Light particles vanished, and everyone couldn't help but stand up, widening their visual systems.
"Is there still time?" Li Qianxia clenched her hands.
The flowers of the Holy Tree had already fully grown, reaching in from above the Duel Arena, like a snake entering the narrow mouth of a bottle, with the stars and Li Changzhou both like frogs inside the bottle!
But the venom wasn't ready yet, the flowers had not bloomed, and the fruits were still being fed by an endless stream of Strength converging into the blooms.
"Puh!" Li Changzhou spit out a mouthful of blood.
His left hand disappeared as if erased by rubber on pencil marks, a large cloud of Blood Mist spread out in the air, and in the next instant, the Blood Mist was shattered into even smaller particles.
Thump!
[Divine Body] knelt on one knee, gasping for air.
'Divine Body - Low Level Power' ensured that as long as he had half a body left, he could fully recover, but the incessant pain from being struck felt like being skinned by a thousand knives, subjected to slow death by dismemberment.
He felt as if every inch of his body was being pricked with needles, cut by small knives.
"Ha... Ha..." [Divine Body's] temples were drenched, beads of sweat dripping down.
"Surrender." The voice of the Light Clan came from all directions.
Li Changzhou stretched his mouth into a grin that, due to enduring so much pain, seemed insolent and cruel.
"Is that the speed you're going at? Are you playing house?"
"If this continues, I won't be able to turn back, you'll die, and I will enter Light Speed."
Boom! The towering [Divine Body] suddenly flew out, crashing into the Barrier.
It was like a mountain being thrown, shocking nearby spectators into fleeing.
The attack of the stars was invisible to the naked eye, everything could only be indirectly observed from the reactions of the [Divine Body], even Third Rank Divine Will Warriors couldn't manage.
[It's too fast, we're not going to make it!] Guanyin said urgently.
She had witnessed the 'Saint Master - Holy Tree' and knew theres was a short time left till the flowers make full bloom.
This move was very powerful, but too slow, or Li Changzhou wouldn't have used it just once over the South Sea.
"Puh!" Li Changzhou spat out another mouthful of fresh blood.
The Mier Metal remained intact, but his body was almost turned into a pulp in an instant by the endless Light Particles beating it!
[I must win!]
Li Changzhou stood up again, [Divine Body] being attacked over a larger area but with stronger recovery ability, he had to maintain this status.
Behind him, the Five Internal Organs Divine Wheel no longer ticked like the minute hand but started to turn slowly like the second hand.
A twisting pain in his organs arose as he leveraged this overdraft, and immense Strength sprang forth.
It was as if there was also a tree growing inside his body, its branches propping up his gradually crumbling frame.
"Ah!!!" God roared in anger.
The Light Particles sped up as well, as if even the light was screaming in rage.
Everything became dazzlingly bright within the light, rendering the spectators dizzy and stunned, deprived of their will by a force so formidable it could be called miraculous.
[Divine Body] was riddled with wounds like a dense web.
At that moment, light seemed to be everywhere, instantaneously reaching any place without needing time, constantly striking the [Divine Body].
Li Changzhou staggered, and his left leg burst into a heap of mangled flesh with a loud crash!
Li Qianxia inhaled sharply.
Li Changzhou lay on his back, in his line of sight, the Holy Tree blooms were half-open, the world-shattering Strength emerging slowly, like a baby from a womb, or like a deity slowly awakening from slumber.
Boom!
His right leg exploded into a Blood Mist!
Even in the [Divine Body] state, his legs did not regenerate; the Light Particles kept on striking, dissolving Li Changzhou's legs as if digesting them with constant acid in a stomach, incessantly destroying them.
"Last... chance…" the voice of the Light Clan was choppy, beginning to lose control.
[Divine Body] raised his hand, targeting the Holy Tree in the sky, concentrating on the pain to gather his focus, and poured all his Mana into the Holy Tree in one go.
"Gravitational Wave!" someone shouted.
"The stars are nearing Light Speed! They're both done for!"
A Gravitational Wave is the ripple in the curvature of spacetime that propagates at Light Speed, reaching this stage, no member of the Light Clan could turn back.
And in the sealed Duel Arena, with nowhere to escape, the unyielding light would assuredly shatter a non-surrendering Li Changzhou.
"Won't you surrender?" a spectator asked, perplexed.
In a certain moment, Li Changzhou found that time had stopped. The past, present, and future seemed to collapse into one, and he entered an eternal moment.
Struck by Light Speed—he vaguely realized why he had entered this state.
In the final moments, before his whole body turned into Blood Mist, he saw the Holy Tree blooms aiming at the entire Duel Arena as if they were a monstrous entity.
Boom!!!!!
"Brother!" Li Qianxia couldn't care less, stepping forward in a rush onto the stage, but was forced to reflexively shield her eyes with her arm against the tremendous boom and blinding light.
Behind her, Yang Qinglan and Turquoise Pool, who had also risen to their feet, were paralyzed in place by the overwhelming Force.
The reason for this was because the force, having nowhere to vent, turned into a sword piercing the sky through the pyramids, and the sky was blocked by the Holy Tree.
When the Holy Tree was Annihilated amidst its own Strength and the Light Speed, the power that should have shot straight out deviated slightly, lashing out towards the spectator stands.
In the brilliance, countless weak spectators began to vanish slowly, directly vaporized.
This was the first time spectators died during a match.
As the light dimmed somewhat, Li Qianxia was about to rush forward when Yang Qinglan grabbed her.
Before Yang Qinglan could speak, Li Qianxia hesitated for a moment, then took a deep breath and checked her Identity Card; the Twin Bond was still in active status.