<h4>Chapter 832: Cleaning Up the Threats</h4>


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    The river of ck serpents swallowed up the redva on impact; it was hardly a fight. The ck serpents then demolished everything in their path and drenched theva smander. Theva exploded, destroying the ck serpents—the smander had self-destructed its outer shell.


    After doing so, the smander revealed its red ruby-like body. Its actual body was far smaller in size; itsva exterior was more like armor that was formed from its excellentva-maniption abilities.


    The smander''s true body was only as tall as a regr human, far smaller than the humongous creature that had been formed out ofva. ?The difference in size made its true body look rather cute, so much so that Zhang Lie was tempted to keep it like a pet, but he quashed that impulse near-immediately. He had to avoid being fooled by the smander''s cute exterior appearance—it was still a disaster-grade lifeform, after all.


    The heat that its red ruby-like exterior exuded was over ten times hotter thanva. The moment Zhang Lie thought the true fight was about to begin, the disaster-grade smander croaked twice. Its eyes leaked outva as though they were tears, and it turned tail and burrowed into the magma.


    Zhang Lie sliced forward, but the smander was so far that all Zhang Lie managed to cut off was a quivering red ruby tail.


    Given the regenerative abilities of disaster-grade lifeforms, it would be able to regrow its tail in the blink of an eye.


    "I won''t let you escape so easily! [Rune: Float]!" With a thought, the image of a dragontutle manifested behind Zhang Lie, and the runic tablet of anti-gravity appeared above the hole that the smander had dug.


    ck ripples emanated from the gravity-altering tablet, and ancient runes in an unknownnguage appeared on it. The disaster-grade smander continued to scrabble in the ground, but it felt a force that relentlessly pulled it up and impeded its motion—and for Zhang Lie, even a minute dy was enough.


    With a swing of the de Guicang, he bisected the disaster-grade smander.


    [You sessfully killed a disaster-gradeva smander. By consuming the core of the disaster-gradeva smander, you may receive one to ten disaster gene fragments.]


    Zhang Lie retrieved the disaster-grade core from the smander''s carcass. It was surrounded by scarlet mes and seemed to be filled with moltenva.


    As spatial fluctuations surrounded him, Zhang Lie found himself teleported back to the ck desert, where he absorbed the disaster-grade core. Upon doing so, Zhang Lie felt his power grow once more.


    Zhang Lie: a disaster-grade lifeform


    Techniques: Rippling Walk (pinnacle), Three-Wave Crescendo (pinnacle), Calm Waters (pinnacle), Fists of the Silent Sea (pinnacle), The Boundless de (pinnacle), Eclipse (pinnacle), Syzygy (advanced), Ninesoul Dragonde (advanced), de of the Heavens (pinnacle)


    Genes: Basic, 160; Mutated, 150; Superior, 150; Peak, 150; Disaster, 80


    Soulshards: White Grub (superior), Blood Ant (superior), Potbellied Toad (mutated), Eternalspring Cocoon (superior), Dragonwolf (superior), Moonlight Wyrm (peak), Golden Roc (peak), Mistmeld m (disaster)


    Zhang Lie needed only to kill two more disaster-grade lifeforms to max out his disaster gene fragments.


    As spatial fluctuations surrounded him, Zhang Lie returned to the draconian sage''s residence.


    The draconian sage was smiling as he received Zhang Lie. "Do you need some time to rest?"


    Zhang Lie shook his head. "They were just a few small creatures—I hardly need to rest. We''ll continue!"


    The draconian sage nodded. "I really do admire the endless energy that youth possess..."


    "Come on,e on!"


    "The fourth disaster-grade lifeform is from the greenskins'' world, and was the reason it became a desert. The greenskins'' world had initially been rich and replete with resources, but the explosion of the greenskins'' poption, coupled with the existence of this disaster-grade lifeform, drained what the world could support."


    Zhang Lie frowned. He expected that the disaster-grade lifeform was likely some sort of glutton that fed off of lifeforce or vitality in the vicinity, but his guess waspletely off the mark.


    "The greenskins began to raid other worlds both to get resources and to reduce their poption. In addition to that, wars frequently break out within the greenskins'' world, primarily with this disaster-grade lifeform as their opponent. The greenskins call her the mother of cockroaches, and she possesses a frightening reproductive ability. She''s able to give birth to tons, literal tons, of cockroaches in one go!"


    Zhang Lie''s mouth spasmed. "So you mean you want me to clean up a cockroach infestation?"


    The sage countered, "Not quite. Don''t you want some disaster-grade cores?"


    "Alright," Zhang Lie epted wearily. "I suspect the greenskin king had the ability to deal with this infestation of cockroaches, but that he chose not to do so in order to curb the greenskins'' own growth. The mother of cockroaches might have an insane reproductive ability, but I can''t imagine the greenskins had it much worse."


    The greenskin king had likely left the mother of cockroaches around as a threat in order to refine the next generation of greenskin warriors.


    Zhang Lie asked, "It''ll be easy for me to get rid of the mother of cockroaches, but how will we curb the number of greenskins afterwards?"


    The sage replied, "You don''t have to worry about that. The draconians'' world isn''t like the greenskins'' world from before. Our world now has thebinedndmass of nine medium-sized worlds, and we have far more resources than the greenskins'' world ever did. We''d be able to support three greenskin races, not just one. What''s more, aren''t you all still expanding into other worlds?"


    The draconian world, unlike its medium-sized self just a few weeks ago, now had more than enough resources to support even the greenskins.


    "Even if you didn''t have an invasion n, I would have made my own move at some point. The draconian world doesn''t need any chaff around."


    Zhang Lie guessed, "Were you nning to take advantage of the greenskins?"


    "Yes, I was—they need the training. Now that the nine worlds havebined, all the alien races in the draconian world are all to be considered native inhabitants, and I''ll need to be looking out for everyone even if they don''t belong to my n."


    "Oh? You are magnanimous, after all. Teleport me over, then!" Zhang Lie requested.


    With a wave of the draconian sage''s hand, Zhang Lie found himself surrounded by spatial fluctuations. The next moment, he found himself in a desert, one filled with huge ck cockroaches crawling all around him.


    Each cockroach looked fierce and was about as tall as a human. The moment they saw Zhang Lie, they began pping their wings madly. Their probosces leaked with unusual clear fluid, and their bodies emitted a vile, terrible stench.


    Upon seeing these disgusting cockroaches, Zhang Lie didn''t even bother with his disaster-grade mistmeld m soulshard. He sensed the disaster-grade lifeform underground and chose to attack with brute force.


    As he clenched his fists, blue gic energy gathered and rippled around his arms. He flicked his wrists, causing a frightening aura to descend on the world. The skies began to darken, and a fish the size of a whale materialized in the air.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Soar]!" A huge wave manifested in the air. The fish mmed its huge tail on the ground and sent a torrent of water surging through the desert...