Ultragenic Warlord

Chapter 1358: Syzygy

As Zhang Lie's energy of annihilation consumed the lava, the will of the fourth realm's announcements repeatedly dinged in his head.

[You successfully killed a peak-grade flamingheart lion. By consuming the flesh of the peak-grade flamingheart lion, you may receive one to ten peak gene fragments.]

[You successfully killed a peak-grade lava salamander. By consuming the flesh of the peak-grade lava salamander, you may receive one to ten peak gene fragments.]

[You successfully killed a peak-grade flamefur wolf. By consuming the flesh of the peak-grade flamefur wolf, you may receive one to ten peak gene fragments.]

The lifeforms hidden within the lava perished to Zhang Lie's energy of annihilation, disintegrated and atomized. The flesh was completely obliterated; Zhang Lie wouldn't be getting any gene fragments out of this.

The lava struggled, attempting to free itself from the black hole, transforming into hundreds, thousands of hands that attempted to reach for Zhang Lie, but Zhang Lie wouldn't allow himself to be caught so easily. Guicang appeared in his hand. With a slash, he tore apart the countless hands.

The energy of annihilation spread all around him, but Zhang Lie curtailed it and cut it off. After all, a gathering point was right in the vicinity, and he didn't want to imperil it. With a wave of Guicang, he cut apart space and time, causing the energy of annihilation to dissipate.

If not for the nearby gathering point, Cthaat's son would already have been destroyed whole by the energy of annihilation.

Smoking remnants of lava gathered together into a humanoid face.

Cthaat's son had lost its former arrogance, but not its pride.

"I'm Cthaat's son! Aren't you afraid of having to go up against Eternal Sun?"

Zhang Lie responded with his sword. He raised the blade in his hand high into the air, encircled by black genetic energy.

"[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!"

The temperature dropped to sub-zero values, and a strong wind buffeted the battlefield. The lava cooled.

A stellar river materialized in the air. As though the doors to hell had just been thrown open, tens of thousands of serpents rushed out in a flood.

Each serpent was pitch-black like the abyss, like the dark of night, and speckled with starlight, a miniaturized version of the Milky Way. The serpents were guides and ferrymen both, leading departed souls into sky and space, freed from the mortal coil.

As Zhang Lie's sword swung down, the stellar river struck the mortal world. The lava gathered together and formed a pillar of light, a long river of flame, clashing against Zhang Lie's stellar technique. Starlight exploded with a sizzle, and flames illuminated the firmament.

"[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!"

The pitch-black genetic energy expanded as it swallowed up the sky, replacing the dark clouds in the air with black genetic energy.

Day turned to night, and stars twinkled in the night sky. The genetic hunters were gobsmacked by the scale and immensity of the technique.

The night sky morphed into a raging sea. Waves surged forward, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves. The universe itself seemed to shake, as though the stars were shifting positions.

The surface of the stellar sea frothed with waves, layering and texturing it. Auroras hung in the air, veiling the night sky.

From afar, stellar dragons seemed to roar. The pitch-black dragons were like the night sky made manifest. Thunder and lightning crackled in the air as the dragons unfurled their wings amidst a storm of lightning. The auroras stretched on for thousands of miles, so beautiful they captivated the gathered hunters.

Zhang Lie struck. An underworld river hurtled into existence, roaring into the sea. The sword energy roiled like black waves, like a meteor shower, causing the very stars to shake.

The entire night sky shifted as a thousand stellar dragons descended, as though a crack had broken in firmament. A flood that could destroy the world itself rained down on the lava.

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

The river of lava was completely obliterated, destroying Cthaat's son in a massive explosion. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ ɴo(v)elFɪre.ɴet

The ground cracked, the air shook, and the stars dispersed. The wooden palisade outside the gathering point trembled violently as all the hunters in it gazed at the devastation in shock, including the members of Team Zenith.

They knew that this was an attack that none of them would be able to block.

The destruction left only ruined ground outside the gathering point. The air smoked with ash; the heat hadn't dissipated fully. The cracked ground was smoldering with fiery light.

Zhang Lie was just about to sheath his blade when the airship flew over. Li Qianlin called out, "Zhang Lie, there's a high-energy reaction coming from underground!"

Zhang Lie reacted instantly. The black dragons' phantasmal figures soared into the air. Zhang Lie thrust forward with Guicang in a flash of blinding starlight.

"[The Boundless Blade: Dragon's Wrath]!"

Guicang unleashed a barrage of sword energy in the form of a stellar dragon.

The stellar dragon's howls shook heaven and earth, shattering the ground and sending fragments of lava spraying all over. There was a great deal of moving lava underground.

Zhang Lie smiled. "Found you."

Bright sword energy radiated from Zhang Lie like brilliant rays of sunlight, illuminating the entirety of the world.

"[First Form: Parting the River]!"

A frightening force spread out from Zhang Lie, energy rumbling and rippling around him. As Zhang Lie swung the blade in his hand, a huge slash of sword energy shot toward him, carving out a gulley in the ground and revealing the fiery lava.

The lava, exposed, formed a humanoid face. "Damn it!"

Cthaat's son had retreated underground during the earlier attack against the stellar dragons, knowing that it was no match for Zhang Lie. It pretended to have been defeated by his final attack, but had actually burrowed underground to flee via a lava vein. At the stime, it would be able to replenish its supply of energy.

Though seemingly boorish, with lava for brains, this son of Cthaat was far more crafty than the previous two that Zang Lie had met.

If not for the airship's ability to sense energy, or for Li Qianlin's reminder, Zhang Lie would have fallen for the deception. Now, however, it wouldn't be able to escape.

"[Shadow and Light]!"

Light and darkness flashed. Tand space revolved, then sped up in the vicinity of Zhang Lie. A rain of swords fell, causing the lava to roil. The humanoid face shouted, "I'm one of Cthaat's sons. Killingwould be going against all of Eternal Sun. /my father won't forgive you!"

"I've heard that more than once by now. [Syzygy]!"

Runes appeared on the bloody moon by his feet, forming an intricate array.