The Demon with Holy Radiance

This was his absolute peak state. If Hai Yun hadn’t been using the Power of Rules, Yang An was confident he could kill him. But as things stood, he could only grit his teeth and press the attack.

"Bow Lady!"

Yang An called out to Bow Lady in his heart, and she instantly understood his intent. Having been through so many battles together, their coordination was flawless.

A searing pain, as if striking him in the very soul, washed over Yang An. In that instant, the light suffusing his body flared even brighter.

Hai Yun stared directly at Yang An. The sudden transformation sent a scorching, fiery sensation through his pitch-black eyes, and in the next moment, tears of blood streamed from them.

’He’d never imagined before arriving that the Buddha’s Son had hidden his power so well. Even he had almost been caught off guard. No wonder so many of the temple’s Zombie Gods had fallen to him.’

’But it’s useless!’

’He could sense that while the Yang An before him was a Zombie God with terrifying combat power, he regrettably hadn’t fused with any Forbidden Artifact Fragments. He hadn’t mastered any Power of Rules.’

’The Power of Rules is the true core of strength. The difference between one who has mastered it and one who hasn’t is as vast as the distance between heaven and earth.’

’And he was of the Insect Dao! A practitioner of the Insect Dao who had mastered a complete Forbidden Artifact!’

BOOM!

All the light between heaven and earth converged on a single point, seemingly piercing through Hai Yun’s body. Yang An instantly appeared behind him, wreathed in flames of pure light. Even his eyes blazed with a dazzling brilliance as he punched straight through Hai Yun’s chest.

Countless beams of light rampaged through Hai Yun’s flesh, rapidly dissolving his physical form.

But in that same instant, ripples spread out from beneath Hai Yun’s feet. His body abruptly transformed into a black, incorporeal shadow, his flesh shifting from tangible to intangible before vanishing completely.

The terrifying Power annihilated everything within a thousand-meter, one-hundred-and-eighty-degree arc with irresistible force, leaving nothing but dust in its wake.

Yet, the phantom of a colossal palm descended from the sky.

The mountains trembled and the earth quaked. The ground instantly caved in, creating a massive pit a full kilometer across as the surrounding mountain ranges began to shake violently.

The blow missed Yang An. His own attack having failed, he had immediately disengaged, but now he couldn’t pinpoint Hai Yun’s location.

High above, shadows coalesced into the massive phantom of a Buddha. It raised its hand, and a terrifying palm descended, covering an area thousands of meters wide.

’Yang An couldn’t even tell if Hai Yun specialized in Techniques or practiced a Body Refining Technique.’

But this attack was unavoidable. It was too late to even use the Light and Shadow Escape Technique to get away.

A beam of light shot skyward, soaring up to collide directly with the giant palm, instantly punching a hole straight through it.

But the gaping hole in the giant palm did nothing to slow its descent.

The palm struck the earth, crushing and flattening towering mountains for several kilometers around. It then disintegrated, seeping deep into the ground.

The land beneath the palm’s impact turned black, and an even larger ring of ripples bloomed outward.

The moment Yang An punched through the giant palm, before he could make another move, his body uncontrollably dissolved into countless black threads once more.

A phantom appeared on the ground, just as before. The black threads flowed into it, and Yang An’s body re-formed, reappearing in its original spot as if time itself had reversed.

At that very moment, another giant palm was already falling from the heavens above.

The blow landed squarely on Yang An. He had no time to react; he was struck the very instant his body had finished reassembling.

His body was driven into the ground, the terrifying force of the impact pulverizing everything around him.

Yang An spat out a mouthful of glowing blood, which splattered outward like a spray of tiny, glittering stars.

Fortunately, his body was now strong enough to withstand the blow without being shattered, but his injuries were still severe.

’What in the world is this Power of Rules?!’

’Witnessing Hai Yun’s Power of Rules again, he found it completely indefensible and utterly bizarre.’

Just then, a figure appeared before Yang An, looking down on him from above with a cold sneer.

"Exactly how many secrets are you hiding, Your Highness the Buddha Prince?

Why don’t you just tell me everything? I can grant you a quick and painless death. What do you say?"

’The secret of his mastery over so many forms of Light Magic was out. Yang An knew it was either him or this bastard.’

’And right now, his own death seemed far more likely.’

Since death was certain either way, Yang An suddenly erupted with power. A black light enveloped Hai Yun, immobilizing him. It only lasted for an instant, but in that moment, Yang An plunged his hand into Hai Yun’s skull. Beneath his Light Wheel He Tou mask, his face was a mask of pure madness.

"BOW LADY!!!"

The searing pain almost made him pass out on the spot. But at the same time, an even more dazzling light erupted from his body, devouring all ambient light and coalescing into an immense golden sun.

This time, Hai Yun was completely defenseless. In the blink of an eye, he was annihilated by the light, his body turning to ash and smoke, unable to resist its piercing radiance for even a second.

The sun then immediately imploded, collapsing into a colossal black hole.

Within this black hole, everything—light and matter alike—disintegrated into nothingness, as if it were a singularity of absolute annihilation.

Yang An gasped for breath, his body trembling. ’That bite from Bow Lady was far worse than ever before,’ he thought. ’Good thing I held on.’

But just then, a familiar voice drifted over from a thousand meters behind him, far beyond the reach of the black hole.