For Lin Chuan, who had mastered the Law of Space, this kind of concealment was nothing more than child's play.
"A boring little trick. You seem to have forgotten who the true master of space is." As Lin Chuan's words fell, immense Law of Space power erupted with a single thought.
BOOM~~!!!!
An incomparably powerful Law of Space spread outward with Lin Chuan at its center. The next second, every inch of space within ten meters around him visibly twisted.
Crack... BOOM!!!
The horribly distorted space exploded in an instant.
Countless fragments of space scattered around Lin Chuan, and at the same time, the Fifth Universe warriors hidden within space were forced to reveal themselves.
They had already formed an encirclement around Lin Chuan.
Meri, Keno, Rat, Kui, East, and Babos—the six warriors of the Fifth Universe.
One person was missing.
[Planning to use the same method you used against Raditz on me? How boring.] Lin Chuan's immense Divine Sense immediately locked onto the location of the remaining individual.
That person was lurking beneath the ground beneath his feet, waiting for the right moment to strike.
"You've witnessed my power, yet you still dared to come to me. I'm curious—what trump card does your Fifth Universe possess? Or do you really think that mastering a single Law of Space is enough to contend against me?" Lin Chuan spoke indifferently, his tightly furrowed brows resembling storm clouds that foretold an approaching tempest.
The invisible pressure spreading through the air sent chills down the spines of Meri, Keno, Kui, Rat, East, Babos, and Kusa, who was hidden within the Super Katchin.
At that moment, it felt as though they had been transported into hell itself.
Through the abilities granted by the system, Lin Chuan immediately learned their battle powers. The strongest was only slightly above the Tenth Dimensional level, while the others were merely at the peak of the Eighth Dimension or the early Ninth Dimension.
He truly couldn't understand where such people had found the courage to challenge him.
"Attacking him so suddenly... wasn't that... too reckless...?" Kui was completely overwhelmed by the terrifying aura Lin Chuan released. Even his soul trembled, and he couldn't imagine any possible way for them to win.
It wasn't that they were too weak.
It was simply that Lin Chuan was unimaginably strong.
"Lord Arak's order... was a little too abrupt..." Babos muttered, deep fear flashing through his eyes.
"This is Lord Arak's command. You only need to carry it out." Meri's cold, emotionless voice echoed.
At that instant, bloodthirsty light flashed through the eyes of Keno, Kui, Rat, East, Babos, and even Kusa, who remained hidden deep beneath the massive ground.
In a single instant, all of their self-awareness disappeared.
They had become Meri's puppets.
"Mental control?" Lin Chuan said in slight surprise.
The Fifth Universe's contestants were somewhat different from what he had expected.
In an instant, the fierce battle erupted!
Kusa, hidden within the Super Katchin beneath the surface, moved first, instantly piercing through the rocks beneath Lin Chuan's feet as more than a dozen bizarre tentacles shot toward him.
"So you've already figured out how to face me. In that case..." Lin Chuan entered his battle stance, leaping hundreds of meters into the air before casually firing a compressed Ki blast toward Kusa deep underground.
BOOM!!!!
The energy blast exploded, and destructive flames bloomed brilliantly like a flower.
In an instant, the shockwave from the explosion tore apart every section of the arena nearby, while Kusa, who had launched the first attack, was immediately blasted into critical condition, barely clinging to life.
Seeing this, Meri used his thoughts to command East and Babos to attack Lin Chuan.
"They're only two Ninth Dimensional fighters, yet you actually sent them against me? Isn't that no different from digging your own graves?" Lin Chuan narrowed his eyes slightly as the aura surrounding him transformed into an invisible shockwave that instantly struck Babos and East as they approached.
The moment they were hit, every bone in their bodies shattered.
Their bodies crashed helplessly to the ground, completely losing the ability to move.
But that wasn't the end.
Meri immediately used the Law of Space to teleport the remaining trio—Keno, Kui, and Rat—behind Lin Chuan.
"Using space before me? It seems you still haven't understood how powerful my control over space truly is!" Faced with someone showing off before the true master, Lin Chuan didn't mind teaching them a proper lesson.
With a single thought, Lin Chuan activated Space Jump.
