Ultragene Warlord

Chapter 1508: Only Knowing How to Run

Upon seeing Zhang Lie emerge, the members of Team Zenith couldn't help but smile.

"It's time to leave!"

"[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.

Overwhelming sword energy, like a sunset sea, swallowed up the sun and suppressed the light.

The sword energy swept across all the cultivators, who fell to the ground like reaped wheat.

The four hunters of Team Zenith landed by Zhang Lie's side.

"We can't let them get away."

"They have three bone talismans in their hands!"

The cultivators behind them caught up.

Zhang Lie grinned. His eyes sparked dangerously. Clutching his blade, he shouted, "I was planning to leave all of you be, but since you're all determined to die, I'll fulfill your wishes!"

Yang Ze caught Zhang Lie's hand.

"Captain, ignore these fellows. Let's run!"

Zhang Lie frowned, but Yang Ze pointed toward the distance. "The heavenly cordon is rapidly drawing near!"

Ghost-blue lightning descended in droves, ravaging the land and contorting the void. The power of annihilation turned everything before it to smoke and dust.

As the lightning storm continued to spread, beasts were sent flying.

The moment Zhang Lie entered the door of light, the heavenly cordon seemed to speed up.

Without any hesitation, Zhang Lie ran off with the other four members of Team Zenith.

The cultivators behind them continued to launch attacks their way, attempting to disrupt them.

Zhou Ying frowned. "These fellows really don't fear death, do they?"

"They're not really going to die in this virtual realm, after all," Yang Ze said.

"No," Li Feng disagreed. They're taking a risk. If they can get just a single bone talisman, they can immediately teleport into the center without fear of the heavenly cordon."

There were five members of Team Zenith present, and three bone talismans wouldn't be enough for them all.

"Stop and fight if you dare!"

"All you know how to do is run, you cowards!"

As the cultivators behind them continued to disrupt them, Zhang Lie grew angry.

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

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

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.

With every slash of Guicang, Zhang Lie's serpents fell like meteors, whizzing down to the ground and striking down the cultivators en masse. The only ones that remained alive were those who had more than a base level of strength.

After that, Zhang Lie turned and fled. His momentary delay meant that the heavenly cordon had drawn closer.

Those cultivators who were slower found themselves engulfed by the heavenly cordon. They struggled but ultimately perished.

Zhang Lie and the other four members of Team Zenith fled rapidly and quickly encountered a translucent crystal wall.

"The safe zone must lie ahead," Yang Ze said.

The wall was a huge energy barrier that would be able to counteract the heavenly cordon for some time, but only those who satisfied the conditions could pass through.

"We're almost there!" Fang Yi cried out.

Suddenly, a large number of attacks came at them: one pierced through the void, another seemed to be displaced in time, a third drew on the stars, a fourth was composed of hellfire, a fifth of two crossed sword slashes, a sixth a silvery-white sword descending from the heavens...

Five mountains toppled from the heavens and emitted radiant light as they fell.

About ten attacks in all combined into a lethal strike.

Zhang Lie frowned and struck at once.

"[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 huge netherworld sea devoured all the attacks as the stellar dragons shot forward.

An intense radiance exploded forth.

Thousands of beasts seemed to roar in unison, a tremendous pressure that was almost impossible to resist.

With a wave of a cultivator's fist, heaven and earth filled with light. The figures of beasts covered the arena with an irrepressible aura.

"[Fist of Ten Thousand Beasts]!"

Fang Yi frowned. He knew the origin of this attack.