BXBX NOVEL Chapter 1588: Battle of the Two Seas
Chapter 1588: Battle of the Two Seas
The pitch-black energy dissipated as the black sea before Zhang Lie parted. Cthaat was cut apart from the middle.
"Strength isn\'t all that matters, and neither is any element invincible. Applying your elemental attunement properly is of particular importance; even the weakest power, honed well, can be unstoppable."
From the two halves of the sea appeared two humanoids formed of the energy of annihilation. Although they took on human form, they looked as though they were beasts. The Cthaat on the left chuckled coldly. "That\'s what weaklings tell themselves."
The Cthaat on the right said, "As long as you\'re strong enough, you can stomp on anything and everything."
Sun Xiaowu, watching the fight from the airship, nodded in sympathy. "That\'s how you really make a mess."
The right half of the sea transformed again. It now operated on the principles of spatial force.
The energy of annihilation transformed into layer after layer of waves, pushing each other along.
Howling winds raged. Spatial force surged forward, conveyed by the waves, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves.
The entire sea seemed to roil.
The sea had morphed into a boundless battlefield. The sea breeze was as a horn to action; the spatial force, thousands of courageous soldiers heeding its call. The force of the sea could easily pulverize even thousand-ton boulders.
The surface of the sea frothed with angry waves, like dragons emerging with the tide.
Even the members of Team Zenith were taken aback. Yang Ze, the most skilled with spatial force among them, watched on intently. He would have been able to handle the seawater with more finesse, but certainly couldn\'t manipulate such a large quantity at once.
"[The Boundless Blade: River Lethe]!" The temperature dropped to sub-zero values, and a strong wind buffeted the battlefield. Blood-colored frost appeared around the two combatants.
A stellar river materialized in the air. As though the doors to hell had just been thrown open, tens of thousands of serpents rushed out in a flood.
Each serpent was pitch-black like the abyss, like the dark of night, and speckled with starlight, a miniaturized version of the Milky Way. The serpents were guides and ferrymen both, leading departed souls into sky and space, freed from the mortal coil.
As Zhang Lie\'s sword swung down, the stellar river struck the mortal world.
With every slash of Guicang, the serpents fell like meteors, whizzing down to the ground and clashing against the sea.
The sea roared, the wind howled. The confrontation of Zhang Lie and Cthaat was at the point of destroying heaven and earth.
Cthaat clearly possessed more strength, but Zhang Lie was unparalleled in technique.
Perhaps Cthaat might have been able to recreate Zhang Lie\'s elemental attunement and match it blow for blow, but it wouldn\'t be able to learn his techniques.
This was the advantage of genetic hunters, the one advantage that genetic lifeforms couldn\'t emulate.
Cthaat might as well have been a ferocious beast who had reservoirs of immense strength, but it would easily lose out in terms of technique.
"This isn\'t the limit of my strength."
Cthaat\'s energy of annihilation began to morph. It possessed one more arcane attunement—that over time.
Annihilation transformed into time; the black sea became a sea of time.
Time skimmed across the surface of the sea. Anything that touched the layer of time would rapidly decay. One half of the sea controlled space; the other, time. The two halves merged to form a complete sea of spacetime, boasting such incredible power that Zhang Lie\'s stellar river was immediately swept away.
Even so, the fighting spirit in Zhang Lie\'s eyes only grew more intense.
"[The Boundless Blade: Netherworld Sea]!" 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.
The stellar sea filled the air, making it appear as though there were two seas from afar.
The pitch-black sea of spacetime filled the land; the sea of starlight filled the air. Countless stellar dragons surged across the skies.
This was an incredibly beautiful and deadly sight.
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 power of spacetime clashed against the power of the stars in a dizzying explosion that almost seemed to rewrite natural law.
Waves of spacetime swept across the land, spatial force transforming into galloping steeds, temporal force transforming into flocks of black birds, stellar force transforming into rampaging dragons.
The two seas collided in an endless cavalcade of waves.
The stellar dragons burned like golden flames amidst the infinite sea of stars, diving down into the sea of spacetime before finally meeting their end there.
Pitch-black waves of energy erupted. Stellar dragons danced and fought amidst bubbles of spacetime, howling as they sacrificed themselves. The stellar dragons were the vanguard of the pitch-black stellar sea, the first line of defense against the power of spacetime.
The two seas struck each other time and again, round after round, each collision sending shockwaves of immense energy across the fourth realm. The spectators watched on in horror and awe.