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"Is that... a God?!"
The thought echoed simultaneously in the minds of thousands. Most of the soldiers, overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the being before them, collapsed to the ground, prostrating themselves in frantic worship.
Xu Chen, slowly recovering from his state of near-death, stared up at the starlight-colored mecha reaching into the heavens. His heart hammered against his ribs with a violent, erratic rhythm.
"I... how did I ever dare to provoke such a monster?!"
He struggled to find words, his mouth agape. In this moment, he didn't even feel like an ant. No—he felt like a tiny blue louse.
Tian Feng looked at Xu Chen's shattered world-view. Suppressing the unease in her own heart, she spoke in a low, urgent tone, "Chen'er! He is of a peerless generation, a man capable of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our Lord! What was wrong with your brain to ever think of crossing him?!"
"I..." Xu Chen was speechless, his arrogance stripped away by the shadow of the giant.
Nearby, Title Douluos like the Purple Emperor and the Sun-Moon Douluo were visibly trembling. If they had truly enraged Ye Lan, the Sun-Moon Empire might have been wiped from the map in a single day.
In contrast, Du Deshi watched the colossus with a manic, fanatical gleam in his eyes. "Ahahaha! Ye Lan, is this your true power?! What a perfect creature! In your presence, my own vitality seems like a pathetic joke!"
The Three-Headed Scarlet Hellhound peered upward, its tail unconsciously tucked between its legs. It murmured, "Xiong Ba... do you think we were a bit too arrogant earlier?"
The Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear rubbed its blood-red eyes with a massive paw. It still couldn't believe such a monster actually existed in this world.
"Xiao Bing," the Demon King Douluo said, his mouth hanging open as he turned to the Ice Empress. "Isn't Ye Lan a bit... big? No, this won't do. I have to eat more from now on!"
"Ow!" He clutched his head, looking at her reproachfully after she smacked him.
"Eat more? You're a human now!" the Ice Jade Scorpion Empress snapped. "No matter how much you eat, your Martial Soul True Body won't get any taller!"
Di Tian looked up at the 8,000-meter-tall starry mecha, his eyes a mixture of awe and deep-seated worry. He was shocked by the terrifying vitality surging within it; it was nearly equal to the Silver Dragon King's current state. Yet, an instinctual dread gnawed at him. As he looked at the Emerald and Dark Furnaces on the mecha's chest, the sense of impending disaster grew stronger.
For the Titled Douluos of the Spirit Hall, like Scarlet Crow and Silver Butterfly, they looked upon the machine with religious fervor. This was their Saint—the final hope and miracle of the Spirit Hall.
Bone Douluo patted Sword Douluo on the shoulder. "Old Sword, I never expected Xiao Lan to reach this level. Even the so-called Gods probably look like nothing before him!"
"It's terrifying," Sword Douluo replied. "I feel as though my Seven Kill Sword—even combined with your power and Fengzhi's support—couldn't even leave a scratch on that hull."
Qingluan and Golden Crocodile Douluo laughed heartily. "As expected of the Spirit Hall's Saint!"
However, Golden Crocodile noticed the somber expressions on Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong. "Big brother, Little Xue, what are you worried about?"
Qian Daoliu sighed. "With our mental strength, we can sense that Ye Lan's spiritual realm doesn't match this massive vitality. Gu Yuena's spiritual level, however, far surpasses all three of us combined. Even the Evil Eye Tyrant King, known for its mental prowess, would be insignificant before her. I fear she will exploit this weakness to defeat him."
Five thousand meters in the sky, Gu Yuena scrutinized the giant before her. A flicker of emotion passed through her eyes.
Ye Lan's current size rivaled the Dragon God of old—perhaps it was even larger. Sensing the energy within the Blue Silver Life Mecha, the "Dragon God Core" in her chest throbbed. She realized with a shock that he possessed the foundation of two God-Kings: the Tree of Life and the Destruction Staff.
Has he truly inherited the legacy of two God-Kings?
She suppressed her shock. Only through combat could she truly gauge his strength. Suddenly, her chest felt tight, and a trace of blood leaked from the corner of her mouth. Her heart jolted; she realized she was already within his damage domain. Tiny particles of Ultimate Life soul power were invading her body, attacking her from the inside.
"Elemental Control Domain! Ultimate Elemental Deprivation!"
A seven-colored domain erupted from her. In an instant, the elemental particles surrounding her thinned out, neutralizing most of the domain damage.
"I can't fully immune it? What level of vitality is this?!" she marveled.
Inside the mecha, Ye Lan was still adapting. The body was so immense that the 10,000-meter city walls below looked like a small worm, and the soldiers within resembled specks of dust. Because the damage from "Blue Silver Sublimation" was so lethal, he took care to lock the effect onto Gu Yuena alone; otherwise, everyone within the 80,000-meter radius would have been vaporized instantly.
After a few seconds, he was ready. He didn't know how strong a God was, but he was confident he could crush a Third-Class God Officer. With an attack value 160 times the limit of a Quasi-God, he refused to believe a God Officer could be stronger than that.
Ye Lan steeled his nerves. His sun-like pupils locked onto Gu Yuena. Seeing her nine-colored domain, he noted that his passive damage was now mostly ineffective. But for him, that damage was merely a bonus.
Gu Yuena's first six pale-gold rings glowed with blinding light. She clearly had no intention of holding back.
