Chapter 1510: Sword Suppression

Zhang Lie shouted from the back, "All of you, handle your opponent. Leave the rest to me!"

The four members of Team Zenith each faced off against their corresponding enemy faction.

The flamedemon Chi Chi snorted coldly. "Truly arrogant."

Jinyang Hua smiled. "Isn't this a good thing?"

Yao Long nodded. "Let's deal with this fellow first."

The flamedemon Chi Chi streaked down from the heavens, trailing scarlet flames. "Let me take on this arrogant fellow!"

He transformed into a human-shaped bolt of lightning that shot forward. Scarlet lightning flashed and crackled all around him.

Zhang Lie drew his sword and met Chi Chi in combat.

A wave of divine light rose into the air as the flames burned brightly. A sword slash swept across the heavens.

"Argh!" a cultivator shouted from behind, trying to defend himself with a weapon and, when that failed, to use a secret art. It was all meaningless.

The shockwaves that resulted from the impact exploded and sent the cultivators nearby reeling.

After just a few blows, Chi Chi could sense that something was amiss. He thought that all the cultivators were roughly at the same level, but after fighting Zhang Lie, he found that he was horribly mistaken. Zhang Lie's combat strength was significantly higher than his, and he had managed such a feat within a century at most!

His flames completely suppressed by Zhang Lie's pale blue sword, Chi Chi found himself being one-sidedly beaten. All his attacks were easily countered and neutralized by Zhang Lie, who unleashed tremendous power.

"[The Boundless Blade: Yawning Wave]!"

Zhang Lie manifested a sword will that rose into the heavens, strong beyond human understanding, vast as the ocean.

The sun glowed with splendor. Golden runes patterned the air. Starlight shone through the heavens.

The realm, consecrated with the might of a golden sun, resplendent and blazing, was so bright that the spectators had to look away.

The spectators found their souls trembling.

Heaven and earth resonated with the will of the sword and the aura of the godlike being within the sun.

Within just a few blows, one of Chi Chi's wings had been cut off. He clutched his wound and cried out, "What kind of sword do you have?!"

"A sword that can kill you."

The temperature dropped to sub-zero values, and a strong wind buffeted the battlefield. Blood-colored frost appeared around the two combatants.

"[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!"

A stellar river materialized in the air. As though the doors to hell had just been thrown open, tens of thousands of serpents rushed out in a flood.

Each serpent was pitch-black like the abyss, like the dark of night, and speckled with starlight, a miniaturized version of the Milky Way. The serpents were guides and ferrymen both, leading departed souls into sky and space, freed from the mortal coil.

As Zhang Lie's sword swung down, the stellar river struck the mortal world.

Chi Chi could sense the incredible might emanating from the stellar river. Small though the netherworld serpents might be, each seemed almost to be alive, bearing its own soul and life force.

He was unhappy to do so, but had to use the relic that his client gave him.

As his body blazed with flame, he retrieved a ruler of incredible might from his robes. A rose-colored hue streaked across the heavens.

"What's that?" someone cried out.

𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"I've never heard of the flamedemons possessing such a relic."

The netherworld serpents fell like meteors, whizzing down toward Chi Chi.

The ruler clashed against the netherworld serpents with such force that the sound echoed through the air. Chi Chi gave off so much light he looked like a glowing sun. He was attempting to vaporize Zhang Lie's netherworld river.

However, considering the size and depth of Zhang Lie's river, even the relic of incredible strength wasn't able to obliterate it.

"[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!"

Pitch-black genetic energy expanded through the battlefield.

The genetic energy looked as though it had come from the abyss, or perhaps from the expanding, limitless universe. Starlight struck the genetic energy in a flash of surprising beauty.

The night sky morphed into a raging sea. Waves surged forward, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves. The universe itself seemed to shake, as though the stars were shifting positions.

The surface of the stellar sea frothed with waves, layering and texturing it. Auroras hung in the air, veiling the night sky.

From afar, stellar dragons seemed to roar. The pitch-black dragons were like the night sky made manifest. Thunder and lightning crackled in the air.

Dragons unfurled their wings amidst a storm of lightning. The auroras stretched on for thousands of miles, so beautiful they captivated the gathered hunters.

Zhang Lie struck. An underworld river hurtled into existence, roaring into the sea. The sword energy roiled like black waves, like a meteor shower, causing the very stars to shake.

The entire night sky shifted as a thousand stellar dragons descended, as though a crack had broken in firmament. A flood that could destroy the world itself rained down on the lava.

The sea had morphed into a boundless battlefield. The sea breeze was as a horn to action, and the serpents, thousands of courageous soldiers heeding its call, shaking the heavens as all things hummed in resonance. Boulder after boulder exploded, even those tens of thousands of tons heavy. The ripples that emanated from the dragon's keening easily sparked a resonant decomposition.

The ruler was unable to withstand the river's concentrated attack. It began to crack. Chi Chi didn't dare to fight any longer, worried that the ruler would break as a result. He fled in disgrace.

A stellar dragon chased after him as Chi Chi shouted, "How long are the two of you going to keep watching? Help me!"

Yao Long and Jinyang Hua were watching from the sidelines.

They weren't companions to begin with, after all, and were more than happy to see Chi Chi suffering.

Yao Long mocked, "Didn't you say to leave it to you?"

Jinyang Hua hid a smile behind her hand. "I thought you were supposed to be impressive. To think you would end up in such dire straits."

Yao Long and Jinyang Hua considered Zhang Lie. Chi Chi might have been a little weak, but was essentially on their level. For him to have lost that confrontation so badly... Zhang Lie was simply too strong.

Yao Long and Jinyang Hua carefully analyzed Zhang Lie's moves.