Today's second update: Chapter 2472! 2/4!
The saints joined forces. These were already Blue Star's strongest experts, especially now that humanity was flourishing and Saint Realm experts were springing up like mushrooms after rain.
Kong Shizhan, who had entered the Imperial Realm when Confucius manifested earlier, had now reached the Half-Saint Realm as well.
The imperial capital possessed quite a number of Saint Realm experts, remnants of the Era of the Heavenly Eye, and was now humanity's political and cultural center.
With so many experts acting merely to stop Xu Kun from committing further slaughter, it should have been effortless.
But the truth was... even working together against Xu Kun, all they felt was boundless pressure.
If they confronted him head-on, they likely would not be Xu Kun's match, let alone the fact that both his attacks and his direction of advance were filled with strangeness.
Likewise, they did not dare truly injure Xu Kun.
With their hands tied, all they could do was use their Saint Domains to restrain Xu Kun and seal off his path of continued slaughter.
Yet beneath the airtight cover of the Saint Domains, Xu Kun's Asura Power, flowing like spilled mercury, still leaked out through the gaps in wisps.
And anyone touched by those wisps of Asura Power turned into a puddle of blood on the spot. Where they had stood, alluring Jitan Blooms blossomed, their fleeting beauty mirroring their lives.
As time passed, more and more Asura Power escaped, and a strange red mist filled the sky above the entire imperial capital.
It was utterly terrifying!
The civilians who had earlier cried out for the Kun God now felt as though death was knocking at their doors.
But just when they thought things could get no worse, Xu Kun swept an indifferent