Ultragene Warlord

Chapter 1579: Don't Blame Yourself

Lightning flashed brighter than the sun. Rather than spatial force manifesting as waves, it was more like waves transforming into spatial force. The surface of the sea frothed with angry waves, like raging horses emerging with the tide.

"Don't you interrupt my self-reflection!" Zhang Lie shouted, punching forward with a fist.

"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Hundred Dragons Soaring]!"

A horde of dragons launched out of Zhang Lie's left arm as he expended half his genetic energy in one supercharged attack.

Howling with the force of thunder, the hundred stellar dragons soared through the air. They tore apart the horses in an instant.

Cthaat roared out, "How dare you invade my territory!"

Raging winds howled around them like giant beasts of antiquity bellowing. A huge storm formed, tall and overwhelming like a great wall steadily charging forward. The storm covered up the sky and obliterated Zhang Lie's stellar dragons.

That was when the true destruction occurred.

The stellar dragons all exploded, each with the force of a galaxy. A huge wave of energy spread out.

The sea shook in rage. Waves charged forward, lapping the shore, sounding like peals of thunder, like stampeding hooves.

The surface of the sea frothed with angry waves, like dragons emerging with the tide. The entire sea shifted, and lightning crackled amidst the void.

The whirlpool overhead burst apart in a splatter of spatial energy. The shockwaves that resulted caused even Zhang Lie to stumble. He wasn't worried that the airship would be affected; the members of Team Zenith were up there, after all, and even Zhang Lie didn't think that he could best Yang Ze in his understanding and mastery of space.

Every member of Team Zenith had a specialty. When it came to mastery over fire, Sun Mengmeng had far surpassed Zhang Lie, who was once her mentor.

None could beat Fang Yi in combining disparate sources of energy, and Sun Xiaowu had found his own path with regards to gold-attuned genetic energy.

Yang Ze's spatial manipulation was astounding, and Li Feng's talent with light-attuned genetic energy... well, he was the only one who used that energy with any frequency at all. None of the other members of Team Zenith could compare, and no one that they had met could, either.

Zhou Ying needed no introduction, either. In the entirety of the Milky Way, she might well be the pioneer down the path of life and vitality.The [Avatar of the Fae] was exceptionally rare, and there were few such blessed cultivators.

If not for his parents' letter, Zhang Lie wouldn't have known that his sister had a hidden constitution of her own.

As expected, spatial fluctuations covered up the airship and rippled. The spatial force that had just exploded was unable to affect the airship at all.

Zhang Lie regretted not being able to see the energy of annihilation consume Cthaat with his own eyes.

He filled the pit with a wave of his hand, then returned to the airship. Despite the fact that he had avenged the hunters of the city, he felt somewhat dissatisfied.

"I think I let that fellow die far too easily."

Cthaat's son was too weak, and he hadn't been able to test his newfound limits.

Zhang Lie's eyes glinted. "Let's find an opportunity to meet Cthaat ourselves."

Cthaat's son had died too easily, and his death couldn't quell Zhang Lie's simmering rage.

Cthaat's other sons had told him that Cthaat had ordered them to find him. In other words, Cthaat was the mastermind.

He intended to sacrifice Cthaat's soul to the dead hunters of the city.

As he returned to the airship's control room, Li Qianlin grabbed his hand. "Zhang Lie, are you alright?"

Zhang Lie blinked in surprise. "What could be wrong?"

Li Qianlin stared into Zhang Lie's eyes seriously.

"Your gaze is frightening."

Zhang Lie hesitated. He hadn't noticed anything at all.

After a moment, Sun Mengmeng consoled him. "Don't blame yourself for this, Captain. Their deaths aren't your fault."

Only when Li Qianlin and Sun Mengmeng had pointed it out did Zhang Lie realize that his anger stemmed from underlying guilt about the death of all cultivators in the city. Cthaat's son had come for him, after all.

"You never expected things to turn out this way," Li Qianlin emphasized.

Sun Xiaowu shrugged. "Such is life. The dimensional realm is cruel. They perished because they were weak."

The glory of the Milky Way was founded on the corpses of hunters.

Yang Ze added, "They're already very lucky. Compared to those killed and excreted by genetic lifeforms, they at least have you to avenge them."

Fang Yi nodded. "They really are rather lucky. They survived to the fourth realm, after all, unlike those who died in the first. With the united world federation supporting them, their families will live in prosperity. All their children who intend to become hunters in their own right will be protected until the third realm, and the united world federation will provide resources for their growth."

The united world federation's highest committee had pledged to support hunters and their children in this manner so that no bullying and revenge would result from feuds in previous generations. Of course, the quality of these resources and protection would depend on the hunters' achievements before their death. Fourth-realm hunters would receive the greatest possible benefits for their children.

Additionally, there was plenty of insurance and programs in place to take care of children on an economic level. They would be able to live an easy life.

Of course, only hunters who had made it to the third and fourth realms would truly guarantee an easy life for their children. Those who perished in the first and second realms and who didn't purchase insurance in advance would only receive a meager stipend that would prevent them from starving to death.

This was the reason that Zhang Lie hadn't known that his parents had actually made it to the fourth realm.

Fourth-realm hunters who didn't return to the Milky Way within a set period of time would automatically be considered missing, and the insurance and security systems to protect their children would automatically activate.

Zhang Lie was a little curious as to why that hadn't occurred for him and his sister.

In fact, it had started to occur, but someone had halted the process.

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