Ultragenic Warlord

Chapter 1061: Power Differential

The king of black fog was barely able to condense a face. "Apostle of the king of keys! How long are you going to stand there watching?"

Gravity shouldn't have existed in the void, but right after the king of black fog spoke, a strange force manifested within. Gold Comet's speed slowed notably.

"I'm sorry. I've never before seen such a strange existence, and I couldn't help but want to study it some more. Regardless, given your ability to survive, king of black fog, I'm sure it would take some time for the Zongming king to take you down, even if you're only here as a clone."

Li Zongming looked toward the source of the voice, only to find a man wearing a three-piece suit, with a world for a head.

Stars surrounding the world sparkled, and a thick cloud layer that covered the world revolved and rotated.

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From within the world came a beam of red light, like the man's eyes.

Li Zongming's face turned dark. "As expected, the king of keys is participating in this mess as well."

The man with a world for a head, who had been addressed as the king of keys' apostle, gave a slight bow. "I greet the king of Zongming. His majesty found this little game interesting and decided to participate as a result."

Li Zongming's face turned dark. "A game?" An attack that might decide the fate of billions, just a game?

Li Zongming struck, sending a pillar of light toward the king of keys' apostle, which burst on contact—but nothing happened beyond that. It was as though the apostle had swallowed up Li Zongming's attack.

The king of black fog chuckled coldly. "King of Zongming, it looks like you're aware of this, after all."

Li Zongming snorted. "And so what if I do? You dare attack other worlds, but don't dare to be caught?"

"I'm very curious how you found out."

Li Zongming laughed harshly. "I learned about it long ago. I simply didn't expect that the king of keys himself would deign to participate."

The king of black fog laughed again. "Surprised, aren't you? That the king of keys would really send someone over."

The apostle jumped in. "Is it really alright for you to be so leisurely, king of Zongming?"

The king of black fog added, "Those two newly evolved superior worlds of yours might not be able to hold out for much longer."

The king of keys' apostle continued, "The king of evil has sent out part of his body to seize the spoils you obtained in the death spirits' war."

The king of black fog roared in laughter. "Prepare to have everything you value taken from you, king of Zongming!"

Li Zongming snorted. "So this is the true face of the superior kings of antiquity? Shameless, all of you, one and all."

The remainder of the fight would become far more difficult.

Gold Comet's speed was affected by the gravity that the apostle of the king of keys was controlling—and that gravity was even able to devour part of Li Zongming's attacks.

The king of black fog alone would be trivial to deal with, but the inclusion of the king of keys' apostle tipped the scales.

The apostle was himself a combatant on the level of a superior king, and seemed to be more than a match for the superior kings of antiquity.

By then, Hong Xi had arrived at the shattered world of black rain, which was slowly floating toward the Zongming world under the influence of its proof of kingship.

Li Zongming had considered giving up on the world directly and extracting whatever superior world's energy that remained instead. However, doing so would take some amount of time, and he would lose out on at least a third of the energy that could be obtained by merging the worlds together.

Although Li Zongming had already infused seven superior worlds' worth of energy into his world, to the recently ascended Li Zongming, even a small portion of superior world's energy was precious. If he could help it, he would prefer to gain it in its entirety.

"They've come." Hong Xi lifted her head to the sky. A fetid stench filled the air. A vile, grayish fluid, frightening and formless, spilled out from the portal. It quivered and swelled, as though it were the source of all filth and waste.

More and more mutated growths and abominations were visible within the main body's flesh, squelching as they tried to escape—before they were swallowed back into its interior and digested away.

Although she had already witnessed the king of evil in battle before, no matter how many times she saw it, she was shocked each time. This was the king of evil—no, more accurately, it was a split-off portion of its main body.

The gray fluid was so vast it almost seemed to fill an entire ocean. The malformed bodies represented wave after wave of that ocean. It was difficult to imagine just how massive the king of evil's actual body was.

Hong Xi activated all her combat-oriented soulshards. A fan of feathers materialized in her left hand, and a moonlit sword in her right. Behind her, multicolored light flared.

The domain of [Eclipse] spread out beneath her feet. She walked forward, moonlight radiating from her every move. A black sun appeared behind her, sparking where it touched the moonlight at her feet.

Wind howled. The sword in her right hand gleamed like the radiant moon. As she waved her fan, she summoned a twister in the air. Her sword traced a brilliant arc, launching crescent blades at her foes and tearing them apart. The creatures returned to gray fluid, trickled back to the king of evil's body, and were granted life once more.

"This strategy won't work, I suppose..."

Hong Xi didn't dare to approach the king of evil's body, not wanting to give the gray fluid and the malformed creatures any opportunity to touch her. She had seen how unwitting fighters had been transformed into malformed creatures as a result of contact on the battlefield.

Under the illusory moon, her movements blurred. Using her superior-grade illusion leopard soulshard, she put some distance between them. She made a half-twirl in mid-air, waving her fan as her silver longsword sparkled in the moonlight.

Her sword slash swept across the ground, destroying whatever malformed creatures it came in contact with.

"Rather than a superior king, the 'king of evil' might as well be a 'font of disaster'! I wouldn't even consider it a lifeform!"

The fragment of the king of evil's body didn't seem to have any capacity to communicate, nor would it have done so even if it could. More and more malformed creatures grew out of the gray fluid.

During the war against the death spirits, Hong Xi had witnessed how such creatures had been able to fight off the death spirits. This was a simple strategy, but it was uncommonly effective, with no easy counter.

The death spirits had destroyed the gray fluid with concentrated bursts of cannon fire; otherwise, they would have continued to feed on the black spirits and spawning even more gray fluid.

"They're like viruses..."

Hong Xi murmured to herself, continuing to slash the malformed creatures apart. Her silver sword sketched an argent veil over the battlefield. She intended to deal with this portion of the king of evil's body by brute force, just as the death spirits had done...