Chapter 960: The Last Survivors

Chapter 960: The Last SurvivorsEven under ordinary circumstances, Zhang Lie was stronger than an ordinary superior king—and that difference was only accentuated under his dragonwolf transformation. At this stage, he was closer in power to the king of keys and the king of chaos than the other superior kings.

The ice queen and solar king finally realized that, if they were to keep arguing with each other, they would suffer losses from which they might never recover. They finally shut up.

The fifty suns again glowed with vested radiance. A solar storm formed with a golden tornado at its very center. It gave off intense light. Sᴇaʀch* Thᴇ ɴovᴇlꜰirᴇ.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

Golden waves of heat flooded the battlefield, as did bright orange flames.

The ice spirits let out a shrill screech, summoning a silvery-white blizzard. Their screeches rang out like cannon fire, striking at their enemies' very souls.

The warlords clutched their heads in pain.

Zhang Lie waved his claws in a flurry. The blood-red claws tore apart the sky and slashed open the void, bisecting the scorching solar storm and freezing blizzard of frost.

A serpent manifested behind Zhang Lie. Its scales turned a blood-red color and horns protruded from its forehead as it transformed into a bloody dragon.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!" As Zhang Lie punched forward, the blood dragon roared in outrage and shot forward.

The fifty suns glowed once more, forming another solar storm. The frost spirits simultaneously created a blizzard, hoping to freeze and shatter the blood dragon outright.

The blood dragon tore apart the glowing suns and flew past the blizzard, then opened its mouth wide and bit down on a sun.

The sun burst with golden light as it tried to struggle free. Within the sun was a golden bird that furiously flapped its wings, only to be caught tightly in the blood dragon's mouth.

The forty-nine other suns beside it each launched a golden beam at the blood dragon, piercing through its body. The ice queen and solar king were just about to smile triumphantly when a wave of annihilation exploded around the dragon. Pitch-black energy swallowed up everything in the battlefield.

The kings watching the challenge from above grew visibly alarmed. The king of keys had to step forward, shielding the entire palace with world's energy to prevent it from being affected by the explosion.

The pitch-black energy formed a black hole that sucked up everything in sight—the fifty suns, along with huge quantities of bone powder from the remnants of the sea of bones.

A layer of earth was stripped bare from the world, along with the orange flames that the suns had given off. Even the dark clouds in the sky were swirling as they were sucked into the explosion. The pitch-black energy continued to expand.

The fifty suns weren't immediately destroyed by the energy; instead, the black hole continuously siphoned away whatever solar energy they produced.

Some of the sunbirds, realizing that they wouldn't be able to escape from the attack, self-immolated. A sun's radiance burst forth from the center of the black hole, dispersing the energy of annihilation.

At that point, the black hole shrunk down to a pinhole and vanished.

It left a vacuum in the air, causing it to cavitate as a huge storm formed. The barrier of world's energy protecting the palace rippled. After the waves of energy passed by, what remained of the battlefield was a smoking hemispherical crater, the radius of which was no less than a thousand meters across.

The superior kings sucked in deep breaths upon witnessing Zhang Lie's strength.

This was ridiculous. The four kings who had challenged the Zongming world gulped. They couldn't be certain that they would survive such a blow directly.

Even the king of chaos and the king of keys had serious expressions on their faces. No wonder the Zongming world had been able to destroy the xuluo world. Feitian was no match for Zhang Lie's strength—and Zhang Lie had only revealed part of what he could do.

Li Zongming smiled with pride. Although he wasn't the one who had won the Zongming world its victory, Zhang Lie was his son-in-law. Li Zongming smugly requested, "King of keys, please announce the results of the challenge."

Zhang Lie had cast [Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade], and the energy of annihilation it produced had swallowed everything up.

If the superior kings themselves had been present on the battlefield, they might have been able to counter the attack together—but the only forces there were troops that the ice queen and solar king had dispatched.

Those forces, strong though they might be, were still far from the level of a superior king. They were completely unable to defend against the explosion—all the solar king and ice queen's forces were wiped out.

The only surviving forces on the battlefield were Zhang Lie and his warlords.

It was evident who had won the challenge. Shameless though the superior kings might be, they could not refute this fact.

"I've passed the challenge, haven't I?" Li Zongming asked, turning to the four challengers.

The kings gnashed their teeth. They had never expected that the Zongming world would be able to win against their troops.

Li Zongming continued, "None of you are surprised that I passed, surely?"

The solar king gave him a thumbs up. "Admirable strength, King Zongming."

The superior kings of antiquity had no choice but to pay more attention to Li Zongming after witnessing the results of the challenge. They were forced to treat him as equals on account of his victory, and they were forced to be wary of Zhang Lie, who had used his own strength to inform the superior kings not to look down on the Zongming world.

The Zongming world was no easy target; Li Zongming wasn't the only inhabitant of the world who was as strong as a superior king.

Zhang Lie had won respect for Li Zongming with his own fists.

Li Zongming smiled. "Given my troops' combat ability, I believe I have the right to participate in the offense against the death spirits. There is no need for me to borrow any of your forces."

The king of keys clapped. "Very interesting. I wouldn't have expected another fighter on the level of a superior king to have come from a newly evolved superior world. You've been biding your strength, it appears."

The king of keys generously applauded Li Zongming.

This challenge served two purposes.

The first was to whittle down Li Zongming's troops, forcing him to borrow the other superior worlds' forces using his world's energy. The other superior worlds would all but enslave the Zongming world given their disparity in strength, turning it into a means by which all of them could obtain a superior world's energy.

The second…