<h4>Chapter 1492: Oriented Skyward</h4>


    However, these mythical creatures were very different from theirmon conception: they were nothing but skeletons, vestiges of their original selves. Deathly aura filled the air, as though they had wed their way out of theherworld.


    Pale blue gic energy rippled about Zhang Lie''s arms. He flicked his wrists, causing a frightening aura to descend on the world. The sky began to darken, and a fish the size of a whale materialized in the air.


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


    A howling gale swept over thebatants. As more and more gic energy gathered around Zhang Lie''s arms, it looked as though he were at the heart of a whirlpool.


    Ripples of energy spread out from Zhang Lie, warping the space around him. The towering waves looked like enraged ck dragons, flooding the area and striking the sea of des.


    As the waves burst apart, the air filled with echoes of Zhang Lie''s signature gic energy, shattering space and swallowing up all life in its vicinity.


    The skies shook; the ground rumbled. The de energy exploded as the skeletal constructs ttered to the ground. Theherworldly aura corroded the ground, turning it pitch-ck.


    The death god of Netherworld waved his scythe, causing dark energy to striate the sky.


    "[The Boundless de: Yawning Wave]!"


    Zhang Lie swung downwards with a heavy blow, and a shark swam forth.


    The death god cut the shark with his scythe, bisecting it.


    As he swung his scythe about, a deathly aura permeated the air. Specters and malevolent ghosts seemed to climb up out of the ground, forming a veritable sea of carcasses that surged toward Zhang Lie.


    "[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.


    Pitch-ck gic energy revolved around Zhang Lie like dark clouds, then exploded forth in his vicinity, swallowing up the deathly aura.


    As the deathly aura struck the corrosive gic energy, it sizzled.


    The death god vanished from sight, passing through the ck aura and instantly appearing behind Zhang Lie. He swung his scythe, aiming to behead Zhang Lie''s neck.


    Zhang Lie didn''t bother turning around. He punched behind him, shing against the scythe in a metallic nk.


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


    Zhang Lie clenched his fist tightly, causing pitch-ck gic energy to gather around it. A demonic serpent emerged and rushed out as Zhang Lie punched forward.


    The death god blocked the serpent''s attack with his scythe. The serpent mped down on the scythe''s haft, knocking the death god aside.


    The death god struggled furiously, but the serpent proved a difficult foe.


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


    As Zhang Lie punched forward, another ck serpent shot forward.


    It joined up with the previous serpent. A wave of annihtion exploded around the dragon. Pitch-ck energy swallowed everything in the vicinity like a storm at sea.


    The explosion was like a ck hole that consumed everything in sight, rock and ground alike. The death god shrieked as he was annihted by the rampaging energy.


    As the fight finished, so too did Li Feng''s metamorphosis.


    The greenery around him had vanished, reced with gold-attuned gic energy. Before and behind Li Feng, golden des manifested and oriented themselves toward the heavens.


    Then, they began to resonate.


    Zhang Lie wasn''t particrly surprised. Li Feng had disyed a connection to gold in the past, and that connection had only deepened.


    The golden des formed in his hand, shining with andposed of scorching light. They were all but indistinguishable from real weaponry, but were even stronger.


    Li Feng stood up, shing at the void with his longsword. An ocean of energy poured out.


    That one sh generated boundless strength, able to destroy anything in its way.


    Then, Li Feng sat down calmly and sat cross-legged on the ground, his longsword gone.


    Fluid gushed down around Li Feng, a silver liquid in which fishes swam. It was filled with vitality, bubbling and vivacious.


    This wasn''t actually water, but liquid light, much like one of Li Feng''s techniques.


    More of the silver fluid emerged, forming a stream, a river. Li Feng sat in the middle of the river and allowed it to rush past him.


    Then, within the sky appeared a waterfall. Rapids rushed out of the void and over his physical body.


    The river and waterfall together formed an expandingke. The entire sky turned into a glittering silver ocean, possessed of umon beauty.


    As Li Feng pointed a finger forward, all that silver fluid suddenly began to bubble, coursing where his finger directed it. This was a frightening strength.


    Li Feng, Yang Ze, and Fang Yi all blinked. Their eyes were filled with excitement and exuberance. Their metamorphoses had clearly been impactful.


    Voices could be heard from afar. "What happened here?"


    "It looks like there was a huge fight."


    "Those phenomena just now—some treasure must have spawned in this region!"


    Themotion caused by Zhang Lie and the death god of Netherworld''s fight, as well as Li Feng and the others'' transformation, lured quite a fair number of cultivators over. Zhang Lie was just about to deal with the annoying pests when Fang Yi extended a hand to stop him. "Don''t worry about them, Captain. We''ll deal with them ourselves."


    Zhang Lie nodded. "You want to test out how strong you''ve grown, don''t you?"


    The three hunters grinned.


    When the cultivators saw the three hunters walking out, they hurriedly surrounded them.


    "What did you find inside?"


    "Hand over the treasures, now!"


    "Hold on, I feel like I''ve seen these three fellows somewhere before..."


    "Aren''t they the ster hunters?"


    "They''re the ones who made a big fuss at the divineke, then killed the son of lightning and the heir of the Srvines!"


    When the cultivators recognized the three hunters, they nched. They turned to leave, but it was already toote. Yang Ze was about to taunt them when Fang Yi charged forward with his spear.


    "[Heaven''s Judgment: Four Sages'' Roar]!"


    Fang Yi''s spear took on the aspect of a dragon of the winds and a storm tiger as he charged forward. Wind and stormbined and crackled at the tip of Fang Yi''s spear.


    Thebination of wind and lightning generated a frightening force that seemed to be able to prate space. Chaotic and spatial energy joined in the mix—a miniaturized version of his signature fivefold strike, at least at the level of a fourfold strike.