Chapter 1175: Cloven Monsters
Nightdemon shook his head. "Given how strong my main body is, there's hardly any chance of that."
The stronger an entity was, the more difficult it was to produce any offspring. This was a result of evolution at a genetic level. The more advanced and personalized such evolution became, the harder it was to procreate.
Sun Xiaowu joked, "It's reproductive isolation in action!"
Nightdemon asked, "What's reproductive isolation?"
"The fact that different species have a hard time reproducing with each other."
Fang Yi sighed. "Isn't it a bit ludicrous to discuss reproductive isolation in the dimensional realm?"
Zhang Hanxiang suggested, "I think we need to talk to an expert about this."
Sun Xiaowu, Fang Yi, Zhou Ying, Hong Xi, Zhang Hanxiang, and Zhang Lie all looked toward Li Feng at once. Li Feng glanced behind him to confirm that they weren't looking at anyone else in his general proximity before pointing at himself with confusion.
He frowned. "When did I become this so-called 'expert'?"
Zhang Lie shrugged. "At the very least, you're the one most qualified to speak of this problem among us."
Li Feng cried out, "Captain, you'd better not point fingers at me—your Li Qianlin's a genetic lifeform too!"
Zhang Lie replied, "She's half-spirit, and the genetic disparity is far less severe than with beastmen."
Li Feng thundered, "So you know enough to comment on it too!"
Sun Xiaowu asked, "Do you understand the problems involved, then?"
Zhang Hanxiang added, "Will there be problems in reproduction between the king of chaos and the All-Mother?"
Li Feng grumbled, "Reproductive isolation applies to normal genetic lifeforms. Do either of them seem like regular lifeforms to you?"
Sun Xiaowu, Fang Yi, Zhou Ying, Hong Xi, Zhang Hanxiang, and Zhang Lie all shook their heads in unison. The king of chaos was a nebulous, chaotic fog, likely not too different from an evolved version of a galactic nebula—and none of them had any idea what the All-Mother was. Even ordinary malformed lifeforms weren't as monstrous as she was.
Li Feng continued, "I think that, before you guys discuss any issues related to reproductive isolation, you should consider whether the king of chaos can reproduce at all."
While the members of Team Zenith murmured with each other, the fight between Sun Mengmeng and the All-Mother reached an apex.
Sun Mengmeng's flaming moonlight struck the cloven monsters, but the latter were equipped with a fearsome regenerative ability comparable to Zhou Ying's own. They were actually able to survive the impact of the flaming meteor shower and even begin charging toward Sun Mengmeng anew.
"[Netherworld's Torrential Flame]!" A frightening fan of flames poured out from Sun Mengmeng's bow, an attack far stronger than the moonlight she had summoned. The intensity of her technique shocked everyone. The flames arced in the air and fell toward the battlefield in a waterfall, obstructing the cloven monsters' path.
The All-Mother spawned even more monsters, forming huge clouds of black fog that rolled toward Sun Mengmeng.
"[Lunarflame Shot: Ninefold Phantasmagoria]." Nine purplish-black phoenixes rose around her and shot toward the All-Mother.
They exploded in the midst of the cloven monsters, causing black flame to rise up into the air. The cloven monsters struggled and screamed as they were enveloped by the flames. Their pained screams echoed throughout the hall.
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"[Lunarflame Shot: Might of the Garuda]!" Without any hesitation, Sun Mengmeng launched another technique. Purplish-black flames gathered on Sun Mengmeng's bow once again, forming an arrow of pure black.
The image of a golden garuda, limned in black, appeared behind her. As she loosed her arrow, it seemed to transform into a beam of light, moving so quickly that it bypassed the constraints of time and space, as though it could penetrate anything.
The black arrow pierced through the cloven monsters until it finally struck the All-Mother's chest, leaving a small black dot amidst the milky-white, gelatinous matter that formed her body. The black flames spread out from the point of impact, causing her huge beak to open with a shrill screech.
The All-Mother's regenerative ability was far too frightening. It was so strong that it could suppress the spread of the black flames, resulting in an equilibrium in which she was able to keep them cordoned off.
The All-Mother then dug out the damaged flesh in her chest. Black blood, like an even more viscous analogue of gasoline, sprayed out. The blobs of flesh, as though rotting, spawned countless tendrils, and cloven hooves grew out of their underside.
These cloven monsters were formed out of the All-Mother's flesh, but these pieces of flesh were different from all the rest. Before they could grow to maturity, they were swallowed up by black flame and burnt to nothing but ash.
The black flame continuously sucked away at the All-Mother's lifeforce. Just as the All-Mother cleared all that corruption away, Sun Mengmeng struck once more.
"[Lunarflame Shot: Extirpation of the Garuda]!"
As Sun Mengmeng infused her genetic energy into the bow, the image of a garuda appeared behind her. She released her arrow, which morphed into a human-faced, golden-winged bird in mid-air, radiating red light as it arced through the skies. It began to pulse with red flame, brimming with such energy that it seemed as though it would set the world aflame.
The All-Mother howled, and its three back spines moved furiously.
The All-Mother struck the black flames, and she was strong enough to break through them with brute force. Only then did she realize just how strong these human fighters were. Sun Mengmeng, in particular, was her direct counter.
What the All-Mother feared most were attacks like Fang Yi's, which seemed to have no counter whatsoever. She hadn't expected another example of such attacks from the humans—but Sun Mengmeng's black flames were exactly one such.
The black flames were a perfect counter to her fearsome regenerative ability, curtailing and restricting her ability to spawn more lifeforms.
"[Lunarflame Shot: Extirpation of the Garuda]!" Sun Mengmeng pulled her bow taut once more, infusing the rest of her genetic energy within. The image of a garuda materialized from thin air and shot out along with her arrow.
Even before the arrow landed, the earth and sky alike ignited.
A garuda shot out at mind-boggling temperatures. Upon seeing it, the king of chaos immediately made his move, cordoning off the arena in which Sun Mengmeng and the All-Mother were fighting. The garuda barreled through everything in its path.
Scorching waves of heat spread out from Sun Mengmeng, and the temperature in the hall rose dramatically. Even the king of chaos was unable to isolate that heat. The members of Team Zenith and the guests of chaos, spectating the match, felt blistering heat envelop them. It was difficult to imagine just how hot it had to be in the middle of the arena.
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