Chapter 1459: An Easy Battle
"And so what if I am?" Chen Feng was just about to strike.
"Hold on." Feng Xian held him back.
Zhang Lie glanced at the silver bug monarch.
"This isn't a simple bug, is it?"
Chen Feng scoffed. "You don't even recognize this lifeform? You really are unlearned, aren't you?"
"Hand over the bug monarch and I'll consider the grudge between you and my junior brother settled," Chang Ming offered.
A divine aura radiated from his body. His armor was gleaming. Although he was yet young, he stared at Zhang Lie with uncommon confidence and poise.
Yang Ze laughed. "It's not even your grudge to settle. Furthermore, when have I ever asked for it to be settled? You really think you're all that, don't you?"
"Claim it if you think you have the skills to," Zhang Lie replied coolly, standing against the three cultivators. Despite being outnumbered, he was unbelievably cool and collected.
The cultivators gaped at him. Just who was Zhang Lie? He had refused a prodigy of Starbright Academy and disdained a prospective successor to the Hall of Immortals.
Suddenly, the rumble of thunder could be heard in the distance, along with bestial howls, divine flame, and an intense confrontation.
Light filled the air, and the outline of a copper hall appeared in the heavens in an imposing sight.
What had happened? Perhaps the birth of a treasure, or some unusual occurrence that had sparked a transformation.
"Hand it over!" Chen Feng demanded, raising his longbow. The divine purple arrow flashed in the light.
"Scram," Zhang Lie replied coolly.
Chen Feng's threat drastically lowered Zhang Lie's impression of him.
Feng Xian didn't stop them from fighting. She stood by a side and watched the heated fighting occuring in the distance, where most of the cultivators were gathered.
Suddenly, Chen Feng made his move, drawing his longbow taut and launching an arrow.
He believed himself to be among the supreme cultivators of his generation, who had once been a competitor to the successor of the Hall of Immortals and who had stood at the very peak. How could he be beaten by an unknown challenger of ill repute? He would kill him and seize the silver bug monarch for himself.
Zhang Lie reached out and caught the divine arrow with a metallic clang.
Meanwhile, Chen Feng had darted straight toward Zhang Lie the moment he shot out his arrow, prepared to suppress him and retrieve the silver bug monarch.
Feng Xian acted then, too, as did Chang Ming. They all reached out for the silver bug monarch.
Yang Ze caught the silver bug monarch and defended against the two cultivators' attacks. Just then, light shot into the heavens.
"[Light Dragon's Remnants]!"
A figure appeared in the middle of the light, arms moving so fast they left afterimages behind, and filling the air with arclight dragons.
The appearance of the arclight dragons was so sudden that it caught everyone off guard. The horde of dragons surrounded them.
"Hm?"
Zhang Lie reacted most quickly. He slammed a palm into Chen Feng, sending him stumbling into the horde of dragons.
"What?!"
The three enemy cultivators were shocked by the sudden sneak attack.
Yang Ze grinned. "Li Feng, what're you doing here?"
Li Feng slowly floated down from the sky. He stood beside Zhang Lie and Yang Ze. "Why can't it be me?"
Zhang Lie frowned. "It looks like the queen's hive soulshard was pointing to Li Feng, not Fang Yi."
Li Feng frowned. "What, you didn't specifically come here to group up with me?"
Zhang Lie shrugged. "We heard Sun Xiaowu mention that Fang Yi was here too. Finding you was an unexpected surprise."
Chen Feng drew his bow again in a flash of lightning. The void itself shook violently as an arrow pierced the heavens.
"[Dance of the Incandescent Wyrm]!"
Li Feng summoned dozens of serpents, flaring with blinding light. They tore apart the lightning and blocked the arrow.
"It's not time to reminisce just yet, I suppose."
Chen Feng frowned. "I remember you. To think I would be lucky enough to encounter you here."
Li Feng gave him an odd look. "Do I know you?"
Yang Ze replied, "He's from the Hall of Immortals. Didn't you fight some ninth Immortal King from the Hall of Immortals during the qualifiers?"
Li Feng nodded. "I remember the name, I think."
Yang Ze continued mockingly, "This is the guy that lost against him and failed to become the next successor of the Hall of Immortals."
Chen Feng snorted. "It's none of your business!"
Li Feng turned to Yang Ze. "Is that so?"
Chen Feng laughed. "All that happened in the past. As long as I can beat you, I can prove to those codgers in the Hall of Immortals that I, Chen Feng, should be the true successor!"
Li Feng shook his head. "You must be crazy. If even the ninth Immortal King can't beat me, what makes you think you can?"
"Let's try it and see," Chen Feng said, drawing his bow taut.
"[Arclight Dragon's Imprint]!"
Li Feng waved his left arm, around which a torrent of light-attuned genetic energy was gathering. It took the form of a gigantic dragon's claw that swiped at and blocked the arrow.
Feng Xian formed seals with her hands. Pure moonlight descended from the skies. She struck with a jade-white palm.
As Zhang Lie activated his monarch-grade limitless universe soulshard, he glowed with stellar radiance, like a burning star. Starlight flowed through his body in phantasmagorical colors.
The starlight's allure captivated all onlookers.
Zhang Lie's body transformed into a glaze of the dark cosmos, as though the Milky Way itself flowed through his body. He struck Feng Xian's palm in a stellar explosion and shower of moonlight.
Chang Ming's armor gleamed with radiance as he shot into the sky and struck at Zhang Lie's body with a glowing punch.
Zhang Lie responded coolly. Even as he confronted Feng Xian, he raised his other hand and struck forward with such force that the other cultivators gulped.
"[The Boundless Blade: Dragonwhale]!"
In the blink of an eye, Yang Ze was surrounded by a patch of ocean.
The lapping of waves echoed through the battlefield. They grew and grew, reaching a crescendo and rising into the sky like a tsunami, manifesting in the form of a huge whale.
The whale's body was long and streamlined, with long whiskers and scales patterning its body. As it flipped over, pale-blue genetic energy exploded and transformed into a howling tempest.
This was a massive confrontation. Genetic energy erupted from the cultivators, shattering the rock mountain and cave in front of them.
The black bugs screeched and began to rampage, spitting out golden breaths that made the melee even more chaotic.
After the attack, Zhang Lie stood calm and collected.