Chapter 576: High-Tier Legendary Mage

Chapter 576: High-Level Legendary Mage

Maintaining the ten-thousand-meter-tall form of the Lord of Sacred Flames for an extended period.

Li Wei gradually adapted to this immense power and made it his own.

This caused his originally epic-level extraordinary trait, [Lord of Sacred Flames], to ascend into a legendary-level extraordinary trait.

After the Lord of Sacred Flames evolved into a legendary-level extraordinary trait,

the series of complex accompanying extraordinary traits—Advanced Fire Immunity, Advanced Flame Domain, Advanced Flame Laws, Advanced Magic Penetration, and Advanced Abnormal Status Immunity—

were all integrated as part of the Solar Divine Body.

And they became even more powerful.

Li Wei transformed into a ten-thousand-meter-tall flame giant walking upon the sun.

Continuously drawing strength from the sun, he grew ever stronger.

The ten-thousand-meter body before him was not yet Li Wei's limit.

He had not yet discovered the higher-order laws behind the elemental fusion rules.

At present, the elemental fusion rules could only act upon external objects, unable to affect himself.

If he could also burn himself like the sun, then he would be able to unleash even greater power.

Once, when he possessed the extraordinary trait of elemental fission, he had done something similar.

Using elemental fission to multiply his strength geometrically.

Though it lasted only a brief moment, it proved such a possibility existed.

The greatest difference between the elemental fusion rules and the elemental fission extraordinary trait lay in law versus ability.

Elemental fission was merely an ability.

Li Wei could control elemental fission but did not understand its principles.

He was like a worker using tools—he knew how to use them but not their underlying mechanisms or how they were made.

Mastering the elemental fusion rules meant that Li Wei fully understood and controlled the principles of elemental fusion.

Not only could he use the "tool," but he could also modify it, making it better suited to his needs.

Once elemental fission began, it became uncontrollable.

All Li Wei could do was press the "stop" button.

He couldn't accelerate the process, nor slow it down; neither could he reverse nor advance it.

But after mastering the elemental fusion rules, whether initiating or stopping, accelerating or decelerating, moving forward or backward—

he could accomplish all of it.

Everything remained under his control.

This meant that Li Wei now held hope of completely controlling the tremendous power generated by elemental fusion.

However, given his current level of comprehension and mastery over the elemental fusion rules, it wasn't deep enough, not yet complete, still far from achieving perfect command.

Thus, Li Wei sought the kind of strength that came with true mastery.

To comprehend deeper levels of the elemental fusion rules.

To grasp the fundamental operational laws and logical principles governing the world.

To master the primal source of power itself.

[Elemental Fusion (Legendary)] 4567/10000 (Intermediate Elemental Fusion Rules)

As his insights grew, so too did the experience bar for elemental fusion.

Walking across the surface of the sun, Li Wei's figure continued expanding, growing taller and larger.

Ten thousand meters was far from his limit.

Nor was it the upper bound of the Solar Divine Body.

While Li Wei pursued the true essence of the sun,

Legendary Mage Bool finally returned to rejoin the group.

He had flown through the Astral Plane for a very long time before returning to where the solar flare substance had been captured.

Mountains seen afar can exhaust horses chasing them.

Bool had long since spotted the return beacon tower nearby.

Yet the distance was simply too great.

Even seeing the beacon tower hadn't spared him the arduous journey back.

Scanning the crowd briefly, Bool asked, "Where is Mage Li Wei? Did he get lost in the Astral Plane?"

Someone stepped forward to answer, "No, Mage Li Wei came back once already, then left again. He told us not to wait for him—that he had matters to attend to within the Astral Plane."

Hearing this, Bool nodded and said, "In that case, let us return."

Hardly had the words left his mouth

when a chilling presence emerged from the distance, causing everyone to tremble.

Instinctively, Bool turned his head.

A vortex formed from dark purple-black energy appeared in the void.

A dimensional portal.

Bool had just witnessed the same type of portal moments ago.

His face tightened, panic rising within him.

"What other cursed thing is coming through now?"

Bool shouted urgently, "Quickly retreat!"

Afraid that one delay might cost them their lives.

Before, it was only thanks to Li Wei’s methods that they managed to break free from enemy attacks and escape.

Because of that, he nearly got lost in the Astral Plane himself.

"Use the teleportation crystals."

Bool directly instructed the others.

Faced with enemies whose strength far surpassed his own, Bool dared not take any chances.

Upon hearing his words, everyone quickly took out their teleportation crystals and attempted to activate them.

"How is this possible? The teleportation crystals aren’t working."

One person cried out fearfully.

