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Chapter 1062 One Slash Annihilates 4.8 Billion
The high priests looked at Lu Li's demonic demeanor with solemn expressions and all of them raised themselves to their peak state.

Some high priests wanted to gather their energy, while others rushed towards Lu Li to disrupt his attacks in close combat. Still others covered the Omni-King as he approached Lu Li, hoping to find an opening and eliminate him.

But the next moment, the instant Lu Li drew his sword, everything in the universe seemed to vanish into nothingness. As the domineering, pitch-black sword light swept across, countless Omni-Kings and High Priests were severed, and even time and space were annihilated.

With various status effects and passive skills stacked together, Lu Li's lightning-fast sword draw slash deals damage that is unimaginable to outsiders.

The high priest who was the first to touch the blade vanished without any resistance. Those who followed were either cut in two or, like the high priest, were instantly pulverized by the sheer force of the blade.

The Omni-King has higher resistance, but it's not much better. After his body is severed, the Soul Eater's true damage bursts out, which then triggers the Demon Prisoner's finishing effect.

The explosive damage, channeled through the power of the Root, prioritized the nearest creatures of the same origin, causing harm to the High Priest and the Omni-King who were still far away and had not yet been slain.

The high priests with weaker constitutions were pulverized before they could even show a look of horror on their faces when the damage was transmitted.

The Omni-Kings opened their mouths wide, wanting to cry out in pain, but before their pain could spread through their nerves and their screams could be heard, they were corroded by the dark matter and destroyed by the Soul Eater's true wounds, ultimately dying under the Demon Prisoner's slash.

In the blink of an eye, almost within half a second, the Grand Priest and the Omni-King of the entire universe vanished without even a groan.

This unparalleled strike shocked everyone, but the most horrified were the high priests and the Omni-King who were rushing to the battlefield.

As soon as Lu Li unleashed his slash, not only did he wipe out tens of thousands of Grand Priests and Omni-Kings in this universe, but the power of the source also continued to spread.

The Grand Priests and the Omni-King who had just emerged from the spacetime rift were also falling. The Grand Priests and the Omni-King, who were familiar with this power, were all shocked. They could not believe that there would be such a powerful enemy in the future.

Some high priests, with their keen perception, descended upon this spacetime and received information about this universe, gaining a general understanding of the previous encounters of the high priests and the Omni-Kings, which is why they were even more horrified.

Even if they were to concede that Lu Li had mastered the power of the Root Law, even if it were the Omni-King, using the power of elimination would not affect other parallel universes; at most, it could only trace back to all things in the universe within its own world.

However, Lu Li's mastery of the power of origin was even more excessive. He not only traced back to the source and wiped out all the Grand Priests and Omni-Kings in this world, but this power did not stop and continued to spread to the Grand Priests and Omni-Kings in other dimensions.

This ability to extend across time and space, as well as the control over the power of the source, exceeded the High Priest's imagination.

Even the Omni-King, within his own world, cannot precisely index a single line and clearly trace its path.

Simply put, in the process of tracing back to the source, the root line is actually connected to many things.

The Grand Priest and Zeno have lived for so many years, and there are too many things related to them. If Zeno's ability to connect things from the root is applied, it would be easy to eliminate everything indiscriminately.

In the long tracing process, creating multiple temporal 'clones' that only kill a specific person without harming other things in that world is actually a very difficult and delicate operation.

This shows that Lu Li not only learned to use the power of the root to trace and transmit damage, but he can also perform very precise filtering to ensure that the power of the root is transmitted only in the direction he wants.

"That's...that's way too exaggerated!?"

Tianhuang, who was watching the battle, gaped open, because he saw that the Grand Priests and the Omni-King in those time tunnels were also bleeding. Moreover, thinking deeper, perhaps at this moment, in many time tunnels that they could not see, Grand Priests and the Omni-King were also dying at the same time.

Those high priests and the Omni-King probably knew nothing at all, and in that state of ignorance, they suddenly suffered fatal injuries and perished.

"It's truly astonishing that not only has he mastered the power of the source, but he also possesses such control over it."

Dao Yan's eyes flickered. "Brother Prisoner Demon, is he really human?"

