunzhen set his sights on the Silver Demon King, this idea was doomed to failure.

Perhaps some unparalleled geniuses with extremely high spiritual attainments can use clones as a bridge to seize the body of the original being.

But at least for Hunzhen, even though he possessed soul power that could overwhelm the Silver Demon King at that time, the final result was that he only witnessed the dissipation of a clone at the moment he thought he had succeeded.

According to Xingluo, perhaps the being bearing the name "Xingluo" was just one of his incarnations.

However, when breaking through to the realm master level and developing his inner world, Xingluo had to recall all his clones.

At this very moment, the Star Luo before me is undoubtedly the real one!

In addition to the backlash from the breakthrough and the suppression by the power of the abyss's will, not only was most of its strength suppressed, but its thousands of powers as an incarnation were also sealed.

Previously, Xingluo had been lying low in the shadows.

Hunzhen's attempt to possess another body was destined to fail.

But after that inevitable failure, the body-stealing plan, which should have ended without a trace, took a turn for the better.

It was at this time, in this place.

Countless rays of light, carrying a destructive force that seemed capable of annihilating time and space, shot towards Xingluo's true form.

Countless lights were reflected in Xingluo's eyes, but his face remained calm. From the flesh and blood of his human body, black and white phantoms swelled and surged out, as if the human skin had been shed, and the hidden demon finally revealed its true form!

Compared to the colossal Silver Demon King, which spans thousands of kilometers, this eerie demonic shadow is only one hundred kilometers high and one-thousandth the size.

Its appearance resembles a two-dimensional creature composed entirely of black and white pixels, filled with noise, with black as the base color and white accents on some organs.

It even lacks a mouth and nose, and its head, which is pitch black like a two-dimensional twisted flame, has only three pairs of pure white, narrow eyes that seem to have been painted on.

Unlike ordinary humanoid creatures, it does not have the concept of limbs, but has four pairs of dark, twisted tentacles that resemble octopus tentacles.

Eight tentacles suddenly stretched forward and collided head-on with the annihilating light.

Like its clone, it was suppressed by the will of the abyss, but as the true body, the aura it revealed was even weaker than that of the clone, the Silver Ghost King. This shows that in terms of life gene multiplier alone, this true body is still inferior to the clone.

As early as when the Silver Demon King and the Black Demon King were fighting and unleashing their full power, Hunzhen already knew that he had misjudged the strength of the two kings.

They are not at the initial level of Marquis; without the support of the Abyss's power, they are already at the peak of Marquis level, approaching the level of King.

The reason is simple: over the long years, the two kings' understanding of the laws has become frighteningly high. With their excellent time and space talents, even if they have not broken through to the realm lord level, they have both reached the level of the universe venerable.

A profound understanding of the laws of the universe, with a life gene multiplier of thousands of times and a spatial law compatibility of hundreds of times.

This created two beings who, even at the Domain Lord level, could rival those at the peak of the Marquis level.

In reality, the Silver Demon King is probably much stronger than the Black Demon King.

Because he was an avatar of Xingluo, his understanding of the laws was naturally superior when he was simultaneously comprehending the laws of the main body and the avatar.

To what extent exactly, Hunzhen had no idea.

If Hunzhen is not mistaken, neither the Silver Ghost King nor the Black Demon King possesses the talent to comprehend the laws of space or time. Their talents in the other realm are probably the same as those of ordinary beings with low talents.

Even with exceptional talent in a single superior law, there is almost no hope of breaking through to the level of a universe master.

But Xingluo is different; this true form is naturally able to comprehend other laws.

Hunzhen can only be understood through simulation and future vision. Xingluo's comprehension of the laws is high, but it doesn't create a fundamental difference between him and the Black Demon King. Apart from the laws of space, in other aspects, he is at most at the level of a King-level Immortal.

The life gene multiplier of Xingluo himself is probably only one-tenth of that of Yin Guiwang, that is, 100 times the gene multiplier.

Furthermore, while he doesn't possess the terrifying spatial compatibility of the Silver Demon King, his peak combat power as an Immortal Army Lord is already considered heaven-defying.

Under the suppression of the Abyss's will and the weakening effect of the backlash from breaking through, the strength of the main body and the clone was reduced to one percent and one-tenth respectively.

That is, at most ten times the peak combat power of a World Lord and the initial combat power of a Marquis.

Conversely, if Hunzhen hadn't seized the moment of Xingluo's breakthrough, he would now be facing someone who barely managed to become a king and someone who barely managed to become a marquis.

A difference of a mere foot can lead to a vast misunderstanding; this is a perfect example.

The scene eight years ago when the Silver Ghost King instantly regained his energy after failing to possess another body already proves that Star Luo most likely possesses the ability to instantly convert the energy of the main body and the clone.

Unless Hunzhen annihilates the original body in an instant, Xingluo will most likely be able to recover to its original state through the massive energy reserves of his clone, Yin Guiwang.

