<h4>Chapter 1285: The World''s Blessing</h4>


    Light began to shine from his body. He was surrounded by a glowing ball of light, and the skin beneath that was revealed was a pearlescent white, supple and smooth.


    A spiritual glow suffused him. His bones cracked as they became even stronger and sturdier, taking on a metallic luster. A membrane of crystalline light formed over their surface, strengthening them, improving their ductility and hardness. His body was being reforged from the inside out and the outside in, as though bing that of a deity.


    Muscle, flesh, skin, and bone merged together in a sh of blinding light, which coalesced into a skin-like membrane that gave Zhang Lie a holy, immacte appearance.


    He looked like a man from the heavens above, one untouched and unsullied by mortal contact.


    Membranes of diaphanous light brimmed with vitality.


    In that transcendent state, time passed in the blink of an eye. He spent a week in meditation, freed of worry, freed of strife, freed of turmoil and dissonance. There he found an intrinsic joy.


    Zhang Lie breathed out with a puff of light. The air that was sucked into his body took on the shape of dragons. He breathed with a particr rhythm, neither quick nor slow, ever following the pulse of the world.


    The air that Zhang Lie inhaled took on the form of dragons. As he exhaled, those dragons coiled around his body and transformed into gic energy. Behind Zhang Lie appeared swimming pale blue fish, an ink-ck serpent, a resplendent golden tiger, a heavyset dragonturtle, a ming hed lion, and an electrified wyrm.


    These unusual manifestations and concentrated aura of gic energy surrounding Zhang Lie made him seem mysterious indeed. The transformation of his physical body fused his flesh, organs, and bones together,bining them into a single entity.


    After half a month passed by, Zhang Lie slowly opened his eyes. His pupils were bright and filled with vital energy, with a spiritual glow that made him look like a supernatural entity.


    Spirituality illuminated him from within and without. He sat cross-legged like a deity, with a luminous haze surrounding him and seeping into his body.


    The remaining dregs of potion evaporated in the sunlight and vanished, leaving behind the essence of divinity, as though an entire neb had merged with Zhang Lie''s body and was converted into even more astounding strength.


    Zhang Lie howled, causing heaven and earth to quake. The barriers that Zhu had woven cracked like eggshells, then burst apart in a wave of energy that surged throughout the unified world.


    A storm suddenly befell the world, so strong the heavens themselves quaked. Everyone turned subconsciously to Zhang Lie, only to find radiant light filling the skies and all sorts of celestial phenomena in effect.


    In the draconian kingdom''s pce, the draconian sage had been looking through some documents. He nced in the direction of the disturbance and then squinted. Then, he sighed. "Zhang Lie, once again..."


    In the Zongming kingdom, Li Zongming took one nce before ascribing the problem to Zhang Lie. "No one else could cause such a fuss."


    The officials of the Lie kingdom were all shocked by the sudden quake. The former crown prince cried out, "What''s going on?!"


    The Lie king smiled and raised a hand. "Everyone, there''s no need to worry. It must be the grandmaster at work. No one else could cause such a scene, not even the ruler of the realm herself."


    The former crown prince sighed in relief. "The grandmaster? That''s alright, then. Let''s continue with our session of court, then."


    One official seemed particrly flummoxed. "Your Majesty, do we need to be concerned by the grandmaster''s actions? They''re causing the entire world to quake..."


    "If it affects the Lie kingdom, it might be somewhat problematic."


    "I think we had better pay attention."


    The Lie king rolled his eyes. "We''d die of overwork if we had to pay attention to everything that Master did. I don''t intend on doing anything so taxing; you''re all wee to do so if you''d like."


    The officials who had spoken hurriedly shut up.


    The members of Team Zenith, sensing the overwhelming light, realized that it had to be Zhang Lie at once.


    They nced toward Jun Jiuxiao and Ye Xianchen, who were still training hard. Sun Mengmeng shouted, "The two of you had better work hard! Zhang Lie will be on his way here at any moment."


    Jun Jiuxiao and Ye Xianchen did as they were told.


    Li Qianlin stood right outside her door, staring at the colored lights filling the air in a daze. It felt that even the will of the world was congratting Zhang Lie for his advancement.


    She was happy for his sess, but couldn''t help but feel a pang of pain and destion.


    This meant that Zhang Lie was almost about to leave.


    Zhang Lie had taken another great leap forward in his advancement. Runes floated beyond his body, and light radiated from him for thousands of meters. Behind Zhang Lie appeared swimming pale blue fish, an ink-ck serpent, a resplendent golden tiger, a heavyset dragonturtle, a ming red lion, and an electrified wyrm, manifestations of his [Ninecarp Transformation].


    His cells and genes had morphed tremendously, and had unspooled into nebr clouds.


    The structure of his new body was unlike the crystallized form of disaster-grade lifeforms, nor the gxy-epassing cells of those hunters with maxed monarch gene fragments. His atavistic body hadn''t weakened him; rather, he seemed to be approaching the universal temte from which all life was built.


    His cellr structure alone differentiated him from ordinary hunters, and it wouldn''t be an exaggeration to call Zhang Lie a new form of life, one which had never before appeared in the universe, a singr existence.


    The metamorphosis didn''t end there. The swimming pale blue fish, an ink-ck serpent, a resplendent golden tiger, a heavyset dragonturtle, a ming red lion, and an electrified wyrm, manifestations of his [Ninecarp Transformation], began to swirl around him.


    The transformation to Zhang Lie''s body was catalyzing the growth of his [Ninecarp Transformation]. Zhang Lie directed his remnant strength toward his framework, sessfully breaking through to the next level as all his energy transformed into a huge egg.