Chapter 724 - 717: Gravity Mimicry
On the surface, Zhou Yuanjue seemed to have gained a slight advantage.
But he knew this strength was temporary, gained by pushing his body and Energy to their absolute limits in a short burst. It couldn’t last. He still had his most powerful technique as a trump card. In fact, if he had unleashed it as a surprise attack earlier, his chances of winning would have been far greater.
However, he was unwilling to end the fight that way. He wanted to see his opponent’s true strength and trump card, to make the battle more interesting—more honorable.
Even though it meant facing a significant risk, he still made that choice.
If he couldn’t defeat his strongest opponent in an honorable, head-on battle, then the victory would be meaningless to him.
"I take back what I said before."
"On this Gena Continent, you are truly worthy of being called my opponent."
Anke said slowly, his pale violet eyes regaining their calm.
And his body also began to gradually change.
The scales covering his body began to shift in color, fading from a deep black to a blackish-purple. The two pairs of horn-like structures on his head also started growing rapidly.
The very tips of the horns gradually twisted into peculiar shapes and formations.
A strange power began to emanate from within his body.
"For my race and civilization, standing on the surface of a planet is our greatest aspiration."
"As the first living being to set foot on the planet’s surface, having conquered its immense gravity, I received a gift from the planet itself."
"The very forces that once hindered and bound me ultimately became my strength. It is the only ability I possess beyond my physical power."
"However, even for me, this ability is a double-edged sword, which is why I don’t use it often."
"But you are no ordinary opponent."
As he spoke, Anke slowly raised his right arm, clenching his massive hand into a fist.
VMMMM!!
A dark purple halo abruptly expanded, swiftly enveloping a radius of dozens of kilometers around him.
BOOM!!
In an instant, an immense pressure crashed down on Zhou Yuanjue’s body. Every inch of his muscle, every single cell, felt as if it had become a hundred times heavier.
’This is... gravity?!’
Zhou Yuanjue’s pupils contracted. He had never imagined Anke possessed such a terrifying power.
’He can directly alter the gravity in the surrounding area! No living creature can counteract it!’
"This is the gift my planet bestowed upon me."
"I can reshape a part of my homeworld’s gravitational environment anywhere I wish."
"For someone like me, long-accustomed to my homeworld’s environment, this level of gravity is as natural as breathing. But for you, who has never experienced such conditions, how much of your power can you even use?"
As he finished speaking, Anke’s body exploded with power. Within the environment of one-hundred-times gravity, his speed barely slowed at all!
In the blink of an eye, he was in front of Zhou Yuanjue once more.
This time, he intended to finish his opponent as quickly as possible.
Even with his physique and abilities, simulating a gravitational field of this magnitude inflicted unimaginable damage on his body and consumed a colossal amount of Energy. Moreover, he didn’t possess Zhou Yuanjue’s regenerative capabilities.
’This guy...’
Zhou Yuanjue’s pupils constricted. He could clearly see through his opponent’s movements, but when he tried to put his own body into action, everything was different.
Under the terrifying gravity simulation, it wasn’t just a matter of the pressure on his body. All his familiar movement patterns, methods of balance, and ways of circulating Energy were drastically altered. Adapting instantaneously was practically impossible.
His sluggish, distorted defensive movements instantly gave Anke the opening he needed.
A fist shot out!!
BOOM!!
Zhou Yuanjue barely had time to mobilize his immense power to defend himself before the giant fist struck him again. This time, under the protection of the Blood Jade Red Lotus’s Energy, his body didn’t shatter on impact, merely sustaining a degree of damage.
But the immense force sent him flying, knocking him off balance and into the air.
"How much longer can you last?!"
Anke’s will thundered. In the terrifying gravitational field, his body actually left a trail of afterimages in midair.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!
Punches, knee strikes, elbow strikes, kicks!
A terrifying barrage of attacks rained down on Zhou Yuanjue’s body from all directions. Even his Blood Jade Red Lotus form began to show cracks under such an assault.
"Looks like this is it. The guy is an absolute genius. His intrinsic ability can actually simulate a gravitational environment. If he trains and develops it, his potential is unimaginable."
"He’s more than earned his spot in the Primordial Star Organization."
Modin couldn’t help but sigh with admiration upon seeing this.
The many spectators in the viewing area also fell silent, not expecting Anke to have been hiding such a powerful trump card.
Suspended in mid-air and under constant attack, Zhou Yuanjue curled into a ball, his eyes shut tight, seemingly having lost all will to fight back.
"Giving up so soon? It seems I overestimated you."
"Then let’s end this!!"
Anke’s fist changed form. His fingers curled in, leaving only one thick finger pointing out like an indestructible spear.
He aimed for a gap in the cracked Blood Jade Red Lotus on Zhou Yuanjue and thrust his finger forward.
If it hit, the Blood Jade Red Lotus’s defense would completely collapse, and his body would be pierced straight through by that one finger!!
However, at that critical moment, Zhou Yuanjue’s eyes snapped open. The deathly stillness around him shattered in an instant.
In the instant Anke’s finger-spear came stabbing forward, Zhou Yuanjue’s body twisted in mid-air in a way that defied logic, dodging the attack by a razor’s edge.
’What?!’
Anke’s pupils constricted again. He knew what that movement signified.
’That was no lucky fluke.’
’Powerful prediction, precise body control, and accurate Energy circulation—not one of those elements could have been missing!’
’And for a living being experiencing a hundred-times gravity simulated environment for the first time, that should be almost impossible.’
What he didn’t know was that just now, Zhou Yuanjue hadn’t given up. Instead, he had dispersed his consciousness, sinking it into every cell of his body, using the constant impacts and injuries to rapidly perceive everything around him.
He was not just a single person; he was a composite of countless "individuals."
For a Martial Artist who had started as a weak mortal, breaking through his limits step-by-step through arduous training and daily Martial Dao Cultivation, certain skills were second nature. The ability to exert ultimate control over one’s body, adapt to any environment, unleash one hundred and twenty percent of one’s power from a finite form, and even achieve the impossible by defeating a stronger foe—these were things that no race born with innate power could ever hope to match.
For Zhou Yuanjue—humanity’s greatest Martial Dao genius, who possessed the essence of Simulation and a will that could split one into ten thousand—the sudden change to one-hundred-times gravity was not some insurmountable chasm.
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!!
While Anke was still momentarily stunned, Zhou Yuanjue’s body flipped in mid-air, instantly putting distance between them as he landed back on the ground.
THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!!
The flesh and skin on his body rippled like waves, and the blood and tissue clinging to his surface were instantly ejected by this subtle physical control. His body was clean again, and the cracks in his Blood Jade Red Lotus armor began to rapidly mend.
Anke, who was already shaken, was once again stunned by Zhou Yuanjue’s subtle control in shaking off the blood and gore.
At the same time, he became absolutely certain that his opponent had indeed fully adapted to the sudden hundred-fold increase in gravity.
’How in the world did he do that?!’
"A hundred times gravity. That’s all it is."
Zhou Yuanjue said slowly.