Chapter 159 — The Power of the Nine Li Form

The overload lightning stored within its Source of Stamina flooded its entire armor, making it stand like a towering thunder god, unparalleled in its dominance—the power of this lightning utterly dwarfed that Thunder Palm from before!

RUMBLE!!!

The astonishing energy burst left Examiner Liu Jie in the stands dumbstruck once more. She had thought Qu Lishi was finally about to turn things around, only to realize it was not so simple...

Congratulations to Qu Lishi for winning the challenge against his opponent's "sealed" state.

Beside her, the panda father and daughter and Hao Ling lit up with excitement—with power like this, it was a waste for it not to go tear a giant dragon apart by hand!

Magnification + Charged Lightning + Thunder Palm + Edge Stored Within...

Nearly a hundred thousand in energy value against the Bull-Head Beast King, sealed at around ten thousand—at this moment, the gap could no longer be bridged by technique. This was absolute power, a tenfold difference; no one could stand against it.

"ROAR!!!!"

In that instant, sensing the immense threat, the Bull-Head Beast King let out a great roar. The master-level trait of Battle Spirit Bathed in Fire activated; the battle spirit drifting behind it possessed it outright, merging into its body. The Bull-Head Beast King's muscles surged, its frame expanded a full size, fire burst from its eyes, and once more it swung a blazing axe strike!!!

BOOM!!!

The air shuddered.

And yet!

That blazing axe strike, which should have shaken heaven and earth, which could have sent the Eleven of a moment ago flying with a single blow, now came crashing down on the armor that hardened Eleven's entire body, and with a dull "thunk," it left not the faintest mark on Eleven at all!!

Instead, the tremendous recoil numbed the Bull-Headed Beast King from head to toe and drove it staggering back several steps!!

Its defense could no longer be broken!

The Bull-Headed Beast King wore an expression of shock, its hands trembling so badly it could barely keep hold of its battle axe.

"This kind of physical toughness—how is it possible—" Qu Lishi said, his face astonished as well.

Nor was Qu Lishi's shock without cause: after evolution, Eleven's physical toughness rivaled that of an Overlord-race dragon, and with the hardening on top of the energy gap, so long as the Bull-Headed Beast King remained in its current state, even a full-power strike was nothing but a gentle scrape against Eleven!

"Awooo!!!!" Even with a fierce look beneath its armor after evolution, Eleven still gave a silly grin. Its turn now, wasn't it.

BOOM!!

The giant Eleven simply swatted down with one palm.

A simple palm strike, yet it carried heaven-toppling power.

Zzzzt, zzzzt—

That thunder-god palm descending from the sky made the Bull-Headed Beast King below, battle axe in hand, change color.

Stupid beastmaster.

What kind of assessment did you call me out here for again?

An intermediate assessment?

And you sealed my power for that?

Are you sure this isn't the ultimate assessment?

Hurry up and give your Grandpa Bull his power back.

Otherwise, I'm about to go from Bull-Headed Beast King to battle-axe steak!!

"ROAR!!!" The Bull-Headed Beast King let out a bellow!!!

Qu Lishi too was stunned by the power this strike might contain.

You call this Commander level?

Without close to 100,000 energy value, there's no way anyone could unleash a skill with this kind of force!

"Take it!"

In that instant, Qu Lishi was forced to unseal a portion of the Bull-Headed Beast King's power, restoring it to a level approaching 100,000 energy value—a level that still counted as the "Commander level" standard, except that where the earlier ten thousand had been the floor, this was near the ceiling.

If he still had to restore the Bull-Headed Beast King to Monarch-level combat power during an assessment, then Qu Lishi might as well stop calling himself a beastmaster and retire!!

This was his last stubborn stand.

BOOM!!!

An immense aura nearly ten times greater erupted from the Bull-Headed Beast King.

"Old Qu's playing dirty." Hao Ling cried out.

"Un-unsealed..." Liu Jie, the trainee examiner, looked somewhat dazed as well. So this was what an intermediate exam was like.

An examinee pushing the examiner to unseal his power and bring out strength near the upper limit of the Commander level to cope?

This was already beyond the rules, wasn't it!!!

She admitted that she had underestimated this junior schoolmate Shi Jin a little earlier.

This guy was a freak, plain and simple!

The Ancient Capital's top scorer? Add the top scorers of the Imperial Capital and the Magic Capital together, and they probably still wouldn't be enough to fight him!

At least as a senior beastmaster, in a one-on-one, Liu Jie felt she was no match for Shi Jin.

Ten times the energy, unsealed.

The Bull-Headed Beast King erupted.

It felt like it could do it again.

However.

"ROAR!!!" Even though the Bull-Headed Beast King had now recovered to a stronger state, Qu Lishi and the others had still underestimated this strike.

The lightning power contained in this palm strike was far from the limit of what Eleven could muster.

It had long surpassed the maximum destructive force of Eleven's Hardening plus Thunder Palm!

This was thanks to Stored Lightning and Converged Edge, which had helped Eleven accumulate an enormous charge of electricity beyond its own limits!

This was a fraction of the power of a Monarch-level Violet Lightning Armor!

The effect of Converged Edge was to accumulate vast energy beyond the body's limits and then unleash it in multiplied bursts!

The only drawback was that the process inflicted tremendous backlash damage on the user.

And now, this electricity—which should have placed an immense burden on the body—was, under the harmonizing effect of Eleven's Hardening property "Level Thunder," channeled into the Thunder Palm at minimal cost and detonated by Eleven!

"Awoo!!" Feeling the terrifying lightning power as if it would tear apart its hardened substance, its armor, and its palms, the immense pain left Eleven both exhilarated and afraid.

As long as it could endure the pain, it could unleash high-power skills beyond the body's load limits?

This Converged Edge—it loved it so much.

Later it would have to make Shi Jin max out Rapid Healing... It could treat this skill like a self-destruct move!

Bang!!

The Thunder Palm slammed onto the giant axe that the bull-headed beast king, eyes bulging, had raised horizontally—but in the next instant, the bull-headed beast king's expression nearly burst apart.

It felt a terrifying force descend upon it that it could not withstand.

"BOOM!!!" The ground beneath the bull-headed beast king split wide open, as if about to collapse and swallow it whole.

"ROAR!!" The bull-headed beast king's eyes exploded with fury. Wait—this power... something's wrong! What the hell is this, Commander-level?

Beastmaster, add more power! This much unsealing is a joke!

Qu Lishi was dumbfounded too—he hadn't expected that even after unsealing this much power, the bull-headed beast king was still suppressed by this single strike!!

"Gigantification and Converged Edge are both high-cost, high-damage skills that stack attack power to the limit. Even if the opponent's level is higher, they might not be able to withstand a single burst," Master Lin Yu explained, trembling with excitement.

This was the Iron-Eater. This was the battle beast of Jiuli!!

Every single skill was born for the sake of bursting forth greater power beyond the limits!

Compared to super-tier skills like Battle Soul of the Baptismal Flame, which offered balanced enhancement and even protected the user rather than harming them, Converged Edge was far more extreme!