Covering the Sky: A Guide to Proving the Dao Without Cheats

"Is he... insane?" Xia Jiuyou murmured to herself.

"What a ruthless person..." Black Emperor couldn't help but mutter.

As the holy light that raged across the battlefield gradually dissipated, the man and the dog were finally able to see each other clearly.

Most of the weaker cultivators on the bandit side were reduced to ashes, and many others were seriously injured. Only a few strong individuals with strength reaching the fourth level or above remained unharmed.

On the other hand, the Yao Guang Holy Land side was completely unharmed, regardless of their cultivation level.

Even some disciples who were previously injured were quickly healed by the aftereffects of Luo Heng's holy light.

Upon seeing this, Xia Jiuyou and the Black Emperor were once again stunned.

"Woof! How did this brat do that? It's truly amazing!" Black King exclaimed in amazement.

Xia Jiuyou's expression was extremely complicated, with a mixture of joy and resentment in her eyes, and her small face was twisted in a very distressed way.

Within the Luoxia Mining Area, whether it was the scholarly youth, the burly man, or the other disciples of Yaoguang Sect, everyone looked up in awe, staring at that figure with expressions of shock—

He stood silently high in the sky, surrounded by holy light and celestial music, like a divine child descended from the heavens, untouched by the mortal world, yet illuminating the entire realm.

Standing high in the sky, Luo Heng showed no signs of fatigue, remaining serenely suspended in mid-air. As the sacred and ethereal music lingered, he looked down, his robes fluttering gently in the breeze.

At this moment, Luo Heng was like a duck on the water: calm on the surface, but frantically struggling on the surface.

In the unseen depths of the Sea of ​​Bitterness, he was frantically drawing divine power from the Great Luo Heaven to replenish his nearly depleted body.

That terrifying blow had drained all the divine power from his body.

As for why this attack had such a terrifying effect, it was precisely because he used part of his authority as the Lord of the Great Luo Heaven.

This permission, in simple terms, is a kind of restricted "omnipotence".

Of course, this "all-around" must be put in quotation marks.

It only works within the area covered by "Da Luo Tian" and currently can only achieve what Luo Heng himself could originally do.

If one were to attempt to use it to accomplish something that Luo Heng could not achieve on his own, the consumption would become terrifyingly immeasurable.

For example, if Luo Heng attacks a thousand times, theoretically he can achieve the same effect as before. So, by using this "omnipotence", he can display the same power in an instant.

Furthermore, Luo Heng can use Holy Light to attack enemies and heal teammates, so he can use Holy Light to damage enemies and heal teammates at the same time in the same attack.

It's an effect like that.

However, if Luo Heng wanted the Holy Light to directly transform a man into a woman—something he himself couldn't do—then attempting to force it through "omnipotence" would come at a price he couldn't bear.

This contains an underlying logic that is similar to "equivalent exchange".

The more divine power one expends, the more significant and swift the results will be.

However, the process of transforming ordinary divine power into this "omnipotent" power is extremely costly, with approximately 90% of the divine power dissipating during the process.

In other words, if one wants to achieve a certain effect instantly through "omnipotence," the divine power required is approximately ten times that required to achieve the same effect slowly in a conventional way.

Using the same example as before, for instance, if Luo Heng attacks a thousand times and achieves the same result;

However, if one were to borrow the power of the Great Luo Heaven and unleash its full might in an instant, it would require the equivalent of ten thousand attacks in terms of divine power consumption.

This is because his current control over the Great Luo Heaven is still shallow, with only about 10% of the authority.

Luo Heng estimated that as his control over the Great Luo Heaven deepened, the conversion loss would decrease.

If he had complete control over the Great Luo Heaven, he might be truly omniscient and omnipotent within it.

No, perhaps by controlling more than 60%, one can gradually seize the remaining portion by leveraging the world's authority, at which point one will no longer need to exert any effort.

With a thought racing through his mind, Luo Heng silently gazed at the four figures soaring into the sky from the battlefield—

These were the four strongest members of the bandit group who had survived the holy light cleansing.

The burly man who had shouted earlier wielded a purple lightning hammer that was half his height and slammed it down on Luo Heng's head.

The hammer swelled in the wind the moment it was swung down, growing to the size of a mountain, and crashed down with the force of wind and thunder, its power terrifying.

Upon seeing this, Luo Heng instead withdrew his holy light domain.

He tilted his head slightly, retracted his fist, and then threw a punch.

"Buzz—"

A small, shimmering phantom world suddenly appeared on Luo Heng's fist, radiating holy light. Inside, unseen by anyone, six ancient characters were slowly rotating.

That holy light world, no bigger than a human head, carrying immense power that distorted space, collided violently with the mountain-sized purple lightning hammer.

The next instant, a shocking scene unfolded—Luo Heng remained motionless, yet the giant purple lightning hammer began to crack inch by inch from its head, then exploded into countless fragments that shot back and towards the sky.

The burly man wielding the hammer exploded into a cloud of blood mist from the force of the impact, and he was sent flying backward like a tattered sack.

Upon seeing this, the other three who had rushed over together stopped abruptly, their gazes involuntarily falling on the old man who had been standing quietly in front of Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi.

The old man had quietly appeared here after Luo Heng's holy light strike that covered the entire battlefield.

As a powerful cultivator who had undergone the first transformation of the Dragon Transformation Realm, he naturally recognized that the youth in the air was only at the Other Shore Realm. Although he didn't know what kind of secret treasure the other party used to unleash such a large-scale attack, it wasn't enough for him to take it seriously.

Although the attack was terrifying and covered the entire area, its power against a single target was only barely at the edge of the fourth level.

What truly instilled a sense of awe and made him dare not be careless in the slightest were the other people who had come with the young man.

Especially the two old men, whose auras were as deep as ancient wells, were completely unfathomable to him despite his cultivation level.

In his perception, the two people seemed like ordinary people with no cultivation, but that was obviously impossible.

If the other side is not foolish, and dares to come to the rescue after seeing our strength, there must be a truly powerful person hidden in their team.

Besides the boy in the sky, there was only a little girl and a black dog left—they didn't seem like anything that could turn the tide of the battle.

So all that was left were those two seemingly ordinary old men.

He was confident that his eyesight was not mistaken—these two old men were no ordinary people.

Therefore, despite Luo Heng's astonishing attack, the old man still chose to keep a close eye on Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi. He was confident that he could control the two with his own abilities, and as for the young man in the sky, he would leave him to his subordinates to deal with.

Seeing that his subordinate couldn't even withstand a single punch, the old man's expression turned somewhat grim, but he still dared not make a move.

The closer he got, the more unfathomable the two old men seemed.

He felt that if he didn't move, he might still have a fighting chance, but if he turned around to deal with the boy, he would probably be attacked from behind by the two old men.