Chapter 702 - 226: King vs. King! Dodge Your Edge?! Hidden Item "Rebirth Compass
Chapter 702: Chapter 226: King vs. King! Dodge Your Edge?! Hidden Item "Rebirth Compass
So, I was able to easily circumvent all of it.
"Only when our studies in the principles of Mental Power and Spiritual Energy meet the standard are we allowed to ’graduate’—what your Warband calls graduating."
Caesar smiled, and the amusement in that smile was transmitted clearly to Qin Feng through his Mental Power.
All of this information flooded into Qin Feng’s mind in a flash.
It was true. Qin Feng’s ultimate attack just now hadn’t been a direct clash with the edge of Caesar’s sword.
Instead, he had used the Perfection Intent of his Heaven-swallowing Fist Technique as a catalyst to leverage the chaotic force field spanning tens of thousands of miles around them, attempting to trigger a massive, irreversible avalanche of power that would engulf everything!
This was the only method he could think of for mutual destruction!
However, every pattern of the rampage he had initiated had already been deduced, modeled, and simulated as part of Caesar’s "studies."
Before Qin Feng’s utterly shocked eyes, Caesar, using only one hand, nonchalantly pressed the golden Knight’s Sword, imbued with Divine Power, against the tip of Qin Feng’s spear, stopping him from advancing even an inch.
At the same time, Caesar didn’t even glance at his surroundings.
He merely controlled his vast, ocean-like Mental Power, using it like an invisible giant hand to begin "organizing" the surrounding chaotic force fields that Qin Feng was about to drive into a complete frenzy.
The berserk, furious energy on the verge of tearing everything apart, soothed by his Mental Power, became like a tamed Beast. In less than three seconds, it had stabilized completely.
The force-field avalanche, powerful enough to cause their mutual Annihilation, was thus effortlessly neutralized by him in the blink of an eye.
"I can do this because I have studied it."
"It’s like solving a difficult math problem. You can brute-force it with a clumsy method, or you can use the models and techniques developed by your predecessors..."
"In this regard, you are still far behind!"
"In the future, on the Battlefield of Ten Thousand Races, once you reach realms beyond the Black Hole level, you’ll find far more complex and extreme environments where Mental Power and Spiritual Energy converge. Everyone will have even more obnoxious World Curiosities. How will you survive?"
"A death there is a true death!"
"You’ll have to command large armies and navigate complex alliances and rivalries among all sorts of Alien Races... If you die, countless people will die with you!"
"If you die on the outer-domain Battlefield of Ten Thousand Races, your soul can return to the Golden Throne. But they will just become cold corpses, unable to return home!"
"You are far too behind!"
"You’re useless aside from your raw power."
CRACK—!
CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK—!!!
Qin Feng’s physical body could no longer withstand the pure, crushing force from the tip of Caesar’s sword.
His arm exploded into a mist of blood.
Next was his chest, his legs...
Like a shattered statue, Qin Feng’s body completely disintegrated amid a rapid series of cracking sounds.
In the final moment of his consciousness, only Caesar’s calm and indifferent voice remained in his mind.
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Consciousness re-formed from a place of absolute darkness and nothingness.
Qin Feng slowly opened his eyes.
His gaze was met by a dim, ochre, and deathly silent sky.
Beyond the thin atmosphere were a few distant stars, emitting a bleak light.
He sat up and found himself on a vast, boundless, reddish-brown barren plain.
Beneath his feet was cracked earth and weathered rock.
This was the edge of Star System 117, a long-abandoned planet.
His body had been perfectly restored to its original state.
The power armor that had completely disintegrated in the star’s core was now also repaired, covering his body silently and exuding the unique, cold gleam of metal.
[Contestant: Qin Feng]
[Status: Rebirth]
[Alert: You have entered the ’Hunting Stage.’]
[Points: 0]
[All resources you obtained in this competition zone have been lost.]
[All your personal items are safely stored in your Subspace Storage Unit.]
The notifications from the contestant’s Jade Token appeared clearly on his HUD.
An extremely complicated expression appeared on Qin Feng’s face.
He had lost.
Lost without a shred of doubt, utterly and completely.
Even his final trump card, dragging his enemy down with him, had seemed like a childish joke.
Caesar...
That man, as powerful as a god, and the words he spoke before his consciousness faded, haunted his mind like a nightmare.
’Fighting... isn’t everything...’
’Strategist, philosopher, politician, artist, student of Spiritual Energy, student of Mental Power...’
’Studying Spiritual Energy, studying Mental Power...’
At that moment, for the first time ever, a seed of self-doubt sprouted in Qin Feng’s heart.
He felt a wavering in his conviction toward the pure, ultimate path of the Martial Dao that he had walked unswervingly for the past several centuries.
’Have I truly been on the wrong path?’
The feeling was like a Swordsman who had dedicated his entire life to honing his Swordsmanship, only to be effortlessly shot and killed from a hundred paces away by a child with a musket.
The shock from that "dimensional reduction attack"—an attack from a higher dimension of knowledge—was paradigm-shifting.
But just a few seconds later, this feeling of self-doubt was completely severed and cast aside by Qin Feng’s rock-solid Will!
Clarity and determination returned to Qin Feng’s eyes.
’My path is not wrong!’
Qin Feng’s Mental Power had long since reached an extremely profound level.
His cognitive abilities, logical reasoning, and critical thinking to distinguish right from wrong far surpassed those of an ordinary person by hundreds, even thousands of times. Naturally, he could figure out the crux of the matter.