The fierce battle raged on. Below, upon the shattered domain fragments floated countless corpses.
Everywhere lay broken walls, ruins, and mutilated remains.
Cultivators of the Seventh Domain, cultivators of the Immortal Realm...
With close friends and kin perishing right before their eyes, a monstrous hatred surged in their hearts.
In this moment, the cultivators of the Seventh Domain erupted with unprecedented power!!
Cultivator after cultivator broke through their cultivation bottlenecks in the midst of mortal peril!!
Yet others were ambushed and slain in the very midst of their breakthroughs.
Figures of immense might who could summon the wind and rain in the outside world died as quietly here as mere Foundation Establishment cultivators.
There was not even a hint of grandeur or tragic glory to their ends...
Amidst the battlefield, an elder of the Seventh Domain was skewered through the chest and back by two long spears.
Suddenly!
The blood-stained, silver-haired elder violently clamped both hands onto the arms of the two Immortal Realm cultivators.
His face contorted into a snarl, but his eyes were resolute as he roared at the top of his lungs,
"Cheng Nanlin of the Luoxia Domain... marches to his death this day!!"
"I beg of you all... protect the scions of the Cheng family!!"
Every pair of eyes instantly converged upon him.
*Boom!!!!!*
A deafening explosion erupted. The dazzling flare of fire marked the demise of a mighty Tribulation Transcendence realm expert.
The blast obliterated both Immortal Realm cultivators beside him as well.
Shock tore through everyone's souls!!
"Old Cheng... died just like that?!"
"You bastard, you still owe me money!! How could you just go and die?!"
Tears welled in the eyes of a white-haired elder holding a broad saber.
Once, the two of them had sat atop mountain peaks drinking wine and playing chess.
They had joked about having one foot in the grave...
Yet now that ascension was finally within reach, how could he be dead?
Driven to madness by the death of his dearest friend, the elder lost his mind.
The saber in his grasp grew swift and heavy!!!
His long hair flailing in a frenzy, the deranged elder slashed at the enemy before him blow after blow after blow!!!
He paid no heed to the countless wounds the enemy carved into his flesh.
Seemingly numb to all pain, his ferocity struck sheer terror into his foe's heart!!
The moment the opponent shrank back, the elder brought his saber down, and an arm flew through the air!!
"Ahhh!!! You're crazy!! Have you lost your mind?!"
The man fled frantically, but the elder pressed him at every step. With every rise and fall of the saber, ribbons of flesh went flying.
In the blink of an eye, he severed all four of the man's limbs and stripped the flesh cleanly from his body!!
A human swine.
Seizing the head of the human swine, the elder pinned him underfoot and carved his saber into the man's neck inch by inch.
He had already ripped out the man's tongue; he could see only the despair and horror in the man's eyes, without hearing a sound.
The man shook his head desperately, his eyes pleading for mercy.
The elder leaned down slowly as the long saber sank deeper. Hot blood sprayed across his cheek. In a bone-chilling voice, he hissed,
"If I survive to ascend this day, then in the days to come, every immortal cultivator will be mine to slaughter!!!"
Such a scene was not unique to this elder.
Many Immortal Realm cultivators employed even crueler methods.
Flaying skin and draining marrow to refine and devour their victims—such deeds were no different from the demonic cultivators of the Human Spirit Realm!!
Yet these so-called immortals had long grown accustomed to such horrors, thinking nothing of them.
Within the barren, resource-starved Ten Lands, such methods were all too ordinary to them.
Thunderfire Purgatory!
Li Guanqi slashed down an elder with a single sword strike, and the instant he bounded backward, endless sword light engulfed his surroundings!!
Blood splattered across Li Guanqi's face, and his hair was in disarray.
Facing seven Ascension realm opponents all at once, even he found it grueling.
What was more, he was only at the early Ascension realm.
Among the enemies, four were of a cultivation level similar to his own, while three were at the mid Ascension realm.
