BANG!
The Predator of the Void slamd into the ground, its massive body sinking partially underground from the sheer force.
The impact carved out a shallow crater, shattered earth in every direction.
Before it could even recover, Yu Xuan’s shadow peeled itself off the ground, rising behind it like a living thing.
Black lightning erupted from Yu Xuan’s hand.
It didn’t scatter.
It condensed and took the form of a dragon, a coiling mass of crackling destruction that roared soundlessly as it plunged downward.
The lightning dragon struck.
ZZZRRRRAAAK!
The Predator convulsed violently as black lightning ravaged its body, space around it warping erratically.
Yu Xuan’s eyes sharpened as he noticed the effect, most of the damage was concentrated on the "table-like base" of its body, the four supporting limbs visibly cracking and destabilizing.
’So that’s likely the weak point,’ he noted.
SKRYCHAHA!
The Predator screeched, the sound scraping against the space itself.
It launched upward with terrifying force, twisting its arms as cyclones of spatial currents erupted around it.
Gravity changed its directions.
Up beca down.
Left beca right.
Right beca left.
Yu Xuan felt his body pulled and shoved in multiple directions at once.
He leapt instinctively, twisting midair, as space itself tried to tear him apart.
At the sa ti, small void-fires ignited around him, flickering flas that burned neither hot nor cold.
"Tsk... what a botherso species," Yu Xuan muttered.
Then.
The heavens tore open.
Yu Xuan’s pupils contracted.
From above, a massive fist descended, so large it eclipsed the sky, so heavy with intent that it declared to the world that those who t it would be dead.
It wasn’t just power.
It was will, condensed and weaponized.
Before Yu Xuan could fully react, the fist ca down.
It tore through everything.
Yu Xuan, the shattered terrain, the warped space, all of it was swallowed by that single punch.
Even the Predator of the Void froze mid-motion.
The predator felt danger.
It recoiled slightly, its eyes locked on the place where its prey had been engulfed, sensing a threat.
Then, from that fractured space above, a five-foot devil stepped out.
Geotric lines traced across his body glowing faintly as energy circulated through them in precise patterns.
It was Sha Qi, the Energy Devil who had hidden himself from the very beginning.
He had survived by doing what he did best.
Hiding. Waiting. Calculating.
Earlier, when the clash of the true big shots shook the gate and even Immortal projections clashed across realms, Sha Qi had been certain of one thing.
He should have died.
Yet sohow, impossibly, he survived.
And when the chaos peaked, when the eyes of ancestors were fixed elsewhere, he realized sothing terrifying and exhilarating at the sa ti.
The human was weakened.
Not dead but severely weakened.
So Sha Qi moved.
While the Void creatures poured in, while spatial anchors collapsed and Fallen Energy thinned to nothing, he silently siphoned every trace of usable energy within the gate.
Bit by bit.
Thread by thread.
The Void beasts beca perfect cover.
Noise. Chaos. And distraction.
And through it all, Sha Qi tested the waters – small energy manipulations, watching closely to see if the human would notice.
And Yu Xuan didn’t.
Which terrified Sha Qi even more.
Because Yu Xuan’s indifference to near-death, his calm after facing beings that should have erased him, his continued movent as if nothing had happened.
That wasn’t bravery.
That was wrong.
Sha Qi had concluded one thing long ago.
This human is broken in the head.
Not stupid or reckless.
But operating on a level of calm that no sane being should possess.
Which really made him insane.
Still, opportunity was opportunity.
Now, with Yu Xuan engulfed by that massive punch he produced with his full power, Sha Qi judged this to be the perfect mont to end him.
Yet Sha Qi couldn’t shake the mory.
That mont earlier.
When one of those summoned figures, that man had briefly turned his gaze in Sha Qi’s direction.
Sha Qi had been certain he was dead then.
But nothing happened.
No attack.
No reaction.
Just... indifference.
Which sohow felt worse.
Now, standing in the open at last, Sha Qi steadied himself.
No matter how he looked at it, the conclusion was clear.
Either, this human was out of trump cards or Sha Qi was the luckiest devil to ever exist to survive this long.
And considering everything so far...
Sha Qi silently chose to believe the second option.
"Hahaha! Today I will take your head!" Sha Qi declared with unrestrained enthusiasm.
His voice echoed unnaturally causing several nearby Void creatures to pause mid-movent.
Even the Predator of the Void turned its eyes toward him, its gaze sharp and evaluating.
This sudden intruder had disrupted its hunt.
Which raised a very important question.
Was this figure brave... or simply stupid?
There was an old saying among those who had traversed the Void between realms.
Void Predators only acknowledge prey stronger than themselves.
Everything else was rely a toy.
Sothing to bat around.
Sothing to break when bored.
Sha Qi, standing there and posturing, clearly did not understand this rule.
How would he react once he realized it?
Did he not study this in his Demon Education texts?
Then.
From deep within the crater carved by that devastating punch, a sound rose.
Low at first.
Then transforming into sothing unrestrained.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA—!"
It was laughter.
Yu Xuan’s laughter.
Amused.
As if he had just witnessed sothing genuinely entertaining.
The sound carried a strange weight.
It wasn’t mocking in tone, nor manic.
It was the kind of laugh that followed hearing a joke so absurdly perfect that it etched itself into mory forever.
Sha Qi’s smile stiffened.
For the first ti since revealing himself, unease crept into his expression as he stared into the crater, listening to that laughter echo again and again.
The surroundings fell into an eerie stillness.
The only sound left was Yu Xuan’s laughter, reverberating in everyone’s ears.
And sohow it made things worse.
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