Ultragene Warlord

ouldn ’t even touch Zhang Lie, let alone kill him.

”[Rune: Control]! ” Black ripples emanated from the two gravity-altering tablets, forming a localized region of distorted gravity.

As the dust and smoke from the explosion cleared, a blood-colored dragonwolf emerged.

Zhang Lie ’s newly acquired peak-grade dragonwolf soulshard replaced his superior-grade forest wolfman soulshard in functionality.
His lupine form had pitch-black fur and slitted eyes.
A few dragons circled around him.
A black sun appeared behind his back, and blood-red moonlight by his paws.
He looked like an atavistic deity.

Upon seeing Zhang Lie ’s dragonwolf transformation, the monarch of stars eyed him with newfound desire.
”What a beautiful lifeform, what beauty! Even I, who have recanted from bestiality, feel desire thrumming in my veins.
You ’re surely the most beautiful lifeform I ’ve seen in my entire life! ”

”You said that your compass created a miniature universe, didn ’t you? ” Zhang Lie ignored the monarch of stars ’ words.
  ”It ’s nothing more than a toy, one created with an immense amount of spiritual matter and genetic energy! You dare call it a universe? You, a foolish sura king from the second realm, dare to claim that you ’ve made a universe? How laughable! Let me show you the truth—I ’ll destroy it before your very eyes! [The Boundless Blade: the River Lethe]! ”

An underworld river hurtled into existence, roaring into the skies and clashing against the scarlet manifestation of the night sky.

Strong though the monarch of stars ’ weapon might be, Zhang Lie was stronger.
His dragonwolf transformation had boosted his strength tremendously, and the river of the underworld broke what now seemed to be an illusion.

As the monarch of stars tapped on his compass again, the scarlet sky mustered a defense, forming a concentrated beam of starlight.

”[Rune: Resonate]! ” Zhang Lie raised an arm into the air and sent the gravity and anti-gravity tablets crashing down by the four sides of the monarch of stars.
They began to resonate as one, sending ripples that melded with the sky and forming an absolute domain over all things within.

However, for the first time, Zhang Lie found his tablets ineffective.

The monarch of stars continued moving naturally, as though he were shielded from the domain the tablets had created.
A shining brilliance emanated from his body.

He commented coolly, ”You might have the ability to suppress space and time, but I have some achievement in those areas, too. ”

After all, the time-reversal technique that Suiyue had came from the monarch of stars ’ direct tutelage.
Unlike Suiyue, who obtained the ability to reverse time, the monarch of stars was able to speed up time and space locally around him.

Zhang Lie ’s four tablets formed an absolute domain that could even slow time, but the monarch of stars could counteract his technique by accelerating time around himself insead.

However, Zhang Lie had inspected the manual for this technique closely, and he knew that it came with extreme side effects as a result.
Mortal bodies weren ’t equipped to handle such cosmic principles, and any self-targeting techniques of this kind often came with commensurate drawbacks.

As the scarlet sun burned brighter and brighter, the monarch of stars ’ aura increased dramatically.
The crimson starlight descended to the ground.
Without any hesitation, Zhang Lie waved his sword, sending the underworld river clashing against the beam of starlight.

As the two frightening sources of energy struck each other, twin bursts of light filled the sky.

The monarch of stars laughed.
”Interesting! ”

”Oh? Your nine godsons said the same, but they all perished afterwards.
Just you wait—I have more interesting tricks to show you.
Don ’t die too quickly, will you? [The Boundless Blade: Dragon ’s Wrath]! ”

A dragon ’s roar resounded through the air like peals of thunder.
A rampaging dragon of blood pounced toward the monarch of stars.

As the scarlet sun burned even more brightly, more and more stellar energy wrapped around the monarch of stars and shielded him from the dragon ’s advance.

The rampaging dragon tore all that energy apart.
On seeing that Zhang Lie ’s attack was so strong, even the monarch of stars had to pay him more attention.

”It looks like I ’ve underestimated you.
I have to admit, you ’re a wonderful test subject! ”

The monarch of stars materialized a crimson blade from the compass and waved it at the dragon, causing another earth-shattering impact.
Even Renhuang ’s forces, now a few hundred kilometers away, could still sense the strength behind the clash.

The fight between the monarch of stars and Zhang Lie was apocalyptic; it went far beyond what the second realm could handle.
The will of the world was paying close attention to the fight, but it didn ’t dare interfere, especially after what the monarch of stars had done to it.

The blade in the monarch of stars ’ hand burned like the sun.
Flames of blood flared up and down the sword as the monarch of stars fought off Zhang Lie ’s dragon.
As the flames fell to the earth, they caused explosion after explosion, causing the ground to erupt and lava to form.