<h4>Chapter 616: Unleashed Potential</h4>


    Sun Mengmeng howled into the air. Fire-attuned gic energy erupted from her body, and her pitch-ck eyes burned red. me howled and roared around her. She used no technique, but the mes formed a ck hurricane with her at its eye. It burned everything in sight;va rose to the ground where she stood.


    The members of Team Zenith and Zhang Hanxiang hurriedly stepped back.


    Zhang Lie stood right at the edge of the hurricane. The ck mes scorched everything in sight, but he seemed entirely unperturbed and unaffected. He pped. "Very good, very good! Keep up this strength!"


    Sun Mengmeng''s explosive strength had reached and even exceeded Zhang Lie''s own, back when he had no disaster gene fragments to speak of.


    "You''re demonstrating incredible potential, Sun Mengmeng!"


    Pitch-ck mes sparked to life across her bow, causing the mes to grow even more intense.


    "[Netherworld''s Torrential me]!" A frightening fan of mes poured out from Sun Mengmeng''s bow, an attack far stronger than the moonlight she had summoned. The intensity of her technique shocked everyone.


    The mes arced in the air and fell toward Zhang Lie like a waterfall.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Soar]!" With one punch from Zhang Lie, the waterfall dissipated into a rain of fire that scattered all over.


    The members of Team Zenith hurriedly defended themselves. Fang Yi thrust forward with his spear, deflecting the mes that came from one direction.


    Yang Ze waved his greatsword, sending a huge shark swimming forth.


    "[Adamantine Aegis: Martial God]!" Sun Xiaowu''s body red with golden light, and runes revolved around his skin. His armor had transformed him into a ten-meter tall golden giant, one that shielded hisrades.


    The three simultaneous techniques dealt with the fallout from Sun Mengmeng''s blow.


    "[Lunarme Shot: Ninefold Phantasmagoria]." Sun Mengmeng''s surroundings began to burn with dark red mes as sheunched yet another attack.


    Nine purplish-ck phoenixes rose around her and shot toward Zhang Lie, but he was able to smash them all apart with just a single punch.


    "Is this it, Sun Mengmeng?" Zhang Lie seemed a little disappointed.


    From pure energetic output alone, Sun Mengmeng exceeded his former self, but her techniques were significantly weaker in terms of willpower and integrity.


    "[Lunarme Shot]!" mes burst from Sun Mengmeng''s body, but despite her anger, her mes had reached a limit. They grew higher, but their temperature didn''t change.


    Purplish-ck mes gathered on Sun Mengmeng''s bow once again, forming an arrow of pure ck. The image of a golden garuda, limned in ck, appeared behind her. As she loosed her arrow, it seemed to transform into a beam of light, moving so quickly that it bypassed the constraints of time and space, as though it could prate anything.


    The arrow caused no earth-shattering explosion: Zhang Lie caught it with two fingers, preventing it from moving even a single inch forward.


    "Is this it?" He asked again, breaking the arrow with a simple pinch of his fingers.


    Sun Mengmeng tried to draw her bow once more, but Zhang Lie appeared before her in the next moment. She immediately transformed her gic energy into defense, circling her mes inward to push back her attacker.


    "It''s pointless!" Zhang Lie''s palm, covered in a thinyer of spatial energy, pierced through the curtain of me and extinguished Sun Mengmeng''s fire with water-attuned gic energy.


    Sun Mengmeng tried to draw her bow once more, but Zhang Lie appeared before her in the next moment.


    "I said, it''s pointless!" He gently flicked her forehead, sending her flying out into the distance. She broke the sound barrier and, again, flew into a mountain.


    The mountain burst apart. Dust and smoke rose billowing into the air, only to be blown away by pitch-ck me in the next moment.


    ck mes, stuck together, flowed likeva along the ground. Wrapped in me, Sun Mengmeng strode forth. Her pupils had been reced by ck me, and she looked like a demon who had climbed out of an abyssal pit.


    The members of Team Zenith felt the heat creeping up their skin, and even Zhang Lie could sense the heat in the air even through his instion. "Ah, perhaps I''ve gone too far."


    "[Lunarme Shot: Extirpation of the Garuda]!" As Sun Mengmeng infused her gic energy into the bow, the image of a garuda appeared behind her. She released her arrow, which morphed into a human-faced, golden-winged bird in mid-air, radiating red light as it arced through the skies. It began to pulse with red fire, brimming with such energy that it seemed as though it would set the world ame.


    Sun Mengmeng''s attack scorched the heavens and the earth, dyeing everything in sight a patch of ck.


    Zhang Lie watched the disy in surprise. "Disaster-grade..."


    Sun Mengmeng hadn''t exceeded the boundaries of a disaster-grade lifeform, of course, but she did have the capability to take one down. Her techniques had true strength and image behind them; they weren''t just shells.


    Zhang Lie''s eyes turned serious, and space around him began to warp.


    "[Rune: Quell]!" A dragonturtle tablet rose into the air, quelling the fire-attuned gic energy that filled thend.


    Zhang Lie punched toward the sky, his water-attuned gic energybining with spatial maniption to instantly quench the me.


    Even Sun Mengmeng, gone half-mad with anger, couldn''t hope to surpass Zhang Lie.


    "[Lunarme Shot: Extirpation of the Garuda]!" She pulled her bow taut once more, infusing the rest of her gic energy within. The image of a garuda materialized from thin air and shot out along with her arrow.


    Even before the arrownded,va rose out of the ground, igniting the earth and sky alike. It was almost impossible to believe that this was an attack of a second-realm hunter without any disaster gene fragments to her name...