Chapter 537: Great Sun Nuclear Explosion Spell!

Chapter 537: Great Sun Nuclear Explosion Technique!

Sheng Xi stepped into the seventh tier.

"You scared those people to death. I saw them nearly tumble on their way out."

Sheng Xi spoke with a soft laugh.

Li Wei offered a helpless smile. "Now that is a bit of an exaggeration."

"Though I gave them a fright, things won't resolve themselves quite so easily."

With those words, Li Wei conjured a new phantom clone.

This time, the clone presiding over the mage tower possessed the strength of the sixth rank.

Unrivaled across the entire Northern Xuan Kingdom.

Li Wei could now rest easy as he departed with Sheng Xi to seek out the Sacred Dragon's inheritance.

Having shattered the lingering dread of the Demon Dragon King within her heart, Sheng Xi now sensed the dormant power hidden within her veins.

The lineage of the Divine Sacred Dragon was immense.

Yet, to fully awaken the latent potential of the Divine Sacred Dragon bloodline, the inheritance of the Sacred Dragon was absolute.

Every Divine Sacred Dragon that claimed the inheritance would ascend as the new Sacred Dragon King of the dragon race.

If they could but find that legacy, Sheng Xi would attain the formidable strength required to stand against the Demon Dragon King.

Li Wei pondered for a moment, realizing that aside from the phantom clone anchoring the mage tower, he ought to leave something else behind.

Lest he return in the future only to find the tower completely hollowed out, save for his own duplicate.

Without a single living soul remaining.

The Codex of Arcanum manifested from Li Wei’s palm.

He brought the Codex of Arcanum into tangible reality.

Utilizing the art of phantom shaping, he transformed the Codex into a grand grimoire recording over a hundred distinct spells.

It was unlike any ordinary book of magic.

Perusing this grand grimoire born from the Codex allowed one not only to study spell models, but also to grasp the shifting nuances of magic across different stages of mastery.

Though this was limited strictly to the highly proficient spells within Li Wei's own repertoire.

Even so, Li Wei’s fire-element spells had already reached the perfection of the sixth rank.

Nearly every fire spell contained within the Codex spanned all phases from rudimentary initiation to absolute perfection.

This would prove of immense benefit to novice mages seeking to elevate their proficiency.

Li Wei handed the grand grimoire over to the magic steward for safekeeping.

He placed a restriction upon it, ensuring that no one could ever bear the grand grimoire beyond the boundaries of the mage tower.

The very instant the book crossed the threshold of the tower, the seal would directly obliterate the magic book forged by his phantom shaping.

As for how the grand grimoire was to be utilized.

Li Wei left that matter to those who would follow in the tower.

For the moment, Li Wei had only disclosed the existence of the grand grimoire to Rota alone.

He held the right to study and examine every spell bound within its pages.

This served as Li Wei’s recompense for Rota's steadfast loyalty in remaining at the tower.

As for the handful of remaining apprentice mages.

Li Wei granted them limited opportunities to study spells free of charge.

Exactly how far they could walk along this path would depend entirely on their own making.

Li Wei himself had never enjoyed such privileged treatment in his earlier days.

Lingering in Maple Leaf City for a brief while longer, he had initially intended to seek out a few old acquaintances for a reunion.

Yet the houses stood empty, and the world was no longer what it once was.

Little John had already graduated from the knight academy.

He had become a Royal Knight of the Northern Xuan Kingdom.

By now, he had long departed from Maple Leaf City.

The once-familiar Spark Literary Society had likewise transformed completely.

It had become a vital ministry of propaganda for the Northern Xuan Kingdom.

The original founders of the Spark Literary Society had all risen to high status as kingdom officials.

Jimmy, who used to constantly hounded Li Wei for manuscripts, had inherited Guss's position as editorial director, becoming a low-ranking leader within the Spark Propaganda Department.

The rapid expansion of Maple Leaf City had propelled many into fortune and wealth, carving out grand opportunities for countless souls.

