"Bloodline Magic?"
"Secret Magic Forbidden Curse?"
Tucker roared:
"A wizard who glimpses the truth, an existence that masters the laws of the world, too bad these things aren't yours."
"Break for me!"
"Boom!"
Thousands of tentacles shattered explosively.
Right after, clusters of Divine Fire floated in front of Carl.
Thunder God's Fire, Water God's Fire, Earth Mother Goddess's Fire, God of Fate's Divine Fire...
Countless Divine Fires intertwined in the sky, causing the void to collapse, even the Star Realm seemed to warp, obstructing the spear.
"Divine Fire?"
"Power of the Gods?"
Tucker laughed up to the sky:
"So what if you collect and refine the God Flames? You are ultimately not the Thunder God, not the Water God, and certainly not the Master of Dawn."
"Having countless Divine Fires, yet unable to exert even one-tenth of their power."
"Shatter for me!"
"Bang!"
The flames shattered.
This time Carl did not retreat, but seized the opportunity created by two interceptions, his eyes focused as he met it with a punch.
Heart Buddha Hand!
Ruyi Zhuanlun Strength!
Holy Cross Slash!
Giant Spirit Breathing Technique!
...
Palm techniques, fist techniques, movement techniques... all the profound magic doors he had mastered were displayed at this moment.
"Martial arts?"
"Movement technique?"
Tucker shouted:
"Carl, you have many things that make me envious, but alas... all learned from elsewhere."
"At most, just more intricate variations, nothing truly belonging to you!"
"This is the gap between us!"
The spear, condensed to a point, turned once more into thousands of lightning beams, piercing a line billions of miles long in the Star Realm.
The power, compressed to the extreme, even made the watching gods take notice.
Tucker stood in mid-air, holding the spear, expression indifferent, looking down at the nearly collapsed figure before him.
"Carl."
"You lost."
"..." Carl's body was like shattered porcelain, piece by piece separating from the main body.
His mouth opened, cracks on his cheeks becoming more numerous, as if at the slightest touch he would completely collapse.
"Lost?"
"Not necessarily!"
Source Material!
Accompanied by a shout from the heart, tens of thousands of points of Source Material he stored vanished at a speed visible to the naked eye.
And the injuries on his body began to heal.
With a hundred thousand points of Source Material, injuries that were originally lethal could now be ignored.
Carl moved his limbs, watching Tucker's complexion turn sullen, five fingers trembled with an implicit halo jumping.
"Again!"
Punch!
He stomped, Sky Wolf Illusion Demon Step naturally unfolded, his body seemingly instantly teleported to the opponent's side.
Five fingers clenched in emptiness, Star Realm Energy spanning thousands of miles was directly drawn, merged into the punch.
Even flames capable of destroying everything burst forth.
Witchcraft, battle skill, Divine Fire perfectly merged in this moment.
"Bang!"
The spear blocked the path of the punch.
Carl's posture shifted again, his body's vast, mighty power whistled out, raising his hand, the power level reached its peak.
In the past, this was unheard of.
He was very strong.
Everyone knew this.
But precisely because Carl was too strong, all these years he never exerted full strength, let alone challenged the limits.
Not just unfamiliar.
Also because he was too strong, accumulated too deeply, resulting in his inability to activate all potential.
Until...
Now!
Under the unprecedented pressure stimulus brought by Tucker's Thunder Spear, the energy within Carl finally 'came alive.'
Divine Punishment!
A single palm pressed down, as if five mountains suppressing everything had fallen.
Vast energy operated in a complex manner, under Carl's hand, both time and space fragmented in unison.
A vast hole, spanning a thousand-mile diameter, appeared in the Star Realm, momentarily giving people a sense of the sky falling.
"Good!"
Tucker's eyes brightened:
"Now this is interesting!"
"Clang!"
The spear in his hand quickly shot, consuming and refining the surrounding energy with its tip.
The spear flashed and shifted, resembling a twisting lightning bolt, flashing once to break through the encirclement and collide with Carl.
"Boom!"
In an instant.
The scene was filled with lightning, battle aura whistling, two figures collided in void beyond time and space.
