Chapter 563: . Red giant form, I will shatter the darkness with thunder!

Book 563. Red Giant Form, I shall shatter the darkness with thunder!

It was a colossus of unparalleled majesty.

He was entirely crimson, robust and flawless.

His skin was webbed with golden glyphs, the very patterns of the sun.

The coiled muscles beneath did not seem composed of flesh and blood, but of pure, condensed energy.

His visage was handsome and noble, with bright red spots of light encircling his brow like pearls, accentuating a touch of divinity.

He exuded an ancient, primordial quality, a vision at once savage and wild.

It was as though an ancient star-deity of myth, slumbering within the sun's deep core, had fully awakened before their eyes.

Lu Sheng.

One could still tell it was Lu Sheng.

Yet his current form was over a hundred times larger than before.

Moreover, his eyes had turned gray, appearing utterly indifferent and serene.

"A star, from its birth, through its protostar and main-sequence phases, will eventually meet its grandest glory, its true zenith.

At this moment, its volume, luminosity, and temperature will skyrocket up to ten thousand times!

And this state is known as—the Red Giant Form!"

"The Path of the Star—Red Giant Form!"

To be precise, it was an incomplete Red Giant Form.

Because every immortal cell and stellar seed within Lu Sheng's body had only expanded about a hundredfold.

Yet, this was already his limit.

"If I push further forward, my physical body and soul will be entirely consumed by the terrifying stellar energy first."

Even so, the energy unleashed by this one-percent Red Giant Form turned Lu Sheng’s body into an extremely unstable super-reactor.

Were it not for his Martial God state allowing him to perfectly command every ounce of power within and maintain this instability in an exquisitely delicate balance,

While continuously steering it toward greater stability,

At this moment, he might not have been able to manifest his own shape at all.

Instead, he would have regressed from the form of a crimson giant back into a colossal, glowing sphere of red light.

"Boom!"

Lu Sheng raised a hand and struck a fist hard against the blood-colored giant arm on the chest of the level-thirteen commander beast.

Where the fist landed, the terrifying power rapidly evolved into a white hole brimming with ultimate light and heat.

In an instant, it shattered the void, quickly burning and melting away vast swathes of flesh upon the blood-colored arm.

"Splendid... this feeling."

Lu Sheng could not help but marvel in his heart.

Only at this very moment did he truly experience what real stellar might felt like.

With every movement of his hands and feet, white holes followed him.

He seemed able to feel the invisible truth of energy belonging to light, heat, and all aspects of ultimate Yang flowing and rolling across the cosmic sky.

This truth of energy, to put it plainly, could be called...

"Law!"

"This is the law power of the Path of the Star."

Although Lu Sheng could only faintly perceive a sliver of it now—a blurry outline, a fleeting trail—

It was still terrifying enough.

It easily shattered his past limits of combat strength, soaring to an unprecedented height.

Truly... the realm of level thirteen!

"Hiss—"

Lu Sheng took a deep breath, his chest adorned with solar divine glyphs rising high.

Then, he exhaled toward his surroundings.

This breath was like a deathly heat wave from the depths of the sun, sweeping over everything.

The void lost its color, revealing layers of pitch black underneath.

The beasts caught in the breath melted away one by one like wax.

Whether level eleven or level twelve, they were scorched to nothingness in an instant, clearing a vast area on the battlefield.

Having done all this, Lu Sheng leapt forward, trailing a massive, brilliant exhaust flame, and appeared before the level-thirteen commander beast.

His hands gripped the blood-colored arm, which resembled a cosmic dreadnought, and he wrenched hard.

"Creak, creak—"

The massive arm of flesh groaned strangely under the unbearable strain.

And then...

"Boom!"

Amidst a sky full of fireworks, it was snapped cleanly into two halves by Lu Sheng's raw strength.

"Screech—"

The level-thirteen commander beast let out a piercing shriek, the terrifying soundwaves washing through the void, yet it was useless against the current Lu Sheng.

Expressionless, Lu Sheng tossed aside the severed arm in his hand and lunged violently forward.

Pinning the opponent down, he unleashed a furious beating.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Every punch Lu Sheng landed punched out a massive white hole.

The extreme heat within the white holes raged, swallowing and melting everything around them.

Yet, a strange layer of power seemed to exist on the surface of this level-thirteen commander beast.

