<h4>Chapter 1170: Growing Stronger</h4>


    The Star Devourer summoned a firewall to block Fang Yi''s path. Fang Yi''s spear, swirling with wind and lightning, struck the wall of fire and caused it to explode. As the mes red, Fang Yi was sent stumbling back—as a second wheel of time appeared by his back.


    "[Shadow and Light]!" At that moment, Fang Yi morphed into countless clones, each of which thrust their spears at the Star devourer. [Floating Clouds] helped Fang Yi dodge the attacks in his way as he attacked from unusual angles.


    The Star Devourer retaliated, sending mes spreading out like a hurricane.


    "[Heaven''s Judgment]!" Thebination of wind and lightning generated a frightening force that made his spear look like an electric saw, so fearsome it could even prate space.


    The wind and storm prated through the mes, cutting into the hurricane as a third wheel of time formed to Fang Yi''s back.


    The mes that were poised to scour the world transformed into huge palms that swatted at Fang Yi. Supported by the three wheels of time, Fang Yi tore the palms apart with wind and storm.


    "[Heaven''s Judgment]! [Tiger''s Howl, Dragon''s Bellow]!"


    A dragon''s roar resounded through the air like peals of thunder. Wind and stormbined and crackled at the tip of Fang Yi''s spear.


    Fang Yi leveled his spear. Wind and lightning surged forth. Even the Star Devourer''s mes were sucked into his attack, causing the spear to turn bright red with heat. As the spear pierced through the mes, a fourth wheel of time spawned.


    After having lost its bulk, the Star Devourer grew even faster. It quickly pulled out of range of Fang Yi''s attack.


    "[Floating Clouds]!" The wind and lightning formed a loop around Fang Yi''s body.


    Fang Yi howled loudly as wind and storm emerged from the loop, sending Fang Yi careening forward. With four wheels of time to his back, Fang Yi was barely able to control his speed.


    He didn''t manage to pierce through the two burning petals, but instead only brushed past them. His staggering speed scraped away half the mes.


    The Star Devourer condensed its own mes, the tremendous heat gathering around its two burning petals.


    The Star Devourer had never seriously cultivated in its life. It had only devoured without end, growing stronger as it consumed more and more worlds. It had never considered the source of its power, or how to control its strength—it fought solely with innate instincts.


    For one, it had never encountered a strong opponent that it wanted to defeat. The king of chaos was too strong. He had caught the Star Devourer as easily as though it were a chick, and it couldn''t view the king of chaos as an enemy. Furthermore, the king of chaos had ended up feeding the Star Devourer like a pet.


    The Star Devourer had never thought of battle or of growing stronger.


    Against Zhang Lie, however, with an equally skilled opponent who strove for victory, the Star Devourer developed a new desire—to be strong, to triumph, the first desire it had harbored in its life.


    The Star Devourer finally began to harness its strength, recalling the king of chaos'' advice: the day it was able to rein in its heat, its offensive abilities would go up another notch. Although doing so would be tedious and tiring for the Star Devourer, even revolting, it was willing to go through that much trouble to defeat Fang Yi.


    As it condensed its mes, they turned from scarlet to radiant white. Despite the fact that the Star Devourer had grown even smaller, the temperature of its mes reached an incredible height. The mes gave off so much heat that even the eighteenthyer of space was unable to bear the energy, and space around the me began to distort.


    If the Star Devourer were to remain where it stood, it would eventually burn through the very space itself.


    The king of chaos nodded approvingly.


    "[Stormwind Kick]!" Fang Yi kicked off the ceiling of the hall, wind and storm swirling around his legs. He kicked himself off the ceiling, and his [Floating Clouds: Loop of Storms] again sent him dashing forward.


    The Star Devourer sprayed out a torrent of white me, which burned the air.


    Fang Yi swerved. The moment his spear came in contact with the me, the heat struck him like a physical force.


    "[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. Light and shadow shed by its tip, just like the wind and lightning that made up the core of Fang Yi''s techniques. The attack consisted of two different types of energy, one to speed up time, and the other to elerate decay.


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    The two disparate sources of energy revolved around the spear, spawning a ck hole in the area and turning the surroundings gray. Everything was frozen in time for a moment—the blowing wind, the scintiting lightning, the scorching me. The only color in the space came from Fang Yi and his crackling spear.


    Of course, neither Zhang Lie nor the king of chaos were affected by the stopped time, either.


    Fang Yi thrust back with his spear once again, but this time, the situation waspletely different.


    The Star Devourer had grown used to the temporal stasis, and it was able to react quickly. mes erupted in the world of gray, so suddenly that Fang Yi was unable to dodge. Submerged in the me, Fang Yi''s skin burned in an instant. A fifth wheel of time appeared to his back, and Fang Yi shattered them all.


    "[Wheel of Time: Break]!" As Fang Yi roared, the wheels of time to his back splintered, and his body began to glow more and more brightly. Next to Fang Yi, a shadow of himself suddenly appeared, one which suddenly merged with Fang Yi''s body and gave him a tremendous boost to his strength. The wind and lightning circling the spear doubled in intensity.


    As the next wheel of time broke, even more light red from Fang Yi''s back. A second shadow appeared, merged with Fang Yi, and boosted his strength, followed by a third, a fourth, a fifth...


    As more and more wheels of time behind Fang Yi broke, more ephemeral shadows appeared and boosted his strength to an extreme. Wind and storm circled him five times over.


    A dragon''s roar resounded through the air like peals of thunder, scattering the sr storm. A wind dragon and a storm tiger appeared. Wind and stormbined and crackled at the tip of Fang Yi''s spear.