Chapter 697 - 225: Deep into the Core Area! Reaching 40% Build Rate! Encountering Caesar! The Same Kind of Person
Chapter 697: Chapter 225: Deep into the Core Area! Reaching 40% Build Rate! Encountering Caesar! The Same Kind of Person
Viscous light and flames, like magma, formed countless enormous, slowly churning vortexes. The core of each one was powerful enough to easily tear apart planet-class power armor.
Raging tides of Spiritual Energy, like roars from a primordial age, washed over this region of space in erratic, successive waves.
Furthermore, invisible "blades," forged from the warping of ultra-high-intensity gravitational and Spiritual Fields, silently sliced through everything under the cover of the light and flames.
Qin Feng was forced to slow down.
He had to expend a massive amount of Mental Power to sense, predict, and evade these ubiquitous and deadly traps.
He was like a tightrope walker, with a bottomless abyss yawning beneath him.
The slightest misstep, and he would be crushed into the most fundamental particles in the Cosmos by the immense power of the star itself—no pursuers needed.
Another month passed in this state of high tension and vigilance.
A month later, just as he bypassed a massive, chaotic force field tens of thousands of kilometers long and prepared to enter a relatively stable region, three cold, tyrannical Wills locked onto him from three different directions!
’They’re here!’
Qin Feng’s heart sank, but his movements betrayed not a hint of panic.
At the very instant he was targeted, he executed an impossibly sharp turn. Instead of advancing, he retreated, plunging headfirst back into the raging, chaotic force field he had just passed through!
BOOM—!
Three terrifying attacks, each capable of annihilating a star, grazed past his afterimage and struck empty space, blasting open a massive, distorted void.
"Fast reactions."
"As expected of the Heaven-Devouring King’s successor."
"Surround him! Don’t let him escape!"
The three communicated with precision through cold fluctuations of their Mental Power, piercing through the chaotic field.
Forming a perfect triangular formation, they too charged into the chaotic force field, commencing a relentless, deadly pursuit of Qin Feng.
The battle erupted in an instant!
It was an incredibly brutal chase.
Qin Feng was like a small boat struggling to survive in a tempestuous sea, and the three behind him were the primordial beasts churning up the colossal waves.
The leader of the trio had an Indestructible Projection that was an astounding 15% complete. His every move carried a crushing might, and each of his attacks pushed Qin Feng into a life-or-death struggle.
The other two, at 14% and 12% respectively, coordinated seamlessly, constantly compressing Qin Feng’s room to maneuver from the flanks.
"Devour!"
Qin Feng roared. Facing an unavoidable glint of an axe, he neither dodged nor evaded, but clenched his right fist and punched out with defiant fury!
A miniature black hole seemed to appear over his fist.
The raging light and heat all around were wildly devoured and compressed by his fist’s Intent!
The axe light, powerful enough to cleave mountains, had nearly thirty percent of its energy forcibly devoured the instant it met his fist!
BOOM!
Even so, the remaining Energy Aftermath still sent Qin Feng flying, leaving a terrifying gash on the chest of his power armor deep enough to reveal the bone beneath.
But he used the force of the impact to put distance between himself and the trio again. Simultaneously, he converted the energy he had just devoured into his own power. His speed, far from decreasing, actually increased as he continued to flee deeper into the star.
This chase lasted for a full three months.
During those three months, Qin Feng pushed his Combat Wisdom and his ability to use the environment to their absolute limits.
He repeatedly lured his pursuers into the most chaotic parts of the field—the Spiritual Storm Eyes—using the star’s immense power to counteract their attacks.
He even used a [Savage Beast Fragment] the size of a small planet as cover to launch several thrilling counterattacks, though he unfortunately never had the chance to absorb it.
Under the extreme pressure of this life-or-death struggle, his use of the Heaven-swallowing Fist Technique grew increasingly masterful and fluid. His proficiency skyrocketed, but he was still a very, very long way from true Control.
Finally, on the last day of the third month.
In a chaotic zone filled with countless meteorites and the skeletons of colossal beasts, Qin Feng found a golden opportunity.
At the cost of taking a heavy blow from the 15% expert, he used the resulting shockwave to blast the weakest pursuer—the one at 12%—into an extremely unstable spatial fault he had marked beforehand.
’Now!’
An unprecedented killing intent erupted in Qin Feng’s eyes!
He poured every ounce of power in his body into his right fist!
In that moment, his entire being seemed to transform into a divine demon that devoured heaven and earth!
Devour!
As the punch flew, all fell silent!
The spatial fault, along with the 12% expert inside it, was utterly annihilated by that one punch—vaporized without a single trace left behind!
"Yan Hu!"
The remaining two let out roars of absolute shock and fury.
But Qin Feng gave them no opening. After throwing that punch, his figure instantly plunged deeper into the chaotic zone and vanished completely.
...
Behind a massive ball of Blazing Flame, Qin Feng’s figure appeared, staggering.
He gasped for breath, his power armor in tatters, revealing the cracked flesh and blood of the body beneath.
’Three of them... That was my limit.’
Feeling the waves of intense pain wracking his body, Qin Feng activated his Ten-Complete Hand to heal his injuries, his eyes holding a hint of relief at having survived the ordeal.