In the past, Jimmy likely could never have imagined in his wildest dreams that he would one day succeed Guss as director.

Li Wei stood outside the Spark Propaganda Department for a brief moment, catching sight of Jimmy’s silhouette through the window of Guss’s old office.

Jimmy was buried in manuscripts, diligently revising inappropriate passages.

Suddenly, he lifted his head and gazed out toward the window.

Outside, the crowds surged to and fro in a relentless tide.

He, too, felt an overwhelming wave of emotion regarding his current life.

In the past, it would have been entirely beyond belief.

Subconsciously, Jimmy found his thoughts drifting back to the man who had reshaped the Spark Literary Society.

The Dragon Knight novel had been on hiatus for over a year now.

Li Wei’s whereabouts remained a mystery.

Jimmy had only occasionally caught rumors that several prominent figures, possessing unimaginable status, had visited Maple Leaf City in search of Li Wei.

He had no inkling of what had befallen Li Wei.

Nevertheless, Jimmy believed that Li Wei must surely be striving to forge his own legend at this very moment.

A legendary tale akin to the protagonist in the Dragon Knight novel.

Jimmy had always felt that Li Wei was a living protagonist of a legendary tale.

"Let us go. Maple Leaf City has changed a great deal."

Li Wei murmured with a sigh as he walked.

Sheng Xi held a stick of candied haws, asking with curiosity, "Oh? Then what did it look like before?"

Li Wei began to depict the old Maple Leaf City to Sheng Xi. "In the past, there weren't so many buildings over there; it was just a dilapidated slum..."

Departing Maple Leaf City on this journey, Li Wei did not know when he would ever return.

He was to set forth with Sheng Xi, to seek the inheritance of the Sacred Dragon.

Bound for a place far away.

Even as words were spoken, Li Wei felt a sudden stir in his mind, sensing an imminent presence.

He fell silent.

A look of wariness crept into Sheng Xi's eyes as well.

Exchanging a tacit glance, the two of them sped rapidly out of the city.

In the blink of an eye, both Li Wei and Sheng Xi had left Maple Leaf City behind and arrived at a deserted stretch of woods.

Halting his steps, Li Wei turned to look up into the empty air behind him.

"Come out."

The silhouette of Cardinal Minos slowly materialized from the sky.

He looked at the pair with a hint of surprise and said, "I had not expected you to leave the city of your own accord."

Looking at him, Li Wei recognized the formidable enemy who had once clashed with Torresta.

In the past, Torresta had exhausted all his strength and burned his very soul just to stall Minos for a brief moment, buying time for Sheng Xi and Li Wei to flee.

Now, Li Wei was capable of facing Minos directly.

Li Wei looked at him and said, "You didn't want to destroy that city either, did you?"

"Otherwise, you would have struck the moment you discovered us."

Minos gave a gentle nod, his figure slowly descending as he said, "The Saintess ordered me to bring you back; there is no need for you to resist."

Li Wei let out a chuckle, spreading his hands. "Then that is truly unfortunate, for I have matters to attend to and cannot return with you."

Minos said indifferently, "Then we must resort to force."

A low hum resonated.

Minos was a man of action, not words.

He struck immediately, without a single shred of hesitation.

A dome of golden holy light enveloped the woods, trapping Li Wei and Sheng Xi inside with no hope of escape.

Within this boundary, space itself was locked down, rendering any spatial teleportation spells useless.

"Chains of Divine Order!"

Clatter, clatter!

The rattling of chains echoed from all directions.

Li Wei looked up to see several golden chains extending from the crest of the holy light dome, hurtling down toward him and Sheng Xi.

The golden chains radiated an aura that compelled one to flee from it.

Li Wei knew that if those golden chains found their mark, the battle would likely be over.

This was a sealing power derived from the gods.

This was precisely why god-worshippers were the most difficult adversaries to deal with.

