Chapter 692: Situation

There were no flaws; he used Lightning Law from a distance, and if an opponent got close, he could also use his Fist Arts, which were of a very high Rank and he used with great proficiency.

Zhang Zong didn't hesitate, stepping forward two more paces. His bent arm struck with the force of a snapping bowstring, erupting like thunder. His Aura moved with his spirit as he attacked with both hands. Immediately, rumbles of autumn thunder filled the air, swift and fierce, their power penetrating internal organs, carving a long, straight gash across his Physical Body. Blood spurted from the wound.

He had wounded the opponent's Physical Body.

Li Qi saw the truth: this wasn't martial arts, this was Dao Law!

All parts of the human body correspond to the greater Universe: the head is like Heaven, the feet like Earth, the four limbs like the four seasons, and the five internal organs like the Five Elements. Its essence, Qi, and spirit are all connected and sensitive to Heaven and Earth, which is why it's called 'the human body's Inner World'.

If that's the case, then why should the method of influencing the greater Universe through the Inner World be limited to the expression of ranged spells?

Li Qi also often used his Inner World to influence the outer Universe, but he usually used spells and had never considered what it would be like to use this method, similar to martial arts.

That's right, if the Physical Body is regarded as an extension of the Inner World, then every punch and kick struck out naturally carries the power of the Inner World. By utilizing martial arts techniques to strike these punches and kicks onto the opponent, wouldn't it be possible to quickly cause a large amount of damage, as long as one is skilled enough?

While these thoughts ran through his mind, Li Qi was also rapidly dismantling the spells surging around him.

Yes, the current battle situation was that two Physical Bodies were engaged in close combat: the Legalist Utmost Person and the Body Integration of Li Qi and Zhang Zong.

And while in close combat, Zhang Zong was continuously extending his Lightning Law, multitasking, constantly bombarding the opponent from a distance.

However, the Legalist Utmost Person was not at a disadvantage. While engaging Zhang Zong in close combat, he was also defending against Zhang Zong's Lightning Law, and even managed to find openings to intersperse his own spells, using both methods simultaneously, and even gaining an advantage.

It could be said that while Zhang Zong's series of actions were fierce and displayed his prowess, he unknowingly fell into a disadvantage.

The Utmost Person's methods were indeed formidable.

These opportunistic spells were extremely tricky. Zhang Zong was decisive and simply ignored them, leaving them all for Li Qi to handle.

Zhang Zong's expression was serious, because after the initial advantage, the opponent began to use his rich experience to suppress him.

It could be said that without Li Qi, the Junior Celestial Master would have already been defeated.

These ranged spells, attacking intermittently, were too tricky for Zhang Zong to handle. If he were on his own, he could only endure them, and the Lightning Law was currently weakened by the surrounding Laws…

Fortunately, Li Qi focused on defense and could handle them, causing the battle to reach a stalemate for a time, preventing a quick defeat.

This stalemate lasted for two quarters of an hour.

Normally, Zhang Zong could fight continuously for ten years without needing to recover his Qi.

But at this moment, after only two quarters of an hour, he was dizzy and disoriented. His magical power was still abundant, but his mental strength was severely depleted. The pressure of fighting a Utmost Person was too great.

He didn't even need to consider defense, as Li Qi would handle everything for him, but even so, he felt his brain was almost drained.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Li Qi suddenly spoke: "There will be a way to break through soon. Switch roles."

Zhang Zong's spirits lifted!

Indeed, this was something the two of them had agreed upon.

In terms of mental strength and patience, Li Qi was much stronger than Zhang Zong.

Therefore, Zhang Zong entrusted all these methods of breaking through to Li Qi. He couldn't handle these troublesome matters, but Li Qi could handle them with ease.

It's roughly equivalent to being asked to process a hundred documents. Zhang Zong would get a headache just hearing about it, but Li Qi could sit down and process them one by one, diligently.

A typical data-worker personality.

The 'switch roles' here meant that Li Qi would take the lead in the offense, while Zhang Zong would review the breakthrough method Li Qi had developed on his own, offer his suggestions and modifications, and finally complete the finished product.

Yes, the two of them were working together to break the Law!

The Law of the Third Rank Supreme Being suppressed the foundation of Lightning Law, which was why Zhang Zong was fighting so hard.

So, Zhang Zong fought, Li Qi analyzed the breakthrough, then they switched roles: Li Qi fought, Zhang Zong freed up his hands for the final review, and then they exchanged opinions.

This was the strategy they had agreed upon.

