Planet Pulverizer: A Mortal's Ascent-Chapter 472: Divinity

Yu Shengjin, Xue Feng, and Qi Yan fled for their lives.

As Tier One Legends, their speed during their escape was staggering. The three of them split up, each heading in a different direction—one toward another Astral Gate, while the other two rushed straight into outer space.

Fortunately for Gaia's experts, Xue Feng's choice to head toward the Astral Gate kept her barely within the range of their monitoring devices.

But Yu Shengjin and Qi Yan? The direction they were heading—deep space—was completely uncharted and unprepared for by the Gaia's practitioners.

They could only watch helplessly as the two soared beyond the atmosphere, their figures shrinking as they disappeared into the void.

In that instant, the gap between the Gaia Civilization and the Divine Dragon Empire became painfully clear.

Without Li Pin... Gaia's fate would have been sealed. It would become nothing more than a province of the Divine Dragon Empire, fully assimilated into their system and subjected to exploitation.

***

In the depths of outer space, Si Xing had long since arrived aboard his private spacecraft. Through his instruments, he observed the battlefield with disbelief in his eyes.

The image of Li Pin fully activating the Celestial Magnetic Field replayed in his mind. The manifestation of the planetary projection. That power...

"Divine!?"

His reaction mirrored Yan Zun's.

Divine! A fragile, almost insignificant Divine being. But... to obtain an Astral World Fragment at the Legendary stage—what kind of privilege was that!? Even the Astral God's own children might not be granted such a gift!

Containing and refining an Astral World Fragment required a prerequisite: the comprehension of inner spirit power.

This was also the dividing line between Tier Three and Tier Four Legends.

Without it, a Legend simply couldn’t sustain a domain or world strong enough to shake a planet tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter.

And if someone had already mastered inner spirit power, would they even need to worry about breaking through to Tier Four or Tier Five?

With that kind of potential already in place, why would the Astral God go out of His way—incurring both effort and cost—to grant them an Astral World Fragment and push them onto the arduous path of Divinity?

It just didn’t add up.

For a moment, even Si Xing, who considered himself experienced and knowledgeable, couldn't quite make sense of Li Pin's current situation.

Was he some secret weapon an Astral God nurtured at great cost?

Or, it's as Yan Zun suspected? Li Pin stumbled upon an Astral World Fragment by sheer luck at the Legendary stage and, against all odds, comprehended the power of the inner spirit to refine it?

No matter the truth, one thing was certain—Li Pin possessed the combat strength of a Tier Three Legend.

His talent... had been proven once again.

For someone of indigenous origin to possess such talent....

At this moment, Li Pin stood at a critical juncture. If he encountered benevolent individuals willing to offer him a clear path and invest in him early, a future of soaring success and a meteoric rise would surely await him.

But if he crossed paths with those harboring darker intentions—whether out of curiosity about his secrets, greed to extract the Astral World Fragment, sheer jealousy, or any other reasons—death would be the only outcome awaiting him.

Si Xing suddenly smiled, recalling the reason for his presence here. "It seems I've truly found a genius."

By now, Yu Shengjin and Qi Yan had already flown beyond the atmosphere, seemingly intent on returning to their respective civilizations through the vast expanse of space.

Seeing that, Si Xing stepped forward, his figure blurring as he intercepted the two Tier One Legends. "That won't do. I can't have you two spreading what you've seen here today."

***

In the underground alternate dimension, Yan Zun's speed reached its peak.

Upon entering, he wasted no time and charged straight into the Astral Gate.

Almost instantly, the entire space trembled violently.

Amid the eruption of fierce lightning, Li Pin appeared before the Astral Gate. Without the slightest hesitation, he stepped in after him.

***

On Demonic Dragon Star, a combined army of over a thousand Heavenly Realm soldiers had already gathered, arranged in the pattern of an Astral Formation.

This was a coalition led by the Divine Dragon Empire, consisting of six allied nations.

With the combined strength of this thousand-strong army and the amplification from the Astral Formation, even a Tier Two Legend would struggle to break through this blockade in a short time.

Energy surged as Yan Zun suddenly emerged from the Star Gate.

Before the leading Invincible Heavenly Realm Experts could speak, Yan Zun roared, "Form the seal! Block the enemy!"

A massive spiritual fluctuation swept across the entire army.

In the next instant, he abruptly turned around, and a brilliant, violent energy pillar, resembling a massive laser cannon, shot toward the Astral Gate, as if to destroy it.

His reaction was incredibly swift. The Astral Technique he released resembled the Divine Radiance Beam. Its speed was unparalleled, and its power surged many times stronger than the Divine Radiance Beam of the Heavenly Realm.

However, just as the dazzling light pillar was about to strike the Astral Gate, a terrifying Celestial Force Field spun into motion, instantly diverting the energy pillar.

With a fearful look in his eyes, Yan Zun watched as the Celestial Force Field withstood the energy blast. It refracted and shattered the pillar's energy while pushing forward relentlessly.

"Nine Radiance Dragon Inferno!" Yan Zun roared.

In the next moment, the thousands of Heavenly Realm Experts in the Astral Formation radiated starlight simultaneously.