However, compared to the Silver Demon King, the true form, whose strength is less than one-hundredth of the original, naturally consumes hundreds or thousands of times more energy when defending.

Taking advantage of Xingluo's injury, Hunzhen naturally wanted to seize the time and use his hundredfold efficiency to consume him.

As for directly using the secret technique of possession?

That would mean that the power of the abyss's will would be divided between Hunzhen and Xingluo, instantly turning their original advantage into a disadvantage.

Only after exhausting most of Xingluo's power, leaving him with no chance of recovery, will Hunzhen use the secret technique of possession.

At the cost of his own injury, he unleashed the final form of the Primordial Divine Weapon to suppress Xingluo's clone and main body, and then unleashed the eighth killing move of the Primordial Divine Weapon under the enhancement of the final form at the fastest speed.

The ending was anchored by a vision of the future.

This move, "The Thousand Annihilation of the Universe," which is powerful enough to pierce through time and space, finally struck the black and white demonic shadow of Xingluo himself.

The next moment, the Silver Ghost King's clone reacted. While the energy supporting the main body's defense surged and decreased, it also unleashed a punch that could shatter space from a distance towards Hunzhen.

Hunzhen controlled tens of thousands of annihilation lights, his eyes sparkling as he faced a punch that shattered spacetime.

He did not intend to dodge; only by maintaining a stable state to control the Annihilation Light could he unleash the full power of this eighth killing move.

"Seventh level of the Primordial Divine Weapon - Boundless Universe".

As I murmured in my heart, millions of raindrops suddenly spread out, forming a thousand transparent membranes.

The space where Hunzhen was located was instantly divided and spread out into thousands of layers.

Under the bombardment of the Silver Demon King, the thousand-layered space was instantly annihilated.

But in the end, the light of annihilation remained undisturbed from beginning to end.

Despite suffering no damage from the combined frontal attacks over two instants, the Silver Demon King's total energy decreased by two-thousandths.

Without a doubt, all this energy was consumed by its own defense.

Don't underestimate the fact that it's only two-thousandths; given its enormous size, it represents an incredibly terrifying energy loss.

This also means that in that brief moment, Hunzhen killed the original body almost twice.

Based on the history of the Silver Demon King recovering to its full strength in one go eight years ago, the energy reserve limit of Xingluo's Demon Shadow Main Body can at least reach half of the Silver Demon King's clone.

The reason for using the Silver Demon King's energy reserves to offset the energy consumption of the main body is quite simple.

Given the Silver Demon King's enormous size, its energy absorption efficiency far surpasses that of the Demon Shadow itself. This approach is naturally intended to accelerate the rate at which it absorbs surrounding energy to recover.

The first layer of the abyss is the most energy-scarce, so such an increase in efficiency is like a drop in the ocean. However, Xingluo still pursues the ultimate efficiency, which can only prove one thing—he dares not take it lightly in the slightest.

After the Silver Demon King shattered a thousand layers of spatial interlayers, a silvery, mercury-like substance suddenly condensed in front of Hunzhen, who was hiding in the deepest part of the space.

The metallic life form "Exusiai" that Hunzhen had been cultivating for a long time could no longer keep up with his current rate of progress, but setting aside the primordial weapon, in terms of defensive capabilities alone, it was still superior to Hunzhen's original body.

This final, powerful punch weakened Exusiai's aura to the point that she reverted to her spherical form, effectively rendering her unable to fight.

However, this also prevented Hunzhen from being harmed again. With a flash, he disappeared into the rain.

Silver Demon King narrowed his enormous eyes.

He had already realized that the punch he had just delivered had caused one-tenth of this rain-fed domain to collapse.

And that is indeed the case.

"The Infinite Universe" is the seventh level of the Primordial Spirit Weapon, so it naturally does not need to rely on the final form to unfold.

Those thousands of spatial layers formed by the condensation of millions of raindrops are essentially a thousand sub-beads of the Primordial Divine Weapon.

Unless all 10081 beads are completely shattered, the Yuan Shen weapon can gradually recover to its original state.

But recovery also takes time.

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Within at least a few days, the maximum power of the Yuan Shen weapon will be reduced to nine-tenths.

Hunzhen knew the future and influenced Xingluo's breakthrough time in advance, allowing him to immediately refresh the simulation count for a new day and return to his peak after being blasted away and severely injured by a punch.

However, since the Yuan Shen weapon is not a component of the Hun Zhen, it obviously cannot be restored by simulation and inheritance.

At first glance, losing one-tenth of the primordial spirit weapon and depleting two-thousandths of the Silver Ghost King's energy seems like a net loss...

boom--!

The Silver Demon King moved at high speed, its massive body covered in countless raindrops, yet its speed showed no signs of slowing down as it pursued Hunzhen.

The Silver Demon King's clone has already devoured the Black Demon King and completed the evolution of its life essence, breaking the shackles that made it almost impossible to cultivate the laws of time, and even possessing a certain degree of compatibility with the laws of time.

