Chapter 395: Another Sura King

On their king's command, the sura fighters rushed out toward Qi, their eyes blood-red as they swore to turn Qi into rubble.

However, the hunters situated on the walls of Qi didn't seem prepared to defend at all. Some of them even found stools on which to sit while they scrambled for snacks and made themselves comfortable.

After all, there was no need for them to worry: Zhang Lie and the members of Team Zenith had already returned from their expedition, and they certainly wouldn't need to fight.

Zhang Lie himself could get rid of all the sura, and they would only be liabilities if they charged forward recklessly.

The sura king noticed how strangely the humans were acting, but that didn't make him wary—and his fighters seemed to take the humans' behavior into stride as well.

"Haha, these foolish humans! They're too scared to fight back against us!"

"I think they're quite intelligent, don't you? They know that they can't defend against our attack, so they might as well not even try. This is what livestock should look like—we need to teach that Zhang Lie a lesson!"

Zhang Lie flicked his wrist, crushing a vial of potion he had just obtained from the Yeluo clan and sprinkling the drops of liquid over the charging sura fighters.

The sura didn't notice the liquid at first, not until they found that something was wrong with their bodies. As they ran, their bodies slowly decomposed. They fell to the ground, their mouths frozen in shock, as they slowly decomposed away.

The humans on the city walls began to cheer.

"It's starting!"

"I won't get tired of this scene no matter how much I watch it, I'm sure!"

"Who wants some buns? Some hot steamed buns!"

Compared to the hunters of Qi, who had seen this trick quite a few times by now, the sura were far more agitated.

"Humans, what have you done?!"

"Treacherous humans, remove this curse!"

"Do you have to resort to such petty tricks against us? We'd steamroll you head on!"

As if he had just thought of something, the sura king waved an arm and summoned a huge burst of bloody mist toward the decomposing sura fighters.

Zhang Lie shook his head. "Don't waste your strength. It's already too late; it can't be stopped now."

"What did you do to my soldiers?! No, just what was that liquid you sprinkled on them?!"

"It's a poison of sorts," Zhang Lie replied.

The sura king extended an open palm to Zhang Lie. "Hand me the antidote."

"I don't have one, and even if I did, I wouldn't hand it over."

"In that case, you can accompany them to the underworld!" A long spear appeared in the sura king's hand. As he waved it around, thunder began to rumble from the skies, and rays of bloody light gathered around the spear and sketched out the outline of a gigantic beast.

Zhang Lie likewise got ready for battle, a blood moon beneath his feet and a black sun behind his back.

The decomposing sura fighters shouted, for their final time, "Our king is indomitable! Long live the king of the sura!"

"Ridiculous, a human who thinks he can go against our king!"

"He must have a death wish!"

"Does he think that he can take down every sura king just because he managed to take down one?"

"[The Boundless Blade: Dragon's Wrath]!" A blood dragon emerged from Venombane and clashed against the sura king's gigantic beast, tearing it apart instantly. The sura king himself charged forward with his spear, thrusting it straight at Zhang Lie.

"[Ninesoul Dragonblade—First Form: Parting the River]!" A line of sword energy split the world in two.

As sword and spear clashed against each other, rippling waves of energy spread out about the two combatants. The closest spectators shied back, hastily shielding themselves and finding that even their best defenses weren't sufficient to handle the aftermath of Zhang Lie and the sura king's clash.

"For a human, you're quite strong—but you're far from being able to best me!"

the sura king cried out. He activated his blood sea domain, which roared beneath him and moved according to his will. His domain was clearly more vast and far more developed than the previous sura king Zhang Lie had faced.

As he thrust forward with his spear, a huge wave reared up from his domain, like a tsunami that had formed out of nowhere.

Zhang Lie wouldn't be able to take the attack head on, and neither would the hunters of Qi behind him.

"[The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]!" Zhang Lie raised Venombane high above his head as an underworld river formed behind him. As the two attacks clashed against each other, the ground beneath them cracked and splintered. Zhang Lie held his ground, defending both himself and Qi.

"You really are an interesting human. What about this blow?" The sura king swirled his spear, and the blood sea formed a cone of water around its tip.

"[The Boundless Blade: Dragon's Wrath]!" Zhang Lie defended again with another blood dragon, but this time, it was his attack that was obliviated by his opponent's. He followed up with a second blow. "[Ninesoul Dragonblade—First Form: Parting the River]!"

The sura king's face turned serious as he charged forward with his spear, defending against Zhang Lie's attack.

Zhang Lie raised both his arms into the sky, and the image of a dragonturtle appeared behind him. The two gravity-controlling tablets smashed into the ground right where the sura king was located. The sudden change in the local gravity disrupted his balance and made his defense falter for a moment, leaving him exposed to Zhang Lie's blow.

The sword energy from Zhang Lie's attack rushed toward the sura king's head.

The sura king barely swerved in time; the sword energy brushed by his shoulder and sent his blood spraying all over. Zhang Lie closed the gap between them in a matter of moments, but the sura king blocked his charge with his spear.

The remaining two tablets from the dragonturtle crashed down exactly where Zhang Lie had corralled the sura king, again stunning him momentarily and creating the ideal condition for Zhang Lie's finisher.