Chapter 580 - 242: Heaven-Shaking Punch, The Fourth Stage

In his crimson eyes, data streams flowed at an unprecedented speed, yet all they could produce was a series of red alerts: "Analysis Failed," "Error," "Threat Level Overflow."

He didn’t understand.

’Why can this human just ignore all my attacks?’

’Why does punching him with my full strength leave me with torn tendons and broken bones?!’

Noah’s shattered arms rapidly repaired themselves under his accelerated regeneration.

But the next moment, he saw Lin Ye in the distance, slowly raising his right hand toward him.

Then, Lin Ye simply faced in his direction, bent a finger, and flicked it gently.

The motion of the flick was light.

As if merely brushing a speck of dust from the corner of his clothes.

But the instant Lin Ye flicked his finger, all the space in the thousand-meter area between him and Noah suddenly collapsed inward!

It was as if an invisible giant hand had ruthlessly crushed the very "existence" of this region into a ball!

This was spatial distortion caused by power so pure it reached the absolute limit!

The combat guidance system inside Noah, which had assimilated the entire Sigma Civilization, issued its highest-level alert at this moment.

It instinctively drove Noah’s body, forcing him to shift upward by less than half a meter in the nick of time.

This was the fastest reaction he could manage.

But that was all.

The next instant.

PFFT.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a muffled sound as faint as a popping bubble.

Noah’s entire lower body, along with his menacing metallic bone wings and dark purple armor, exploded directly into a cloud of the most primitive particle dust within that supremely compressed space!

Everything below his chest was utterly annihilated.

This scene made Yin Liulan, watching from a distance, lose her composure. Her beautiful eyes, usually tinged with a hint of laziness, widened in shock!

’What terrifying... power!’

That’s right.

That flick of the finger contained no fancy principles or techniques whatsoever.

It was simply the purest, most savage, most unreasonable power!

It crushed everything in its path, including the air itself!

Yin Liulan knew that if she were in Lin Ye’s position, even flicking her finger with all her might would produce an effect that, while similar in appearance, would be nowhere near as powerful.

’Because that was just a single flick!’

’It only mobilized the strength of a finger!’

’If Lin Ye were to mobilize the power of his right fist, or even his entire body, how terrifying would that be?!’

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「Ninghai Navy Department, Underground Command Center.」

Dead silence.

Hundreds of people stared intently at the main screen, their minds going blank as they watched the incredible scene.

"What... what just happened?"

Someone muttered, their voice hoarse.

One finger!

Just one finger!

The ultimate creation of Sigma, the one who had merged with the Fire Seed Source, who was so insufferably arrogant, who Mr. Yin had evaluated as a "Pseudo-Celestial Human Realm" being, that terrifying existence that had driven everyone to despair...

Was almost instantly killed, just like that?!

GULP...

In the Earth Core Space, Noah looked down at his empty lower half, and for the first time, fear showed in his crimson eyes.

"AAAAAAAHHH!"

The fear was quickly replaced by boundless madness.

He roared like a madman, the newly formed black mechanical heart in his chest beating wildly at a frequency of thousands of times per second.

He mobilized the Fire Seed Source and all the remaining energy of the entire ruin without reservation!

To the naked eye, silvery-white liquid metal and newly formed flesh writhed madly, and in the blink of an eye, his lower body was restored.

And this time, a layer of incandescent white energy flames ignited on his dark purple armor!

A high-temperature, high-energy field of extinction, shimmering with a blinding light, suddenly formed around him!

Within this field, nothing could exist!

Even the very particles of the surrounding air were constantly being dissolved and annihilated by this power, turning into absolute nothingness!

"Go... DIE!!!"

Noah’s voice was hoarse and crazed.

He lunged forward again, cloaked in this field that could annihilate all things, and once more attacked Lin Ye’s vitals.

However, the moment Lin Ye’s figure stepped into that incandescent field, he remained completely unscathed.

The terrifying energy, enough to instantly vaporize an A-Class Intelligent Mechanism, didn’t even cause a single ripple when it landed on his bronze skin, which was covered in faint golden battle patterns.

Noah’s crimson pupils constricted to their absolute limit. He gathered all the energy in his body, all his dignity and fury as the final will of Sigma, and focused it all into his right fist!

He threw the punch!

This punch was the strongest blow of his entire life!

Faced with this all-or-nothing attack, Lin Ye’s movement was still simple.

He simply raised his right fist to meet it.

The earlier flick had been his attempt, on the verge of losing control, to master this surging power—to learn how to wield it freely, rather than becoming a child holding a nuclear bomb.

But now, looking at the dying creation before him,

Lin Ye no longer intended to "control" his power.

What he was going to do was unleash it!

He would display without reservation the magnificent power within this body, a power akin to that which split the heavens and earth at the dawn of time!

In the end, the two fists never touched.

Because Noah was not worthy.

The instant his fist was about to reach Lin Ye, time seemed to slow down countless times over.

First, the incandescent field around his body, powerful enough to annihilate all things, collapsed silently like a popped soap bubble.

Immediately after, his fist, which held all his power, began to turn to nothingness, inch by inch, starting from the knuckles.

Then, his arm, his shoulder, his head, his torso...