He wasn't referring to race, but rather that he felt Lu Li was truly unlike a normal being, his rate of progress being far too abnormal.

He had long known that Zeno used the power of the Root to trace back and eliminate the universe and life, but he also knew that for an existence like Zeno, mastering this power was accidental, and that it might not even understand the deeper principles behind it.

As a pioneer with a broad vision, Dao Yan knew that the power of origin was a very high-end ability. The fact that the Grand Priest had not learned it after studying it for more than 10 billion years did not mean that the Grand Priest was not talented or had a poor learning ability. Rather, it meant that this kind of power was not something that could be easily mastered.

Even in the ninth-tier realm, not many strong individuals can master this law. Even those at the peak of the ninth tier may not be able to, as it depends on a person's comprehension of this special law.

Even if one has the aptitude to learn it, it's normal for it to take hundreds of billions of years to learn. There are also legendary items in the space that can allow people to master the power of the source, but Dao Yan believes that after using such items, at most one can only master an incomplete and unprogressable source law, like the Omni-King.

The fundamental laws that one truly learns and comprehends through one's own efforts have an upper limit so high that they are among the best in all the heavens and myriad realms.

Dao Yan felt that Lu Li might have had someone guiding him, but even if Lu Li had seen similar power before, this learning ability was too terrifying. It was like how the Grand Priest watched the Omni-King use the power of the Root every day, but the Grand Priest could not learn it.

Besides, he knew that Lu Li had only taken seven thousand years to learn this ability!

The Grand Priest and the Omni-King of the universe perished one after another. Lu Li stood there, his eyes closed as if sensing something. When he opened his eyes again, a dark purple light flowed in his Martial Dao Heavenly Eyes, as if he could see through endless space and time.

If anyone could get close to Lu Li, they would see that Lu Li's eyes truly reflected the heavens!
Countless worlds flashed in Lu Li's eyes, and as one scene after another flashed by, the high priests and the Omni-King of different timelines were killed.

Unbeknownst to anyone, with a single strike, he slew 4.8 billion Grand Priests and the Omni-King!
"Ugh--"

However, Lu Li sighed, looking at the new High Priest and Omni-King who emerged from the opened space-time portal, "My damage is still too low..."

Lu Li's exclamations sounded utterly absurd to Tianhuang and Daoyan. If they knew the details of his battle record, they would probably curse Lu Li as a Versailles.

But Lu Li’s words came from the bottom of his heart, because his gaze had just pierced through space and time and he had seen the upper reaches of the river of time. Even without looking at parallel worlds, the Grand Priest and the Omni-King at the upper reaches of the river of time were densely packed like insects.

From a godlike perspective, one would see the Omni-King and the Grand Priest connected at countless moments, with every action linked together. From above, the Grand Priest and the Omni-King appear like two long worms, intertwined and tangled from their origin to the present.

Lu Li's strike just now only targeted the source, killing some Omni-Kings and High Priests near this timeline. But for the 'main body' of this long worm, Lu Li had only just wounded its 'eyebrow'. "Lu Li!? What did you do!?"

The high priest, who had just arrived at the battlefield, was horrified to see the corpses in the universe and to feel the devastating power that was already at its limit.

“I don’t want to say the same thing to every single batch of you.”

Lu Li's voice was deep, and then without saying another word, he slashed out with his sword again.

Without any intention of negotiation, before the high priests and the Omni-King could even figure out what was going on, the Grim Reaper's blade came to reap lives.

And so the High Priest and the Omni-King fell like wheat being harvested, and the spacetime rifts that had just opened closed again.

"It's quite resilient, or... is my root soul intent level still too weak?"

Lu Li pondered deeply in the depths of the starry sky, saying that the result of his strike was no better than the last time; he had only killed a few billion Grand Priests and the Omni-King.

This has little to do with his precise control over the damage, which is only traced back to the Grand Priest and the Omni-King. Rather, it's that allowing the power to be transmitted only through these two entities actually reduces a lot of unnecessary waste.

The reason why only so many could be killed is that there is bound to be some loss in the process of power transmission. Every Grand Priest and Omni-King would instinctively resist the damaging power. As they were killed, the remaining momentum of Lu Li's strike was also depleted.

