Ash was more like painting than swinging his sword. As the tip of his sword passed through the void, he drew round sword circles of ink, like a shrinking cage that was encircling the stars. The stars completely turned to a defensive posture, neither avoiding nor counterattacking, swinging the sword of millions of stars in the most elegant arc, shattering all the ink marks with perfect precision.
Starlight and ink dots bloomed like flowers, embellishing the colorful sea of stars. At this moment, Ash knew that even if he bound all living beings, he could not surpass the stars in swordsmanship.
Because Fanxing is the master who has gone the furthest in the path of swordsmanship, farther than anyone else.
Her swordsmanship is supreme, her astrology is supreme, her two arts have both reached the highest level!
But compared to her achievements in swordsmanship, what surprised Ash more was that she was still able to remain calm, neither arrogant nor impatient, and not resentful or angry.
As the greatest magician of all time, Fanxing was able to suppress Ash half an hour ago, but now she was suppressed by Ash instead. However, she did not act irrationally because of her pride. She immediately accepted her weak position and responded to Ash's attack cautiously. For her, this was no less than being beaten in the face by Lala Fatty, but she did not have the slightest impulse.
She is an extremely rational magician, not disturbed by any environmental factors. The long time has eliminated all her unnecessary flaws until she has been sculpted into a perfect work of art.
It is not difficult to understand why she stubbornly believes that only she can decide the fate of the world - because she herself is a wise king, a saint, a "god" who has abandoned all human nature and is absolutely fair and just.
Ash even felt that she was no longer a magician. Magicians were a combination of greed, curiosity, desire, and selfishness. They were the most despicable and shameless profession. The stars were like white lotuses growing in this mud. They were the final starlight blooming when the magician civilization developed to its extreme.
Ash is the complete opposite of Fanxing. He even has an additional shortcoming of "laziness" compared to ordinary magicians. He is like a fat cat rolling in the mud. He can sleep in leisurely even though he is dirty all over.
One pursues perfection, the other is obsessed with correctness. They walk different paths together, but they end up in the same place. When Fanxing had an absolute advantage, Ash never bowed his head; now that Ash is coming with a huge momentum, Fanxing has not shown any weakness.
They are so stubborn and will never give up until they reach the end of the road!
"The concept of a magician does not only represent a magician." Fanxing danced with her sword step by step, her long black hair flowing like water. The starlight sword dance did not hinder her thinking and talking at all. "Even if you can bind all living beings, you can't complete the concept of a magician."
What the stars mean is not "as long as I am here, you will not be able to complete the concept of magicians", but even if Ash can conquer all magicians and connect them into one, it does not count as completing the concept of magicians.
In fact, the nature of a magician can be seen from the power that Ash can steal:
Virtual wings, the realm of magic and... magic spirit!
Those who possess virtual wings are not magicians, and those who have reached a high level of magic are not magicians either.
From the beginning to the end, there is only one definition of a magician -
Only those who use magic spirits can be called magicians!
Therefore, the concept of a magician naturally includes all magic spirits (including gods)! To complete the concept of a magician, all magic spirits must be included in the palm of your hand!
This is a goal that Ash and his companions can never achieve no matter how hard they try. They can find the sorcerers hiding in the ends of the earth and rule them by force. They can even invade the virtual world and bring all living things under their control. They can extend their power to every corner like the villains in fairy tales, but they just can't collect all the sorcerers.
Because while they were talking, a new spirit might be born in some unknown corner of the virtual world. And the virtual world itself is not fixed, the Dream Stairs and Ruby Mountain can be extended infinitely... Spirits are infinite and unknown, how can you collect an unknown thing? It's just like turning all the air into private property, which is just a fool's fantasy.
"Completing the concept of magician requires not only becoming the "only magician", but also mastering the "only magic". If there is a magician who is not your own, and the magic power that does not belong to you, you cannot complete the concept of magician integration." Fanxing said calmly. She seemed to have thought about these things over and over again. When she spoke, she was smooth and rigorous: "Destroying the virtual world is not only the extinction of life, but also the only way to destroy magic. Only when all the magic in the world no longer exists, the last magician can complete the concept of magician, condense the eight wings, and transcend the end."
"That's true." Ash sighed: "From the very beginning, the concept of a completionist was an impossible task."
"So you finally gave up your fantasy of perfection and just want to compete with me for the only seat of the Eight Wings?" Fanxing lowered her eyelids, "Although you can't save everyone, you can at least save those you care about... I won't give in, but I admit that you do have the ability to decide the fate of the world."
"No, I still haven't given up on pursuing the perfect ending."
"Do you have any more cards?"
"No, what you see now is all my arrangements. We have done our best."
"Then what are you expecting?" Fanxing's face showed confusion, and even a hint of helpless resentment: "Are you still expecting a so-called miracle?"
"That's right." Seeing that Fanxing seemed to be angry at his words again, Ash immediately intensified his attack and made Fanxing speechless. He laughed briskly and said, "Of course I understand that we are the most powerful existence in the magician civilization. There will be no power more powerful than us to bring down miracles."
“So I don’t pray for miracles upwards, I ask for them downwards.”
Not up, but down
This was the first time that Fanxing was unable to comprehend the deep meaning of Ash's words, and Ash had no intention of explaining. Although he still only used the "Heart Hunting Kingship" to attack Fanxing, the sword circle he drew gradually changed color, purple, turbid black, silver, dark purple... In the end, he was able to draw a colorful sword circle that was ten times more powerful than the original one. Even if Fanxing could break the sword circle countless times, the colorful colors left by the broken sword circle would infect the environment around Fanxing, constantly strengthening Ash's miracle power.
After noticing this, Fanxing began to move around, looking like she was being beaten by Ash and was fleeing. However, apart from defending, she would occasionally slash out one or two rays of starlight, but her target was not Ash, but the stars in the sea of stars!
Each star that was detonated would instantly burst out with dazzling light that was equivalent to the sum of billions of years of radiation, washing over the entire seventh level of the virtual realm. The battlefield advantage that Ash tried to create with the colorful sword circle was completely broken by the stars!
Even though Ash's virtual wings have surpassed Fanxing, the huge gap in combat experience is enough for Fanxing to deal with Ash's attack with ease!
However, Fanxing was vaguely aware that Ash was not in a hurry to defeat him. He was just maintaining a fighting rhythm that would prevent him from escaping, as if he was waiting for something.
Is he really waiting for a miracle
But at this time, where else can he ask for it
As time went by, the flow of the seventh layer of the virtual world changed subtly. Fanxing clearly sensed that the place where Ash was gradually became the center of the seventh layer of the virtual world... No, it was the center of the virtual world!
What she can see, what she can't see, what she can feel, what she can't feel, endless colors passed through the insignificant obstacles of the virtual world and gathered on Ash, forming an unimaginable storm of magic. At this moment, the realm of God overlapped with the seventh layer of the virtual world, and billions of laws twisted and changed, waiting for Ash to write a new truth!
This is a festival, a great festival in which the magician holds the world in his hands!
But the essence of the ceremony is a process that any magician is extremely familiar with, or in other words, anyone who wants to become a magician must go through this process.
Among all the magicians in the Void Realm, perhaps only Ash would feel new about this festival.
"Virtual Realm Resonance."
Even Fanxing couldn't look directly at this unprecedented storm of magic. She squinted her eyes and tried her best to focus on Ash's figure, muttering softly, "He's... summoning magic spirits?"