Chapter 1232: Mechas, To Me!
A shining moon materialized behind Hong Xi's back, the moonlight warm and nourishing as it blanketed the members of Team Zenith. The black flames burned ever more brightly, the golden light was more blinding, the illusory dragons solidified, and the wood dragons' vitality magnified.
As the golden light exploded, the pocket dimension almost shattered.
Sun Xiaowu's golden clones packed an incredible punch, and even Team Zenith's defenses began to fall. It was difficult to imagine the strength of the explosions that were bombarding Zhang Lie, caught in their midst.
The members of Team Zenith could spare no attention for Zhang Lie's safety. They hurriedly defended themselves and waited for the golden light to clear. At the heart of the explosions, a human-sized silvery-white octahedral crystal came into view.
Zhang Lie, encased in the crystal, survived the explosion intact.
The members of Team Zenith were very impressed.
"As expected of our captain..."
Cracks appeared on the surface of the crystal, which swiftly propagated.
"[Blinding Flash: Ten Thousandfold Echo]!"
Sun Xiaowu split into ten thousand clones, each of which summoned a golden mecha.
The golden mechas all rushed toward Zhang Lie in a golden flood.
As the crystal shattered into fragments that flew into the sky, the golden flood was blown away.
"[Golden Divide]!" The ten thousand clones all used [Golden Divide] simultaneously, coloring the sky in gold.
Zhang Lie clenched his fists tightly. Silvery-white crystal manifested over his fists as he punched forward. A pillar of silvery-white crystal pierced through the golden storm, and thousands of Sun Xiaowu's clones hurriedly made to block it with their bodies.
As Zhang Lie had stated, the density of the metal he created was ridiculously high, and Sun Xiaowu's golden mechas were as weak as papier mache in comparison.
At the very least, however, the human barrier formed by thousands of his clones gave him enough time to react.
Sun Xiaowu dodged to the side and sent a pulse of energy at all his clones.
"[Blinding Flash: Self-Destruct]!"
Sun Xiaowu's clones suddenly radiated with golden light so bright that the entire battlefield was illuminated, as though ten thousand suns had simultaneously appeared in the air. The next moment, they exploded in an explosion hundreds, thousands of times stronger than the [Golden Divides] had accomplished.
A frightening storm rose up, interspersed with golden blades.
The crystal pillar was smashed to pieces, and Zhang Lie seemed right about to be submerged within the explosion's golden light.
"[Fists of the Silent Sea: Hundred Dragons Soaring]!"
Zhang Lie condensed his genetic energy. Sharp white crystals floated around his body.
As he cocked his fist, dozens of lifelike crystalline dragons emerged and began to roar.
The next moment, they shot out along with his fist, twining around each other as they caught the golden light with their bodies, blocked the blades, and caused the golden storm to dissipate.
In response to the crystalline dragons rushing toward him, Sun Xiaowu began to radiate light.
"[Blinding Flash: Ten Thousandfold Echo]!"
Sun Xiaowu split into ten thousand clones, each of which summoned a golden mecha.
"[Goldenscale Palm: Split]!"
Layers of dense golden scales appeared on Sun Xiaowu's arms, and his right arm glowed with resplendent light. Moments later, so too did the right arms of all his clones.
The golden mechas swarmed the crystalline dragons like moths to a flame.
The hundreds of dragons began to duke it out with the tens of thousands of clones. The dragons pierced through the clones' bodies and dispersed the energy that made them up, whereas the clones repeatedly punched the dragons with [Goldenscale Palm]. The arena turned chaotic; in the end, despite the strength of Zhang Lie's hundreds of crystalline dragons, they lost out to the clones' numbers.
However, the clones themselves suffered significant losses, and fewer than a thousand remained in the end.
That was no matter to Sun Xiaowu, who was able to regenerate them indefinitely as long as his genetic energy sufficed.
"[Blinding Flash: Ten Thousandfold Echo]!"
Sun Xiaowu split into ten thousand clones, each of which summoned a golden mecha.
"Do you think this will be meaningful?"
Zhang Lie summoned the sword Guicang. As he slashed, the space before him split, and the golden clones all fell to the ground as though he were reaping wheat.
To Zhang Lie, numerical superiority was nothing but a joke.
Before he could kill all the clones, Sun Xiaowu shouted, "Clones, to me! [Adamantine Aegis: Invincible Martial God]! [Blinding Flash: Echo of Origins]!"
The golden clones all swirled toward Sun Xiaowu in a wave of golden light, as though they had suddenly turned into meteors.
With a low shout, the clones overlapped with Sun Xiaowu. A dense layer of golden runes appeared over his skin with a bright burst of genetic energy. The figure of a mecha behind Sun Xiaowu grew larger and larger. Runes decorated his body, glowing behind his back like a burning sun.
A hundred, two hundred, three hundred... a thousand, two thousand, three thousand meters—Sun Xiaowu's growth showed no sign of stopping. As the mecha grew, so too did Sun Xiaowu's own strength.
Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand meters—everyone spectating watched Sun Xiaowu in awe.
Even the pocket dimension wasn't large enough for the mecha, whose head struck its top. The "walls" of the pocket dimension, already cracked, gave way entirely as the mecha grew larger and larger.
It continued to grow without any sign of stopping, quickly breaking through the barriers that Zhu had set up beforehand.
Zhu sighed and clutched her forehead as she hurriedly increased the size of the pocket dimension.
Otherwise, the battle between Zhang Lie and Sun Xiaowu would have dealt a serious blow to the newly unified world.
Zhang Lie wasn't the biggest culprit; he at least knew how to control his strength, and was cognizant of the status of the pocket dimension and of the members of Team Zenith. However, the members of Team Zenith weren't able to do so themselves.
Zhu wanted to toss them all into a high-dimensional space and have them use that as their battlefield, but thinking about how Zhang Lie and Yang Ze had broken even the nineteenth layer of space, Zhu immediately changed her mind...
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