High Martial: I Grind Professions

Its might was far more tyrannical and ferocious than Naraku’s attacks had been.

Faced with this cataclysmic impact, Li Wen’s eyes instantly became incredibly deep and dark.

[Absolute Focus] activated!

The flow of power in Raymond’s charge, the fluctuations of Law, and even the most minuscule flaws were all clearly reflected in his eyes.

He didn’t meet the attack head-on. Instead, his figure moved like a phantom, darting and weaving between the massive stone pillars.

The long saber in his hand transformed into streaks of silver light that seemed to tear through space.

He precisely struck at the weak points where Raymond’s power connected, or redirected its force.

Wherever the saber light passed, the solid rock was sliced open like tofu, letting out a piercing grating sound.

Every collision produced a deafening clang of metal and a shockwave of energy.

It blasted deep craters into the surrounding ground, sending shattered rock flying like rain.

Raymond’s attacks were wide and sweeping, each sword strike heavy and powerful. While his Power of Law lacked subtlety, it was immensely potent, like a relentless, surging tide.

Li Wen, on the other hand, pushed his Body Technique and saber skills to their absolute limit, like a nimble petrel in a storm.

Time and again, he avoided fatal blows by a hair’s breadth and retaliated with exquisitely refined saber techniques.

Wherever his saber light reached, it carved minute wrinkles into the fabric of space.

However, Raymond’s power was simply too immense, and his defense was incredibly solid.

Although Li Wen’s attacks could shake him, they struggled to inflict any substantial damage.

Gradually, under Raymond’s continuous, storm-like suppression, Li Wen’s room to evade was constantly shrinking.

He began to show signs of being suppressed, seemingly at a disadvantage.

...

In the spectator stands below.

Seeing Li Wen looking slightly cornered by Raymond’s ferocious assault, the faint light in Naraku’s eyes instantly brightened.

His clenched fists trembled slightly as he screamed silently in his heart, ’That’s it! Suppress him! Defeat him!’

"Raymond has him pinned down!" Sisko Shadowblade breathed a sigh of relief.

"His techniques aren’t weak, but he’s still being suppressed in the face of absolute power and a solid defense," Kane Blazefire said with a nod, a flicker of ’I knew it’ in his eyes.

"Don’t be so hasty," said Isabel. Her beautiful, star-like eyes never left Li Wen’s figure, and her voice was calm with a strange hint of certainty.

"He hasn’t played his strongest card yet. Besides... haven’t you noticed? His footwork and his gaze have never wavered. He’s observing. He’s adapting."

Her attitude was clearly different from the other geniuses; there was no schadenfreude, no blind disdain.

Instead, it revealed a hint of appreciation for Li Wen’s combat intelligence and potential, and even a little anticipation for what he would do next.

...

「On the stage.」

Raymond was a battle-hardened veteran who understood the principle of a lion using its full strength even to catch a rabbit.

Seeing that he had Li Wen suppressed, he didn’t relax in the slightest. Instead, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes as he erupted with power once more.

"Mountain Breaker!"

He let out a ferocious roar. The muscles all over his body bulged as the thunder power and Power of Law, accumulated to their absolute peak on his greatsword, exploded outward!

The greatsword seemed to transform into a massive pillar of lightning that could tear heaven and earth asunder.

Carrying an aura of destruction that seemed to pass judgment on all creation, it crashed down on Li Wen with unstoppable momentum!

The sword’s momentum covered an enormous area, making it impossible to evade!

Space groaned under the strain of this power, and the massive stone pillars crumbled to dust from the aftershocks of the sword’s pressure.

Its might was far greater than before!

"Here it comes!" Down below, Ares Titan’s gaze sharpened.

"This move will decide it all!" Kane clenched his fists.

"Can he block it with that finger attack?" Sisko watched nervously.

"He... should be able to, right?" someone said uncertainly.

Everyone’s hearts were in their throats.

Naraku held his breath, staring intently.

Facing this lightning strike that seemed powerful enough to split a planet, Li Wen’s eyes held not a trace of fear, only absolute calm.

He brought his fingers together like a sword and pointed from a distance!

Deep within his Sea of Consciousness, the nearly ten-thousand-zhang-tall Primordial Spirit Dharma Idol, which radiated an aura of immortality and indestructibility, simultaneously raised its finger.

Vast as a Star Sea, the power of his Primordial Spirit surged madly into that illusory, giant finger.

In an instant—

A dark golden finger, condensed to the absolute limit and seemingly formed from the purest Law of Annihilation, crossed space and suddenly materialized in front of Li Wen.

The moment it appeared, the surrounding light distorted and dimmed.

The violent pressure from the lightning sword seemed to have met its nemesis, as it was silently eroded and disintegrated by an invisible power of annihilation.

Around the giant finger, space was annihilated inch by inch, forming a region of absolute, void-like darkness.

Annihilate all things, let all phenomena return to ruin!

"All Things Return to Ruins Finger!"

BOOM—!!!

The dark golden finger and the pillar of lightning collided without any finesse.

There was no deafening explosion, only the heart-stopping sound of energy being annihilated.

The berserk lightning and the power of annihilation furiously intertwined and devoured one another.

A blinding light instantly consumed the center of the entire arena.

A terrifying shockwave of energy swept out in all directions like a tsunami.

It instantly flattened the massive stone forest for hundreds of li around, peeling back layers of the ground and melting it!

A stalemate!

The ’annihilate all things’ characteristic of the dark golden finger frantically eroded the pillar of lightning.

But the power and Law contained in Raymond’s strike were also truly immense and majestic; the finger’s advance was forcefully brought to a halt.

The light dimmed slightly, revealing the scene at the center.

Raymond’s hair and beard were standing on end, his entire body flashing with lightning, and his muscles were bulging to their absolute limit.

He was using every ounce of his strength to drive his greatsword forward, desperately holding back the dark golden finger that seemed about to crush everything.

At the point of contact between the sword and the finger, space continuously shattered and was barely stitched back together.

"Ha... haha!" Blood trickled from Raymond’s mouth, but his eyes glinted with a mix of crazed joy and ferocity.