Others, unwilling to believe it, hurriedly tried theirs as well.

Only to discover that none of the teleportation crystals functioned at all.

Bur felt his heart sink, having already guessed what was happening.

This was the enemy's method of sealing space.

The surrounding area had been sealed off; the teleportation crystals were useless, unable to open a portal back to the meteor base.

At this point, there was no choice but to fight rather than wait for death.

Bur quickly said, "Split up and run! The enemy is too powerful—we're no match for them."

"You go first. I'll find a way to hold the enemy back for a while."

Even as he spoke, Bur held no confidence in his heart whatsoever.

Earlier, when facing the enemy’s attack, he hadn’t even been able to resist. Where did this sudden assurance come from that he could delay the enemy long enough to give the others time to escape?

Upon hearing this, the others hurriedly replied, "Master Bur, please take care of yourself. We’re leaving now."

They all understood clearly—if even the legendary mage Bur admitted they couldn't handle such an opponent,

then staying here would only mean throwing their lives away uselessly, possibly even dragging Bur down with them.

Therefore, the best option was to leave immediately.

There must be limits to how far the enemy could seal space.

Unable to break through the barrier, everyone's only choice was to fly beyond its range first, then use the teleportation crystal to return to the meteor base.

Seeing that the rest had already flown off,

Bur gazed gravely at the distant violet-black vortex of spatial distortion.

An aura of terrifying strength radiated from within, causing one's soul to tremble.

Suddenly, a thick beam of violet-black light shot out from the swirling vortex.

It streaked toward the distant sun.

Bur’s eyes flickered slightly—he realized the enemy wasn't targeting him at all.

They had merely gotten caught in the crossfire.

He soon realized that the Void Demons’ true target lay upon the sun itself.

But who was on the sun?

What about Levi?

Could it be Levi?

Bur couldn’t quite be certain.

Ordinary legendary mages simply couldn’t set foot on the sun.

Neither the scorching flames covering its surface nor the crushing gravitational pressure could be endured by normal legendary beings.

Legendary practitioners might be considered superhuman lifeforms on ordinary planetary worlds,

but placed before a star like the sun, they appeared utterly insignificant.

Yet if it really was Levi, Bur found himself uncertain once again.

Because Levi’s power was something he truly couldn’t fathom.

Levi seemed merely a legendary mage, yet the strength he displayed far exceeded what any typical legendary should possess.

His various mystical abilities defied imagination.

Under Bur’s watchful gaze, the violet-black beam pierced straight into the sun.

To the immense bulk of the sun, this beam attack was practically negligible.

Nor was the aim to destroy the sun entirely—

it targeted just one moving figure atop the solar surface.

One might call it human—

standing over ten thousand meters tall, wreathed in flame, with molten lava flowing through its veins instead of blood.

Buzzzz!

As the violet-black beam broke through the outer layers of the sun, a tremendous sound erupted,

as though the entire sky itself trembled.

Sound traveled slower than light. By the time Levi heard the noise, the beam had already struck him.

The beam formed of void energy pierced clean through his massive body towering more than ten thousand meters high.

Wounds spread with dark-purple void energy, refusing to heal naturally.

Looking upward, Levi saw a void gate appearing in the distant sky.

A slowly rotating black-purple whirlpool emerged.

From within stepped forth a single silhouette.

Sasha, minion of the Demon God, had used her void-escape technique earlier to evade Levi’s elemental nuclear blast.

Having witnessed firsthand Levi’s terrifying destructive capabilities,

Sasha now regarded him as a formidable foe.

She no longer underestimated him—she treated him as an equal threat.

Levi cast aside his body corrupted by void energy, gradually regaining his original form.

It took too long to purge the effects of void corruption—it was easier to simply discard part of his physical self.

Besides, he could always reconstitute his body anew.

Here, deep within the heart of the sun, Levi possessed nearly limitless energy.

With a flash, Sasha appeared outside the sun.

Floating in the void, she ignored the intense gravitational pull of the stellar mass.

Standing firmly upon the sun’s surface, Levi raised his head to look up at Sasha.

Boom!

Nearby magma surged violently under internal pressure,

shooting tens of thousands of meters into the sky in an instant, transforming into a blazing firestorm scattered across the heavens.

A figure burst forth from the fiery torrent, soaring higher into the sky.

Using the erupting magma from the sun’s surface, Levi ascended into outer space,

drawing closer to Sasha.

Having seen Sasha dodge the elemental nuclear bomb,

Levi knew that relying solely on explosive force wouldn’t kill her.

He needed to employ other methods.

A flaming giant ten thousand meters tall appeared before Sasha.

