BXBX NOVEL Chapter 1394: Time to End It
Chapter 1394: Time to End It
As dragons howled and golden light flashed, a frightening destructive power burst through the air.
Zhang Lie stumbled back a few steps. Resplendent Sun fared even worse. The giant vine that gave off a divine solar light dimmed. The solar vine itself was scarred with countless slashes from Zhang Lie\'s blades, and sand-like grains seeped out of the wounds. However, Resplendent Sun boasted tremendous vitality, and his wounds healed in barely any time at all.
"[Second Form: Piercing the Soul]!"
Zhang Lie\'s disaster-grade mistmeld clam soulshard activated as he infused its energy into his swords, causing them to shine radiantly with multicolored light. He glanced straight at the chimera\'s soul.
Radiant Sun\'s soul glowed like the sun, giving off blinding light.
A rainbow arc accompanied Zhang Lie\'s slash, as though an aurora borealis were visible in the sky. It shone in all the colors of the rainbow, momentarily hypnotizing anyone who looked at it.
With Guicang in hand, Zhang Lie flew through the heavens. His sword shone as brightly as the auroras overhead, bringing him momentarily out of the physical into the intangible.
His soul glowing as bright and scorching as the sun, Resplendent Sun broke out of the mental hypnosis within moments. When he saw Zhang Lie heading toward him, his sword unsheathed, he blanched. The solar vine formed a shield around him, glowing with blinding light, in an attempt to defend against Zhang Lie\'s attack.
Zhang Lie\'s aurora-like sword pierced through the solar defense, striking the solar vine with phantasmagorical light and wounding Resplendent Sun\'s soul and mind. His radiance immediately dimmed.
Resplendent Sun snarled in outrage, and the solar vine shook.
"I was intending on showing off this technique during the actual Cup, but to think I would have encountered a strong opponent like you in the qualifiers alone... You shall have the honor of witnessing this technique. Watch as I ascend to the peak of the manifold galaxies!"
Radiant light shone from Resplendent Sun\'s body. The solar vine that pierced through the cloud cover radiated with light. Tendrils and offshoots grew out of the main vine, as though Resplendent Sun had suddenly developed a few hundred avatars. Although they were no match for the main vine, each offshoot had at least half its strength.
The main vine and its offshoots, like titanic serpents, shot toward Zhang Lie.
"[Blade of the Heavens: the Sea Swells]!"
Energy poured out of Zhang Lie in waves, honing the edge of his blade. The pulses of energy struck the realm like a tsunami, devouring everything within.
With this technique, he managed to block the onslaught of the vines.
The main vine and its offshoots revolved, transforming into hundreds of blades. The blades curved like snakes, their trajectories mutable and impossible to predict, as though hundreds of experts were striking at Zhang Lie simultaneously. They broke the surface of Zhang Lie\'s sea of genetic energy.
"[Ninecarp Transformation]!"
Red scales formed a natural suit of red armor around Zhang Lie. He was surrounded by what looked like scarlet flames, but was actually steaming, blood-red water-attuned genetic energy. A black sun rose behind his back, and a blood moon shone at his feet.
A long tail grew out of his back. His black hair took on a red tint, as though they were lit up by an inner fire. Interlocking rings of black and red that warped natural law surrounded his body, and a domineering aura exuded from him.
Red water-attuned genetic energy surrounded Zhang Lie, manifesting in the shape of a dragon. He sent a sword slash, blazing with fire, at Resplendent Sun. The fiery-red genetic energy was interspersed with radiant light, suppressing the chimera\'s flames in favor of his own.
"So you\'ve been hiding your skills, too. Well, it\'s time to put an end to this match. You were a respectable opponent." Golden light blazed from Resplendent Sun, and hundreds of vines shone with light.
The wave of golden light was as though the sun had shot out a million rays of light, each glowing overwhelmingly brightly, splitting the void and the stars beyond, each a divine sword.
"You\'re right, it\'s time to end the match—but the victor shall be me!"
Zhang Lie launched a killing blow. Guicang gleamed brightly in Zhang Lie\'s hands as he infused more and more spiritual energy into it. From the surface of his spiritual sea came waves charging forward, sounding like stampeding hooves, like raging dragons.
"[Blades, Extinguish]!"
Zhang Lie\'s spiritual sea expanded greatly, past the confines of his own body. As the mistmeld clam soulshard\'s energy was infused within the blade, it began glowing with multicolored light, simultaneously illusory and real. A sea seemed to rest in the crack between the two domains, unable to be touched or otherwise sensed.
The transient, illusory nature of the light captivated everyone who saw it.
The sword in Zhang Lie\'s hands burned with scarlet water-attuned genetic energy. Billowing clouds of red-tinted steam surrounded him as though he were a burning pyre. The high-temperature steam was so hot that it visibly glowed an alarming shade of red.
This domain of scarlet steam was so dangerous that an ordinary lifeform would likely be vaporized without a trace. The temperature around Zhang Lie grew so hot that his surroundings began to warp. Mirages formed all around him.
One of Zhang Lie\'s blades glowed with radiant light; the other shone scarlet with water-attuned genetic energy.
The illusory sea combined with the scarlet ocean of reality, the attack simultaneously in the boundary between the real and the illusory, linking together the physical and metaphysical, the real and the abstract.