Therefore, after the power transmission killed billions of Grand Priests and the Omni-King, the damage of Lu Li's strike was significantly reduced by half. By the end, it was basically only enough to break the skin, which was simply due to the mechanics of the Soul Eater and the Demon Fiend being effective at a distance.

"Killing ninth-tier cultivators like harvesting wheat, is this... is this the power of the Root?"

Tianhuang was so shocked by this scene that he could barely speak, and the banana in his hand fell to the ground. "Wouldn't that make the Prisoner Demon invincible?! Who would dare to fight him in the world war in the future?!"

Ninth-tier explorers also engage in world-contending battles, which is the main reason for the deaths and injuries of ninth-tier powerhouses. Even though the space does not punish ninth-tier powerhouses who lose in battle, explorers from the opposing space may not show you mercy during the battle.

Moreover, because the strength of the ninth tier actually varies quite a bit, the space will not only send out peak explorers to fight like in the low-tier world battles. Instead, it will limit the range and only select explorers with a certain attribute value to join the battlefield.

Of course, according to the most basic rules, the explorers' abilities cannot exceed the upper limit of the world's difficulty.

In this situation, if multiple parties participate in a battle for a ninth-tier world, the number of participants might only be a dozen or twenty, since there are still too few ninth-tier experts.

Originally, all the ninth-tier powerhouses were very capable. Even if they weren't people with special identities before, there wasn't much difference between them at this level. When they fought each other, many of the battles were one-on-one, and the victory in a local battle would have a great impact on the overall outcome.

However, if an explorer were to master the same source power as Lu Li, then with a single strike, if Lu Li had the strength to instantly kill an opponent, it would mean that he could simultaneously damage multiple explorers from the opposing faction, making it practically pointless for the opposing side to fight.

It might be okay in the late stage of the ninth rank, but in the early stage of entering the ninth rank, which space still has explorers who can resist the power chain of the root?

"Shut your crow's mouth. I don't want to receive war mobilization information from space after I go out."

Dao Yan said from the side.

"How could that be... Brother Prisoner Demon is already at level nine, and we still need to do quests to level up, so we definitely won't run into him."

Tianhuang scratched his head and said, "I don't want to fight him to the death in the struggle for control."

"you are too naive."

Dao Yan shook his head.

There's one thing Tianhuang doesn't understand: Lu Li's initial attributes are very low, which means that Lu Li's Pioneer Mark level isn't very high.

This could lead to an extremely terrifying situation, meaning that after this world ends, Lu Li's mark level will not advance to the ninth rank.

At that time, Lu Li will have the mark of a peak eighth-tier pioneer, and they could very well run into each other in the world war.

boom--

At this moment, another great annihilation erupted in the universe. Because some high priests who had sensed some anomalies in the past had taken precautions in advance, they were already prepared for battle when they arrived at this point in time.

The instant they burst out of the time tunnel, they unleashed a powerful burst of energy. At the same time, the Omni-King's power of elimination was directed at the void in front of him. He intended to eliminate space itself and then spread the power of elimination, without using the power of the source to fight against Lu Li.

This is actually a kind of indiscriminate, large-scale attack, only simpler and more violent. Remus, the creator of the thirteenth universe, turned pale in an instant because his power was still on the thirteenth universe to shield it from leaking to other universes.

Upon seeing this, Lu Li charged forward with lightning speed, his blade flashing as his primordial soul intent surged forth, instantly killing the group of high priests and the Omni-King.

"No way..."

Goku, watching the battle, also had a serious look in his eyes. "Lu Li is already this strong. Are these Grand Priests and Zeno invincible?"

"Tsk, the weight of time is too heavy."

Beerus chimed in, "Lu Li may have only killed a very small portion of the Grand Priests and the Omni-King. If he keeps fighting like this, he might run out of strength."

"Dad, are we really just supposed to stand here and watch, unable to do anything?"

Gohan clenched his fists, feeling resentful. The reason he resumed his training and even followed Lu Li into the subspace was to protect his family and Earth.

(End of this chapter)