Chapter 380: Collision of Systems (Part 2)
Immortals who had reached this step in their journey could have a lifespan of over a million years, their individual strength even surpassing that of constant stars.
These pieces of information, from who knows where, had all been crammed into Wang Qi's mind by Feng Luoyi. It was uncertain whether Feng wished for Wang Qi to find a method to defeat his opponent or if there was some other purpose.
However…
"Just as I like it!" Wang Qi understood that since Feng Luoyi wanted to prolong the battle, at least he himself was not in danger of dying and having his Dao dissipated.
Therefore, for him, this battle was nothing more than an experiment!
Space twisted and then stretched, time compressed and then extended. Amidst this constant changing of the two, gravitational tides formed by gravitons rose and fell. One after another, new special models were formed, analyzed, and then transmuted into general models' references and annotations in Wang Qi's mind.
On Earth, these experiments would require the might of constant star-level or even creation-level powers. But here, cultivators merely needed to interfere with the original forces of the universe to achieve this.
Empowered by the WiFi signal, he had completed spells that were impossible to perform at his current realm. It was a marvelous opportunity. The model of creation was revealing its true face to him, the only regret being that his Spiritual Sense was too weak to delve deeper into the microscopic world, unable to observe more phenomena. More than once, he speculated about how gravitons were arranged and fluctuated at the microscopic level, how the time-space membrane linked by gravitons changed. But all this remained theoretical calculations on paper. He was not a high-order cultivator, unable to do all of these.
Strength, Golden Core, Primordial Spirit… Wang Qi, with the soul of a scientist, yearned for these things at this moment more than ever. It wasn't just to live longer and see more. In this world, both the Golden Core and the Primordial Spirit were also excellent experimental tools.
The Ghost Soldier "New Moon" appeared behind Wang Qi, pushing the gravity-based spells he possessed with strong mana. Wang Qi, immersed in the ultimate beauty of the universe itself, didn't even realize that he was gradually gaining the upper hand.
Under the attack of the black light, the Dragon Guard shattered twice. But during the long personal relative time, Wang Qi had ample time to meticulously rebuild this layer of defense. And Lu Wan's body had been sliced up by Sword Qi four times by now. This Banished Immortal was still just a Banished Immortal, not a True Immortal; his Spiritual Sense hadn't transformed into the Immortal Sense with the speed of light, and he couldn't prepare to learn of Wang Qi's status. Meanwhile, Wang Qi could deduce Lu Wan's position through various anomalies in space-time and gravity.
Lu Wan's relatively inferior spells also placed him at a disadvantage, preventing him from launching a counterattack. Unable to interfere with the two reference frames, his martial arts were largely useless, leaving him to fend off with his weaker spells.
Throughout this clash, Wang Qi had already seized the opportunity for victory!
Unsure how much of his own time had slipped away, Lu Wan's limited patience had been completely exhausted. He finally roused all his mana, hoping to take down Wang Qi in the shortest amount of time. "River of Time" rippled with his Nascent Soul Power, "Power of Time" washing over his opponent, eroding the mystical and crumbling the defenses. In this confrontation with "Time," Spiritual Energy emerged from nothingness, joining the offensive. Lu Wan threw a punch, deeply mysterious, and the surging strength within that punch was like shackles, confining the surrounding in an extraordinary way - stripping Wang Qi from "Heaven and Earth," from "Time and Space," and pulverizing him with one blow.
This was an ultimate attack powered by the Immortal Realm and launched with Nascent Soul Power!
Wang Qi's eyes brightened. He sensed a new model. Gravity had increased more than tenfold at this moment. Lu Wan unleashed a burst of gravity waves. These waves of gravity traveled at the speed of light, transcending time and space, smoothing out the folds in space, and compressing the expanding time-space.
This was the manifestation of "increased" gravitons. Or perhaps, in the microscopic world, the strings of gravity wove through the surrounding dimensions, stitching together time and space, interfering with motion, stirring causality, and trapping more strength here. Time and space swelled, and space warped, but paradoxically, they continued on a macroscopic level with the time-space where Wang Qi resided. The punch seemed slow in Wang Qi's eyes, but he couldn't move faster than it; a single punch felt as though it came from multiple directions at once.
The punch seemed illogical and irrational, yet Wang Qi discerned another truth within it. The secrets of high-speed movement under relativistic conditions were laid bare before him.
"So that's it... You truly are an Immortal who once possessed the ability to probe the speed of light," Wang Qi muttered to himself in "his own time," then cast another spell.
Feng Luoyi had spoken only a few words to her, but those words had a tremendous impact on Wang Qi. He reconsidered the relationship between time-space and spells. His level was not something the mere Foundation Establishment Stage could measure, and he quickly envisioned many applications of time-space and gravity. However, due to his cultivation and spellwork, he was unable to use most of these applications. But now, Lu Wan's strike had set his inspiration ablaze.
Lu Wan's strike carried both the mystical sense of the profound and the martial dignity of overpowering cleverness with brute force. He stood on an unknown high ground, looking down at everything, as if about to crush an ant under his fist. Black light transformed into the vast Qiushui of the returning sea, pouring down majestically. Under the onslaught of the Power of Time, the invisible gulf between them was completely bridged.
In Lu Wan's eyes, Wang Qi slowly placed his fingers on his forehead, and the Ghost Soldiers behind him took an indescribable stance. Then, he felt an inexplicable tremor.
Wang Qi was also countering with gravity waves. He could imagine how, in microscopic time, the strength transmitted through superstrings fluctuated, and how peaks of waves overlapped. Gravity altered the curvature, and space itself pulled him to "somewhere." At that moment, he used Lu Wan's strength to throw himself "upward." It was an impossible direction, orthogonal to up, down, all, and both front and back—the fourth dimension.
To Lu Wan's astonishment, Wang Qi was somehow "higher" than him in the "nonexistent direction!"
"What!?"
Lu Wan was now utterly drained from his all-out but failed strike. Wang Qi's mind still lingered within the mathematical model he had just comprehended. For the first time, he experienced the sensation of a fourth spatial dimension. Yet his body faithfully executed his original plan; the Innate Divine Seal of the Dragon Clan was activated within him. Amidst the surging Purple Light, the ground state fields were stimulated by Dragon Power, and immense strength emerged out of nothing—Strong Interaction Force was freed from the microscopic realm, plunging ferociously downward.
Wang Qi threw a punch. It was the only forceful attack he made in this battle, and undoubtedly the most potent and fierce. The Strong Interaction Force was even enough to tear an opponent apart at the atomic level.
"Take my—serious punch!" (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please vote with your recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)