Falling Like Rain

Su Yu's faction, having materialized out of nowhere, struck with shocking ferocity. They killed with their very first strike! In a single coordinated assault, twenty-three peak experts instantly blasted a Dao Integration expert apart. The blow shattered his Great Dao and reduced his physical body to dust before he could even register what was happening. "You court death!" Yue Hao was furious. These people truly dared to launch a surprise attack here—they were insane! Yet before he could act, the little white dog brought down the boot with a crushing stomp. Boom! An earth-shaking detonation rang out! Yue Hao was stamped straight into the depths of the earth! "Kill them!" From deep underground came Yue Hao's roar. Immediately after, black chains shot through heaven and earth, latching onto King Wen's boot. Countless black chains pierced the world. At the same time, the little white dog manifested its Great Dao. The phantom of a ferocious little white dog suddenly lunged to bite into the chains! "Awoo!" The illusory white dog threw its head back in a howl and bit down with a snap, crunching through a chain. Underground, Yue Hao felt a flicker of shock. What kind of Dao was this? Part of his Great Dao had been bitten clean through! Furthermore, the boot was overwhelmingly powerful, suffused with a terrifying aura. It thrashed against the bindings and stomped down once more. Boom! Countless chains snapped, and Yue Hao was hammered even deeper underground. The little white dog was panting heavily. Suddenly, from Yue Hao's forehead underground emerged a Gate of Hell. He barked sharply, "Seal the World!" The portal manifested and flew toward the boot, swinging wide open as though seeking to swallow it whole. The boot surged with immense power once more, stomping toward the portal with a resounding boom. Creak! The boot that had once stomped the Western Heavenly King to death had struck repeatedly today without finishing Yue Hao. Now, stomping directly against the gate, it managed only to crack it. Yue Hao coughed up blood, his gaze cold and ruthless. The Gate of Hell expanded to its absolute limit with a deafening crash, swallowing the boot whole! Having consumed the boot, the gate slammed shut in an instant. Rumble! The entire gate shuddered violently. Blood gushed continuously from Yue Hao's mouth, but he bellowed fiercely, conjuring ten million chains in his hands to wrap around the portal. He roared, "Seal!" With the Gate of Hell paired with this Sealing Dao, he actually succeeded in sealing King Wen's boot! The little white dog panted, startled. The next moment, it cast aside all caution and sent its phantom Dao wildly snapping toward Yue Hao! Yue Hao had to suppress the boot while fending off the dog. Even as a Celestial Venerable, he found the strain immense. This dog was formidable; while it might not possess the raw might of a Celestial Venerable on its own, backed by that boot, it definitely had the strength to battle one! "Yue Qin!" Yue Hao roared. Entangled by the dog, he was pinned down! Fortunately, Yue Qin was still there! At the very moment they clashed, Su Yu's side had seven Heavenly Kings engaging six Heavenly Kings and one Celestial Venerable—seven against seven. The one Lan Tian faced was Yue Qin! Boom! Right as Yue Hao roared, Lan Tian was sent flying the instant they collided, his physical body blasted apart! A gulf still separated a Celestial Venerable from a Heavenly King. Yet the dead Lan Tian reconstituted instantly, his aura dipping slightly. Shaken, he shouted, "This is a Celestial Venerable!" A second Celestial Venerable! At that moment, the faces of everyone on Su Yu's side paled. A second Celestial Venerable! One more than anticipated! Seeing this, Su Yu barked coldly, "Governor Wan, reinforce him! Doubao, take his place!" Doubao shot out like a streak toward the Heavenly King Wan Tiansheng was fighting. Wan Tiansheng roared and split into multiple avatars—the seven emotions and six desires, joy, anger, grief, delight—unleashing an array of clones and mobilizing Dao power to knock back the Heavenly King in an instant, then lunging straight toward Yue Qin! At that moment, Su Yu was also facing a Heavenly King. The Dao of Chaos! The man possessed a ridiculously durable physical body. The Dao of Chaos was the primordial origin of the Dao of the Flesh. The opponent swung a massive axe, cleaving straight toward him! Douke! The very expert who had joined forces with Yuxi, Yue Hao's niece, to slaughter the Nether race experts previously. Back then, the four Heavenly Kings—Zishui, Douke, Yuxi, and Youzhen—were all present here today. In addition to these four, there were two more Heavenly Kings, a man and a woman, both extraordinarily powerful. None of them were pushovers. The instant Su Yu engaged Douke, he sensed an overwhelming malevolent aura. That sheer bloodlust was not something one could cultivate in secluded meditation. As Douke swung his giant axe, Su Yu transformed his brush into a saber. Clashing with him, Su Yu shouted, "Anying, kill your foes quickly and reinforce the others!" "King Dazhou, give it everything you've got!" Su Yu barked furiously! At