Chapter 575 - 241: Spiritual Artifact: Profound, Ark Fire

In a single second, his form shot up from that of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy to a young man over two meters tall with a physique that could only be described as perfect!

His white hair stirred without a wind, emitting a terrifying halo of energy!

This was his true form!

The previous teenage appearance was merely his energy-saving mode!

Before Lin Ye’s eyes, Noah’s level changed accordingly.

His level rocketed up from LV65, only stopping when it reached LV70.

Lin Ye knew that as he entered his P2 phase, Noah’s new combat form was the equivalent of his own.

Stowing his jet-black spear, Dark Night, behind his back, Lin Ye stretched his muscles and joints.

The pure physical clash just now had been somewhat addicting.

He glanced at his own attribute panel.

After activating [Frenzy], his three main attributes related to close-quarters combat had all broken the 130,000 mark.

Lin Ye gestured with a crooked finger at the perfect combat body in midair.

Fury burned on Noah’s handsome face. He wasted no more words.

His figure abruptly vanished.

BANG!

The next instant, the two figures collided violently in midair!

A collision of pure flesh, yet it produced a boom far deeper and more resonant than a cannon blast!

A visible white shockwave erupted from their point of contact!

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Across the sky, two afterimages, moving too fast for the eye to follow, flickered madly throughout the vast Earth Core Space. Each time they crossed paths, a deafening explosion and an expanding shockwave followed.

The space itself seemed to ripple like the surface of water struck by a stone, sending out layer after layer of disturbances.

They fought from the sky down to the ground, the incredibly hard surface cracking like tofu beneath their feet.

Then they battled from the ground back into the air. Every clash of fists and feet caused entire sections of the surrounding mechanical structures and rock formations to collapse!

In just a few dozen seconds,

the two had already exchanged several hundred blows!

BOOM—!!!

One of the figures was sent flying backward like a cannonball, smashing deep into the earth’s crust below and triggering a violent earthquake and shockwave far greater than any before!

The entire Earth Core Space shook violently from the impact.

From the bottomless crater, Lin Ye’s figure slowly flew out. He shook his slightly numb arm.

In midair, an undisguised sneer appeared on Noah’s face.

In terms of pure strength and fighting skill, he still held the absolute upper hand.

The battle continued!

Only this time, it had shifted from close-quarters combat to a long-range fight!

A blue light flashed in Noah’s eyes as his long fingers jabbed repeatedly at the air.

ZING! ZING! ZING!

Hundreds of deep blue energy rays, like an impenetrable downpour, instantly sealed off all of Lin Ye’s escape routes!

At the same time, Lin Ye also raised his hands.

A barrage of equally terrifying Energy Cannons shot madly from his palms!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Countless rays and Energy Cannons collided violently in midair. For a moment, the entire Earth Core Space was filled with incandescent light and ceaseless explosions!

Amidst the fierce exchange,

Noah was constantly changing his attacks.

He formed his hand into a blade and swung it viciously in Lin Ye’s direction!

KRRSSSH—!

A terrifying blue Laser Blade, over a hundred meters long and seemingly capable of slicing the sky in two, swept across the area!

Immediately after, he followed up with an identical vertical Slash!

The massive, cross-shaped attack left two bottomless, charred ravines in the ground.

Meanwhile, Lin Ye’s figure flickered continuously amidst the explosions and Slashes, using Instant Body to narrowly evade them.

For any onlookers, the aftershocks of this battle were nothing short of an apocalypse.

"Spread out! Spread out now!"

Qin Feng roared, leading his four team members as they scrambled to dodge the stray energy blasts and shockwaves raining down from the sky.

They had long since given up on attacking the endless mob of Intelligent Mechanism Race grunts.

The grunts, just like them, were now scattering in terror from the fallout of the clash between two titans, completely unable to mount any effective offense.

In the command center, everyone was on their feet, staring intently at the world-ending battle on the main screen, not daring to breathe.

"What... what level of battle is this?"

"It’s terrifying!"

"I feel like if I got any closer, I’d get steamrolled by some random AOE..."

Most of the people present had never witnessed a battle between experts of the Celestial Human Realm.

But they imagined... it couldn’t be much more intense than this, could it?

...

Lin Ye had to admit it.

’In a contest of long-range energy attacks, I’ve lost. Noah’s use of energy—whether in terms of attack power, release speed, or technical finesse—is far beyond what a human like me, who only mastered a similar ability half a day ago, can match.’

But he wasn’t worried.

’The reason I’m still holding several trump cards is because I can learn so much from fighting an expert like this. This is priceless experience I could never gain by training in isolation.’

’For instance, right now, my methods for releasing energy attacks are no longer just simple Energy Cannons. I’m learning from Noah, compressing energy, shaping it into blades, and focusing it into beams. It’s still crude, and probably just a clumsy imitation in Noah’s eyes, but every skill starts with imitation.’

「A few minutes later.」

Seeing himself being steadily pushed back and suppressed into an increasingly pathetic state, Lin Ye knew that if he didn’t pull out something real soon, he would be the one to lose.