Carl's body was incessantly torn with fissures, injuries.
But his constitution was special, accompanied by Source Material, no matter how severe the injuries as long as not fatal, could rapidly regenerate.
And as time passed, the injuries on his body decreased, his movements became more concise.
Martial arts he once practiced, learned, witnessed began to gradually integrate in his hands.
Divine Power, witchcraft, martial arts slowly but steadily fused.
"Bang!"
The two collided again.
At this moment, Carl transformed into a giant over a hundred thousand feet tall, his every move wielding the power to destroy the heavens and earth.
Fifth Tier?
Never before has there been a Fifth Tier as powerful as him.
"So strong!"
Tucker looked up at him, his expression complex, with a hint of envy and numerous feelings, he sighed silently:
"You truly deserve the legendary title of Wizard, your strength makes me feel like I'm facing Upper Gods."
"Back then, when confronting Upper Gods, I barely had the desire to even lift a hand. Now..."
"Let me see just how strong you truly are!"
"Thunder Tribulation!"
"Crack!"
"Boom..."
Blinding thunder bloomed once more in the Star Realm, the turbulent energy madly surged within a million miles.
If this were the real world, just this strike alone would have wiped out countless lives.
"Bang!"
Carl, transformed into a giant body, his ankle shattered, followed swiftly by his legs, waist, abdomen, and even his head.
Shattered energy reassembled in the chaotic void, now only a thousand feet large.
Then under their collision, shattered again.
Hundred feet!
Shattered again!
Ten feet!
...
Carl finally reverted back to his original form.
Each time he shrank, although severely wounded requiring Source Material to repair, it was akin to being reforged, purging impurities to refine the essence.
Slash!
Carl's figure flickered, slashing with one hand.
His arm like a knife, the blade light appeared, this slash abruptly breaking through the boundaries of time and space and appearing in front of Tucker.
From the last second, going towards the next second...
Time,
At this moment in Carl's eyes, was like a toy.
"Ding!"
The spear appeared miraculously, blocking the blade light, tracing the path it came and booming back.
Carl raised his hand.
"Dong..."
Hand and spear collided, space-time instantly froze.
In the next instant.
"Boom!"
The energy capable of destroying a material world erupted from between them, causing both to vanish.
"You were right."
Carl's voice was leisurely:
"I didn't have my own path."
"Thank you!"
His gratitude was heartfelt and sincere.
A long time ago, Carl had already reached the Fifth Tier Peak, needing only to break the limits to become a Sixth Tier existence.
But he had never taken that step.
Because he hadn't found his own path.
Now,
He had 'seen' it.
In his sight, Tucker appeared as a unique existence continuously absorbing and releasing energy.
Energy core?
Golden Core?
...
In short, a similar existence.
Tucker's will, Battle Aura, and body were all pure to the extreme, even condensed into a single entity.
If his power were compared to ten, then Carl would be a thousand.
But Tucker's energy core could emit thousands or even tens of thousands of forces in an instant.
'What a pity!'
Carl's eyes showed regret.
Tucker's energy core was polluted by some curse from the Gods, leading to imperfection, meaning he could never advance to the Sixth Tier.
While Carl could.
"What is it?"
Tucker raised his spear, with a hint of weariness in his eyes, yet his fighting spirit remained high:
"What is your path?"
"..." Carl remained silent, only shaking his head gently.
"Haha..." Without receiving an answer, Tucker grew even more enthusiastic, raising his spear high:
"Then let me witness it myself!"
"Kill!"
The gap between the two was too great, even though Tucker could contend with Carl, he had to give his all with each strike.
Carl can fail countless times, yet Tucker cannot afford to fail even once.
"Crack!"
In Carl's 'sight', a subtle crack suddenly appeared in Tucker's energy core.
Following that.
The energy core exploded.
Hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of force erupted from Tucker.
"This move, was originally meant for dealing with Upper Gods."
"Kill!"
The Star Realm suddenly brightened.
Then dimmed.
In the void, Carl stood with bowed head, his aura already changing before Tucker struck.
Sixth Tier!
Upper God!
"Thunder Spear..."
