Chapter 421: of

Unfortunately, with only this many big and small cats, no amount of strengthening would make them his opponent.

Elsewhere.

Kate gradually adapted to the pain in her head, but the moment she recalled what had happened over the past few days, her face went deathly pale.

That immortal—

Including herself, not a single person had noticed anything off about this period of time; everything had simply felt perfectly reasonable.

Glancing at the subordinates beside her whose expressions were still blank, Kate felt a sudden chill run down her spine.

Fortunately the other party hadn't gone for the kill—otherwise her group would probably have died without ever knowing how.

Thinking of this, the woman took a deep breath, trying to steady her emotions.

It was only then that she noticed, besides that immortal, there was actually another old acquaintance in the main cockpit: "Fisher!?"

The leader of the 【Wujing Samadhi】, the number-one enemy of the 【Great Love Plan】.

Hippolytus Fisher.

Only now, this terrifying figure who had thrown the star river into chaos didn't seem to be faring much better than her.

Hearing his name, Fisher forced a smile onto his face: "Kate, I didn't expect we'd actually meet under these circumstances."

"So, what do you say? Join forces? You should have received it too, right?"

Facing the invitation from her old enemy, Kate instinctively glanced at Li Ang, whose expression was utterly unreadable.

Should she accept?

After regaining clarity, she had somehow already come to know what that immortal across from her was doing, and given the power he had displayed, joining forces with Fisher was indeed the best option.

After a brief silence, Kate let out a soft breath, then said in a slightly trembling voice: "The 【Great Love Plan】 will never collude with the 【Wujing Samadhi】. Fisher, you can drop those little schemes of yours."

"Tch."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man let out a contemptuous laugh.

He had already seen that this cosmic cop from the 【Great Love Plan】 had been scared out of her wits, completely unable to muster any will to resist.

Only, in a one-versus-two, Kate most likely wouldn't make a move and would just stand by watching.

Thinking of this, Fisher looked toward the youth radiating an aura of decay.

If the intel he had obtained was correct, the other party's current state absolutely couldn't be good.

An immortal?

Hmph! He'd make sure the man came but never returned!

Unaware of Fisher's thoughts, Li Ang looked at the visibly cowed Kate, his gaze flickering slightly.

The other party had indeed broken free of the Dual-Completion Hands' control, but it didn't seem complete—after all, under normal circumstances a Fourth-Energy-Level transcendent's mental fortitude shouldn't be this poor.

'Lingering effects, then.'

This was somewhat beyond Li Ang's expectations; he hadn't anticipated that the combo technique would actually produce such a debuff.

Just as he was pondering how to optimize the combo technique, Fisher spoke up: "If you would, sir—"

Before the leader of the 【Wujing Samadhi】 could finish his sentence, he suddenly chose to strike.

A sneak attack—something he had done countless times before.

Screeech—!

Accompanied by a piercing metallic tearing sound, the massive starship was violently ripped in two.

"Hahahaha!"

The instant he launched his attack, Fisher burst into wild laughter.

Far too careless! So what if he was an immortal!

It wasn't as if none had appeared before—and in the end hadn't they all still reached a compromise with the 【Great Love Plan】!?

If the 【Great Love Plan】 could do it, so could he!

But Fisher's smugness didn't last long, because he realized his sneak attack seemed to have had no effect at all.

Staring at the youth across from him whose clothes hadn't even been torn, the middle-aged man was like a duck with its throat gripped, letting out a disbelieving sound: "Gah?!"

"How—how is that possible!? You weren't weakened!?"

Unfortunately, his question was destined to go unanswered.

Before Fisher could react, a terrifying force slammed him hard into a distant planet.

Boom—!

In the deafening roar, an absurdly massive gash split open across the planet's surface.

Li Ang, draped in a blue-white robe, couldn't help feeling a wave of speechlessness—he had no idea what that alien across from him had been so arrogant about.

Setting aside all the various mechanics, just looking at the raw numbers, that guy across from him had no chance of putting up a fight.

One had to understand that, bolstered by the specialty 【Dual Cultivation of Life and Nature】, the numerical values of his two attributes—physical strength and mental strength—had already completely doubled.

On the planet, Fisher lay at the center of a gigantic crater, feeling the searing pain radiating from every part of his body, his face blank with bewilderment.

In just a single exchange, he had nearly been one-shotted.

And you call that weakened!? Then what would un-weakened look like!?

Staring at the figure floating above the heavens, Fisher's expression gradually stiffened: "... If I were to be your dog, would you let me go?"

"Heh."

Li Ang let out a laugh of ambiguous meaning.

For someone who possessed both 【Spirit-Detaining Envoy】 and 【Quasi-Servant】, an opponent's pleas for mercy would never work.

'But the tribulation really did have some effect on me after all.'

In Li Ang's expectations, the other party should have been killed outright.

Seeming to realize he couldn't escape his fate, Fisher's face darkened and he said nothing more.

As the leader of the Wuzheng Samadhi, he hadn't lived this many years for nothing.

Thinking of this, the middle-aged man endured the pain and climbed up from the ground.

Seeing that he still wanted to resist, Li Ang shook his head slightly, and his right hand began to emit wisps of golden light.

Having caught a whiff of danger, Fischer wiped the fresh blood from the corner of his mouth, his face contorting into an incomparably ferocious expression: "Want to kill me!? Then you won't get off easy either!"

