The Sunlight Life Wheel Formation absorbed the life vein power of the entire city’s population and burst forth with resplendent divine light once again, while the rapidly howling divine patterns also became steady and orderly.
But with the assault of Feng Lingxiao, and the simultaneous attack of the Demon Kings emerging from the numerous demon tides, the Divine Formation shook continuously. Every attack it withstood consumed a tremendous amount of life vein power.
This was the life span of the entire city’s population. Once the Divine Formation absorbed to a certain extent, the life vein would no longer be absorbed, and at that time, the Divine Formation would reach its limit.
Li Tian Gang suddenly turned his head and looked toward the direction of the Divine General Mansion, recognizing at a glance the golden meteor-like figures rushing over. Those were the ancestors of the Li Family, marching to battle once more.
His eyes filled with hot tears, his heart filled with shame.
“Child, let me help you in the fight,” a kind voice came, and an ancestral remnant soul flew to Li Tian Gang.
Li Tian Gang looked at the figure, remembering he was the 21st generation ancestor, a mighty figure who had slain demons at the border in ancient times, perishing alongside six Demon Kings.
“Unworthy descendants beseech the ancestor to aid in the battle!” Li Tian Gang said, holding back his sorrow.
The kind elder gave a slight smile, his figure flickered, turning into a golden flame and draping over Li Tian Gang.
A powerful force surged into his body, and on the ancient bronze saber in Li Tian Gang’s hand, dazzling divine prowess flared. His eyes shed their anger and despair, becoming resolute and decisive. He transmitted a message to his wife, Ji Qingqing, asking her to restrain Feng Lingxiao.
Ji Qingqing, with the Taiyuan Swordsaint Treasure in her hand, could suppress the Dao Domain. Only she and Li Muxiu were capable of contending with the Dao Domain.
“Fourth uncle, let’s deal with the other Demon Kings!” Li Tian Gang said to Li Xiaoran.
Li Xiaoran gave him a look, his gaze lingering on the ancestral soul garment on his body, his eyes flashing momentarily with the image of the youth fighting blood-soaked in Mo River, draped in the ancestral soul garment of Li Tianyuan.
His heart ached, his fingers clenched into fists. Without responding to Li Tian Gang, he turned his head and charged directly towards the other Demon Kings.
Shortly after Li Xiaoran took off, an ancestor rushed to follow him. They merged as one, and immediately Li Xiaoran’s aura surged dramatically. But he was already in the Ultimate Study Realm, and the ancestral power could only grant him a limited increase, merely fueling his soul with strength, akin to an undiminished opening of the soul.
“Die, all of you!!” Li Xiaoran roared. Not wasting the ancestral power fueling him, his eyes turned bloodshot as he roared toward the battlefield ahead, breaking directly out of the Divine Formation.
The Demon Kings from the Dragon Gate and the Holy Palace, seeing Li Xiaoran, erupted with both new and old hatred. The Divine General Mansion’s millennia of defending the realm, conflicts with demons, had long accumulated deep grievances and unending enmity.
Boom!!
A thunderous noise of battle erupted, and Li Xiaoran, going berserk, brandished his blade, driving back four to five Demon Kings. Then with a backhand move of ultimate skill, the Carefree Blade sliced out, cleaving a Demon King in the Dao Heart Realm in two!
That Demon King’s divine soul sprang out, screaming as it fled, but was torn apart in midair by Li Xiaoran’s second sabre strike, dying on the spot.
In the blink of an eye, a Demon King had fallen.
The other Demon Kings were both shocked and enraged. This Carefree Blade Saint of the Li Family was too ferocious. As an Ultimate Study Realm being, he was no less formidable than their Great Elder.
“You continue the attack on the formation, let me handle this!”
From the Holy Palace, a figure charged out, his body releasing verdant light, revealing a gigantic peacock true form. It suddenly spread its tail like it was covering the sky and revealing its hundreds of feet height, unleashing a peculiar divine soul attack that made Li Xiaoran’s consciousness suddenly lapse into dizziness.
“Wake up!”
The possessing ancestral Heroic Spirit shouted angrily.
Li Xiaoran snapped awake, his thoughts only slightly disordered for a moment before he saw a sharp Peacock Feather shooting toward him, imbued with purple thunder, its power astonishing.
He hurriedly swung his sabre to chop, cleaving the feather apart. Then, bellowing, he unleashed ultimate skills repeatedly, sending a series of dazzling blade lights that arrived in an instant, chopping down upon the body of the Great Peacock Demon King.
Space was sundered, the Carefree Blade unavoidable, exceeding the pull of Daoist Charm, each strike hit true!
Thud, thud!
The Great Peacock Demon King’s tail feathers were chopped, several broken off. His chest was torn by two slashes, feathers exploding, revealing deep wounds.
It spouted blood, retreating in defeat, its eyes filled with disbelief.
