Chapter 585 — The One Who Saw Through the Truth
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The crowd was dumbfounded, feeling more and more lost as they watched the matches unfold.
Outside the arena, Chitong was teleported out. She sighed softly, sharp sword intent still wreathing her body. As the surrounding contestants stared at her in shock, she weakly turned her gaze to the battle screen mounted on the wall.
"The next match..."
Soon, attention shifted to the final bout of the quarterfinals: Lin versus the Imaginary Insect!!
No one doubted Lin's strength. Lin, who commanded the Starry Sky Storm, was surely a super heavyweight of the Cosmic Disaster Research Institute—perhaps not even a human mechanist at all. After all, when the audience thought it over carefully, they could not name a single Grade-9 mechanist capable of cultivating a Starry Sky Storm mech.
Perhaps Lin was a quasi-divine mech, unbound by contract, built by some super-divine mechanist or super-divine mechanical lifeform.
As for Lin's opponent, people honestly felt nothing much. For one thing, Chongchong's rookie introduction was far too similar to those of the Mysterious Lord and the Ultra Sacred Beast; for another, it had remained in a bug's body all this time, and there was simply no telling where its strength lay.
Of course, "not strong" was only relative to the other rookies. Ranked fourth, it could not possibly be weak—only, Chongchong had yet to reveal its true power, leaving everyone unable to see through it.
"This Lin is really lucky—a starry sky arena again!!"
Once the battle between Chongchong and Lin began, the spectators discovered that the starry sky arena had been selected once more.
For Lin, master of the Starry Sky Storm, this was an enormous boost.
Yet on the starry sky arena, Lin looked at Chongchong across from it without the slightest joy. Qinglong, as a stellar deity and a cosmic god of the previous epoch, also claimed the starry sky as its home ground.
This time... its good fortune did not take effect.
Or rather, Chongchong's abilities were simply too comprehensive, all but omnipotent. Before absolute strength, luck seemed somewhat superfluous.
"I bet on the Imaginary Insect to win!!! Every match so far has been a reversal, so this one has to reverse too—it's definitely the Imaginary Insect, the one nobody favored because it never showed its strength, who wins!" This time, some gambler had wisened up: bet against the odds, and villas by the sea!
Lin's Starry Sky Storm was strong, and its luck heaven-defying, but judging by the pattern of the previous matches, the side that looked weaker surely had the better chance!
"A bunch of people thinking themselves clever. The power that Starry Sky Storm displayed is absolutely top three among all the ultimate moves seen in this Consecration War!" Minggu thought to himself!
Only Shiyi's and Chitong's ultimate moves had any chance of surpassing that Starry Sky Storm.
The battle began. Without a word, Lin condensed the Starry Sky Storm, intending to trap Chongchong, then kept retreating, retreating, opening up distance from Chongchong.
Such a move stunned the spectators. Lin had opened with the Starry Sky Storm before, but always with composure—why this time did it suddenly act as if facing a mortal enemy, immediately falling back?
On the starry sky arena, Chongchong gazed at Sister Lin...
"Jii... (Sorry.)" For honor's sake, in this battle, it would eliminate Lin!
Lin's Starry Sky Storm was powerful, but only against mediocrities. Would any of the Four Great Cosmic Emperors, those overlords of the universe, fear the Starry Sky Storm?
Chongchong, whose ambition matched cosmic-level powerhouses, and who had watched the Starry Sky Storm's might many times, could naturally never permit a skill it could not match to exist within its own team.
It had long since prepared a countermeasure.
Proving the Dao through force!
"Is it time to transform?" Lin kept retreating.
Facing the troublesome Lin, Chongchong dared not be careless, and unleashed its full combat power.
"ROAR!!!!" As the vast Starry Sky Storm gathered and closed in around Chongchong, before the watching crowd, the so-called Imaginary "Insect" transformed outright. Amid a dragon's cry and dragon's majesty, a ten-thousand-meter Azure Dragon coiled upon the starry sky arena and made its stunning entrance.
At this moment, though Chongchong had become a Azure Dragon, its appearance had actually shifted somewhat from its previous form.
With the evolution skill Dragon of Imagination raised to the quasi-divine skill stage, combined with the immense faith power of the Azure Dragon, Chongchong had already reached the 2.5 stage of Azure Dragon evolution.
Once Dragon of Imagination reached the divine skill stage, Chongchong would surely draw one step closer to the Azure Dragon, and might even awaken brand-new skills.
At this moment, Chongchong coiled beneath the starry sky. Its golden dragon horns and azure scales remained unchanged; what had changed was that the golden flame of faith which had once burned upon its body was now entirely withdrawn within. Its frame had become a perfect body of faith, no longer needing any other faith substance to prove its identity.
In their place, some of the azure dragon feathers on its head and body had turned white, like a sea of clouds stretching thousands of miles, settling upon Chongchong and lending it an ancient and noble air.
Chongchong was very fond of these white dragon feathers; they felt just like the silk threads of before, wonderfully warm.
Beyond that, in its claws Chongchong now held a dragon pearl like a miniature star!!
Just then, the starry storm came sweeping in. The dragon pearl in Chongchong's grasp ignited with golden flames of faith, as though a world was being born within it. Chongchong had, quite plainly, unleashed its strongest secret art to date!
Genesis Domain + Star Refining + Dragon Star Swarm!
The Dragon Star Swarm was the weapon, Star Refining the technique for wielding it, letting the dragon pearl absorb the power of the stars scattered across the surrounding sky, while the Genesis Domain opened up a world inside the pearl, granting this star-like dragon pearl the true might of a world.
The Star Refining clan could only use lifeless stars as weapons, but the dragon pearl star, fused with the power of genesis, was like a living star—its power only grew stronger.
Such a technique was a supreme secret art beyond the reach of that prodigy of the Azure Dragon clan, and a combined application the Star Refining clan could never touch.
"ROAR!!!" Beneath Chongchong's roar, it hurled the dragon pearl straight at the starry storm. The pearl shot forth like a golden beam of light, and beneath the astonished gazes of Rin and the audience in the distance, the starry storm was brutally smashed open into a great hole. Following the pearl's trajectory, Chongchong itself seemed to become a beam of azure-gold radiance, bursting out of the starry storm in an instant!!
"This!!!" The audience was stunned.
"Impossible!" Minggu's expression changed drastically as he saw the starry storm violently smashed open.
The next moment, the dragon pearl hovered above the warship, radiating an immense oppressive force. Chongchong descended before Rin and seized the fleeing Rin—who had been attempting spatial movement and light transformation—in its massive dragon claw.
Rin's spatial mastery had been copied and learned from Chongchong in the first place; it was like showing off before an expert.
"Don't think you can escape," Chongchong said.
"Is this really necessary?" Rin spoke.
"Yield," Chongchong said. With Rin's skill configuration, it was impossible for it to defeat Chongchong, who could burn faith power on demand.
"Fine, fine... I yield~" Rin raised its hands in helpless surrender. It had said as much—it had no interest in the championship; honestly, it had foreseen this outcome before the battle even began.