Chapter 406: Scary
Xiang Yu entered the simulation. It felt like it had been ages since he’d been here.
He didn’t waste any time and picked Tian Wuji at peak tribulation realm.
Unlike before, where he had struggled against this opponent and barely managed to win, this time he completely overwhelmed him from the start. He suppressed him entirely with just his physical strength alone.
In just a few seconds, he struck him with his void palm, erasing him from existence.
Finally, after suffering from him for forty Chapters, he was able to beat him easily.
He decided to test another opponent.
"I haven’t fought Junior Sister for a while now," he thought.
Well, there was THAT, but it didn’t count.
He should also take this chance to assess his chances of survival.
He began at her base level - she was at peak Integration cultivation realm. Xiang Yu fought her and managed to win easily. He noted that her combat power in her base state was roughly around early tribulation.
It was quite impressive.
She even had a strange ability that seemed to interfere with reality. He wondered if it was the power of the Heavenly Dao. It seemed she could use it in limited amounts outside her Heavenly Dao Avatar form.
He then proceeded to challenge her elemental form.
This one was even stronger than the base form and could utilize the Heavenly Dao power even more. He estimated her power to be around mid tribulation.
Next was her spirit form. In this form, she used the world energy together with the Heavenly Dao power to deal even greater levels of damage.
Her combat power was around late stage tribulation.
The next form was the Fifth Heaven form.
This one was quite interesting. As they fought, Xiang Yu noticed that this Fifth Heaven domain was quite strange. It acted like the Law of Heavenly Way - no, in reality, it tried to mimic the Law of Heavenly Way.
He thought to himself that the way the domain was formed was also weird.
Li Yao had gained it from her physique entering the second heaven, but that wasn’t supposed to be possible. You could only unlock a related domain when you entered the sixth level according to his theory.
His theory was either wrong, or this domain didn’t really come from the Nine Heavens Thunder Body.
Since he already had other dao bodies that hadn’t unlocked their domains yet, he could indeed confirm that the domain was only unlockable at the sixth level. Then his assumption was correct - this domain was not related to the Nine Heavens Thunder Body.
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The way the nth Heaven domain came to be was probably through Li Yao’s understanding of lightning merging with the Law of Heavenly Way remnants that had been in her body after the heavenly tribulation. This was why the domain mimicked the Law of Heavenly Way.
Even so, it was just that - mimicking.
Xiang Yu easily destroyed her domain and defeated her.
Her combat power in this form was ultimate peak of tribulation realm. It was still peak of tribulation realm, but Xiang Yu had decided to make this distinction to differentiate people like Li Yao from normal people.
Although both Li Yao and Tian Wuji were both at the peak of tribulation, he might not last a minute against Li Yao.
Now he was getting to the interesting parts.
He stood opposite Limit Break Li Yao. The battles were finally beginning to get a little challenging. Still not enough to stop him though. After just a handful of exchanges, he broke through her defenses and incapacitated her.
Her combat power was about early Mahayana realm.
After that, he faced Complete Li Yao.
This one was significantly more difficult to defeat as she was much smarter and flexible with her abilities.
Though she still remained within his reach.
After about five minutes, he was finally able to defeat her. Her combat power was mid Mahayana realm.
This was also the limit of Xiang Yu’s raw physical power. He felt that in the next realms, he wouldn’t be able to suppress the enemy just by overwhelming them with raw physical power.
Well, at least now he had confirmed that his raw physical power was mid Mahayana realm.
He looked at Li Yao’s next form and wondered if he should even bother. After a moment’s hesitation, he decided fuck it, why not. Knowing your opponent’s power was also a good thing.
The moment it started, he entered his war god form and didn’t wait for her to attack, rushing toward her first. His void silk had already transformed into a glove for maximum void palm damage.
He met her at the middle and delivered the void palm right to her abdomen.
But something strange happened. He looked at the point he had hit. Why did it feel so strange? It was as if he had hit a sponge or something. He had hit, but he didn’t feel any energy being transferred from his palm to her - not his domain energy, not his qi, not even the kinetic energy.
He looked up at her to see her expressionless gaze. She didn’t even move. Or maybe he didn’t see her move. He suddenly found himself outside the simulation.
He glanced toward the castle. Li Yao saw him looking her way and started waving at him. He just smiled at her.
"So scary," he thought.
That was the sort of power he was competing with. Did he even have a chance?
He jumped back into the simulation.
This time, he went with Tian Wuji. He raised his cultivation to late Mahayana realm and fought against him. As they fought, Xiang Yu thought to himself that although he had yet to get a single absolute domain, it seemed the five world level domains were making a difference. This was especially so for the chaos domain that allowed him to mess with the opponent’s battle instinct.
In such a high level battle, battle instinct played such a huge role. Having it suppressed like this was like fighting blind. Xiang Yu wanted to also upgrade his order domain so he could use it to protect himself against such things in the future.
It would be really unfortunate if he met someone who could mess with battle instinct like that.