Planet Pulverizer: A Mortal's Ascent-Chapter 628: Pawn

"How could it be?!"

"What secret art is this!?"

"How could his control over his power and the battlefield reach this level!?"

The Demon God Clan's Astral Gods looked at the layer of matter surrounding Li Pin, which seemed to be an invisible void, and their complexions looked awful.

The Perfect Realm signified a cultivator's complete mastery over their power. Beyond that lay a realm where the cultivator not only controlled their strength but also accounted for every shift on the battlefield, as if perceiving it with an omniscient gaze.

While this level of control couldn't compare to the True Spirit's ability to read the enemy at a glance, it was still incredible. It was similar to how a player in a game has access to a full map versus one without. The difference in advantage would be significant.

Li Pin didn't pay any attention to the vibrations of the Demon God Clan's Astral Gods. As he took light steps, space distorted. He performed an Astral World Traversal and instantly charged toward the closest avatar of an Astral God.

As Li Pin clenched his left hand, an invisible force field enveloped him. "Summon your combat-specialized avatars, or else ..."

That was the power of the Natal Planet in the Mini Astral World.

His Natal Planet was above any Astral God's avatar in terms of pure energy strength. This, combined with his extraordinary control over power, meant that the instant his force field engulfed the fourteen Astral God's avatars, they felt as if they had been ensnared by a black hole. They were helplessly drawn toward Li Pin.

"This is bad!"

Each of the fourteen Demon God Clan Astral Gods retreated, wanting to break away from this force field suppression. The other Astral Gods were constantly changing their orientation, trying to find a weak point in the force field to get out.

Nevertheless, no matter how they struggled or changed, Li Pin was still inching closer. Like malfunctioning rockets, they plummeted down with the pull of gravity.

A rapidly falling Demon God Clan Astral God was shaken up. He couldn't help but exclaim, "On the level of the use of power, I'm afraid he's not even that much inferior compared to an Eternal Solar Flare."

These words caused the hearts of all the Demon Gods to skip a beat.

An Eternal Solar Flare? Then... is what he said true? Could he really become an Eternal Solar Flare in a short period after ascending to become an Astral God?

Swoosh!

As the Demon Gods struggled to recover from their shock, Li Pin had already appeared before an Astral God's avatar.

Seeing that there was no hope of escaping the force field, the Astral God decisively came to a decision. He let himself integrate fully with the force field and followed its pull. He seemed to turn into a meteor as he crashed ruthlessly toward Li Pin, launching a fatal attack.

At that moment, however, Li Pin's force field shifted, and the pulling force instantly turned into repulsion, causing the meteorite to crash into the force field!

The impact did not cause any fatal injuries to the Astral God's avatar, but it left him dizzy, and his perfect control of power was instantly shattered.

The moment he lost his perfect control over his power, Li Pin immediately swept past him. With a light spin of Li Pin's hand, every structure within this Astral God's avatar was crushed, and he crumbled into dust amidst his astonishment.

After effortlessly crushing the Astral God's avatar, Li Pin turned to face the next one.

The second Astral God's avatar was extremely cautious, but it was useless. Having been caught in Li Pin's force field, they were like insects caught in a spider's web. All struggle was futile.

An Astral God's avatar said helplessly, "Eternal Solar Flare! This is definitely an Eternal Solar Flare's level of power control! Putting aside that his energy intensity is more than double our own... Even if it were only twenty to thirty percent higher, we still wouldn't be able to escape his natal planet's force field!"

There were a dozen of them, and each could only achieve perfect control over their own power individually. If they synchronized and unleashed their power simultaneously, traces of incoherence would inevitably arise. Li Pin would immediately seize upon these flaws and effortlessly shatter their joint attack.

That was how terrifying the inner spirit mirror's control of the battlefield was.

The remaining Demon God Clan's Astral Gods looked at the two avatars that had already been crushed and communicated amongst themselves anxiously.

"If this continues, all of our avatars will be crushed by him! We must gather the combat-specialized avatars to have any hope!"

"The Yin Luo Galaxy has been under strict control for dozens of stellar years. All Astral God's combat-specialized avatars are forbidden from entering. Descending with these avatars is already the limit. I reckon that it won't take long for the people of the Homo Sapien Alliance to notice the abnormality of the fluctuations in the Astral World on this side and then send law enforcement officers to pursue the matter."

"Li Pin... is stronger than when he was dozens of stellar years ago. Back when he crushed the combat-specialized avatar of that Astral God from Shana Divine Mountain, he was much weaker."

Judging from how things were going, this batch of Demon God Clan members wandering outside the Candle Light Star Ring would all be killed by Li Pin.

"We're all caught in his Celestial Force Field. It's too late to escape. Let's ask Lord Ai Sa for help."

"In addition to helping Lord Ai Sa clear out potential competitors, we also have the task of helping Lord Ai Sa unearth powerful Divine and peerless Legends to serve the Lord in his future hegemony of becoming a cosmic overlord. This Li Pin definitely meets the recruitment criteria!"

"Right, we've unearthed a good seedling for Lord Ai Sa, so Lord Ai Sa will definitely bestow a lot of rewards. Furthermore, once Lord Ai Sa arrives, the crisis we're facing will also be solved."

As for the three Demon God Clansmen who died earlier, they had just been clansmen whose minds had yet to develop. It wasn't that much of a loss for them to die anyway.

