<h4>Chapter 732: His Life at Stake</h4>


    The aliens of the Milky Way and the western elites were both extraordinarily relieved that they had been far enough away from the twobatants to not be caught in the aftermath of their fight.


    "Oh? You''re not too bad!" Zhang Lie stood atop a wave on theherworld sea, a blood-colored whirlwind revolving around his sword.


    "[The Boundless de: Dragon''s Wrath]!" A blood-red dragon emerged from the sword, revolved around Zhang Lie, then soared toward Duan Zisuan and tore apart the defense afforded by his firestorm.


    Duan Zisuan extended his ws and blocked the dragon''s advance. His lightning armor fizzled and began to tear, and countless wounds appeared on his ws. Blood and flesh scattered in the air, where they lit up as though a thousand mes surrounded him.


    Duan Zisuan swiped forward with his ws, sending a renewed firestorm spreading out around the dragon like a twister. After trapping the dragon, he easily shredded the outeryer of energy surrounding the dragon, but the bacsh from doing so caused him to spit out fresh blood from his mouth. He was sent reeling backwards, crashing down toward the ground like a meteor.


    Duan Zisuan had forced Zhang Lie to use an advanced technique against him, but that didn''t make him stronger than Li Zongming.


    In truth, Li Zongming was the stronger of the two kings, but Li Zongming hadn''t been fighting Zhang Lie to the death.


    Bothbatants were holding back then; if Li Zongming truly did intend to prevent Zhang Lie from abducting his daughter, Zhang Lie wouldn''t have gotten away so easily.


    Of course, the only reason Zhang Lie dared to abduct Li Qianlin was because he was confident he could escape even if the two kings did their best to stop him.


    Duan Zisuan''s defense had dramatically weakened Zhang Lie''s attack, which wasn''t able to finish Duan Zisuan off. It wasn''t that easy to kill a king of the realm of arge world, after all.


    Red mes red where Duan Zisuan hadnded. He stood within the mes like a demon king being resurrected.


    "It''s time to end it—[First Form: Parting the River]!" Gleaming light honed the edge of Zhang Lie''s sword, and a beam of sword energy rose into the air. Waves of sword aura poured from Zhang Lie.


    The bright sword energy rushed toward the sky before falling back down like brilliant rays of sunlight, dissipating the darkness in a wave of energy so intense that it could be seen all over the western world.


    The thunderclouds in the sky burst apart.


    Duan Zisuan rose into the air, his ws burning with heat. Red light burst from his palms and formed what seemed to be a gigantic sun. The heat was so intense that it baked the air. Even from a distance, the aliens of the Milky Way and warriors of the west could feel the change in the atmosphere.


    The sun was sorge that it dwarfed even Duan Zisuan himself.


    Undeterred, Zhang Lieunched an attack toward Duan Zisuan, a sword sh so strong that it tore the ground apart even before itnded. The sun was split in two, and it burst with heat so dramatic that the entire sky turned red as though it had been lit ame.


    Amidst this maelstrom of heat, Duan Zisuan caught the sh of energy with his two ws, crackling with lightning and fire. The energy dissipated as twin pirs of lightning and me rose into the air.


    With the de Hanguang, Zhang Lie split both pirs in two.


    Duan Zisuan howled. The red aura around him red, and hisst reserves of lightning burst forth from his body. His mane puffed out as thebination of fire and lightning pierced the air with heat more extreme than what had appeared in the battle thus far.


    "[de of the Heavens: the Sea Swells]!" Energy poured out of Zhang Lie in waves, honing the edge of his de. The pulses of energy struck the sea like a tsunami, devouring everything within.


    Zhang Lie bisected even this pir of impossible energy, tearing apart the elementalndscape and revealing the pale blue skies that had been hidden from sight all this time.


    Duan Zisuan, wrapped in lightning and fire, invoked his authority once more to summon a thick pir of lightning at Zhang Lie''s location, which he blocked with his twin des.


    The lightning revolved in mid-air, forming a waterfall that poured over Duan Zisuan''s body, causing it to radiate visibly. His ws, sharp and crackling, seemed as though they could tear through anything.


    "[Rune: Resonate]!" Zhang Lie sent all four runic tablets down on him. They began to resonate as one, sending ripples that melded with the sky and forming an absolute domain over all things within.


    Duan Zisuan''s body suddenly slowed down, and the lightning and fire petered out. This was Zhang Lie''s chance to counterattack. He sprung forward, blocking any bursts of energy with his des.


    Duan Zisuan suddenly noticed something amiss. From his perspective, Zhang Lie had suddenly sped up countless times, and his des, whirling like the wind, easily cut apart his elemental phenomena.


    He quickly realized that the four runic tablets were to me for warping naturalw around him. He thought that the two tablets controlling gravity were shocking enough, but for all four to be able to control space and time as well…


    "As expected of the product of a higher realm..."


    Duan Zisuan wasn''t wrong; the origins of the manual from which Zhang Lie had learned his framework might well be from a higher realm.


    With a moment''s thought from Duan Zisuan, the array of runic tablets broke apart, but by then, Zhang Lie was already right in front of him. "[Second Form: Piercing the Soul]!"


    He infused spiritual energy into his de, and the de gleamed more and more brightly as he charged up his technique.


    The silvery-white glow illuminated the entire space.


    Lightning and fire condensed around Duan Zisuan''s ws as he tried to block Zhang Lie''s blow, but the sword strike passed through his ws as though they were non-existent. It cut through his ws, through his body—and directly struck his soul.


    Duan Zisuan howled in pain. The injury was far more serious than anything Zhang Lie had inflicted to date.


    Unbidden, fire and lightning burst from him, but Zhang Lie didn''t step back. He bore the brunt of Duan Zisuan''s counterattack as heunched his own blow. "[Time''s Passing]!"


    Duan Zisuan''s ws easily blocked this attack, but even so, his ws suddenly shuddered. Like nts that had be desated, his ws were quickly aging and chipping away. The power of time corroded his body, and huge patches of fur fell to the ground. Duan Zisuan''s eyes widened in shock; he had the temptation to cut off his arm.


    Fortunately, Zhang Lie''smand over time was still weak, and Duan Zisuan himself was far from death...