<h4>Chapter 1089: Like a God</h4>


    A strong wind buffeted the battlefield. Blood-colored frost appeared around thebatants, as though a mysterious realm of hell had intersected the third realm.


    As though the doors to hell had just been thrown open, tens of thousands of serpents rushed out in a flood as Zhang Lie swung Guicang at the king of ck fog.


    The king of ck fog condensed that fog into two huge palms, which pushed forward and caused all the serpents in their way to explode. However, the serpents came in an endless torrent. Neither side let up.


    "[The Boundless de: the River Lethe]!" Zhang Lie lifted the de in his hand high above his head as pitch-ck energy exploded from him. He looked like a demon descending on the world.


    ck gic energy filled the battlefield, vast and concentrated.


    Zhang Lie''s gic energy roared as it took the form of a vast, angry sea. Waves surged forward, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves. The surface of the sea frothed with angry waves, like dragons emerging with the tide. The entire sea roiled, and lightning crackled amidst the void.


    Countless serpents swam across the raging sea as lightning shed ominously overhead, a scene right out of an apocalypse. As Zhang Lie swung his sword, the roaring waves all morphed into ck dragons.


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    The sea had morphed into a boundless battlefield. The sea breeze was as a horn to action, and the serpents, thousands of courageous soldiers heeding its call.


    Meanwhile, the king of ck fog unleashed a tsunami of ck smoke.


    Theherworld sea shed against the ck smoke. The ck serpents in the air exploded and reverted to ck gic energy, but before they could reform as serpents, they were swallowed up by the ck fog. The ck fog was able to get rid of the serpents once and for all, but at great cost.


    After a few confrontations, the huge wave of ck fog was no more than a tenth of its original size. It had been five times the size of an ordinary superior world—and now it was only about asrge as a peakrge world.


    The king of ck fog was getting a bit terrified. "Zhang Lie, there''s no reason we have to fight to our deaths. Why don''t we sit down and have a talk instead? All I want is the superior world''s energy that the Zongming king possesses. As long as you''re willing to hand it over, I''ll turn on the sr king and ice queen!"


    "There''s no need for you to worry about them. I''ve already dispatched forces against both."


    The king of ck fog clearly doubted Zhang Lie''s words. "Even if you were to kill me, the Zongming world will be destroyed. Just who could you have sent over? None of the superior kings of antiquity are weak, and the sr king and ice queen are stronger than your ordinary superior king, let alone in their own worlds."


    From the perspective of the king of ck fog, Zhang Lie had no true understanding of the sr king and ice queen''s strength. In other words, he was being overly arrogant and self-centered.


    "I don''t know where you found your helpers, but they won''t be so easily dealt with. No superior king of antiquity is weak. The sr king and ice queen are very intelligent. They tend to turtle up in their own worlds, bolstered by their authority as superior kings, in addition to their personal strength. They''re essentially invincible in their territory. All your helpers will be killed to thest. If you want to protect the Zongming world, you only have one option open to you: working with me."


    Zhang Lie ignored the king of ck fog''s words. The blood dragon''s phantasmal figure soared into the air. Zhang Lie thrust forward with Guicang, the gleam of the de so bright that the void seemed to wee a new dawn. The blood dragon melted into the de.


    The king of ck fog became more and more anxious when he saw that Zhang Lie was unmoved.


    "Zhang Lie, don''t misunderstand! This is yourst opportunity."


    Zhang Lie asked, "Aren''t you also a superior king of antiquity? You have a seat at the meeting table, you''re in your superior world—and yet you still can''t beat me."


    "Zhang Lie, do you really think I can''t beat you?" the king of ck fog roared. The ck fog erupted in a storm.


    "Let''s try it, then!" A dragon''s howl echoed through the air as Zhang Lie swung his sword infused with the blood dragon''s strength. "[The Boundless de: Dragon''s Wrath]!"


    Zhang Lie thrust forward with Guicang, summoning a blood dragon. The blood dragon''s howl shook the void. Zhang Lie''s sword tore apart the storm of ck fog, piercing through it.


    The king of ck fog''s humanoid face turned into that of a dragon as he opened his mouth wide and devoured the attack.


    Zhang Lie''s sword pierced through the fog. His attack exploded in the heart of the world of ck fog. "[First Form: Parting the River]!"


    A frightening force descended on the king of ck fog, energy rumbling and rippling around him. As Zhang Lie swung the de in his hand, a huge sh of sword energy shot toward the king of ck fog.


    Fog roiled, morphing into countless hands and feet—but they were all cut apart by the pale-white sword energy.


    The sword energy cut deep into the world of ck fog, leaving a huge abyssal trench within.


    Zhang Lie''s [First Form: Parting the River] shouldn''t have been so destructive, but the king of ck fog had expended too much ck fog in the fighting so far, and he felt death drawing near. He, who imed to be impossible to kill, was stricken by the possibility of imminent death.


    His eponymous ck fog had been almost entirely used up, and he wouldn''t be able to defend against another overwhelming attack from Zhang Lie. The king of ck fog had no intention of dying so easily. He retaliated, putting his life on the line. The ck fog manifested in the form of long spears, which rained down on Zhang Lie like a thunderstorm.


    "[Shadow and Light]!" Time suddenly sped up in the vicinity of Zhang Lie, and he left a series of afterimages in his wake.


    With Guicang, he smashed apart all the spears of ck fog. The king of ck fog noticed that his attacks had weakened significantly, but even so, the king of ck fog didn''t give up. Countless ws emerged from his body and mixed with the fog, even as Zhang Lie drew his other de.


    Hanguang shed, and the ws were all shredded to pieces.


    "[Syzygy]!" A burning ck sun rose behind Zhang Lie''s back, and a bloody moon red into existence at his feet. His aura was magnified tenfold, and a halo of ck sun appeared above his forehead. Naturalw seemed to warp around him.


    Runes likewise appeared on the bloody moon by his feet, forming an intricate array. Under thebination of the two auras, Zhang Lie seemed to have transformed into a god...