Exploding God

Chapter 1097 Hunter and Prey

The night was black, the fog was thick, and the moonlight could not reach the sea.

The damp sea breeze was filled with a fishy stench and deathly silence, and dark whirlpools emerged from beneath the water.

The next second, a shadow violently crashed through the seawater!

An astonishing pulling force suddenly appeared, as if the surrounding space was imprisoned.

A gigantic maw, as deep as an abyss, swept across the surroundings at incredible speed before slamming shut.

The speed at which it is devoured is less than 0.1 seconds!

With a swallowing area larger than a football field and a closing speed comparable to a lizard's flicking tongue, this single, simple hunting action highlights the terrifying nature of Leviathan as a apex predator.

If it were an ordinary War King, there would be no way to avoid it when the black mist stripped away the star source power and perception.

But for Lu Ze...

That would be the best outcome.

His figure instantly disintegrated into mist, and his true form appeared a hundred meters above him in a strange flash. His left hand, hooking the flowing clouds, condensed into a sword and swung it upwards.

The sky, which had seemed empty, suddenly developed a layer of transparent ripples. When these ripples met the Red Dust Sword Qi that Lu Ze had shot out, they burst like bubbles, revealing the true scene hidden behind them—a giant tail that looked like a mountain pressing down!

If it weren't for the powerful Star Source Perception that revealed the truth behind the black mist, it would have been entirely predictable that this second hidden strike would have been unavoidable.

Lu Ze remained calm and did not confront the attack head-on. Instead, he nimbly and swiftly dodged the attack by stepping on the air, and Leviathan's giant tail brushed past him and crashed heavily into the ocean.

--boom!

The terrifying force and speed combined to create a brief vacuum, which in turn formed a hurricane that descended vertically.

Lu Ze, who had already appeared a hundred meters away, was surrounded by dozens of red dust sword energies that overlapped. He put two fingers together and thrust them forward.

The sword shadows of the mortal world shot out like missiles launched from the air.

Swish!

A shockwave covering a kilometer rippled outwards.

A small, bottomless hole appeared in Leviathan's massive body.

but--

No blood, no bones!

Only the twisted black dents, like boiling oil, slowly recovered after a brief rotation.

Although the attack, which was enough to instantly kill a 10-star War King, failed, Lu Ze's eyes remained unmoved. Instead, he continued to shoot down three more overlapping sword energies while dodging and moving at high speed.

Each sword aura accurately hit the previous one, and with double and triple strikes, the sword aura penetrated deeper and deeper.

The dent on Leviathan's back was getting bigger and bigger, and the black vortex was moving faster and faster, but it was torn apart before it could fully heal each time.

One or two Leviathan attacks might be negligible, but dozens of repeated penetrations into a single point, constantly churning at the wound... it does feel pain.

Driven somewhat mad by the pain, Leviathan unleashed highly compressed energy from the holes that appeared in its body.

A dozen thick jets of water shot out into the sky above the sea, interspersed with a deep blue sheen. The water jets exploded flat when they reached a height of 100 meters.

It wanted to crush the ant in the air with such a massive energy impact.

However, Lu Ze's figure was able to move and dodge between each layer of shockwaves with precision and speed, and then repeatedly unleash the Red Dust Sword Qi.

Lu Ze will maintain such a high-intensity attack for 240 seconds to restrain Leviathan and find weaknesses from the opponent's reactions.

With this ability to control qi remotely with endless energy, Lu Ze is enough to stand proudly at the pinnacle of martial arts.

Deep blue blood, glowing with fluorescence, has begun to float in the seas where Leviathan is hiding.

It attempted a swallowing attack... and failed!

Concealment field...failed!

Giant tail strike...failed!

Energy attack...failed!

Leviathan can grow into a creature that is almost a 12-star typhoon-class being, and its combat intelligence is also outstanding.

After a series of attempts failed, it became somewhat agitated. It was not used to a stalemate and a prolonged battle, so Leviathan instinctively wanted to get rid of Lu Ze first.

However, its size was so enormous that any intention to move would be magnified thousands of times in Lu Ze's eyes.

Whenever it makes a move, a series of sword energies will pierce its body.

Those sword energies contained a strange, scorching heat that could burn the black mist, which would slow down its healing speed.

It's like someone repeatedly cutting a scabbed wound with a dull knife; the relentless, excruciating pain constantly erodes its rationality.

When it tried to dive, the human, using his inner energy to envelop his fist in the deeper water, struck it back with a force powerful enough to shake mountains.

This was the most frustrating battle Leviathan had ever fought.

The opponent's attack is strong, capable of interfering with my healing process, yet unable to completely suppress me.

Once you want to leave, the other person will keep hurting you!

Leviathan is powered by planetary fissures within its body, giving it a perpetual power source that other behemoths cannot match.

However, the problem is that the size of the rift is limited, and the maximum energy it can provide is not enough to support it in continuously launching attacks that reach the level of a 12-star typhoon.

Unless there is a qualitative change in the magnitude of the attack, it will be unable to launch an effective attack on that human for the time being.

But the enemy must be dealt with!

The hatred generated by Lu Ze has surpassed that of all other targets.

Thus, through the fusion of pain, frustration, and combat wisdom, Leviathan devised a combat style best suited to it—the war of attrition!

The black mist will continuously strip away the free star energy from the opponent.

Once the opponent's strength is depleted to a relatively weak level, the originally evenly matched battle will completely turn into a one-sided affair!

Leviathan then abandoned its intention to leave the area and began to compress the black mist and descend, bombarding the area with continuous energy jets.

……

Lu Ze instantly understood Leviathan's intentions, but he was not surprised at all.

Having dealt with planetary creatures for a century, he was intimately familiar with the thought processes of these behemoths.

In its previous life, Leviathan left a terrible reputation on the seventh floor of the tower. With its formidable strength, it dominated a giant floating island on the seventh floor of the tower and once simultaneously wiped out the surviving humans and other races.

To prevent a surprise attack by Leviathan, Lu Ze had prepared five contingency plans.

But in this life, Leviathan has not yet grown to that level. Any contingency plan that Lu Ze had prepared would be a sure-fire kill for Leviathan at this moment.

If the Tower of the Enigmatic Mist were to stand, it would have an endless supply of pure stellar energy to squander.

Lu Ze could even ignite the sea directly with the martial arts of the "Burning Star Battle Chapter" without relying on external forces, thus suppressing the Leviathan in its full state from the front!

(End of this chapter)