this moment, King Dazhou and the others were thoroughly shaken. An extra Celestial Venerable was immense trouble! Meanwhile, Su Yu hovered the civilization chronicle in the air! He cast several people out from within. "Work together to kill the weaker Dao Integration experts!" Su Yu shouted again! At that instant, he threw out multiple guards, all at the ninth stage of Eternity, along with Xia Longwu and Miecan! The moment they appeared, their expressions shifted. "Find an opening to integrate with the Dao!" "Kill!" Boom! Boom! With deafening detonations, over sixty peak experts erupted into a ferocious, world-shaking battle across the land! In the distance, Tianmie and the others looked grim. Su Yu had not ordered a retreat! Then there was only one choice: fight to the death! "Kill!" Tianmie brought his staff crashing down, making a Dao Integration expert vomit blood on impact. Marquis Tongtian repeatedly teleported Dao Integration foes right before top-tier powerhouses, where they were slain on the spot within the blink of an eye by second-tier Dao Integration experts! Rumble! Fireworks of death rose one after another! In a brief instant, adding the one killed earlier, three Dao Integration experts had been slain on the spot. Yet even so, signs of defeat were already emerging! Doubao was no match for Zishui, forced back step after step. Even fighting together, Wan Tiansheng and Lan Tian were no match for Yue Qin. The old crone wielded hellfire that burned so intensely their Great Daos began crumbling! This lineage was far from ordinary. They were certainly not the weaker sort among Celestial Venerables and Heavenly Kings. "Kill!" Opening his Heavenly Gate, Su Yu unleashed his Brush Dao, slashing a saber strike toward his foe. Right at that moment, several auras surged from the depths of Mount Chaos. The Sacred Clan had sensed the disturbance! The reinforcements were deep within! Though they were farther away than San Yue and his group... San Yue and the others would likely arrive even later. Having only just entered Mount Chaos, a horde of ancient beasts had swarmed toward them! They had barely forged any formation talismans. At this moment, those Celestial Venerables without talismans were besieged by ancient beasts! A massive horde of ancient beasts on the outer perimeter was blocking their path! Such was the peril of Mount Chaos. Without jade talismans, they were targeted by the ancient beasts. Strong though they were, the beasts were no weaklings either, and holding them up for a while was child's play. "My Lord!" King Dazhou did not call Su Yu by name, but roared as he knocked Youzhen back, acutely sensing the peril. They needed to retreat! Hurry! If the reinforcements from the inner reaches arrived before the myriad races did, they were finished! Their intelligence had been flawed! An extra Celestial Venerable meant their side had to tie down two Heavenly Kings to hold her off. Without those two Heavenly Kings, their original advantage evaporated! Not only was their advantage gone, but more critically, their two Heavenly Kings were still outmatched by her. Not only were Wan Tiansheng and Lan Tian at a disadvantage, but on the little white dog's side, the boot was ultimately an external artifact. Once sealed away, Yue Hao turned the tables and battered the little white dog with absolute dominance. Black chains wrapped directly around the phantom Dao of the little white dog! Yue Hao also possessed the Eye of Hell, allowing him to perceive the Great Dao! Those chains bound straight toward the little white dog's Dao! The little white dog was clearly outclassed. Yue Hao was no ordinary Celestial Venerable; even among his peers, he ranked near the top, completely suppressing the little white dog! They were falling behind on all fronts! No—their second-tier Dao Integration experts were still managing to hold a slight upper hand, being fairly formidable. Some were fighting one against two, or even one against three. Back then, the Old Turtle and his peers were also second-tier Dao Integration experts capable of taking on two or three opponents at once. That sector had not fallen behind yet, but if this continued, disaster was inevitable! King Dazhou was burning with anxiety! This was the very first time an intelligence failure had occurred. Su Yu had scouted the location himself, yet an extra Celestial Venerable had appeared. They were doomed! Why had Su Yu not ordered a retreat? If they did not pull out now, once they were bogged down, they might not be able to get away at all! Yet Su Yu said nothing of retreating. In the span of a breath, he and Douke exchanged tens of thousands of blows. Boom! A violent crash resounded as Douke's axe struck Su Yu on the head, leaving a bloody gash across his forehead, while Su Yu's saber slashed across Douke's neck, spraying blood in all directions! Licking his lips with a ferocious malice, Douke chuckled. "Little brat, you're pretty tough. I'll chop you to bits and feed you to my dogs!" Boom! The giant axe cleaved toward him once more. Auras erupted from the inner reaches of Mount Chaos. Even across the distance, Su Yu could sense the aura of Celestial Venerables. He glanced sideways, his Heavenly Gate open and his expression impassive, spotting three super Daos! Three Celestial Venerables! Indeed, from that direction, three Celestial Venerables were racing toward them at maximum speed. Three Celestial Venerables! Combined with the two already here, that made five Celestial Venerables in total. Once those three arrived, Su Yu's side would face total annihilation. *Far away... at least one minute...