Chapter 1512: Been Delayed

Chapter 1512: Been Delayed Jinyang Hua smiled in relief, her leaves trembling.

Zhang Lie really wasn't as strong as she had expected. With her true form, she could pose a challenge to him.

The next moment, Jinyang Hua realized that she was badly mistaken.

The moment the stellar dragon was destroyed, a wave of annihilation exploded around the dragon. Pitch-black energy swallowed everything in the vicinity like a storm at sea, covering up the sky.

The explosion was like a black hole that sucked up everything in sight.

The miniature suns fed the energy of annihilation, causing the black hole to expand rapidly.

Countless small suns appeared around Jinyang Hua, rooting themselves and growing to become sunflowers.

The golden light and sunflowers seemed to establish a domain. Jinyang Hua used that domain to seal space and prevent the energy of annihilation from growing at will and destroying everything in sight.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Hundred Dragons Soaring]!"

A horde of dragons launched out of Zhang Lie's left arm as he expended half his genetic energy in one supercharged attack.

Howling with the force of thunder, the hundred stellar dragons soared through the air. The sunflowers' petals scattered through the air as the domain was rapidly shattered by the assault of Zhang Lie's dragons.

Jinyang Hua howled in rage. The sunflowers burned. The golden light grew even more blinding as the pretty patch of sunflowers transformed into a flaming golden sea.

The flaming golden sea burned heaven and earth. The stellar dragon shattered, and waves of annihilation exploded around the dragon like a tempest. Hundreds of such waves devoured the whole sea of golden flames.

Even Jinyang Hua's domain was unable to prevent the incursion of the tempest. The domain was gradually devoured.

Jinyang Hua knew that she was no opponent for Zhang Lie. Against such a powerful cultivator like him, even turning to run was an extravagance that she couldn't afford. Within a dense patch of sunflower seeds, Jinyang Hua spat out a single one.

The sunflower seed burst apart, pierced through by the light. Within was a bone talisman with which Zhang Lie was intimately familiar.

It was warm and lustrous, as though it were made of jade. It sparkled with mysterious energy.

It was a bone talisman that would allow passage into the heart of the tournament.

Their mysterious client had given each of the cultivators participating in the joint assault against Zhang Lie a treasure.

Chi Chi had gained a blood ruler of incredible might, with one of the client's own attacks sealed within.

It showed how devious and unscrupulous their client was.

Their client had known or expected that the cultivators wouldn't be able to deal with Zhang Lie and his group, so he encapsulated his strength within a blood ruler that he handed to them. Once they failed and the blood ruler shattered, the attack within would devour everyone. However, Zhang Lie's extreme strength went beyond even his expectations.

Chi Chi clearly intended to take advantage of the blood ruler's strength—not only to kill Zhang Lie, but also to steal what the rest of them had obtained from the client.

Jinyang Hua, like Yao Long and the majority of the cultivators, had chosen a bone talisman rather than a relic.

This wasn't it, either. If the client's undertaking was successful, they would all be richly rewarded in the future as well.

These promises were what had ultimately enticed them to act.

Upon seeing the bone talismans, the cultivators' eyes widened.

Against a cultivator as powerful as Zhang Lie, Jinyang Hua tasted a sense of helplessness she had never felt before. She tried to run with her bone talisman, but Zhang Lie was even faster than she was. He pierced through the storm of annihilation and caught the bone talisman with a hand.

With her life-saving bone talisman seized, Jinyang Hua let out a chilling screech. The sunflower seeds radiated with golden light even more splendid than the sun itself, but against Zhang Lie, all resistance was futile.

Zhang Lie punched forward with a fist, crushing the giant sunflowers and the suns they encapsulated. They exploded in the air. Even the translucent crystalline barrier began to quake. The cultivators that were in the safe zone, noticing the commotion, gathered to see what was going on.

Zhang Lie reached out and grabbed what remained of the giant sunflower and pulled it open, tearing it apart as Jinyang Hua screamed. A huge wave of energy enveloped the realm, and even the crystalline barrier began to crack.

Zhang Lie had torn Jinyang Hua apart with his bare hands.

The moment he killed Jinyang Hua, the cultivators behind him struck at once.

Zhang Lie had obtained two more bone talismans during the fight just now, and he now had five bone talismans in all. That was a quantity that was sufficient to make any cultivator go crazy.

Zhang Lie met the field of cultivators with a body glowing with light. Each punch struck flesh; each palm drew blood. The cultivators burst apart one after another, killed to the last.

His fists shone with light, his blood like a raging ocean. Zhang Lie alone stood in the center of the battlefield, corpses shattering into light all around him. Everyone had been killed.

The cultivators safely ensconced in the safe zone goggled. Their souls trembled. What sort of power and strength was this?

Dozens of cultivators had fallen to Zhang Lie in an instant; this was a one-sided slaughter.

"Captain, it's time to go."

Zhang Lie crushed the last cultivator's head, then looked over at the heavenly cordon that was right about to envelop them.

Zhang Lie and the four other members of Team Zenith flew toward the safe zone. It was right before their eyes, and they would easily be able to make it. Yang Ze took out what he had obtained from his opponent in order to flaunt it.

It was a bone talisman, warm and lustrous, as though it were made of jade. It sparkled with mysterious energy.

He had snatched a bone talisman from his opponent, too.

Now, Team Zenith possessed six bone talismans. Every member of the team would be able to head into the central region.

Zhang Lie smiled. "Once we find Sun Mengmeng, we'll be able to teleport directly into the heart of the tournament."

Yang Ze smiled. "Haha, we might not know who tried to kill us, but that person really helped us out, didn't they? Sending us three free bone talismans—why, I don't know how to thank them enough."

Zhou Ying said worriedly, "I wonder what happened to Sun Mengmeng..."

"According to the queen's hive soulshard, she's right on the other side of the safe zone," Zhang Lie replied.

"She got into the safe zone before we did? As expected of Sun Mengmeng!"

Yang Ze shrugged. "We were delayed by all manner of affairs. Under ordinary circumstances, we should have made it into the safe zone relatively easily ourselves." Sᴇaʀch* Thᴇ n0vᴇl(ꜰ)ire.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

The crystal barrier was right before them, no more than a hundred meters away.

To an ordinary person, that might still be a considerable distance, but for hunters like Zhang Lie and the members of Team Zenith, it was a distance that could be crossed by a single breath. Suddenly, however, countless attacks swarmed them from across the crystal barrier.

Zhang Lie cleaved all the attacks with his sword, establishing a path forward.