“Die!” Li Xiaoran roared angrily, channeling the power of the ancestral soul to unleash his strongest ultimate skills.
Each slash fell, his body’s strength surged forth. The Great Peacock Demon King, terrified, found the Carefree Blade Saint, augmented by ancestral power, too vicious to withstand.
The other Demon Kings didn’t dare to confront him either. After all, Li Xiaoran was in the Ultimate Study Realm, and his sabre techniques were too tricky to block.
At this moment, Li Xiaoran exhibited tremendous might, forcing many Demon Kings to retreat single-handedly.
The Great Peacock Demon King hastily spat out a green ring, rotating rapidly to block all of Li Xiaoran’s sabre lights. The light on the ring dimmed significantly, showing that it was a top Divine Weapon, now somewhat frustrated.
The many Demon Kings were both shocked and enraged. They had not expected this old Li Family member to be so strong. Besides Li Muxiu, this Li Xiaoran was not to be underestimated.
Boom!
In the sky, the Xuanyu Heavy Tower continued to buffet the Divine Formation.
Despite Ji Qingqing’s full-force attacks, Feng Lingxiao, borrowing the power of his Sacred Heart Treasure, directly suppressed her attacks. Although a fraction of the force was neutralized, the remaining power was still fierce.
Every collision caused the divine patterns on the Divine Formation to scurry about, the previously steady and orderly divine patterns, now accelerating rapidly. Obviously, the life vein power absorbed earlier was being consumed quickly.
A figure came swooping in, it was Li Qingzheng. He looked at the Feng Lingxiao continually attacking the Divine Formation, his eyes splitting, roaring as he burst forth.
“Get out!”
Feng Lingxiao’s face turned cold. He had seen Li Xiaoran defeat numerous Demon Kings outside the battlefield and felt a mix of anger and urgency in his heart.
Once he broke the Divine Formation, those people would be suppressed in his Dao Domain, but this Divine Formation was like a turtle shell, extremely difficult to break.
Even with the destructive power of the Saint Heart treasure, he couldn’t destroy it quickly, showing that the State City where the Divine General Mansion stood was indeed as solid as gold soup.
Li Qingzheng’s attacks entered the Dao Domain and quickly dissipated, having no effect. He was both anxious and angry, realizing that staying here was useless except for making him anxious.
He glanced at another battlefield outside the Array, where the sky and earth were shattering; his second brother, Li Muxiu, was fighting the Dragon Absolute God. From a distance, it seemed his brother was at a disadvantage.
But that was also a battle of Dao Domains, where he couldn’t intervene.
However, the battlefield where Li Xiaoran was located was at the front line of the Demon Tide.
“Let’s go, leave this girl to delay them, and we’ll kill all those Demon Kings!”
Li Xuanyin spoke swiftly.
Without a second word, Li Qingzheng stepped forward, rapidly catching up with Li Tian Gang to fight their way out of the city’s Array.
“Die!!”
Li Qingzheng roared. He too had entered the Ultimate Study Realm. Although not as powerful as Li Muxiu’s Ultimate Study, he was not someone ordinary Demon Kings could match.
Catching up with Li Xiaoran, he and Li Xuanyin, the three brothers, fought side by side once more after many years!
“First, kill all these Demon Kings!”
Li Xiaoran roared, continuously attacking with his blade, the Carefree Horizon Blade cutting through the air. Every strike of his strongest Ultimate Study was a radiant blade light tearing through the vacuum, severely injuring a Demon King.
With three successive strikes, a Demon King fell.
Li Qingzheng also charged into the Demon Tide, wreaking havoc. The two of them pushed back against the raging Demon Tide, blocking its momentum like rocks against the current, tearing a brutal rift in the Demon Tide.
The Demon Kings from both forces were terrified and could only retreat. Many of them were Demon Kings, but few were in the Ultimate Study Realm, and none were a match for Li Xiaoran and Li Qingzheng.
Additionally, with their ancestral spirit empowering them, their strength was boundless, continuously wielding their strongest Ultimate Studies without tiring.
Upon seeing this scene while trying to break the formation, Feng Lingxiao was so angry that he wanted to curse out loud and hurriedly charged at Li Xiaoran and Li Qingzheng.
He stopped breaking the formation, giving the Divine Formation time to recover. Ji Qingqing sighed in relief but knew her duty, immediately chasing after them through the Array wherever they went.
“Be careful, he’s coming!”
Li Qingzheng noticed Feng Lingxiao speeding towards them and quickly shouted.
Li Xiaoran’s gaze also sharpened, quickly commanding, “Retreat!”
They rapidly blinked away, constantly shifting positions, almost teleporting back in front of the Divine Formation.
When Feng Lingxiao’s attack arrived, all three had already returned to the Divine Formation.
