"Now, let the real fight begin!" the man shouted.

  The palm expanded again until it became the size of millions of galaxies together.

  The palm also changed its appearance. Before, it looked like a monk, but now it could not be seen anywhere except as the palm of a ruler. A ruler that rules all laws, the universe...

  Enlarging?

  Ha! You think I can't do that?

  "If it's just about enlarging, then I can do that too!" the man shouted.

  The man poured an enormous amount of qi into his giant. The qi spread all over its body, intensifying its size.

  Growing and growing every time the man gave it more qi.

  ~Shua~

  The golden giant expanded like crazy. After a while, its size now became the same as the palm. Just earlier, the palm was much larger than the golden giant.

  .......

  In the Omniverse of Destruction, where only destruction and creation exist. An endless loop of destruction and construction. It has been like this even before. No one knows why or when this happened. Some say it was because of a war, while others say it was because someone had sinned and God punished them.

  However, this seemingly endless loop had ended. Now, there was only... void. Nothing else. There were no stars, no black holes, not even a rubble of stone.

  The aura emitted by the two massive beings was enough to crush anyone under its might. Just these two alone were enough to crumble a universe until it turned to ash, just by existing.

  The man floated inside the giant, his robes mysteriously swaying back and forth even though there was no wind in space.

  The man saw the palm again, but this time from a different angle. Its aura was very similar to his own. Even its techniques and attacks seemed to copy him, using them to counter him.

  But the palm’s attacks, though similar to his, were just an inferior version of his own.

  So many questions clouded his mind.

  What is this palm? How can this palm stop me and even injure me to such an extent? Those runes too... Those runes are very strange, as if they were the law itself, even stronger than the great Dao.

  So many questions he wanted to ask, but he knew they would be answered only if he defeated this thing. Also, the palm didn't have a mind of its own, and it would be awkward to question it.

  ~Shing~

  After pondering for a while, the man noticed a dull light in the center of the palm. The amount of light it produced was so small that it was almost unnoticeable, but it was still enough for him to see it.

  "What's that?" the man thought to himself.

  The man could not see what was inside because the palm itself was trying to stop anyone from peeking inside.

  The man sighed.

  ~Bump~

  The man opened his eyes intensely. All of a sudden, his black eyes turned into a star. His gleaming eyes became dazzling, exuding an aura of sovereignty.

  ~Boom~

  The star exploded. The man's aura dwindled a bit, but it soon recovered. The broken star became eight small orbs that formed a star again, but this time, they were much smaller in size.

  Immediately after the eight small orbs reconstructed into stars again, they started to line up in a specific pattern that looked like a constellation.

  ~Thump~

  All of a sudden, the man's eyes glowed brightly, illuminating even the darkest corners of the universe.

  The man focused his gaze on the center of the palm. There, he saw a small cube. Its shape was the same as a normal Rubik's cube, but the difference was that exquisite runes were carved on each side of the cube.

  ~Fisst~

  A small fluctuation of qi burst out from the cube. Its color was white, but it was so purely white that it looked transparent.

  The man also sensed it. As he tried to use his divine sense—

  ~Cough~

  The man coughed up blood. He was horrified when he suddenly felt an oppression. He was dumbfounded because this was not a normal oppression. When he tried to perceive the small qi, he abruptly felt as if he were holding trillions of universes on his back just from this tiny amount of qi… No, this weird energy almost made him explode into pieces. If not for his strong physique, which he had refined for countless years, and his high cultivation realm, then he would have been finished right here and now.

  But this was not the only reason he was dumbfounded. The cube that contained this power was also the power source of the palm. However, this made the man more enthusiastic than ever because it made it more worth finding the legend he had sought for years.

  The man gazed at the palm, confused. If this energy was enough to kill him, then the palm was also strong enough to crush him like an ant.

  Reality itself was the evidence that the palm was like a tutorial robot, lowering its power so the trainer could keep up with it... No, rather a sparring partner.

  ~Tremble~

  All of a sudden, the palm shook… and shattered for no reason.

  A huge question mark appeared in the man's mind.

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  "What is that thing trying to do? Whatever that thing is trying to do, I got a bad feeling from it," the man groaned.

  The man had battle experience tempered for trillions of years, so his instincts were at their peak.

  ~Fwoosh~

  The man swiftly moved as he rushed toward the palm. He needed to stop whatever the palm was trying to do.

  ~Bang!~

  The spear collided with the palm, which was trying to separate itself. The man also raised his hand once again, pouring a massive amount of qi into it. Qi swirled around his hand. After that, a sword qi materialized in his hands.

  The man held the sword energy in his hand and swung it. A huge hole was cut in space. Just a simple slash was enough for space to crumble beneath this sword.

  However, the sword qi suddenly absorbed all the space energy from the hole.

  ~Shua~

  With each passing moment, the sword qi absorbed more space energy. It grew taller and taller until it became a 15-kilometer-long sword.

