108: Chapter 108 Shattered in One Strike

Chief Shi Ba's Mountain Fist had already slammed toward Wang Sheng.

The full brute force of a level 6 Barbarian Warrior was like a collapsing mountain. The brute force surging upon his gray-brown, rock-skinned fists was like a volcano about to erupt—scorching, heavy, and unstoppable.

The wind from his fist compressed the air three feet in front of him into a visible shockwave, like a transparent wall smashing toward his face before the fist itself.

Gravel bounced off the ground like pellets, the earth cracked open, and dust rose like a mushroom cloud.

"Break… for me!" roared Chief Shi Ba.

Wang Sheng did not dodge.

He raised his right hand.

Golden light, looking as if the sun had risen from his palm.

It was not a point, not a line, not a surface; it was a form he had never seen before.

It was not the golden arc of Holy Light Slash, not the spherical barrier of the Shield of Light, nor the warm shimmer of Healing Light.

It was a power surging from the deepest part of his body, a power that had never appeared on the Savage Continent before.

It was as if the first ray of sunlight since the dawn of creation in the prehistoric era had pierced through the eternal darkness.

Golden light surged from his palm like a fountain, overflowed from between his fingers like a river,

drilled out from every crack in his Holy Light Battle Armor like bamboo shoots in spring, and radiated outward from his body like the sun.

With him as the center, everything within a thirty-meter radius was enveloped in gold.

A system notification popped up in his field of vision, the golden text appearing within the golden light screen like an imperial decree.

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♦ Holy Light Domain · Initial Awakening

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[Trigger Conditions]:

· Barbarian Warrior level 5 spiritual power + life-and-death limit pressure

· The power of four wives resonating through the husband-wife link

· The will to protect loved ones exceeding limits

[Effects]:

· 30-meter radius centered on Wang Sheng

· Golden holy light covers everything

· Shadow erosion purified

· Ally spiritual power recovery + 50%

· Enemy spiritual power suppression - 30%

[Status]: Prototype

[Duration]: Approx. 3 minutes

[Cost]: Massive spiritual power consumption, exhaustion afterward

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The golden light rose from the earth like the sun, radiating in all directions with Wang Sheng as the center, drowning everything—the shattered defensive walls, the flying dust, the stone bricks overturned by brute force—in a golden ocean.

Gravel within a thirty-meter radius floated, rotated, and then dissipated into the finest powder in the golden light, like dust floating on the surface of the sun.

The Frost Spiritual Circuit seemed to be infused with new life in the golden light; the ice-blue veins blossomed with a brightness ten times greater than before, as if the frost was not melting under the sun but turning into diamonds.

Chief Shi Ba's Mountain Fist smashed into the golden light screen.

"Hum…!"

Under the full impact of the level 6 Barbarian Warrior's brute force, the golden light screen was like the surface of the sun being struck by a meteorite.

Golden ripples spread from the point of impact, like a pebble thrown into a golden lake.

But the light screen did not shatter, did not crack, and did not even dent by a single millimeter.

The full brute force of a level 6 Barbarian Warrior was like a fist smashing into the sun; under the impact of the brute force, the golden light burned even more intensely, as if the sun were burning more fiercely under pressure.

"Th-this is…!" Chief Shi Ba's pupils constricted. He felt it.

In the golden light, his gray-brown rock skin was like ice under the sun, melting.

Not a physical melting, but the brute force of his passive skill, Rock Body, was being suppressed, purified, and disintegrated in the golden holy light,

just as the sturdiest rock layer softens like ghee under the scorching sun.

Dense cracks appeared on his rock skin—not cracks shattered by brute force,

but disintegration caused by being purified from within by the golden holy light, as if millennial rock were peeling away layer by layer like a weathered sculpture in the sunlight.

"No, impossible…!"

Wang Sheng stood in the center of the golden light screen.

His eyes were filled with golden light, like two miniature suns burning within his skull.