This power was a deep crimson, resembling both flame and flowing water, possessing a singular capacity to stir the emotions of the human heart.

Lu Sheng struck a fist against the torso of the level-thirteen commander-beast, only to find himself utterly unable to breach the barrier of this membrane,

and abruptly he stayed his hand.

He looked into the shifting, unevenly sized eyes of the level-thirteen commander-beast, wherein he still seemed to discern a trace of

scornful ridicule and a cold sneer.

As though it were pronouncing something akin to, "You can do nothing to alter me."

"Is this the power of the domain of laws that you have mastered?"

Lu Sheng spoke with a quiet calm.

Then, a four-colored radiance blossomed within his pure gray eyes.

"What a coincidence. I have it too."

With these words, the four-colored light in Lu Sheng's eyes grew ever more splendid, forming a ring of revolving quad-color directly behind his head.

Within this halo, the portion belonging to the crimson light flared magnificently.

Under the influence of this red glow, the numerous phantom fires enveloping the level-thirteen commander-beast, along with that crimson

thin film upon its body, all surged toward the halo behind Lu Sheng's head.

The latter resembled a voracious and ravenous predator, wildly devouring all this sustenance that could feed its growth.

"Hummmm—"

The deformed and colossal frame of the level-thirteen commander-beast writhed violently, a look of mingled shock and fury surfacing across its tens of thousands of eyes.

Its mouthparts vibrated without pause, continuously unleashing deafening and terrifying acoustic waves.

As if it were fiercely denouncing Lu Sheng's acts of thievery and plunder.

Lu Sheng's gaze remained frosty; with one hand he pinned down the level-thirteen commander-beast before him with a death grip, while his other hand opened and slowly rose.

Out of the void, a strand of purple lightning manifested soundlessly.

This lightning was so exquisite, like a masterpiece of divine craftsmanship wrought between heaven and earth.

Bearing a trace of an unusual tremor, it spread through the entire space in a ten-millionth of an instant, drawing the gaze of everyone

upon this battlefield, and even that of the exotic beasts.

Everyone stared transfixed at this streak of lightning, their eyes glazed and dreamy.

Within this lightning, there seemed to reside the very thing they all had been striving so desperately to pursue.

Suddenly, a small fraction of them jolted awake, as though a sudden realization had struck them.

An expression of extreme shock and disbelief washed over their faces, and the dread with which they now regarded Lu Sheng was countless times more intense than before.

This was a terror that had not manifested even when Lu Sheng previously demonstrated the power to instantly slay Sarah, or to directly withstand a level-thirteen entity.

And the level-thirteen commander-beast, at the exact moment this lightning appeared, had the fear of death instantly reflected in the countless eyes

spanning its entire body simultaneously...

It began to shriek in a frenzy.

Terrifying soundwaves, like successive crests of a tsunami, struck against Lu Sheng's body wave after wave.

There was also the lashing of innumerable tentacles, and the bludgeoning of blood-colored colossal arms.

Lu Sheng, however, seemed entirely oblivious, his gaze fixed with singular focus upon the lightning.

He had once defeated a level-thirteen overlord named "Lei Futian" within the dream space, and by a stroke of fortune had inherited his legacy of laws.

He had never yet put it to the test.

Now...

He finally had the opportunity to try and see what the true power of a law was like.

"The Red Giant form, having not yet touched upon the domain of laws, can hold its ground against a level-thirteen, but to actually slay one is still a bit beyond it..."

"A level-thirteen... in the end, still requires power that truly belongs to the level-thirteen to be slain."

Lu Sheng murmured softly, and then his open right hand gently caught that cluster of purple lightning, closing tightly into a fist.

In the next second.

His eyes, his entire body—

Above those intricate and exquisite solar divine patterns, clusters of even more magnificent and dazzling purple lightning leaped and burgeoned forth.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Sheng was enveloped within countless bolts of thunder and lightning.

He held his right hand high, the fist tightly gripping the law-power of lightning erupting with an unparalleled purple radiance, like the scepter of a deity

from the starry skies.

At the very center of Lu Sheng's gray eyes, a speck of purple bloomed, shining bright as a star.

And then...

Toward the level-thirteen commander-beast before him, he brought his fist down in a slow, deliberate strike.

"With thunder..."

"I shall shatter the darkness!"

"Boom!"

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