<h4>Chapter 1072: Monologue</h4>


    The sr king tossed the sun in his palm at the arclight dragon instead, causing its image to dissipate within moments.


    "[Light''s Bulwark: Dragon''s Teeth]!" Li Feng charged up for a stronger attack. Concentrated light-attuned gic energy surrounded him as he shot forward in a beam of light—against which the sr king retaliated with one of his own.


    The three-way fight had scorched all surroundingnd within a thousand miles.


    Thend of the world of zing sun had been half-scorched to begin with, but Li Feng and Fang Yi''s fight against the sr king had melted it.


    Fang Yi turned back in mid-air and, seizing the opportunity that Li Feng had left him,unched an attack in rapid session.


    "[Born of Lightning, Swallowed by the Wind]!" As Fang Yi shouted, his spear traced a half-moon in the air, surrounded by an aura of time.


    The spear pierced space and time, its tip descending into the void. Everything froze and turned gray: the wind, the burning mes—everything was halted in this grayscale world. The only color in the space came from Fang Yi and his crackling spear.


    Fang Yi moved extremely slowly. The cost of maintaining this grayscale world was immense. The sr king''s reactive armor had yet to recover fully, and there was still a gap around his chest, right below his neck.


    The moment Fang Yi''s spear struck the sr king''s body, time returned to normal. Golden ichor sshed out of the wound as the sr king grabbed onto the haft of the spear.


    He called out, "I overlooked your abilities. To think a puny ant would be able tomand power over time..."


    Although the sr king looked calm, he was unbelievably shocked. Where had these twobatants, who looked as though they were both on the level of superior kings, emerged from?


    The appearance of such strong fighters would surely leave a mark, but the sr king had never heard of these two fighters, almost as though they had appeared out of thin air.


    This was Zhang Lie''s genius. He had long since predicted that he would have had to fight against the superior kings of the third realm, and had chosen to sequester the members of Team Zenith until now.


    In the end, the superior kings of antiquity really did strike.


    The superior kings didn''t realize that Zhang Lie was able to call on seven or eight morebatants on the level of superior kings, and were caught unprepared.


    If they had known about this in advance, they would have thought more carefully before invading the newly evolved superior worlds. Facing off against three superior kings was different from doing so against ten, and the superior kings of antiquity would suffer serious losses by doing so.


    The members of Team Zenith were all very impressed with Zhang Lie''s nning and foresight.


    Fang Yi found his spear trapped. He was unable to budge the sr king''s grip. He had intended to push the tip of the spear deeper into the sr king''s body—but the sr king had broken out of the temporal constraints with his own power.


    Against any other superior king, Fang Yi might have seeded, but Fang Yi''s opponent was clearly versed in time as well, and he had the backing of fighting on home ground. The will of the world afforded the sr king fine understanding of the state of his world, including the flow of time. The sr king sensed that he was trapped in stasis and invoked the authority of a superior king to break out of it.


    "[Light''s Bulwark: Meteoric Fist]!" An arclight dragon appeared behind Li Feng. He punched forward, and the dragon shot toward the sr king like a bullet from a sniper rifle.


    The light dragon left behind a starry trail, breathtakingly beautiful.


    Li Feng reached out to save Fang Yi as the sr king snorted, kicking Fang Yi toward the dragon of light with such force that it caused a white-colored explosion. Fang Yi''s back was reduced to a mass of bleeding flesh.


    Li Feng hurriedly flew toward him. "Are you alright?"


    Fang Yi shook his head. "It''s a minor injury, nothing more."


    The sr king guessed, "You''re working for the king of chaos, aren''t you? He doesn''t want to see us gain more power?"


    No fighter on the level of a superior king could have emerged out of nowhere. From the sr king''s perspective, all these fighters had to be carefully cultivated over years and years.


    Most importantly, the sr king wascking crucial information. He knew that there were beasts so powerful as to be ssified as monarch-grade, though not what these beasts meant to the hunters of the Milky Way.


    Most superior worlds had monarch-grade creatures, who served like guardian deities of their respective worlds.


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    From the sr king''s perspective, the only superior king who had ess to so many strong fighters was the king of chaos. The sr king murmured to himself, "Does the king of chaos fear that we might be able to reach his level if we were able to im the Zongming world''s spoils for ourselves...?"


    Fang Yi and Li Feng nced at each other. They had heard of the king of chaos, the strongest of the superior kings of antiquity, ruler of the world of primordial chaos. But what did the king of chaos have to do with them?


    The sr king, however, seemed to have suddenlye to an understanding.


    "I get it, I get it now! No wonder the king of chaos gave the crystal of world''s energy to the Zongming king! He knew that the Zongming king was a newly evolved superior king, who wouldn''t be able to unlock its full potential for years on end. It''d be useless to him."


    Fang Yi was wholly confused by the direction of the sr king''s thoughts, but any distraction would be valuable to him. Fang Yi had consumed quite a lot of stamina in activating his control over time, and the damage to his back was something that would take some time to recover.


    Light-attuned gic energy continued to scald him; it was particrly potent in a world like the world of zing sun. Despite Fang Yi''s im that it was only a minor injury, it hurt all over.


    While the sr king monologued, he chugged down a restorative, allowing his wounds to seal. He couldn''t help but think of Zhou Ying, and how she had vanished after the sr king''s initial attack.


    The sr king continued to speak. "You don''t fear us—you fear this energy that''s beyond even that of a superior world! You intend on dealing with all the other superior worlds first before iming that treasure for yourself—making us fight among ourselves while you hide behind the scenes like a mastermind. As expected of the strongest king, we can''t match you in wit or in strength!"