Chapter 1224: Breaking Through Barriers

The pocket space shook so violently that, even before Fang Yi launched his attack, it was already full of cracks. Even the members of Team Zenith were affected despite being further removed from the arena.

If the energy had belonged to Fang Yi himself, he might have been able to rein it in—but that wasn't the case.

The clash between the energy of chaos and that of time and space caused the wheels of time on Fang Yi's back to shatter one after another. His spear vibrated ceaselessly, and huge quantities of chaotic energy gushed out.

Fang Yi ws no longer the Fang Yi he had been within the halls of chaos, and neither was he the same Fang Yi who had faced Ghroth. He now had maxed monarch gene fragments, and while he had originally been able to control his attack to some degree, the outburst of chaotic energy destabilized his control. His hands began to shake.

The eight wheels of time cracked, and the energies began to meld together uncontrollably.

All around Fang Yi, space and time began to splinter and crack. Unusual pitch-black thorn-like protrusions appeared by the edges of Fang Yi's vision, seeming to skewer space.

The skin on his arms cracked. Veins protruded from his forehead and his arms turned bright red.

Fang Yi was familiar with this behavior, which he had encountered countless times in practice. Rather than panic, he howled as he struck with the potent mix of energy he had created, forcing the unstable energy outward.

The entire world seemed to come to a standstill at that moment. A howling storm, void lightning, mysterious temporal charge, the wind of ages—the mishmash of elements exploded.

Yang Ze's spatial isolation was incapable of withstanding the resulting shockwaves and cracked immediately, while Sun Mengmeng's firewall began to fluctuate violently.

[The Boundless Blade: Expulsion]!"

Zhang Lie extended his pointer finger like a sword, and water-attuned genetic energy gathered around it. As he waved his finger, sword energy erupted like a wave, accompanied by a giant shark, tearing apart the storm formed by the sevenfold energy.

Resilient though Sun Mengmeng's black flames might be, even they couldn't withstand the aftershock caused by the clash of attacks. Zhang Hanxiang's wall of ice also shattered, and the hundreds of wood dragons that Zhou Ying had summoned fell to the ground in a pile of branches and vines.

Zhou Ying continued infusing vitality into her summons, replenishing the vines that had broken off and restoring the branches to maintain their defense.

The sword energy pierced through the storm. By the time Fang Yi came to his senses, Zhang Lie's finger was right by his throat. Fang Yi couldn't help but swallow a gulp of saliva.

Zhang Lie retracted his finger and clasped both hands behind his back once more.

Fang Yi exhaled. "I really can't beat you, Captain."

Zhang Lie replied, "If you were able to control your technique, it would have been far harder for me to dispel it."

This was no idle praise. The aftershock of Fang Yi's technique alone had broken through three of Team Zenith's barriers. In the end, Zhou Ying's vines had also given out, and even Li Feng's silver dragons seemed to be on the verge of fading. Half of Sun Xiaowu's clones had been vanquished.

The members of Team Zenith were very relieved that they hadn't been Fang Yi's opponent.

Zhang Lie continued, "If you could have combined all those disparate sources of energy into a cohesive whole, the outcome of this battle could have been very different. Trying to dispel your attack at that point..."

Fang Yi laughed wryly. "This is no easy task. I might have been able to control the technique to some extent beforehand, but ever since changing weapons and including the energy of chaos into the mix..."

The instability caused by the combination of chaos with time and space was almost impossible to resolve.

Zhang Lie replied, "It's precisely that it's hard that you have to do it. Without resolving your problems one by one, how can you grow stronger? That's the process of learning, after all."

Fang Yi nodded. "Thank you for the guidance, Captain. I'll work hard on it."

Zhang Lie asked, "Have you finished resting, then?"

Fang Yi raised his head with some shock.

"If you're done, let's continue. I'm sure you're stronger than this, aren't you? Don't you have other ultimate techniques?"

Zhang Lie turned around and strode farther away, then beckoned at Fang Yi with his fingers.

Fang Yi sucked in a deep breath. Zhang Lie really wasn't about to let him rest, was he?

Fang Yi's fighting spirit reignited. "In that case, give me a moment, Captain."

"[Wheel of Time]!"

Fang Yi's spear took on the aspects of time and age. Temporal winds buffeted the spear, and a mysterious light began to circle the spear like lightning.

A wheel of light appeared behind Fang Yi, taking on the form of a clock.

Fang Yi forged ten wheels of time before stopping.

Under the effect of ten such wheels, the time around Fang Yi distorted tremendously. It seemed as though there were ten copies of Fang Yi superimposed over each other, and his figure even turned a little blurry.

Fang Yi grinned. "Thanks for the wait, Captain."

Zhang Lie waved a hand at him impatiently. "Don't waste my time and show me what you've got! I hope you aren't going to disappoint me after all this time."

"I won't, Captain."

As Fang Yi roared, the wheels of time to his back splintered, and his body began to glow more and more brightly. Next to Fang Yi, a shadow of himself suddenly appeared, one which suddenly merged with Fang Yi's body and gave him a tremendous boost to his strength. The wind and lightning circling the spear doubled in intensity.

"[Wheel of Time: Break]!"

As the next wheel of time broke, even more light flared from Fang Yi's back. A second shadow appeared, merged with Fang Yi, and boosted his strength, followed by a third, a fourth, a fifth...

As more and more wheels of time behind Fang Yi broke, more ephemeral shadows appeared and boosted his strength to an extreme. Wind and storm circled him ten times over.

Fang Yi's attack had filled the pocket space with wind and storm before he even launched it.

A dragon's roar resounded through the air like peals of thunder. A wind dragon and a storm tiger appeared. Wind and storm combined and crackled at the tip of Fang Yi's spear.

Fang Yi leveled his spear. Wind and lightning surged forth. Chaotic energy infused both elements, and the attack disrupted time and space itself. In an instant, everything in the arena blurred.

"Excellent!" Zhang Lie grinned. Fang Yi's attack was indeed powerful.

Zhang Lie took a single step forward. The crash of a titanic ocean resounded within his body, and a burst of genetic energy emanated from Zhang Lie's body. That alone dispelled the storm; as Zhang Lie's fist struck Fang Yi's technique, Fang Yi's nascent blow vanished as though it had never existed.

Fang Yi was petrified.