Golden ripples formed a colossal sphere, with countless ring-shaped ripples revolving around it.
Inside, the Eye-Snatching Demon looked at Li Zhenlong and sneered, "Welcome to my world. Now, I'm going to chop you into pieces!"
The item he had used was called [Absolute Advantage Forcefield].
Within this sphere, all of his abilities would be boosted to a degree that edged Li Zhenlong out by just a notch. For instance, if Li Zhenlong's speed was 100, his own speed would reach 101—even if his original speed had only been 50. What was more, this enhancement covered every single attribute, which was why he was so confident.
If he still couldn't beat Li Zhenlong under these conditions, he might as well just go and die.
Li Zhenlong glanced around and gave a cold laugh. "A transcendence-level item? You didn't think you were the only one who had one, did you?"
As he spoke, he produced a hat and put it on. In an instant, the hat erupted with a terrifying power. This power clashed against the surrounding golden ripples, and in the very next second, both vanished simultaneously.
His hat was called [Experts Dare Not Hat]. Its ability was to directly elevate the wearer's strongest capability to the pinnacle level, completely unaffected and unsuppressed by any outside force.
As it turned out, this resulted in a bug. When Li Zhenlong wore the hat, his martial path prowess was guaranteed to be drawn up to the highest level, but the Eye-Snatching Demon also knew a bit of martial arts. Inside the Absolute Advantage Forcefield, the demon's martial arts would theoretically have to surpass Li Zhenlong's by a hair.
However, Li Zhenlong's hat would never allow anyone to surpass him. Thus, the two clashed, and both were nullified together.
The spherical forcefield made of golden ripples vanished outright, and Li Zhenlong's hat also turned completely ordinary. Both sensed that their item's effect had ceased to work, and so they stared solemnly at each other.
"It seems we'll just have to test our real skills!" The Eye-Snatching Demon took a deep breath, simply tossing the item in his hand to a floating arm.
Li Zhenlong tugged the brim of his hat to one side, gripped his staff, and sneered, "Then let me see just how much real skill you can muster!"
The next instant, the two clashed. Li Zhenlong's staff lengthened as a flurry of rapid strikes smashed toward the Eye-Snatching Demon. Relying on his sheer number of arms, each gripping a different weapon, the demon continuously parried Li Zhenlong's attacks.
Virtually every strike from Li Zhenlong required several of the Eye-Snatching Demon's arms just to ward off, to the point that although the demon possessed numerous other abilities, he lacked the spare energy to unleash them.
It was like playing table tennis: you couldn't expect someone to simultaneously rinse rice, put it on to cook, use the bathroom, and wipe their own backside all at once.
Meanwhile, Yu Xian had already been preparing to shift his perspective and see what other Mighty Ones were up to.
After all, since he couldn't see anything on Li Zhenlong and the Eye-Snatching Demon's side, he couldn't very well just stare blankly at a black screen.
Yet just as he was about to "change the channel," the black screen suddenly restored a picture. The moment the feed returned, Yu Xian saw Li Zhenlong pummeling the Eye-Snatching Demon. Because the black staff moved so fast, it had become a mountain and sea of staff shadows, battering the demon so fiercely that all he could do was parry.
In truth, what was most terrifying about Li Zhenlong was that a single point of his strength could unleash the effect of a hundred million points. Moreover, his power was exceptionally condensed, showing almost no signs of leaking outward, yet the moment it struck, it would detonate inside the target.
This meant that every blow carried true damage. Opponents with extraordinary regenerative abilities couldn't even dream of relying on rapid healing to shrug off his strikes, because while his point of impact was tiny, the area of devastation it wrought was enormous.
For example, if he were to tap the surface of a planet, the planet would explode from within in the very next moment, tearing apart and reducing completely to dust.
Such attacks were terrifying in the extreme. Any weapon the Eye-Snatching Demon used to parry shattered upon contact, and countless arms of his had already been ruined.
Though it might have looked as if the Eye-Snatching Demon was holding his ground in a back-and-forth exchange, in reality, he was constantly losing arms and even quite a few eyeballs, while the weapons stored in his storage space were steadily dwindling.
Normally, two fists were no match for four hands, but here with Li Zhenlong, two arms and a single staff suppressed the demon's myriad eyes and thousand arms.
A sneak attack?
Useless. While the staff struck forward, its tip extended, and a shift in angle mid-swing shattered the ambushing arm directly.
Beams fired from eyes in the distance?
Still useless.
Even as Li Zhenlong attacked, his body constantly shifted angles, seamlessly blending motion and stillness to dodge the beams with effortless ease.
"Damn, he's so strong!"
Watching Li Zhenlong through the Zhen Realm, Yu Xian couldn't help but marvel.
This guy had zero flaws. When the Eye-Snatching Demon erupted with full energy, unleashing a wide-range, large-area attack with no blind spots, Li Zhenlong used his staff to pierce the surface with a single focused point, plunging straight into the epicenter of the explosion and slamming a strike onto the demon's body. The Eye-Snatching Demon was sent flying on the spot, while his erupting energy merely destroyed a few unlucky worlds without grazing a single hair on Li Zhenlong.
In fact, the Eye-Snatching Demon's abilities were by no means weak, but many of them simply had no effect when used against Li Zhenlong. For instance, he possessed an Eye of Death that could inflict a death curse upon its target.
Yet Li Zhenlong possessed the power of the Death Rule, cleanly absorbing the curse without hesitation.
Similar situations were almost all thwarted by Li Zhenlong's various rules. In particular, the Life Rule he wielded gave him surging vitality; the vast majority of negative effects were completely washed away by his life force in an instant.
*Damn it! How can this guy be so strong?!*
*No, I can't keep fighting, or I'll be in mortal danger.*
Spitting blood, the Eye-Snatching Demon felt his scalp tingle with dread—Li Zhenlong had genuinely traumatized him.
As Li Zhenlong charged again, the demon hurriedly activated an arm. In the palm of that arm was a keyhole; as a key inserted itself and turned, the arm pressed onto the Eye-Snatching Demon's shoulder and vanished with him without a trace.
The strike hit empty air.
Li Zhenlong looked around, furrowing his brow, and found that the Eye-Snatching Demon's aura had completely vanished.
Instantly, he realized the Eye-Snatching Demon had escaped. His expression darkened. After all, if a Mighty One was bent on fleeing, it was truly difficult to catch them, not to mention that he lacked abilities specialized in tracking people down.
Meeting him this time had been a pure accident. If the Eye-Snatching Demon intentionally hid from him in the future, tracking him down would be nearly impossible.
Of course, there was another way.
And that was to keep collecting more Calamity Origin. In the end, a clash between them was inevitable.
*Phew!*
Li Zhenlong relaxed, shifting from combat mode back to his everyday state.
Suddenly, he looked in Yu Xian's direction. He could vaguely sense someone peeping at him, yet he couldn't locate the target.
Inside the Zhen Realm, Yu Xian was startled when Li Zhenlong suddenly glanced his way, thinking he had been spotted. But after waiting a moment, Li Zhenlong's gaze began to drift, and Yu Xian realized that Li Zhenlong merely sensed something without confirming that someone was watching him.
"That guy has seriously sharp instincts."
Yu Xian patted his chest and spoke with lingering fear.
Still, if they truly had to fight, Yu Xian clenched his right fist. Li Zhenlong possessed supreme staff techniques and an ever-changing weapon, but he had his own invincible right hand.
As for who would win or lose, they would only know after actually fighting.
Chapter 689