Nearly all their various abilities were gifted by the gods, rendering them supreme-tier arts.

Ordinary mortals stood no chance of resistance whatsoever.

The sealing power of these Chains of Divine Order was vastly more potent than that of the Anti-Mage sealers.

Li Wei did not believe he could withstand the power of a deity.

"Sheng Xi, I leave these to you."

"Understood." Sheng Xi soared into the sky, transforming into a colossal dragon to intercept the Chains of Divine Order falling from above.

Minos showed no surprise upon seeing Sheng Xi manifest as the Divine Dragon.

He had long known that the Divine Dragon was aligned with Li Wei.

Or rather, the Holy Church of Light had already deduced why Li Wei had stolen the Tears of the Goddess.

In the place where the Tears of the Goddess vanished, the aura of the Divine Dragon had appeared.

The conclusion was self-evident.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Holy energy collided with the Chains of Divine Order, deflecting them away.

Sheng Xi bought Li Wei the time he needed to cast his spell.

Against Minos, nothing less than absolute effort would suffice.

Li Wei was currently channeling a superlative magic spell.

Minos glanced briefly at the wheeling Divine Dragon, then looked down at Li Wei.

"You surely did not think I would simply allow you to cast your magic unimpeded?"

"Domain of Holy Light!"

Light erupted, blinding and absolute, eclipsing everything else.

In an instant, all the magical elements between heaven and earth vanished.

Nothing remained but the pervasive holy light that saturated the world.

Suddenly, a flicker of golden flame emerged within this world of holy light.

The flame expanded rapidly, claiming a quarter of the Holy Light Domain in the blink of an eye.

That was Li Wei's Domain of Holy Flame.

The disparity in their strength was stark.

Even with Li Wei exerting every ounce of his might, he could only wrest back a quarter of the domain's expanse.

The two domain forces ground against each other, locked in a fierce, unyielding struggle.

"Holy Magic! Judgment of Sacred Light!"

The energy within the Holy Light Domain coalesced into a single beam, lancing directly toward Li Wei.

The beam struck the Domain of Holy Flame; after a brief stalemate, the holy flame domain was pierced through.

Li Wei sought to dodge.

Yet that sensation of being inexorably locked onto still haunted his mind.

He could only fully activate his invisible armor shields.

Crash!

The Judgment of Sacred Light struck the invisible armor shields, creating rippling waves of dispersing light.

Layer upon layer of light waves continuously stripped away the thick, invisible armor.

Under the sustained assault of the Judgment of Sacred Light, the three hundred and sixty layers of invisible armor were rapidly collapsing.

They would hold for twenty-odd seconds at the absolute most.

Three hundred and sixty layers of invisible armor would be shattered.

Supported by the Domain of Holy Light, the beam of Holy Light Judgment seemed infinite, ceaselessly washing over Levi.

Until it brought about his utter destruction.

Suppressing the urge to flee, Levi calmly gathered his strength to counterattack.

Not everyone could maintain composure and continue casting spells in the face of mortal peril.

Minos sensed that the power of Levi’s Holy Flame Domain was waning.

He immediately pressed down with the full might of his Holy Light Domain, intending to end the battle in one fell swoop while his foe was weakened.

"Holy Dragon's Breath!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Seizing the brief opening after the Chain of Divine Order was blasted away, Shengxi dove down fiercely, unleashing her Holy Dragon's Breath upon Minos.

Minos's eyes narrowed, and he was forced to spare a hand, redirecting a portion of his power to fend off Shengxi’s assault.

Even one such as Minos could not afford to ignore a Holy Dragon's Breath imbued with divine authority.

Sensing the suppression of the Holy Light Domain grow weaker.

Instead of expanding to resist, Levi's Holy Flame Domain contracted even faster.

In an instant.

A vacuum zone emerged between the Holy Flame Domain and the Holy Light Domain.

Seizing this singular opportunity, Levi threw out an inconspicuous golden fireball.

