<h4>Chapter 1372: Apocalyptic me</h4>


    For a moment, a divine chanting could be heard from the skies, shaking the heavens as all things hummed in resonance. The sound doubled, then trebled in volume. Ripples and echoes surged toward Sun Mengmeng.


    Boulder after boulder exploded, even those tens of thousands of tons heavy. The ripples that emanated from the dragon''s keening easily sparked a resonant dposition.


    "[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 would have shocked all the members of Team Zenith.


    The mes arced in the air and fell toward the battlefield in a waterfall. It deflected the ripples that emanated from the scarlet hornless dragon. The twobatants'' techniques shed against each other''s.


    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.


    She sparred against the scarlet dragon, shing once and again, before bothbatants were sent flying back.


    With a huge rumble and crash, a scarlet w struck the ground with the force of a mountain range. Light flooded heaven and earth.


    Sun Mengmeng roared, her eyes glowing with light.


    "[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.


    The hornless scarlet dragon soared into the air, its scarlet ws tearing apart the lunar flood. ck firelight burst apart in the air, shining brightly in the trial world.


    The twobatants fought like ancient beasts, tearing apart mountain andndscape, heaven and earth. The world itself quivered as it observed their battle.


    Man and beast alike were radiant in their might, surrounded with glowing runes that burned incandescent, so brightly that no one would be able to observe the scene directly.


    The scarlet hornless dragon sent its tail sweeping forward like a steel whip, causing the void itself to creak. The runes surged forward like waves, astoundingly strong.


    Sun Mengmeng leapt up to evade this blow.


    "[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, which shot down rays of moonlight. A burst of ck lunarme scorched heaven and earth, revealing the void.


    The scarlet dragon tore apart the lunarme with one w, then struck at Sun Mengmeng with the other. Its eyes were bright and sharp. A terrifying wildness suffused its actions.


    "[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 the scarlet dragon. They flew around the dragon in a dance as ck me surrounded them all.


    The dragon whirled around, swiping its tail at the phoenixes and causing them to explode. The nine phoenixes burst into nine ck roses in the air. Scorching heat enveloped the surroundings.


    The dragon darted through the me and caught Sun Mengmeng''s leg.


    "[Lunarme Shot]!"


    Sun Mengmeng reacted quickly. Purplish-ck mes gathered on Sun Mengmeng''s bow once again, forming an arrow of pure ck.


    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.


    The arrow caused no earth-shattering explosion. It was in and ordinary, and no sound marked its advance. It flew by the scarlet dragon''s head, setting half of it ame.


    Disaster-grade lifeforms wouldn''t die as long as their cores hadn''t been shattered, but they could still feel pain. Pain would make it harder for them to concentrate, and it would hinder them in battle.


    The scarlet dragon roared. A wave of energy swept past the dragon, who was forced to loosen its hold.


    "[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 trial world seemed to transform into a furnace. The ground melted and turned into boiling-hotva.


    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 trial world, dyeing everything in sight a patch of ck.


    The scarlet dragon tore apart the tempest of fire. With a swipe of its tail, it caused the ck mes to erupt in a rain of fire. Even theva was lit up ame. The entire world became a sea of ck mes, like a scene out of hell.


    Sun Mengmeng took the opportunity to distance herself from the dragon. She pulled her bow taut once more, infusing the rest of her gic energy within.


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


    The garuda manifested into reality. With a huge rumble, firelight swallowed heaven and earth. Her fire-attuned gic energy transformed into an arrow of pure destruction. 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.