“You break the formation, and we’ll kill all your Demon subordinates!”
Across the Divine Formation, Li Xiaoran stared intently at the opponent, his eyes filled with surging murderous intent.
Their earlier attack on the Demon Kings was also to draw Feng Lingxiao’s attack and now, having achieved their goal, they had killed four Demon Kings in that short time, a profitable outcome.
“You should die!!”
Feng Lingxiao, enraged to the point of gnashing his teeth, his handsome face twisted, shouted, “After the formation is broken, I will make sure the Li family’s blood flows like a river!”
“Then come and try; my Li family fears neither life nor death!”
Li Qingzheng’s gaze was chilling, releasing years of restrained bloodthirsty fury.
“Everyone, break the formation with me!”
Feng Lingxiao no longer wasted words, commanding the surrounding Demon Kings to join him in breaking the formation. With his Dao Domain sheltering them, Li Xiaoran and the others couldn’t harm them anymore.
Li Xiaoran and the others looked grim, knowing this was not a solution. Staying here was useless; they had to move again, charging out from another part of the Divine Formation towards the Demon Tide.
The Demon Kings being protected meant they should first clear out the Demon Tide, which was faster.
Meanwhile, Ji Qingqing arrived, quickly wielding the Taiyuan Sword to counter the attack from the Xuanyu Heavy Tower.
Seeing Li Xiaoran and the others surge from a city into the Demon Tide like wolves into a flock of sheep, Feng Lingxiao was furious, realizing he couldn’t manage these demons. If he didn’t break the Divine Formation, the longer the delay, the more casualties would rise.
“Li family! Li family!!”
Feng Lingxiao, truly enraged, roared, unleashing his True Force to continually bombard the Divine Formation.
But on the other side, a bloody storm raged in the Demon Tide. Li Xiaoran, Li Tian Gang, and others entered, their casual attacks causing massive casualties.
Without the Demon King’s protection, these demons stood no chance against the Four Stands Realm, being slaughtered like wheat.
At the same time, in the secret pathway on the eastern Huai River, some Li family powerhouses closer to Qingzhou raced over.
Among them were powerful figures such as Li Qingling and Li Xueyun, who were already married off. They had previously helped in Liangzhou. Called by the blood of their ancestors, they were close by and rushed over.
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Both were in the Three Immortal Realms. Upon their arrival, with designated troops responding to them, they quickly learned about Qingzhou City’s situation through their Divine Souls. Their expressions were grave; although the situation seemed stable for now, once the Divine Formation broke, they would quickly fall into a dire situation.
Without further discussion, they burst forth, empowered by their ancestors, their power surged as they, too, burst out of another array into the Demon Tide.
For a moment, besides where Feng Lingxiao and the Dragon Absolute God were, the entire battlefield outside the city filled with demons was being rapidly slaughtered as cries of agony filled the air, and the Li family gained the upper hand.
In the city, countless commoners peered through the cracks of their windows to see the numerous figures of the Li Family soaring across the sky, among which some elder citizens, upon seeing those golden lingering souls, widened their eyes with disbelief and excitement, as tears streamed down their faces.
They recognized them as the long-deceased ancestors of the Li Family, who were now stepping out of the ancestral temple to fight for Qingzhou City!
Boom! Boom!
Feng Lingxiao’s Xuanyu Heavy Tower in his hand constantly thundered, yet his Divine Soul flickered, still stubbornly holding on.
On the contrary, the Demon Tide, if left unrestrained, was nearly dispersed by Li Xiaoran and his comrades slaughtering them.
Amid this deadlock, with one side trying to break the formation and the other slaughtering, at the rear of the Demon Tide, on a distant mountain, two figures resembling the abyss stood firm.
Nothing was emitted from their bodies, and even the breeze that fluttered by seemed to quietly halt upon reaching them, turning stagnant like dead water.
“What a bunch of wastes, holding a supreme treasure yet unable to conquer, no wonder they were driven out by the Dayu Divine Dynasty like pigs and dogs!”
At that moment, one of the figures was the enchanting woman previously enveloped by black mist, her eyes cold, with purple patterns on her face writhing and extending like vines.
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The other figure, a youth in a black robe, his face indifferent and his eyes crimson but without any bloodthirstiness or brutality, merely an indifferent detachment.
“A thousand years ago, when the Immortal Gate opened, the finest prodigies of the Divine General Mansion ventured into the Saint Realm, I didn’t expect that such potent residual power still existed, in just this short millennium, many outstanding figures have emerged, no wonder this race has produced the most Saints, their potential is truly fearsome.”
The enchanting woman’s eyes were sharp, her voice containing a hint of faint jealousy.
“All these lingering souls stayed behind, guarding this kingdom for that monstrous figure, pity, if we could have waited a few more decades, attacking the Divine General Mansion wouldn’t have been so difficult, but something abominable arose in Liangzhou, the battle there already exposed our intentions, so we had to act sooner.”
