Orion did not deny it. He only laughed softly, wiped the blood from his chin with the back of his hand, and took one more step forward. In that moment, everyone watching could feel that he genuinely had nothing left to spare.
The Nine Star Sovereign Body had already pushed him past the natural endurance of his flesh, and Full Star Convergence had burned through his meridians, his flesh, and his blood at a terrifying rate. Any ordinary genius would have collapsed long before now.
Even so, Orion remained on his feet, and the light in his eyes had not dimmed at all. If anything, it had grown sharper, as though he had finally arrived at the exact moment he had been waiting for since the battle began.
"The Nine Star Court taught me many star arts," Orion said as the starlight around him trembled weakly. "It taught me how to call down stars, how to mand them, and how to wear their power as my own body. But this final move..." His smile widened. "This one is mine."
The instant those words fell, the expressions of the Nine Star Court elders and disciples watching from afar changed all at once, and even the participants on the pillars felt their attention sharpen further.
A technique created by Orion himself was no trivial matter. For a genius of his caliber to speak this way at the very end of a battle meant that whatever he was about to unleash was not simply another inherited attack. It was a move born from his own understanding, his own martial will, and his own path as the strongest genius of the Nine Star Court.
Orion slowly closed his right hand into a fist.
The nine dimming stars within his body abruptly stopped flickering and went still. For one brief instant, it seemed as though all of them were about to go out. Then, in the very next moment, all nine stars blazed at once with a brightness so intense that even the barrier around the central stage shook violently.
The broken star palace reappeared behind him, though not in its earlier majestic and stable form. It returned in a wilder and more desperate shape, as if the entire palace had been forcibly reignited by nothing but Orion’s will.
Cracks raced across the illusory structure, and the nine stars surrounding it began breaking apart into countless streams of star essence. Rather than scattering into the sky, every one of those streams rushed straight back into Orion’s body.
His injuries worsened instantly. Blood burst from several splits along his arms and shoulders, his knees shook, and the faint groan of bones straining under the pressure could actually be heard. Yet Orion did not stop.
He accepted all of that star essence into himself, pressing it, forcing it, and refining it within the span of a single breath. The pressure released by that pression was so immense that the stage caved in beneath his feet, and even Revona’s Void Origin Realm rippled heavily in answer.
Revona’s calm eyes finally shifted in a way anyone could see. She could feel it clearly. This attack was different from everything that had e before. It was not merely a stronger star punch, and it was not another variation of his close bat star arts.
This was Orion taking the Nine Star Sovereign Body, shattering the stars within himself down to their rawest essence, and gathering all of it into one final eruption. This was a move built to end battles, a move that no longer cared about preservation, or recoil, or what would bee of his body once the strike was released.
Orion opened his eyes fully, and they shone like two collapsing stars.
"This technique," he said, his voice lower and heavier than before, "is called Starfall Extinction."
The moment he spoke the name, the entire arena seemed to lose all lesser light, as though every fragment of brightness in the stage, the barrier, and the surrounding pillars had been dragged toward Orion’s fist. What remained around him was a terrifyingly dense sphere of rotating star essence.
It looked small next to the grand phenomena of his earlier attacks, yet the power pressed inside it was enough to make even the top geniuses feel their hearts tighten. It stood as the exact opposite of his sprawling celestial assaults. It was all of his stars, all of his remaining strength, all of his will, and all of his understanding condensed into a single point of destruction.
Revona inhaled slowly, and the Void Origin Realm behind her began to shrink. It no longer spread outward as a hollow world. Instead, it withdrew toward her body, condensing layer upon layer until it formed a deep, translucent ring of pure origin emptiness hovering before her.
The ring was not large, standing only slightly wider than her own frame, but the moment it appeared, everyone understood that this was no ordinary defense. It was the very core of her Pseudo Cosmic Path, the deepest defensive response she could summon under pressure.
Orion smiled brightly. Even now, with blood streaking his face and his body shaking beneath the weight of his own technique, he looked genuinely happy. It was the smile of someone who had finally found an opponent worth everything he could give.
Then he disappeared.
He did not move like a meteor or a et this time. He moved like a star collapsing at the end of its life, shrinking into nothing for one impossible instant before exploding back into existence directly in front of Revona.
The pressed star sphere around his fist roared in utter silence, and when he punched forward, it was as though an entire constellation had been buried inside that single strike.
"Starfall Extinction!"
The punch landed against the hollow ring.
For one breath, nothing happened at all. Then the world shook.
The hollow ring before Revona trembled so violently that visible cracks began spidering across its surface. The sound that emerged was not the sound of an explosion but a low and terrifying grinding, as though two concepts that should never have met were tearing directly at each other.
Orion’s fist kept pushing forward. The pressed star essence unraveled in layers, and each layer released enough force to destroy ordinary divine techniques several times over. Revona’s condensed Void Origin Realm erased one layer, then another, and then another, but the attack never stopped ing, because Orion had constructed it so that every erased layer immediately triggered the collapse of the next one waiting inside his fist.
The first layer of emptiness shattered, the second layer cracked, and the third layer bent inward. Revona’s expression became the most serious it had been in the entire battle. Blood began to seep once more from the corner of her lips, and the light of her Void Origin Eyes deepened to a frightening degree.
Even so, Orion’s fist kept advancing. It gained a palm’s width, then another inch, and then another after that. The hollow ring was being forced back toward her chest, and the star essence within his punch had grown so concentrated that even her direct nullification could no longer erase it quickly enough.
The arena erupted.
"He is breaking through!"
"That is his own technique!"
"Revona is being pushed back!"
"Her Void Origin Realm cannot stop it!"
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