Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 524 Perfect
"That is!?"

When that figure soared into the sky to confront the Star-Devouring Demon and cleaved the heavens with his sword, Gu Qing and Chen Yunye, who had already fallen into despair, suddenly opened their eyes wide.

"It's him! It's him! It's him!"

The emotions that the two had suppressed to the extreme seemed to erupt like never before.

Not to mention Chen Yunye, even Gu Qing, who is introverted and has never been good at expressing himself, couldn't help but cheer from the bottom of his heart at this moment.

"I knew it! I knew it! I knew this scene would happen!"

"Hahaha, I didn't misjudge him, it's him! That peerless swordsman who cleaved the heavens with his sword, it's him!"

Even though they weren't in the same spot, at that moment, unrestrained laughter and shouts still burst forth from both of them.

At this moment, they wished they could proclaim to the world the legend and epic nature of this scene!
……

"Roar!"

The star-devouring monster let out a terrifying roar.

The divine thoughts, filled with terror, horror, and disbelief, swept across almost half of the Crimson Star like a storm.

At this moment, all the creatures of Crimson Star seemed to feel the fear emanating from this extremely domineering demon that wanted to devour the entire Crimson Star.

The sword strike, unparalleled in the world, with a perfection beyond description, precisely struck the insignificant flaw in the void lock that the Star Devouring Demon had been desperately trying to maintain.

With a flash of sword light, the sky was cleaved open.

With unparalleled swordsmanship, he tore through the void chains, and then...

In a manner similar to using someone else's strength against them, it caused the void to collapse!

The collapsing void was the first to engulf the enormous body of the Star-Devouring Demon.

Like a star that has disrupted the balance of degeneracy forces.

The Star-Devouring Demon's body, several kilometers long, was completely compressed and gathered along with the collapse of the void, and fell towards the most central point—the "sword mark" where Ji Fuyou's sword had struck.

Matter, energy, and spirit collapsed madly into the "sword mark."

"This is impossible……"

The Star-Devouring Demon was filled with resentment and struggled desperately to escape the devouring force of the collapsing void.

However, his power also comes from authority.

Once the balance of power is broken, no matter how hard he tries or how much he struggles, he can only watch helplessly as the backlash from the void completely engulfs his body.

And this process of engulfment is like a chain reaction, getting faster and faster...

"No!"

"Boom!"

At a certain moment, the void lock force that bound the entire Crimson Star and was trying to pull it into the Star-Devouring Demon instantly pulled the entire massive body of the Star-Devouring Demon into it, and in an instant, it condensed into a void singularity.

Just like...

It suddenly turned into a black hole.

Inside the black hole, everything is crushed.

The mountains, rivers, and matter that were pulled into the Red Star, as well as the Star-Devouring Demon's body, which spanned over ten kilometers, were all crushed into nothingness by the "black hole."

After all matter is crushed into nothingness, the "black hole" that has been compressed to its limit also becomes unstable. In the next moment, it will burst like a supernova, carrying the power to annihilate everything and sweeping in all directions.

However, Ji Fuyou seemed to have anticipated this scenario.

He stepped forward and quickly arrived in front of the "black hole" that had narrowed to its limit and was about to explode.

Endless starlight showered down upon him.

Having reached the pinnacle of perfection, he has entered a completely new level, with his resonance with the outside world and his control over the stellar power that fills the void all reaching a new level.

At this moment, he even directly visualized the star god's cosmic light, and with the guidance of his divine thoughts, he concentrated all the star power that should have been evenly distributed in all directions onto his body. Then, he controlled this star power as an energy source, drawing upon the destructive power that had not been stripped away, and focused it on the "black hole" that was about to erupt.

"Buzz!"

When the destructive force and the power of the "black hole" eruption collided, the two terrifying energies were neutralized in a way that ordinary people could not understand.

During the neutralization process, matter is being constantly reorganized, and space is being constantly distorted.

To outsiders, the whole scene appears dreamlike and unreal.

"Perfect state".

Ji Fuyou uttered these words softly.

This is not a level of attainment that ordinary people should be able to reach.

It shouldn't even be a realm that a legend should be able to reach.

This is the realm of "Star God Cosmic Light"!

Although his current state of perfection seems to be only at the very beginning compared to "Star God Cosmic Light," but...

He truly reached this realm and entered this stage through mental closed-loop and through the simulation of "Star God Cosmic Light".

And at this stage...

"Since my power is perfect, how could it possibly be taken away?"

Ji Fuyou's thoughts drifted.

The next moment, the void power, which had been weakened to the third level, began to rise rapidly, quickly recovering to the fourth level, and then further returning to the fifth level.

Moreover, although his Void Power had reached the fifth level, the Void Power at this fifth level was clearly different from the original Void Power at the fifth level.

His power of the void does not originate from authority.

