Chapter 3960: Replicate the Sun

Replicate the sun.

That was the last thing Alex would’ve expected the Fire God to ask.

"A contest of replication?" he asked. "I don’t understand."

"What is there to not understand?" the Fire God asked. "The test is to see which one of us can produce a better replica of the sun."

"No, I understand that," Alex said. "But how will we even test which one of us did the better job? As a Celestial, you will obviously make a stronger Sun."

"It will be tested in the quality of the fake Sun, of course," the Fire God said. "How stable it is. How well it can hold up. There are plenty of others here that can make the judgment."

Alex narrowed his eyes a little. Considering the man asked for it, he had to be certain he would win in this contest. There had to be a reason he was so confident.

Alex could imagine the man having tried and produced a lot of fake suns in his lifetime, which he was using now to push him back on his choice of title.

Unfortunately for him, this was right up Alex’s alley.

"I see. Go ahead then," he told Ashmaker. "Since you asked for this contest, I think it is only fair that you start it."

Ashmaker nodded without words and lifted his palm. Suddenly, a point of bright light appeared on his palm, quickly expanding to become bigger and bigger.

Before anyone realized, the light had become large enough that even the people from high in the arena had to look upward to see the peak. It wasn’t just bright either. The heat it carried was impossibly harsh as well, strong enough that the rock around the bottom of the arena melted and pooled with lava.

Long streams of aura sprang out of the fake sun, like a fountain throwing out water.

Alex could barely see any of it at all.

’What a powerful sun,’ he thought. Even though it was from his opponent, he had to admit it was an incredibly powerful thing that he had just witnessed. As expected of a Celestial.

The sun remained as bright as it was, but its size slowly began shrinking after a few seconds and stopped when it was about three times as tall as the Fire God, floating listlessly next to him.

Alex had long since stopped focusing on his eyes and started focusing on his senses to gaze at the sun. His senses themselves felt as though they were being burned when touching it. He could feel slight mental pain when attempting to touch it.

"This is my sun," Ashmaker said after a long time had passed. "It is quite strong, no doubt. But I do believe it is also perfect as the sun. If you care to disagree, please show us your version of the Sun."

Alex sensed the sun for slightly longer. "That isn’t bad," he said. "But I do believe this is what a sun should really look like."

He raised his hand, and suddenly light formed next to him as well. However, instead of it forming before him, it formed behind him.

A bright point of glowing light appeared behind Alex’s head, quickly pouring out light in all directions. It carried no aura at all, however, for that was not a real sun or a replica of a sun.

What Alex revealed there was his Spirit, which manifested as an illusory image as he used his Sun Spirit for the first time in public.

Qi flowed out of Alex’s body, aided by his Spirit as they quickly coalesced in the air before him, forming the image of a sun.

As the second sun formed, attention drew away from the other sun, and everyone looked toward it. Immediately, people could tell the difference.

It was not a difference anyone in the audience could explain, but it was something they could tell at a glance. It was no different from a man without any knowledge of paints or painting being able to differentiate two shades of the same color.

The man could never explain why the two shades were different, but he could tell that they were.

To the people in the audience, the two suns were shades of the same sun as well. As for which one was the better one, it was something they would have to take a long time and decide.

However, they would never get that chance.

Just as the sun was finished forming, Alex felt an issue with the sun that he couldn’t explain. The closer to fully forming the sun was, the worse the issue became. The sun was growing unstable.

Alex quickly forced his entire attention on keeping the sun stable, but that in return gave him such sharp mental pain that he nearly believed someone was directly attacking him.

The pain was close to something he had only once felt in the past, and that was when he had destroyed the seal around his Spiritual sea that the Storm God had formed.

He did not understand why, but a pain of similar degree was forming in his mind, and as a result, the stability of the sun was slowly slipping from his fingers like water caught in a net.

Even as Alex tried his best, the pain overwhelmed him, and whether he wanted to or not, he was forced to let go of his control over the sun he had created.

A massive explosion rumbled the arena, causing a wave of fire and Yang to explode all around them. The power inside of the sun wasn’t strong enough to harm anyone, however, as Alex hadn’t used Divine Qi.

He did not have enough Divine Qi for the sun anyway.

Alex defended against the wave of the exploding sun and soon stood in the wake of its destruction. No one had been harmed, but he could hardly think about the others in that moment.

He looked before him in the vacancy of what used to be his sun and could only question himself the one same thing.

What had just happened?

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