Chapter 1245: Even Stricter


    Purplish-ck mes gathered on Sun Mengmeng''s bow once again, forming an arrow of pure ck. She marshaled her emotions without being lost in her rage or anger.


    The image of a golden garuda, limned in ck, appeared behind her. As she loosed her arrow, it seemed to transform into a beam of light, moving so quickly that it bypassed the constraints of time and space, as though it could prate anything.


    However, the arrow caused no earth-shattering explosion: Zhang Lie caught it with two fingers, preventing it from moving even a single inch forward.


    "Is this it?"


    ck gic energy spread over his palm as the ck arrow vanished into nothingness.


    "[Lunarme Shot: Extirpation of the Garuda]!"


    ck mes, stuck together, flowed likeva along the ground. Wrapped in me, Sun Mengmeng strode forth. Her pupils had been reced by ck me, and she looked like a demon from the abyss.


    As Sun Mengmeng infused her gic energy into the bow, the image of a garuda appeared behind her. She released her arrow, which morphed into a human-faced, golden-winged bird in mid-air, radiating red light as it arced through the skies. It began to pulse with red me, brimming with such energy that it seemed as though it would set the world ame.


    The destructive energy dyed everything in sight a patch of ck.


    The entire pocket dimension seemed to transform into a furnace. The ground melted and turned into boiling-hotva.


    Hong Xi''s pale blue moonlight shone down on them all. Sun Xiaowu''s body red with golden light, and golden runes appeared over his body. He used [Adamantine Aegis] immediately.


    "[Blinding sh: Thousandfold Echo]!"


    Sun Xiaowu''s body split into hundreds of clones, each bearing resplendent golden runes. They gathered around the members of Team Zenith, forming a human barricade.


    Refracted light shone around Yang Ze, who waved a hand and isted the members of Team Zenith from the pocket dimension.


    Fang Yi thrust his spear quickly,bining the energy of chaos with wind and storm. A barrier of the elements formed around the members of Team Zenith.


    Zhang Hanxiang released a chilly frost, adding ayer of ice as a secondyer behind it.


    "[Avatar of the Fae: Earthbound Prison]!"


    Zhou Ying released all her stored vitality at once, causing the ground to quake as thousands of jade-green wood dragons rushed out of the earth.


    The members of Team Zenith were wrapped up byyer afteryer of dragons.


    Hong Xi manifested a fan of feathers, which she waved to conjure a windwall around them. Jun Jiuxiao conjured a field of wind and storm, while Ye Xianchen released an aura of ghosts and shadows.


    Li Feng had yet to recover from his earlier exertion against Zhang Lie, and was still resting.


    Sun Mengmeng released her arrow, which morphed into a human-faced, golden-winged bird in mid-air, radiating red light as it arced through the skies.


    The garudanded in a hurricane of pitch-ck mes as it arched its wings wide. It began to pulse with red fire, brimming with such energy that it seemed as though it would set the world ame.


    Sun Mengmeng''s attack scorched the pocket dimension, dyeing everything in sight a patch of ck.


    The barriers isting it from the rest of the third realm began to crack as the pocket dimension filled with pitch-ck mes. Yang Ze''s dimensional barrier was burnt to a crisp, Fang Yi''s elemental barrier was dispelled, Zhang Hanxiang''s icy wall melted, Zhou Ying''s vines were set ame, and Jun Jiuxiao and Ye Xianchen''s barriers were destroyed entirely.


    As pitch-ck mes threatened to seize them all, the members of Team Zenith all reinforced their individual barriers.


    "[Ninecarp Transformation]!"


    A ck serpent materialized behind Zhang Lie, by now sorge and so developed that it resembled the world-swallowing serpent Jormungandr. It let out a threatening hiss as its scales clicked together.


    Pitch-ck gic energy with the consistency of water formed a shield around Zhang Lie. When the ck mes touched that gic energy, they were extinguished and corroded immediately.


    "[Lunarme Shot: Extirpation of the Garuda]!"


    Sun Mengmeng pulled her bow taut once more, infusing the rest of her gic energy within. The image of a garuda materialized from thin air and, supercharged with Sun Mengmeng''s energy, readied for a devastating blow.


    ck mes gathered, lighting the very air itself ame. The ck mes formed a pitch-ck abyss that no longer radiated light. Instead, it sucked in the light from all around like ck holes and devoured everything in sight.


    The pocket dimension was entirely lit up, and the barrier isting it from the outside realm was filled with cracks.


    As Sun Mengmeng loosed the arrow, the garuda shot straight toward Zhang Lie, bringing a whole world''s worth of ck me in his direction.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!" Zhang Lie punched forward, and the ck serpent behind him shot forth.


    The ck serpent tangled and wrapped around the fierce garuda, diminishing and smothering the ck mes, even as the ck mes burned the serpent''s flesh. Both creatures began to sizzle; the two energetic constructs were fading away bit by bit as they struck each other.


    The garuda keened. Pitch-ck mes burst forth in a hurricane.


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


    As Zhang Lie punched forward, the blood dragon roared in rage, its howls echoing through the air. It burst apart in the sky, and a wave of annihtion exploded around the dragon. Pitch-ck energy swallowed up everything in the vicinity like a storm at sea. Huge quantities of ck me were consumed by the ck-hole like energy of annihtion.


    In the blink of an eye, all the ck me in the pocket dimension was sucked away, and sunlight filtered down through space once again.


    Zhang Lie asked, "Did you intuit something?"


    Sun Mengmeng asked, "Captain, are you trying to demonstrate the difference in our level of strength or power?"


    Zhang Lie shook his head. "I''m very d you''ve learned how to infuse your emotions into your attacks, and it also shows that you''ve managed to gain some amount of control. However, your problem is just like your brother''s: your attacks are too diffuse. It''s important to be able tounch wide-ranging attacks, but increasing the concentration of gic energy will represent a direct increase to your strength."


    Sun Mengmeng replied, "Rather than increase the concentration of my attacks by 10 centimeters, I''d rather increase my attack range by 10 meters."


    Zhang Lie rolled his eyes at her. "Do you think we''re trying to develop new weaponry here? We''re talking about conditions in battle. Your techniques waste too much of their power because your arrows are too diffuse. I didn''t make this request of you in the past because you weren''t able to control your attacks to such an exacting degree before, but now that you''ve grown stronger, my requirements will naturally grow stricter."


    Sun Mengmeng nodded rather uncertainly, as though she only vaguely understood what Zhang Lie meant.