Battle Victory

It seemed one side had to make a breakthrough. Xiao Yun looked at his remaining Spiritual Power, Gold Coins, and more than 1,000 Breakthrough Stones, then finally made up his mind. While controlling the Sword Rain to continue its assault, he poured all his Spiritual Power, Gold Coins, and 1,000 Breakthrough Stones into the Sword Immortal Spirit Body.

He immediately felt boundless power erupt from the Sword Immortal Spirit Body. The immense surge of Immortal Power made Xiao Yun feel as though his entire body had been cleansed, and he could not help letting out a long howl. The Sword Immortal Spirit Body had broken through the level 80 limit.

After breaking through that limit, the Sword Immortal's ultimate skill, Dao-Opening Sword Art, improved again. It could deal fixed bonus damage equal to 5% of the target's maximum health, capped at 200% of the Sword Immortal Spirit Body's attack power.

With this attribute, each strike could deal more than 400% damage. His confidence in killing the Qiongqi before him increased considerably.

But he did not stop there. Seeing that he still had more than a million Spiritual Power and Gold Coins left, he decided to go all in and invested everything. The Sword Immortal Spirit Body's strength soared, rising directly to level 100.

After reaching level 100, further advancement was no longer so easy. He had to raise the War Spirit's rank. Its current rank was the lowest, Legendary, and it had to advance to the Primordial First Tier before it could be raised further.

To advance to the Primordial First Tier, he needed a Sword Immortal Fate Token and another Legendary Fate Token of the same type. For the time being, he could not level up any further.

Still, the Sword Immortal Spirit Body was now immensely powerful. The sword shadows around it became far more solid, and the sword intent clinging to them grew much stronger. The Qiongqi's demonic qi had once been able to block Xiao Yun's condensed swords, but now it could no longer do so.

Before long, countless swords had stabbed crack after crack into the demonic qi barrier. As the Sword Rain continued, those cracks rapidly spread until they reached their limit. With a sound like shattering glass, the barrier collapsed completely.

With the demonic qi barrier gone, Xiao Yu's Sword Rain naturally affected the other battlefields. The first to suffer was the Demonic Yinglong Puppet. After the Sword Rain struck it, a flaw appeared in its defenses, and Wangliang, who had been waiting for this chance, smashed its vital point with a Flame Giant Axe. It then took a direct hit from the Siming Divine Monarch's Carp Kun Dongting, and its defenses were completely shattered.

Wangliang General then unleashed his ultimate skill, Demon God True Form, transforming into a colossal Demon God Manifestation and splitting it in two with a single axe blow. Only fragments littered the ground, while its core turned into a cloud of demonic qi and dissipated into the air.

Wangliang did not dare delay. Controlling the Demon God Manifestation, he swung the giant axe down at the Demonic Ksitigarbha Puppet. The Demonic Ksitigarbha Puppet had no time to evade and was struck head-on, its Body Protection Golden Bell shattered. Then the Nine Heavens Profound Maiden's Calamity Fire Sword pierced straight through its chest. A stream of demonic qi drifted out, and its body suddenly shattered into countless pieces.

As for the Siming Divine Monarch, she flew toward the Demonic Chang'e Puppets' battlefield. After all, three Legendary War Spirits alone found it difficult to inflict any significant damage on it, while the Demonic Chang'e Puppet could easily recover from its injuries.

But with the Siming Divine Monarch joining the fight, everything changed. Her armor-breaking effect was extremely obvious, and her level and attack power far surpassed those of the other three. The Demonic Chang'e Puppets' health immediately began to plummet.

The Demonic Chang'e Puppet had no way to deal with this. As a mere puppet, it possessed little intelligence and would not seek help from the other puppets.

Soon, Sovereign of Destiny Chu Ying'e, together with Xiangliu, Night's Silence, and Miao Danna, destroyed it.

The moment it was killed, an invisible Moonlight Gauze Robe covering the battlefield vanished as well. The damage Gonggong and Xiao Yun dealt to the Demonic True Martial Emperor Puppet and the Qiongqi increased sharply, especially the damage from their ultimate skills.

On the other side, after killing the Demonic Ksitigarbha Puppet, Wangliang's ultimate skill had entered cooldown as well, but he still came over to help Gonggong. Two against one, they quickly suppressed Zhenwu the Great.

With the Demonic Chang'e Puppets' death, Gonggong used his ultimate skill again—World-Ending Cold Light. A massive whirlpool of water appeared around his spear tip. The water was gradually compressed by the vortex onto the spear's point, forming an incomparably sharp glimmer of cold light.

Then Gonggong moved as if teleporting, appearing directly before the Demonic True Martial Emperor Puppet.

The Demonic True Martial Emperor Puppet also sensed that this move was extraordinary. Strands of Divine Punishment Lightning appeared across the great shield in its hand, trying to force Gonggong to change his attack.

But Gonggong was stubborn to the core. Paying it no heed, he charged straight into the Divine Punishment Lightning and thrust at the core of the Demonic True Martial Emperor Puppets' shield.

The instant the two collided, countless birdlike cries rang out. A point of blue cold light pierced straight into a mass of nearly solid lightning, tearing it apart completely and punching directly through the huge shield in the Demonic True Martial Emperor Puppets' hand. The cold light then stabbed into the Demonic True Martial Emperor Puppets' heart and exploded instantly, blasting it into several pieces and completing the kill.

At the same time, countless arcs of Divine Punishment Lightning rebounded onto Gonggong's body, destroying every piece of armor on him and exposing his incredibly muscular physique.

Yet that Divine Punishment Lightning could barely harm his body. This showed just how formidable the Witch Clan's bodies were, especially those of the Ancestral Witches. Ordinary immortals could not compare at all.

With all four smaller battlefields won, everyone joined forces against the Demonic Qiongqi Puppet. They quickly dispersed the demonic qi surrounding it and began attacking the puppet's body directly.

They soon discovered that the Demonic Qiongqi Puppets' body was exceptionally tough. Ordinary attacks could barely damage it, while every counterattack forced any War Spirit to retreat.

In the end, the Siming Divine Monarch had to use her ultimate skill to break the Demonic Qiongqi Puppets' armor. Xiao Yun then used the Dao-Opening Sword Art to tear open its wound. The others concentrated fire, poison, Cold Qi, Sword Qi, and other attacks on that wound, finally wrenching it wider to expose the fragile mechanisms within. Then the stream of swords formed by Xiao Yun's second use of Myriad Swords Returning to the Source shattered its puppet core and destroyed it.

After defeating the Demonic Qiongqi Puppet, the group did not dare linger. They quickly cleaned up the battlefield and immediately began searching Lingxiao Tianque for the Seed of Corruption.