Chapter 1241: Crossing Twin Blades
A silver dragon manifested around the blade. The dragon\'s howl shook the air. In conjunction with the holy dragon horde and the scintillating lightning, it tore apart the pitch-black netherworld sea in a vortex of destruction.
"[Striking Sun and Moon]!"
Zhang Lie unleashed a devastating strike as bright as the blazing sun.
The sword slashed the sky, and the stars fell. Sword energy flared, and for a moment, it seemed like even the moon was about to be bisected.
Zhang Lie struck with his sword, his arm trembling with power.
"[The Boundless Blade: Dragon\'s Wrath]!"
Zhang Lie thrust forward with Guicang, summoning a blood dragon. The blood dragon\'s howls shook heaven and earth.
"[The Boundless Blade: Shattered Sun]!"
Sword energy roiled. The technique splintered the glowing sunlight and replaced it with a silver glow, transmuting that sunlight into something that boosted Li Feng\'s strength. The sword energy tore apart the sky.
Zhang Lie\'s blood dragon tore apart Li Feng\'s ultimate blow and forced him back.
As he deftly avoided the blood dragon\'s attack, Li Feng slashed at Zhang Lie with brilliant light, but the latter defended with Guicang.
"[The Boundless Blade: the Trembling World]!"
Sword energy roiled. An arclight dragon reared its head. The technique splintered the glowing sunlight.
The sword energy grew brighter and brighter, until it surpassed the sun, moon, and stars in intensity. The will of the sword seemed to manifest physically into the form of a dragon that seemed to be about to rip apart heaven and earth.
Space shattered, and stars fell like rain.
"[First Form: Parting the River]!" Incredible energy gathered on Zhang Lie\'s sword.
"[Slashing Void and Stars]!"
Sword energy glinted with piercing light as devastating strength rippled from Zhang Lie\'s blade, the upgraded form of [Striking Sun and Moon].
Li Feng\'s sword energy was swept away in an instant.
"[Holy Dragon Transformation]!"
Silver light dyed the entire world. Genetic energy swept over Li Feng\'s body and manifested as a dense layer of silver scales, like a suit of silver armor. Antlers grew out of his head, and his hair turned a radiant silver.
Li Feng gathered large quantities of light-attuned genetic energy, more than what he could reasonably bear, for a moment of explosive strength. He slashed forward with his sword, the radiant energy manifesting like a dragon.
The momentary boost allowed him to fight on par with Zhang Lie. His swords flashed with incredible speed, and even Zhang Lie had to be wary of his close-combat ability.
Under the effect of his [Holy Dragon Transformation], Li Feng\'s speed increased to such an extreme that a thousand afterimages seemed to trail him.
The attack was incredibly rapid, and the sword so sharp it felt like a thousand sword strikes were layered on top of one another.
"[Shadow and Light]!" Time suddenly sped up in the vicinity of Zhang Lie. In this region of accelerated time, Zhang Lie caught up to and even surpassed Li Feng within moments.
Once Zhang Lie activated his domain, he rapidly gained the upper hand.
"[The Boundless Blade: Godkiller]!"
Silver radiance swept forward in a tide, like a whole herd of holy dragons. That silver light, imbued with golden threads, formed a mysterious sea, simultaneously real and illusory, which existed in between both realms.
The transient, illusory nature of the light captivated everyone who saw it.
The intersection of the real and the illusory—Li Feng\'s strength combined both domains. Thousands of holy dragons swept across the sky. His strength surpassed time and space, the real and the illusory.
At that moment, time became meaningless to Li Feng.
Zhang Lie\'s actions naturally slowed down—not because Zhang Lie himself had grown slower, but rather because Li Feng\'s attack rendered time meaningless. It affected not just time, but space and even reality itself.
The technique intersected reality and illusion. This was a strength that transcended this realm, and Li Feng\'s blade could kill even a transcendent god.
In the pocket dimension, in a space that had lost all sense of time, the members of Team Zenith glanced at each other in shock.
Even Zhang Lie couldn\'t help but praise the attack. "To think you\'ve come this far already..."
Among the members of Team Zenith, only Li Feng was able to affect reality itself with his techniques. This was likely a revelation that Li Feng had received upon imbuing the peak-grade limit-breaking potion.
His sword came toward Zhang Lie between reality and illusion.
Zhang Lie retaliated with Guicang and Hanguang.
Over Hanguang was a layer of illusory rainbow fog.
In his left hand, Guicang struck in the world of reality; in his right hand, Hanguang struck in the world of illusion. The intersection of reality and illusion resonated with Li Feng\'s attack, causing an echo that reverberated throughout the pocket dimension.
The barriers shielding and isolating the pocket dimension popped in an instant, before Zhu could even hope to repair them.
The members of Team Zenith were gobsmacked. Zhang Lie and Li Feng\'s fight had gone beyond reality to the illusory.
"Li Feng, you\'ve grown tremendously, but I think you\'re still lacking the strength to take me down."
A pitch-black sun appeared behind Zhang Lie, and a blood moon by his feet. His aura was magnified tenfold, and a halo of black sun appeared above his forehead. Natural law seemed to warp around him.
"[Syzygy]!"
Runes likewise appeared on the bloody moon by his feet, forming an intricate array.
Struck by the bloody moonlight, Li Feng\'s radiance grew dim. Under the black sun, the fluctuations in Zhang Lie\'s genetic energy were enhanced.
Zhang Lie crossed his twin blades. The blood moon resonated with the blade in his left hand, and the black sun with the blade in his right.
The black sun\'s flames strengthened Zhang Lie\'s attacks and burned away Li Feng\'s. As the realms of reality and illusion inverted, Zhang Lie simultaneously slashed forward with both blades, forming a huge celestial web.
Li Feng\'s sword turned illusory, and the auras of blood moon and black sun vanished—not because they had been extinguished, but rather because they had been wiped clean from reality.
Li Feng had cut away the karmic link between Zhang Lie\'s auras and the mortal world.
"[Blade of the Heavens: the Sea Swells]!"
Energy poured out of Zhang Lie in waves, honing the edge of his blade. The pulses of energy struck the sea like a tsunami, devouring everything within.
Li Feng\'s sword turned illusory once more, and Zhang Lie\'s attack vanished.
Upon noticing Li Feng\'s pallor, Zhang Lie commented, "It looks like you haven\'t mastered this technique fully."