170: Chapter 170 Is nobody here?

"Because of Mental Power."

Shen Ye suddenly understood.

His voice spread across the arena through the sound-gathering array of the VIP seating area.

"A Stand does not need to rely on card materials to carry power!"

"The card is only responsible for manifesting Qin Ye's mind, and what truly constitutes the Stand is her own soul!"

"As long as her Mental Power hasn't reached its limit, the Stand's power can continue to increase!"

The Purple-Robed Chief suddenly turned his head.

"You mean..."

Looking at the Mental Power value as high as five hundred thousand on the screen, Shen Ye's face lost the last trace of color.

"Su Bai used a Tier 2 card to bypass the load-bearing limit of Tier 2 materials."

"He didn't let the card contain Qin Ye's power at all."

"He just used the card to open a door."

"Behind the door..."

Shen Ye looked at the dark golden Stand on the arena.

"Is Qin Ye's own soul!"

Boom!

This sentence exploded in the minds of all Card Creators like a thunderbolt.

Material load-bearing limit.

This is a problem that has never truly been solved in the card-making world for thousands of years!

Low-tier materials cannot carry high-tier energy, so low-tier Card Creators can never manufacture true high-tier armaments.

Yet Su Bai changed his mindset.

Why must a card carry power?

As long as it is responsible for manifestation.

The power can completely be provided by the user themselves!

What the Tier 2 card bears is never five hundred thousand Mental Power.

It only needs to maintain a door that transforms the mind into reality!

This means that the upper limit of the Stand Card does not depend on Su Bai's level.

But depends on the user themselves!

The stronger the user.

The stronger the Stand!

"Madman..."

A royal Card Creator murmured.

"Everyone is trying to find ways to make sturdier containers."

"He directly threw away the container."

Another master looked at Su Bai, his gaze resembling that of looking at a monster.

"How did he think of this?"

No one could answer.

Su Bai was still sitting in his original seat.

Just seeing that Qin Ye hadn't ended the battle for a long time, he frowned slightly with dissatisfaction.

"What is she doing?"

Zhao Dahai asked blankly:

"What do you mean what is she doing?"

"Isn't it enough to just finish it directly."

Su Bai bit his lollipop into pieces.

"Why test the opponent's armor punch by punch?"

Zhao Dahai's mouth twitched.

"Is there any possibility that she is in the National Competition finals?"

"So what?"

"The opponent is a Tier 5 SS-rank system!"

"This is not important."

Su Bai raised his chin.

"Time is running out."

Everyone looked at the countdown together.

[Purgatory Mode remaining time: thirty-one seconds.]

Zhao Dahai fell silent.

Thirty-one seconds left.

In Su Bai's eyes, this is called time running out?

On the arena.

Qin Ye seemed to have heard Su Bai's words.

She raised her head and glanced at the countdown.

"It is indeed a bit of a waste of time."

Wei Xiaoyu supported her body and retreated.

The Titan Furnace was still roaring.

The armor on both of her arms was completely shattered, and the battle axe had also turned into fragments.

Yet the furnace core on her chest still existed.

As long as the furnace was not extinguished, she still had power!

"I can still..."

Wei Xiaoyu clenched her teeth.

"The Titan Furnace has not lost yet!"

She poured all her remaining energy into her chest.

The nine-layer furnace defense structure unfolded one by one.

The dark golden heavy armor re-covered from her waist upward, quickly forming a heavy barrier in front of her chest.

[First layer · Energy Deflection Armor.]

[Second layer · High Temperature Melting Armor.]

[Third layer · Physical Cushioning Armor.]

[Fourth layer · Mana Shunt Armor.]

...

[Ninth layer · Titan Core Barrier.]

This is the final defense of the Titan Forge System.

Shen Ye's proudest design!

The nine-layer defenses target nine different attack methods respectively. Any power entering them will be continuously reduced. Even if a Tier 6 powerhouse attacks with all their might, it is impossible to pierce through it in one breath!

Wei Xiaoyu stood behind the nine-layer armor.

"Come on!"

She roared at Qin Ye.

"Didn't you want to shatter my card?"

"The furnace is right here!"

"If you have the ability, pierce right through it!"

Qin Ye stopped her footsteps.

She looked at the heavy armor unfolding layer by layer on Wei Xiaoyu's chest.

"Good."

The [World] behind her took a step forward.

Its dark golden fists slowly raised.

Shen Ye's pupils constricted.

"Not good!"

He suddenly understood what Qin Ye was going to do.

"Surrender!"

"Wei Xiaoyu, hurry up and surrender!"

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

Qin Ye struck an extremely flamboyant posture, her black-gold skirt fluttering with the airflow of the clock world.

The [World]'s fists turned into afterimages.

"Ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora!"

First punch!

The Energy Deflection Armor shattered!

Second punch!

The High Temperature Melting Armor was directly blasted through!

Third punch!

The Physical Cushioning structure turned into fragments filling the sky!

Fourth punch!

