Chapter 145 - 126: [Ultimate Destruction Cannon] VS [I Alone Am Supreme]

Chapter 145: Chapter 126: [Ultimate Destruction Cannon] VS [I Alone Am Supreme]

Elaven froze for a moment before snapping back to reality.

He was even more furious!

"You clown! How dare you mock me?"

His voice, resonating with energy, carried for dozens of miles.

"Happy April Fools’ Day!" Zhang Ji said, channeling his Yuanqi.

Then, without a backward glance, he shot into the sky.

Elaven started to give chase, but Zhang Ji looked back and unleashed a palm strike—Compassionate Salvation. Elaven was stunned for another instant.

By the time Elaven recovered, Zhang Ji was already thousands of meters away, flying straight into the clouds.

Elaven didn’t understand why Zhang Ji was flying so high, but he couldn’t care less.

He charged straight for Zhang Ji.

But as he charged toward Zhang Ji, Zhang Ji began to fall from the sky.

At the same time, he extended his right palm.

The third form of the Tathagata Divine Palm: True Buddha’s Descent.

This Palm Skill leveraged the forces of nature.

It borrowed the power of heaven and earth, allowing the user to rapidly combine the force of their descent, the surrounding airflow, and the resulting high temperatures. All of this was then layered with Yuanqi and Spirit particles and unleashed in a single, devastating blast.

With enough prep time and a fall from a sufficient height, this technique could inflict even more damage than the Sole Honored One. ℯℯ𝘭.

Under normal circumstances, however, it was almost impossible to hit anyone with it.

After all, who besides a complete idiot would just stand there and let you hit them with it?

Flames burst forth from the friction of the air around Zhang Ji’s right palm. A crimson hue mixed with his purple Yuanqi as the airflow generated immense pressure, crashing down violently toward Elaven.

This immense pressure, even from a thousand meters away, pressed a massive Palm Seal into the surface of the lake below.

Yet Elaven flew straight into the descending palm, charging up toward Zhang Ji.

One punch. It was always just one punch!

BOOM!

Zhang Ji’s momentum was shattered, and Elaven was also knocked backward.

The two opponents stabilized themselves in mid-air, a thousand meters apart.

Zhang Ji was already panting slightly. Right after his breakthrough, his Yuanqi had felt boundless and inexhaustible, but now, nearly half of it was gone.

Across from him, the temperature of Elaven’s Alchemy Furnace had risen to a dangerous threshold.

He was approaching his fourth form: the Destruction Stance.

His entire body was covered in marks left by the searing energy circulating from the furnace.

It looked as if magma were flowing across him. Blood-red Energy Particles coursed through pitch-black scars, and the crimson light enveloping his body seemed almost solid. Even in broad daylight, the glare he emitted was blinding.

At this point, both combatants understood how formidable and powerful the other was.

Elaven could no longer bring himself to say the word "clown."

Zhang Ji’s expression was graver than ever before.

Because he knew all too well just how strong Elaven was in his Destruction Stance.

His destructive power could almost be considered "pseudo-S-rank."

Of course, that was limited to destructive power alone.

In terms of overall combat strength, he was still a long way off.

They paused for only an instant. Then, as if by some unspoken agreement, they charged at each other simultaneously.

Zhang Ji used the fourth form of the Tathagata Divine Palm: Steadfast Heart of Discipline.

This was a unique technique, one that required charging up power.

To use it, one had to maintain a calm state of mind at all times—no anger, no joy, no sorrow.

All these suppressed emotions would accumulate, transforming into spiritual energy stored within the spiritual space of the Purple Mansion.

Then, when the time came, it could all be unleashed at once.

Zhengyin of the True Buddha Sect had mastered this very form of the Tathagata Divine Palm, and he had likely been storing power for several decades, at least.

A single palm strike from him was something even A-rank masters would have to avoid.

But Zhang Ji had only acquired this Palm Skill a short time ago, and he had never been one to suppress his emotions. He was only using this technique now as a feint, a cover for his true killing blow.

BOOM!

A purple Palm Seal flew out, infused with the small amount of anger, frustration, and killing intent Zhang Ji had accumulated. However, since he hadn’t stored up many emotions, it had little effect on Elaven, who shattered the palm’s force in an instant.

But after shattering the palm’s force, Elaven found himself facing a massive cross shimmering with silvery-white light.

After previously mastering the Heart Stabilizing and Body Lowering Method, Zhang Ji’s spiritual Control had increased dramatically. He had since felt that he could vaguely Control and mobilize the energy within the cross.

He could sense a vast reserve of energy stored inside it. If unleashed, its power would be no less than the ultimate attack of an A-rank master.

Now was the time to use it.

VWOOSH—RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!

The silvery-white energy, guided out by Zhang Ji in a single torrent, poured forth with his strike. It engulfed Elaven, battering his energy Force Field, breaking through his defenses, and crashing against his body.

Yet even under this assault, Elaven’s hand punched straight through the torrent of Energy Particles. It shot out, grabbed the cross, and the high-temperature particles immediately began to burn, melt, and warp it.

Su’s power was clearly far inferior to Elaven’s.

Zhang Ji really shouldn’t have had such high expectations for a weapon that only stored his energy.

Elaven grabbed the cross and, with a powerful heave, flung it away, sending Zhang Ji flying along with it.

He let go of the cross in mid-air, allowing it to fly off and crash into the distant lake. It skipped once across the water before sinking to the bottom.

The next moment, he saw Elaven charging at him again.

BANG!

KABOOM!

With a deafening crash, a ring-shaped crater appeared in the ground.

Zhang Ji pushed himself up from the center of the crater. He watched as Elaven—now barely humanoid, his body a roiling mass of searing hot particles—approached step by step. Zhang Ji’s expression was complicated.

Elaven had now entered his Destruction Stance. He looked like a being made of pure element.

’He’s so strong... it’s like he’s using a cheat code!’