Chapter 1214: An Exhrating Battle


    To think Zhang Lie was this strong... he was hurling a nine-headed gic lifeform that was nearly a hundred meters tall back and forth like it was nothing more than a scarecrow. This was an insane feat.


    The nine-headed lion''s arm suffered apound fracture. The lion roared, tore off its arm and swallowed it, and a new white tiger''s w grew back in its ce.


    Zhang Lie frowned. "Are you supposed to be a lizard?"


    The nine-headed lion shed with white light. Gusts of wind surrounded it as it sent hundreds, thousands of tons of rock into the air.


    It shed against Zhang Lie once and again, ws against fist, as those rocks were sent flying all around the twobatants.


    The lion roared, spraying out a burst of silver light. Killing intent filled the air. Zhang Lie blocked the attack with a burst of energy. Behind him, a mountain copsed and exploded, the rock turning into smithereens.


    A huge white w mmed down on his body, but Zhang Lie dodged it. A huge trench formed where the wnded, the bottom of which couldn''t be seen from up above.


    The lion attacked fiercely. After its battle to the death against Zhang Lie, it had grown ustomed to its post-monarch-grade body. Every part of its body could be used as a weapon—even with its back to Zhang Lie, it could strike at him with a flick of its tail.


    Its ferocity shocked everyone.


    Zhang Lie countered with his fists as he manifested a huge serpent formed out of annihtion itself. It shot toward the nine-headed lion.


    The lion sprayed out a burst of white light, shining with metallic luster, as it charged at the serpent. A huge explosion rang out, and thend where they stood transformed into a swamp.


    The lion howled, its eyes cold. It leapt up and pounced toward the serpent once more.


    As a gic lifeform, battle was imprinted in the core of its being. As it leaned into its intuition, its attacks turned fiercer, more domineering; no gic hunter could match its instincts.


    Zhang Lie smashed forward with a punch, causing bothbatants to quake. A meteor''s worth of energy exploded in mid-air, and the ground quaked as though a volcano were about to explode.


    The members of Team Zenith watched the battle between Zhang Lie and the lion in amazement. They thought that they were already at the peak of the third realm in terms of strength, but they would surely have been vaporized immediately if they tried to jump into the battle between man and beast.


    Even among the fourth realm, there were hardly any hunters who could match the intensity and raw strength of this battle.


    The nine-headed lion roared again as 28 sharp des grew out of its back at even intervals along its spine, each with a silvery-white sheen. Killing intent filled the air.


    The des stood like pirs separating heaven from earth, thick and ice-cold, giving the onlookers a chilling sensation. The des were ridiculously massive, and unusual phenomena were urring around them. Blood was starting to appear on each de. It was a frightening sight.


    The nine-headed lion roared as it pounced forward, and the 28 des all turned toward their target. They gathered in a square around the lion and shot toward Zhang Lie simultaneously.


    The bloodstained des, suffused with an aura of cmity, approached Zhang Lie at breakneck speed.


    Zhang Lie swung his own des with the resplendence of dawn, defending against the sudden assault.


    Light covered thend like an intense meteor shower. Formless ripples shattered rock and cleaved mountains, shocking all onlookers once more.


    Guicang''s de was infused with the pitch-ck energy of decay and corrosion, but the sharp des that the lion had somehow grown seemed impervious to damage. Killing intent formed a thick aura around them, so concentrated that it could affect material form. However, Zhang Lie remained unaffected despite his proximity. He was resisting the des'' damage with his des and with formless will.


    The nine-headed lifeform roared, its eyes cold. It spat out a mouthful of white light, causing the des to gleam even more brightly. They pierced through the pitch-ck gic energy shielding Zhang Lie and headed straight for his body.


    The fight had reached its climax. Zhang Lie pursed his lips—the des were too strong, and there were a whole 28 of them! It would be difficult to handle them all simultaneously.


    The des flew toward him and pinned him down with overwhelming strength, causing thend to crumble where theynded.


    Each de was like a thick pir; if any were to strike Zhang Lie, he wouldn''t be pierced through, but rather ground into meat paste.


    As all 28 desnded simultaneously, Zhang Lie barely dodged them one by one. Space around him warped and distended; 28 ck holes formed, one around each de, trapping him in an unavoidable attack.


    Even so, the fighting spirit in Zhang Lie''s eyes only grew more intense.


    "[The Boundless de: Dragon''s Wrath]!"


    Zhang Lie thrust forward with Guicang, summoning a blood dragon.


    A dragon''s roar shook the void as the pitch-ck gic energy turned blood-red. The underworld river roiled, forming a gigantic blood dragon that flew at the nine-headed lion.


    Resplendent silver light, like armor, blocked the blood dragon and the ck gic energy itmanded.


    As Guicang glowed, the blood dragon roared. It tore apart the white light; fresh blood flowed.


    The nine-headed lion grew incensed, and its aura strengthened even further. The 28 des gleamed with killing intent and shot toward Zhang Lie once more, swamping the battlefield in white light.


    "Come!" Zhang Lie shouted, unsheathing Hanguang. "[Syzygy]!"


    A pitch-ck sun appeared behind Zhang Lie, and a blood moon by 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.


    Struck by the bloody moonlight, the nine-headed lion''s radiance grew dim. Under the ck sun, the fluctuations in Zhang Lie''s gic energy were enhanced.


    Zhang Lie crossed his twin des. The blood moon resonated with the de in his left hand, and the ck sun with the de in his right. He simultaneously shed forward with both des, forming a huge celestial web.


    Fresh blood sprayed once again as the nine-headed lion suffered another blow. It roared in outrage, spitting out a ball of hazy light, charged with skeins of radiant energy so bright they were evaporating in the air. A thousand rays of rosy light, in an endless stream, enveloped all thaty below.