Chapter 252 — A Third Bloom

At this moment, the arcs of electricity over the hardened matter coating the eleven Iron-Eaters were already flashing with tremendous intensity.

BOOM!!!

Another deafening crash, and above the field dark clouds appeared almost instantly, thunderheads condensing at a terrifying speed.

It was as if all the natural lightning of Wuling City had been drawn to this one place.

The sky went pitch black, and the thunder roared loud enough to shake the ears.

There was no rain and no wind; the surroundings were utterly still. Within the thunderclouds above, only lightning tumbled and churned with savage fury.

The sky darkened in an instant, and the flash of lightning lit the bodies of every Iron-Eater—above all Eleven, the Panda King at the center of the Doudou Bears, who now looked like a god of thunder.

Beneath the crashing thunder, the Bull-Head Beast King, still cleaving down from midair, froze. Its axe fell upon the Golden City, and the whole Impregnable Fortress—Legion Skill though it was—was shattered in an instant before absolute power. But at the same moment...

BOOM!!!

A bolt of heavenly thunder tore across the sky, and the thunderclouds became a thunder pool; the peals did not cease, and the sky turned from dark to bright, becoming a white ocean that lit the whole world like the dawn before the end.

"Judgment of the Gods!"

As Shi Jin's voice fell, little Eleven swept down the single arm it had raised. With a boom, all the power of the white thunder sea in the sky gathered into one colossal pillar of lightning and came crashing down. The Bull-Head Beast King, having just smashed through the Golden City, was caught by the change in the heavens.

Lightning is very fast. The Bull-Head Beast King had only just looked up when the pillar of thunder that shrouded the entire field descended, swallowing every beast on it—the Bull-Head Beast King, Eleven, and the ten Doudou Bears alike!

In that moment, Qu Lishi, Bai Chuanqi, Feng Jin, Lu Yan, Senior Bai, and all the rest turned pale.

What was this now?

To be able to command the forces of nature on such a scale???

"A lightning rod can turn oneself or a foreign object into a body that attracts natural lightning."

"Heavenly thunder will indiscriminately destroy everything around it."

Amid the roar of ten thousand thunders, Shi Jin went on, heedless of whether anyone could hear. The instant the heavenly thunder fell, the ten Doudou Bears, offered up as sacrifices to draw the lightning, were the first to fall; even with their stored lightning, their bodies were instantly pulverized by thunder of such monstrous power.

At the same time, the Bull-Head Beast King was undergoing that terrifying baptism of heavenly thunder!!

"ROAR!!!" The Bull-Head Beast King's defense was still formidable; even against natural heavenly thunder it endured. In the lightning, feeling the agony, it glared furiously at Eleven—it had never imagined it could be wounded again and again by a Commander-level beast. Yet as it looked at Eleven through the lightning, the next instant brought a sudden sense of crisis.

The Doudou Bears could not withstand the natural heavenly thunder drawn down by eleven lightning rods—but Eleven, with its Source of Stamina, Lightning Immunity, and max-level Stored Lightning, had nothing to fear.

"Awoooo!!!!"

Within the pillar of thunder, wreathed in heavenly lightning, Eleven seemed to have been set free. Lightning coiled in its eyes, and its body began to grow from a meter across, swelling to immense size, until it stood against the thunder as a colossal ten-meter thunder beast!!!

And through this process, the light of evolution wreathed its whole body, Edge Mode erupted at full power, and it directly assumed the form of the Jiu Li War Beast, the force of the heavenly thunder swiftly absorbed entirely into its body!!!

Shi Yan named this giant, explosive form that absorbed the power of vast heavenly thunder the Thunder God Armor Mode.

Beneath armor of black and silver, the giant Eleven showed only its two eyes, as though imbued with thunder. In that moment there was no lightning left on the field at all—every last bolt had been drawn into Eleven's body...

The result was that the violent current now coursing from Eleven filled even the opposing King-level Bull-Head Beast King with dread. Looking at the Jiu Li War Beast that towered over it countless times its height, beside which it was like a child, it gaped once more.

It wanted to move, but the masterful intimidation radiating from Eleven, laden with the power of thunder, burst through the Bull-Head Beast King's heart like a thunderclap and left it dazed.

"No way..."

"Could it be..."

"How is that possible..."

Seeing Eleven so fiercely absorb all the heavenly thunder, everyone was astonished, and all eyes turned to Eleven as it slowly clenched its fist, raised its arm, and drew it back to gather power.

The next instant, a spherical orb wreathed in white lightning spread over Eleven's enormous hardened fist; and under the enhancement of the Giant Transformation of skill approaching the Dao, though Eleven itself did not grow much larger, the technique it was now gathering swelled with incredible speed, becoming vast beyond measure.

Shock the Void!!!!

BOOM!!!

The convergence complete, Eleven drove out a single punch—not at the bull-headed beast king, but straight into empty air. Yet in that instant, without surprise, everyone heard a tremendous sound that might well have been the destruction of heaven and earth, and felt a power that could annihilate all things!

Amid the vast roar came a crack, and space itself shattered. The space that held the entire arena burst apart like a smashed mirror, white lightning and black lightning scars tearing open without cease!

"ROAR!!!"

In that instant, the bull-headed beast king sensed the fatal threat, and its enormous pupils contracted sharply.

What confronted it now was the full detonation of Eleven, who, through sheathed edge and stored lightning, had absorbed eleven bolts of heavenly thunder beyond all limits!

Spurred by the lightning armor, Eleven's power reached its utmost. The shock-void it launched, amplified a hundredfold by the Giant Transformation, meant that in this instant Eleven hurled out every ounce of strength it possessed.

An eruption beyond compare—only a time-ember beast with a full stack of maxed skills could achieve it, and only Eleven, unafraid of backlash, could perform it.

Right now, in the bull-headed beast king's eyes, how could Eleven still resemble a commander-level beast at all...

"ROAR!!!! (You idiot beast tamer!!!!)"

"ROAR!! (This is 200,000??)"

"ROAR!!! (You *****, your Grandpa Bull *****)"

The bull-headed beast king was bellowing at the top of its lungs, but against this terrifying blow—amplified by the Giant Transformation and wreathed in Intimidation—it could only take it head-on.

And besides, the blast radius of this move covered the entire arena.

"Holy shit." By now, having been cursed out by the bull-headed beast king, Qu Lishi had lost all capacity for thought, because he too had sensed the terror of this strike.

With his many years of self-sealing experience, he badly wanted to ask: are you sure this is a beast with 200,000 energy, and not two million???

At this moment, Qu Lishi could not help but feel somewhat at a loss, as though he had lost his dream. He too wanted to shout: this is commander-level???

"What the hell kind of monsters are you people!!!" Qu Lishi's eyes went wide at last, and then his vision was drowned in white light.

In the blink of an eye, the real world shattered like flowers in a mirror and the moon in water. The blow, pregnant with terrifying power, crushed everything, sweeping up an unparalleled shock force that devoured its way toward the bull-headed beast king.