146: Shining Brightly

"Fierce Flame Kick!"

At the moment he kicked, the massive Water-Fire Taiji Anomaly behind him suddenly changed! All the icy power instantly withdrew, and endless flames gathered frantically, transforming into a towering, majestic phantom of a "Flame God"! This phantom had a solemn expression, three heads and six arms, with countless fire dragons coiling around its body, radiating a terrifying divine might capable of incinerating the eight wildernesses, as if the Fire Ministry God Luo Xuan from mythology had descended into the mortal world!

The massive Flame God phantom performed the kicking motion in sync! A giant leg composed of pure divine fire, seemingly like a pillar supporting the heavens, tore through the sky following Zhang Lei's movement and kicked the Cloud Top Immortal Crane hard in the chest and abdomen!

"Skree—!!!" The crane's sorrowful cry turned into a scream of despair!

Raging flames instantly swallowed more than half of its body, and its white, majestic feathers were burnt black and curled, emitting a scorched smell! Terrifying power surged through its body, and its speed of descent increased sharply once again!

"Boom!!!!!"

Like a falling meteor! The crane's massive body slammed heavily onto the top of a hundred-meter-high low peak! In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains swayed! Rubble flew into the air! The top of the entire peak seemed to be split open by a giant axe, with a large area collapsing, and billowing dust rose like a mushroom cloud! The crowd watching from hundreds of meters away was shaken off balance, each one dumbfounded, their minds going blank!

"Is... is this something a human can do?"

"A god... this is definitely a god descended to earth!"

"Am I... am I watching a mythology movie?!"

Various cries of disbelief and murmurs rang out among the crowd; their souls had been completely awed by this world-destroying power.

Li Xian slumped to the ground, and a foul smell even came from between his legs; he was actually scared into wetting himself! His face was as pale as paper, his teeth chattering, and endless fear and regret overwhelmed him. He had actually dared to boss around and speak insolently to such a god-like powerhouse... If the other party hadn't simply ignored him, he would have probably been burned until not even ashes remained! He now only wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into, or pray that Zhang Lei would completely forget his existence.

In the air, Zhang Lei's attack did not stop; his battle intent had reached its peak!

"Try this move!" He growled, and the massive Fire Qilin dispersed into a sky full of flowing fire at his command, then rapidly gathered, condensing in his hand into an ancient-looking, entirely crimson spear with Qilin patterns coiling around the shaft, burning with raging divine flames—the fire qilin spear!

Zhang Lei's arm muscles bulged as he gripped the fire qilin spear, performing a stylish and powerful spinning flourish before throwing it toward the high sky with all his might!

The spinning fire qilin spear emitted a blindingly bright light, as if transforming into a miniature sun!

"Resplendent Heaven's Illumination!" Zhang Lei's roar shook the surroundings!

That "blazing sun" suddenly split open, turning into a massive, cold, and heartless Divine Eye of Flame! In the center of the eye's pupil, a dark red beam of light, condensed to the extreme and radiating an aura of destruction, tore through space like the Whip of God, shooting violently toward the Cloud Top Immortal Crane, which was struggling to rise from the ruins, its feathers charred and in a wretched state!

The crane felt a fatal threat and let out a desperate and unwilling shriek! It squeezed out all the remaining water energy in its body without reservation, gathering it into a thick, crystal-like deep blue water column that surged upward, attempting to block the destructive beam!

However, it was all in vain!

The moment the dark red destructive beam contacted the water column, the pillar of water that concentrated all the crane's power actually melted and evaporated at a visible speed from the point of contact, like snow meeting a red-hot iron! It couldn't even hold out for a single second!

"Sizzle—!"

With an unstoppable force, the destructive beam instantly annihilated the water column and then precisely shot through one of the massive wings the Cloud Top Immortal Crane was desperately using to protect itself! It left a shocking charred hole! Wing fragments with sparks flew everywhere!

"Skree!!!" The crane let out a heart-wrenching wail as its massive body lost balance.

"Sky-Burning Assault!" Zhang Lei's battle intent burned to the extreme as he turned into a streak of fire and soared into the sky, instantly rushing into the massive Divine Eye of Flame! He grabbed the main body of the fire qilin spear at the core of the divine eye! Then, using all his strength, he threw it toward the heavily injured crane below!

The moment the fire qilin spear left his hand, it expanded with the wind! On the spear's shaft, the phantom of the Fire Qilin reappeared, becoming even more solid and massive! It seemed to come alive, its four hooves treading on flames as it let out a heaven-shaking roar, carrying the will to incinerate all things as it merged with the fire qilin spear, turning into a flaming meteor that tore through heaven and earth!

At this moment, time seemed to stand still! In everyone's eyes, only that dazzling trail of fire, containing endless destruction and power, remained!

"Boom rumble rumble rumble—!!!!"

The flaming meteor hit the target precisely! A world-shaking explosion rang out! With the Cloud Top Immortal Crane as the center, the ground within a fifty-meter radius instantly turned into a boiling hell of fire! Red-gold divine fire soared into the sky, forming a spectacular pillar of flame that completely swallowed the crane's massive body! Even its sorrowful cry was drowned out by the violent explosion of flames!

The fire continued to burn for over ten seconds before slowly dying out. In its place, only a massive, charred lava pit remained, along with the blue crystal core shimmering at the bottom and a few scattered, charcoal-like bone remains... That incredibly powerful Cloud Top Immortal Crane, comparable to a mythological creature, had been completely incinerated into ashes by Zhang Lei's strike!

Silence! A deathly silence!

The wind seemed to have stopped howling, leaving only the slight "crackling" sound as the lava pit cooled.

All the observers, whether they were members of the Lujiang Base or the National Government's Honors Conferment Group, were all frozen in place as if a paralysis spell had been cast on them. They stood there with their mouths wide open, staring blankly at the scorched earth and the figure in the air slowly descending, its four wings fluttering gently like a fire god descended to earth.

Their minds were blank; all adjectives seemed so pale and powerless at this moment.

No, this majesty could probably only be described as a god descending to earth!

Aside from this phrase, they could no longer find any words to describe everything they had just witnessed, or to describe that god-like man—Zhang Lei!