<h4>Chapter 831: The Third Disaster-Grade Lifeform</h4>


    This time, it took Zhang Lie quite some time to absorb the disaster gene fragments, because his [Ninecarp Transformation] had reached another threshold. Although it didn''t advance, Zhang Lie had managed to gain a perfect grasp of the intricacies behind each transformation.


    When he returned to the draconian sage''s residence, before he could speak, the draconian sage asked, "The third disaster-grade lifeform, now?"


    "Of course!"


    The draconian sage began, "In light there is darkness, in bitter cold, fiery-hot mes. Such is the duality of mater—"


    Zhang Lie broke the draconian sage off. "Sage, just what are you trying to say?"


    "I''m trying to give you information about the third disaster-grade lifeform. Don''t interrupt me, please."


    The draconian sage continued, "Unexpectedly, the frozen world of the surface is a counterpart to the superheated subterranean world beneath it. A preponderance ofva and me naturally result in an abundance of fire-attuned gic energy, which has given birth to an unusual lifeform in that world..."


    "Enough—just send me to the disaster-grade lifeform!"


    The draconian sage sighed, waved a hand, wrapped Zhang Lie up in spatial fluctuations, then dropped him off in andscape of fire andva.


    The environment was so hot that Zhang Lie felt as though he were nearing the surface of the sun. If not for his disaster-grade ability to limatize to even the harshest environments, Zhang Lie might have vaporized on the spot.


    Zhang Lie was shocked. "Is this really the subterraneanyer of the frozen world...?"


    Before Zhang Lie was a huge river ofva which constantly emitted mes. Even the air was glowing red and suffocating. An egg would be cooked in half a second; ordinary superior-grade lifeforms would perish in days.


    The moment Zhang Lie appeared in the underground world, a pack of fiery dogs rushed toward him, their bodies burning with me. Rather than mes feeding off their body, however, it was more like their bodies were made out of mes entirely.


    Zhang Lie activated his disaster-grade mistmeld m soulshard, but they were entirely useless against these ming dogs, who wereposed of me and seemed tock rationality entirely.


    Zhang Lie kicked at the ground, sending ripples of water-attuned gic energy flying around him and snuffing out the mes on the dogs.


    Zhang Lie projected into the environment. He could sense a disaster-grade lifeform''s aura within theva in front of him, but it seemed to simultaneously be spread out throughout the entire river ofva.


    "[Ninecarp Transformation: Golden Tiger]!" The image of a golden tiger appeared behind Zhang Lie''s back, and its roar echoed through the air. A golden aura suffused Zhang Lie.


    A mountain of des rested atop the tiger''s back, and Zhang Lie''s body itself underwent a transformation. His hair turned silvery-white, until they became akin to silver needles.


    His gic energy likewise became more honed. Silvery-white gic energy gathered over his body, and tigers'' stripes appeared on his arms. His eyes became those of a tiger''s, and steely sharpness erupted from every pore.


    Upon feeling the change in Zhang Lie''s aura, theva began to quake. The mes red.


    Zhang Lie pressed both palms t on the ground, then leapt forward like a tiger, evading the flood of mes.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!" The [Fists of the Silent Sea] formed a fist inbination with the ck serpent form and a mallet with the golden tiger. The condensed gic energy solidified into sharp silver crystal, spinning so quickly it cut apart theva like a de.


    Lava sprayed out from the river, which suddenly turned turbulent.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!" A crystal wall appeared behind Zhang Lie, reflecting light in five colors, so dazzling it dazed any who looked at it, so beautiful it sparked their desire.


    As Zhang Lie manipted space, that crystalline gic energy shot out of the wall behind him in the form of sharp daggers, able to prate anything thanks to Zhang Lie''s mastery of space. They tore apart space and sky, shooting into the river ofva like raindrops in a thunderstorm and sprayingva all over.


    Theva became turbid and rotated quickly, gathering and clumping together to form a giganticva dragon that opened its maw and bit forward. It was the manifestation of the entire river ofva, and its jaws wererge enough to fit a hundred Zhang Lies within them.


    Zhang Lie saw through the artifice immediately. Theva dragon was nothing more than a construct, not a disaster-grade lifeform.


    Zhang Lie activated his blood ant and dragonwolf soulshards. Red fur grew out of his skin, and dragon scales covered his limbs. Dragon horns emerged from his forehead, and his aura was immediately magnified.


    A blood hurricane manifested, sending hot wind blowing all over. Zhang Lie''s ws swiped at theva dragon and tore it apart. The ground shook asva spread madly across it and formed countless moreva dragons.


    Zhang Lie condensed his gic energy. Sharp white crystals floated around his body.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Hundred Dragons Soaring]!" As he cocked his fist, dozens of crystalline dragons formed behind his back, roaring in unison and causing theva to quake. The next moment, they shot out through his fists, their trajectories criss-crossing over theva, beautiful and striking even as they pierced through theva dragons and sunk into the river ofva.


    The entire world seemed to be quaking, as though the river ofva was roaring in rage. Huge quantities ofva flowed down the river like a flood, filling the entire underground space.


    Zhang Lie summoned the sword Guicang, splitting the space before him into two pieces and shielding himself from the impending attack. None of theva was able to hurt Zhang Lie at all.


    A beam of light shone down from above, as though a deity of the sword was descending to the mortal realms. A torrent of water-attuned gic energy exploded forth from Zhang Lie, and a ferocious shark was manifesting behind his back.


    As water-attuned gic energy rotated around his body and formed a miniature cyclone, the de Guicang seemed to reflect the boundless ocean.


    "[The Boundless de: Yawning Wave]!" The ferocious shark shot forward into the depths of theva, sending steam hissing into the air on impact. Zhang Lie''s water-attuned gic energy blocked the steam from his body.


    As the river ofva dried up, the form of ava smander was finally revealed. It was massive and formed from what seemed to be free-flowingva, radiating such heat in its vicinity that it would melt even the sturdiest metal.


    Zhang Lie activated his mistmeld m soulshard again, but it didn''t have the desired impact. The disaster-grade smander opened its maw and shot out a flood of crimsonva.


    "[Ninecarp Transformation]!" A ck serpent materialized behind Zhang Lie, by now sorge and so developed that it resembled the world-swallowing serpent Jormungandr. It let out a threatening hiss as its scales clicked together.


    At the same time, Zhang Lie''s gic energy changed attunement again.


    "[The Boundless de: the River Lethe]!" An underworld river materialized in the sky, one so vast the entire world could see it. The impossibly hot undergroundyer suddenly cooled down. As though the doors to hell had just been thrown open, tens of thousands of serpents rushed out in a flood...


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