<h4>Chapter 763: With One Punch</h4>


    The draconian sage beheld the Mengtai proof of kingship with aplicated expression on his face. The Mengtai had warred with the draconians for centuries. Had they really been defeated so easily?


    "There''s no need to rush to merge the Mengtai world with this one. Let me gather the proofs of kingship of the other nearby alien worlds, first." Zhang Lie stepped forward. "Ren Kunjing, assemble the warlords. I havemands for them."


    Following Zhang Lie''smand, the warlords divided into four parties led by the four prime races. They would split up and attack the worlds neighboring the draconian world, taking revenge on the races who had dared invade human territory.


    Once everything was settled, Zhang Lie shed toward one rebuilt wall of the city.


    Beyond the wall was a wormhole connected to the ckwind world. Because the draconians and the ckwind had always been on good terms, that wall was more symbolic than anything else—it was perfectly ordinary, without any particr reinforcement. The draconians never expected that the ckwind would one day betray them.


    Zhang Lie''s sudden appearance frightened the draconians and humans guarding the wall, but they quickly recovered. "Zhang Lie!"


    Zhang Lie waved at them and looked far into the distance, where the ckwind forces had gathered.


    The blue skies were hidden by ayer of swarming darkness. Firebirds burning with ck me had taken to the air, and their ck feathers were falling from the skies. The ckwind had sent quite a number of forces over.


    They were obeisant to their enemies, but willing to strike at their former allies with significant force. Even when the draconians were facing serious threats, the ckwind provided little in terms of aid, and their reinforcements only fought half-heartedly.


    On the other hand, almost all the ckwind forces had gathered to invade the draconian world.


    The king of the ckwinds was a gigantic ck firebird, whose wingspan was over a hundred meters long. mes roared and crackled over its body, giving it a devilish appearance.


    The ckwind king called out, "Where''s the draconian sage? Send the draconian sage out!"


    Zhang Lie looked up. "Do you have a will, or anyst words?"


    The ckwind king sneered. "Weak, worthless human, what gives you the courage to speak to me?! Even your warlord Chen Fan lowers his head in my presence! Either have your warlord step forward, or the draconian sage. I do not grant audiences to weaklings!"


    Zhang Lie smiled faintly. "You care about strength and position, do you?"


    One of the ckwinds began to mock the humans. "Of course our king prizes propriety! If the humans are sending someone like you out—surely it can''t be that the draconian sage and Chen Fan are gravely wounded, are they?"


    The ckwind king continued, "Humans, submit to me now and be ves of the ckwind, and we''ll consider letting you live. If I''m not mistaken, the neighboring worlds have already begun preparingrger invasion forces to attack you. Even if you managed to defend against their incursion somehow during thest battle, you certainly won''t be able to defend against this one. You''ve all lost—this is yourst chance!"


    One of the draconian guards standing on the wall shouted back, "You ckwinds are shameless, despicable backstabbers! You broke a hundred-year pact andunched a sneak attack on a human warlord! Even if you were to win this conflict, it would be nothing but a shameful victory!"


    The ckwind king sneered. "And so what if I''ve backstabbed you? It''s all you draconians'' fault for siding with the humans. We ckwind aren''t so idiotic. A victory is a victory; there''s no shame in that."


    It seemed as though the aliens had all tried to reach out to the draconians requesting an alliance against the humans, but the draconians, loyal to a fault, had staunchly refused.


    The mes on the ckwind king''s body grew even fiercer. "You should have epted your fate. To dare to kill my n''s warriors—you humans and draconians are truly arrogant beyond belief! Do you really think surviving a wave of invasions led by the Mengtai is all that impressive? Today, you humans and draconians shall be wiped away from the face of this realm!"


    "Are those yourst words?" Zhang Lie asked mildly. Gic energy exploded from his body, and a gigantic pale-blue fish materialized behind his back and soared toward the clouds as though it was leaping out of water. It was the size of a whale, one that could swallow up the sun and moon alike.


    Howling winds began to rage over the battlefield; everyone in sight was startled by the sudden appearance of the fish. Gic energy whirled around Zhang Lie, gathering dust and dirt. All thaty behind the walls began to shake.


    Zhang Lie''s attack had roused a storm even before it struck.


    A tremendous pressure struck everyone in sight, making it difficult for them to breathe.


    The ckwind king, who suffered that pressure most acutely, felt as though his life was being threatened. Only then did he understand just how frightening the seemingly ordinary man in front of him was; he was an existence that should never have been provoked. If not for the mes surrounding the king, he would likely have been sweating profusely by now.


    Heughed nervously. "That, I feel that—I think we can afford to chat a little longer!"


    Unfortunately for the ckwind king, he hade to this realization toote.


    "Very well. Let''s chat with our fists! [Fists of the Silent Sea: Soar]!"


    Ripples of energy spread out from Zhang Lie, warping the space around him. Constructs of energy emerged from Zhang Lie''s fists. They roared through the skies like galloping steeds, like thundering dragons, overwhelming any opposition in sight.


    The gigantic fish hovering above Zhang Lie''s head leapt into the sea of gic energy Zhang Lie had created as it surged toward the ckwind king.


    The ground quaked; the entire wall shook. Everything happened so quickly that the ckwind forces had no time to react. The water-attuned gic energy exploded through the air, shattering space and swallowing up all life in its vicinity.


    The water-attuned gic energybined with spatial power to produce a series of high-frequency vibrations. Almost like an eraser, those vibrations swept across the ckwind forces and caused them all to vanish from sight, leaving behind clear skies free of ck me.


    The humans and draconians guarding the wall were stupefied. Just one blow from Zhang Lie had cleared away all the ckwind forces gathered—that innumerable force that had swallowed up the skies, wiped out in one fell swoop!


    There might well have been as many ckwind gathered as the entirety of the invasion forces that the draconian world had somehow ovee.


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    The humans and draconians looked toward Zhang Lie with deep awe and respect.


    Zhang Lie''s attack triggered a set of spatial rifts as it struck the wormhole leading into the ckwind world, but Zhang Lie didn''t care. As the humans and draconians watched on in shock, he walked through the spatial rift with nothing but his bare body.


    On another battlefield, Fang Yi had begun facing off against the ck spirits.


    The ck spirits werepletely wrapped in ck cloth from head to toe. The slivers of their bodies that showed through the cloth were pitch-ck, the color of the abyss, the void, outer space...