  Seeing that the sword was ready, he controlled it with precise movements. Each wave of the sword contained a majestic and marvelous aura.

  The man danced as he unleashed his power. The power continued to glow brightly, and all the qi that the man had poured in condensed into a single point.

  "Grand Dao Sword Scripture, First Wave: Yin Tsunami," the man said in a low voice.

  ~Boom~

  A huge explosion occurred. Water appeared everywhere as it crashed against the palm.

  If anyone were watching this fight, they would be in awe and fear of this move. This move contained the Grand Dao itself, breaking and reconstructing reality.

  A huge bang happened!

  ~Bang~

  The impact was so powerful that the palm began to crack again.

  ~Sweeesh~

  However, the white planet started to act again, sending runes to heal the palm. The palm regenerated so fast that the man's attacks could not keep up with its regeneration.

  Slash after slash, a stalemate occurred. This continued for years.

  The palm defended against the man's endless attacks. This routine between the two continued for thousands of years. They seemingly possessed endless vitality and power, unable to exhaust themselves even if they wanted to.

  The man's attacks never weakened. Instead, they became more powerful as time passed. Until, at the mark of a hundred thousand years, the man slowly but surely gained the upper hand in this fight.

  The palm’s strength weakened under the man's relentless attacks.

  "Finally, an opportunity," the man grinned.

  The man’s body spun abruptly as talismans flew out from his hand. These normal-looking talismans, which could be shredded to pieces, were surprisingly tough—so tough that even the palm couldn’t destroy them. This was one of the man's trump cards, as even he didn’t know what unknown material they were made of that made them indestructible to the palm.

  The talismans floated in circles around the palm.

  ~Shua~ ~Shua~

  A portal appeared as chains upon chains rushed toward the palm. The palm moved, trying to avoid the chains, but these dark chains, also made from an unknown material, released a sinister energy that made the palm’s energy uncomfortable. The chains didn’t stop chasing it, though.

  The palm tried to counterattack, sending thousands of symbols resembling Taiji, but in a triangular shape. It was also notable that the colors of these symbols were none, white, and black—none at the top, white on the left, and black on the right. This seemed to work, but the dark chains continued chasing and whipping it.

  Explosion after explosion, collision after collision.

  Despite its relentless retaliation, the palm eventually gave up. The chains gladly took this opportunity and bound the palm.

  The man watching it smiled. He didn’t expect this to work. The dark chains could subdue it easily—if he had done this earlier, he wouldn’t have wasted thousands of years.

  The palm could fight a person without exhausting itself or facing any problem, but this was not the case with the talisman and the dark chains. Seeing this as an opportunity, the man ferociously attacked the palm without mercy.

  He moved his spear toward the palm’s right middle finger, piercing it to restrain it even more.

  ~Shua~ ~Shua~

  Just to be sure, the man also created five layers of barriers.

  "Hooo… Hope this works. If my hypothesis is right..." The man took a deep breath.

  He stepped back, taking a dragon stance, then a crane stance. He shouted:

  "Cosmo Cloud's Collision Armor!" His voice echoed from galaxy to galaxy.

  ~Whooosh~

  Thousands of purple clouds appeared in front of him, surrounding him.

  "Merge!"

  ~Shing~

  The clouds suddenly merged with the giant, becoming armor—including the spear and shield.

  "Solidify!"

  The cloud armor solidified even more.

  The man was satisfied with the result.

  "It's time to finish this."

  The golden giant, now upgraded, moved faster and packed an even stronger punch.

  However, this wasn’t meant to attack the palm—it was to protect him for what he was about to do.

  "Dark Prison Chain! Rip it!" the man commanded.

  The dark chains restraining the five fingers suddenly started pulling the fingers off the hand.

  The palm resisted, but it was useless since it couldn't access the power source that fueled it.

  ~Ting~ ~Ting~

  Sparks flew as the dark chains pulled the fingers away from the palm.

  "Just one more push!" The man's forehead dripped with sweat as he whipped it.

  Then, the unexpected happened.

  Just as the finger was about to be torn from the palm, it suddenly broke free from the chains' restraints.

  The palm, too, was affected. Its full form suddenly transformed into pure energy for a moment.

  ~Xiu~

  The now-energy palm rushed toward the cube at a speed exceeding light.

  The energy circled the cube for a minute as if trying to open something.

  ~Shua~

  The cube suddenly opened on all four sides, releasing the mysterious energy that the man had been so wary of!

  The man, about to stop the process, suddenly fell to his knees.

  Trembling from the pressure exuded by the mysterious energy, he didn’t know what went wrong this time. He was sure everything had been perfect.

  As the cube opened, the energy that escaped from its prison-like form began dancing with the other energy. As time passed, the two fused together. They compressed and condensed, gradually forming a human figure.

  When the human figure emerged—

  ~Boom~

  A terrifying explosion erupted.

  The pressure from the half-complete human figure was 200 times more powerful than what the palm had emitted.