* Su Yu thought to himself. For supreme experts, that was a significant distance. In a clash of powerhouses, without drawn-out maneuvering, life and death were often decided in seconds. Life and death hung on a single fleeting moment! Just as Douke charged forward again, a vicious gleam flashed in Su Yu's eyes. In the next instant, four Dao Integration experts appeared. Marquis Tianlong, the Phoenix Emperor, the Kunpeng, and the Ape Emperor. All four had their eyes shut, writhing in agony. Over the past few days, Su Yu had been tormenting them relentlessly, assaulting their Great Daos. The instant they appeared—boom! A thunderous crash erupted! The Phoenix Emperor's aura went wild, and she abruptly detonated herself, sending Douke stumbling. Before he could recover, both the Ape Emperor and the Kunpeng detonated as well, tearing Douke's flesh to shreds and setting blood spurting like geysers! Five Dao Integration experts could rival a Heavenly King! And the self-detonation of three Dao Integration experts was no weaker than five fighting together. In an instant, Douke was grievously wounded. No one in their right mind would use Dao Integration experts as suicide bombs, but Su Yu did not care—they weren't his people anyway! Three plumes of fireworks shot into the sky, leaving Douke gravely wounded in a flash. At that moment, Marquis Tianlong snapped awake. His eyes opened, flashing with shock and a final glimmer of hope. Roaring, he assumed his true form, and with a deafening boom, detonated his physical body! The explosion tore Douke to pieces, while Marquis Tianlong's will condensed into a ball of light and fled toward the perimeter at top speed! Su Yu's expression changed, and he barked, "Intercept his sea of will!" Meanwhile, Su Yu himself appeared right before Douke. Battered by the consecutive self-detonations of three powerhouses and the physical detonation of a fourth, Douke was dazed and shattered into fragments, though he was forcibly pulling his flesh back together. With his Heavenly Gate open, Su Yu saw the dense chaotic aura reconverging, and a blazing fire erupted into being! "Ahhh!" A wretched scream echoed across heaven and earth. "Save me!" Douke roared! Counting the three Dao Integration experts Su Yu's group had slain earlier, a full seven Dao Integration experts had now perished. Here, Dao Integration cultivators were falling like rain! In the distance, Zishui roared, sealing the heavens and earth and forcibly locking Doubao down. Yet Doubao gaped its massive maw, biting off her path of advance to deny her any chance to render aid! Bang! Bang! Bang! Doubao was repeatedly battered backward, streams of rule power leaking from its giant mouth—not blood, but the equivalent of blood for its kind. The battle had plunged into its most vicious phase right from the start! Neither side engaged in probing attacks or exchanged words; there was only slaughter! "Die!" Sky-burning flames surged. Su Yu's massive brush-saber slashed out ten million blades in a single strike, tearing the void to ribbons! Boom! Another earth-shattering detonation rose. Yet at that exact moment, a colossal explosion erupted—Douke's phantom manifested with a savage sneer and detonated himself! The sheer destructive force of the self-detonation swept across the world! "Hehehe, little brat, you want to kill me? Die with me!" Boom! Su Yu was hurled backward, his physical body fracturing. "Douke!" In the distance, several Heavenly Kings roared in rage. Douke was dead! A Heavenly King had been slain! In the opening moments of the battle, a Heavenly King had fallen! Su Yu coughed up mouthful after mouthful of blood, vomiting bits of internal organs, his mind reeling. This clan... was truly something else! The self-detonations of four Dao Integration experts had only gravely wounded Douke, yet instead of fleeing or breaking down, he chose to detonate himself. Su Yu had rarely encountered such ruthless fighting will in recent times. It was as if he were looking at the Zhou Hao of the past! Yes—that savage, vicious drive forged from clawing out of heaps of demon beasts! Utterly ruthless! It had taken the lives of three Dao Integration experts, the near-destruction of a fourth, and severe injuries to Su Yu, a Quasi-King, just to barely take Douke down! Boom! Even as Su Yu's thoughts raced, Doubao became the first to fall. Pierced through by Zishui's sword, it hung suspended on the blade. Rule power poured from its mouth, which opened and closed with dazed confusion. In its giant eyes, regret flickered. *I... haven't eaten Tiangu yet!* "Lied to me... said I... could eat Tiangu!" Doubao muttered, full of reluctance and sorrow. It cast a glance toward Chuibing in the distance, loath to part. *But... I'm about to die.