A galaxy had seemingly transformed into a brain.
This scene left even the arriving Blood Demon God King in awe.
He knew this wasn't the starry sky transforming into the shape of a brain.
In reality, this was someone who had cultivated their brain into a galaxy!
Only by doing so could they, after gaining control of this starry expanse, operate the entire galaxy in the form of a brain.
The galaxy as a mind—or rather, the mind as a galaxy.
The dazzling starlight was mesmerizing but also emanated a deadly danger.
The Beast God King noticed the change in the starry sky and his expression shifted slightly.
Though he hadn't fully grasped the current state of the starry expanse from the outside, his understanding of stellar energy allowed him to sense the transformation. Now, the entire starry sky seemed unfamiliar.
"What's going on?"
When he attempted to mobilize stellar energy, he felt a sluggishness.
It wasn't that he couldn't mobilize it anymore—it was just that the stellar energy now seemed more advanced and harder to manipulate. It was like an ordinary cultivator trying to harness stellar energy while only capable of normally drawing on ambient elemental energy—extremely difficult.
However, in an instant, the Beast God King found a slightly easier way to mobilize the energy: using his two demonic hands in conjunction with himself. This meant that the current stellar energy seemed to involve the domain of demons.
Even so, the difficulty of mobilizing stellar energy still increased for him.
Atop the Beast God King's head, his pair of enormous horns grew even larger, with thunderous power brewing within them.
Waves of destructive thunder spread out.
The lightning within the giant horns compressed until it almost turned pitch black.
The black lightning, like a laser ready to fire, was undergoing extreme compression within the confines of the horns, causing unease as if it might explode at any moment.
His pair of ice-and-fire arms once again generated celestial flames and celestial ice, re-condensing into the dual extremes of ice and fire.
The ice and fire extremes didn't intertwine directly. Instead, after the black lightning shot out from the giant horns like a laser, the ice and fire entwined around the black lightning, enveloping it as if serving as intricate patterns for the black lightning.
The Beast God King's eyes flickered.
Though executing this ultimate technique proved more challenging this time, he felt that he might have stumbled upon an opportunity to advance further.
He looked toward Xu Yuan across from him.
The black lightning, entangled with the ice and fire dragons, pierced through. Xu Yuan took a deep breath and activated the Heavenly Origin Domain.
Simultaneously, the galaxy rotated, and all the power converged into his hand in an instant.
The vast stellar energy instantly transformed into the nine elemental forces, which then merged into one.
The fusion of these nine elements astonishingly assumed a chaotic state.
This was Xu Yuan's new method born from his understanding of chaos.
Undoubtedly, compared to the chaos evolved from the five elements and yin-yang, the fusion of the nine elements was far more explosive.
For Xu Yuan, the five elements and yin-yang were more suitable for cultivation.
The fusion of the nine elements formed a chaotic state, condensing into a long dragon that lunged toward the black lightning.
Boom!
Space shattered.
Where it broke, a pitch-black void appeared.
The Beast God King's expression drastically changed as he quickly retreated. A pair of wings suddenly emerged behind his back, and with just a single flap, they carried him swiftly hundreds of miles away.
His gaze remained fixed on the center of the explosion.
"The surrounding starry sky has all been brought under this guy's control."
The Beast God King now understood the foundation of this junior's confidence.
Insufficient personal energy? Compensate with external energy.
Though all God Kings could harness the forces of heaven and earth, the scale at which this person drew upon external forces was excessive, making the Beast God King feel as though he had reached a higher level—a level beyond what a God King should be.
Suddenly, a ripple came, and the Beast God King looked toward Falan Planet.
"Another God King? An aura I've never felt before." The Beast God King's expression grew heavy.
On the other side, Xu Yuan also sensed the arrival of the Blood Demon. Without hesitation, he immediately launched an attack on the Beast God King.
The galaxy rotated, and in silence, Xu Yuan appeared before the Beast God King, holding a spear of chaotic energy condensed from the nine elements.
The spear descended, pulling the power of the entire starry sky with it, crashing down with immense force.
The Beast God King raised his pair of black arms, enduring Xu Yuan's strike head-on.
These arms were indeed no ordinary limbs; they felt to Xu Yuan like weapons, akin to an independent super divine artifact.
But even after this strike, Xu Yuan didn't stop.
Seizing the initiative, he continuously wielded the spear.
Within the spear techniques lay terrifying energy. Every strike was a full-powered blow from a God King, each movement appearing simple yet containing changes in space and time, impossible to evade and only blockable in the manner Xu Yuan anticipated.
The entire battle rhythm was under Xu Yuan's control.
However, a veteran God King was still a veteran God King. The Beast God King, relying on his four hands and pair of giant horns, managed to defend against Xu Yuan's attacks seamlessly.
Even though Xu Yuan harnessed the power of the starry sky, he couldn't unleash every strike to its maximum potential during continuous assaults. At this point, raw strength mattered most.
His spear techniques were exquisite, but his power lacked.
In just three minutes, they had exchanged over a hundred moves. From initial suppression to later countering each move, Xu Yuan adapted.
The Beast God King, with his four hands and pair of giant horns, displayed extremely flexible techniques. Most importantly, his combat skills were more primitive and brutal, honed through battles with the demon race.
Back in the Demon Beast Star era, humans and beasts combined, gradually giving rise to the beastmen race to resist the demon race. Under the pressure of the demon God Kings, the Beast God King endured and honed himself, facing life-and-death battles countless times. Situations where "two fists couldn't match four hands" occurred no less than a hundred times.
No matter how flawless Xu Yuan's spear techniques were, there would always be a way to counter them.
There was no such thing as an absolutely undefendable spear technique—if there were, it would surely come at the cost of mutual injury.
After a hundred exchanges, Xu Yuan's spear techniques improved, and his use of stellar energy began to evolve.
Yin and yang are mutually generated.
He no longer relied solely on cosmic forces but also began to draw upon the power of nothingness, stimulating another aspect of the universe's stellar energy from the void.
At first, it was very weak, but as the battle progressed, he gradually found his footing and integrated it into his spear techniques.
Without the initial overwhelming advantage and with the Beast God King's four hands and pair of giant horns, Xu Yuan couldn't continue to suppress him but managed to hold his ground, avoiding falling further behind.
His power caught up!
The Beast God King's expression darkened.
He realized something.
This person had come to temper himself.
The obvious progress was glaringly evident, with each adjustment of force feeling like every strike was part of a cultivation session.
Thus, despite his displeasure, the Beast God King refrained from escalating the conflict.
He recognized Xu Yuan's terrifying potential.
Progress during combat indicated that his current realm was far from reaching his limit.
"Boom!"
The Beast God King rapidly gathered a burst of black lightning atop his giant horns, firing it toward Xu Yuan.
With it nearly upon him, Xu Yuan had no choice but to raise his spear in defense.
In the explosion, Xu Yuan's spear dissipated, and half of his body was blown apart.
Even retreating into nothingness, he was still struck.
This battle also yielded gains for the Beast God King.
However, his method of combining the aspects of existence and nothingness was still crude, nowhere near as refined as Xu Yuan's ability to complete it within a single battle.
Having forced Xu Yuan back, the Beast God King turned his attention once again toward Falan Planet.
"Esteemed one, since you're here, why hide?"
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