He could not see Chief Shi Ba's fear, could not see the panic of the Black Stone Barbarian Warriors, could not see the shattering of the defensive wall or the roaring of the Savage Beasts in the distance.

He could only see four colors—Moonlight White, Frost Blue, Spirit Sound Silver, and Nature Green.

Four rays of light were entwined around his golden holy light like silk threads,

as if four hands were holding his from far away,

channeling their power through the husband-wife link into his sea of holy light like four rivers.

Shen Xun'er's Moonlight White was like the gentlest undertone in the gold; spiritual power recovery speed doubled under the blessing of Moonlight Affinity, like silver moonlight turning into the most moist glaze within the golden sun.

Frost Mage Lin Shiyun's Frost Blue was like the toughest sinew in the gold; the Frost Mage's defensive power was injected into his Holy Light Battle Armor through the husband-wife link, as if ice-blue iron bones were supporting every crack within the golden armor.

Zhao Linger's Spirit Sound Silver was like the sharpest tentacle in the gold; Spirit Sound Affinity extended his perception range to a hundred-meter radius, like silver threads detecting every ripple of shadow in the golden sea.

Su Mengyao's Nature Green was like the most enduring root in the gold; Nature Affinity was continuously recovering his stamina, like emerald vines transporting endless vitality within the roots of the golden giant tree.

Four powers, like four hearts beating in his body simultaneously.

Each beat was more intense than the last, each beat made the golden holy light more searing, each beat made his voice echo in the golden domain like an ancient bell toll.

"I said… no one can touch a single hair on their heads."

He raised his fist. Golden light converged toward his right fist like a river, as if a hundred rivers were returning to the sea, as if ten thousand streams were merging into one.

The Holy Light Slash, under the bonus of the Holy Light Domain, with the spiritual power of a level 5 Barbarian Warrior, was comparable to the full-force strike of a level 7 Barbarian Warrior under the domain's amplification.

The golden light on his fist condensed into a miniature sun, scorching and heavy,

as if all the reluctance, anger, and love in his body had turned into light at this moment.

"No matter who it is, I will smash them with one blow…"

Holy Light Slash, full force gathered, domain bonus infinitely amplified.

"Holy… Light… Slash!"

A golden pillar of light erupted from his fist, piercing the sky of the Savage Continent like a solar ray, and slammed into Chief Shi Ba's rock-skinned body.

The moment the golden pillar of light struck Chief Shi Ba, it was like a flood breaking through a dam; the golden light spread from the point of impact,

disintegrating Chief Shi Ba's gray-brown rock skin layer by layer, as if it were an ice sculpture immersed in the scorching sun.

"Crack…!"

The rock skin cracked.

The level 6 Barbarian Warrior's Rock Body, the passive skill the Brute Force Warrior was most proud of, was directly pierced by the Holy Light Slash under the bonus of the Holy Light Domain.

The golden light pierced through the gray-brown rock skin like a solar ray, bursting out from Chief Shi Ba's right arm.

The core skill, Rock Body, was purified by the holy light; the gray-brown rock skin peeled off his right arm in large patches like shattered rock,

revealing the bloody, mangled arm underneath. The Brute Force Warrior's brute force was like weeds pulled out by the roots in the holy light, dissipating from the wound like ash.

"Ah—!"

Chief Shi Ba let out a miserable howl. That sound did not contain the rage of a Brute Force Warrior,

but the purest fear of a level 6 Barbarian Warrior whose core skill had been shattered by someone at level 5.

His right arm withered in the golden light like a branch scorched by the sun; fragments of the gray-brown rock skin drifted away like ash,

revealing the charred arm underneath, like dead wood burned by a fierce fire. Brute force drained rapidly from the wound like receding seawater.

He staggered back three steps, each step feeling like stepping into magma within the golden domain, and his gray-brown rock skin disintegrated over a large area in the golden light…

He looked down at his shattered right arm; his pride had been ruthlessly crushed in the Holy Light Domain, crumbling into pieces just like a sandcastle.