The youth in the black robe shook his head, only they knew that the monster from Liangzhou not only quelled the demonic disaster but also disrupted their centennial plans, forcing them to act ahead of schedule.
That meant they had to pay a higher price.
“This Li Family’s Heroic Spirits are all out, using even blood guidance, sparing no effort, they might have noticed us by now, well, let’s help them one more time, it’s been too long, the Ancient Demon Palace can hardly be contained anymore, others reinforcing the Li Family are too numerous, this millennium-old family’s connections are too deep!” the youth in the black robe said.
The enchanting woman frowned, looking at Feng Lingxiao who was still forcing his way through the formation by brute force, a trace of disdain surfaced in her eyes, her finger lifted, a purple pattern on her face contracted, rapidly extending along her arm to her fingertip.
Then, it transformed into a deep purple beam of light.
“What a bunch of wastes.”
As she spoke, the deep purple beam of light emitted from her fingertip suddenly pierced through the air, traveling at a speed beyond space, reaching in an instant, silently traversing the battlefield and striking Qingzhou City’s Divine Formation.
Bang!
Just as the purple light struck, Feng Lingxiao was also swinging the Xuanyu Heavy Tower, fiercely smashing down on the Divine Formation.
Ji Qingqing hastily swung her sword, her sword light slashing on the sacred treasure, dispersing much of its light, but a violent clashing sound still erupted.
However, this time the sound was different; amidst the thunderous clashing, the fiercely vibrating Divine Patterns suddenly shook violently and then, like headless insects, chaotically whirled about before suddenly coming to a halt, and the brilliant Divine Formation slowly cracked open.
Ji Qingqing’s pupils sharply constricted, horrified by the scene.
Feng Lingxiao was also stunned, somewhat taken aback, not expecting this strike to actually break the formation.
But he had briefly sensed an extremely cold aura; his heart tightened, and his Divine Thought spun around, but he saw nothing behind the battlefield.
He couldn’t afford to think further, swiftly seizing the opportunity, he urged the Xuanyu Heavy Tower once again with brutal force.
Bang!!
The Divine Formation enveloping the sky above Qingzhou City suddenly shattered, in that moment, completely torn apart!
The sudden breaking of the formation stunned Li Xiaoran, Li Tian Gang, and others engaged in the thick of the Demon Tide, as they blankly watched the Divine Light of the formation fade.
“It’s broken!!”
Feng Lingxiao’s surrounding Demon Kings erupted in delighted cheers, the shell had finally broken!
“Kill!”
A Demon King quickly rushed out, waving a hand, unleashing a blazing wave of heat, sweeping into the city, instantly burning half a street.
The joy in Feng Lingxiao’s eyes instantly turned into towering killing intent, his gaze fell on Ji Qingqing who previously kept obstructing his breaking of the formation:
“You, go die!!”
Dao Domain spread out, and simultaneously, the sacred treasure in his hand, carrying millions of tons of force, pressed down towards Ji Qingqing.
Ji Qingqing’s face drained of color, but a figure swiftly approached, roaring, “Run!!”
In this life-or-death moment, Li Tian Gang rushed to her side, pushed her away, then turned to face the overwhelming power of the Dao Domain.
With a thud, he was engulfed in the Dao Domain, enduring the scorching burns of countless fires.
In this moment of life and death, he unleashed the Life-Defying Power.
The burning flames, which had just ignited his body, suddenly diminished in intensity; Feng Lingxiao spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his previously suppressed internal injuries flaring up at that moment, suddenly unrestrained.
His handsome face had turned as pale as paper, having continuously operated the Xuanyu Heavy Tower, a treasure of immense power which greatly exhausted its wielder. He was now slightly overextended.
By the time he quickly swallowed a Divine Medicine to suppress his injuries, Li Tian Gang had already escaped from his Dao Domain, rushing toward the Divine General Mansion with Ji Qingqing.
“Damn it!”
Feng Lingxiao’s face looked terrible; he couldn’t determine whether the sudden outbreak of his injury was due to consecutive depletion or the enigmatic power of Heavenly Dao drawing it out.
Once the Life-Defying Power was utilized, unpredictable “accidents” could occur, which could rescue him.
Yet, these accidents seemed to subtly conform to the laws of nature, like foreshadowing buried long ago, only triggered by the Life-Defying Power and not by any overtly felt formidable strength.
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This was why the Heavenly Dao was inscrutable.
Feng Lingxiao dared not pursue Li Tian Gang further; currently enveloped in the Life-Defying Power, he worried that continuing the chase might bring other unexpected events upon himself. Even though he was now at the Grand Tao of Peace Realm, he couldn’t sever the Life-Defying Power and could only watch helplessly as Li Tian Gang fled.
