<h4>Chapter 1377: With High Spirits</h4>


    The mental attacks from the eighteen eyes were stronger than the golden roc''s mental attacks, but Zhang Lie was no slouch himself.


    Zhang Lie howled, his eyes like lightning. Although he wasn''t a cultivator who focused on spiritual and mental cultivation, his soul had survived the tempering of two lifetimes, and it was naturally stronger than that of the disaster-grade chimera.


    The chimera shrieked, blood seeping out of its eighteen eyes. It fell to the ground.


    Zhang Lie swooped down, his fist shaking the sky like a ck dragon.


    The chimera''s ck fur stood on end; one of its heads suddenly grew multiple timesrger, like an umbral millstone brimming with light.


    As the dragon dove down, a lion''s head burst open in a shower of crystals.


    The other eight heads shrieked.


    A scarlet dragon''s w mmed down on his body, but Zhang Lie dodged it. A huge trench formed where the wnded, the bottom of which couldn''t be seen from up above.


    Zhang Lie unsheathed Guicang and struck with a sh of sword energy. A huge slit formed in the void, cutting apart the dragon''s w. However, the disaster-grade lifeform didn''t rear back. It continued attacking ferociously, its whole body transforming into a weapon. Its tail shot out and swept through everything in its path.


    Zhang Lie evaded the attack as the tail crushed countless rocks into powder in mid-air. Its ferocity shocked one and all.


    "[The Boundless de: Yawning Wave]!"


    A waterfall of gic energy was imbued in Guicang. As Zhang Lie shed forward with the sword, devastating sword energy was unleashed.


    The chimera sprayed out a burst of white light, shining with metallic luster, as it defended itself against the titanic waves. A huge explosion rang out.


    Within moments, the chimera''s sliced-off w had regrown. It boasted vitality stronger than even the golden roc Zhang Lie had faced.


    A raging shark surfed forward on Zhang Lie''s sword sh. The chimera spread its wings wide as it soared into the air. The raging shark gave chase, but the chimera swooped down from above and struck with its ws, obliterating the shark.


    The chimera howled, its gaze cold. Itunched a killing blow, covering heaven and earth in zing light.


    A meteor''s worth of energy exploded in mid-air, and the ground quaked as though a volcano were about to explode.


    The chimera roared as 108 sharp des grew out of its back at even intervals along its spine, each with a silvery-white sheen. Killing intent filled the air. The des stood like pirs separating heaven from earth, thick and ice-cold, giving the onlookers a chilling sensation.


    The chimera roared and leapt forward, and all the des suddenly turned toward their target. They gathered in a square around the tiger and shot toward Zhang Lie simultaneously.


    The bloodstained des, suffused with an aura of cmity, approached Zhang Lie at breakneck speed.


    Zhang Lie swung his own des with the resplendence of dawn, defending against the sudden assault. Light covered thend like an intense meteor shower. Formless ripples shattered rock and cleaved mountains.


    He raised the de in his hand high into the air, encircled by ck gic energy.


    "[The Boundless de: the River Lethe]!"


    The temperature had dropped to sub-zero values, and a strong wind buffeted the battlefield. Blood-colored frost appeared around the twobatants.


    A ster river materialized in the air. As though the doors to hell had just been thrown open, tens of thousands of serpents rushed out in a flood.


    Each serpent was pitch-ck like the abyss, like the dark of night, and speckled with starlight, a miniaturized version of the Milky Way. The serpents were guides and ferrymen both, leading departed souls into sky and space, freed from the mortal coil.


    As Zhang Lie''s sword swung down, the ster river struck the mortal world.


    With every sh of Guicang, the serpents fell like meteors, whizzing down to the ground and shing against the chimera''s des, but the sharp des that the chimera had somehow produced seemed impervious to damage. Killing intent formed a thick aura around them, so concentrated that it could affect material form.


    Zhang Lie''s ster river began to expand as corrosive energy spread alongside ck snowkes. The ground sizzled as it was corroded away.


    Resplendent silver light, like armor, shielded the chimera from the corrosion of Zhang Lie''s ck snowkes.


    The chimera roared, its eyes cold. It spat out a mouthful of white light, causing the des to gleam even more brightly. They pierced through the ster river shielding Zhang Lie and headed straight for his body.


    The des flew toward him and pinned him down with overwhelming strength, causing thend to crumble where theynded.


    Each de was like a thick pir; if any were to strike Zhang Lie, he wouldn''t be pierced through, but rather ground into meat paste.


    Zhang Lie frowned. The chimera had improved on the characteristics of the five gic lifeforms that it constituted. The most obvious difference were these des.


    The whitegold tiger only had 28 such des, but the chimera had a full 108. It was even stronger than the six-headed lifeform that Zhang Lie had asked to face.


    As all the desnded simultaneously, Zhang Lie barely dodged them one by one. Space around him warped and distended; a number of ck holes formed, one around each de, trapping him in an unavoidable attack.


    Even so, the fighting spirit in Zhang Lie''s eyes only grew more intense.


    "[The Boundless de: the River Lethe]!"


    Pitch-ck gic energy expanded through the battlefield. The gic energy looked as though it hade from the abyss, or perhaps from the expanding, limitless universe. Starlight struck the gic energy in a sh of surprising beauty.


    The night sky morphed into a raging sea. Waves surged forward, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves. The universe itself seemed to shake, as though the stars were shifting positions.


    The surface of the ster sea frothed with waves,yering and texturing it. Auroras hung in the air, veiling the night sky.


    From afar, ster dragons seemed to roar. The pitch-ck dragons were like the night sky made manifest. Thunder and lightning crackled in the air.