Chapter 371: God Phoenix

"Teacher Lingyun?" Seeing Lingyun suddenly appear, a trace of joy could not help but appear on Yese Xiayin's face.

Himeragi Yukina, who was to the side, also breathed a slight sigh of relief. One must know that she had already handed her Sekkarou to her master, Yuantang Yuan, for an upgrade. Without a sharp weapon in hand, she herself lacked the confidence to deal with this Sage.

"So that's how it is. The Sage's target isn't this ship, nor is it Himeragi Yukina or Xia Yin; its true goal is the seawater, or rather, the various precious metals contained within the seawater." Lingyun raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at the massive Sage. "Leave this guy to me. Xia Yin, be sure to protect yourself well. Tianzhong Gong is left to you!"

"Teacher, be careful. The Sage's power of Material Recombination is quite terrifying!" Himeragi Yukina warned.

"Rest assured, I have some understanding of his methods!" Lingyun's figure flashed, and he appeared above the Sage's head. "Transfer!"

A space-like Array resembling a Taiji symbol suddenly appeared in the Void. This was the residual power of the Teigu from the Akame ga Kill World—Shangri-La. When it was forcibly activated for a large-scale Space Teleportation Array back then, Shangri-La had already collapsed, leaving only a tiny bit of residue. Now, Lingyun took out this tiny bit of residue to make use of waste.

With a "Hum—" sound, the figures of Lingyun and the Sage instantly vanished from near the ferry. However, because this was only the residual power of Shangri-La, the Space Array did not teleport the two of them very far. If one were to look through binoculars from the ferry, one could still catch sight of the two.

"Click... click-click... click-click-click... Imperfect existence, why do you resist me, a perfect existence?" The Sage emitted a strange sound.

"A perfect existence?" Lingyun looked at the Sage with a strange expression. "You? You are nothing more than a monster created by artificial means, and you dare to call yourself perfect?"

Seemingly provoked by Lingyun's words, all the eyeballs on the Sage's body turned toward Lingyun. Although these eyes appeared to have no expression, Lingyun could still feel the anger within them. And the light churning like flames in the Sage's mouth was the best evidence.

A golden Flash shot out from the Sage's mouth, blasting toward Lingyun's direction. Lingyun's figure flickered in the Void; although the golden Flash was powerful, it did not even touch the corner of Lingyun's clothes.

"You keep calling yourself a perfect thing, but you can't even defeat me, someone you call imperfect. This is simply a huge joke," Lingyun sneered.

The majestic Nine Yang True Qi gathered between Lingyun's hands into powerful streaks of Sword Qi, bombarding the Sage. Every streak of Sword Qi that struck the Sage was able to blast a huge wound into his body.

As a metallic lifeform capable of constant regeneration and proliferation, this kind of damage was not very serious for the Sage. Behind him, he had the entire ocean as support, allowing him to replenish his damaged parts at any time. The Sage was currently using this method to confront Lingyun, wanting to drag Lingyun into an endless war of attrition.

"Click... click-click..., why resist, incomplete existence? Why refuse to become a part of my perfect world?" While exchanging blows with Lingyun, the Sage spoke loudly.

"I already said it, a guy like you has no qualifications to be called perfect!" Lingyun gathered the powerful Nine Yang Power between his hands once more, transforming it into five huge golden Light Balls that landed around the Sage. "Five Suns Scorching the Plains!"

"Click-click... Shut up! Obey the command of the perfect me and close your mouth!" The Sage seemed to roar in annoyance, and his entire body began to release golden flashes.

As the Sage released the flashes, the five golden Light Balls also released terrifying light and heat under Lingyun's control.

Two diametrically opposed golden lights fiercely collided, instantly forming a pillar of light that shot into the sky. The seawater around the Sage's body was instantly evaporated in large swathes under this terrifying collision, forming a thick fog on the sea surface.

After the mist dissipated, a huge lead-colored metal egg appeared in the sky. While Lingyun was exchanging blows, the Sage had quietly released a clone, and when the battle between the two reached a stalemate, it suddenly launched the ability of Material Recombination at Lingyun.

"Click-clack, click-clack..." Countless cracks instantly appeared on the metal egg, and afterward, it completely turned into fragments filling the sky.

"As expected of the Sage, you really do have some tricks, actually being able to recombine my Protective Qi Shield into metal!" Lingyun looked calmly at the still-turbulent sea surface. "Come out, Sage. I know this level of attack cannot kill you!"

With a "Boom," a water column shot into the sky from the sea, and the Sage's figure rushed out from the water, his large hand grabbing toward Lingyun's direction. Halfway through the reach, this hand suddenly exploded in the Void, forming a huge blockade net, seemingly wanting to seal off all of Lingyun's escape routes.

Facing this kind of attack, Lingyun's figure shifted repeatedly in the sky, calmly and unhurriedly avoiding all of the Sage's attacks.

"I am a god, I am immortal, you cannot kill me!" the Sage roared loudly.

"Cannot kill you? A joke! Among the people I have seen, there are several who could completely annihilate you!" Lingyun said with a sneer. "Now, let you witness the power of a true god!"

Golden flames suddenly surged from Lingyun's body, and a huge golden strange bird appeared behind Lingyun; it was none other than the Winged Dragon of Ra among the three phantom gods.

"I am the true god!" The Sage spat out a golden Flash from his mouth, blasting toward the direction of the Winged Dragon of Ra.

"Everything should end now. Winged Dragon of Ra, let it witness the anger from the Sun God—God Phoenix!"

The Winged Dragon of Ra let out a long cry toward the sky, and golden flames suddenly rose from its body; those were the never-extinguishing flames from the sun.

The Winged Dragon of Ra, transformed into a Phoenix, streaked across the sky with a brilliant trajectory, slicing the Flash released by the Sage in half with an unstoppable momentum, and then heavily slammed into its body.

The inextinguishable Sun Fire instantly wrapped around the Sage. Even though the Sage struggled desperately, or even dived into the water while activating Material Recombination, he could not extinguish this peculiar flame. What made him even more terrified was that the burning speed of the flame was getting faster and faster, and the speed at which his body could reshape itself could not keep up with the speed at which it was disappearing.

"No, no, no..." The Sage let out a miserable wail, but in the end, before the fire of the sun, he completely turned into nothingness.