Swallowed Star: Copy God

At this moment, Yu Qing's wrist was firmly gripped by Lie Rong, leaving her with no power to break free in the short term.

Most crucially, deep down, Yu Qing still couldn't believe Lie Rong's soul secret technique from before.

Yu Qing found it hard to accept that even with her guard up, she was still affected by Lie Rong's soul attack, causing a flaw in her otherwise perfect offensive.

Logically speaking, since they were both at the peak of the World Lord realm, the difference in their soul realms shouldn't be so vast.

Moreover, over the years, under the arrangement of the Master of Feather Haze, Yu Qing had primarily focused on the Law of Time Origin and the Law of Space Origin, these two superior origin laws.

But in reality, Yu Qing had put in painstaking effort in every aspect of her improvement, without the slightest懈怠.

Even if she couldn't reach the pinnacle in every area, she could still ensure that she had decent attainments, preventing them from becoming her weaknesses.

For example, in close combat, although Yu Qing was not as proficient as Lie Rong, who was well-versed in this area, she could still compete with Lie Rong by relying on the power of her origin laws.

As for the Dao of the Soul, although it was a minor path in the entire Primal Universe, with not many cultivators.

Many powerful experts or talented geniuses would start preparing for this aspect very early on.

They anticipated that when encountering opponents with corresponding talent strengths, they wouldn't immediately fall into a disadvantage but would have the capital to resist.

Especially from the perspective of the human race, they had been mortal enemies with the Zerg for a long time.

And the largest group among the Zerg, the Zerg Queen Mothers, were all experts extremely skilled in mental, soul, and spiritual methods.

When facing the Zerg Queen Mothers, the human race's experts would naturally inevitably be at a disadvantage in terms of soul and spirit attainments.

And this was unavoidable, after all, innate talent dictated that the Zerg Queen Mothers would possess such advantages.

However, although the human race was innately weaker in soul and spirit, they could rely on different methods to compensate.

The most important and common method was naturally to use various spiritual and soul secret techniques and methods to temper their spirits and thereby create powerful defensive secret techniques outside the soul.

The human race had developed for many years, with countless geniuses within the race, and naturally, countless profound soul secret methods had been passed down over the years.

The vast majority of the human race's geniuses would choose some soul secret methods to cultivate, although most of them were mental defense types, it was enough to prevent their souls from becoming their weaknesses.

Even Luo Feng himself was an expert proficient in this way and used it to subdue many undying-level servants, greatly supplementing his own foundation.

Therefore, spiritual and soul methods were also an aspect of improving the upper limit of a strong person, and it was a cultivation course that many geniuses would never spare.

As a disciple of the Master of Feather Haze, Yu Qing had long been arranged by the Master of Feather Haze to understand some of the pros and cons of this aspect.

Therefore, in Yu Qing's daily cultivation, even though the Law of Time Origin and the Law of Space Origin occupied much of her cultivation time, she still hadn't given up on tempering her soul.

Yu Qing asked herself, her attainments in the soul were limited by insufficient talent, resulting in her not being among the top group of people, but even if she encountered those geniuses who were extremely skilled in the soul, Yu Qing wouldn't have too much of a reaction.

Others aside, just the soul defense secret method that Yu Qing constantly cast outside her soul to protect her soul from intrusion was enough to resist most soul attacks.

Even if the soul attack was too strong and could break her soul defense secret method in one blow, that moment of resistance could buy Yu Qing time and give her a chance to react immediately.

Therefore, when Yu Qing realized that she had unknowingly fallen into Lie Rong's mental influence, she found it so unbelievable.

Yu Qing didn't know how Lie Rong did it, after all, the square shield surrounding her soul in her sea of consciousness didn't have any damage.

This showed that the invisible mental influence had unknowingly bypassed her soul defense secret technique and directly acted on her mind.

This alone had already made Yu Qing feel shocked.

Yu Qing then realized that she had still underestimated the many experts in the world too much.

Even though she, Yu Qing, was gifted and had joined the Master of Feather Haze's sect early on, and had been given various resources and teachings over the years, it was enough to leave most people far behind.

But among them, there were still some people who relied on their own talents, opportunities, perseverance, and so on, and hadn't been left too far behind by Yu Qing.

And this was only one of the factors, there were also some special talents who might not have top-tier combat power themselves, but in actual combat, they could use higher combat literacy to unleash combat power far exceeding their own strength.

That is to say, for this part of the people, defeating the strong with the weak was not a rare thing, they were good at using all conditions to achieve the key to victory.

After all, combat was never a rigid comparison of combat power, strength, and simple calculations of various methods.

In a real battle, it can be described as intricate and complex, with various methods mixed together, and the situation changes rapidly at many times, and it is never as simple as it seems on the surface.

Under careful calculation and planning, people with lower realms and strengths can also kill existences with theoretically stronger strengths.

And Lie Rong at this moment was obviously such an anomaly.

From the beginning of the battle, Lie Rong was suppressed by Yu Qing's stronger attainments in the Law of Space Origin, and struggled to find a way to escape the suppression.

In this situation, Lie Rong seemed to be doomed to defeat, and there was no possibility of a comeback.

But deep down, Lie Rong didn't have any frustration or anxiety, in his opinion, as long as the battle hadn't ended, then he still had hope of turning defeat into victory.

Obviously, simply in terms of evaluating the attitude towards battle and the use of many factors, Lie Rong's performance was undoubtedly above Yu Qing's.

Even though this battle hasn't truly determined a victor, in the eyes of the watching Ye Yun and his companions, Lie Rong's excellence is undeniable.

