Copy Magic

Bzzz!

An Junxuan stepped out of thin air. His movements were light, completely unaffected by Bai Cangshu’s previous blow.

His white robe snapped in the wind, and his tousled black hair fluttered continuously. His eyes took in the two trenches Mercenary Tao had plowed into the ground.

He sneered and deliberately taunted him.

"Obviously, you can turn into wind, yet you still let that kind of force hit you. Is it arrogance, or have High-Speed Regeneration and immortality made you develop such careless fighting habits?"

An Junxuan moved faster and faster. The next moment, he took a step forward. By the time the words "fighting habits" left his mouth, he was already at Bai Cangshu’s side.

He held his fingers together like a blade. His right hand turned black as ink, and he slashed out with his palm.

Bai Cangshu’s gaze turned strange. With the martial ability of Sensen no Sen, he could see through this attack completely. He raised his left hand and blocked in front of himself.

Bzzz!

An Junxuan vanished again and instantly reappeared, as graceful as a gust of wind. The black hand blade appeared directly before Bai Cangshu’s neck. His arm swelled in an instant, Inch Force erupted, and a blade-like gleam flashed.

Pfft!

It was like a sharp knife cutting into old cowhide. The dull sound of the strike contained none of the sound of flesh being sliced apart. Bai Cangshu lowered his head and looked at that ink-black arm.

His eyes shifted. Even without activating Limit Break Spiral, he could tell that there was no Armament Haki on that arm.

"Interesting. You’re very interesting."

Bai Cangshu waved a hand casually. As expected, An Junxuan turned into wind and vanished again, widening the distance instead of truly engaging Bai Cangshu in hand-to-hand combat.

The muscles on An Junxuan’s body shifted slightly, seeming to become tougher as well.

His Heterochromatic Eyes stared unblinking at Mercenary Tao, trying to see through everything about him.

Being able to join the Throne of Illusion and Reality, even as the most ordinary member of the Silver Cluster, meant that his potential surpassed that of the vast majority of Reincarnators.

He was strong. He had immense potential!

An Junxuan lowered his stance. Mercenary Tao’s current actions showed that he still did not regard him as an opponent. Mercenary Tao was still playing with him like a cat with a mouse.

This was a common flaw among the strong. So-called arrogance and pleasure were all built upon overwhelming strength.

He lowered his body, the muscles throughout his body trembling constantly as though brewing something.

The next moment, a powerful energy bloomed from within him, then instantly merged back into his body.

"Instant, activate!"

An Junxuan’s figure abruptly disappeared, moving so fast that even Bai Cangshu’s eyes could not catch him.

Bang!

A fist struck the back of Bai Cangshu’s head from behind. Violent force passed through his body. Even with Bai Cangshu’s defensive ability, the penetrating force gave him a concussion, and everything before his eyes began to sway.

Bang!

Another fist appeared in front of Bai Cangshu and struck his chin. His brain shook again, and the dizziness worsened.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang bang bang…

Countless rapid punches kept appearing. Dragon scales emerged over Bai Cangshu’s body again. The instant Radiant Flame ignited across An Junxuan’s body, a layer of light flashed over Bai Cangshu’s already-prepared body, extinguishing the Radiant Flame.

As his fists continued to strike, An Junxuan’s expression was grave, as if he were attempting the greatest feat of his life.

But the object of his focus was not the Mercenary Tao before him. In his mind, he was desperately imagining!

He had to imagine the essence of the power Mercenary Tao had used to instantly kill Fiend · Jiang Ming—the black power wrapped in intense deathly intent. What exactly was it?!

He had to imagine that power’s existence before he could visualize the reality of himself using that power to kill Mercenary Tao.

Magic was imagination.

A mage could not cast magic they could not imagine.

An Junxuan’s greatest talent, and the fundamental reason he had been accepted by the Throne of Illusion and Reality, was that he had successfully obtained this special magic unique to him in the Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End World—Copy Magic.

As long as he could understand the form of another’s power, he could use this magic to wield the same power himself.

Even without the corresponding enhancement system, magic power could achieve similar effects.

For example, he clearly understood that Bai Cangshu’s ability to turn his entire body black and hardened was Armament Haki from the One Piece World. He did not possess Armament Haki, but because he understood its mechanism, magic power could likewise harden his arm and grant it a certain degree of immunity to other energies.