* Su Yu had killed a Heavenly King, but Doubao could not match the one before it. The opponent was formidable; these Heavenly Kings were not only immensely powerful, but vicious beyond measure, possessing combat experience that surpassed even those who had fought countless battles in the Lower Realm! "Doubao!" Su Yu bellowed and tore through the void! Yet Zishui, who had impaled Doubao on her blade, was filled with boundless fury. Seeing Su Yu charge, she glared with ruthless malice, thrusting the sword—still skewering Doubao—straight at Su Yu! The strike carried overwhelming bloodlust! Boom! Doubao was instantly shattered into pieces. Here, it could not easily draw upon the power of the River of Time, nor could it channel King Wen's past strength. In truth, it could no longer borrow it anyway after doing so last time. In an instant, Doubao burst apart! Waves of Great Dao power scattered—it was fundamentally made of Dao rules. The civilization chronicle floating in midair swept past. Within the chronicle, a pseudo-Dao snapped instantly! Boom! A violent burst of rules erupted, and a bloom of fireworks rose right after Douke's! The slaughter had erupted, progressing with terrifying speed. A Heavenly King of the Chaos Clan had fallen in battle, while on Su Yu's side, Doubao had been killed on the spot. A clash of utter brutality! Soon, Su Yu was locked in battle with Zishui. The next moment, he sent a nearly imperceptible voice transmission into the distance: "Daqin, Daxia... detonate your bodies!" Boom! At his words, King Daqin and King Daxia were briefly taken aback, but a ruthless resolve immediately surged in their hearts! Compare ruthlessness? They had guarded the human race for over four hundred years, fighting in countless slaughters. When it came to ruthlessness, whom did they ever fear? Rumble! Two second-tier powerhouses detonated their physical bodies—and these were potent Wild Heavenly Beast Dao Integration bodies at that! The six Dao Integration foes besieging them were blown apart almost instantly. Four or five perished on the spot, leaving only one whose body was shattered but whose Great Dao remained intact, fleeing the blast zone in utter horror. They had truly run into madmen! Plumes of fireworks rose continuously into the air. The civilization chronicle swept across the world once more. On one of its pages, a demon Dao expert appeared—also at the Dao Integration level, a demonic phantom born after devouring that Ruler of Rules. In an instant, it swallowed everyone whole, including King Daqin, King Daxia, and the heavily wounded fleeing Dao Integration expert! Within the chronicle, several more virtual Daos shattered! A torrent of rule power flooded out! "Old Qin, Old Xia!" In the distance, King Daming roared in anguish, dazed. *Dead?* Su Yu had transmitted orders for them to self-detonate. Everyone had seen their physical bodies explode, but with rule power severing and causing rule riots, did that mean they had perished? Fallen? Su Yu seemed equally shocked and outraged, roaring, "Bastards! Who told you to self-detonate?" Two second-tier Dao Integration experts detonated themselves, killing six Dao Integration enemies—was that a worthwhile trade? Not necessarily! At this moment, the Chaos lineage was also shaken to its core. Every single one of them was a ruthless fanatic! In this brief span of battle, ten Dao Integration experts and one Heavenly King of their side had died. On Su Yu's side, three top-tier Dao Integration experts had fallen, along with the three captured ones he had brought along. Both sides had suffered staggering casualties! A full seventeen fireworks soared into the sky! This spectacle stunned the experts of the myriad races in the distance, and it stunned the three Celestial Venerables rushing from the depths. Was the Fire Transmission Lineage this insane? Trading lives directly! Seventeen peak experts, beings at the pinnacle of the myriad realms, had died just like that. At the same time, Su Yu's voice echoed in all directions, roaring, "Kill! Fight to the death! No surrender until the last breath!" King Dazhou's face turned pale, changing again and again! "Everyone below Heavenly King, self-detonate and kill the enemy!" Su Yu roared, "Preserve your seas of will! Save whichever ones can survive!" His words sent shockwaves through everyone's hearts once more. *All of them self-detonating?* Following his command, the next moment—rumble! A deafening roar resounded through heaven and earth, leaving only an unending cascade of thunder across Mount Chaos. King Daming, Tianmie, Xinghong, and Chuibing all detonated their bodies at that instant. Filled with madness, despair, resignation, and longing, they launched suicidal explosions toward the Dao Integration foes! Rumble! These abrupt detonations left the Chaos Clan utterly baffled. Having spent their lives battling and slaughtering ancient beasts, they had never encountered anything like this! At the slightest disagreement, multiple experts blew themselves up! Jiu Yue hesitated for a fraction of a second, then gritted his teeth. Boom! He hurled himself into the blast zone toward a Dao Integration enemy, detonating his physical body! The civilization chronicle swept across once more. In the midst of the chaos, no one could see clearly; they only saw blooms of fireworks rising in the blink of an eye! Among the ancient marquises, someone shouted angrily, "Retreat! We should retreat!" *Self-detonate? Are you insane?!