Chapter 1477: Split the Loot

Chapter 1477: Split the Loot Even so, Feng Xian quashed her anger. The image of a phoenix, wings outstretched, appeared behind her. Feng Xian said, "I have to admit that you're strong, and I'm not a match for you just yet. By the next time we meet, I'll have grown even stronger. I hope you can maintain your relaxed attitude then."

The fact that Feng Xian was able to say something like this so calmly was a sure sign that she had a trump card up her sleeve.

Zhang Lie was certain that he knew too little about the fifth realm.

Feng Xian had grown considerably stronger since the last time he had seen her, and her physical strengthening technique had even melded into her blood and flesh, developing a truly impenetrable body. She had even gained powerful mental abilities. Zhang Lie didn't know how much stronger Feng Xian would become the next time. He knew that he couldn't let her leave now, even if he had to make use of methods that he disdained.

Zhang Lie took out Feng Xian's dudou again. "Again, Feng Xian?"

Feng Xian stopped short.

"Ever since you left me, I've been feeling lonely late at night. All I can do to comfort myself is to pull out the clothing you left behind. If you try to escape, Feng Xian, why, I don't know what I might end up doing."

Feng Xian's eyes glimmered with killing intent as Zhang Lie threatened her with her dudou once again.

She was embarrassed and incensed about their initial fight.

Zhang Lie clasped his hands over his heart. "You can leave, Feng Xian, and I won't stop you. However, I might tell everyone about the night I spent with you. I'm sure many would want to learn about our interactions."

Feng Xian pursed her lips in anger. This scumbag had to be doing this deliberately! He had somehow gained her innerwear. If word of this was to spread, she would never be able to clear her name.

Feng Xian stood poised and holy as she marshaled her strength and prepared to launch a killing blow at him. No matter how good her temper, even she couldn't bear Zhang Lie's repeated provocation.

Feng Xian glimmered with moonlight. The moonlight exuded from her and combined with her mental energy to unleash incredible strength.

A burst of sword energy swept past Zhang Lie, filled with radiant light. The combination of the moonlight and mental energy was multiplicative; her mental energy unlocked the latent potential in her physical body, and her physical strength augmented her mental energy. The virtuous cycle resulted in an explosive boost to her overall power.

The lakebed collapsed as a terrifying earthquake shook the lake.

"[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.

The stellar sea neutralized Feng Xian's augmented attack.

As Zhang Lie's netherworld sea clashed against Feng Xian's sword energy, starlight exploded. Zhang Lie's stellar dragons were obliterated and fell to the ground in the form of starlight. The ground quaked, and the lake surged. As the entire lake was destroyed, a few silver-dragon lotuses popped out.

The shockwaves that resulted from the two cultivators forced the silver-dragon lotuses to show themselves and flee as rapidly as they could.

Otherwise, they would surely be destroyed if they remained in the vicinity of the two cultivators.

Zhang Lie shouted as he rushed forward in an attempt to catch the lotuses. "You've scared my divine plants off!"

"You dare leave now?!" Feng Xian chased after him furiously.

She had become truly angry; she no longer cared for these divine plants at all. She struck at Zhang Lie.

To Feng Xian, killing Zhang Lie was far more important than any treasure she might seek.

Very quickly, Zhang Lie caught up to the silver-dragon lotuses and recaptured them. He bound them together as they flashed silver and combined into a single lotus. It was particularly unusual, with leaves, flowers, and stem all covered in silver scales.

It was fragrant almost beyond belief—a divine plant with an exceptional appearance.

Feng Xian shot toward Zhang Lie and unleashed another killing blow. Her sword gave off so much energy that the lakewater within dozens of kilometers vaporized instantly, causing an upheaval as water elsewhere in the lake surged to fill the vacuum.

The disturbance naturally caught the eye of the cultivators in the sky; a huge fight was still occurring in the distance.

"Everyone, he's managed to harvest a silver-dragon lotus. You're all aware of what a treasure this divine plant is, aren't you?" Feng Xian shouted, her voice echoing through the heavens.

"Everyone, she's the one who has that divine plant. I saw it with my own eyes. She's trying to kill me to hide that information!" Zhang Lie shouted back.

He was a schemer, too.

The cultivators in the air were momentarily silent before they surged toward the two of them.

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Radiant light shot out from all over. The skies looked as though they were about to shatter.

A group of cultivators and frightening lifeforms of the realm approached, so many of them in all that it might as well have been a one-sided slaughter.

"[The Boundless Blade: Dragon's Wrath]!"

Guicang unleashed a barrage of sword energy in the form of a stellar dragon.

A dragon's howl shook heaven and earth. It blocked much of the devastating energy headed their way.

Zhang Lie was able to defend against the first wave of attacks, but even so, he would be hard-pressed to keep it up.

Just then, lightning flashed through the sky and a howling gale blew.