A blade of grass crossed the starry sky and cleaved apart the boundless Cosmic Void!
"This swordsmanship!"
"Was the gap between us and our ancestors truly this great...?"
Amid the icy killing intent, Dao Children cried out, weeping blood.
It was not as though they had never seen such opponents in their inheritances.
Throughout history, the Divine Dao Demon Race had produced Eight-step Dao Children comparable to this foe. Among the Human Race rebels who refused to submit to the Human Emperor, there had been Eight-step Sword Sons like this. And none of the Human Sword Sons and Human Race Supremes who had dared rebel under the Human Emperor's rule had been weak.
They had completely inherited the history their ancestors had experienced, and they should completely inherit their ancestors' glory as well!
Before truly encountering a powerful enemy, this had been the shared belief of every Dao Child in the Vermilion Bird Star Domain.
They believed themselves to be unquestionable rulers of the Endless Starry Sky, noble scions of the Immortal Dynasty, capable of striking in all directions—suppressing pure-blooded dragons and phoenixes beyond their borders, suppressing Human Race rebels within them, invincible wherever they went. History had long proven it.
But was reality truly not so?!!
"Kill!"
"Kill, kill, kill!"
All the thoughts, grief, indignation, and fury of the Vermilion Bird Star Domain's Dao Children turned into frenzied roars.
"Kill!"
The Vermilion Bird Dao Child waved the Vermilion Bird battle banner, pouring all surging power into the military formation. The furious wills of every Dao Child poured into the military formation as well.
Screech!
The Military Formation Vermilion Bird let out a piercing cry. Its crimson wings, hanging over the heavens, beat fiercely and swept up Indestructible Flames that engulfed the nine heavens.
Even more violent flames burned within