The lights gathered, forming a massive, blazing inferno dragon that roared fiercely and surged into Yan Zun, who was standing at the main formation position.

The power from this formation caused his aura to surge dramatically. A terrifying dragon over ten thousand meters long, burning with flames capable of destroying the heavens, materialized. It charged toward the Astral Gate area where Li Pin stood.

The force of the attack was so powerful that it could rival even some newly promoted Tier Three Legends.

But just as the inferno dragon roared down, Li Pin's Celestial Force Field, ignited by his inner spirit, compressed to its limits.

This compression caused a burst of power that reached a new peak.

With a flash, Li Pin drew his sword. Dozens of sword beams, resembling thunder, burst forth in brilliant radiance, wildly slashing toward the inferno dragon and the Astral Formation made up of over a thousand Heavenly Realm Experts.

The inferno dragon, with power rivaling a Tier Three Legend, directly shattered twelve of the thunderous sword beams. However, the remaining thirty-four sword beams still tore through the Astral Formation like an impenetrable chasm.

Despite their formation glowing with a powerful defensive force field, the relentless barrage of sword beams shattered the barrier after only ten strikes, scattering into a dazzling starry glow.

The remaining twenty-four sword beams, like rampaging silver dragons, tore across the ground, their destructive force ripping the earth apart and leaving massive trenches hundreds of meters wide and dozens of miles long. frёewebnoѵēl.com

It was as if they were gouging horrific scars into the once-smooth earth.

As the sword aura passed, two to three hundred Heavenly Realm Experts were forced into starlight transformation.

This transformation disrupted the operation of the Astral Formation. The starlight flames on the inferno dragon grew noticeably dimmer.

At this moment, Li Pin, with perfect control of the battle, exploded into a flash of dazzling lightning.

Eternal Light, Fleeting Gleam.

He landed directly in front of the inferno dragon.

With a firm grip of his left hand, the terrifying binding force generated by the Celestial Magnetic Field pulled all matter and energy within a radius of several dozen miles toward his palm....

This included Yan Zun himself, who was now in the form of the colossal inferno dragon.

Realizing the immense pull of the binding force, Yan Zun let out a deafening roar as terrifying energy surged through his massive form. It accelerated like a railgun. With a searing, violent energy stacking upon itself, it eventually formed a sword beam that chased after the blazing sun, aimed directly at Li Pin.

But this time, Li Pin didn't even flinch.

He clenched his right fist, and the power of the Celestial Magnetic Field surged to its peak. As his inner spirit burned, it injected an unprecedented explosive force.

"Eternal Light, Thunder God!"

The force of his fist collided head-on with the sun-chasing sword beam, shattering it as if a falling sun had been struck.

The sky seemed to flash with the radiance of a great sun.

The energy released at that moment was equivalent to the explosion of hundreds of millions of tons of hydrogen bombs, creating an unprecedented heat that threatened to incinerate everything.

At the very center of this terrifying heat, Li Pin pressed his hand down, triggering the Atomic Disintegration Technique.

Just as this energy, which no material could resist, was about to reach him, his entire form seemingly dissolved into an absolute void.

The void was so dark, so absolute, that even the light from the sun's core could not reach it.

This darkness and emptiness lasted only for an instant.

The explosion from the collision between the Sun Chaser sword light and the Eternal Light, Thunder God's energy flared just as briefly.

Once the fiercest surge of energy shattered, the remaining high temperatures couldn't harm him at all, shielded as he was by the Celestial Magnetic Field.

Withstanding heat of tens of thousands of degrees, Li Pin unleashed Eternal Light, Fleeting Gleam once more, ripping through the burning sky of flames and brilliance, and reappeared before the tightly bound Yan Zun.

Fear and unwillingness filled Yan Zun's eyes. "Stop!"

He roared, "As you wish, the Divine Dragon Empire will surr—"

But Li Pin's raised fist did not waver in the slightest.

With his inner spirit blazing, the Atomic Disintegration Technique reached its very limit.

Yan Zun immediately sensed Li Pin's unshakable resolve. He understood that even if the Divine Dragon Empire fell and was reduced to a mere province under Gaia's jurisdiction, he, the cornerstone of the Divine Dragon Empire, still had to die.

Intense hatred and fury, laced with twisted jealousy and unwillingness, surged through his heart.

At that moment, he abandoned his earlier attempt to distance himself from the so-called "slanderer." With lightning speed, he unleashed a Mental Spirit Storm that swept across the surroundings.

"Li Pin was able to reach Tier Three Legendary strength because he obtained more than one Astral World Fragment and mastered Divi—"

Buzz, buzz!

The pitch-black void shattered everything. Yan Zun, his energy, his mental spirit— all were swallowed whole in an instant.

The clamor ended abruptly.

In the sudden silence of the dissipating spiritual turbulence, Li Pin hovered amid endless thunder, suspended in the air, as if both saint and god.

Behind him, the apocalyptic collision between the Sun Chaser sword aura and Eternal Light, Thunder God slowly unfolded.

Fireballs, burning with scorching heat, radiated like a true sun, releasing waves of blinding light and searing energy, as though capable of annihilating everything in their path.