* They could still pull back right now! Su Yu had gone mad—he was blinded by bloodlust! Meanwhile, Su Yu was being driven back step after step by Zishui, but his eyes remained icy! *I said, follow my orders!* *Everyone below Heavenly King, detonate your physical bodies.* Yet... none of the ancient marquises had complied. Sure enough, Marquis Zhennan's self-detonation back then had not been because Su Yu was so fearsome, but because Marquis Zhennan was sacrificing himself to save Baizhan! Among the ancient marquises and generals, only Huoyun, Xuelan, and Nanxi were Heavenly Kings. The other six—Anying, Dingjun, Yingwu, Yunshui, Jianghai, and Wushan—were not Heavenly Kings. From Su Yu's direct faction, eight experts were wiped out in an instant. Out of twenty-three experts, eight were gone. The remaining fifteen were mostly ancient marquises or generals. Of Su Yu's direct faction, only Su Yu, King Dazhou, Lan Tian, Wan Tiansheng, Marquis Tongtian, and Fat Ball remained. Marquis Tongtian had received Su Yu's voice transmission telling him not to move. In the blink of an eye, a third of their forces had been lost. On the Chaos Clan's side, among the thirty Dao Integration experts below Heavenly King, after being struck by so many self-detonations, seven or eight had died in an instant, but more than a dozen Dao Integration experts still remained! Su Yu barked furiously again: "Self-detonate!" The expressions of the ancient marquises changed drastically. The six, including Jianghai, were still facing over a dozen Dao Integration enemies. Jianghai roared, "We can fight! We can retreat..." They could! It was only two-on-one; they could still fight! "Self-detonate!" Su Yu roared once more! The others remained silent, gritting their teeth and furiously lunging at their foes. Why self-detonate? They could fight! Why blow themselves up? Amidst the fray, Marquis Dingjun looked at Su Yu with a mixture of helplessness and sorrow. He sent a voice transmission: "Protect my daughter... I... cannot speak for them!" Boom! A violent explosion abruptly detonated! After this blast, beside Marquis Dingjun, General Yingwu looked at Su Yu, then turned to Marquis Yunshui and the others with a wry, melancholy look. *In the end... we truly cannot be of one heart!* *Even I hesitated, didn't I?* *Su Yu, what on earth are you doing?* Boom! Another colossal boom rang out, plumes of fireworks rising one after another! At this moment, all the survivors were going mad, thoroughly stunned. The battle had barely begun, yet Dao Integration experts had died wave upon wave. Su Yu's side had instantly lost ten members. Only thirteen remained! As for the Chaos Clan, their losses were even more devastating. They had never imagined the Fire Transmission Lineage would be insane to this degree, resorting to self-detonations from the very start. Of their thirty Dao Integration experts, only seven or eight remained! And those seven or eight were exceptionally powerful; the weaker ones had all been blasted to death in the successive waves of detonations! The remaining few were now besieging Marquis Anying and the others, filled with shock and terror, dreading that these opponents might blow themselves up as well! They were all mad! This was only their first clash. What kind of hatred, what kind of grievance could drive these Dao Integration experts to detonate themselves without the slightest hesitation?! ... In the distance. The clashing Heavenly Kings all went pale with horror. A lunatic! That fellow was an utter lunatic! Over where he was suppressing Fat Ball, a chill ran down Yue Hao's spine. He roared, "Who are you?!" This was a madman! Wars were not fought like this. This was truly inflicting a thousand casualties at the cost of eight hundred of your own. If everyone fought like this, all the Dao Integration experts of the myriad realms would have died out long ago. In battles between Dao Integration cultivators, one killed if possible, fled if not, and only made a desperate last stand if escape was hopeless—even then, there was a chance of survival. Nobody waged war like this! These were not ordinary foot soldiers! These were Dao Integration experts, supreme beings of the world, yet here they were used by that lunatic as suicide bombs to grind down the enemy! Even if the Sacred Clan won this battle, their losses were catastrophic! Over twenty Dao Integration experts and one Heavenly King had already died! Su Yu paid no further attention to Marquis Anying's group. Four against eight, but Marquis Anying and the others were formidable; they would not necessarily lose. Baring his teeth with frantic madness, Su Yu shouted, "Come on, risk your lives! Kill me! You bastards betrayed the human race—you deserve to die! Even if we perish, you are exposed now. Just wait for your doom!" "Kill!" Frenzied, Su Yu charged toward Zishui, shouting maniacally, "Self-detonate! All of you, self-detonate! Escape with your sea of will if you can, and slaughter these beasts! If you can't escape, drag them down with you!" The Heavenly Kings were chilled to the bone. *Self-detonating again?