Chapter 923: Decimating the Kings

Scarlet flames wreathed around the king of Chiyan. He looked like a god of fire that had descended to the realm. Every punch he made morphed into a flood of flame. The kings of the realm had been fighting on par with the warlords until Chiyan entered the battlefield and tipped the scales in his favor.

"Don't worry. Your brother's never lost before, and he never will."

Zhang Lie clenched his fist tightly. Blue genetic energy gathered around him as space vibrated. The ripples spread out over his arm. As he flicked his wrist, a frightening aura began to emanate from his body.

A gale formed over the battlefield. Everyone looked toward the skies, which had rapidly darkened. A fish the size of a whale had materialized in the air and was covering up the sun.

Upon seeing this whale, the warlords cried out in excitement, while the kings of the realm turned stiff. The reason the warlords were so excited was because they knew what this whale represented—Zhang Lie was here!

𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Meanwhile, the kings of the realm could sense the gigantic reservoir of genetic energy that the whale harbored.

More and more genetic energy gathered around Zhang Lie's arms, spinning rapidly until it looked as though he were in the center of a whirlpool.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Soar]!" A huge wave soared into the air. As Zhang Lie punched forward, the fish slammed its huge tail on the ground and sent a torrent of water surging toward the battlefield.

The frightening density of genetic energy caused space to warp. Towering waves formed of water-attuned genetic energy grew larger and larger, like enraged black dragons, as they swept across the battlefield.

The kings of the realm grew visibly alarmed at the strange phenomenon that was unfolding.

"Just what's happening?"

"I've never heard of these tumors having such a secret weapon..."

"Could something be wrong?"

A huge ocean swamped the sea and the sky. Waves filled with spatial energy rushed toward the gathered kings of the realm, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves.

The kings of the realm, despite all their strength, felt as though their lives were in danger. This was no mere attack—it was a weapon of mass destruction!

If they had known that the draconians had such an ace up their sleeve, they would never have formed a coalition to try to combat the draconians. All they could do now was to use their defensive techniques and layer them atop each other in hopes that they would be able to block the attack with their combined strength.

The king of Chiyan manifested a sea of scarlet flames.

The scarlet flames condensed over the battlefield like a thousand sharp swords breaking through the cloud cover, like galloping steeds, like thundering dragons. The king of the Chiyan world infused his genetic energy into the sea of scarlet flame, which clashed against the pale blue waves in mid-air. Half the sky was red, and the other half blue.

Subsequently, the pale blue waves exploded in the air—the heart of the attack. The explosion shattered space and sent waves of force rippling all around it. Like a rampaging beast, it devoured everything nearby. The pale blue waves quenched the scarlet flames within moments as the coalition forces cried out in despair.

The kings of the large worlds had enough strength to withstand the bulk of the attack, but the kings of medium-sized worlds died almost instantly as they were hit by the attack.

The warlords were simultaneously overjoyed and shocked by what Zhang Lie had accomplished.

Even though they were fighting with their lives on the line, they were still slowly but surely losing against the combined might of the kings of the realm—but Zhang Lie's single attack had changed the trajectory of the battle.

The warlords finally understood just how large a gulf lay between them and Zhang Lie.

Zhang Lie himself marveled at his newfound strength. He had been strong even before absorbing monarch gene fragments, but he certainly wouldn't have been able to suppress all the gathered kings of the realm with just one attack.

The combined might of the kings was quite impressive. Zhang Lie's attack might very well have been blocked completely by the kings before his acquisition of monarch gene fragments—at the very least, it wouldn't have dealt such a heavy blow to these kings, and it wouldn't have destroyed their army beyond repair.

This had to be the power of monarch gene fragments.

The coalition really was unlucky to have roused Zhang Lie's ire right after he acquired a massive boon.

The only one among the kings of the realm who could barely remain standing was the king of Chiyan.

Just as his sister had described, this king of the realm had fought against Yang Ze and improved dramatically in strength after recovering from his wounds. He had surpassed the limits of a regular king of a large world, and was slowly approaching the might of a superior king.

However, despite his strength, he was held back by the size of his world—he lacked sufficient energy from the will of the world to truly advance and become a superior king. Even so, it was impressive that he had managed to reach such heights—and a pity that he had provoked Zhang Lie.

Zhang Lie clasped both hands behind his back as he propelled himself through the air toward the king of Chiyan. "Are you the king of Chiyan, who injured my teammate Yang Ze? I've been interested in meeting you to learn who would be so bold as to hurt me and mine."

The king of Chiyan glanced at the unwelcome intruder, his eyes narrowed. The moment Zhang Lie appeared, he had sensed Zhang Lie's overwhelming strength and aura. His very soul was warning him against the man standing right in front of him. The king of Chiyan desperately wished to avoid the upcoming fight.

How many years had it been since the king of Chiyan felt so threatened? Never before had he felt such calamitous strength, as though he could very well drop dead and die out of nowhere.

The king of Chiyan sucked in a deep breath. "Are you the champion of mankind, Zhang Lie?"

The fallen kings of the realm glanced at each other in dismay, unable to believe that the rumored king of mankind was right there in front of them.

They had exchanged countless blows with the warlords of the third realm, and they had learned from them about an existence of unimaginable strength, one who had become deified.

The warlords spoke of a man whose strength eclipsed them all by hundreds and thousands of times, who could destroy a large world in the blink of an eye...

The kings of the realm refused to believe such nonsense. They expected that the warlords were simply making up this figure to frighten them and deter them from trying to invade further.

Now, however, the kings of the realm were staring at living proof of this legend.

Even working together, the kings of the realm succumbed to just one blow from Zhang Lie, and the weaker kings were instantly annihilated. Truly, Zhang Lie was on the level of a god.

They thought that the members of Team Zenith were the opponents' greatest assets, each with the strength of a peak king of a large world, but this was a monster beyond regular monsters. They shouldn't have formed a coalition; they should have lain hidden in their own worlds. How were they supposed to deal with such a monstrosity?