Chapter 602

Hearing the voice beside her, Sophia and the others snapped back to awareness.

It's really Li Ang!?

They stared at the young man in the sky, whose appearance had changed drastically, their hearts filled with shock and relief.

Yet before the group could speak, an extremely grim, ancient voice suddenly rose from beneath the earth.

"Good. I never expected you'd still have this trick up your sleeve."

Before the words had fully faded, Rad reappeared upon the ground.

He fixed his gaze on the figure in the sky, unable to comprehend why the attack had failed.

He was certain that attack alone should have knocked a peak Fifth-Energy-Level practitioner unconscious—yet the opponent was unharmed.

No, not entirely unharmed—

Rad glanced at the milky-white energy cluster swirling around the target, and memories of events not long ago flashed through his mind.

'Recovery ability? Did he turn his body into energy?'

Since he didn't know the exact effects of Reverse Birth: Three Layers, he could only make this inference.

But the problem was, he had already prepared for this—pure energy transformation shouldn't have blocked his attack.

'And that look…' With a hint of confusion, Rad quietly shifted his attention to the young man's left eye, which continuously emitted flickering light and shadow, 'Why does it seem familiar?'

He felt certain he had seen a similar ability before, yet he couldn't recall where.

Before the elder could figure it out, Li Ang launched his attack.

After all, he couldn't sustain Bai Xiang Hua Shen: Divine Form Manifestation at full power for long—he had to seize this chance to expand his advantage.

As countless pale purple runes appeared in the void, an extremely exaggerated black rift suddenly swallowed both Li Ang and Rad whole.

To prevent Sophia and the others from being harmed by the battle's residual waves, he had to relocate the battlefield—and this also gave Lao Wu and Pan Mingrui a chance to call for help.

Lao Wu and Pan Mingrui clearly understood his intent and immediately sent a distress signal to Giant God Heavy Industry.

After completing this, they glanced at Sophia and the puppy-dragon beside them, visibly worried, and reassured them: "The corporation will send reinforcements soon—then that old bastard won't walk away unscathed."

"As for now—"

"Let's just trust Li Ang."

Though they longed to help their companion shoulder some of the pressure, they knew rushing into a battle of this caliber would only make them a burden.

Besides, since Li Ang chose to relocate the battlefield, he must have some confidence… right?

Thinking of this, Lao Wu and Pan Mingrui felt a slight dip in morale.

Fighting across tiers is incredibly difficult, especially when the opponent also hails from a Cosmic Mega-Corporation.

Sophia and Ilis naturally understood this too.

Especially Sophia—more than anyone else present, she knew just how terrifying that Dragon Calamity truly was, even with his hidden wounds.

As she silently prayed for Li Ang's safety, she suddenly noticed Ilis flapping her wings and flying toward outer space.

This time, however, Sophia did not stop the puppy-dragon; instead, after a moment of silence, she flew after her into space.

Seeing this, Lao Wu and Pan Mingrui exchanged glances, then couldn't help but sigh.

If Aio Logistics personnel have already moved, they had no reason to stay hidden anymore.

Let outsiders find out, and they'd think senior engineers were worse than couriers!

With this thought, Lao Wu scratched his head: "My dead-star battleship should arrive here in a bit… Xiao Pan, you're on your own for now."

Pan Mingrui nodded slightly, then asked with grave seriousness: "Hmm, but you can still enhance me, right?"

"Hey, you're the one who said that!"

At this, Lao Wu's face lit up with intense excitement.

Finally, a chance—he'd been waiting to do this for ages!

Next, he and Xiao Pan would strike in radish form!

As the duo fiddled with their fusion technique, Luonan, who had been lurking in the shadows watching, slowly regained his composure: "Good kid—he's fooled even me."

He'd assumed Rad could easily handle that kid, never expecting this turn of events.

That posture…

The Mirror Man faintly sensed the presence of countless gods within it.

Curious, he muttered under his breath: "Where did this kid get so many gods?"

Though most of these gods weren't particularly strong, their sheer number was overwhelming—and mixed within were vast amounts of unknown technology.

"Could this really be something demons and dragons cooked up?"

Luonan momentarily doubted whether he'd guessed wrong.

It was common knowledge that while these two races weren't stupid, developing a technique of such high technological complexity was asking too much.

But soon, the Mirror Man let it go.