* A lunatic! The greatest lunatic under heaven! Never had they seen anyone so deranged! Rumble! A thunderous blast ripped through the skies as Lan Tian's countless avatars detonated, battering Yue Qin until she spat blood uncontrollably. Meanwhile, the aura of Lan Tian's remaining clones plummeted to an extreme low! "Tiansheng... kill her... hehe, kill her..." The few clones Lan Tian had left were pitifully weak, fading away one after another. Wan Tiansheng gritted his teeth, his Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires repeatedly erupting as he battered Yue Qin relentlessly. Su Yu yelled hysterically, "Huoyun, do you dare disobey my orders?! Blow the bastards opposite you to hell!" "..." The faces of Marquis Huoyun and the others twisted. A lunatic! Did they really have to die together? How difficult was it to cultivate to this realm! Struggle flickered in Marquis Huoyun's eyes. He had attained the Heavenly King realm because Su Yu had helped him, and he had once promised to help Su Yu slay a Heavenly King... That was his oath. At this moment, thousands of thoughts raced through Marquis Huoyun's mind. In the final instant, with a blend of helplessness, resentment, and fury, he roared, "You are an utter lunatic!" A complete, unhinged madman! *I should never have accepted his help to become a Heavenly King.* *Otherwise, I could have ignored him like the others!* Boom! An earth-shattering explosion swept across the entire world as colossal Fire Dao power raged furiously. The opposing Heavenly King, having anticipated this, fled at top speed the moment he detonated. His body was repeatedly torn apart, reforming, and blown apart again... By the time he escaped the blast zone, his aura had plummeted drastically, filled with lingering dread and horror. Was this how battles in the outside world were fought? This was his first time battling powerhouses from the outside world! Fighting ancient beasts was brutal too, but it was nothing like this. His first external battle had instilled pure terror in him. The clan had said that outside experts were nothing special, and seeing Yuxi's group kill them with ease previously made them feel the outsiders were mediocre! And now? Now... he was terrified! If everyone in the outside world fought like this, could the Sacred Clan ever win? Just as those thoughts ran through his mind, Marquis Tongtian, who had remained quiet and inconspicuous, instantly opened a portal. Su Yu vanished from Zishui's front and materialized directly before that Heavenly King! Boom! A saber slashed down, catching this Heavenly King—who had just narrowly escaped with lingering dread—completely off guard. With a thunderous boom, his physical body was sliced into oblivion! The civilization chronicle swept out once more! All the flesh and blood were enveloped! Throughout the battle, the chronicle had hovered in the sky, sweeping across the battlefield. A second Heavenly King had fallen! Su Yu laughed sharply. "Dead! Slaughter every last one of you beasts! Even if we lose, you will be buried with us!" He bellowed furiously, "Heavenly Venerable Yue, don't forget to release Great Axe! He owes me! I killed two Heavenly Kings and multiple Dao Integration experts!" In the far distance, Heavenly Venerable Yue and his peers were battling ancient beasts. At this moment, every one of them felt a chill in their hearts. These people were lunatics! Less than a minute into the battle, the Chaos Clan had lost two Heavenly Kings and twenty-two Dao Integration experts! On Su Yu's side, one Heavenly King had fallen, ten Dao Integration experts had fallen, and another three unknown Dao Integration experts had fallen—they could not distinguish their identities, but sensed vaguely that they were not of Su Yu's faction. All told, fourteen powerhouses had perished on their side, and twenty-four on the Chaos Clan's! Thirty-eight peak experts... gone in the blink of an eye! Such a clash, such a war, had never occurred except at the close of an era's tide! San Yue's expression changed drastically. The next instant, he cleaved an ancient beast to death with his bamboo pole and flew frantically toward them. The enemy's three Celestial Venerables were almost there! Not only that, but the depths seemed to have sensed the sheer brutality of Su Yu's faction. Multiple powerful auras surged once again! Even that old ancestor had likely never anticipated that Yue Hao's forces, boasting so many experts, would suffer such devastating losses so quickly from suicidal attacks! No one fought like this! Not even the ancients dared to wage war like this! This was merely an encounter battle. If everyone fought like this, the thousands of Dao Integration experts of ancient times would have been wiped out in a few dozen clashes—there would have been none left to receive marquis titles later. ... Panting, Su Yu laughed with wild madness! Two Heavenly Kings dead! Xuelan, Nanxi, and King