The Mana Shunt circuits collapsed inch by inch!

Countless dark golden fist shadows fell.

Every single punch had no special abilities.

No time stop.

No attack association.

Only absolute power and absolute speed!

Fifth layer!

Sixth layer!

Seventh layer!

The nine-layer defense that the Titan Furnace was proud of burst open one after another like paper in front of [World].

Wei Xiaoyu could only watch as those fists drew closer and closer.

She wanted to counterattack.

But her body couldn't keep up with the speed of [World] at all.

"Impossible..."

The eighth layer shattered!

"This is Master Qi Yuan's theory..."

The ninth layer, the Titan Core Barrier, lit up.

It supported for less than 0.1 seconds.

[World] landed hundreds of punches on the exact same spot.

Snap!

The final layer of barrier blasted apart with a roar!

The Titan Furnace was completely exposed to the air.

The dark golden core embedded into Wei Xiaoyu's chest was still spinning at high speed, its surface covered in cracks caused by overload.

[World] stopped its fists.

The final punch hovered right in front of the furnace.

Wei Xiaoyu was stunned.

As long as this punch fell.

The Titan Furnace would be completely blown apart.

The red alarm of the tournament array rang through the entire venue at the same time.

[Fatal attack detected!]

[Contestant's HP is below the safety line!]

[Initiating forced teleportation!]

White light rose from beneath Wei Xiaoyu's feet.

Qin Ye looked at her, her tone calm.

"You lost."

Wei Xiaoyu opened her mouth.

Before she even had time to speak, the tournament array had already teleported her out of the arena.

The white light vanished.

The Titan Furnace spinning at one hundred thousand revolutions left with her.

On the arena, only dark golden armor fragments fluttering across the sky remained.

Qin Ye stood in the center of the huge clock.

[World] hovered behind her.

Unharmed.

In the VIP seating area.

Shen Ye stared blankly at the arena.

The [Titan Forge System] that he had built on the theoretical basis of Qi Yuan, exhausting countless materials, was just pierced straight through from the first layer to the ninth layer by a pair of fists.

All circuits.

All armor.

All numerical values.

All lost their meaning.

What made it most unacceptable to him was that Qin Ye didn't even use that bizarre ability capable of dismantling card connections at the end.

She shattered the Titan battle axe head-on.

Destroyed the Titan arm guard head-on.

And blasted through the nine-layer core defense head-on.

Wei Xiaoyu wanted to prove the orthodox heavy industry system with her proudest numerical values.

Qin Ye then used even more absolute values to knock her and her cards together out of the arena!

The Purple-Robed Chief slowly sat back down in his chair.

"The special mechanism is insolvable."

"The basic power is likewise crushing."

"Law of Time, mind manifestation, soul stabilization, connection destruction, plus the power to blast apart a Tier 5 SS card head-on..."

The old man looked at Su Bai.

"What kind of monster did he make after all?"

No one answered.

Through the beaded curtain, the Empress's gaze lingered on Su Bai.

She suddenly recalled the Imperial Ultimate Hall from half a month ago.

That day, Su Bai stood in the center of the main hall, saying he wanted to create a brand-new armament named "Stand".

The masters of the entire court burst into laughter.

Some said his talent had dried up.

Some said he had gone crazy.

And others requested the Empress to revoke Su Bai's qualification to directly enter the finals.

Now.

Su Bai didn't even step onto the field himself.

He only dispatched a Magic Card Master.

Using two Tier 2 cards.

Piercing through the National Competition in eighteen seconds!

"Minister Su."

The Empress spoke softly.

"Is this what you called just getting started?"

Su Bai looked at the arena.

Qin Ye seemed to still be waiting for the next opponent.

"Pretty much."

"A Stand has many abilities, and she has only used the most basic ones right now."

The Empress: "..."

The Purple-Robed Chief: "..."

Shen Ye: "..."

Everyone's gaze towards Su Bai changed.

The most basic ones?

Being able to stop time, shatter card connections, ignore material limits, and blast through a Tier 5 SS system head-on.

This is just basic?

Then just how strong is the complete Stand System?

The whole venue gradually quieted down.

Everyone's gaze returned to the arena.

Master Mage Chen Taixu surrendered.

Wei Xiaoyu was eliminated.

All remaining contestants were out.

On the entire Purgatory Mode arena, only Qin Ye remained alone.

Chief Commentator Lu Ming gripped the microphone, his voice trembling from extreme excitement.

"The final opponent has been eliminated!"

"Contestant Qin Ye defeated all thirty-four top prodigies of the nation with her single strength!"

"Purgatory Mode—"

He was just about to announce the result.

But Qin Ye raised her hand.

"Wait a minute."

Chief Commentator Lu Ming was slightly stunned.

The entire venue fell quiet along with it.

Qin Ye raised her head to look into mid-air.

The huge countdown was still continuing.

[Purgatory Mode remaining time: twenty-nine seconds.]

She frowned.

"There is still so much time left."

"Is there really no one left?"