It was an extremely handsome giant.
Completely crimson, strong, and perfect. Golden patterns, like those of the sun, covered his skin. The bulging muscles beneath didn't seem to be made of flesh and blood, but rather pure, concentrated energy.
His face was beautiful and noble, with bright red light points like pearls encircling his forehead, accentuating a touch of divinity. He gave people a sense of ancient and primeval, wild and untamed déjà vu. It was as if an ancient star god, who had slumbered deep within the sun in myths, had fully awakened before everyone's eyes.
Lu Sheng. It was still recognizable as Lu Sheng. However, his current size was more than a hundred times larger than before, and his eyes had turned gray, appearing incredibly indifferent and calm.
A star, from its birth, goes through the protostar state, the Main Sequence Star state, and will eventually reach its greatest glory, its true peak. At this time, its volume, brightness, and temperature will sharply increase to a maximum of ten thousand times! And this state is called—the Red Giant Form.
"Stellar Way—Red Giant Form!"
To be precise, it should be an incomplete Red Giant Form. Because every Immortal Cells and Stellar Seed within Lu Sheng's body had only expanded by about a hundred times compared to before. But it was already his limit.
"If I continue to push forward, my physical body and soul will be completely swallowed by the terrifying stellar energy first."
Even so, the energy released by one percent of the Red Giant Form turned Lu Sheng's body into an extremely unstable super reactor. If it weren't for his Martial God State, which allowed him to perfectly control every bit of power within his body, maintaining this instability in an extremely delicate balance and constantly moving towards greater stability, at this time, he might not have been able to manifest his appearance. Instead, he would have devolved from the form of a red giant back into a super-sized red light sphere.
"Boom!"
Lu Sheng raised his hand and punched heavily into the Level 13 General-level Alien Beast's giant blood-colored arm on its chest. Where the fist landed, terrifying power rapidly evolved into a white hole filled with extreme light and heat. It shattered the void in an instant, then quickly burned and melted large chunks of flesh and blood from the giant blood-colored arm.
"It's so wonderful… this feeling…" Lu Sheng couldn't help but exclaim in his heart.
At this moment, he truly experienced what genuine stellar might felt like. With every raise of his hand or foot, a white hole accompanied him. He seemed to be able to feel the true essence of light, heat, and all other extremely positive energies flowing, rolling, and existing invisibly in the cosmic starry sky. This essence of energy, in simpler terms, could be called…
"A law! The Law Power of the Stellar Way."
Although Lu Sheng could only vaguely perceive a faint outline, a fleeting trace of it now. But it was already terrifying enough. It instantly elevated his combat power to an unprecedented level. Truly… Within the Level 13 realm!
"Hiss—"
Lu Sheng took a deep breath; his chest, covered in sun divine patterns, rose high. Then, he exhaled towards the surroundings. This breath was like a deathly hot wind from the depths of the sun, and where it swept past.
The color of the void faded, revealing layers of pitch black beneath. The alien beasts swept by the breath melted like wax. Regardless of whether they were Level 11 or Level 12, they were instantly incinerated without a trace, and a large area on the field was cleared.
After doing all this, Lu Sheng leaped, trailing a large swath of brilliant afterglow, and appeared in front of the Level 13 General-level Alien Beast. He grabbed the blood-colored arm, which was like a giant starship, with both hands and pulled forcefully.
"Creak, creak—"
The fleshy arm let out strange groans of unbearable strain. And then…
"Boom!"
Amidst the sky-filling flames, it was forcibly broken into two by Lu Sheng.
"Screech—"
The Level 13 General-level Alien Beast let out an incredibly sharp shriek from its mouth, and this terrifying sound wave reverberated through the void, but it had no effect on Lu Sheng at this moment.
Lu Sheng's face was expressionless; he tossed aside the half-broken arm in his hand and lunged forward fiercely. He held the opponent down and gave it a brutal beating!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Every punch Lu Sheng threw created a massive white hole. The extremely hot energy within the white hole raged, devouring and melting everything around it.
However, the surface of this Level 13 General-level Alien Beast seemed to possess a strange layer of power. This power was deep crimson, like fire yet also like flowing water, possessing the strange ability to stir people's emotions.
