A Foregone Conclusion

Radiant Peace City lay awake deep into the night.

What had happened today was far too momentous. It was destined to shake the world.

In the eyes of every major power, there was no way the hunt for the Jade Capital Demon could fail with so many immortals involved.

Even at the worst, with several True Immortals joining forces, they might fail to capture him, but they could not possibly come to harm themselves. At most, he might unexpectedly escape.

Who could have imagined beforehand that all five True Immortals would fall in the Great Qin Imperial Capital?

Though it was not quite over, the outcome was no longer in doubt.

"Aah—"

A True Immortal screamed in agony. A spear had pierced him and lifted him into the air.

Within the Blood-Colored Light Curtain, the Killing Array called Slaying Ten Thousand Immortals formed a small world of its own. Eight thousand armored soldiers had become a single whole, each covered in mysterious Dao patterns.

Even three True Immortals working together could hardly break through their formation.

Long spears studded a white-haired old man's entire body. Amid the Dao Soldiers' roars, he gave a low cry of pain and despair before bursting apart with a pop.

"No!" As he spat out the word, he saw the scene on the other side. His companions had met equally gruesome ends.

There, a Long Halberd woven with Dao patterns severed the second True Immortal's head. Then a mass of spears thrust forward, pierced it, hoisted it up, and shattered it!

The sight was bloody beyond measure. A Seventh Realm True Immortal who stood atop the world's pyramid had died without even an intact corpse.

"Save me!"

The purple-haired True Immortal woman kept striking the Blood-Colored Light Curtain with both hands, despair written across her