Liu Xing aimed his gun and fired six rapid shots through the air. His targets were three Hei clan abominations, two Wu clan abominations, and one army abomination. The Hei clan members formed shields from their hair to block the bullets, but the resulting explosions killed two instantly, leaving the third a bloody mess. The Wu clan abominations slashed at the bullets with their nails, triggering explosions. One died in the blast and transformed into a red mist while the other was blown away. The army abomination tried to deflect the bullet with its spear, but when the bullet exploded, it destroyed the spear and killed it instantly.
He stored some of the potent qi from their beast cores in his Ethereal Pearl—that energy would be crucial for killing the generals. Still, Liu Xing also attempted to absorb some of the qi directly into his consciousness and tried the breakthrough into the Core Splitting realm.
The giant generals swept their blades through the air, unleashing massive wind blades. These attacks were enormous—as tall and wide as city walls, moving like trains and carving deep wounds into the ground.
Facing this mighty assault, Liu Xing squeezed off several more shots at the remaining abominations before leaping skyward. He maneuvered through the air using his summoned shield as a platform, but to his surprise, the wind blades curved to follow him. He zigzagged left and right through the sky, trying to shake off the pursuing blades while sneaking in shots at the clan abominations below.
The generals created ripples in the air as they slashed again and again, launching more giant wind blades toward him. The wind blades rushed through the City of Suns like transparent freight trains, each one carrying enough force to level city blocks.
Liu Xing gritted his teeth, realizing he needed to deal with these wind blades before they overwhelmed him. He kicked off his floating shield, moving like a bolt of lightning to reposition himself so the wind blades were between him and one of the generals.
Using his shield as a stable platform in the sky, Liu Xing channeled the potent qi he'd stored in the Ethereal Pearl into his gauntlet. A sphere of lightning, larger than himself, materialized before him. He poured more and more qi into his gauntlet until it began to creak, the lightning ball growing until it filled his entire field of vision, and with a palm strike, he unleashed a massive pillar of lightning.
The lightning pillar made the air tremble. When it collided with the wind blades, a huge shockwave expanded outward as brilliant light erupted from where the two forces clashed, each trying to overwhelm the other. Liu Xing shouted as he forced more power into the lightning pillar, pushing against the wind blades until they finally shattered into millions of pieces.
The lightning pillar, victorious in its brief duel, extended toward one of the generals. The giant abomination's pupil dilated as it crossed its wicked blades, creating a massive blue barrier. But the barrier might as well have been made of tofu—the lightning pillar shredded through it and engulfed the upper body of the giant abomination.
The attack drove the general backward, its feet carving deep trails in the ground. When the lightning pillar finally receded, the general hadn't died, but it was grievously wounded. Its entire body was charred black as if it had been thrown into a furnace. Its huge eye was blackened and oozed red and sticky blood like magma. The creature's frantic pulses rippled through the air like silent screams of agony, as if its pain was too vast to be contained by mere sound.
Seeing his opportunity, Liu Xing kicked off his shield and charged straight at the wounded abomination. The other three generals raced to intercept him, their giant feet making the entire City of Suns tremble. Hundreds of army and clan abominations surged forward as well, instinctively knowing they couldn't let him finish off the wounded general.
Shield after shield materialized and vanished beneath Liu Xing's feet as he accelerated through the sky like a comet. Lightning crackled between his hands, stretching into a hundred-meter blade that he hardened with stable qi. In the same fluid motion, he aimed his gun, feeding it potent qi from the Ethereal Pearl.
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As the wind howled in his ears, Liu Xing knew this was the critical moment. If he could kill this general abomination with his gun, he could decimate the entire army!
"Eat this!" Liu Xing slashed through a hundred abominations in the air. His lightning blade whipped toward the wounded general's giant head.
Another general tried to parry the lightning blade with its wicked arm blade but was a fraction too slow. The lightning blade cut through the charred eye diagonally, meeting almost no resistance—just like when his bullet had pierced the first general's eye. The neat cut split the eye in two, red blood bursting from the wound as half the eye slid away. The general thrashed madly, sending frantic pulses that Liu Xing could feel on his skin.
Knowing the cut alone wouldn't kill it, Liu Xing accelerated even faster. Another general slashed at him with its giant wicked blade.
Liu Xing intensified his Lightning Cloak technique, using his shield to zigzag around several arm blades. He moved as fast as real lightning, quickly reaching the side of the wounded general. Its split head revealed writhing, complex organs that gushed blood like a waterfall.
Liu Xing aimed his gun and fired bullets infused with the Exploding Fist technique. Six explosions bloomed, spraying red blood everywhere. As the creature began to groan—physically this time—Liu Xing reloaded and fired another six shots in rapid succession. The abomination started to topple sideways just as three other generals swung their right arms to strike him down.
Liu Xing maneuvered through the sky, zigzagging left and right, up and down, to dodge these powerful but slow attacks. He used his shield to propel himself upward, beyond the reach of the generals' wicked blades.
Soon Liu Xing hung high in the sky, the clouds just centimeters away, with the entire City of Suns spread out below him. As gravity took hold, he let himself fall, eyes fixed on the gun in his left hand.
A sound like a collapsing building echoed from below, and Liu Xing saw the six green strips on his gun glowing brightly. His heart raced as a smile spread across his face—he would win this fight. More than that, he could also break through to the Core Splitting realm!
Centering his mind, Liu Xing took a deep breath. He absorbed a bullet into his body and directed it to his consciousness. The energy was plentiful, and his ball of lightning absorbed it greedily, vibrating as it tried to break free of its chains.
While absorbing the qi, he aimed his gun at the three army generals below. They looked up and began slashing the air, sending multiple giant wind blades toward him.
Liu Xing summoned his shield and accelerated faster. He coated his right gauntlet with stable qi and channeled one qi bullet into it. Instantly, another giant ball of lightning materialized before him. Without hesitation, he unleashed a giant pillar of lightning from his hand. He swung it like his lightning blade, easily cutting through the wind blades as if they were paper before plasma.
He swept the lightning pillar toward the ground with a thunderous rumble, destroying hundreds of remaining army and clan abominations. As the attack began to fade, he redirected it toward one of the army generals. The creature tried to stop the receding lightning pillar with a huge barrier, but the defense shattered into a million pieces just as his lightning pillar finally dissipated.
Liu Xing accelerated through the air, shield after shield materializing beneath his feet as he took aim at an army general. He pulled the trigger, and a lightning bolt whistled through the sky like a divine spear, striking the center of the general's massive eye. The impact triggered an explosion that transformed the entire eye into a red mist, coating everything within several hundred meters like a gruesome rain. The six green strips on the gun's side glowed again, and Liu Xing turned his attention to the two remaining army generals.
He squeezed the trigger four times, dedicating two shots to each creature. The generals raised blue barriers before their enormous forms, exactly as Liu Xing had anticipated. The first bullet that struck each barrier detonated, shredding the defense into azure confetti that danced in the wind. The follow-up bullets found their marks, striking each giant eye-head with devastating precision.
The explosions left nothing but stumps where their heads had been, blood mist and fragments of their eyes scattering in the wind. Like ancient trees finally felled, the three titanic abominations toppled sideways in unison.
Liu Xing smiled. He had won! All the generals are dead, and the army below is decimated.