Ultragene Warlord

d to toy with his emotions. 

Zhang Lie ’s eyes filled with killing intent.

He was certain that he was quickly approaching his mysterious opponent, who had no choice but to come up with more and more ludicrous scenarios.

Suddenly, a figure leapt up into the air and grabbed the serpent.

”You bastard, you killed your mother and your sister! ”

Zhang Lie glanced at the figure—his father.

”[The Boundless Blade: Yawning Wave]! ” Using his finger as a sword, Zhang Lie thrust forward, sending a wave of sword energy toward his father.
Zhang Lie ’s father blocked the attack with a sword that came out of nowhere.

”Enough! ” Zhang Lie ’s aura flared with his anger.
Flames that carried the potency of the sun swept over the entire ship, disintegrating each figure.

The gramophone began to spin once more.
Zhang Lie frowned.
Something was wrong; these figures seemed to be able to respawn endlessly.

Zhang Lie felt as though he could understand what Zhu ’s father had felt now—as though his fist had landed on a bed of cotton, able to absorb whatever force he threw its way.

While he was thinking about how to progress onward, Zhu vanished from the ship.

Zhang Lie frowned, but he didn ’t panic.
Zhu was with Whitey, and there wouldn ’t be a problem.

As he activated his dragon ’s eye soulshard, he found that Zhu ’s soul was still on the cruise ship.
He sent a probing fist slightly off-center in the direction she was in, smashing apart a spatial distortion and revealing her within.
Zhu, trapped amidst the mists, was being attacked by another Zhang Lie.

”What?! ” This fake Zhang Lie was in the middle of attacking Zhu and was being blocked by the moonlight wyrm.
Except for his appearance, the fake Zhang Lie was nothing like the real one.
It was far weaker; the real Zhang Lie would be able to take down the wyrm with nothing more than a finger.

The moonlight wyrm and Zhang Lie ’s dragon ’s eye soulshard shared a similar set of abilities.
They both granted a spiritual sense permitting the detection of the soul.
However, much of Whitey ’s abilities targeted the soul, and the fake Zhang Lie didn ’t have a soul.

The fake Zhang Lie ’s face turned cruel as he yelled out, ”Useless piece of trash! You ’re a waste of resources.
Go jump into the sea and die! ”

Zhu ’s eyes filled with tears.
”No, Mister wouldn ’t say something like that! ”

”You can ’t even bring me out of the sea of mists! What use are you? Why should I keep you around?! ”

Zhang Lie shuddered in disgust at his clone ’s antics before smashing it apart.

When Zhu saw the real Zhang Lie, she was overjoyed.
She pounced toward him, hugging his waist.
”Mister, I really don ’t know much about the sea of mists.
You aren ’t going to discard me, are you? ”

Zhang Lie rolled his eyes.
”If you have time to think about such pointless matters, why don ’t you help me figure out what we should do next? ”

Zhu hugged him even more tightly.
”You ’re the true mister, you really are! ”

”Let go of me. ”

”No, never! ”

Zhang Lie sighed in exasperation.
”We ’re close to uncovering the truth. ”

”Why do you say that? ”

Zhang Lie ’s face turned serious.
”It ’s using techniques that are more and more underhanded, as though it has nothing better to resort to. ”

Zhu asked, ”What do you think this opponent is, and where is it located? ”

”We might have misled ourselves, ” Zhang Lie began slowly.
”I always thought that our mysterious opponent was hidden among the mists, that we would be able to uncover the truth by heading deeper within, but who ’s to say that our opponent isn ’t right by our sides? Or, perhaps, that our opponent ’s been right by our sides all along… ”