Ultragenic Warlord

Chapter 1007: Greed without End

Zhang Lie had overexerted himself, and the core of the newly reborn death spirit king had fallen to the ground. The decaying king thought that this was a good opportunity.

"You destroyed my world during your fight with the death spirit king. The crystalline energy he left behind should be just compensation for my losses!" The decaying king pounced forward.

"You lay there without helping us, and now you're blaming me for destroying your world?" Zhang Lie retrieved a Yeluo restorative from his extradimensional storage.

This Yeluo restorative had the rare and potent ability to stimulate cellular growth, allowing Zhang Lie to recover from his injuries and restoring half his genetic energy. Such a powerful potion had its side effects, of course—after using this potion, because of the drain on his biological resources, huge pain would wrack his body.

Zhang Lie slashed forward with Guicang. A blood-red river of genetic energy manifested around him. "[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!"

As the river arced through the air, it turned blisteringly hot. The temperature rose dramatically, as though a portal to the underworld had opened.

On closer inspection, the river was formed of thousands, tens of thousands, of blood serpents, so numerous as to form what seemed like a fluid whole. Each serpent was a brighter red than blood—they were composed of boiling lava.

With a wave of Zhang Lie's sword, the serpents rained down on the decaying king.

The serpents bit and smashed into the writhing black mass that was the decaying king. A pitch-black skeleton's arm emerged from the mass, tearing apart the serpents.

Pitch-black energy surrounded the arm as it tried to catch Zhang Lie, but Zhang Lie blocked its attack with the blade in one hand. ?Fire-red genetic energy sprayed out of the blade in the other. "[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!"

The scarlet energy exploded. Nightdemon and Wilbow hurriedly flew back as Zhang Lie transformed into the equivalent of a gigantic demon.

The scarlet genetic energy burned the skies above the world of black rain to a crisp.

As though the fire itself were crazy, it expanded all over, throwing itself to the whims of the wind, devouring everything it touched without fear. The sea of flames spread at an incredible rate, as though it wanted to swallow up the entire sky.

From afar, the flames looked like countless thundering dragons, serpents of blood, demons amidst the flames. As Zhang Lie struck, a fiery river hurtled into existence, transforming whatever it touched into gray ash.

The blood serpents were like thousands of courageous soldiers attacking in force.

In a matter of moments, the decaying king was drowned in the sea of flames. The ground melted, turning into boiling-hot lava.

Serpents of blood continuously rushed out of the sea of flame, tearing, biting, and siphoning the pitch-black energy that composed the decaying king. The decaying king swiped at them with its claws, but after they burst apart, they were easily able to reform by drawing on the energy of the sea of fire.

The decaying king struggled furiously amidst the flame as the pitch-black energy surrounding itself was burnt to a crisp. The decaying king's true form was revealed—a decayed, pitch-black skeleton that had lost one arm, and whose lower body was crushed.

Zhang Lie was very surprised—just what sort of existence had the skeleton been in its life, that even its skeleton could become a superior king in death?

Perhaps the death spirit king had been a fourth-realm hunter, whose body had somehow fallen into the third and eventually, over eons, transformed into the decaying king.

But all this was unimportant now.

"The moment you messed with me, you were fated to die."

The blood dragon's phantasmal figure soared into the air. Zhang Lie thrust forward with Guicang, the gleam of the blade so bright that the world of black rain welcomed a new dawn. The blood dragon melted into the blade. "[The Boundless Blade: Dragon's Wrath]!"

A blood dragon appeared. The blood dragon's howls shook heaven and earth, igniting the flames, morphing into a tyrannical dragon of fire, and piercing through the skull of the decaying king.

The decaying king's skull burst apart as an unknown black substance emerged from it. It was soft and gooey, like brain matter. It fled through the flames and the serpents, thinking to escape.

"I'm right here, you know!" Bright sword energy radiated from Zhang Lie like brilliant rays of sunlight, illuminating the entirety of the world of black rain.

Just as Zhang Lie was about to swing his blade down, Nightdemon suddenly appeared before him.

Zhang Lie scowled. "Scram, or I'll cut you down along with the decaying king!"

Nightdemon smiled gently. "Zhang Lie, calm down. Listen to me."

"You aren't going to ask me to let go of the fool who tried to launch a sneak attack on me for the so-called balance of the third realm, are you?" Zhang Lie snorted. "I don't care for this balance. I'll break it today!"

Nightdemon smirked. "Of course not, Zhang Lie. I'd attack him even if you didn't—but there's no need. He can't get away."

The ink-black man had, at some point, appeared before the decaying king's path, preventing him from escaping.

The decaying king screeched, "King of chaos, we're good friends, aren't we? We've been superior kings for a long time together, haven't we? Let me go, just this once!"

Nightdemon smiled gently. "Since you've been a superior king for so long, you should be well aware of our rules."

The ink-black man continued, "While we were killing the death spirit king and his forces, you launched a sneak attack on one of our number. You're breaking long-established custom."

Nightdemon added, "If I remember correctly, you were one of the superior kings who participated in establishing those laws in the first place. For someone like you to then break those laws—this just won't do."

The ink-black man continued, "According to custom, the spoils of war will be divided in a meeting convened among the superior worlds, but you tried to claim it for yourself. Do you think yourself above us all?"

Nightdemon gave the decaying king a grim, mocking smile. "Many think the superior worlds' rules nothing but a joke, that might makes right—but don't forget that we're all superior worlds! If we don't follow the rules we set out for ourselves, all of us will be doomed. Do you understand?"

Nightdemon and the ink-black man's words weren't just for the decaying king—or rather, it was pointless to be lecturing the decaying king now. Their main purpose was to lecture Zhang Lie, who held the core of the reborn death spirit king, instead...