This is too terrifying. At this moment, the person gasping in shock is no longer Zhang Xiaobo, no longer Feng Yi nor his teammates, but the black Bizarre suspended mid-air within the void.

"Impossible! Other than Feng Yi, how could anyone with human physique possibly reach such a level of intensity?"

"Are you afraid?"

Sky Shadow smiled. Indeed, he had failed before, experienced despair, but never once had he given up. Neither in body nor soul. Even at the cost of enduring pain that a physical body should not bear, Sky Shadow persisted—using drugs, using willpower, using his cloned body to endure a level of suffering ordinary humans couldn't handle for a prolonged period.

If Feng Yi's physical prowess could be seen as acquired, then Sky Shadow undoubtedly lived a fate more unfortunate. For most of his life, he fought against his own body, relying on medication to keep himself from collapsing. Climbing to the 12-star pinnacle under such conditions was proof of the immense effort and hardships greater than anyone else's.

But Sky Shadow was solitary and proud. He never shared his past or his suffering with anyone—not even Feng Yi, whose understanding of him remained incomplete and superficial.

Ever since regaining his original body through enhancement, Sky Shadow progressed at an unparalleled pace. This might be described as late-stage flourishing, but in truth, it was precisely because of his prolonged torment that he developed an extraordinary willpower. In battles and in other pursuits, his focus surpassed anyone else's.

Fortunately, effort always brought rewards—that had always been the only truth. Though a genius might find success, that so-called success was often determined by effort rather than talent. Effort set the ceiling; talent determined the starting point.

Maybe Sky Shadow's starting point was higher than most, but it was inseparable from the effort within. He was precisely a genius driven by effort. Coupled with the success of his body enhancement, he saw no reason to lose against Feng Yi or anyone else.

Given time, his strength would only grow ever more formidable. Now, Sky Shadow's effort had already borne results. In just a single year, his individual power surged from below one million to three times that—evidence impossible to ignore.

"Impossible! How could you possess such overwhelming power?"

At this moment, Bizarre's previously calm expression had turned into one of shock, astonishment, and utter disbelief!

"Hah!"

With Sky Shadow's final roar, a radiance burst outward from around him, rapidly expanding into an instantaneous shockwave that vanished as quickly as it appeared. Spreading across the stellar region locally, it left no trace behind.

Boom!

Bizarre fell...

All anyone could hear was the tremor reverberating through the void—a compression of atmospheric pressure expanding outward. Such sensations caused ordinary people's ears to temporarily lose hearing for several seconds.

Yes, and then Bizarre fell. Sky Shadow stood motionless, his expression as cold as ever, gazing distantly in the direction of Bizarre's collapse into the void. In his eyes, there was no mockery, no arrogance—only a profound depth that no one had ever seen before.

This...?

A new question surfaced before everyone. Why did Bizarre collapse? Sky Shadow hadn't even moved—was it that his actions had become so fast that even if he had moved, no one's vision could catch up?

That's impossible. Absolutely impossible. It's known that the speed detectable by vision is the speed of light. No matter how fast Sky Shadow was, he couldn't outrun light.

Yet what unfolded before them was this: Bizarre fell inexplicably. Zhang Xiaobo asked, "Could it be that this strike surpassed the speed of light?" Truthfully, based solely on Sky Shadow's aura, initially, he didn't believe it. But such an aura might really be capable of surpassing light—who could say for sure?

"This is certainly not about light." In response to Zhang Xiaobo's overstatement, Sky Shadow thought it necessary to clarify. After speaking, he said nothing more, thinking the explanation was unnecessary. Even so, when someone flatters you, how could you just dismiss it outright? That attack, simply put, was nothing more than a condensed force—a focused punch from afar.

It's not as if Sky Shadow hadn't learned physics. If that attack truly had been at the speed of light, not just them, but this very planet might not have survived. Toward Zhang Xiaobo, who clearly lacked even a shred of common sense, Sky Shadow couldn't be bothered to elaborate further. He merely took large strides forward, step by step approaching Bizarre...

"Impossible! You can't be this powerful!"

At this moment, Bizarre seemed to fall into the same mindset as the others—just as when they first encountered Feng Yi and kept uttering "Impossible!" Ironically, now Bizarre echoed the refrain repeatedly. It's clear that "impossible" could also be contagious, with one "impossible" after another spilling out. It fundamentally didn't believe humans could develop personal strength to this level.

Indeed, humans, whether in terms of brain or body cell development, hardly exploit their full potential. Yet this so-called potential lies buried within genes—it's an intrinsic feature, a natural phenomenon, not something that can truly be developed.

In other words, during dreaming, humans' brains might calculate an extraordinarily complex mathematical formula in an instant, or assemble innumerable vocabularies unknowable in conscious states. This belongs to objective consciousness. Everything we see, hear, or exchange daily leans toward subjective consciousness.

Subjective consciousness often dominates thought processes. Only in dreams, in states of unconsciousness, when subjective consciousness slumbers, does objective consciousness take command of the brain—revealing an individual's astonishing latent potential.

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