Fortunately, the opportunity to defy fate came only once. It was still possible to ambush later unless the other party directly fled from Qingzhou City.
“You had your fun killing before; now, it’s my turn!”
Feng Lingxiao turned to face Li Xiaoran and Li Qingzheng, who had been slaughtering the Demon King and massacring numerous demons, which had already filled him with a surge of furious blood.
Li Xiaoran’s face suddenly changed; Li Qingzheng also looked dismayed, unable to understand why the Array had suddenly shattered when it seemed it could have held out a bit longer.
“Die!”
Feng Lingxiao immediately chased after the two to kill them.
“Run!”
Li Xiaoran shouted, with no intention of facing him head-on, confronting someone wielding the Saint Heart Heavenly Treasure while in the Grand Tao of Peace Realm would be akin to seeking death.
They could only escape!
The process of escaping was to stall, to vie for time.
The brothers, in perfect unison without any need for communication, quickly scattered in opposite directions, east and west.
Meanwhile, inside the city, as the Array shattered, a massive wave of demons immediately swept in, clashing with the soldiers on the city walls.
And the Demon Kings charged into the city, spreading death.
He Jianlan, Gao Qingqing, Li Xuanli, and others, all clad in the lingering spirits of their ancestors, fought against the tide of demons.
When faced with Demon Kings, they could barely engage, but they were not of the Four Stands Realm themselves. Although they could briefly erupt with extreme power with the help of their ancestral spirits, they were still significantly inferior compared to the true Demon Kings.
Bang!
Chased by a Demon King of the Defying Fate Realm, Li Xuanli was slapped away, crashing into buildings, the devastating power of the impact directly killing the hiding residents.
Li Xuanli spat out blood, his face flushed, roaring as he invoked the Unwithering Strength and fought as one with 妖魔 the spirit of his ancestor, managing to hold his ground, but steadily being pushed back.
All over the city, it was instantly aflame with battles and clashes.
“Demons have breached the city…”
“The city has fallen!!”
Hidden citizens within their homes, witnessing the giant figures of Demon Kings fighting fiercely above in the sky, the fear they had forgotten over a millennium now plastered over their faces.
Inside the city, the Li Family Army fought chaotically against the demon tide but without the Array to hold them, and with only the army’s combat effort, the number of demons was too great. Many took advantage of the chaos to scale the military’s barricades, breaching the city and wreaking havoc everywhere.
Li Wushuang and Li Yuanzhao, among others, seeing this, swiftly divided their forces to combat the rampaging demons within the city.
But as the battle continued, increasingly more demons poured into the city, sloppily tearing through the military lines. The elite soldiers of Yuan Camp fought valiantly, but they couldn’t withstand the demons clearing the way.
Atop the mountain of Tan Palace Academy, Song Yufeng watched the city fall, his expression somber; behind him stood many masters and disciples of Tan Palace Academy.
“I at Tan Palace teach martial arts, but I also” teach humanity!”
Song Yufeng turned his head, looking at the numerous Tan Palace masters and disciples behind him, including his granddaughter. The sorrow in his eyes had receded, replaced by a resolute glare:
“Demons assault the city, civilians suffer; disciples of Tan Palace, are you willing to fight for all living beings before you?!”
“Fight!”
“Fight!!!”
The many disciples roared in unison.
Song Yufeng’s gaze turned gratified; he nodded and then firmly said, “Then follow me – downstairs to exorcise demons!”
As he spoke, leading with hands behind his back, he charged towards the bustling mortal world.
Many masters of Tan Palace flew after him, while the disciples either soared through the skies or ran down the mountain.
Among them were many Outer Court disciples of the Power Passage Realm; with some frightened ones secretly hiding away, but far more were undeterred, rushing into the battlefield below.
In a pond atop the mountain in Emerald Pond, the water suddenly stirred into a thousand layers of waves; a blue Water Qilin leapt out, carrying the icy waters down the mountain.
Before the Divine General Mansion, Li Tian Gang, along with Ji Qingqing who had fled with him, looked back and saw that the myriad of demons that had previously crowded outside the city, were now swarming over the city walls, clashing fiercely with the soldiers.
In the crowded mass of demons, many took the chaos as a chance to rush into the city, spreading destruction everywhere.
The entire Qingzhou City, prosperous for a thousand years, now, with the Array torn apart, fell into conflagration, giving a sense of collapse.
Li Tian Gang’s gaze momentarily blurred. Never had he imagined that Qingzhou City, where he grew from childhood, always witnessed as bustling and prosperous, would also encounter 현재 the scenes before him – where fires of war raged, demons filled the skies, and civilians fled in panic on the streets.
Who could… come to save all this?
He was stunned for a moment, when he heard his wife’s voice, “Tiangang, you take charge of the overall situation, I’ll go kill the demons!”