Nothing is absolute—just as close relatives occasionally produce supercomputers with extremely low probability, it was perfectly normal for a demon or dragon to occasionally produce an oddity.

Thinking of this, Luonan shook his head slightly.

Though the ability had impressed even him, he still didn't believe Li Ang could defeat Rad.

After all, that posture clearly had a time limit—otherwise, why wait until now to activate it?

The only thing that puzzled him now…

Was that the kid seemed unusually tough.

Elsewhere.

After successfully dragging the battlefield far away, Li Ang let out a quiet breath of relief.

Rad was indeed strong—his earlier strike had shattered most of Li Ang's bones.

Of course, for Reverse Birth: Three Layers at his current stage, such damage was merely a minor wound.

'If it's only at this level, it's not like there's no chance.'

As this thought flashed through his mind, Li Ang's gaze flickered slightly. The hidden wounds Ma Zi had inflicted on his opponent were somewhat more severe than he had imagined.

After a brief silence, Li Ang chose to take the initiative.

After a rough exchange, he had already discovered that the old thing opposite was skilled at close-quarters combat, so naturally he couldn't possibly step forward to take a beating.

And Rad naturally understood this point as well.

Glancing at the enormous Bagua formation disk that once again enveloped him, he couldn't help but slightly furrow his brow: 'What a disgusting ability.'

Looking across his entire life, the disgust level of this unknown ability was enough to rank near the top.

It was the first time the old man had seen someone who could turn any occasion into their home ground.

Coupled with several other disgusting abilities, it was simply very easy for that little brat opposite to drag a same-level existence to death.

For instance, the destruction magic and frost currently clinging to his wounds.

Feeling the faint sense of stagnation spreading from within his body, Rad couldn't help but let out a breath.

The damage wasn't high, but it had indeed caused him some effect.

What a pity, though.

He was 【Dragon Calamity】.

Ignoring the increasingly turbulent elemental chaos around him, the old man slowly straightened his slightly hunched frame.

Blood surged through his body like a torrent, violent force rampaging along his blood vessels, making even his bones tremble faintly.

His heart pounded violently, emitting a low and powerful roar like a war drum.

Fine dragon scales spread outward from his heart, rapidly climbing up his shoulders, back, and limbs, as if a giant dragon were awakening within his body.

The next instant, Rad vanished on the spot.

Seeing this, Li Ang's expression didn't change as a blaze of fierce flames erupted around him.

【Word Spirit: Sovereign Flame】!

This high-risk Word Spirit, which once could only destroy a single street, now erupted with terrifying might under layer upon layer of augmentation.

Boom—!

The violent shockwave, mingled with searing heat, spread at extreme speed through the vacuum like an invisible storm.

Everything in its path was crushed by that violent force—metal melted, debris vaporized, even light was briefly distorted.

The asteroid drifting in space was utterly torn apart the instant it touched the Yu Bo, shattering into countless blazing fragments.

Li Ang succeeded in predicting Rad's movement, but failed to stop him.

The old man let the flames tear at his body, expressionlessly throwing his right fist forward.

Boom—!

As one black and one white fist collided violently, the entire void of space abruptly fell deathly silent.

At that moment, sound, vibration, even the flow of energy seemed forcibly stripped away, leaving only a suffocating stillness.

The next instant, the silence was utterly shattered.

An immensely surging shockwave erupted from the point of collision, carrying violent force capable of tearing apart stars as it swept outward in all directions.

In the end, Rad succeeded in winning this contest of strength.

Yet he showed not the slightest hint of joy, merely gazing at the white energy slowly dissipating before his right fist as his brow furrowed slightly.

Something wasn't quite right.

He had clearly been aiming to cripple the opponent outright, yet in the end had only blasted off an arm.

More crucially, he was quite certain that little brat hadn't performed any force-deflection maneuver, but had simply tanked the attack head-on.

'Strange... Could it be my imagination?'

'Or did I subconsciously hold back?'

As such thoughts flashed through his mind, a trace of doubt inevitably flickered in Rad's eyes.

But very soon, he suppressed this doubt.

Imagination or holding back—either way, it didn't matter.

If one punch wasn't enough, then two! If two weren't enough, then three!

A mere Tier-5 professional—he didn't believe they could keep tanking like this!

Thinking this, the old man no longer hesitated and charged forward violently.

Facing the enemy attacking once more, Li Ang's expression didn't waver in the slightest.