Chapter 411: Shattered

He attempted to deflect upward with the Dark-colored Great Sword he was gripping, but his motion, compared to Kevin's already-charged Full Power Strike, seemed half a beat slow.

Boom————————!!!

The blazing white flame-pillar giant blade struck solidly onto the blade of Bai E's cross-blocked Dark-colored Great Sword!

In the indescribable terrifying roar, the blinding white light instantly engulfed the scene!

Bai E's figure, like a nail struck by a god's Flame hammer, plummeted downward at astonishing speed!

Bang!!!!

He heavily smashed onto the already shattered black rock layer below!

No, not the rock layer!

At the instant of contact, Kevin's previously released Extreme Cold Freezing Aura, under the high-temperature impact, instantly formed a hard composite ice-rock surface!

Bai E's body slammed onto this ice-rock!

Crack——Boom!!!

The ice-rock ground, like struck by a meteorite, instantly collapsed downward and shattered!

A giant pit over a hundred meters in diameter and bottomless was forcibly blasted out in the roar!

Countless fragments mixed with ice shards sprayed upward, like a reverse fountain!

Around the pit's edge, spiderweb-like cracks frenziedly spread, the entire battlefield's earth violently trembling from this blow!

However, Kevin's attack did not cease!

He knew that against such an existence, he must give no chance to breathe!

At the moment Bai E fell into the pit, Kevin's figure had already swiftly pursued downward, rushing into the lingering dust and smoke!

His battle strategy was crystal clear—speed!

Uninterrupted ultra-high-intensity attacks!

Within him, the Destruction Beast Factor endowed him with an inhuman physique and regenerative power; the Brahma essence, formed from the fusion of hundreds to thousands of gene powers, made his body like a bottomless furnace of power.

Yet the opponent's peculiar ability to reflect attacks doubled must have some upper limit.

It's a contest of whose body is harder, whose will is tougher!

Whoosh——!

Kevin rushed into the smoke and dust, his ice-blue pupils instantly locking onto the purple-black figure struggling to rise at the pit's bottom.

Bai E half-kneeled at the pit's bottom, the dark-colored great sword planted beside him, supporting his body.

At the spot on his right side struck by the Jiemie slash, the purple-black patterns flared violently, as if molten lava flowed within, emitting astonishing heat.

Yet he seemed to feel no pain, his shattered purple eyes hollowly lifting, gazing at Kevin swooping down.

Kevin wasted no words; mid-dive, his left hand grasped at empty air!

Clatter——!

Extreme Cold Freezing Aura burst instantly, precisely covering the dark-colored great sword beside him and his sword-wielding right arm!

Hoarfrost ice spread at visible speed up the blade and arm, attempting to freeze him and his weapon together!

At the same time, Kevin's right hand raised the Jiemie Great Sword again; the flame on the blade shifted from blazing white to a more restrained yet more dangerous dark gold!

This time, he did not unleash a wide slash, but compressed all his power into the sword tip's point like a drill, thrusting swiftly toward the exact center of Bai E's forehead!

Freezing control, a killing blow!

The dark gold sword tip pierced the air, emitting a sharp shriek, instantly reaching before Bai E's forehead!

At this critical moment——

Bai E's right arm, rapidly covered by freezing ice, suddenly jerked!

Crack!

The ice covering it actually cracked upon impact!

It wasn't shattered by his brute force; rather, it seemed as if some more violent force from within the ice layer was pushing outward, splitting it!

Immediately, he did not pull out the frozen great sword, but lifted that right hand which had just cracked the ice layer, fingers spread, evenly, to meet the incoming dark gold sword tip——

He grabbed it!

?? Kevin's ice-blue pupils suddenly contracted!

Hiss——!!!

The dark gold Jiemie sword tip was actually seized barehanded by him, stopping less than an inch from his forehead!

The terrifying penetrating force condensed on the sword tip violently clashed with the purple-black power bursting from his palm, emitting a piercing screech!

Kevin felt an unimaginable resistance transmitted from the sword blade.

Only seen, Bai E's right hand gripping the sword tip, the purple-black patterns under his skin spreading like awakened venomous snakes, his whole arm slightly trembling, obviously bearing immense pressure.

But his shattered purple eye was no longer completely hollow and void.

Deep within that eye, it seemed as if countless tiny golden sparks were ignited, like a volcano dormant for eons, at its deepest point a flicker……weak, yet utterly pure flame light appeared.

That was not Rage, not hatred, not even will.

That was something deeper——in the Next Reincarnation Cycle, each time one personally slays a close friend and bears the guilt, the soul leaves ashes scorched by the flame; it is a Flame Seed burning within the body, after consuming all humanity, memory, and emotion, leaving behind the most primal, most scorching——Destruction Itself.

After bearing everything and denying everything, it remains the sole driving force.

Kevin's motion, due to this sudden change and the strange shift in his opponent's eyes, exhibited an extremely brief stagnation.

At that Shana of stagnation——

Bai E's right hand gripping the sword tip, its fingers suddenly clenched!

Crack——!!!

A crystal-clear sound, like glass shattering, transmitted into Kevin's ears!

He gazed at his own sword tip.

The tip of the Jiemie Great Sword actually… developed a crack!?

Immediately after, from Bai E's throat came a low, hoarse sound, also like the suppressed countless eons finally finding an outlet—

"Ah..."

"Ah..."

"Ah——————！！！！！！！"

It was not a roar, but more like a pure bellow of some being declaring its "pain"!

With that bellow, he jerked his right arm that held the sword tip sharply upward and pulled!

A terrifying, monstrous force far beyond Kevin's estimate surged!

Kevin only felt an irresistible massive force coming from the hilt; his palm instantly shattered, blood not yet oozing was vaporized by the high heat!

"Bang!"

His whole body was actually yanked by Bai E's single hand, man and sword together, flung upward!

And that wasn't over!

At the same instant Bai E flung Kevin, his right arm, which had been trembling slightly, used the momentum to bend, clench, and then—

He punched a massive blow at Kevin still in midair!

The punch was not fast, even somewhat heavy.

But where the fist passed, space moaned under the strain, showing fine black cracks!

In front of the fist, there was no dazzling outward flare, only a layer of maximally condensed Purple-Black Membrane!

"Dong————!!!"

A deafening, heart-stopping boom!

Kevin's chest and abdomen solidly took the punch!

He felt he wasn't hit by a fist, but collided head‑on with a rapidly flying micro‑planet!

"Puff——!"

A mouthful of fresh blood spurted from his mouth, evaporating into a blood mist in midair from his own intense heat.

He, like a kite with its line cut, flew straight toward the dim yellow sky at a speed faster than his previous dive!

One thousand meters, two thousand meters, three thousand meters…