After Ji Qingqing spoke to Li Tian Gang, she gave him a piercing look, then, holding the Taiyuan Sword, she charged towards the Demon Kings within the city.
Li Tian Gang also snapped back to reality. He immediately came to his senses and rushed towards the Divine General Mansion. He needed to gather those from the Li family who had arrived through the secret pathways of the Huai River, to recreate the flesh for their ancestors, and to fight a battle to the death.
At this final moment, as the Li family’s True Dragon, only he could protect everything, even if it meant death!
As Li Tian Gang stepped into the Divine General Mansion, at the city wall, Feng Lingxiao chased after Li Qingzheng at high speed, closing the distance between them rapidly.
“Stop!!”
Li Xiaoran exclaimed in shock and fury. His blade techniques integrated into his movement technique, and Feng Lingxiao, seeing this, chose not to pursue him but went after Li Qingzheng.
And his younger brother’s movement technique was just slightly inferior.
Whoosh!
He suddenly swung his blade, and the light of the blade flashed by in an instant, but once it hit Feng Lingxiao’s Dao Domain, it had not flown a hundred meters before it was burned to ashes.
“Old Wu, run!!”
Li Xiaoran could only shout in desperation.
Li Qingzheng, seeing Feng Lingxiao continuously closing the distance, had an ugly look on his face, but soon his eyes calmed down. He did not escape towards the city, but instead charged towards the tide of demons.
He knew, with this speed of pursuit, even if he ran towards the city, he would die regardless. There was no way out. Rather than that, it was better to kill more demons before dying.
“Third brother, looks like we are going to meet our end together.”
Li Qingzheng said.
Li Xuanyin, inhabiting his body, was now with a burning Divine Soul already about to fade, but he lightly sighed with a smile, “Yes, it’s a pity we couldn’t kill a couple more Demon Kings at the end, only these lesser grunts.”
“Let’s kill them in the next life, if there is one.”
Li Qingzheng said, then he plunged into the demon tide, instantly carving a huge bloody trench.
Feng Lingxiao caught up in an instant, raised the Xuanyu Heavy Tower, and smashed it down, intending to obliterate his Divine Soul completely!
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But just then, a fearsome might of a punch roared down, striking the Xuanyu Heavy Tower and causing it to wobble slightly, deviating from its attack.
Li Muxiu, covered in blood, arrived at the scene, his robe already torn to shreds, the muscles on his arms appeared torn, blood continuously seeping out, and even the ribbon of the Saint Heart Heavenly Treasure in his hand was stained red.
“Second brother!”
Li Qingzheng, who had already braced himself for death, was shocked to see Li Muxiu catching up.
“Go quickly, join Old Fourth in recreating the flesh for our ancestor!”
Li Muxiu coughed up a mouthful of blood, transmitting his words with urgency, “I’ll hold them off for you!”
His face was fiery red, the surging Blood Qi within him uncontrollably appearing on his face. He had come rushing over after hearing Li Xiaoran’s call for help, noticing the situation with Li Qingzheng, not hesitating to come to his aid despite being injured.
Li Qingzheng, watching Li Muxiu’s blood-drenched figure, felt as though his heart might also explode with pain. His eyes reddened, but without another word, he bit down on his teeth and rushed towards the city.
“Second brother…”
Li Xuanyin, looking at the retreating figure of Li Muxiu, felt a chill in his heart, knowing that standing alone at half a step into the Tao Realm against two from the Grand Tao of Peace Realm was an impossible task to hold off!
“Don’t even think about escaping!”
Feng Lingxiao, enraged, directly extended his Dao Domain, intending to envelop Li Qingzheng within it.
But at that moment, Li Muxiu’s Dao Domain suddenly expanded, fiercely colliding against and blocking the assault, protecting Li Qingzheng.
“Dragon Absolute God, what are you doing!!”
Feng Lingxiao couldn’t help but roar.
Dragon Absolute God rushed over, his face also extremely grim. Facing Feng Lingxiao’s roar, he could only transfer his anger onto Li Muxiu. As a being from the Dao Domain, not only had he failed to kill Li Muxiu, but he had also allowed him to break free, which was utterly shameful!
Boom!
Dragon Absolute God swung his Extreme Dao Sword, with the sword shadows condensed one after another. The ten swords joined into one, forming the strongest beam of sword light, fiercely slashing towards Li Muxiu.
Li Muxiu had experienced this power before, and with a roar, he swung his fist again.
The Half-Step Invincible Fist combined with Dao Domain, for a fleeting moment, his Dao Domain seemed to enter a brief state of invincibility, actually suppressing that strongest Extreme Dao sword.
However, after suppressing that sword, as the state of invincibility faded, the backlash made his face turn even redder, with blood vessels filling his eyeballs, bloodshot and inflamed.
“Kill him!”
Feng Lingxiao also saw that Li Muxiu was at the end of his rope and struck out in anger.
