Chapter 430 — Not Playing by the Rules Again

A terrifying sonic boom, trailing a fist wind compressed to its utter limit, slammed into the bear's face. Cracks spidered instantly through the rock of its features, and its whole head tilted slightly back.

Shi Shuo's fist had actually wounded the Great Earth Desolate Bear!!!

It was the faintest graze imaginable, one that could not even affect the bear—and yet in that moment, every lifeform watching this battle froze in place.

Earlier, over on the Donghuang side, the Mythic Source Legend, Lin Shuo, and the others had still been puzzling over why Shi Jin did not send out his beasts.

Now, their worldview shattered, they realized—this wretched child actually meant to go up himself? This brat, not acting human again?!

"What the hell!"

Ye Xing, Shen Ling, and the rest, who had just arrived, all looked up at the arena with startled expressions.

They had come to watch Shi Ying perform—and then Shi Shuo pulled that move and left them utterly speechless.

"This."

Every World Championship contestant who had challenged the Great Earth Desolate Bear before stood dumbstruck, doubting their own eyes.

Those overlords looked at their own fragile level-six servants, then back at Shi Jin on the arena, who had wounded the Great Earth Desolate Bear with a single blow.

"Ah, this."

Bai Xi was utterly stunned.

She felt that even in fusion state, she could not have delivered that blow.

Beside her, Lu Heng and Lin Zhuo were both frozen by Shi Tan's single strike.

Legend after legend, demigod after demigod... every brow furrowed in unison.

"Tch." Shi Jin felt the recoil coursing through his body and looked at the Great Earth Desolate Bear, which had already healed its light wound in an instant, and fell silent.

As expected—relying on physical strength alone, was he only ever going to be crushed by this big fellow?

"ROAR!!!!"

Having taken the blow without the slightest effect, the Great Earth Desolate Bear gathered a Rock Roar Cannon in its furious maw and swept it toward Shi Jin in midair.

At the same time, a massive palm swung at Shi Jin.

Yet in the sky, Shi Jin's movements were not restricted in the least.

To move freely, he unleashed full-level telekinesis.

All around Shi Jin, the air began to hum and vibrate; materialized psychic force wound about him in a deep azure outline.

It let him fly freely through the air.

In that instant, Shi Ying's pupils were dyed a profound, bottomless blue. He raised a hand, and in a flash a flood of psychic force, vast as an ocean, surged up to block the brown pillar of the Rock Roar Cannon!!

Under the cannon's impact, Shi Ying's body was driven rapidly backward through the sky—but the cannon's form, squeezed by the telekinesis, twisted and warped without cease!!

BOOM!!!

Finally, through Shi Ying's efforts, his arm shot upward, wrenching the Rock Roar Cannon off its course, and Shi Jin flung it skyward with his psychic power.

By this point, the crowd had lost all capacity for thought; the beast tamers of the Totem Kingdom stood in utter disarray.

"Is that... psychic power?"

Beyond his physical strength, the mental force Shi Jin unleashed once more left many of the totems staring, dumbstruck.

They could not understand it. A human with such a monstrous physique was one thing—but why did he also command transcendent power?!

Was this Shi Jin a half-blood too?

No—there was no shortage of half-blood beast tamers present, and some had even reached Legendary-class and grasped transcendent power. Yet every one of them watched with grim faces, for this was no longer a question of half-blood or not.

This Shi family child was a human-shaped overlord-class savage beast!!

However...

"It's a super-tier skill. The Earth Wilderness Bear's super-tier skill."

But in that same instant, the Earth Wilderness Bear's massive paw descended as well—a super-tier palm strike vast enough to flatten a mountain, bearing straight down on Shi Jin.

From that palm alone, Shi Jin felt the threat of death.

Even with an overlord-class physique and mental strength, hemmed in by the limits of being human, all he could do against the Earth Wilderness Bear—that apex overlord—was scratch its surface.

He could deal it not one shred of damage that might tip the scales of victory.

Fortunately...

He had made ample preparations.

"Is this all you've got?"

Beneath the pressure of life and death, the blood in Shi Jin's veins boiled.

Deep within his body, an incomparable potential burst forth.

Pseudo-Overlord Will—activated!

Thanks to the Immortal Fruit and the Mind Domain, countless potentials lay dormant within Shi Jin as well.

At the same time, through ceaseless stat allocation, had Shi Jin been a transcendent lifeform, his willpower would long since have been tempered to the level of Overlord Will.

What he lacked, rather, was the means to unleash that potential.

Yet with Susu's Memory Droplet, Shi Jin had spent a full day studying—experiencing in turn how Shi Yi and the others unleashed their Overlord Will—and now he had gained some small mastery of it.

He could draw out far more of his potential.

When the human body breaks through its limits, it too can shine magnificently.

BOOM!!

Shi Ying's power erupted like a blazing cosmos, like gene locks springing open, surging upward without end!

It was directly amplified!

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!

The next moment, Shi Jin stood high in the air and drove another punch down!!

A punch thrown at empty space.

In an instant, the air itself screamed!!!

As he punched, Shi Jin crushed the air with his physical and psychic strength, forging a fist wind into a wind-element move—a terrifying air cannon born of the combination.

This technique, under Lin's guidance, had also begun to take shape.

Pseudo-Wind Element Mastery!

Through wind, he would overcome earth!

The air cannon took the form of a giant fist shadow several meters across, moving with the utmost speed of light; as the white fist shadow traveled, it unleashed a quaking roar that shook the entire arena!!

BANG!!!!

The terrifying fist wind became a wind dragon, roaring its dragon cry as it collided head-on with the Earth Wilderness Bear's giant palm.

The next moment, the Earth Wilderness Bear's pupils contracted.

In a flash, countless cracks—marks of rock weathered and crumbling—spread across its palm and arm.

BOOM!!!

The Earth Wilderness Bear, conqueror of countless monarchs and overlords, was driven back several steps by that mighty fist wind; its form was swallowed by the surging, savage gale, and the whole arena rumbled like thunder.

"What a pity—still not enough damage? Again!" Shi Ying said with a sigh.

Amid the roaring, the entire arena was stunned. The very spaces where each demigod stood trembled violently in time with the shifts in their moods. Even the World Tree's clone, in that instant, once again lapsed into a look of bewilderment, feeling all the while that something about how this had unfolded was off. This was... the Human Race?