Having successfully executed his long-prepared plan, Lie Rong's face showed no hint of self-satisfaction.

Lie Rong was well aware that his maneuver had only pulled him out of a certain defeat; the real battle had not yet ended.

Despite Lie Rong's close-quarters approach to Yu Qing, leveraging his strengths as a martial artist, he didn't forget that Yu Qing's understanding of the Space Origin Law was profound, certainly not limited to ranged attacks.

The upcoming battle would be crucial to the final outcome.

Of course, having already seized Yu Qing, Lie Rong wouldn't allow her any chance to escape.

In their current entangled state, even if Yu Qing were to unleash the Time Origin Law and Space Origin Law combination, 'Spacetime Slowdown,' it wouldn't stop Lie Rong from restricting her.

The most likely scenario was that Yu Qing, caught by Lie Rong, would be affected along with him, or perhaps neither of them would be affected.

Successfully closing in on Yu Qing meant that Lie Rong's battle plan had already taken a significant step forward, no longer the clueless fight it had been before.

Thinking of this, Lie Rong couldn't help but feel a surge of relief.

In fact, before his technique was activated, Lie Rong wasn't sure, or rather, didn't have much confidence, that he could succeed.

After all, this technique was in a domain Lie Rong had only recently touched upon, lacking deep mastery and combat experience.

The reason he continued to delve into it was that, during the process of learning and practicing, Lie Rong could feel an unparalleled connection with this technique.

It was as if he was born to cultivate this path.

Lie Rong had cultivated for so many years, but he had never experienced such a profound feeling.

Even when he started with the Fire Origin Law and developed many unique, self-created secret techniques, he hadn't felt this deeply.

However, because he hadn't had much time to explore it, Lie Rong encountered the Human Alliance's first Strongest competition, leaving him with few opportunities to experiment.

But when Lie Rong simulated battles in the virtual universe, the many ideal opponents he designated were no match for his technique, giving Lie Rong considerable confidence.

It was only because he was facing the powerful and unfathomable Yu Qing that Lie Rong didn't have much certainty.

Fortunately, although Yu Qing was powerful, she didn't have much experience in this area, even to the point of being inexperienced, which led her to suffer a great loss upon initial contact.

Although Lie Rong could sense that Yu Qing's soul cultivation was not much weaker than his, the sudden attack only affected her for a moment.

But it was this moment that allowed Lie Rong to reverse the situation and regain the initiative on the field.

Lie Rong's entire body surged with energy, his flame armor completely enveloping him, and extremely condensed energy filled the area where he gripped Yu Qing's wrist, preventing her from breaking free.

Upon closer inspection, faint red glows could be seen emanating from the wrist Lie Rong held, indicating that the strength of his grip was even affecting Yu Qing's body.

However, Yu Qing at this moment disregarded this, instead looking directly into Lie Rong's eyes hidden behind his helmet and softly saying,

"Illusion Stream?"

Yu Qing was, after all, the prized disciple of the Lord of Feathered Haze; although proud, her knowledge was genuine.

After an initial moment of confusion, she quickly realized the origin of Lie Rong's technique.

However, when listening to lectures under the Lord of Feathered Haze, the Lord of Feathered Haze had only briefly introduced the cultivation path of this 'Illusion Stream,' without providing much detailed explanation.

So Yu Qing only roughly understood the characteristics of the 'Illusion Stream,' feeling that Lie Rong's technique was somewhat similar to the rumored 'Illusion Stream,' but she wasn't too sure in her heart.

Faced with Yu Qing's question, Lie Rong didn't say much, only gently nodding his head.

After receiving Lie Rong's confirmation, a hint of realization appeared in Yu Qing's eyes, understanding the reason for her previous encounter.

The so-called 'Illusion Stream' is actually an extremely niche school of martial artists.

It still requires careful study and mastery of various abilities, secret techniques, and secret arts of martial artists, without any abandonment.

But in addition to these, it incorporates the influence of 'mental state' into its own battles.

In other words, it brings one's own 'mental state' into the battle, and during the battle, it will invisibly affect the opponent's mind, creating various kinds of illusions.

Although the form presented is similar to that of spiritual mind masters and illusionists, the internal support is completely different.

What 'Illusion Stream' martial artists need is an extremely strong mental state, so that they can achieve the purpose of influencing the opponent's mind during the battle.

The mind influenced by the mental state will not be disturbed by soul defense secret techniques, so that the purpose can be perfectly achieved.

As long as the opponent falls into the illusion, what they need to face next is a tide-like attack.

With these two combined, basically no opponent can escape.

But although 'Illusion Stream' martial artists are powerful, they require crucial mental state cultivation as the core support.

If this point cannot be achieved, then there is no way to complete the influence, and naturally there is no such thing as initiative.

And the cultivation of the mental state, even in the current Primal Universe, is an indescribable, or rather, untransmittable, niche school.

Without the blessing of a fixed cultivation method, many highly talented geniuses will find it difficult to achieve anything on such a new path.

Nowadays, the more outstanding representative of 'Illusion Stream' martial artists is Hong, who comes from Earth.

Hong's own mental state cultivation has long surpassed many Earth sages, reaching a terrifying level.

Afterwards, Hong integrated it into his spearmanship, creating a unique Illusion Stream master.

And Lie Rong, by chance, came into contact with the cultivation of 'Illusion Stream' martial artists.

Only after the first attempt, he could feel an unparalleled fit with himself, and directly immersed himself in it, and had great results in a short period of time.

(End of this chapter)