All Annihilated

In the core area of the Cloud Sword Palace Mountain Gate, the many Grandmaster experts standing around the Training Ground watched the Great Battle unfolding within with shocked minds.

Lin Heng, alone with a single sword, faced the elite experts of both Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City head-on by himself.

At first, the experts of the two factions formed an array and could barely contend with Lin Heng.

But as Lin Heng gradually adapted to their combined attacks, the situation directly reversed.

Using Ethereal True Aura, he gathered the energy strikes launched by the many experts, neutralized and stored them away. Whenever his internal strength ran low, he unleashed those stored energy strikes to blast back the Great Grandmasters besieging him.

Then, while recovering his energy, he killed the Grandmaster Martial Artists forming the grand array, weakening the enemy bit by bit.

As one side waned and the other waxed, the number of people maintaining the formation dwindled. They grew weaker and weaker, while Lin Heng instead tempered himself in Combat, his Artistic Conception rising ever higher as he became increasingly powerful.

At this moment, the experts of both factions were entirely suppressed by Lin Heng alone, irrevocably falling into a disadvantage.

Even though they had already gone all out, burning their Origin to fight Lin Heng in a Great Battle, they were still marching toward defeat and death.

"He is too strong—stronger than anything I have seen in my life. Everyone says that Young Sect Master Lin Heng is a Banished Immortal Descending to the Mortal World. I never believed it before, but now I have not the slightest doubt."

"Worthy indeed of a Supreme Great Grandmaster. Such invincible bearing commands the heart's surrender."

"After today, there will be no further dispute over the title of Number One Expert Under Heaven."

"To witness an Invincible Expert fight like this, it would be worth the price even if I died!"

Many Martial Artists watching the battle murmured in shock.

At this time, the Great Grandmasters fighting desperately on the battlefield were gradually falling into despair as well.

They had originally thought that by gathering everyone's strength to kill Lin Heng, there might still be some chance of turning things around.

But after actually fighting him, they realized that was nothing more than wishful thinking.

Even with everyone working together, they could only barely match Lin Heng. Yet the slightest opening on their part would be seized by Lin Heng, who would kill a Great Grandmaster.

He would then break free from their obstruction and slaughter the Grandmaster Martial Artists forming the array.

Before long, the twenty-one Great Grandmasters had been reduced to only seventeen, while more than a third of the over two thousand Grandmaster Martial Artists had already died.

At this point, those still alive no longer had the courage to fight Lin Heng.

"Children, run."

"Do not return to the mountain gate. Do everything you can to stay alive."

Madness appeared on the faces of the remaining seventeen Great Grandmasters.

They no longer launched fierce attacks at Lin Heng in an attempt to kill him. Instead, they split into two groups.

Seven of them formed an array, doing everything possible to suppress Lin Heng and prevent him from clearing out the Grandmaster-level Martial Artists. The other ten led their remaining disciples in breaking out beyond the Cloud Sword Palace Mountain Gate.

To kill every one of the thousands of Martial Artists gathered here at the Grandmaster Realm and above, without letting a single one escape, was likely difficult even for an expert of the Heaven-Human Realm.

Much less Lin Heng, who was only a Supreme Great Grandmaster at the moment. So long as they left the Cloud Sword Palace Mountain Gate, they would have a sliver of hope for survival.

After today, their mountain gates would be breached by Cloud Sword Palace, but their inheritances would not be severed. They would lie low and wait for the day they could reemerge, perhaps with a chance to renew their former glory.

"How laughable. Did you think I gathered so many experts here merely to watch a show?"

Lin Heng fought the seven peerless Great Grandmaster experts blocking his way.

As both sides battled, blade light and sword shadows flashed with piercing sharpness, while energy surged like raging waves. The aftershocks that sprayed outward blasted one deep crater after another into the hard bluestone paving of the Training Ground, as though countless heavy cannons had struck.

At this moment, Lin Heng showed no impatience at being held back. He spoke in a calm tone.

By then, all irrelevant people without sufficient Combat Power had long since been sent away.

The Cloud Sword Palace Experts who had been silently watching around the Training Ground, along with the many experts who had come to lend their aid, now moved as well. They too formed arrays, their auras linked together as they unleashed their ultimate techniques. Surging energy strikes bombarded the Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City experts attempting to break out.

Rumble!

The energy strikes unleashed at full force by the thousands of Martial Artists above the Grandmaster Realm from the two camps collided, exploding like thunder erupting from level ground.

Too many people were attacking with all their strength. Their force was not Condensed, but scattered, and far too much energy dissipated into the surroundings. The environmental destruction was even greater than that caused by Lin Heng's battle against the many Martial Artists.

The air boiled at that instant. Violent shockwaves spread outward, shaking every building around the Training Ground until they cracked and collapsed.

Wei Xuan, the Finance Elder of Cloud Sword Palace, watched the scene before him, pain flashing through his eyes. The important Cloud Sword Palace structures surrounding the Training Ground—the Alchemy Room, Forging Room, Disciple Residence, and more—had all been destroyed.

It could be said that scarcely a few buildings within the Cloud Sword Palace Mountain Gate remained intact at this moment.

Although the important supplies had long since been moved away, repairing these buildings would cost no less than a million taels of silver.

Fortunately, such a great price was worth paying. Every member of Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City who had tried to flee was stopped.

The seven Great Grandmasters blocking Lin Heng's path all underwent a drastic change in expression when they saw this.

If their disciples could not escape, then what was the meaning of them remaining here to hold Lin Heng back?

Lin Heng seized the opportunity perfectly. Taking advantage of the opening created when the seven men's minds wavered for an instant, he pierced the heart of the Great Grandmaster nearest to him with one sword.

Then the Sword Domain unfolded, its powerful Artistic Conception battering the other six and interrupting the counterattacks of those who had come back to their senses.

A sharp sword light flashed. Lin Heng became one with his sword, transforming into a Sword Rainbow that pierced through the bodies of the remaining six in an instant.

The six men's bodies, just about to move, froze. Blood spurted forth, and their auras instantly plummeted.

Thus, the seven Great Grandmasters died violently.

Lin Heng slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, then drew in a long breath. The Heaven and Earth Origin Energy around him surged over, replenishing his depleted internal strength.

Immediately afterward, he unleashed his Movement Art and charged toward the Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City experts who, after being stopped, were trying to gather their strength for a second breakout.

The ten Great Grandmasters were held back by Lin Heng, while the twelve Great Grandmasters belonging to Cloud Sword Palace charged at the Grandmaster Martial Artists of the two factions, unceremoniously bullying the weak with the strong. The other Grandmaster Martial Artists of Cloud Sword Palace were responsible for stopping those Grandmasters who tried to flee.

On the battlefield, Cloud Sword Palace held an absolute advantage, and the retreat paths of the two factions had been completely sealed off.

Victory was thoroughly secured at last!

Time passed second by second. With no path left for escape, the Grandmasters of Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City began a desperate last stand. But it was merely futile death throes, and they were gradually slaughtered by the Cloud Sword Palace Great Grandmasters.

Other than consuming some of the Cloud Sword Palace Great Grandmasters' internal strength, they posed no threat whatsoever.

Of the ten Great Grandmasters remaining from the two factions, Lin Heng had by then killed four.

Once another twelve Great Grandmasters joined the battle, they were wiped out completely without the slightest suspense.