The switch was initiated. The next moment, Li Qi took over, imitating the Junior Celestial Master's close-combat techniques, simulating his Fist Intent, and combining it with his own understanding of the martial Dao to engage in close-quarters combat!

The Utmost Person before him clearly felt a difference in style.

"Oh?" He immediately sensed that the enemy before him fought with much greater finesse, noticing many details and handling them well.

But… he got weaker.

Everything he did seemed a beat slower, completely lacking the previous uninhibited naturalness and the feeling of executing every Move at will. Instead, there was a heavy artificiality, without the previous agility, appearing clumsy.

A trick?

But after two probing Moves, he was convinced: no trick.

The opponent really did become clumsy.

In that case, he wouldn't be polite.

The Utmost Person didn't dwell on why, because there was no need. Too many 'whys' would only distract his mind during a fight, making him as clumsy as his opponent.

Just go with the flow.

Qi surged throughout his body, like a Dragon and a tiger, full of vigor. A fierce Aura was interspersed with other spells, Qi blasts flew wildly, and sparks from the battle leaped, while nauseating screeching sound waves echoed all around.

Bang, bang, bang. A continuous flurry of attacks left Li Qi dizzy and disoriented, all his Moves broken!

But fortunately, his defense was decent; he wasn't hit by spells, only pummeled in close combat, unable to retaliate.

Seeing this, he simply gave up on close combat and directly retreated, his Dharma Form expanding behind him, summoning a Star Official, intending to overwhelm with sheer power!

However, the larger the display, the greater the consumption.

Li Qi expended a large amount of magical power to sustain the Star Official's existence.

Yet, that Utmost Person merely looked up.

Li Qi's Star Official directly disintegrated, collapsing back into an Inner World!

An immature Star Official, a Divine Ability forcibly linked, didn't even require a direct attack; merely a gaze was enough to cause such an immature Divine Ability to self-destruct.

This was 'Law'.

However, that glance, after all, still required time, even if that time was much faster than throwing a punch.

Li Qi seized this opportunity to directly widen the distance, no longer engaging in close combat.

The Junior Celestial Master could handle close combat, but he truly couldn't.

At this moment, the Utmost Person decisively seized the opportunity and charged forward.

He had already seen that the opponent was clearly more than one person. Although they cooperated very tacitly, like a single entity, it was clearly a joint effort by two.

Relying on his rich experience and a far superior vision than Li Qi, he didn't use any strange tricks, but simply used combat techniques to directly overwhelm Li Qi and Zhang Zong.

There was nothing flashy, no seeking for counter-measures, no surprise attacks, no mysterious methods. Even after his Rank dropped, his cultivation wasn't much stronger than Li Qi's; their absolute power was roughly the same.

It was simply spells and close combat, the two most ordinary choices.

But he simply crushed the combined efforts of Li Qi and the Junior Celestial Master. The two of them together couldn't defeat the opponent and could only prolong the time until their inevitable collapse as much as possible.

Just as the Demonic Prince had said earlier—

Considering tactics is what the weak do.

This Utmost Person didn't need to consider tactics; his exquisite skill alone was enough to force the two into a frantic state.

It was Li Qi's turn to think of a way to break the deadlock.

Li Qi retreated a bit further.

Spells, like a tsunami, washed over them, filling the surrounding hundreds of millions of miles of void, while the Law became increasingly stringent, oppressing Li Qi's and the Junior Celestial Master's protective Lightning Law.

Fortunately, it was all within Li Qi's handling capacity. He cast corresponding spells, doing so with extreme efficiency, and even released a portion, allowing the protective Lightning Law to shatter that part.

A very nimble approach.

However, the Utmost Person had already embedded himself within the spell network and charged forward along with it.

And at that very moment, Li Qi's Inner World suddenly expanded!

A Shaman's Inner World is a physical existence. Directly expanding the Inner World is equivalent to taking the opponent into one's own body.

Either crush the opponent, or be broken open from within by the opponent, resulting in an internal explosion.

No matter what, this was probably not a very good choice, because he was facing a Utmost Person, and such a Move was almost predictably going to be broken by the opponent.

An internal explosion is no fun.

The Utmost Person quickly made a decision and began to analyze the composition of Li Qi's Inner World.

It was fine before the analysis, but the moment he started analyzing, a terrifying stream of information surged into his thought organs!

Even though he was once a Utmost Person, after his Rank dropped, facing such a grand and massive information flow, he was stunned for a few seconds.

This wasn't just a fleeting moment, but several seconds.

In a battle of this intensity, a few seconds of blank mind were enough to do far too many things.

When the Utmost Person regained consciousness, he immediately realized what had happened to him.

