Ultragene Warlord

Chapter 1578: Cthaat

Zhang Lie mocked, "Well? It doesn't feel good to have your body be corroded, does it?"

The ink-green water surged up and rushed toward Zhang Lie.

Zhang Lie punched forward with a fist, causing the moat water to disperse into droplets that filled the sky. His eyes were cold. "Die suffering the way the genetic hunters did."

The moat water rapidly shrunk in size. Zhang Lie realized that this couldn't be due to the corrosion of his pitch-black genetic energy. Thinking back to the large underground cavern under the city, his lips quirked in a sneer. "Do you think you can run?"

He punched forward repeatedly, each punch transforming into a black serpent that landed in the water.

The water corroded more and more rapidly, transforming from ink-green to black. It shrunk in volume even faster as well.

Cthaat's son manifested in the form of a human face. He shrieked, "I'm Cthaat's son. You can't kill me!"

Zhang Lie's eyes grew sharp. "I've already killed several of Cthaat's sons. As for your father, Cthaat, I'll be paying him a special visit myself one of these days."

Cthaat's son roared, "You're nothing but a bug, an insignificant existence! You don't know just how strong my father is. You had better let me go, or he'll kill you!"

"Oh? I'm looking forward to it, then. [Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!"

The black serpent charged forward with Zhang Lie's fist, landing in the water and thrashing as Cthaat's son slowly disintegrated.

Suddenly, Zhang Lie felt a spatial fluctuation in the sky. He raised his head to the heavens.

The sky spun and the air distorted, forming a huge, swirling whirlpool in the air.

In the center of the whirlpool, waves roared through the skies like galloping steeds, like thundering dragons.

The waves crested in mid-air.

The whirlpool was like a mirror into the far end of the sea. The near end continued to seethe and roil.

Ordinary hunters would have been crushed by the terrible pressure, as would a monarch-grade lifeform.

However, Zhang Lie was no ordinary hunter, nor a monarch-grade lifeform in his own right. He was a demigod, an existence likely unparalleled in the fourth realm.

"Hold it!"

Despite the immense pressure coming from the sky, Zhang Lie didn't kneel. He wasn't scared by the entity who exuded all that pressure. He stared right at the sea on the other end of the whirlpool in the sky.

"You must be Cthaat."

Seeing that his last son was about to die, Cthaat couldn't sit still any longer.

He snorted. "Since you know who I am, you had better release my son immediately."

"And if I refuse?" Zhang Lie replied.

Cthaat's son had killed an entire city's worth of hunters. If they let him go, how would they face the hunters who had perished?

Cthaat thought that he had misheard. Who in this realm would dare to go against him?

"You'll all suffer a tragic end!" he roared.

The sea had morphed into a boundless battlefield. The sea breeze was as a horn to action, and the waves, thousands of courageous soldiers heeding its call. Boulders on shore, weighing thousands of tons, were sent sinking into the sea.

"I don't like being threatened."

Zhang Lie's eyes grew cold as he snapped his fingers.

A wave of annihilation exploded forth. Pitch-black energy swallowed everything in the vicinity like a storm at sea.

The moat water was sucked in and annihilated as the tempest of black energy swelled. Cthaat's son cried out, "Father, save me!"

The sea on the other side of the whirlpool shook in rage. Waves charged forward, lapping the shore, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves.

The surface of the sea frothed with angry waves, like dragons emerging with the tide. The entire sea shifted, and lightning crackled amidst the void.

Lightning imbued with spatial force forked out of the whirlpool and struck at Zhang Lie.

Not only was Cthaat able to use spatial force to appear from a considerable distance away, he was even able to launch attacks across all that distance. He was no weaker than Yang Ze when it came to spatial manipulation, and Zhang Lie would have to treat him as a serious opponent.

As Zhang Lie activated his monarch-grade limitless universe soulshard,

he glowed with stellar radiance, like a burning star. Starlight flowed through his body in phantasmagorical colors.

The starlight's allure captivated all onlookers.

Zhang Lie's body transformed into a glaze of the dark cosmos, as though the Milky Way itself flowed through his body. His aura grew tremendously.

The starlight deflected Cthaat's attack as the tempest of annihilation underfoot finally burned itself out, leaving only a huge hole in the ground.

"I used too much strength by accident."

Cthaat's son had, of course, not survived the incredible tempest of annihilation. He perished alongside the hunters he had killed, whose bodies and bones were now completely obliterated.

Zhang Lie stared dispassionately at the city. Such was the fate of genetic hunters.

Without strength, they would only die an ignoble death, their bodies mutilated and not laid to rest.

To survive, hunters had to grow stronger.

This was the cruel reality on which the Milky Way was now predicated; it had been built over the foundation of countless hunters' bodies.

The Milky Way might look glorious, but it was endlessly cruel.

Within the whirlpool, the surface of the sea frothed with angry waves, like dragons emerging with the tide.

Cthaat roared in outrage, "I'll kill you, kill you all! All you cockroaches in the realm—I'll exterminate you!"