  The man’s eyes widened. Even with his trillions of years of experience, this kind of pressure shouldn’t exist—wasn’t even possible to exist.

  Yet here it was, slapping him in the face.

  For the first time in a long time, he felt fear.

  "Fear? Ha! Ridiculous. I was once a ruler of the multiverse!" the man scoffed, trying to calm himself down. But his body was still shaking from the aura released by the half-complete human figure.

  He looked at the figure that had emerged from the fusion. He could kill it now, while it was vulnerable—but even if he wanted to, he couldn’t.

  A strong pressure restricted him, preventing him from moving or doing anything as the figure continued materializing.

  "No… I cannot let him be completed!" Gritting his teeth—

  But then, a realization struck him.

  What was he doing?!

  Being impatient and irrational wasn’t his forte. Even when fighting those stronger than him, he could remain calm and logical.

  He examined his body, trying to find the cause of his turmoil. Then, he sensed a strange energy—hidden deep within his heart.

  "What... the..."

  Activating his **Primordial 8-Star Eyes**, he gazed into himself.

  There, he saw it—a tinge of energy.

  But it wasn’t dark energy, nor was it sinister.

  It was... familiar.

  He couldn't see it clearly, so he pushed his eyes to full power.

  "100% output!"

  His eyes glowed even brighter, more terrifying than before. Now, he could see everything—even at a molecular or quantum level.

  "Let's see what this mysterious energy is..."

  However, a blue barrier suddenly appeared, blocking his sight. But he didn’t stop—his eyes glowed even more.

  His gaze clashed with the energy’s protection. The energy stubbornly resisted.

  "Can... you just break!" The man shouted.

  ~Bang~

  The barrier cracked. Then, it shattered.

  Now, the man could see what this energy was.

  At first, he smiled.

  But then—

  "Huh!?" He was startled by what he found.

  "This energy signature... This is the first energy I had after I reincarnated for the first time!" The man was shocked.

  "But how?! It's impossible for it to still exist after all these years. I’ve lived for trillions of years... and I haven’t fully regressed."

  His **Dao Heart** remained immovable, but too many unexpected things had happened.

  "This energy... it's so familiar..."

  He lifted the energy into his hand, carefully examining its properties.

  After deeper observation, he saw **two energies** floating inside—one blue and one gray.

  They were intertwined, like Yin and Yang. Coexisting.

  "I see... Hahahaha! So that’s why..."

  He laughed.

  Even he hadn’t expected this.

  He could see the future, yet this was beyond what he could comprehend.

  After laughing, his eyes filled with fury.

  "No... I can’t blame anyone. This was my mistake—my overconfidence and carelessness."

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  Learning from his mistakes had always been his motto, so in just a minute, his mind cooled down. He didn’t want to remember what he experienced when he first reincarnated.

  Indeed, this man originated from Earth. He was 18 years old at the time, and his name was **Blithe**. Because of a certain accident, he reincarnated into a cultivation world—all because of some dumb person who caused his life to end just like that.

  He still hadn’t forgiven the one responsible, but there was nothing he could do anymore. When he returned to Earth, many things had happened, and the man who killed him had already died of old age. Still, it could’ve caused a war, too.

  Blithe had been living his best life in the **Philippines**, but **bam!**—just like that, he was reborn into a **dog-eat-dog** world where only strength mattered.

  At first, he thought he was lucky since he reincarnated into an **aristocratic family**. But he didn’t expect it to be a **royal family**.

  In the beginning, he couldn't understand those people, as they spoke in a language that sounded similar to **Chinese**. As a result, he didn’t speak for **years**. Even his **mother** didn’t bother with him, and his **brothers and sisters** did the same. He spent those years silently trying to learn the language of that world.

  Then, an **event happened**—one that traumatized him for years.

  His **8th brother**, who was fighting for the throne, suddenly **sent an assassin after him**. The assassination was successful—he got captured.

  But that wasn’t all.

  He was tortured.

  All sorts of torture.

  They drowned him. Cut his flesh. Whipped him non-stop.

  Even one time...

  Blithe shook his head. A chill ran down his spine.

  Those bastards who did that to him he had killed them all.

  (**Author’s Note: Can you guess how? :3**)

  As a matter of fact, Blithe was a weeb. He had read hundreds of cultivation novels and watched tons of anime, but the experience he had in his first reincarnation—being thrown into a xianxia world—was enough to traumatize him and **change his personality into a cruel one**.

  However, as time passed, that cruel personality of his gradually faded away.

  "But how is this possible? It shouldn’t even be possible for me to regress or return to my original self before reincarnation. But this energy... it can do both? It seems to affect me—to a certain extent," he muttered.

  As he was lost in thought, the fusion of the palm and the cub was finally completed.

  A naked woman appeared.

  But Blithe didn’t notice—too absorbed in his thoughts.

  The naked woman simply stared at him, waiting for Blithe to snap back to reality.