Enlightenment: Attaining the Dao at Age 8

The Martial Arts God talent triggered, and Divine Hand descended. His Attack Power soared.

Li Chang’an descended from the sky. He moved so fast that the longsword in his hand produced an ear-splitting sonic boom.

The Earth Mage thought, ’The defensive line I spent a massive amount of Magic Power on might not be able to block all of Li Chang’an’s attacks, but it should be more than enough to hold out for a little while. And that was all he needed.’

’As long as I can last this short while, the Divine Envoy nearby will arrive. Once reinforcements are here and I can catch my breath, then with our combined efforts, even without the Spiritual Mind Master, we’re still confident we can make Li Chang’an pay the price.’

However, as he watched the young man draw closer and closer, for some reason, a rare look of panic and despair appeared on the Earth Mage’s face.

CLANG!

Then came another ear-splitting screech of metal.

But unlike the last time, this time the longsword sliced straight through the solid defensive line the Earth Mage had constructed, plunging directly into his face.

Beneath the blade’s edge, the layers upon layers of defenses were like water-logged tofu, effortlessly cleaved in two by Li Chang’an.

To say nothing of the Earth Mage who took the direct hit.

He and his “turtle shell” of a defense were split clean in two, right down the middle.

Divine Hand. Tenfold Attack…

The effect was just that simple and unadorned, full of the raw charm of pure numbers!

It had only been a few breaths’ time.

First, Li Chang’an had used his Soul Fire to break free from the Tier Six Peak Spiritual Mind Master’s attack, then immediately caused the man’s head to explode into a thousand pieces on the Rebirth Arena.

Brains splattered everywhere.

Then, without a moment’s pause, Li Chang’an took advantage of the opening while everyone was still in shock. He shattered the defenses of the other Tier Six Peak expert, the Earth Mage, and sliced him in two from head to toe.

Blood pooled on the ground.

The vast majority of the audience had witnessed this scene with their own eyes.

But even so, they found what had just happened so bizarre that they couldn’t immediately comprehend how Li Chang’an had done it.

First, the attacks of a Spiritual Mind Master were known for being “formless, intangible, and impossible to guard against.”

Powerful Spiritual Mind Masters could virtually ignore distance and defenses to directly attack an opponent’s mind, killing without a trace.

They were one of the enemies most Reincarnators were loath to face.

After all, physical injuries could be healed quickly with medicine and food.

But severe mental damage could last a lifetime.

Moreover, because Spiritual Evolutionists could kill without leaving evidence, many great families or personal enemies in the Rebirth World hired them for assassinations.

For these reasons, most Reincarnators would rather offend anyone else than a possessor of a Spiritual Evolution Path like a Spiritual Mind Master.

—Such an enemy could truly make them vanish from the Mortal Realm without attracting the attention of the Reincarnator Association.

Second, while an Earth Mage’s Attack Power might not be particularly strong, their defense was definitely among the best of their Realm.

With enough preparation, an Earth Mage was essentially the bane of all melee classes of the same Realm.

Mages of other Attributes might have powerful attacks, capable of summoning cataclysmic area-of-effect spells at a whim, but their physical bodies were invariably fragile.

If a melee class got close, the fight was usually over.

But a few Mage classes, including Earth Mages, were different. They could control earth Magic to defend themselves at any time. The cost was low, and their defense was ridiculously damn high.

Even if a melee class got close, it was hard for them to gain any advantage.

Logically speaking, either one of them, even if unable to defeat Li Chang’an alone, should have at least been able to buy a significant amount of time.

And with the two of them working together, Li Chang’an should have had no path to victory whatsoever.

But now, a jaw-dropping scene had unfolded right before their eyes. Not only had the two failed to pose a significant threat to Li Chang’an, but he had cut them down one by one, slaughtering them as easily as chickens.

This young man was simply freakishly powerful!

After a brief silence, the crowd erupted into an uproar. Everyone was stunned by the terrifying combat prowess Li Chang’an had displayed.

Everyone was buzzing with discussion, trying to figure out Li Chang’an’s origins.

After all, in the eyes of most Reincarnators, a young Reincarnator this powerful shouldn’t have been a complete unknown until now.

In the spectator seats beside the Rebirth Arena, watching two men die in the blink of an eye, the look on Gu Ruilong’s face changed.

His face went from pale to flushed, the change more dramatic than an actor’s in an opera.

He had used a method from his grandfather to secretly “substantialize” all the contestants in the Rebirth Arena. His goal was to either control Li Chang’an directly or to cripple him.

Then, he planned to use the Spiritual Mind Master to make Li Chang’an talk and hand over the blueprints for the Super Electromagnetic Cannon and the Energy Particle Beam Cannon, which threatened the Gu Family’s arms industry.

To this end, he had gone to great lengths, spending massive resources to hand-pick nine of the Gu Family’s top experts.

All to ensure that Li Chang’an would never leave the arena alive.

But he had never imagined that just moments after the battle began, two of the three people he had placed such high hopes in would already be dead…

’Dammit, what in the world is that kid made of?’

A mix of shock and fear gave way to utter frustration on Gu Ruilong’s face.

’He had to remember that because of the trick he’d pulled, the current Rebirth Arena was now linked to the real world. Even if his men weren’t killed outright in the real world after being annihilated by Li Chang’an in the arena, they would most likely be crippled.’

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