Swallowing the Stars: Level 1, One Talent, Invincible Chaos Origin

Chapter 190, Phoenix Cry

"what?"

The Zerg Alliance leader felt the surrounding domain pressing down on it and was terrified.

"Damn it, you're actually a king!"

Feeling the oppressive force of the colorful aura surrounding him, the Fire Skull King's face turned terrifyingly gloomy.

He is the 'Fire Skull King', belonging to the 'Skull Flame Clan', a vassal race of the Zerg Alliance. He is known for his ferocious attacks and resilient divine body. Although he is only a low-level King, he can still put up a fight against high-level Kings by relying on his racial talents.

According to the mission information given by the 'Will of the Insect Nest', the strength of the team members sweeping through this area is at most at the peak of the Marquis level.

But as soon as they clashed, its domain was broken by its opponent.

The opponent's domain was terrifyingly strong; he could sense that its strength was suppressed by at least 40% under this colorful domain.

How could it be completely suppressed by a human whose aura seemed to be only that of a Marquis?

This person must be a king-level being who has concealed his presence!

"Humans are cunning! You think you can defeat me with just your domain? Dream on!"

The Fire Skull King roared, the soul fire burning fiercely in the eye sockets of his skull, and a huge white bone warhammer suddenly appeared in his hand.

The runes on the warhammer lit up, triggering the laws of fire and space. The raging flames condensed into a hideous skull phantom, carrying the terrifying power to shatter stars, and smashed fiercely towards Jiang Ming!

"Fire Skull Star-Splittering Hammer!"

This hammer blow is the Fire Skull King's signature move, which combines the explosion of flames with the vibration of space, making it extremely powerful.

However, Jiang Ming's eyes remained calm in the face of this fierce attack.

With a slight tremor, the gleaming silver spear in his hand vibrated and emitted a clear, melodious dragon's roar.

There was no earth-shattering energy burst, no flashy or dazzling phenomena of laws.

A single, extremely simple, straight thrust!
The cold glint at the tip of the spear seemed to gather all the sharpness in the world, rendering time and space meaningless in its presence.

The last come first!

puff!

A faint yet unsettling sound came from behind.

The raging fiery skull phantom dissipated and vanished instantly, like a balloon punctured by a needle.

The tip of the gleaming silver spear struck the very core point of the power flow of the bone warhammer with unparalleled precision!

"what?!"

Fire Skull King felt an incredibly concentrated and terrifying penetrating force coming through the warhammer, which made his arm go numb. The divine power contained in the warhammer was almost dissipated by this strike!
"impossible!"

The Fire Skull King was incredulous. The opponent's control over power and application of the laws were exquisitely refined, far surpassing his own!
What made him even more uneasy was the strange power contained in the spear tip, which seemed capable of annihilating everything, causing his divine body to feel waves of stinging pain.

"escape!"

Instantly, the Fire Skull King felt a surge of reluctance. His domain was suppressed, his ultimate move easily countered, and his opponent's strength was far beyond that of a high-level King-ranking expert—it was far greater!
Flames surged around it, as if it wanted to burn its divine power and use a life-saving secret technique to escape.

"Now that you're here, stay."

Jiang Ming's indifferent voice rang out.

With a flick of his wrist, the stance of his spear suddenly changed.

A phoenix was drawn from the tip of the spear, and as the phoenix was born, its cry echoed endlessly.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
These sounds, seemingly phoenix cries emanating from the depths of chaos, caused even the Fire Skull King to momentarily lose his senses.

And it was in that moment of confusion!
The bright silver spear seemed to be surrounded by countless tiny worlds, with the power of laws surging around it!

It swept across, shattering space like a mirror, and disrupting the flow of time.

In an instant, he rushed to the Fire Skull King's front, his silver spear thrusting out repeatedly. The Fire Skull King's divine body was instantly annihilated into a large amount of divine power under Jiang Ming's spear tip.

These divine powers attempted to reassemble, but under Jiang Ming's fusion domain, the path to convergence was severed, making the gathering of divine power extremely difficult. Nearly a hundredth of a second passed before the Fire Skull King's divine body finally reassembled.

But as soon as his body solidified, the Fire Skull King's expression turned extremely grim.

In that one-hundredth of a second, its divine body had already been annihilated by 27%!

At this moment, the Fire Skull King's aura also dropped by nearly half.

After ascending to immortality, one's spiritual will is integrated into every cell of the body.

The destruction of the divine body signifies the destruction of the soul, and the spiritual imprint is also being destroyed. Losing 27% of the divine body means that 27% of the Fire Skull King's soul imprint has also been destroyed!

The decline in strength is not just a simple 27% decrease, but a direct drop of nearly half.

Even so, it's only because the Fire Skull King's divine body is special that his strength declines less.

"You're quite capable; you didn't die."

Jiang Ming's gaze swept over the Fire Skull King's body, focusing on the law runes flowing across the surface of the Fire Skull King's divine body.

He himself knew better than anyone the power of his moves.

Under that attack, a normal beginner-level King should be dead by now, but the Fire Skull King only had 27% of his divine body destroyed.

You should know that the Phoenix Cry he just used was a variation of one of his three ultimate moves.

Back then, Jiang Ming took three Beast God statues from the Blood Luo Continent.

A statue roars to the sky, displaying unparalleled destructive power.

A statue extended a claw, and the space beneath it seemed to be completely torn apart.

The last statue, with its long tail swaying, seems to cleave through the chaotic void, separating the clear from the turbid.

Jiang Ming thus created three killing moves. The Phoenix Cry he just made was one of his three killing moves, a variant of the Beast God's Roar.

Although it wasn't executed using Jiang Ming's most proficient 'Gold and Void Fusion' technique, its power was definitely not weak.

"Hmph! I admit defeat this time, but don't be arrogant, human brat. You, a mere King, have slaughtered ordinary Immortals of my Zerg Alliance. You will surely face retaliation!"

Sooner or later they'll follow in my footsteps!

After the Fire Skull King finished speaking, his body instantly swelled up, drawing upon all the divine power within him, and he was about to self-destruct!

Even when fully powered, Jiang Ming's single attack depleted so much of his divine power.

Now that his strength has decreased by nearly half again, even with his immortality, he has no chance of escaping.

If we keep at it and our strength diminishes, we might be enslaved by their souls.

Rather than that, it's better to make a decisive decision!
"Want to self-destruct?"

Jiang Ming had long been prepared for his opponent to self-destruct. Seeing that his opponent was making a move, the phoenix opened its beak and cried out again.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
The phoenix's cry once again stirred the other's soul and will, causing them to momentarily lose their senses.

The next moment, Jiang Ming's silver spear was poked!
The Fire Skull King's armor dimmed instantly, and his proud divine body crumbled like a sandcastle!

Consciousness was also rapidly annihilated under the terrifying attack containing calamity power!
"I am not reconciled!!!!"

With a final thought, the Fire Skull King's aura almost vanished into the starry sky.

Only a clump of divine power remained, enveloped by the colorful domain, gradually coalescing and transforming back into the Fire Skull King's body.

Jiang Ming reached out and summoned the Fire Skull King's body, along with the World Ring, Warhammer, and other items he had left behind, into his hand.

"Even if 99.9% of the divine power is worn away after achieving immortality, the body will still reassemble as long as there is a trace of cell fragment."

But such immortality will plunge one into a long slumber, only to awaken once the spiritual imprint has recovered enough to once again control the body.

Jiang Ming examined the Fire Skull King's body that had fallen into his hands and thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)