<h4>Chapter 1459: An Easy Battle</h4>


    "And so what if I am?" Chen Feng was just about to strike.


    "Hold on." Feng Xian held him back.


    Zhang Lie nced at the silver bug monarch.


    "This isn''t a simple bug, is it?"


    Chen Feng scoffed. "You don''t even recognize this lifeform? You really are unlearned, aren''t you?"


    "Hand over the bug monarch and I''ll consider the grudge between you and my junior brother settled," Chang Ming offered.


    A divine aura radiated from his body. His armor was gleaming. Although he was yet young, he stared at Zhang Lie with umon confidence and poise.


    Yang Zeughed. "It''s not even your grudge to settle. Furthermore, when have I ever asked for it to be settled? You really think you''re all that, don''t you?"


    "im it if you think you have the skills to," Zhang Lie replied coolly, standing against the three cultivators. Despite being outnumbered, he was unbelievably cool and collected.


    The cultivators gaped at him. Just who was Zhang Lie? He had refused a prodigy of Starbright Academy and disdained a prospective sessor to the Hall of Immortals.


    Suddenly, the rumble of thunder could be heard in the distance, along with bestial howls, divine me, and an intense confrontation.


    Light filled the air, and the outline of a copper hall appeared in the heavens in an imposing sight.


    What had happened? Perhaps the birth of a treasure, or some unusual urrence that had sparked a transformation.


    "Hand it over!" Chen Feng demanded, raising his longbow. The divine purple arrow shed in the light.


    "Scram," Zhang Lie replied coolly.


    Chen Feng''s threat drastically lowered Zhang Lie''s impression of him.


    Feng Xian didn''t stop them from fighting. She stood by a side and watched the heated fighting uring in the distance, where most of the cultivators were gathered.


    Suddenly, Chen Feng made his move, drawing his longbow taut andunching an arrow.


    He believed himself to be among the supreme cultivators of his generation, who had once been apetitor to the sessor of the Hall of Immortals and who had stood at the very peak. How could he be beaten by an unknown challenger of ill repute? He would kill him and seize the silver bug monarch for himself.


    Zhang Lie reached out and caught the divine arrow with a metallic ng.


    Meanwhile, Chen Feng had darted straight toward Zhang Lie the moment he shot out his arrow, prepared to suppress him and retrieve the silver bug monarch.


    Feng Xian acted then, too, as did Chang Ming. They all reached out for the silver bug monarch.


    Yang Ze caught the silver bug monarch and defended against the two cultivators'' attacks. Just then, light shot into the heavens.


    "[Light Dragon''s Remnants]!"


    A figure appeared in the middle of the light, arms moving so fast they left afterimages behind, and filling the air with arclight dragons.


    The appearance of the arclight dragons was so sudden that it caught everyone off guard. The horde of dragons surrounded them.


    "Hm?"


    Zhang Lie reacted most quickly. He mmed a palm into Chen Feng, sending him stumbling into the horde of dragons.


    "What?!"


    The three enemy cultivators were shocked by the sudden sneak attack.


    Yang Ze grinned. "Li Feng, what''re you doing here?"


    Li Feng slowly floated down from the sky. He stood beside Zhang Lie and Yang Ze. "Why can''t it be me?"


    Zhang Lie frowned. "It looks like the queen''s hive soulshard was pointing to Li Feng, not Fang Yi."


    Li Feng frowned. "What, you didn''t specificallye here to group up with me?"


    Zhang Lie shrugged. "We heard Sun Xiaowu mention that Fang Yi was here too. Finding you was an unexpected surprise."


    Chen Feng drew his bow again in a sh of lightning. The void itself shook violently as an arrow pierced the heavens.


    "[Dance of the Incandescent Wyrm]!"


    Li Feng summoned dozens of serpents, ring with blinding light. They tore apart the lightning and blocked the arrow.


    "It''s not time to reminisce just yet, I suppose."


    Chen Feng frowned. "I remember you. To think I would be lucky enough to encounter you here."


    Li Feng gave him an odd look. "Do I know you?"


    Yang Ze replied, "He''s from the Hall of Immortals. Didn''t you fight some ninth Immortal King from the Hall of Immortals during the qualifiers?"


    Li Feng nodded. "I remember the name, I think."


    Yang Ze continued mockingly, "This is the guy that lost against him and failed to be the next sessor of the Hall of Immortals."


    Chen Feng snorted. "It''s none of your business!"


    Li Feng turned to Yang Ze. "Is that so?"


    Chen Fengughed. "All that happened in the past. As long as I can beat you, I can prove to those codgers in the Hall of Immortals that I, Chen Feng, should be the true sessor!"


    Li Feng shook his head. "You must be crazy. If even the ninth Immortal King can''t beat me, what makes you think you can?"


    "Let''s try it and see," Chen Feng said, drawing his bow taut.


    "[Arclight Dragon''s Imprint]!"


    Li Feng waved his left arm, around which a torrent of light-attuned gic energy was gathering. It took the form of a gigantic dragon''s w that swiped at and blocked the arrow.


    Feng Xian formed seals with her hands. Pure moonlight descended from the skies. She struck with a jade-white palm.


    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.


    The starlight''s allure captivated all onlookers.


    Zhang Lie''s body transformed into a ze of the dark cosmos, as though the Milky Way itself flowed through his body. He struck Feng Xian''s palm in a ster explosion and shower of moonlight.


    Chang Ming''s armor gleamed with radiance as he shot into the sky and struck at Zhang Lie''s body with a glowing punch.


    Zhang Lie responded coolly. Even as he confronted Feng Xian, he raised his other hand and struck forward with such force that the other cultivators gulped.


    "[The Boundless de: Dragonwhale]!"


    In the blink of an eye, Yang Ze was surrounded by a patch of ocean.


    Thepping of waves echoed through the battlefield. They grew and grew, reaching a crescendo and rising into the sky like a tsunami, manifesting in the form of a huge whale.


    The whale''s body was long and streamlined, with long whiskers and scales patterning its body. As it flipped over, pale-blue gic energy exploded and transformed into a howling tempest.


    This was a massive confrontation. Gic energy erupted from the cultivators, shattering the rock mountain and cave in front of them.


    The ck bugs screeched and began to rampage, spitting out golden breaths that made the melee even more chaotic.


    After the attack, Zhang Lie stood calm and collected.