<h4>Chapter 1357: Ster Dragon Transformation</h4>


    One of the lifeforms that struck at Zhang Lie was leonine, wreathed in fire all over, its mane like an inferno around its head. The other gic lifeform was a fiery-red smander.


    Both gic lifeforms were disaster-grade.


    Zhang Lie extended his pointer finger like a sword, and water-attuned gic energy coiled around it like a snake.


    [The Boundless de: Expulsion]!"


    Zhang Lie swung downwards with a heavy blow, striking down the leonine disaster-grade lifeform.


    A raging shark swam forth and crashed against the fiery smander in an explosion of steam.


    "[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.


    ck gic energy, thick and cloying like storm clouds, surrounded Zhang Lie.


    The fiery lion emerged from theva and shot out a bullet ofva from its mouth. It sizzled as it came into contact with the pitch-ck gic energy. The fire and heat began to dissolve on contact.


    Meanwhile, the fiery smander had broken past the superheated steam and had spat out a long tongue of me.


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


    Zhang Lie punched forward, and the ck serpent shot forth through the mes, tangling with the smander in a melee.


    The fiery lion''s mane zed like an inferno. Its ws shed forward with fiery light. Zhang Lie moved faster, kicking it aside with a leg.


    As it was sent flying, the lion''s mane began to rotate rapidly, and it spat out a zing torrent of fire from its mouth.


    As Zhang Lie activated his monarch-grade limitless universe soulshard, he glowed with ster radiance, like a burning star. Starlight flowed through his body in phantasmagorical colors.


    Sun Mengmeng, watching from afar, was caught by the allure of the starlight.


    The gic hunters in the city were all shocked by Zhang Lie''s demonstration. "What sort of soulshard would cause such a hugemotion..."


    Zhang Lie''s body transformed into a ze of the dark cosmos, as though the Milky Way itself flowed through his body. His aura grew tremendously.


    "I''m not finished!"


    Zhang Lie simultaneously activated his dragonwolf soulshard. His russet fur seemed to glimmer with ster radiance, each hair a shining star, as though he were draped with the entirety of the Milky Way. His four limbs were armored with a dragon''s scales, each a burning golden sun. The two soulshards'' powerbined.


    A dragon''s horns grew out of Zhang Lie''s forehead, shining with ster radiance, surrounded by gctic starlight. To others, he would seem to have the boundless energy of a new gxy.


    Zhang Lie transformed into a beam of light. Ster light tore apart the heavens as the ming lion was bisected vertically. Zhang Lie shot through the air like a meteor.


    [You sessfully killed a disaster-grade mingheart lion. By consuming the core of the disaster-grade mingheart lion, you may receive one to ten disaster gene fragments.]


    Zhang Lie retrieved a ming-red core from the lion''s carcass.


    The fiery smander sacrificed its own mes to obliterate the serpent, but after the prolonged battle, much of its skin had sloughed away, leaving just its crystalline interior behind. If not for the fact that disaster-grade lifeforms had a crystalline interior, the serpent''s poison would have been more than sufficient to take down the fiery smander.


    Before the fiery smander could rx, however, Zhang Lie struck.


    Starlight surrounded Zhang Lie. Countless stars whizzed away from his body. His pitch-ck gic energy seemed like the astral void, with shining stars scattered throughout.


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


    His gic energy condensed into a ck dragon, whose scales were each a star. The stars iid in its body formed a long ster river, transforming into a dragon that shot out alongside Zhang Lie''s punch.


    The fiery smander, whittled down to half its original size, rushed toward theva. As long as it were able to submerge itself within theva, it would be able to hide and save its life.


    Zhang Lie, however, seemed to have predicted its actions. He was waiting where it was running towards, smiling and waving at it, causing the fiery smander to despair. Right then and there, Zhang Lie''s arm punched through its head, and the will of the fourth realm''s voice rang out.


    [You sessfully killed a disaster-gradeva smander. By consuming the core of the disaster-gradeva smander, you may receive one to ten disaster gene fragments.]


    As he retrieved the disaster-grade core from theva smander, the entire sea ofva began to shake. As though it had been given life, theva soared into the sky and surrounded Zhang Lie from all over.


    ck gic energy burst forth from Zhang Lie, as though there were hundreds, thousands of dragons surging throughout his body.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Hundred Dragons Soaring]!"


    A horde of dragonsunched out of Zhang Lie''s left arm as he expended half his gic energy in one supercharged attack.


    Howling with the force of thunder, the hundred ster dragons soared through the air, tearing apart theva that surrounded Zhang Lie.


    Theva swirled in a whirlpool and transformed into a face whose voice was like the eruption of a volcano.


    "I remember you."


    This was a very familiar scene indeed.


    Theva face said, "You are the killer of my brothers."


    Indeed...


    "Cthaat''s son."


    Theva face continued, "Father has ordered me to take revenge for my brothers. I headed north, destroying any settlement of cockroaches I came across. I thought it would take me longer to find you, but you''ve saved me quite a lot of time!"


    Initially, Cthaat''s son hadn''t recognized Zhang Lie—not because of any changes to Zhang Lie''s face, but because this particr son of Cthaat wasn''t good at recognizing faces. To it, all the gic hunters were like ants, which it couldn''t tell apart.


    Zhang Lieughed. "I killed your brother? Which one? I seem to have killed quite a few of your brothers."


    "I''ll kill you!"


    Theva rose up. Rows of crimsonva flowed toward Zhang Lie, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves. Theva was as a horn to action, and the waves, thousands of courageous soldiers heeding its call.


    Zhang Lie snapped his fingers, causing the ster dragons to self-destruct.


    The ster dragons all exploded, each with the force of a gxy. A huge wave of energy spread out around him, forming a ck hole that swallowed up everything in sight. The energy of annihtion ate at theva, devouring it all. A shriek could be heard from the formless being whose body was being consumed bit by bit. Countless lifeforms that had been within theva were likewise sucked in and destroyed.