<h4>Chapter 1590: To Cleave the Sea</h4>


    The waves continued without end. From afar, it looked as though the skies and the seas of various colors had joined together, with no border to speak of.


    The waves crested in the air, one after the other, each imbued with a different power.


    Zhang Lie smiled despite the sight of the titanic waves before him.


    "[Second Form: Piercing the Soul]!"


    Zhang Lie''s disaster-grade mistmeld m soulshard activated as he infused its energy into his swords, causing them to shine radiantly with multicolored light. He nced straight at his opponent''s soul.


    All Cthaat had done was divide itself into dozens of different seas, but that didn''t matter. Regardless of whether those were avatars or variants of itself in one manner or another, it could hardly possess dozens of souls.


    When Zhang Lie actually looked at Cthaat''s soul, however, the smile fell from his face.


    Each stretch of sea did possess an independent piece of its soul—these weren''t just avatars or clones.


    Cthaat had truly split up its soul, dividing it up to form dozens of seas of different attributes.


    "So what? I''ll just destroy it all regardless!"


    A rainbow arc apanied Zhang Lie''s sh, as though an aurora borealis were visible in the sky. It shone in all the colors of the rainbow, momentarily hypnotizing anyone who looked at it.


    All those who witnessed the hypnotic light would stand still in a daze.


    With Guicang in hand, Zhang Lie flew through the heavens. His sword shone as brightly as the auroras overhead, bringing him momentarily out of the physical into the intangible.


    The disaster-grade mistmeld m soulshard, when incorporated into Zhang Lie''s soul-targeting attack, had the ability to target its opponent''s soul. As the sword sh swept across the seas, Cthaat''s face appeared over their surfaces as it screamed in abject pain.


    Zhang Lie''s blow had destroyed a dozen different pieces of Cthaat at once.


    Even so, the seas of different elements continued to swell, covering up everything in sight. Zhang Lie''s attack didn''t seem to have caused a notable change.


    "It''s useless!"


    "Your struggles are futile."


    "We''re invincible."


    "You''re far too puny against the likes of the sea."


    "Even if you can weaken me, you can hardlypare to the vast sea itself."


    Dozens of Cthaats spoke up simultaneously as the waves continued surging forward, so tall they dwarfed even the tallest of mountains. They were majestic beyond description.


    Waves charged forward,pping the shore, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves.


    The entire sea seemed to roil.


    The sea had morphed into a boundless battlefield. The sea breeze was as a horn to action, and the waves, thousands of courageous soldiers heeding its call, each arrayed in different colors and styles.


    "That remains to be seen."


    Guicang resonated in Zhang Lie''s hand. Blood-colored sword will emanated from him, transforming into a blood dragon that coiled around his hand.


    "Do you intend to continue struggling futilely?"


    "Beyond a certain level of strength, everything is futile."


    "When your opponent''s strength exceeds a certain threshold, even the techniques you''re proud of be nothing but a joke."


    The voices of dozens of different Cthaats could be heard from afar. The surface of the sea frothed with angry waves, like dragons of different colors emerging with the tide.


    "You''re right. Beyond a certain level of strength, everything else is a joke." "Are you going to give up?"


    "Have you finally given up?"


    "Cease your futile struggles!"


    Dozens of Cthaats called out to Zhang Lie as waves roared through the skies like galloping steeds, like thundering dragons.


    Arge number of titanic waves were drawing near. The mounting pressure was enough to crush any cultivator.


    As the waves drew even nearer, Zhang Lie made his move.


    "[des, Reverberate]!"


    A blood dragon materialized around Zhang Lie. Energy poured out of him in waves, honing the edge of his de. The pulses of energy struck the realm like a tsunami, devouring everything within.


    The twin des Guicang and Hanguang emitted a fearsome aura, shining as brightly as the sun and moon. Sword energy materialized from Guicang into a blood dragon that revolved around his body.


    The de Hanguang morphed into a ck dragon, and the de Guicang into a blood dragon. The two dragons, coiling together as one, shot out toward the waves like a hurricane, obliterating them all and bearing down with the might of Zhang Lie''s spiritual sea.


    Infused with the blood moon and the ck sun, the twin dragons formed a ck whirlpool.


    The dozens of Cthaats cried out, "What''s this?!"


    The ck and blood dragons swept pastyer afteryer of titanic waves, destroying even the seas out of which they wereposed. The twin dragons boasted the strength of true annihtion; Cthaat wasn''t able to defend against them at all.


    In the end, Cthaat decided to flee for its life. Because of howrge the ck sea was, a significant portion of Cthaat did manage to flee. Waves stacked on top of each other inyers. From afar, they looked like egrets taking flight, fleeing into the horizon.


    "Since you''vee, you might as well stay!"


    Zhang Lie''s pupils glimmered with frost. He swung Hanguang all around him, sending shes of energy toward Cthaat.


    "[de of the Heavens: the Sea Swells]!" Energy poured out of Zhang Lie in waves, honing the edge of his de. The pulses of energy struck the sea like a tsunami, devouring everything within.


    The energy was a perfect counter to Cthaat, devouring the seaspletely and destroying the fragments of soul and consciousness that Cthaat had left behind. Cthaat, who would otherwise have been able to regenerate and live on from even a body of water as small as a puddle, was unable to even cut off the bulk of its body and run.


    The frightening energy that Zhang Lie''s de contained spread across Cthaat''s entire body of water, devouring everything as it spread.


    Cthaat tried to transform into the same type of energy that Zhang Lie''s de possessed, but that energy was an amalgam of Zhang Lie''s own technique and will. Cthaat was only able to copy the water-attuned gic energy, not the true essence of its destructive abilities.


    In the end, the ck sea that had terrorized thends of the fourth realm vanished entirely, destroyed by Zhang Lie.