He wasn't parsing Li Qi's Inner World, but Immortal Heaven itself!

What had just flooded his brain was an information stream from Immortal Heaven, which meant that this young man in front of him had received information from Immortal Heaven and then used his opportunity to probe to infuse it into him.

If that was the case, he should have suffered the same impact as himself, so why did he seem fine, and why had a Formation already been set up around him?!

He could process information from Immortal Heaven? That was an information stream leaked by a First Grade creature.

However, what he didn't know was that Li Qi had twenty-five billion previous Reincarnations of observation. His understanding of Immortal Heaven and the information stream he had previously parsed now proved useful.

Rather, the fact that the opponent could recover in a few seconds from information that took Li Qi twenty-five billion times to process simply highlighted the terrifying nature of a Third Rank Supreme Being.

Although his Rank had dropped, his thinking ability clearly hadn't diminished.

But… in those few seconds, Li Qi also completed his layout.

His Inner World had now completely aligned with Immortal Heaven.

At this moment, he was not mobilizing his own power, but the power of Immortal Heaven that he could control!

His understanding of Immortal Heaven, his own 'Body Integration' state, and the Shaman's control over the power of Heaven and Earth allowed Li Qi to accomplish this feat at this moment.

He was able to use the power of Immortal Heaven to suppress the enemy!

By directly applying the Dao Laws of Immortal Heaven, could the opponent still change the Laws? Could you change the Heaven and Earth of a First Grade being?

This was the method Li Qi and the Junior Celestial Master discussed for breaking the Laws.

The Utmost Person began to break the Formation. The Formation Li Qi had created in a few seconds couldn't stop him; he easily dismantled it and rushed out, the whole process taking only an instant.

The Junior Celestial Master and Li Qi had already switched roles again during this time.

Only this time, it was the Junior Celestial Master who was not suppressed by the Law.

"A good strategy," the Utmost Person praised.

Li Qi expanded his Inner World, simulating Immortal Heaven, and drew upon the true power of Immortal Heaven to engulf the area. Therefore, if he wanted to change the Law now, he would have to contend with the true Immortal Heaven.

It was too difficult, so the Utmost Person directly abandoned this Move. The Junior Celestial Master's Lightning Law once again returned to its normal power.

Leveraging power and influence was a specialty of Invoker, even here.

The battle resumed, the Law dissipated, and the power of Lightning Law recovered, allowing the Junior Celestial Master to once again suppress the opponent, as the previous combat had already proven his superiority in spell confrontation.

The Junior Celestial Master was stronger than him.

The power of Immortal Heaven enveloped the surroundings, and the Utmost Person's power was greatly suppressed. When he could no longer use the Law, the restrictions on him became very significant.

However, for Li Qi, this was like a fish in water. A Shaman is not particular about the environment, and after his Body Integration, he could borrow even more power from Heaven and Earth. Immortal Heaven did not refuse this borrowing, because it was also a part of Li Qi's ability.

One side was like a fish in water, while the other was like a person thrown into water. Coupled with the Junior Celestial Master's formidable strength, the situation seemed to be gradually turning around.

The battle was so intense.

In the next quarter of an hour, billions of spells filled the surrounding void. Any single one could shatter planets, destroy suns, or even wipe out star clusters.

But such spells were merely a small part of a vast network.

This was a battle of Fourth Grade beings. The aftermath of their battle, if it occurred in a galaxy within the Reality Universe, could even stir a spiral arm of the Milky Way.

The Junior Celestial Master experienced this power for the first time, directly feeling the Fourth Grade's manipulation of the world, this impending state of substantiality.

To be honest, both his and Li Qi's strengths were growing rapidly.

Previously, the Junior Celestial Master had been truly anxious for a long time due to what Li Qi said about substantiality. Zhu Fengdan promised that Li Qi would help him resolve it, which made him feel a bit better.

But now, as a Fourth Grade, he was no longer bound by the Laws of the Reality Universe. After Body Integration, the Laws from Immortal Heaven allowed him to be free from the Heavenly Dao's speed of light limit and the shackles of physical rules.

He had to follow his own Dao, not the Dao of the world. The objective world's rules had less and less binding power over him.

Both he and Li Qi were gradually becoming familiar with this feeling.

As the battle progressed, the combat power of the two Geniuses was soaring. They were becoming proficient with their own power, and even started to fight the Utmost Person to a stalemate in direct combat.

This growth rate was simply astounding. The battle had lasted less than three quarters of an hour, but the two Geniuses had already transformed from novices into veterans.

The Junior Celestial Master's confidence also swelled.

But… just then, his Physical Body directly collapsed.

Wait, what happened?