The golden fireball landed in the vacuum zone, untouched by the suppressing power of the Holy Light Domain.

The energy within it expanded instantaneously.

The golden fireball gradually transformed into a violet-gold fireball.

Its volume swelled rapidly.

Even the Holy Light Domain could no longer suppress the swiftly expanding violet-gold fireball.

Minos felt the power contained within the fireball.

His countenance could not help but change.

A faint, triumphant smile played across Levi's lips.

"This is my newly created technique—the Great Sun Nuclear Burst."

All of his power was condensed into a single fireball of holy flame, containing infinite majesty.

Infused with the trait of elemental fission, and guided by the high-tier flame rules of thermal accumulation, expansion, and eruption.

Poured full of solar might, it transformed into something akin to a blazing sun.

The moment the holy flame fireball took shape, it came infinitely close to a miniature sun.

As the internal energy released entirely, the miniature sun turned into a true, blazing sun.

Shengxi soared upward rapidly, fleeing back to Levi's side.

Levi and Shengxi strained with all their might to rush toward the edge of the Holy Light Canopy.

Minos's expression grew solemn as he drove his Holy Light Domain to suppress the expanding miniature sun.

Intending to extinguish it.

The destructive power erupting from within the miniature sun tore through the Holy Light Domain, its radiance piercing outward, incinerating all creation.

Rumble!

The massive, hemispherical Holy Light Canopy cloaking the entire forest expanded violently.

Like a balloon being rapidly inflated.

In the blink of an eye, the Holy Light Canopy swelled tenfold.

Crack!

Fissures appeared across the Holy Light Canopy, and firelight pierced out from the cracks.

As the scorching heat diffused, nearby vegetation instantly burst into flames, roasted into charcoal.

Bang!

A massive silhouette, enveloped in vast sheets of fire, leapt out from the shattered Holy Light Canopy.

With a few beats of her wings against the wild wind, the flames on Shengxi's body drifted to the ground like falling blossoms.

The fiery blossoms fell into the forest, turning it into a sea of fire in an instant.

Ignoring the sea of fire behind her, the Holy Dragon soared straight into the sky, flying toward the distant horizon.

The expanded, colossal Holy Light Canopy finally ruptured, and countless flames surged from within, forming an incomparably massive mushroom cloud.

The citizens within Maple Leaf City saw the giant mushroom cloud rising in the distance.

They were just wondering in bewilderment what had occurred.

The next second, the entire city began to shake violently.

Everyone sought shelter in sheer terror.

In the Northern Profound Kingdom, the masters within the royal palace were all alarmed, rushing out of the halls in horror to gaze at the giant mushroom cloud erupting in the distance.

"What has happened?"

Oates walked out of the palace and inquired.

Soon, the masters from various factions in Maple Leaf City made their way to the blast site to investigate the situation.

When the crowd arrived at the explosion locus, the scene before their eyes shocked everyone.

The forest was gone, replaced by an incredibly massive canyon, a hundred meters deep.

Everyone was stunned by the sight, wondering what kind of powerful beings' clash could leave such an aftermath.

Minos stood suspended in the void, watching the distant, vanishing Holy Dragon; though he wished to pursue, he lacked the strength.

His right arm was gone, and the red cardinal robe on his body was reduced to tattered rags.

Minos had paid no small price to withstand the Great Sun Nuclear Burst.

And that was even with the suppression of the Holy Light Domain.

This single blow had already threatened his life.

Levi’s figure surfaced in Minos's mind.

It was unbelievable; how much time had passed, yet he actually possessed such terrifying power.

Minos’s heart sank slightly; could he truly be the legendary Child of Destiny?

Did the Holy Maiden also believe him to be the Child of Destiny?

Minos pondered in his heart.

Otherwise, why would the Holy Maiden always instruct him to bring Li Wei back intact?

Under normal circumstances, Li Wei's past nefarious deeds would have long since earned him a death sentence from the Holy Light Church.

(End of Chapter)