Their immense pressure and tempestuous onslaught afforded him not a single breath of respite.
Violent surges of primal energy rolled around Li Guanqi.
This signaled that the power within his body had accumulated to a truly terrifying degree.
Yet his foes gave him no chance to catch his breath, leaving Li Guanqi unable to risk a breakthrough in the middle of battle.
His lips were cracked. He licked away the seeping blood, the coppery tang filling his mouth.
Spurred by the taste of blood, Li Guanqi's focus became taut and razor-sharp as never before.
The methods of the Immortal Realm were endless and nearly impossible to guard against.
The scales at Li Guanqi's waist were torn and the flesh peeled open, where an emerald rhomboid spike had driven deep into his side.
As though alive, the spike strained desperately to take root within his body.
Engaged in ceaseless combat, Li Guanqi had no time to attend to it.
Naturally, he was aware of the upheaval across the battlefield.
His face cold as frost, Li Guanqi twisted and maneuvered through midair.
Several gleams of cold light grazed past his body, missing him by a hair's breadth.
Li Guanqi maintained his peak speed throughout.
Had it not been for his extraordinary agility, the wounds on his body would have been far worse.
A sharp burst of sword light forced all seven back in an instant.
Standing his ground, Li Guanqi's chest heaved violently as he looked upon the seven with disdain in his eyes.
A surge of blood welled up in his chest, but he forced it down.
His current predicament was among the rarest and most perilous he had ever faced.
It seemed he had no choice but to reveal his trump cards...
*Boom!!!!*
The Thunderfire Domain, which had been steadily gathering power, detonated with a mighty roar at this very moment!!!
The scorching flames of heavenly flame burned with enough fury to incinerate heaven and earth!!
Law-infused lightning bearing the power of destruction rampaged in all directions!
A terrifying incantation seal descended from above—a full thousand Four-Direction Heaven-Reaching Pillars!!
Layered like surging waves, the Hundred Realms Four Directions Barrier incantation enclosed the Thunderfire Domain like an alchemical furnace!!
In an instant, winds and clouds churned across heaven and earth, thunder shrieked, and deafening roars sounded without end.
Everyone involuntarily raised their heads to look at the sky!
They saw an immense domain wall interlacing layer upon layer, forming a colossal sealing barrier.
The leading man's expression changed drastically as the primal energy within him grew sluggish and obstructed.
The seven flickered frantically, relying on their agility to dodge the sealing thunder pillars raining from above.
"Not good! He had been hiding this power in his domain space until now!!"
"Interrupt him!! Under no circumstances can we let him break through!!"
"That's right! If he can already fight us off at his current cultivation realm, then once he breaks through... who lives and who dies will be anyone's guess!"
"Ahhhh!!! Look out, that's heavenly flame!! What terrifying fire!!!"
A woman was splashed with a trace of the flames; in an instant, her robes were destroyed, and half her face was charred black.
Li Guanqi gave a cold sneer, his form fading into the void without leaking a single wisp of aura.
"Dark Concealment!"
Li Guanqi had wielded the abilities of the Demon King Physique to their absolute limit.
The instant his form vanished, Shiwu the flame spirit manifested, commanding the fires of heaven and earth to surge toward the enemies!!!
Endless flames transformed into blazing waves that crashed toward the seven.
With a wave of his hand, a rain of fire drifted down, fit to scorch heaven and earth.
Shiwu's gaze was chilling. Forming hand seals, he barked,
"Phantom Sea · Annihilation!!"
*Boom!!!!*
Just as the seven joined forces to break through the sea of fire, a thousand-zhang flame sword cleaved down right upon their heads!!
Wherever the flame sword passed, space collapsed, twisting into oblivion.
Its terrifying might was on par with the peak of the early Ascension realm!!
"Is that... a flame spirit??"
"How could a mere flame spirit erupt with such terrifying power?!"
"Careful!! These flames are devouring my primal energy!!"
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