Under the current situation, they had no choice but to acknowledge their own bad luck.

With this in mind, these Demon God Astral Gods quickly spread the news.

However, they seemed to have seriously overestimated their weight in Lord Ai Sa's heart, as their help signal had been completely ignored.

The remaining Astral Gods' eyes revealed looks of pain.

To put it nicely, the Demon God Clan members were Lord Ai Sa's subordinates. But bluntly speaking, they were just a bunch of lapdogs. Who would care if they lived or died?

This was the unfortunate truth for the minor clans. They only put up a fierce and cruel front to cover up the fact that they were actually weak.

"The Lord is surely in a critical period of cultivation right now, so we must not disturb him too much!" The lightning-covered Astral God waved his hand violently. "Let's break through this. Do our utmost to break through this. We'll just see who can make it through."

The other Astral Gods were similarly somewhat helpless. Fortunately, they were only in their avatar form. Even if the avatars were destroyed, their true bodies wouldn't die.

However, the same wasn't true for those few Tier Five and Six Legends. In exchange for a chance to attack, the price they had to pay this time was definitely not small.

The Astral God covered in lightning tried his best to persuade Li Pin while simultaneously attempting to break through their predicament. "Li Pin, we shouldn't be enemies. Why don't you join me and work under Lord Ai Sa to assist him in competing for Astral God Yin Luo's inheritance? With your strength, the Lord will definitely put you to good use.

"The Lord will inherit Astral God Yin Luo's power and succeed in becoming an Eternal Solar Flare, turning into light that radiates on the universe. What awaits you then will definitely be an illimitable prospect...."

Li Pin looked at the Astral God with raised brows. It almost seemed as if several question marks might appear above Li Pin's head any moment now.

Work for Ai Sa? Help him fight for Astral God Yin Luo's inheritance? After that... A promising future? What a joke.

He didn't need to work for anyone to become an Eternal Solar Flare. Ai Sa might not achieve Cosmic Radiance even with Astral God Yin Luo's inheritance. In other words, he would most likely only become a Eternal Solar Flare like Li Pin.

Li Pin couldn't help but ask, "What's in it for me?"

As soon as Li Pin asked this question, he shook his head. He was merely messing around by asking that question. "Forget it. I've heard that the Demon God Clansmen have a problem with their brains, so why am I talking to you so much?"

With a flash, he arrived in front of this Astral God and solemnly said, "Failure allows for better success. All you need to do is send more Astral God's avatars to defeat me, and that will be enough. Otherwise... after I've become an Astral God..."

Li Pin closed his hands together, and terrifying gravity crazily squeezed the Astral God's avatar. The avatar's massive ten-meter-tall frame was madly compressed until it collapsed into countless electric lights that bloomed out like the most eye-catching firework.

"You guys won't have a chance then."

***

Watching this from afar, Xuan Jian sighed. "Too easy."

It was too easy for Li Pin to crush ten or more Astral God's avatars.

Even though the general combat power of these Astral God's avatars was only 160,000 to 180,000, their numerical superiority made them a match against those combat-specialized avatars with a combat power of 300,000.

Nevertheless, in front of Li Pin, they were merely sitting ducks.

"If there's even so much as a single tier difference in realm, the slightest bit of combat power difference will cause the gap between two people to expand geometrically."

The strong were strong, the weak were weak. The stronger the strength, the more obvious this situation would be. This was because when they waited until they achieved Cosmic Radiance level, their techniques, secret arts, experience, and even energy accumulation would have all reached the peak. They didn't make mistakes and would never make them in the future either.

In these situations, a point of difference in Power Level, after extending the battle time to tens of stellar years, could be the key to deciding a victory or defeat.

Of course, this was a theoretical situation. In reality, the variables in the Astral World were unimaginably large due to the existence of the power of Eternal Oblivion.

If a Cosmic Radiance were to fight against lower ranks, it'd be fine. However, if it were a case of Eternal Solar Flare versus Starshine, and the opponent took a punch directly, the attacker would immediately carry the burden of a layer of the power of the Eternal Oblivion.

It could end up in a situation where the Starshine that took the beating may gain a bigger advantage than the Eternal Solar Flare that struck.

It wasn't all that uncommon or surprising to see two Astral Gods constantly quarreling, where one side would taunt and say, "Hit me if you dare!" while the other side would simply turn a deaf ear to their taunts, never daring to make a move.

This was a normal phenomenon. After all, you could never really be certain whether the other party would fight it out with you and cancel out the power to avoid the Eternal Oblivion Force, or they would simply take the hit without putting up any resistance. If they did that, the attack would be forced to carry the burden of the Eternal Oblivion Force.

Of course, not putting up any resistance was also a very risky thing to do. An Astral God that didn't put up any resistance might just get killed in one hit, ultimately throwing their lives away.

This was why many Astral Gods in the Astral World would choose to remain amicable when there were no serious interests at stake.

Xuan Jian suddenly thought of something that made him frown. "With Li Pin's character, I'm afraid that there's going to be some trouble after he goes to the Astral World."

After all, the Astral World was a place where people would choose not to get into a fight if a quarrel alone would suffice. If a fight was really necessary, an Astral God might still not get directly involved. They would just send out their Tier Six juniors.

Due to this, Li Pi would be troubled if he were to go to the Astral World.