Dazhou were still engaged against their respective Heavenly Kings. Gritting her teeth, Zishui suddenly stopped pursuing Su Yu, pivoting instead to charge toward Marquis Anying and his group! Kill these fellows first, join forces with the eight Dao Integration experts, and then kill Su Yu! The four ancient marquises were formidable! Anying, Yunshui, Jianghai, and Wushan were all second-tier. Among the eight opposing them, only two were second-tier, while the rest were weaker. Fighting four against eight, they actually held a slight advantage. However, a Heavenly King was now bearing down on them. Wushan's face twisted in horror, dissolving into a bank of mist as he cried, "Human Lord..." Su Yu currently had no opponent! Because Zishui had turned away, Su Yu was free to reinforce them. Yet Su Yu paid them no heed. Instead, he looked toward Xuelan and Nanxi, grinning wildly: "Detonate your bodies and blow these bastards to pieces..." Both Xuelan and Nanxi paled. The Heavenly Kings fighting them turned pale as well. *Again?!* Youzhen wore a look of sheer madness. "You think you're the only ones who can self-detonate?!" Boom! With a deafening explosion, Youzhen's body detonated, transforming into a tremendous sealing power that swept toward them. General Xuelan's body was shattered by the blast, blood spewing from her mouth, and the next moment, she was sealed on the spot by that potent power! At that instant, a terrifying aura erupted from Xuelan—an absolute freezing power that locked the entire world in ice! A third Heavenly King of the Chaos Clan had fallen! Driven to it! *Only you can self-detonate? You think we can't?* Youzhen had been terrified too; these lunatics were simply too horrifying. Rather than waiting for the other side to detonate, he chose to detonate first. Youzhen's sea of will did not explode; it fled instead. Yet Su Yu materialized instantly once more. The civilization chronicle swept past, and his brush-saber slashed down. Boom! He directly shattered Youzhen's sea of will! Su Yu laughed maniacally. "I'll make you pay through the nose!" Boom! Even as he spoke, in the distance, Fat Ball was struck by Yue Hao's chain, its body fracturing as blood drenched its fur. Fat Ball felt disheartened. "Master... still hasn't returned..." It had lost! However strong the boot was, it was not its own, and its Biting Dao had not reached its peak. At this moment, it was simply no match for Yue Hao. Not only had Fat Ball lost! Over there, Lan Tian had transformed into an enchanting woman, smiling radiantly as he burst into flames. "Tiansheng, kill this wench... I will dance for you..." The enchanting Lan Tian wore a pure, sublime smile. "All living beings suffer; I deliver them... from the sea of misery! The world mocks my madness, and I mock their folly... In this mortal realm, a true confidant is hard to find..." Fierce flames incinerated the world! Countless phantoms of Lan Tian manifested, each with a different face, each speaking a different phrase. The Dao of All Living Beings! Countless Lan Tians plunged into that sea of fire, meeting their end within the inferno. For all living beings, burn my body! At this moment, Su Yu ignored them. King Dazhou had already suppressed Yuxi, while Marquis Nanxi was struggling against the other Heavenly King. Zishui had crashed into Wushan and the others, immediately seizing total dominance! At that instant, Su Yu looked toward King Dazhou. King Dazhou turned to look at Su Yu as well, his eyes carrying bitterness, helplessness, and an unspeakable sigh. "My human race... why must it come to this..." The next moment, a terrifying aura surged from his body! Yuxi, who was fighting him, showed a pained expression. In the blink of an eye, a portal emerged from her forehead! The Gate of Hell! In this place, only she and Yue Hao possessed such a gate. Over where Yue Hao had been thrashing the little white dog, his expression suddenly changed. He tore through the void in an instant, roaring furiously as a portal appeared—his own Gate of Hell! Boom! King Dazhou's physical body detonated! The Gate of Hell Yue Hao used to shield the blast, along with Yuxi's Gate of Hell, shattered simultaneously! King Wen's boot emerged and suddenly stomped down! Rumble! Yue Hao's head was stomped into paste! The civilization chronicle swept past again. Su Yu and the little white dog appeared beside Marquis Nanxi almost at the exact same moment. One wielded a saber while the other bit savagely. Boom! The powerhouse battling Marquis Nanxi was blasted apart on the spot by the man and dog! Marquis Nanxi's face changed. Su Yu grinned. "Go save them!" Marquis Nanxi's expression shifted, and he flew toward Marquis Anying and the others in the distance! Su Yu smiled and looked toward the little white dog. The dog looked dejected, its tail broken. Glancing at Yue Hao and Yuxi tumbling backward, it looked at Su Yu inquisitively. *What now?