The Abyss of Purgatory is essentially a special life form that failed to be conceived and is based on space and time; the power it controls is naturally also related to space and time.

Now that the pressure on Xingluo has naturally decreased significantly, it is possible to confront it head-on and break through to the realm master level.

However, the time laws of Xingluo are ultimately far from reaching the same level as the space laws.

The moment the primordial spirit weapon was activated, the primordial essence was fully unleashed.

Demon form, Bloodlust power, Life Source eruption.

The burst of life force cannot be sustained for long; with Hunzhen's current strength, he couldn't even last a day.

But with futuristic vision, he can switch instantly and activate it at the necessary moment.

Maintain a combat strength close to that of an immortal military lord.

Suppressed by the power of the Abyss's will, the Star Luo Silver Ghost King's clone could only maintain the initial combat strength of a Marquis.

Being granted a marquisate is enough to overshadow a military commander, but it's not enough to ignore him.

As a clone of the Silver Ghost King, who is like a child of space, he cannot swim freely like a fish in the domain of the Yuan Shen Bing Wu Shi, but is instead hindered at every turn.

The most striking evidence is that although the Silver Demon King appeared to be bursting at full speed, he did not actually use the method of merging into the void and breaking the speed of light.

Hunzhen could not be caught by the Silver Ghost King.

Previously, Silver Demon King's hasty attack, which hit him head-on, nearly killed him on the spot.

This demonstrates the power of Silver Demon King's punch.

Of course, this is also related to Hunzhen's complete abandonment of defense in order to perfectly deploy the Yuan Shen weapon.

Despite being weakened and affected in many ways, the Silver Demon King is still a Marquis-level fighter. Even if Hunzhen relies on his future vision, he will still encounter unavoidable moves and clashes.

Faced with this situation, he could only use "Infinite Universe" to hide in the spatial layer for defense, which ultimately led to a sharp increase in the rate at which his primordial spirit weapon was destroyed.

Even so, he did not only defend and dodge, but also tried to attack Xingluo himself.

He was consuming a huge amount of psychic energy to unleash his killing move.

The only guarantee is to keep one's body unharmed and maintain a perfectly safe posture.

Hunzhen was perfectly aware that the "Unique Life Source" could replenish the lost Origin Force and psychic power, but he was not immortal. Once he was injured, even if he consumed a huge amount of Origin Force, it would take some time to fully repair himself.

Just like Xingluo himself, he was only truly injured during the backlash of his breakthrough, but he has not recovered to this day.

As for Hunzhen, being injured would inevitably lead to a decline in his condition and strength, making it impossible for him to maintain a stalemate with Xingluo.

In other words, just like before when trying to perfectly unfold the final domain, one must waste a simulated inheritance opportunity and choose material inheritance to repair the body.

In the blink of an eye, a day has passed.

Hunzhen's life force and mental power were almost exhausted, and his primordial spirit weapon was almost completely destroyed.

But then he waved his right hand, and a new primordial spirit weapon flew out of his spatial ring.

He ventured into the Abyss of Purgatory, so naturally he had more than one Yuan Shen weapon in reserve.

Xingluo was not surprised at all when he saw this scene; he had already foreseen it.

He captured the instant when Hunzhen switched to his primordial spirit weapon and his domain disappeared.

However, the more powerful Silver Ghost King clone used its spacetime domain to imprison Hunzhen, while the much weaker original split into three. Twenty-four pitch-black tentacles, entangled with ominous black flames and black lightning, suddenly stabbed at the immobile Hunzhen.

However, despite the numerous tentacles piercing through Hunzhen's body, it was as if they had missed, with no sense of hitting anything.

The next moment, the rain poured down again.

Hunzhen stared at the ghostly figure, his eyes radiating an illusory silver-gray firelight.

He had foreseen this scene.

Switching between old and new Yuan Shen weapons does take time, but if the switch is made before the Yuan Shen weapon is damaged by more than half, even with Xing Luo's strength, he will not be able to detect that gap.

This was, of course, a trap he set on his own initiative.

In his demon form, his understanding of time was sufficient to unleash a move that could only be performed under normal circumstances by comprehending the "time acceleration" law—time jump.

He foresaw the scene of Xingluo making a desperate gamble by launching a surprise attack on his true form. Half a second before Yin Guiwang suppressed him with his spacetime domain, he hid in the timeline one second later, causing both the spacetime domain suppression and Xingluo's attack to miss.

"The universe is annihilated."

Under the ultimate domain, neither Xingluo's true form nor his clones can escape into the void.

The endless light of annihilation sliced ​​the three demonic shadows hundreds of times in an instant.

Unlike the first time it was used, the Silver Demon King was unable to return to defense immediately. At this extremely close range, the killing efficiency of the Annihilation Light increased dramatically.

As a reserve energy source, the Silver Demon King's aura showed obvious fluctuations.

The original energy loss of 0.2% has now climbed to 1%.

(End of this chapter)