In an instant, the two joined forces and fought against Li Muxiu.
When they first attacked the city, the two had joined up against Li Muxiu, who held them off with the help of an array. Now, each wielding a Saint Heart Heavenly Treasure, their killing power was even greater, and without the array to give Li Muxiu respite, they could attempt to kill him in one fell swoop!
Thump thump thump!
Their successive strikes shattered the thunderous radiance covering the sky, and the roaring force of their punches pulled the attention of everyone within the city to the battlefield.
Watching that aged figure standing alone against two from the Grand Tao of Peace Realm with only a Half-step Tao Realm, the eyes of the Li family were filled with bleakness.
They could only watch from a distance, utterly unable to intervene. Their attacks dissipated like dust within the Tao Realm, inflicting no harm at all.
Pfft, Li Muxiu spat out a mouthful of blood, staining his shattered clothes. The surging blood qi within his body could no longer be suppressed, seeping out from his mouth, nose, and ears.
In a desperate fight, his Unwithering Strength had long been exhausted. His weakened body was only supported by sheer willpower, battling on at the cost of his fracturing veins.
The blood seeping out of his eye sockets dyed his vision red, turning the world before him into a sea of blood.
Li Muxiu was just about to wipe it away when suddenly, a piercing Tao Realm tore through, devoid of the invincible power of Extreme Doctrine. Under the assault of two powerful Tao Realms, his own realm thinned and was abruptly attacked by Dragon Absolute God’s Tao Realm.
With a snapping sound, Li Muxiu’s arm was torn apart, along with the bloodied sleeve.
The severed arm, still wrapped in the Saint Heart Heavenly Treasure, was taken by Dragon Absolute God, who felt the rebellious Saint Heart Essence on it, immediately sealed it, and threw it into the Heaven and Earth Space.
Then, his eyes filled with the viciousness of a predator eyeing its prey, he stared at Li Muxiu:
“Now you have only one fist left, old dog, your time of death has come!”
Li Muxiu stood up, his body swaying on the verge of collapse, but the bleeding from his severed limb had stopped.
However, that was just the bleeding that stopped—there was no regeneration.
He no longer had the spare strength to regenerate his arm.
“One fist is enough—if I were in the Tao Realm, one punch would be enough to kill you!”
Li Muxiu slightly shook his head, flicking away the blood above his eyes. His face was now covered in blood, a picture of desolation, his arm severed, but his aged body still stood defiant in mid-air.
“To achieve this with a Half-step Tao Realm, indeed, your death would be honorable, but we won’t let you die honorably. I will dismember you entirely in front of your family, crush you bit by bit!”
Feng Lingxiao’s eyes were cold as ice. As he spoke, he suddenly struck out, the Xuanyu Heavy Tower brutally smashing down.
Li Muxiu suddenly turned around, his foot tracing a half-step, and with his only remaining hand, he clenched his fingers into a fist and struck out fiercely.
Thump!
For a moment, his Tao Realm also seemed invincible; without a Saint Heart Heavenly Treasure as a weapon, just a mortal flesh-and-blood fist slammed against the Xuanyu Heavy Tower.
The terrifying impact shook through the area. Li Muxiu’s body rapidly receded backward but did not fall—instead, he spewed another mouthful of blood.
At that moment, an ultimate sword edge suddenly attacked, cutting instantly into his Tao Realm. In the moment his invincible realm’s power waned, it pierced his defenses and struck his body.
In an instant, Li Muxiu felt lightness in his body, followed by a rending tear. Half of his body was severed, and it was the half that still had an arm.
The sharp Sword Qi brought with it a force that flipped his body, and he tumbled to the ground.
The last bit of strength in his body seemed to be carried away as well.
Li Muxiu looked at the dawn sun, gradually rising, shining on his face.
For a moment, it felt a bit too glaring.
So tired…
Father always said I was the least accomplished, and he was right…
To face such a tragic defeat before our ancestors… what a disgrace I’ve become…
A bitter smile crossed his lips as he thought of his elder brother, whose spirit had dissipated outside Heaven’s Gate. His bloodshot eyes slowly moistened.
In his mind, like a carousel of memories spinning by, figures flashed by: the woman he had let down, the child fishing by the lake, and old Feng…
“Second Master!!!”
Suddenly, a roar like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami erupted, traveling from the far horizon.
It seemed to carry the thunder of ten thousand storms, racing here like a clap of thunder, resonating through the skies above Qingzhou City, causing the war-torn city to buzz with its echo!!
The earth-shattering cry of rage shook everyone to their core, leaving them all astounded, their gazes turning towards the distant horizon.
However, the source was too far away, beyond their sight, which also meant that the shriek came from a being of terrifying power, whose senses far surpassed theirs.
“Who is this?”
“Who is calling out?”
