Chapter 1244: A Familiar Sight


    Zhang Lie slowly sped both hinds behind his back. "Have you intuited anything?"


    Zhang Hanxiang clutched her face with her hand. "My brother''s definitely doing this intentionally..."


    Hong Xi sighed. "What a familiar scene..."


    Sun Xiaowu clutched his forehead. "My sister lost to this attack twice in a row—she really has gone mad!"


    Sun Mengmeng was so besotted with Zhang Lie that she was on the verge of losing her mind.


    Zhang Hanxiang sniffed in disdain. "I must apologize for having a brother like this."


    Sun Xiaowu sighed again. "I should be the one apologizing for having such a sister."


    Despite knowing that Zhang Lie might well be tricking her, she had still fallen for the same ploy twice in a row. After all, what if Zhang Lie was serious this time?


    Sun Mengmeng''s body burned with purplish-ck me so intense that it dyed the heavens the same color. She cast [ck Sun], forming a corona of purplish-ck me around her. Then, she activated her most impactful soulshards for battle, transforming from a young woman to a fierce warrior with a chitinous carapace, wreathed in ck me.


    Her mes were so intense that the armor-type soulshard actually began to crack and split. ck mes seeped out from the cracks, burning so intensely that the ground began to melt and turn red.


    By then, Sun Mengmeng had transformed into a fearsome warrior straight out of hell.


    Even from afar, the members of Team Zenith could sense the sudden change in temperature, and the scorching heat pricked their skin.


    ck mes red from her garuda bow, manifesting in the form of an undead phoenix.


    "[Netherworld''s Gaze]!"


    Hundreds of arrows, like beams of moonlight, shot toward Zhang Lie. Their mes felt as though they could destroy everything they touched.


    Zhang Lie lifted his hand and deflected the stream of arrows, tossing them aside.


    Sun Mengmeng''s mes were of far higher temperature than in the second realm; she had learned how to channel her emotions into her mes.


    The reason Zhang Lie had begun their match with this attack was to facilitate Sun Mengmeng with her emotions, and Sun Mengmeng hadn''t disappointed him.


    "[The Nine Moons of the Underworld]!"


    Nine ming moons appeared in the sky, overshadowing the illumination within. As the ming moons fell toward the ground, Zhang Lie sent a flurry of punches into the sky, causing the moons to explode in mid-air in a storm of arrows.


    Against Sun Mengmeng, who had grown much stronger after the trials of the third realm, Zhang Lie couldn''t take it as easy as before.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!"


    Pale blue gic energy rippled about Zhang Lie''s arms. He flicked his wrists, causing a frightening aura to descend on the world. The sky began to darken, and a fish the size of a whale materialized in the air.


    A howling gale swept over the two hunters. As more and more gic energy gathered around Zhang Lie''s arms, it looked as though he were at the heart of a whirlpool.


    A huge wave soared into the air. As Zhang Lie punched forward, the fish mmed its huge tail on the ground and sent a torrent of water surging.


    Ripples of energy spread out from Zhang Lie, warping the space around him. The towering waves looked like enraged ck dragons, flooding thend and heading straight for Sun Mengmeng.


    "[Lunar Apostasy]!"


    Sun Mengmeng''s entire bow was zing. Sheunched her arrows straight into the air, which exploded among the clouds and formed a ck moon.


    The moon exploded and shot down rays of moonlight to counter the pale blue waves.


    A huge rumble shook the heavens, and the world quaked.


    As the waves burst apart, the air filled with echoes of Zhang Lie''s signature gic energy. When it came into contact with Sun Mengmeng''s mes, huge quantities of steam rose into the air and were dispersed.


    The mes surrounding Sun Mengmeng erupted like a volcano, distorting space in a huge area around her and strengthening the mes around.


    Pitch-ck mes morphed into vortices that shed against the diffuse water-attuned gic energy in the air.


    The high-pressure steam continuously exploded like bombs.


    Sun Mengmeng howled into the air. Fire-attuned gic energy erupted from her body, and her pitch-ck eyes burned red. The mes formed a ck hurricane with her at its eye. It burned everything in sight;va rose to the ground where she stood.


    Zhang Hanxiang and the members of Team Zenith hastily retreated. Zhang Lie stood in the midst of the pitch-ck hurricane, but the mes seemed to avoid him entirely. He pped leisurely. "Very well done, Sun Mengmeng! Keep this explosive strength up."


    "[Netherworld''s Torrential me]!"


    A frightening fan of mes poured out from Sun Mengmeng''s bow, an attack far stronger than the moonlight she had summoned. The intensity of her technique shocked everyone.


    The mes arced in the air and fell toward the battlefield in a waterfall.


    Zhang Lie punched forward and bisected the flow of the ming waterfall.


    "[Lunarme Shot: Ninefold Phantasmagoria]!" Sun Mengmeng''s surroundings began to burn with dark red mes as sheunched yet another attack.


    Nine purplish-ck phoenixes rose around her and shot toward Ghroth.


    Zhang Lie sent nine punches forward, one for each phoenix. The nine phoenixes exploded into nine ck roses in the air. Scorching heat enveloped the hunters, and even the members of Team Zenith were forced to activate their defenses.


    "[The Boundless de: Expulsion]!"


    Zhang Lie extended his pointer finger like a sword, and water-attuned gic energy gathered around it. As he waved his finger, sword energy erupted like a wave, apanied by a giant shark.


    Sun Mengmeng shot out a few pitch-ck arrows in session toward Zhang Lie like a hurricane.


    The shark swallowed all the arrows. Pitch-ck mes exploded within its mouth in a burst of steam, obliterating the shark.


    "[Lunarme Shot: Might of the Garuda]!" Purplish-ck mes gathered on Sun Mengmeng''s bow once again, forming an arrow of pure ck.