ILLIMITABLE UNTIL DEATH

"So, let's have a showdown."

In that instant, the mountaintop of the uninhabited island lit up like a star, radiating an unprecedented brilliance.

The light wasn't a blood-red hue, but rather a crimson, like a precious jewel.

Underneath that crimson glow, it seemed as though the entire space atop the mountain was illuminated, causing everyone on the island to involuntarily turn their gazes toward it, one by one, displaying expressions of shock.

As for Fang Li, bathed in the overwhelming crimson light, he had long been engulfed by its dazzling brilliance.

With that, Habi fixed her gaze directly on Fang Li's body, wearing a purely wicked smile as one of her eyes emitted a continuous red glow.

"Hoo…"

A slow, drawn-out breath escaped Fang Li's mouth as the ice-blue Mystic Eyes in Fang Li's eyes gradually faded.

Because, even using those Mystic Eyes, it would be meaningless.

Indeed, if he used his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, no matter how powerful the super abilities, he could still kill them.

However, even if Fang Li relied on the ability of his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to capture the Death Line of the laser beam rushing toward him in less than a split second, it would still be futile.

After all, even if he could perceive it, his movements would never be fast enough to keep up.

This was a laser beam that could move at the speed of light.

Reacting to something like that was impossible.

Unless, like Sherlock, someone possessed a near-precognitive ability through deduction, predicting the exact time of Ruyi Bang's launch and calculating their own speed to act preemptively. Otherwise, once Ruyi Bang was fired, there was no way to keep up.

But Fang Li didn't have such predictive abilities.

At the very least, if he had a mode like Tohyama Kinji's Hysteria Mode, which could accelerate thought processes to dozens of times faster than normal, reaching a level comparable to a supercomputer, he might barely be able to predict it.

Unfortunately, while Fang Li could increase his attack speed, his movement speed, and even enhance his reflexes and motor nerves, he had no way of accelerating his thought process.

As a result, prediction was nearly impossible for Fang Li.

It wasn't that he didn't know how to predict, but when it came to attacks at the speed of light, Fang Li simply couldn't keep up.

So, prediction was out of the question.

Dodging was also impossible.

Additionally, since Ruyi Bang could pierce through anything, it was an unavoidable, certain-kill technique.

If there was any way to deal with Ruyi Bang in this world, it would only be one thing: prevent the opponent from using it in the first place.

However, even that wasn't feasible.

Sun had already explained it.

"From the moment Ruyi Bang is activated to its firing, it takes only a fraction of a second— less than 0.1 seconds. The aiming mechanism is simply locking onto the target with one's line of sight, so once Ruyi Bang enters the firing stage, there's no way to stop it."

With that in mind, even if Fang Li were to rush forward now, the final outcome would only be that his body would be pierced in the very instant he took his first step.

That was the kind of power it wielded.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to give Fang Li this overwhelming sense of danger.

And precisely because of how terrifying this ability was, it could only be used once per day.

In other words, for Fang Li, Ruyi Bang was both the first and the final threat.

So, how exactly could Fang Li break through this certain-kill technique?

"There's only one answer."

Sun had said that last night.

"During World War II, Sun had almost been conscripted as a soldier. Although Sun managed to escape, during that time, to save her life, she once used Ruyi Bang against an armored plate."

"That armor plate— no matter how hard the Kou tried to shoot through it, in the end, just a few millimeters of thickness remained, unable to be fully penetrated."

"In the Kou's entire life, that was the only time Ruyi Bang failed to fully pierce through something."

And that armor plate was none other than the armor of the battleship *Yamato*.

The material was high-tensile steel.

The thickness was more than 65 centimeters.

Unless hit by a powerful intercontinental missile, it was nearly impossible to penetrate.

Even Ruyi Bang, with just a few millimeters left, ran out of force and was stopped.

What does this mean?

It means that for Fang Li to block Ruyi Bang, he would need defensive power comparable to that of an outstanding warship.

"If dodging doesn't work, prediction doesn't work, and stopping it is impossible, then I'll block it head-on!"

Burn all his Prana.

Burn all his blood.

Burn every last bit of his body.

Burn all of Fang Li's efforts up until now.

Betting everything on the power brought by his 155 INT (Mystery) points, Fang Li made his declaration.

"Let's see if your laser beam can pierce my heart!"

As soon as those words fell—

"Boom—!"

Dazzling starlight exploded from Fang Li's body, turning into a storm of burning stars.

At that moment, Fang Li summoned all the Prana within his body.

Not to strengthen his attack power.

Not to boost his explosiveness.

All of it was used to enhance his defensive power.

The wild Prana surged from Fang Li's body like flames scorching the earth, making the air around him tremble and cry out.

This was the moment Fang Li had been conserving his Prana for all along.

Now was the time to risk everything.

"If I can block it, it's my victory."

"If I can't, then it's just death."

"So, let's see who wins. Scarlet Blazing God."

When these words reached Habi's ears, she couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Her laughter was filled with an unprecedented excitement.

"You really are the best!"

"Fang Li!"

As if sending off a farewell gift, Habi uttered Fang Li's name as her final words before closing the curtain.

Then, the glowing eye suddenly flashed.

It was an attack impossible to look at directly.

An attack impossible to react to in that fleeting moment.

In the instant that Habi's glowing eye suddenly flashed, the light-speed laser beam sliced through the air.

In less than a split second, the distance between it and its target became zero.

"Clang—!"

A thunderous pounding sound echoed abruptly from Fang Li's body.

Fang Li, whose body was burning with a storm of starlight, was struck by an unseen, terrifying force, his whole figure sent flying in the flash of the crimson beam.

Where the crimson beam passed, it seemed as though even space was vaporized, leaving behind steam as if it had been scorched.

At the end of the crimson beam's path, Fang Li's figure was sent flying like a ball.

One second later, he silently landed on the ground.

"Bang—!"

His feet hit the ground, shattering rocks and rubble.

The immense impact caused Fang Li's feet to drag across the ground, leaving two deep marks, like braking skid marks, extending more than ten meters before finally coming to a halt.

Fang Li then raised his head.

There, on the part of his chest where his heart was, a small red dot as if burned, was scorched black.

But in the end, it hadn't penetrated his skin.

Fang Li's voice softly rang out.

"I won..."

(End Of Chapter)

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