* Su Yu smiled. Looking at Yue Qin on the other side, he sent a voice transmission: "Kill this old crone, and then... run!" Yes, it was time to flee! As for Marquis Nanxi joining forces with the four second-tier marquises, their fate was in their own hands. This time, I will slay a Celestial Venerable! The next moment, the Brush Dao erupted with an overpowering aura, burning to its absolute limit as all its rule power exploded. The little white dog also commanded the boot, stomping toward Yue Qin! Over there, Lan Tian burned all of his avatars. Boom! A resounding explosion rang out. Seeing this, Wan Tiansheng smiled. Looking at Yue Qin's terrified expression, he could see she sensed the mortal danger and wanted to flee! Yet Wan Tiansheng was still there! "You had better... accompany us to the grave!" Boom! Wan Tiansheng detonated his entire body. Su Yu's Xingyu Seal suddenly manifested, suppressing her for a single split second. In that fleeting instant, the little white dog stomped down, shattering Yue Qin into pieces, while Su Yu burned his Brush Dao to its peak and thrust his brush straight toward her Great Dao! Snap! A breaking sound rang through heaven and earth! The brush snapped! And Yue Qin's Great Dao severed completely with a colossal roar! Her phantom manifested! A rule tempest so violent it swept across the world exploded, and a fireworks display so brilliant that it could be seen clearly across the entire Upper Realm soared into the sky! At this moment, Marquis Tongtian, who had remained by Su Yu's side, roared, and a portal materialized. Grabbing the little white dog, Su Yu vanished into the portal in an instant, shouting with madness, mockery, and unyielding vengeance: "I will return... Even if... I turn into a vengeful ghost, I will return!" Boom! The portal was pierced by a chain thrown by the enraged Yue Hao, shattering heaven and earth along with it! Farther away, Marquis Anying and the others roared frantically. Boom! Several Dao Integration foes were killed instantly, but they were also grievously wounded and on the brink of death. Marquis Nanxi's face suddenly drained of color. Su Yu had fled! Yet... he had not taken them along. "Flee!" He grabbed several of them and fled frantically outward, for he could already sense Yue Hao's wrath surging toward them! Marquis Anying's body shook violently as he spat blood without stop, wheezing, "Nanxi... flee... go find... go find..." Boom! A violent blast erupted as Marquis Anying detonated himself instantly, taking down two more of the pursuing Dao Integration experts in the blast. The next instant, Wushan roared, "Go!" Boom! Another blast resounded. A thick, corrosive mist blanketed heaven and earth, obscuring all directions. Behind them, except for Zishui who managed to pull away, all the remaining Dao Integration experts were corroded into nothingness by the mist! Gripping Yunshui and Jianghai, Marquis Nanxi tore through the void at unimaginable speed, roaring and coughing up blood as he vanished in an instant! Yue Hao was about to give chase when his expression changed slightly—several Celestial Venerable auras were surging in that direction! Beside him, Zishui recoiled immediately. Behind them, Yuxi hurried over, her face deathly pale. Above the massive crater, in an instant, only the three of them remained! In the sky, dozens of fireworks were rising. Like a dream! To the three of them, it all felt like a dream. One minute! Yes, merely one minute. In this single minute, they had lost thirty Dao Integration experts, four Heavenly Kings, and one Celestial Venerable! And the other side... had suffered countless casualties as well! Was it worth it? At this moment, even Yue Hao was lost in a daze! Behind them, three Celestial Venerable auras surged, and within an instant, three Celestial Venerables arrived. Beholding this carnage, all of them fell silent. Stupefaction was written across their faces! ... On the other side of the Chaos Forest, several Celestial Venerables had slain dozens of ancient beasts and now arrived soaked in blood. Opposite them were four Celestial Venerables and two Heavenly Kings. The sixty to seventy Dao Integration experts from moments ago felt like a surreal dream. Gone in the blink of an eye! Heavenly Venerable Yue and the others looked visibly shaken. The Fire Transmission Lineage had gone mad. Insane to the absolute extreme! Right at that moment, Heavenly Venerable Yue suddenly struck out, obliterating a ray of dark light—an ancient beast in the Chaos River attacking a ball of light. Snatching the ball of light, Heavenly Venerable Yue was shaken. "Marquis Tianlong!" Someone was actually still alive! Marquis Tianlong's sea of will had managed to escape! Without time to think, he immediately began nourishing Marquis Tianlong's sea of will, looking across the field with a heavy heart! Not only were there four Celestial Venerables opposite them, but deep within... more auras seemed to be rising! Extremely formidable! Celestial Venerable Huang's expression was exceedingly grim. "This lineage... is too powerful! And why... why did the Fire Transmission Lineage do this?" Mad to the absolute extreme! Out of more than twenty top-tier experts, Marquis Nanxi had fled with two, while Su Yu appeared to have escaped with only Marquis Tongtian and Fat Ball. Such a mighty force had been buried here just like that! What kind of enmity could have driven them to make such a choice?