In the next instant, he silently appeared behind Keno, Kui, and Rat.
Bang! Bam! Bang!
Three lightning-fast strikes landed precisely on each of their weak points, severely injuring them and temporarily depriving them of the ability to fight.
From the start of the battle until now, only a brief moment had passed.
Yet Lin Chuan had already defeated six of the Fifth Universe's warriors.
Before absolute strength, numbers meant nothing.
After defeating the six of them, Lin Chuan slowly descended from the sky, his gaze settling upon the final warrior of the Fifth Universe—
Meri.
This man's battle power had reached the Tenth Dimensional level, but he was clearly far more than he appeared.
Because Lin Chuan sensed an extremely familiar power within his body.
God of Destruction Power!
That's right.
Meri possessed the power of a God of Destruction.
If nothing unexpected had happened, this man was the Fifth Universe's candidate for God of Destruction.
But as a God of Destruction candidate, he should have been even less likely to foolishly challenge Lin Chuan directly.
Unless...
It had been an order from the current God of Destruction, Arak.
"As expected of the warrior with the greatest chance of winning the Tournament of Power. Lord Arak mentioned you to me more than once, and more than once I've wanted to defeat you face-to-face." There seemed to be something Meri deeply desired. Although Arak had ordered him to deal with Lin Chuan, it appeared that he had already wanted to do so long before.
He had even been preparing for this before the Tournament of Power had begun.
"Oh? So I'm that famous? So many people want to defeat me." Lin Chuan made no move to eliminate Meri immediately. He had a feeling this Fifth Universe warrior still had a pleasant surprise waiting for him.
"Don't get carried away. In a direct confrontation, I truly am no match for you. But with them... that may not necessarily be the case." Meri spoke words that left Lin Chuan thoroughly puzzled.
With them?
Was he referring to the six people who had already been beaten into losing the ability to fight?
Meri began to act.
Using the Law of Space, he teleported all six heavily injured companions to his side.
The power of the Law of Space enveloped each of them in turn as they floated around his body.
"Having them attack you earlier... was merely one part of my plan." Meri sneered while manipulating his six companions through the Law of Space.
No.
More accurately...
Six puppets.
As the six puppets revolved around him, Meri infused them with the Law of Space, purging every impurity from within and transforming them into pure masses of energy.
"So... you planned all of this from the very beginning. In the end, they even lost their lives..." Lin Chuan was genuinely shocked by what he witnessed.
The Tournament of Power rules stated that killing an opponent would result in elimination.
But there was no rule preventing teammates from killing one another.
This man had cleverly exploited that loophole, destroying the physical bodies of the remaining six warriors of the Fifth Universe while preserving only their pure origins.
"They were already dead. They only lived again because of me. Now it's time for them to fulfill their final purpose." Meri manipulated the six masses of energy and absorbed them into his body.
As the six energy masses merged with him, his form underwent a dramatic transformation.
His body expanded by an entire size.
His muscles became harder than solid rock.
The violent aura produced by the multiple fused origins transformed into a destructive storm that swept across the arena.
An aura at the Eleventh Dimensional level erupted from within Meri.
"So you've actually reached this level?" Lin Chuan was drawn in by the immense aura Meri had released.
Merely fusing the energy of six others had made him this powerful.
If he were to fully release his God of Destruction Power...
Would he step directly into the Twelfth Dimension?
If he truly could...
That would be interesting.
"HAAAAAA!!!"
Deep roars burst continuously from Meri's mouth.
As he shouted, the void of the World of Void began to distort.
Dense black storm clouds appeared overhead.
Countless golden bolts of lightning descended from the heavens, striking around him and lashing the ground of the World of Void.
The dormant God of Destruction Power within Meri awakened.
Bzzzz~~!!
A dim purple radiance flickered around Meri's body.
His appearance had completely transformed.
His body expanded to three meters tall like a giant.
Pure yet terrifying God of Destruction Power surged around him.
A unique God of Destruction rune appeared upon his chest.
His battle power officially stepped into the Twelfth Dimension.
Thus...
God of Destruction Meri had descended!
"So this is your trump card against me?" After personally witnessing Meri's full strength, Lin Chuan spoke with slight disbelief.
