Chapter 573 — The First Upset

"You. Not bad." At that very moment, Kahn the Void Crow spread his wings, a gleam kindling in his crimson corvid eyes, as though he had begun, just slightly, to take Eleven seriously.

"Could you get serious? I don't want you to lose without even knowing why." After delivering that punch, Eleven reverted to its image of a docile little darling, gazing earnestly at Kahn.

Boom!

The instant Eleven spoke, a tremor far stronger than its punch rippled through every realm, and countless spectators gaped, doubting whether their ears had played tricks on them.

What was this Jia Qi saying?

Had it gone mad?

It said... it did not want Kahn to lose without even knowing why?

Such words—not to mention from some unknown figure—even the pair who had won the championship for a hundred and one tournaments running would never dare to utter such boasts before Kahn.

"This Jia Qi is far too arrogant," Ming Gu snarled, baring its teeth.

Had it never heard the name of Kahn the Void Crow?

To slight Kahn was to slight Ming Gu itself!

"Is that so." In this moment, however, Kahn the Void Crow showed no reaction to Eleven's words, remaining calm as ever. His body slowly rose into the air, arm lifted high above his head, and upon his palm an orb of light began to condense, compress, and spin—gold, green, blue, red, and brown, like a five-colored star.

Every ray of that light flowed with the ripples of law—an unimaginable sight.

Every time they saw this scene, many spectators still found it absurd beyond belief.

"Kahn commands the embryonic forms of the five great laws—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—and can fuse them freely at will. Never mind the quasi-divine-skill stage; even at the divine-skill stage, those capable of fusing five attribute laws are exceedingly few. Is the Void Crow Clan's innate talent truly this formidable?"

"Once this move is unleashed, it is certain death. The terrifying destructive force of the fivefold fusion—even a novice god would be shattered in an instant!"

"And the most terrifying part is this: Kahn the Void Crow's skills never miss."

"Facing one who commands the power of temporal essence, every opponent is a puppet for him to manipulate. This Eleven has not even realized how terrifying its opponent truly is."

"Eleven is in danger now... Still, if its physical power really is that immense, there may yet be a sliver of hope—it may not perish. It can only blame itself for saying such grand words just now."

In the suspended realm, the Gem Cat too wore a grave expression. The opponent's talent for manipulating multi-elemental energies was simply heaven-endowed. Though she could control orbs of nine elemental energies, she could only manipulate and combine them separately—yet this Jia Qi had actually fused the energies of five laws into one...

Amid the murmurs in countless hearts, Kahn's arm descended, and the five-element orb fell with it. Under the crushing pressure of that immense energy, the entire arena collapsed in an instant.

Boom!

Eleven shattered the arena beneath its feet and was about to leap up in a burst of power when a gray domain descended straight over the whole field. In the spectators' sight, temporal essence seemed to freeze; apart from Kahn and the five-element orb, which still moved, Eleven's figure was as if fixed in place.

The Domain of Temporal Essence Halt!

Under the unblinking gaze of all, the five-element orb plummeted in an instant, the space-piercing radiance swelling boundlessly in their vision, and with almost crushing ease it blasted the arena into an abyss thousands of meters in diameter, bottomless and deep!!!!

BOOM!!!

Within the abyss, the light pollution continued to pour forth, forming a five-colored storm of energy that spread in all directions with heart-stopping force.

In the sky, Kahn looked down upon the devastated arena, his expression still composed.

But very quickly, his expression froze—the first change of expression he had shown. And not only he: the spectators watching the battle up close, those who had not yet recovered from the shock, all changed countenance as well.

"Yip..." For from the vast abyssal crater, a tiny figure slowly flew upward. Though its injuries looked utterly wretched, there was not the slightest ripple in its eyes, and soon it had flown level with Kahn.

In that moment, countless spectators gaped, for across these dozens of Consecration Wars, the contenders who could withstand this blow head-on and still move normally were exceedingly few.

Even the mid-tier god who had challenged for the championship would suffer injury from taking this blow head-on.

And this Eleven had actually taken it!!

"It—it took it!" the Battle Sprite exclaimed in astonishment.

What was the matter with this Jia Qi?

"What is the matter with this Jia Qi!!" Led by Ming Gu of the hundred and one championships, many spectators found it inconceivable.

"Yip! (Again!)" Eleven regarded Kahn with soaring fighting spirit. Its Battle God Physique converted injury into physique and vitality—the graver the wounds, the greater its battle power.

As things stood, it was still not the peak state Eleven yearned for.

"You should have fallen outright."

Kahn's expression turned ugly; he felt himself to have been slighted.

It spread both wings, and a hazy white domain enfolded its entire body. Time-nurture acceleration was applied to its own skill release, and in an instant, behind it appeared one, two, three, four, five... five five-element energy spheres in total.

With a beat of its wings, the attack arrived in an instant. Shi Yi simply flew through the sky, paying no mind to whether the opponent had activated some time-nurture stasis domain or not.

And then, an attack that left no few people utterly shaken landed in full upon Shi Yi. After a roar that seemed to rend heaven and earth, countless hearts pounding, people opened their eyes in disbelief and stared at that figure still hovering in midair, like a god of battle, unable to fathom what they were seeing.

This Shi Yi... still had not fallen!

"AWOOOO!!!!" Shi Yi roared, roared with relish, its astonishing fighting spirit materializing into lightning, drawing a look of dread from the opposing Kahn the Star Crow.

"What is with the physique of this Jiashi?" Kahn the Star Crow had once battled true cosmic behemoths, and he felt that Shi Yi's physique was now comparable to a cosmic behemoth!!

"Mew... (Now it is my turn to counter.)" Sensing that its physique had been strengthened enough to unleash a full-power Divine-Demonic Single Thought, Shi Yi clenched its fists.

Bang!!

Accompanied by a thunderclap, a white bolt flashed across Shi Yi's black eyes, transforming into white thunder armor that wrapped its entire body!

The first thought of god and demon: Thunder God Armor!

Using the power of the lightning law, it stimulated its flesh to grow ever more powerful, sinking into a state bordering on self-mutilation, until even its reactive consciousness began running at high frequency!!

"ROAR!!!" Under Shi Yi's roar, the spectators, already shaken in spirit, were startled once again. Shi Yi's aura now shook heaven and earth, erupting to the level of Divine Avoidance—a level at which even gods would retreat three paces at the sight. Rumble rumble—the firmament seemed to sense Shi Yi's power, and white lightning arcs began to appear throughout the whole of heaven and earth, saturating the natural world.

To begin with...

Shi Yi's physique had already been strong to an utterly inconceivable degree.

And now, cloaked in the Thunder God Armor, its physical strength entered an even more savage state of eruption.

"Time-nurture... Regression!"

After its opponent entered an eruptive state, Kahn's expression shifted slightly, sensing a threat in no way inferior to Ming Gu's.

With a low intonation, the power of time once more suffused its body. Everything consumed just now—everything except the time-nurture regression itself—was fully restored!