Lu Sheng punched the body of the Level 13 General-level Alien Beast and found that he couldn't break through the barrier of this layer, so he suddenly stopped his hand. He looked at the numerous, varying-sized, flickering eyeballs, and seemed to still see a hint of disdainful mockery and cold sneers within them, as if stating something like "You cannot do anything to me."
"Is this the Law Power you possess?" Lu Sheng said calmly.
Subsequently, four colors of light bloomed from his pure gray eyes.
"What a coincidence, I have it too…"
As he spoke, the four-colored light in Lu Sheng's eyes grew even more brilliant, directly forming a four-colored swirling halo behind his head. The red part of the light in this halo shone brightly.
Under this red light, the numerous demonic flames surrounding the Level 13 General-level Alien Beast, as well as the red film on its body, all surged towards the halo behind Lu Sheng's head. The latter was like a greedy and hungry predator, frantically devouring all the nutrients that could help it grow.
"Buzz—"
The deformed and massive body of the Level 13 General-level Alien Beast violently writhed, and tens of thousands of its eyes revealed expressions of shock and anger. Its mouthparts trembled incessantly, constantly emitting deafening and terrifying sound waves, as if it was angrily denouncing Lu Sheng's thieving behavior.
Lu Sheng's eyes were clear and cold, one hand firmly pressing down on the Level 13 General-level Alien Beast in front of him, and the other hand open, slowly raising it.
In the void, a purple bolt of Thunder Law appeared silently. This Thunder Law was so exquisite, like a masterpiece of art crafted by heaven and earth. With a trace of unusual vibration, it spread throughout the entire space in a millionth of an instant, attracting the gaze of everyone, and even the alien beasts, on this battlefield.
Everyone stared at this Thunder Law intently, their eyes glazed over. Within this Law, there seemed to be something they had all been desperately pursuing.
Suddenly, a small portion of them abruptly woke up; they seemed to have thought of something. Their faces showed extreme shock and disbelief, and their gazes towards Lu Sheng were infinitely more terrified than before. This was a level of terror they had never displayed, not even when Lu Sheng previously demonstrated the ability to instantly kill Sara, or even directly contended with a Level 13.
At the instant this Thunder Law appeared, countless eyeballs on the body of the Level 13 General-level Alien Beast simultaneously revealed fear. It shrieked maniacally.
Terrifying sound waves, like a tsunami, crashed upon Lu Sheng in waves. There were also countless tentacles whipping and blood-colored giant arms colliding.
Lu Sheng, however, seemed oblivious, merely gazing intently at the Thunder Law. He had once defeated a Level 13 overlord named Thunder Blazer in the Dreamscape and fortunately obtained his Law inheritance. He had never tested it. Now… Finally, there was an opportunity to try out what true Law Power was like.
"The Red Giant Form isn't in the Law realm; although it can contend with a Level 13 without falling behind, it's still a bit short of killing a Level 13… A Level 13… ultimately, only truly Level 13 power can kill it." Lu Sheng said softly. Then he gently grasped the purple Thunder Law with his open right hand, clenching it into a fist.
The next second, his eyes, his entire body… Above the intricate and beautiful sun divine patterns, clusters of even more dazzling and brilliant purple lightning grew and leaped out.
In an instant, Lu Sheng was enveloped by countless bolts of lightning. He raised his right hand high, and the fist tightly clenching the Thunder Law Power radiated an unparalleled purple light, like a scepter of a cosmic deity.
A point of purple bloomed in the center of Lu Sheng's gray eyes, shining like a star. Then… He slowly punched down towards the Level 13 General-level Alien Beast in front of him.
"I shall shatter the darkness… with thunder."
"Boom!"
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Translation notes by dhoo
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Lei Futian aka Thunder Blazer
雷伏天, see chap. 533
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Martial God State
武神状态 (trad.武神狀態), wǔ shén zhuàngtài: 武 martial 神 god 状态 state
A state that "allows Lu Sheng to perfectly control every bit of power within his body". (chap. 563)
See chapters 532, 563, 568 (x3), 576, 583 (x3)