<h4>Chapter 509: Confrontation of Two Armies</h4>


    Themander of the empire of stars'' forces yawned. "I''m going to go have a nap. Wake me up when you''re done. Deal with them quickly, you hear?"


    Before the forces of Renhuang arrived, a flock of birds flew across the sky. Some were regr-grade, others mutated-grade, and yet others superior-grade. They filled the sky, blotting out the sun and darkening the entire world.


    None of these birds seemed particrly strong, but each of their ws held a vial.


    A general of the army frowned as he looked up at the birds. "An aerial attack?"


    He dispatched a few archers to shoot down the birds; another group of fighters flew into the sky to engage in meleebat.


    As the birds perished, the vials burst open in mid-air, sshing their contents on the fighters below. At that point, none in the empire of stars'' army knew how serious the problem was.


    The archers and fighters killed most of the birds in the flock, but the birds didn''t show any proclivity to fight. As though they were just passing by, the birds scattered once they crushed the vials of potion between their ws.


    A heavy mist descended on the army, and a few cracked ss vials dropped on them.


    Given the sura''s constitution, however, they could easily shrug off being hit by a ss vial or two. Such attacks would cause them no harm; they even incitedughter among those who were hit.


    The generals frowned. "What do the forces of Renhuang think that they''re doing?"


    "Surely they aren''t just trying to disgust us with these antics?"


    In the middle of the army, a nightmare was starting to bloom.


    "Maybe they''re just giving up on defending entirely."


    Just as one fighter finished speaking, his eyes bulged and he dropped to the ground, his body spasming as it dissolved. Startled, hisrades jumped back, only to find themselves losing their bnce and falling to the ground as well, dissolving bit by bit...


    "Poison!" a sura general hissed. "All fighters, retreat! Don''t let the poisonnd on your skin!"


    By the time the generals reacted, it was toote. Over 70% of the sura fighters had been poisoned, and all those who had been poisoned were slowly dissolving.


    This gic poison affected not their bodies, not their immune systems, but rather their cells and gic code themselves. It was far stronger than any infection known to date, and it spread more quickly than any virus.


    The rare few survivors yelled as they backed away from their dissolvingrades. Some tried to dispel the poison, but to no avail. The sura didn''t have the technology or equipment to deal with poison of this nature; even the Yeluo couldn''t im that they understood it fully.


    The poison had been developed by chance, not intent. Despite their best efforts, the Yeluo hadn''t been able to make any progress toward an antidote. If someone were to concoct a simr poison targeted at the humans or at the Yeluo, the Yeluo would have no recourse—such was the strength andplexity of the poison they had invented.


    The generals frowned when they realized that standard antidotes had no effect. The poison had alsonded on the generals, but all that it inflicted on them was paralysis. The generals of the empire of stars were as strong as sura kings in their own right, and they were by andrge immune to poisons and toxins.


    However, Renhuang had somehow managed to manufacture a poison that was effective even against the sura generals, and worse, could be produced in such great quantities as to be applied to all their forces at once.


    The thirty-to-one ratio of numerical superiority that the sura had boasted about waspletely pointless after the release of this poison—no matter how many troops the sura had, this poison could destroy them all.


    Zhou Liao nced open-mouthed at the scene. "To think you had such a devastating secret weapon..."


    Once the poison had been released, the forces of Renhuang took advantage of the sura''s panic and confusion to charge forward. This was their best opportunity to strike.


    The generals gritted their teeth. They had to prevent the Renhuang forces from striking them now! Therge majority of their fighters were incapacitated; it would be a one-sided ughter.


    A few of the sura generals rushed forward, appearing in front of Renhuang''s forces. Their bodies were aglow with gic energy. As generals of the army, they were eachparable to a sura king in strength, and it wouldn''t be impossible for them to hold back a hundred thousand forces for some time.


    However, they had underestimated the strength of Renhuang''s forces.


    Renhuang''s army continued charging forward despite the sura generals'' appearance; instead, a barrage of purple mes shot toward the sura fighters.


    Countless arrows of purple me shot out of Sun Mengmeng''s bow like a meteor shower, tinting the air purple and giving the world a phantasmagorical appearance. The air turned dry and arid, as though a cataclysm was nigh.


    "You dare?!" The sura generals tried to protect as much of their forces as possible, but Sun Mengmeng hadunched so many arrows that it was nigh impossible.


    Under the brilliant purple sky, the sura fighters began to burn, drowned in a sea of purple me.


    Very quickly, even the sura generals were unable to defend their troops any longer—they were being attacked by Team Zenith themselves.


    "[Netherworld''s Torrential me]!" Sun Mengmeng''s hand blurred as she shot out an entire field''s worth of arrows. A frightening fan of mes poured out from Sun Mengmeng''s bow, swallowing up the sura forces whole.


    "[Heaven''s Judgment]! [Tiger''s Howl, Dragon''s Bellow]!" Fang Yi''s spear took on the aspect of a dragon of the winds and a storm tiger.


    "[The Boundless de: Shark''s Wrath]!" Yang Ze swung down with his greatsword, and the giant shark flicked its tail andunched itself forward.


    "[Goldenscale Palm: Split]!" A frightening golden punch shot forward like a golden de before exploding in the middle of the sura forces.


    "[Dance of the Incandescent Wyrm]!" Li Feng summoned dozens of serpents, ring with blinding light.


    "[Avatar of the Fae: Earthbound Prison]!" Zhou Ying stomped on the ground, her feet seemingly bing rooted. The patch of ground beneath and all around her began to glow green, and hundreds of jade-green roots flew into the air.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Sun and Moon]!" A ck sun and white moon revolved around each other, sending ripples of gic energy spreading out around it.


    Even the young leaders of the four prime races, caught up in the moment, attacked the sura forces...