Likewise, Bai Cangshu’s martial abilities, his ability to turn into wind, and all the abilities displayed before him could be imitated by An Junxuan.

Mercenary Tao was nearly the strongest person An Junxuan had ever encountered beneath Supreme Experts. His physical strength, varied abilities, and all-around prowess were beyond comparison with ordinary Title-level Reincarnators.

Therefore, An Junxuan gave up on imitating those Title-level Reincarnators to fight him. Instead, he used the stealth ability he had copied earlier to hide himself and personally observe the methods Mercenary Tao used to kill others.

Now that he was using them, An Junxuan felt stronger than ever before. Other than those top-tier opponents against whom he had never even gotten the chance to fight, his current self was already one of the strongest Reincarnators!

Every punch An Junxuan threw carried terrifying force. Blazing White clouds of smoke howled out continuously. He was certain that, in this state, he could kill Reincarnators at the level of Black Box or Ling Xin with a single punch.

Yet under his bombardment, Mercenary Tao’s body merely began to bleed…

Bzzz!

His punch missed, and he immediately sensed danger. The next moment, he turned into wind and vanished. Having successfully copied Instant, An Junxuan was incredibly fast. After turning into wind, he swept through like a hurricane, instantly lifting every piece of rubble and turning it into a tornado that carried the ruins he had just created into the sky.

Then he lashed it toward Mercenary Tao through the air.

Mercenary Tao emerged from the wind, and the sand-and-stone tornado smashed directly into him.

Bang!

The sand-and-stone tornado exploded. Blazing White Shockwaves blasted toward him like rings of Ripples.

An Junxuan merely stepped through the air with Moonwalk and had already pulled several hundred meters away.

The Blazing White shockwave struck the ground, and an entire city block collapsed with a roar.

Bai Cangshu’s pupils trembled continuously as God’s Right Eye lit up.

You have consumed 1 Karma Point

You have activated Omen of the Evil God!

Then he bent his knees and activated Instant: Eighth Stage!

Screech!

Just as the howl of air being torn apart rang out, sonic boom clouds appeared one after another, only to shatter one after another.

"Hahahahaha!"

Bai Cangshu laughed wildly as he instantly smashed through the tornado An Junxuan had raised again. With a sweep of his right hand, he had already grabbed someone.

Without even looking, Bai Cangshu spun rapidly through the air once and hurled him away with a crash.

Bang bang bang!

Three rings of Shockwaves appeared in succession. A figure tore through the air and smashed into the top of a skyscraper. The building shattered in the next instant, and the figure punched through three more buildings before crashing into a cloud of dust.

Bai Cangshu was enjoying himself. The muscles in both arms swelled as he unleashed a barrage of punches from several thousand meters away.

The viscous air was instantly punched inward. Then, amid a sound like bowstrings vibrating—

Three white smoke trails turned into raging dragons, curving through the air as they struck the spot where his opponent had crashed to the ground one after another.

Bai Cangshu’s eyes widened. The Reincarnators he had faced before were either not strong enough, or they merely relied on bizarre rule-based abilities to fight him. Nothing made him feel more exhilarated in battle than an opponent whose hand-to-hand combat was nearly identical to his own.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Three piercing sounds rang out as three chunks of rubble flew through the air at speeds far exceeding bullets. Bai Cangshu rapidly tilted his head from side to side, dodging all three stones.

Then he stepped through the air. The air exploded, and he crashed straight downward.

Below, An Junxuan’s eyes shone brightly. A black sheen flowed subtly over his right hand. At last, he had imagined an ability capable of creating that lifeless state with one punch.

An instant-death ability!

"Die, Mercenary Tao!"

He threw a punch. The power of Advanced Instant was still active, combined with the speed at which Mercenary Tao was charging toward him.

In an instant, his fist struck Mercenary Tao directly in the chest. At the same time, he was struck by an immense force. His chest caved in instantly, and the agonizing pain of broken ribs piercing his internal organs made his vision go black. He nearly lost consciousness.

Bang!

Bai Cangshu staggered back two steps as the black curse entered his body.

Special Reincarnator EX051, you have been hit by a special ability. Instant-death judgment in progress...