"Enough talk. Continue our battle. One of us will fall today... but it certainly won't be me!" As soon as he finished speaking, Meri immediately launched an attack.
Using Space Jump, he appeared behind Lin Chuan and swung a punch infused with God of Destruction Power.
Whoosh~~!!!
The unstoppable strike created ripples through space.
It appeared to hit Lin Chuan—
But it had only struck an afterimage.
"An afterimage?" Meri was slightly surprised that his attack had missed. He hadn't expected Lin Chuan to evade his serious attack without even transforming.
At their level of power, even without transforming, they could already unleash one hundred percent of their strength.
The only difference lay in how they used it.
"A fusion of Space and Destruction. Not bad. Other than Hearts, you're also worthy of playing with me." By then, Lin Chuan had silently appeared behind Meri.
"Destruction!"
Locking onto Lin Chuan's position, Meri immediately turned around and threw a sphere of Destruction Energy.
Facing the Destruction Energy Sphere, Lin Chuan casually raised one hand, using the Law of Space to immobilize it before erasing it completely with an even deeper Law of Destruction.
Watching his own Destruction Energy Sphere vanish, God of Destruction Meri frowned slightly.
He realized things were not as simple as he had imagined.
Right before his eyes...
Lin Chuan transformed.
Powerful Divine Power and pure God of Destruction Power erupted simultaneously.
In an instant, Lin Chuan entered Super Saiyan Blue Third Stage · God Ultimate · Ultra Ego.
"So you possess the power of destruction as well... Since you wish to compete, then I'll gladly accompany you." Meri felt that his pride had been challenged.
Both of them were Gods of Destruction.
Both wielded God of Destruction Power.
Meri clasped his hands together before separating them.
A gigantic Destruction Energy Sphere appeared, only to be compressed by the Law of Space until it shrank to the size of a basketball, greatly increasing its destructive power.
"Destruction Bombardment Strike!"
Using his thoughts, Meri sent the compressed Destruction Sphere toward Lin Chuan.
When it came within only ten meters of him, Meri detonated it instantly.
The destructive shockwave from the explosion shattered the space of the World of Void.
The immense blast briefly exposed an opening in Lin Chuan's defenses.
Seizing the opportunity, Meri used the Law of Space to open numerous spatial tunnels around Lin Chuan before instantly unleashing dozens of devastating energy attacks from every direction.
BOOM~~~!!!
Another earth-shaking super explosion erupted.
The void of the World of Void was torn apart once more.
Countless fragments of shattered space fell like rain, reflecting the blazing afterglow of the explosion.
"Heh... heh... heh..." A smug smile spread across Meri's face.
The combined application of Space and Destruction.
This time, Lin Chuan would surely be caught off guard.
"You're celebrating far too early."
Lin Chuan's voice suddenly came from behind Meri.
Hearing it, Meri instantly realized disaster had struck.
Instinctively, he swung a punch behind him, but Lin Chuan effortlessly dodged before sending him flying with a powerful kick.
"Your understanding of space is far too shallow. Let me show you the proper way to use the power of space."
After knocking Meri back, Lin Chuan snapped the fingers of his right hand toward the void before calmly saying,
"Multiple Severance!"
The moment the words were spoken, the countless fragments of space scattered throughout the battlefield came under Lin Chuan's control.
Wrapped in God of Destruction Power, they transformed into pure Blades of Destruction that tore through God of Destruction Meri's body at astonishing speed.
"We both wield Destruction! I won't lose to you!" Gritting his teeth, Meri covered his body with God of Destruction Power, forming an impregnable defense.
Unfortunately...
His mastery of God of Destruction Power was nowhere near Lin Chuan's level.
The powerful Blades of Destruction mercilessly sliced through his protective layer.
Within only a few seconds, countless horrifying wounds covered his body.
Every cut was deep enough to expose bone.
Bright red blood poured from every wound.
The pain that spread across his entire body nearly drove God of Destruction Meri completely insane.
"You bastard!!!"
Blood vessels bulged throughout God of Destruction Meri's eyes.
Every muscle in his body had suffered varying degrees of damage.
He had come dangerously close...
To being completely sliced apart.