Within the blink of an eye, elemental attacks above her head expanded to a thousand meters in size. Blades of cutting wind, spheres of destruction, meteors, and miniature suns illuminated the sky for tens of thousands of meters. Against the brilliance of this nine-colored sky, even Ye Lan's 8,000-meter height seemed less overwhelming.
"What a freak..." Ye Lan muttered.
The hidden batteries on his right arm deployed. Faced with the oncoming tide of elements, the Blue Silver Life Mecha unleashed its full firepower. Beams of "Light of Origin," "Canglan Seas," "Destruction Spheres," "Solar Rays," and "Ball Lightning" shrieked toward the elemental sky.
Blinding explosions rocked the atmosphere at an altitude of several thousand meters. Violent shockwaves tore through the air, forcing Di Tian and Qian Daoliu to move their troops even further away. The mere aftershocks of this clash would have been fatal to any low-level Spirit Master.
Through her violet eyes, Gu Yuena watched the firestorm with disbelief. Despite wielding the "Silver Dragon Spear" and her unparalleled mastery of elements, she was only managing a stalemate in a long-range exchange.
"Is it the Divine Tools?" she murmured. "No, even with those, his elemental mastery shouldn't be enough to match me. Something is wrong with that metal monster's attack frequency!"
She realized that while she could condense dozens of kilometer-scale attacks per second, Ye Lan was pouring out energy at a rate of hundreds of pulses per second.
"Impossible! The mental processing required to attract, condense, and release elements at that frequency would fry the brain of any living being! He has to calculate every angle and direction to ensure his own attacks don't interfere with one another!"
She didn't know that Ye Lan's mind was currently being drowned out by mechanical alerts.
[System: Calculation Overload!!] [System: Engine Overheating!!] [System: Activating Ultimate Ice Cooling Module!!]
If not for his sixteen external brains and the 200x consciousness acceleration of the integrated auto-attack system, his head would have literally exploded trying to track her movements.
Suddenly, Gu Yuena changed her tactics. In a blur, she seemed to split into six silver phantoms, appearing simultaneously at six points around the mecha—top, bottom, front, back, left, and right. Each phantom unleashed a massive elemental barrage.
"Trying to drown out my processing speed?" Ye Lan whispered.
"Overclocking Module: Activated!"
The giant mecha flashed with gold and purple light. The attack frequency of every turret surged again. The colossus began to spin with terrifying speed, unleashing a 360-degree curtain of fire to intercept the incoming elements.
While negating her barrage, Ye Lan locked onto her true position. Gu Yuena was using spatial jumps to increase her coverage, which meant her localized firepower was actually dropping. This was his opening.
He picked a direction and accelerated. A massive conical shockwave formed around the mecha as he shattered the sound barrier, covering thousands of meters in a heartbeat. He angled his flight upward, drawing the battle into the stratosphere—tens of thousands of meters high—to prevent the total destruction of the landscape below.
Flashes of light and sonic booms followed them into the heavens. Once they reached the high atmosphere, Ye Lan felt the Water Dragon King Claw on his right arm thrum with life.
"Gu Yuena, I'm getting serious now!" Ye Lan projected.
"Are you implying," she replied with a hint of irritation, "that you were merely playing with me until now?!"
Eight pillars of blazing flame erupted from the mecha's back. It lunged across ten thousand meters in an instant, appearing right before her. Gu Yuena's pupils shrank; she was stunned by his sheer speed.
The mecha threw a punch.
Gu Yuena flickered, using her spatial ability to shift tens of thousands of meters away. The starlight-colored fist struck empty space, shattering the void and creating a localized vacuum that sucked in the surrounding atmosphere.
Seeing he had missed, Ye Lan watched her begin to condense another massive elemental sphere.
"AT Field: Max Output!"
His speed surged again. Before her next attack could fully form, he was barreling toward her like a golden meteor.
"No matter how fast you are," she called out, "you cannot outrun space itself!"
She stepped back, preparing to jump hundreds of kilometers away to begin preparing "The End." But as she vanished, the mecha deployed a deep-blue domain.
"Boundless Sea: Activate!"
Inside the domain, Gu Yuena felt her movement speed plummet by 50%. It wasn't enough to stop a spatial jump, but it was enough to stagger it. She reappeared only ten thousand meters away, her brow furrowed.
She realized she was now trapped inside a sphere of ice twenty thousand meters in diameter. It was an evolution of his water domain.
"This domain is formed from Ultimate Ice," Ye Lan's voice boomed. "It is called 'Infinite Frost.' No one can use spatial abilities to leave this area. All external spatial coordinates have been shielded."
"I see," she murmured, her composure returning.
Ye Lan was surprised by her calm. "A word of warning, Gu Yuena. In this form, my strongest attack isn't the endless energy fire from my left arm—it's the Water Dragon King Claw on my right."
"The power of its burst is roughly 160 times the limit of a Quasi-God."
"Now that the space within ten thousand meters is sealed, can you really withstand me?"
Gu Yuena's heart skipped a beat. If he was telling the truth, that single strike was equivalent to the combined might of over a dozen Gods.
In the next heartbeat, Ye Lan was upon her. A terrifying strike—the "Dragon God Claw: Ultimate Ice"—swept toward her. It moved so fast it seemed to freeze time itself. It struck her silken form, and her figure split in two.
(End of Chapter)