Sun Xiaowu himself had been shocked by the whitegold tiger's sudden use of [Adamantine Aegis].

The disaster-grade whitegold tiger was surrounded with multicolored light, like a thousand banners swirling through the sky. It tore apart Sun Xiaowu's golden qilin's scales with its sharp claws as it sent its two dozen blades forward once more, piercing through the golden qilin.

The golden qilin exploded like a supernova, releasing scorching-hot energy that caused the world of the trial to quake intensely. Golden light basked the entire world.

The whitegold tiger was sent flying. The runes all over its body shook violently. If not for the fact that it had just learned Sun Xiaowu's [Adamantine Aegis], it would already have been torn apart by the explosion.

The whitegold tiger roared as it exuded light that filled the skies. Thousands of beams of light shot toward Sun Xiaowu like radiant blades.

Golden runes flashed amidst the light. The whitegold tiger was a gold-attuned lifeform that easily picked up Sun Xiaowu's techniques, and it was now incorporating them into its attacks.

Sun Xiaowu scoffed. "You've barely learned anything from me. This is the advanced form of [Adamantine Aegis]. Use it if you can!"

Golden runes emerged from Sun Xiaowu's body and revolved around him in a flash of golden light.

"[Adamantine Aegis: Martial God]!"

As the golden runes merged with his genetic energy, Sun Xiaowu transformed into a mecha over ten meters tall. Runes decorated his body, glowing behind his back like a burning sun.

With a fist, the mecha dissipated the tiger's [Adamantine Aegis] a scar on its forehead.

To Sun Xiaowu, [Adamantine Aegis] was nothing more than an opener.

The tiger growled. Two dozen silver blades trembled as one, shooting straight at Sun Xiaowu in an attempt to pierce through him.

"[Goldenscale Palm: Split]!"Layers of dense golden scales appeared on Sun Xiaowu's arms, and his right arm glowed with resplendent light.

As Sun Xiaowu attacked, so too did the golden mecha, bringing the strength of his attack to a new level entirely.

Golden light swept through the world with such force that the firmament itself seemed liable to break, as though the sun were falling to the ground. The tiger's two dozen blades shattered.

The tiger howled in outrage, but Sun Xiaowu was in the acme of his strength. His fists shone with golden light.

The white tiger stared at Sun Xiaowu with baleful eyes. Radiant light shot out from its mouth straight at him, which Sun Xiaowu obliterated with his fists.

The tiger's runes of [Adamantine Aegis] turned scorching-hot. The runes glowed and extended from its body, shielding itself.

Although the tiger didn't possess any genetic energy, its innate understanding of gold-attuned energy allowed it to partially reproduce the effects of [Adamantine Aegis: Martial God].

Its ersatz rendition of the technique meant that, as it swiped, a huge copy of its claws would simultaneously swipe at its target.

"[Blinding Flash: Thousandfold Echo]!"

Sun Xiaowu split into a thousand clones, each of which summoned a golden mecha.

Sun Xiaowu laughed. "Come on, then! Challenge me in single or group combat. In single combat, you'll fight all of us, and in group combat, all of us will gang up on you!"

Sun Xiaowu didn't wait for the tiger to make up its mind. His clones charged forward with immense force, causing dust to rise up and the ground to quake. Golden light filled them all.

"[Golden Divide]!"

Thousands of golden mechas simultaneously used Golden Divide, and the entire sky turned glittering gold. There were so many of them they filled the sky. The golden blades formed a golden flood.The whitegold tiger was sent flying. The [Adamantine Aegis] protecting its body turned battered; it could hardly withstand the attacks of a thousand of Sun Xiaowu's golden mechas at once.

Thousands of golden blades condensed into a unified whole, radiating golden light and splitting the sky in twain.

The whitegold tiger attempted to run, but Sun Xiaowu's blade was too fast for it. With a mournful howl, its [Adamantine Aegis] was torn apart, and one of its legs was cut off.

"[Goldenscale Palm]!"

Sun Xiaowu's arms glowed with resplendent light, and a layer of dense golden scales emerged over his skin. Golden radiance lit up the battlefield.

The tiger, despite having only three legs remaining, nevertheless moved rapidly.

Sun Xiaowu's clones crashed down onto the battlefield like meteors. Golden light filled the skies.

The whitegold tiger scampered back and forth, barely avoiding the projectiles, before it was sent flying by the force of the explosion. It rolled over the ground multiple times.

"[Goldenscale Palm: Qilin]!"

The golden mechas exploded with golden radiance. Their forms dissipated into motes of golden light, which shot toward Sun Xiaowu's own mecha and augmented it. It was as large as the falling sun.

It bent its arms as golden energy shone from its body and illuminated the heavens. Tens of thousands of clones merged into Sun Xiaowu's main body, and the countless activated copies of the technique merged into one.

Golden scales covered up Sun Xiaowu's arm as it grew thicker and thicker, and the image of a golden qilin appeared behind him.

In his mecha form, augmented by his thousand clones all stacked atop each other, the might of his golden qilin grew by at least fifty times, if not a hundred.

As Sun Xiaowu swung his fists forward, the golden qilin soared into the air.

The qilin's scales were radiant and shining with golden light, each like a miniature sun. It looked like a god descending from the heavens, its long whiskers floating in the void, surrounded by golden clouds, looking like a sculpture of gold.

In Sun Xiaowu's mecha form, the golden qilin he released grew to a staggering fifty thousand meters in height.

The golden qilin radiated light, occupying half the world with its bulk.