Chapter 1376: Stellar Transformation

Even Bu Wentian, watching the fight from his pocket space, was agape. "He's using that soulshard I gave him surprisingly proficiently..."

The chimera's physique was shocking, and its claws had the power to destroy mountains. When those claws smashed into Zhang Lie's fist, the resulting boom could be heard all throughout the world.

Zhang Lie's punches, bolstered with starlight and auroras, suppressed the disaster-grade chimera, but it had inherited the immense defense of the turtle lifeform that Zhang Lie had fought.

Zhang Lie simultaneously activated his dragonwolf soulshard. His russet fur seemed to glimmer with stellar radiance, each hair a shining star, as though he were draped with the entirety of the Milky Way. His four limbs were armored with a dragon's scales, each a burning golden sun. The two soulshards' power combined.

A dragon's horns grew out of Zhang Lie's forehead, shining with stellar radiance, surrounded by galactic starlight. To others, he would seem to have the boundless energy of a new galaxy.

Zhang Lie swiped forward with his claws. Starlight flooded forward, splitting apart heaven and earth. Sparks flew as the claws left a deep scar on the chimera's chest.

Its nine heads all widened their jaws to reveal incisors over a meter long. Gleaming light shot right by Zhang Lie's face, scraping his skin and cutting off a few strands of hair. Far into the distance, where the light struck a mountain, the mountain crumbled.

His fist smashed into the chimera's incisors with a tremendous clang, as though he had struck steel, or as though a heavenly drum was beating out a rhythm through the skies.

The man and chimera fought on and on, summoning winds around them from nothing but the force of their blows. The world shook and trembled.

As they clashed again, the chimera roared, sending a bombardment of sound waves at Zhang Lie. Gritting his teeth, Zhang Lie weathered the assault.

Struck by battle-frenzy, Zhang Lie was fighting as much like a beast as a man. Heated blood pumped through his body, and his eyes were those of a predator's.

As he punched forward, the black serpent behind him shot forth. Its body looked abyssal, its scales dotted with stars, its eyes glowing coldly like an aurora.

The chimera reacted with surprise, darting away rapidly as it transformed into a bolt of light. The serpent shot forward with destructive energy, cracking a mountain as it shot through its middle.

Dust billowed into the air as a cloud, revealing an ashen chimera. One of its heads had almost been smashed open. A terrible wound marred its body, and flowing blood dyed one of its eyes red.

The chimera's howls were like thunder. Shining brilliance drowned the sky in gold.

Smoke filled the air. Zhang Lie went on the offensive. A chaotic storm surrounded him. A huge burst of light dissipated the mist and smoke.

This was a dangerous close-combat fight.

The disaster-grade chimera fell from the skies and smashed a crater in the ground. Its body was bruised and bleeding, its golden feathers wilting.

Starlight surrounded Zhang Lie. Countless stars whizzed away from his body. His pitch-black genetic energy seemed like the astral void, with shining stars scattered throughout.

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

His genetic energy condensed into a black dragon, whose scales were each a star. The stars inlaid in its body formed a long stellar river. Zhang Lie's monarch-grade limitless universe soulshard was changing the very nature of his genetic energy, from pitch-black to dotted with starlight, as though it were a sample from the galaxy.

𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

The galactic genetic energy shone with twinkling stars, which transformed into dragons that shot out alongside Zhang Lie's punch.

The chimera spread its wings wide, blazing with dawn light as it transformed into a divine sunbird. It fanned the ground with its wings furiously, spawning divine flame and lightning.

The divine wings struck the stellar dragons in an explosion of starlight. Countless vines extended from its body like a domain, causing the stellar dragons to be tangled up.

With a whoosh, the chimera struck with its other wing, sharp as a sword.

The stellar dragons were cleanly bisected, unveiling even greater strength.

Pitch-black genetic energy and starlight seeped out from within the vines. The next moment, a wave of annihilation exploded around the dragons. Pitch-black energy swallowed everything in the vicinity like a storm at sea, covering up the sky.

The explosion was like a black hole that sucked up everything in sight, land, sea, and sky alike. Countless crystal shards were sucked into its midst.

The chimera turtled up in its shell, which boasted tremendous defense. It shook continuously as pitch-black genetic energy whooshed past. Black energy rippled across the air.

The chimera widened its maw and shot out another ray of golden light, resplendent with energy.

Nine beams of divine light focused on Zhang Lie.

Black genetic energy burst forth from Zhang Lie, as though there were hundreds, thousands of dragons surging throughout his body.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Hundred Dragons Soaring]!"

A horde of dragons launched out of Zhang Lie's left arm as he expended half his genetic energy in one supercharged attack. Howling with the force of thunder, the hundred stellar dragons soared through the air.

They blocked the chimera's attack and shot toward it.

The chimera was strong and brimming with vitality, its scales shining resplendent, its body glowing with divine radiance. It barreled down countless dragons.

As the energy of annihilation exploded around itself, the chimera realized that something was wrong, and it quickly turtled into its shell once more. Each stellar dragon contained tremendous quantities of annihilating energy, which rocked the shell once and again in a series of chained explosions like supernovas.

The shell shook continuously, battered by the waves once and again, before its defense finally faltered. The shell began to crack.

The chimera rushed out from the hurricane of annihilation before the situation could devolve further. Its nine heads popped out of the shell. Eighteen eyes formed eighteen golden whirlpools that sucked at Zhang Lie's soul, intending on pulling his soul out of its body.