With those words, he stopped suppressing the power within his body, letting it rampage and clash wildly.

Unlike the Great Love Project, which focused primarily on supernatural abilities, the Wuzheng Samadhi had never been picky about its methods, and as its leader, Fischer naturally mastered an absurdly vast number of extraordinary paths.

However, although doing so granted him powerful combat ability, it likewise prevented him from advancing further; moreover, when taking action he had to suppress the power within his body to prevent it from running amok.

Yet in the records of both the Great Love Project and the Wuzheng Samadhi, those beings called Immortals seemed capable of entering a special state known as the Unity of Heaven and Man, which could effectively sort out one's own condition.

This was also why he wanted to obtain the secrets of the Immortals; regrettably, it seemed he wouldn't be able to obtain them from that person from the heavens.

As Fischer loosened his control, surges of violently wild energy immediately began to collide.

Explosion, annihilation.

A terrifying energy maelstrom, carrying piercing shrieks, surged toward Li Ang in the sky.

Looking at the scene before him, Li Ang couldn't help but feel somewhat surprised: "Primordial · Pangu Separates Heaven and Earth?"

He hadn't expected to see, in a One-Person World, an ability resembling the ultimate move of a certain great ape.

Unfortunately, it was only somewhat similar; the two were fundamentally different in nature.

In the blink of an eye, this energy maelstrom, powerful enough to tear apart the void, had already reached Li Ang.

He simply stood quietly in place, letting it wash over his body.

After a while, Li Ang shook his head slightly: "Soft and weak."

Fischer's all-out strike was indeed intimidating, but it was utterly incapable of breaking through his defense.

Then, without Li Ang making any visible move, this violently wild energy maelstrom began to calm down, until finally it circled around him like a tame little puppy.

Qi Mechanism Sorting — this Immortal technique, derived from the Divine Spirit, naturally possessed the ability to sort energy back to its original form; therefore, the ultimate technique Fischer had unleashed with everything he had was no different from delivering a dish to Li Ang.

After quelling the trouble brought by his enemy, Li Ang raised his right hand, and immediately the energy that originally belonged to Fischer began to gather toward his palm.

A moment later, Li Ang glanced at the energy orb swirling with seven-colored flowing light in his hand, then swallowed it in one gulp.

【Used Sage Theft to devour energy, Temporary Energy Attribute +25714, Heterogeneous Energy Adaptability increased】.

"???"

Meanwhile, Fischer on the ground, gasping for air with his body utterly battered, nearly popped his eyes out of their sockets upon seeing this scene.

The energy sorting he had dreamed of — the other party had accomplished it so effortlessly?

And—

He ate it!?

Realizing this, the leader of the Wuzheng Samadhi's expression gradually turned blank, and immediately afterward he saw that being in the sky extend his right index finger, aiming it at himself.

"I'll return your things to you."

"Prismatic Wheel Reincarnation Burst."

As the words fell, a sharp sword composed of seven-colored radiance instantly descended from the sky, piercing through the spot where Fischer stood.

The so-called Prismatic Wheel Reincarnation Burst was naturally something Li Ang had made up on the spot; he had merely released the energy he had just absorbed through the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Burst.

Paying no heed to Fischer's fate, Li Ang looked at the information that had popped up on his class panel, his expression utterly calm.

The Sage Theft ability was far stronger than he had imagined, even though it somewhat overlapped with the Third Magic in terms of endurance.

But even setting aside endurance, Sage Theft could still bring him considerable improvement.

Like the various special attributes obtained earlier from devouring tribulations, or the heterogeneous energy adaptability gained now from devouring Fischer's energy — all could bring him some improvement.

'Is this the growth potential of an Immortal?'

Setting aside numbers and speaking only of growth potential, the Immortal didn't seem like a fifth-tier class at all.

'And couldn't the bloodline requirement of the Black Emperor also be fulfilled through Sage Theft?'

【4. Further purify the dragon blood within (x)】.

If he had enough dragon corpses, perhaps he could further purify the dragon blood within him without needing a blood transfusion, and it might even be more perfect than a blood transfusion.

Thinking thus, a glint of contemplation flashed in Li Ang's eyes.

Just as his thoughts were wandering, the energy plundered from Fischer within his body was gradually exhausted.

Li Ang withdrew his right hand, glanced at Neptune, which was barely maintaining its spherical shape, and then flew outward from the planet.

Fischer was dead — a most aggrieved death, having been unable to put up any decent resistance throughout the entire fight.

This was only natural; if Li Ang couldn't accomplish this after consuming so many resources, he might as well find a block of tofu and kill himself by ramming into it.

Elsewhere, Kate floated in space not far from Neptune, witnessing with her own eyes how Fischer, the mortal enemy of the Great Love Project, had been kicked to death by that Immortal like a stray dog on the roadside.

She swallowed hard, her eyes filled with fear.

Could a being like this truly be something the Great Love Project could interfere with? And even if their own leader came, wouldn't they likely end up with the same fate as Fischer?

After a brief hesitation, Kate flew toward Li Ang: "... Is there anything I can do for you?"

She had given in.

Hearing this, Li Ang did not reply, merely waving his hand slightly to decline her offer.

The Great Love Project was of little use to him, and besides—

The anchoring of the main universe to the One-Person World was about to be completed.

By then, he could naturally take his time dealing with the Great Love Project.