The enormous palm reached out toward him.

A mocking smile crossed Sasha's face.

"Such an ordinary attack cannot harm me."

Suddenly, intense elemental fluctuations erupted from within the giant hand of the Holy Flame Lord.

Sasha sensed the familiar energy and his expression changed.

"At this distance, aren't you afraid of death?"

The lava composing the ten-thousand-meter body of the Holy Flame Lord contained vast quantities of fire elements.

Li Wei used it as material for elemental fusion.

Using the palm as a furnace, he burned all matter to its absolute limit.

Boom!

The hand of the Holy Flame Lord exploded, transforming into a miniature sun that devoured everything in the void.

A dark purple sphere appeared at the center of the miniature sun.

Even such terrifying destruction could not surpass it by even half.

The explosive force posed no threat whatsoever to Sasha within the void domain.

Sasha condensed his own void domain into a shield, completely isolating the space around him.

Two entirely different spatial layers were formed.

The explosion from the elemental fusion occurred within the first layer.

No matter how powerful, as long as it couldn't destroy the spatial barrier, it couldn't harm Sasha who remained in the second layer.

This was power at the level of fundamental laws.

"Void Flash!"

After the explosion ended,

Before the flames had fully dissipated,

Sasha unleashed his powerful technique, gathering all his void energy to form a dark purple sphere.

In an instant, the sphere vanished from between his hands and reappeared before Li Wei.

At this moment, Li Wei was still struggling to maintain his form from the previous explosion.

The form of the Holy Flame Lord was somewhat disheveled.

The sudden appearance of the dark purple sphere left Li Wei no time to dodge.

Buzz!

The dark purple sphere instantly expanded.

The so-called Void Flash was a technique that utilized the inherent properties of void to devour and slice enemies.

The expanding sphere consumed more than half of Li Wei's body.

The devoured portion of his body vanished completely,

Cast into the void realm.

Having lost most of his body, Li Wei's power plummeted dramatically.

Just then, a stream of blazing fire shot up into the sky.

Li Wei summoned the soaring flames, which gradually took human form as they flowed upward like a reverse waterfall.

Li Wei stood once more.

His figure became even more towering.

Sasha's eyes flickered slightly. "Useless, useless!"

"Void Beast!"

A massive void teleportation vortex appeared before Sasha.

A colossal void beast emerged from within the vortex.

Its size exceeded even the ten-thousand-meter-tall Holy Flame Lord.

Standing atop the void beast's head, Sasha commanded it to charge directly at Li Wei.

The void beast crashed headlong into Li Wei's massive form.

It sent him flying backward tens of thousands of meters, his shape becoming disordered.

Li Wei reached out and grabbed the enormous void beast, dragging it toward the sun to fall together.

The void beast struggled fiercely.

Sasha quickly scanned the immensely vast Holy Flame Lord,

Searching for Li Wei's weakness.

Or rather, his true body.

However, Li Wei had already become one with the Holy Flame Lord.

There was no true body or weak point.

Unless Sasha could kill him instantly, Li Wei would possess infinite power near the sun.

Such power alone was insufficient to kill Sasha.

Li Wei could only barely fight back.

The void beast let out a tremendous roar as it was dragged toward the sun by Li Wei, whose size was equally immense.

Sasha ignored the void beast's anguished cries.

He flew to the position of Li Wei's head.

"Void Flash!"

The dark purple light sphere devoured Li Wei's upper body.

His lower half scattered into molten lava falling toward the sun.

As if he were already dead.

The next second, an even taller figure rose from the sun's surface.

Over a million meters tall.

The ten-thousand-meter-long void beast was like a toy in his hands.

Li Wei seized the void beast and pressed it into the sun to be roasted.

Sasha rapidly flashed through the air, constantly changing positions to dodge Li Wei's enormous palms.

Seeing Li Wei suddenly grow a hundred times larger, he revealed an expression of surprise.

Leo showed not the slightest surprise.

Thus, he had just now grasped the advanced elemental fusion rules.

Within the sun itself.

The proficiency of the elemental fusion rules continued to increase steadily.

Until the moment Sasha struck him down into the sun's interior.

His experience bar filled completely.

The intermediate elemental fusion rules transformed into advanced elemental fusion rules.

Mastering the advanced elemental fusion rules.

Leo could now fuse elements within himself, causing his energy to multiply geometrically.

And once reaching a certain threshold, it would stabilize and remain constant.

It would not spiral out of control over time.

Mastering the advanced elemental fusion rules also meant that Leo had stepped into the realm of high-order legendary mages.

(End of Chapter)