"Is this another attempt at mocking me, Sol Vestic?" Yu sneered, ckenching her weapon and pointing it at him. "Are you so dense that you would attempt to fight someone of equal footing witouut a weapon?" She asked, but found Sol smiling rather than being even slightly intimidated after she started exerting her mana in waves.


    "Dense?" Sol chuckled, rotating his shoulders and leaning his neck until he heard a crack. "I''m not dense, I am taking you very seriously, the fact is that I am better off fighting without a weapon, that''s all." He admitted.


    With a clench of his fist his entire garment caught aze and was incinerated off his body, revealing his baggy martial arts pants and the tight fitting turtleneck shirt that came with it. "No weapon I wield is enough to withstand my power, the same as tour spear will break before it can harm me!" Sol dered.


    "Then, have it your way!" Yu began skipping across the void towards him spinning her spear until it was nearly indistinguishable from her surroundings. "Do not me me if you die!"


    "You are without me!" Sol grinned, countering her first strike with his wrist, deflecting and allow the spear to slide along his skin harmlessly and spinning under her guard.


    Yu had never so easily been so blindsided, but she understood now what Sol meant earlier; while his fist solidly connected with her lower abdomen and the space around them fractured along with a section of her robcage, the woman could only regret not taking him as seriously as he was taking her.


    Sol backed off, shing his hand and chuckling when he witnessed her heal the injuries as soon as she got them, taking a few seconds and then righting herself again.


    "What have you done?" Yu asked, staring at the fragments of space floating around them spanning asrge as the unit of the gxy they inhabited.


    She was flustered, She could not sense his power at all before, she only assumed he was speaking the truth about their strength being simr because otherwise he would have been the most arrogant man in existence.


    "Take this seriously..." Sol couldn''t help smiling while he frowned, casting a viinous aura as his ovepping joy and seriousness created a new kind of expression he had never held before.


    "What is with this mans''s face, is he actually some sort of demon in disguise, did the demon race return after all tihis time?" Yu wondered.


    In actuality it was far more innocent, he was ecstatic because that blow she had easily recovered from was something that would have killed even the likes if the Emporium''s Eighth General in one shot.


    Source was unique, because of theposition of mana being vastly different from that of the Grand Collective, the spaces worked differently, power that could destroy universes in the Grand could barely shatter a star here, thend was several times more dense and the air had ten times as much mana, for someone who had suffered from mass destruction in all his fights, this was like a ypen where he could let loose for the first time.


    "Go all out, Yu, give me everything you''ve got!" Sol continued grinning, cleching his fists and falling into a ssical fighting stance while she shipped her spear around until it began bending like noodle, and then separated into two parts. "Are you taking your freedom that lightly, have you already forgotten that we have made a binding soul agreement?!"


    "A thought just urred to me," Grecia spoke calmly, drawing the attention of several other members of the Guard. "If Master wins this fight, is he not already the winner of the games overall; the Masters'' section I mean?" She asked, and Fuhua beganughing lightly at her analysis.


    "His victory is assured if he defeats the one person that is second only to the Heavenly Ancestor, right?" She asked again. Find your next adventure on empire


    "The Vatui wench has a point-"


    "You would be wise to never utter such a disgraceful word in Mdy''s presence again, don''t you fear Master even a little bit now?" Fuhua who was in an increasingly good mood decided to tease the people opposing them.


    "I thought she was just a ve, you do know that Vatui are-"


    "She is Master''s elder sister inw, she has more status than all of youbined, baldy." Jena huffed. Staring at therge screen that could be seen from the surface in some ces on the world beneath them, the fight between Sol and Yu was being broadcast on a High Fidelity System window that wasw-defyingly huge.


    "These people areplicated, and with his personality I think it is a good idea to listen to the littledy, unless you want to incur the wrath of someone who is clearly more ruthless than out Sister Yu is," An old man of the group looked to the young man who had continuously been trying to badmouth Sol and his small party.