But...

He truly reached that level.

However, to say that one has thoroughly grasped the power of the void is a different matter. Ji Fuyou quickly understood the cause and effect.

"It's because of 'Star God Cosmic Light'."

The entire galaxy was completely covered by the stellar power of "Star God's Cosmic Light".

In other words, all the power in this starry sky originates from this great star god, Cosmic Light.

Although he himself had reached the fifth level of understanding of the power of the void, he could not drive this mystery of the void with his own power. He had to borrow the power of "Star God's Light" to show the wonder of the fifth level of the void.

Once you leave this environment, even with the understanding of the fifth level of the Void Realm, you will still be unable to easily change the Void Realm due to insufficient strength.

This characteristic...

"When a whale falls, all things come into being. The great Star God, Cosmic Light, has fallen, filling this starry sky with boundless stellar power. Moreover... this great being intentionally chose a successor, magnanimously allowing billions of beings in the galaxy to absorb and control his power. Therefore... only under such circumstances can I comprehend the Fifth Level of the Void and unleash its power..."

This is fundamentally different from the authority of the previous Void Fivefold.

Through this distinction, Ji Fuyou suddenly realized something...

“There is a creature that has stolen the authority of the Star God's Light to equally distribute to all living beings!”

This conjecture shook Ji Fuyou to his core.

That "Star God Cosmic Light" clearly intended to distribute its power to every part of the starry sky.

This power includes not only stellar power, but also insights into the power of various laws.

but……

A being gathered all the insights gained from these laws, transformed them into authority, and bestowed them upon others…

"wrong!"

Ji Fuyou suddenly realized the source of the power he had been granted!
It's the Heavenly Ranking!

"The Heavenly Ranking has bestowed authority!"

Therefore, if we're talking about who's most likely to tamper with the power of the laws, the Heavenly Ranking...

They will be the prime suspects.

Or...

The beings who control the Heavenly Rankings are doing something behind the scenes to prevent something from happening.

Stopping...

Ji Fuyou recalled the cruelty of the Heavenly Ranking War...

This kind of competition may be normal, or it may not be normal at all.

The strong stay strong.

The strongest civilizations and individuals are selected through the Heavenly Ranking War to engage in the final showdown.

but……

This seems inconsistent with the benevolence and selflessness shown by the Star God of the Universe in spreading his power fairly throughout the entire starry sky.

The other party may have used similar methods in hopes of finding the best successor, but the methods were definitely not as ruthless.

Such fierce competition will only stifle promising civilizations, until finally...

For a long time, it has been impossible to gather enough civilizations to carry out the eighth round of the Heavenly Ranking War.

especially……

The monsters in the eighth round of the Heavenly Ranking War are too strong.

He jumped directly from the theoretical legendary third or fourth tier to the fifth tier.

He is still a legendary fifth-tier being who wields the power of five layers of void.

It seems there's no intention to make anyone pass the assessment.

Based on all the information, Ji Fuyou had already come to a startling conclusion.

"There is some kind of force that wants to prevent the birth of a successor."

Ji Fuyou quietly sensed the endless starlight, and there seemed to be...

The remains of the Star God Cosmic Light were slightly clearer than when he first met him!

His purpose in preventing the birth of a successor was to become the new Star God, Cosmic Light!
Ji Fuyou further deduced and understood the rules of the Heavenly Ranking and the Mist, and vaguely touched upon the truth.

"The being that prevents the birth of the successor must be the enforcer of the Heavenly Ranking rules... just like..."

Ji Fuyou had a clear analogy in his mind: "The emperor died before he could choose who would succeed him to the throne, leaving behind a rule that the princes would compete with each other. Whoever could stand out would inherit the empire, but... the regent in charge of enforcing the rule did not want to see a new prince ascend the throne, so... he increased the difficulty of the test rules, to the point that... it was impossible for anyone to pass the test."

He thought of the void authority he had been stripped of…

This should be one of the targets of the faction to which the "Regent" belongs.

"The Heavenly Ranking War... was originally the way for the Star God Cosmos to select his successor, but now the Heavenly Ranking has been taken over by that 'Regent.' To some extent, any civilization or being that enters the Heavenly Ranking War will completely lose the possibility of becoming the successor of the 'Star God Cosmos'... because, if they show enough potential, all that awaits them is various kinds of annihilation."

Ji Fuyou thought of the six remaining forces that had survived eight rounds of the Heavenly Ranking War.

And, hostile forces that split off from their civilization.

Such as the Heavenly Palace, the Undying Blood Phoenix, etc...

"But now, I'm different."

Ji Fuyou sensed something deep within his spiritual world...

The Heavenly Ranking that appeared after the Trial War has vanished without a trace.

He has already broken the rules of the Heavenly Ranking.

(End of this chapter)