Ultragenic Warlord

Chapter 1129: Repeated Clashes

The king of keys' pillar of world's energy was composed only of the energy of large worlds, but there was simply so much of it that Zhang Lie's serpent was hard-pressed to corrode it all away.

Only the king of keys could afford to be so lavish. No other superior king would be so wasteful with world's energy.

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As Zhang Lie activated his blood ant and dragonwolf soulshards, he transformed into a dragonwolf with russet fur and limbs covered with dragons' scales. A dragon's horns grew out of his head, and his aura was magnified. A hurricane of blood and gusts of hot wind spawned around him.

The next moment, Zhang Lie vanished from the spot, dodging the king of keys' attack and appearing right before him. He attacked in a flurry of punches that morphed into a blood hurricane, but despite striking the king of keys, his attack had no effect.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!" As Zhang Lie punched forward, the blood dragon roared in rage. It shot toward the countless worlds that formed the bulk of the king of keys until it smashed into one such world.

A wave of annihilation exploded around the dragon. Pitch-black energy swallowed up everything in the vicinity like a storm, devouring one world after another.

The explosion was like a ravenous black hole.

Before the king of keys could react, Zhang Lie launched yet another attack. Blood-red genetic energy manifested around him.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Hundred Dragons Soaring]!" A horde of over a hundred black dragons launched out of Zhang Lie's left arm as he expended half his genetic energy in one supercharged attack.

Keening like peals of thunder, the horde of dragons smashed into the king of keys' manifold worlds. They were fierce and domineering, and all hundred of them boasted the power of annihilation.

They exploded upon contact with whatever world they encountered, spreading and adding to a frightening wave of annihilation. If the king of keys had bothered to craft the illusion of a face, it would have displayed a wretched expression.

The energy of annihilation swept a path of destruction through the worlds that formed his body, converting the world's energy it thus acquired into more energy of annihilation, which spread faster and faster.

A single blood dragon might not have been a problem, but Zhang Lie had released hundreds of black dragons, like mice that had found their way into a sack of rice.

The worlds that the king of keys had merged together before the battle were all destroyed. Zhang Lie's initial volley of attacks annihilated a third of the king of keys' worlds—and the fight had just begun.

In other words, Zhang Lie had almost instantly destroyed thirty million worlds, a rate beyond what the king of keys himself could accomplish even if he wanted to cull his worlds.

Zhang Lie unsheathed his sword. Sword energy billowed around him, tearing even space apart.

The sword energy struck the king of keys while he was busy trying to handle his internal galaxy, resulting in a pincer-type attack from inside and outside.

The king of keys grew enraged. The worlds within his body began to orbit erratically before time suddenly stopped. The energy of annihilation was forced to a halt, and each of the myriad worlds seemed to morph into eyes.

All the worlds formed a connected whole as natural law chained the various worlds together. In a state of extreme anger, the king of keys entered a combat-ready stance. Under ordinary circumstances, the tremendous energy he possessed was sealed away by the realm itself, which couldn't countenance an existence beyond natural law.

The unsealed king of keys was unimaginably speedy. As the worlds within his body moved at a hundred times their original rate, so too did the king of keys. The galaxy that was his body possessed its own rate of temporal flow and its own set of natural laws, which directly affected the king of keys' actions within the third realm.

From the king of keys' sped-up perspective, the entire realm seemed to have frozen, and all actions were as slow as a snail's crawl. Only one person was moving at regular speed.

"[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!" Upon witnessing the king of keys accelerate, Zhang Lie had no choice but to follow suit.

Zhang Lie struck once more. An underworld river materialized in space, one so vast the entire world could see it. Everything turned cold, and the temperature dipped below freezing. Flakes of snow fell from the sky; it felt as though a gate to the underworld had suddenly opened.

As though the doors to the underworld had opened, thousands of ghostly specters emerged from within, forming a dense river. On careful inspection, those specters revealed themselves as demonic serpents in such quantities that would cause any witness to shudder.

The serpents surrounded Zhang Lie, blocking the king of keys' dramatically accelerated skill.

After the serpents perished, they transformed into a sticky, black substance before quickly condensing back into the form of serpents.

The king of keys was very shocked to realize that Zhang Lie could keep up with his hundredfold temporal acceleration, but that ability seemed to be restricted to him and him alone. The serpents' movement speed and regeneration speed couldn't compare.

"[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!" Pitch-black energy immediately spread outward and suppressed the exploding smoke.

The combatants participating in the battle all looked up at the void, whereupon they found it wholly replaced by a pitch-black ocean.

Waves surged forward, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves. The surface of the sea frothed with angry waves, like dragons emerging with the tide. The entire sea roiled, and lightning crackled amidst the void. Countless serpents swam across the raging sea as lightning flashed ominously overhead, a scene right out of an apocalypse.

As Zhang Lie swung his sword, the roaring waves all morphed into black dragons.

The sea had transformed into a boundless battlefield. The sea breeze was as a horn to action, and the serpents, thousands of courageous soldiers heeding its call.

The king of keys pushed his temporal acceleration to the utmost, to thousands of times its original rate. World's energy manifested in the form of a solid punch, smashing into the demonic serpents in a hurricane of rainbow light and significantly distorting Zhang Lie's underworld river.

However, the demonic serpents that had been annihilated by the king of keys' attack quickly reformed in an endless tide, resulting in a stalemate.

"[The Boundless Blade: Dragon's Wrath]!" Zhang Lie thrust forward with Guicang, summoning a blood dragon.

A dragon's roar shook the void as the pitch-black genetic energy turned blood-red. The underworld river roiled, forming a gigantic blood dragon, its jaws wide open and its claws poised to swipe.

It was formed from genetic energy and a thick, coiling mass of blood-colored serpents.

Even the king of keys was forced to retreat within his bubble of accelerated time...