Chapter 573 — The First Upset
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Its body's condition was nearly rewound to the moment it had first entered the battlefield and begun to fight.
After all, the cost of a single time-nurture regression was far smaller than that flurry of blows.
Seeing this, the spectators were once again staggered by the might of the time-nurture lineage, feeling that a Kahn like this simply could not lose.
Time-nurture regression allowed Kahn to return to peak condition at any moment, at any time.
The Time Imprint gave Kahn two chances to rise from death and return to peak condition.
Such a Kahn could not be defeated by an opponent of the same tier!
And yet.
"Is it really that simple?" murmured Bobo the Ice Qilin in the Eastern Mystery Realm, feeling that this Shi Yi was absurd beyond belief. It had witnessed Shi Yi's full-power eruption before, and yet now this Shi Yi gave it the impression that, relying on physical strength alone, it was already no weaker than the full-power eruption it had shown back when they fought.
How long had it been? It had improved this much?
If it erupted at full power now, how strong would it be?
The Ice Qilin could not imagine.
Nor did it need to imagine, because at once, under everyone's gaze, Shi Yi's eruption continued—it had not stopped at all!
The eruption that had driven Kahn to beat a retreat into peak condition was only the first stage of Shi Yi's eruption!
The eruption was not yet over!
Another "bang," and a surge of black lightning also burst forth from Shi Yi's body.
There in the sky, Shi Yi clenched both fists. Beneath two great peals, its whole body was wreathed in white lightning and coursed with black thunder. Under the interweaving clash of those two forces of lightning, one light and one dark, a power mighty and mysterious, in no way inferior to divine force, surged forth like a miracle!!
"ROAR!!!!!"
Shi Yi roared again, a roar that shook like thunder, making everyone stare wide-eyed with expressions of disbelief.
The second thought of god and demon: Demonic God Physique!
A form that pushed bodily strength to its limit through the power of dark thunder.
Combined with the Thunder God Armor of light thunder, it became the complete form of the Divine-Demonic Shared Thought!
Unlike the original Divine-Demonic Shared Thought, Shi Yi now also commanded the mastery-level quasi-divine skills of Light Control and Dark Control, making the power its Divine-Demonic Shared Thought could unleash all the more terrifying.
In an instant, black and white lightning arcs filled the sky as though they had become Shi Yi's fur, drifting and swaying without cease, making Shi Yi seem a thunder god striding out of a chaotic sea of lightning. In that instant, godlike power welled up from its body in full—overturning heaven and churning earth, reversing the cosmos, sweeping across all before it, until even Kahn the Star Crow, who had just regained peak condition, had his wings trembling.
"Mew... (Come then...)" At a single gesture from Shi Yi, its body took on the posture of attack, prompting Kahn to swiftly open the time-nurture stasis domain, the time-nurture deceleration domain... A twofold time-nurture domain spread out, enveloping Shi Yi!!
Yet within that ashen domain, the opposing Shi Yi seemed untouched in mind and body. Black and white lightning flickered over its form, and it maintained its extreme speed, arriving before Kahn in an instant.
Bang bang bang bang!!
Through this process, the time-nurture domain quaked; the time-nurture that had been surpassed seemed to give out a mournful cry. Entering the Divine-Demonic Shared Thought, and spurred by the power of light and dark lightning, it burst through the limits of the brain domain to gain immensely powerful attack, defense, speed, damage immunity, and a reactive mind that surpassed time-nurture itself. In other words, Shi Yi at this moment was nearly unbound by Kahn's time-nurture domain—within the domain, all beings were equal.
"ROAR!!!" The arrival of Shi Yi left Kahn utterly astonished. A multicolored veil of flowing light swiftly spread across its body—another of Kahn's combined secret arts. If the five-element orbs from before had been chiefly offensive, then this five-element battle raiment was chiefly defensive.
Yet this combination technique, hailed as the strongest defense just as the other was the strongest attack, shattered like glass the instant Shi Yi's straight punch drove the light-darkness-thunder fist heavily into Kahn's abdomen. Kahn let out a "pfft," eyes bulging wide, unable to believe the blow he had taken—one even more terrifying than his own strongest attack.
Was this opponent... really only a quasi-god?
Before the thought could settle, its body came apart at the seams, hurtling backward without end, blasted away and reduced to a beam of light!!
The thunderous boom of its passage through the air showed just how horrifying the force Kahn had just suffered was.
Following the battle spirit's viewpoint, every spectator instantly saw that its abdomen had been all but pierced through, countless streams of blood running down its body and spewing from its mouth.
For an instant, even the battle spirit fell silent. The vast gap between the two sides had reversed, and its stored data could scarcely keep up.
If it reacted so, the spectators without question wore expressions of shock.
"Kahn, what are you doing!!!" At this sight, Ming Gu, who regarded Kahn as its strongest rival, looked as though it had seen a ghost. Where had this Shi Yi come from, to be able to make Kahn...
"You've got to be kidding. That Kahn... is being pushed around?"
"What's the rush... Kahn won't lose. Don't forget, it can invoke Temporal Reversion at any moment, and it has two revival chances besides!"
Online and off, the spectators following this battle plunged into a frenzy of discussion, and the livestream's viewer count was still climbing madly.
It's nothing, Kahn hasn't lost yet...
Only, if Kahn were forced here to give up even one of its two Time Imprints, that alone would count as a loss for it.
Because even using both Time Imprints, it could not be certain of defeating the mid-tier god of the championship challenge. If it lost one or two in the God-Sealing Battle, this year's challenge would undoubtedly end in failure once again.
At present, countless people were watching the fight, eager to see how it would unfold.
"Reversion..." Blasted away, Kahn laboriously invoked Temporal Reversion. As its temporal power was consumed, its body returned to a near-peak state, and at the same time its expression grew even more ferocious, shorn of its former composure.
At this moment it felt immense pressure, as though facing that mid-tier god—enough to give it the illusion that without using its Time Imprints, it could not defeat this opponent.
But... for the sake of the championship challenge, it absolutely must not use its Time Imprints.
The other side's burst of power could not last long. It only had to...
BOOM!!!
Kahn, barely restored to a relatively intact state, did not even see Shi Yi's figure—had not even had time to open its temporal domain—before it felt a palm descend from the heavens and seize its skull.
"ROAR————" Shi Yi descended with godlike speed above the blasted-away Kahn, thunder palm clamped on its head, his body becoming a bolt of lightning as he plunged toward the still-intact ground below!!!
Lightning flashed, tracing a graceful straight line through midair.
With a "bang," thunder power gnawed into its body and the massive impact drove another huge crater into the ground. Kahn, its skull smashed, felt close to fainting; even as it vomited blood, it sensed its consciousness could no longer command Temporal Reversion.
Bang! Bang! Bang!