“Could it be a strong ally of the Li Family?”
Within the city, all the soldiers were stirred up by the cry that was loud enough to deafen, a clear sign of an extremely powerful presence.
Even the citizens running through the streets heard it, all perplexed, only to feel that the voice was like that of a deity from high above the skies, looking down upon the Mortal World and issuing a thunderous roar of wrath!
“Is that voice, that child? Impossible, he’s already dead…”
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As He Jianlan and Li Hongzhuang were shocked, their eyes widened slightly; the voice was too familiar, yet not quite as they remembered.
But that mode of address was only used by the younger generation when referring to Li Muxiu, and among those youngsters, only one had the best relationship with Li Muxiu.
Could it be, a miracle?
They felt their blood racing and surging with excitement and anxious tremors, unable to believe, afraid to look.
Yet, they strained their eyes, peering towards that far-off place.
In mid-air, both the Dragon Absolute God and Feng Lingxiao, poised to attack, were taken aback.
Reinforcements for the Li Family?
They could feel the rage in that voice trying to intimidate them but compared to the intense emotions, as they tried to perceive the source, they saw nothing.
Too far away, beyond their perception – could this mean that the other was more powerful than them?
The two exchanged a glance, seeing the astonishment in each other’s eyes before their killing intent soared rapidly.
Act fast!
They must eliminate Li Muxiu quickly, before any further complications arose.
At this moment, Li Muxiu, drained and ready to embrace death, also heard that sudden cry.
The grief in that voice and the familiar address tensed up his body that had relaxed in acceptance of his demise.
His closed eyes opened once more.
Was it an illusion, that on the brink of death, he would hear that little brat’s voice?
But that child was dead, confirmed by the words of that couple, witnessed with their own eyes, devoured by the Demon Saint, denied even a commoner’s chance to enter the Mo River, utterly dissipated.
And when he returned to investigate at Heavenly Gate Pass, he heard that a clone of Li Hao had also disintegrated at a certain moment.
The destruction of the clone was proof enough of Li Hao’s death.
But now… was he overthinking it?
Li Muxiu’s eyes widened as he saw the Dragon Absolute God and Feng Lingxiao speeding towards him with their Dao Domains extending rapidly, trying to encompass him with their domains and crush him before even reaching him.
But at this point, Li Muxiu had no strength left to resist with his Dao Domain.
Even if that child were alive, there would be no reason for him to come…
The debt owed to him by the Li Family was way too great…
Li Muxiu thought bitterly, facing the encroaching Dao Domains, wanting to resist, but his body felt like it was falling apart, waiting for the imminent pain that would end it all.
As the Dao Domains were about to engulf him, suddenly time seemed to slow down, and a blazing light, as fierce as Divine Fire, burst forth before Li Muxiu’s eyes.
The terrifying attacks of the two Dao Domains were unexpectedly halved by the abrupt intervention!
But following the Dao Domains, the Saint Heart treasures of the Dragon Absolute God and Feng Lingxiao arrived, smashing down and obscuring all light and shadow.
At this moment, the world suddenly fell silent.
The treasures, which were about to crush Li Muxiu, howled down with a force that could tear heavens and earth apart, but instead, they abruptly struck a crimson figure in front of him.
With a loud bellow, a fierce and fiery roar resonated.
The world itself trembled!
All the brutal attacks, all the howling winds, were blocked, stopped by a golden youth’s body, preventing any harm from reaching Li Muxiu.
There stood the youth, like a mountain within the flames, in the midst of red-golden light, a steadfast and towering peak immovable in front of Li Muxiu!
His golden hair fluttered as the intense Divine Fire scattering from the impact of the two Saint Heart treasures resembled red-hot iron struck by a hammer, sending sparks flying in all directions.
Yet, his feet didn’t move back even an inch, relying solely on his physical body, his chest, to withstand the furious assaults of the two treasures!
Li Muxiu stared dumbfounded, then some incredulity set in.
The figure was at once familiar and foreign, causing his heart, which had surrendered to despair, to shake violently. His eyes gradually widened as speculations and thoughts he feared to touch, to disturb, worried that everything might be just a dream or an illusion, a fleeting scene before death.
Meanwhile, the youth had slowly lifted his head, his golden hair undulating like flames, his eyes burning with an indescribable, true wrath, gazing at the two shocked faces before him:
“You dare!!!”
With a whoosh, the ground below seemed to kick up a dust storm, as a vast might swept through like a hurricane, clearing away all debris.
It also forced the Dragon Absolute God and Feng Lingxiao to hastily halt their advance.
“Dao Domain, you are…”
“Impossible!”
Both the Dragon Absolute God and Feng Lingxiao were in disbelief, staring with terror-stricken faces at the youth before them, his red-gold presence divine-like, his perfectly proportioned body as an impenetrable golden wall, insurmountable.
