Chapter 216: One Punch
"According to Ou Gao La Si's memories at the time, there were several hundred Blood Clan members, and every single one of them was a formidable individual. After absorbing their accumulated power one by one to advance, it's no wonder it harbored the ambition to challenge the entire world."
As swift regeneration contended with constant erosion, the Sword Cyclone relentlessly bore down on Sarcasky's core.
The final ten meters became a grueling tug-of-war. The density of the unknown substance was already nearly twenty times that of the outermost layer, and every slight advancement demanded immense effort.
After their initial surprise, the others quickly resumed their combat stances, unleashing their attacks from various directions and continuing their own battles.
All sorts of energy shocks, each with a distinct personal flair, battered Sarcasky's Dharma body again and again. Yet, these Ability Users, lacking the capability for a single-target area-of-effect attack, seemed to achieve no tangible results beyond continuously depleting their own Spirit Energy.
"I found it! I found it! Hahaha!" Just as Bai Mo, controlling the sword array, was locked in a final three-meter struggle with Sarcasky, a burst of wild laughter echoed across the battlefield.
Hua Taishan, ragged and completely devoid of his usual dignified demeanor, suddenly roared with laughter. The White Tiger phantom enveloping him began to emit dazzling light, and the unknown substance from Sarcasky's Dharma Body surrounding him continuously dissolved and vanished under this radiance.
"Damn it! He's breaking through now?!" Sarcasky immediately reacted, intending to divert most of its power to nip this threat in the bud.
But the others weren't fools. Several individuals relatively close to Hua Taishan temporarily cast aside their national differences and actively guarded him, jointly resisting Sarcasky's offensive from that direction.
"To think he'd be the first to break through..." Many in the Huaxia Federation forces fighting on site shared this thought.
Bai Mo swept his divine sense around. After understanding what was happening, he immediately unleashed a Spirit Energy storm, intensifying his own offensive and tightly restraining Sarcasky's power allocation.
As one of the few people he had a decent relationship with, he truly didn't want the other party's breakthrough to be disturbed.
"Boom boom boom boom boom...!" Facing the enemies unleashing their full power around it, Sarcasky decided to disregard them and prioritize eliminating Hua Taishan, who posed the greatest sense of threat.
With its main body's capabilities, it wouldn't easily suffer serious injury even if it allowed others to attack, and even that madman controlling the sword array would find it extremely difficult to kill it in its current state.
Originally, even if a powerhouse of the same tier successfully broke through and joined the siege, their accumulation would still be "as different as clouds and mud" compared to itself, which had devoured hundreds of "foods." It wouldn't truly alter the battle.
However, Sarcasky clearly understood that in the first half of this breakthrough stage, when one began to achieve the "Heaven-Man Unity," it was possible to truly leverage the boundless power far beyond this level of control—a power sufficient to easily annihilate itself—at the cost of one's own existence.
This was its true concern.
Because most cultivators couldn't resist the feeling of omnipotence when their abilities were magnified a thousand or ten thousandfold. They would subconsciously mobilize this power, completely unaware that preemptively using power beyond their realm would come at the cost of their lives.
Especially for those who most ardently pursued power, this tangible, irrefutable, and truly usable power of heaven and earth was like the sweetest poison, an utterly irresistible temptation.
Seeing Sarcasky ignore his attacks and prioritize eliminating the breaking-through Hua Taishan, Bai Mo also unleashed all his psychic power, competing for control over all the surrounding unknown matter.
But he felt like he was playing tug-of-war with an aircraft carrier, its engines desperately pulling the ship away from him, while his psychic power desperately tried to pull it towards him.
His seven avatars also charged forward one by one, using their collective psychic power to restrain Sarcasky.
"Crack!" Half a minute later, an inexplicable crisp sound echoed in everyone's hearts.
"He succeeded!" Someone quickly reacted.
"Don't use that power, it's all fake!" Bai Mo, upon realizing Hua Taishan's Life Field had shattered, transmitted such a mental wave, attempting to persuade him.
"Is this... the power to shatter atomic nuclei?" But Hua Taishan seemed enchanted, completely ignoring Bai Mo's advice, still meticulously savoring the seemingly omnipotent power within his body.
"And an 'imperishable sacred body' that endures countless tribulations." Hua Taishan's first ability was hardened skin, and at this moment, in his perception, this ability had been strengthened into a truly indestructible physical body.
"Demonic fiend, die!" Seeing Sarcasky's unbridled killing intent, Hua Taishan simply threw a punch. The unknown substance that formed its Dharma Body offered no resistance whatsoever, like mere air.
Its formidable Life Field, which had endured intense battles and never been breached, was as fragile as paper before this power that was simply not on the same order of magnitude. It too played no role at all.
"Boom!" The instant the fist connected with the opponent's liquid body, boundless light and heat erupted. Everyone near Sarcasky's Dharma Body was forced to close their eyes, but the terrifying light seemed to burn through their eyelids, forcing most people to even turn their heads away to dodge.
Thanks to Sarcasky's massive Dharma Body, the heat and shockwaves from the high-intensity nuclear reaction at its center were absorbed first by the Dharma Body, giving others time to react.
But only five seconds later, the continuous nuclear reaction from the center had already pierced through the Dharma Body, and randomly appearing high-energy particle streams began to gush out from the riddled Dharma Body.
"Bang!" The overwhelmed Dharma Body soon completely burst apart, unleashing boundless energy upon everyone. Many Ability Users died on the spot.
After all, this was equivalent to being in close proximity to a continuously detonating nuclear explosion. Even if a certain dose of radiation was beneficial to Ability Users, there was a limit.
With even the atomic nuclei composing its very existence being continuously pulverized, Sarcasky naturally lost all ability to recover. The tenacity of its liquid body's vitality was primarily based on the integrity of its intramolecular structure.
Bai Mo, the closest bystand to the nuclear explosion, suffered the most intense "calamity of the innocent fish." Just meters from Sarcasky's main body, he felt a profound sense of foreboding after Hua Taishan's destructive punch appeared, and instantly reacted, intending to retreat.
But the punch came too fast. He had only moved a dozen meters before the mass-energy conversion triggered by the nuclear fission of atomic nuclei began. Bai Mo could only retreat while fully resisting.
Even with his energy absorption ability, strengthened by Primal Matter, it only bought him less than twenty seconds. But these twenty seconds were ample enough for Bai Mo to ride the subsequent shockwave out of the nuclear blast's center.
Although the elements composing Sarcasky's body were not true nuclear materials, the impact of countless high-energy particle streams, combined with Hua Taishan's terrifying punch, still replicated the results of a chain reaction to a certain extent.
"Aaaaaaah!" Sarcasky's body was constantly being destroyed, and its anguished mental waves spread across the entire battlefield.
However, no one paid attention to it anymore. Everyone was desperately fleeing for their lives, escaping the center of this endless nuclear explosion.
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