    "This is much better!" Solughed, blocking every single attack thrown at him with expert uracy, causing a bit of space to be shattered with every sessful parry leaving their surrounding a field of broken reality as Yu continued to relentlessly attack him, gaining momentum with every new strike and swing.


    The woman was getting frustrated though; after he had struck her so easily the first time, Sol had gone on the defensive entirely, she had managed to bruise his hands after a long bout of attacks, but she had not drawn any blood from him, and his smile only seemed to grow wider with every attack that she threw until the man was outrightughing.


    "Damn you!" Yu snapped in outrage, stabbing at him and then releasing the short spear when he parried her attack, mming her palm at what she assumed would have been his abdomen, but flinched when Sol''s fingers locked with hers.


    "A dance mdy?" Sol chuckled, spinning her and blocking her following punch when she released th eother weapon in an attempt to finallynd a blow. "What a lovely idea!" He cackled, catching her hand and raising his knee to block her kick aimed at his ribcage.


    "What are you doing?" Yu asked, feeling the pressure of a superior fight for the first time in a long while. "Do you think this is enough to overpower me?" She began heaving clouds of mana. "I will show you-"


    Sol shut her up with a headbutt to her nose, releasing her hands and sending her spiralling out of the void, crashing into arge dead, raging with a windstorm generated by the oneyer of atmosphere that it could hold on to.


    The clouds opened up once when Y ucrashed through them, and then parted and were dispersedpletely when Sol entered the armosphere, leaving circr rings from one hemisphere to the other. "Come on then," Sol stood in the air with a triumphant grin. "Show me, Yu." His smile slowly faded and his hair began flickering between gold and white. "Show me the power that gained you the favour of the Heavenly Ancestor, show me what your thousands of years of cultivation have amounted to!"


    "This man..." Yu''s rage had been reced by shock. "This is the power Master divined to us woulde our way soon, the intruder from beyond Source..." She mused. "The golden..." She saw Sol''s hair settle in a golden glow and a ring of light appear behind him, with a smaller one manifesting on his chest.


    "Sol, let''s stop-"


    "I don''t think so!" Sol frowned, descending like aet, destroying the terrain in a eruption of debris and golden mana and leaving a massive crater in his wake, his footsteps causedva to form from his burning mana, and the air his breathed burned the atmosphere, creating soot that fell behind him.n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    "We have a deal, nobody is allowed to simply stop, the terms are that we fight until a victor is decided by true surrender, neither mypanions nor yours have the ability to step between us, Fu, stopping is not an option raise your fists, my life and yours are on the line should we lose to the other."


    "Right," She lowered her gaze, and then raised her eyes with bright ly glowing eyes, her pupils had be golden and the skin beneath her eyes began slowly hardening, turning into red scales. "I apologise for tackling this matter half-heartedly, Sol Vestic, you are a master that hase from beyond my realm to challenge the Heavenly Master, I will greet you as the strongest disciple of his honourable excellency."


    "What is she saying?" Fuhua narrowed her eyes. "Have they been fighting as a pleasantry this whole time?" She asked shocked. "Any one of those attacks could have killed me a dozen times over...!"


    "Try a hundred." Jena corrected her. "Master has been holding his punches because she has been unsure of him, but now that she has decided to fight with her all, he will also give his all, regardless of the consequences thaty beyond their fight this is their agreement."


    "What consequences could there be?" Grecia seemed confused about this.


    "We did not seek invitation into source, aunty," Jena seemed worried. "Master broke the barrier protecting this collecting through sheer force and determination, revealing himself in that form is his invitation for the Heavenly Ancestor to recognise that he is not here on a leisurely trip, he has exposed himself as a power that can ursurp or destroy Drifting Heaven without his presence."


    "Haaaaah!" Sol charged across the terrain, while Yu did the same, her dress had been torn up to the leg revealing more scales, and there were a pair of small wings on her back neatly folded and a thin tail shing behind her.


    "I wee you to Drifting heaven, Sol Vestic!" Yu roared, shing palms with him and clenching her jaws when their fingers locked and the world which they stood on began trembling and tearing itself asunder. "Wee to Source!"


    "Thanks for the warm wee!"