Overwhelming Defeat

"Roar!"

The demonic ape leader roared as it strode forward.

With each step, the solid rock was crushed into powder as easily as tofu.

Despite his towering height of over ten meters, he displayed astonishing agility.

Amidst raging fury and blazing flames, when this colossal creature burst forth from the flames, it was as terrifying as a true demon god.

Even though it had five bloody holes in its body, two of which were so deep that the bone was visible and its internal organs were writhing, its aura still emanated overwhelmingly, enough to terrify an army of ordinary people to collapse on the spot.

"That's terrifying!"

"This... this is a high-ranking Demonic Beasts!?"

"They're still alive?!"

Zhao Qian, Zhan Hongying, and the others stared wide-eyed as the demonic ape commander, wreathed in flames, charged forward.

Even Gu Chifeng, Gu Luochen, and the others were filled with shock.

They knew better than anyone how powerful the armor-piercing shells made specifically for defensive Demonic Beasts were.

But this powerful Demonic Beasts can not only render close-in weapon system bullets ineffective, but even armor-piercing shells fired from howitzers cannot kill them on the spot. Such vitality and defensive capabilities...

It sent chills down everyone's spine.

"A high-ranking Demonic Beasts that has condensed an indestructible demonic body..."

Gu Jinlai watched the Fiery Demon Ape Commander charging towards him amidst billowing dust, he strode forward, gripping his greatsword tightly with both hands. His gaze was fixed on the colossal creature that was rushing towards him with boundless Sha Qi intent. At this moment, his spirit, consciousness, and aura seemed to coalesce into one.

All was silent.

The sounds of wind, fire, machine guns, and roars...

They all disappeared.

In his eyes, all that remained was the demonic ape leader before him, his body engulfed in raging flames and radiating overwhelming ferocity.

"Tread!"

When the two were charging at each other down to fifty meters, Gu Jinlai was running wildly, suddenly had a surge of power in his legs.

Conquer the world and the four seas!

A boundless force, like a dragon emerging from the sea, soared into the air, coursing through his entire body. Accompanied by a powerful explosion of the accumulated energy within him, the two forces fused into one, pouring entirely into the four-meter-long giant sword in his hand. He then fiercely slashed out at the demonic ape leader, who was charging towards him with terrifying ferocity...

The demonic ape leader's eyes flashed with ferocity, and its demonic flames surged as if solidified, pressing down on the air and causing the surrounding temperature to rise sharply.

Seeing the Gu Jinlai descending upon it, it unleashed a powerful punch, its fist, larger than a clay pot, piercing through the air.

The air in front was compressed rapidly and exploded in the next instant, forming a white mist that could be seen with the naked eye.

"Die!"

A low growl, a roar.

Breathtaking!

However, just as the two sides were about to truly collide, a dazzling brilliance appeared on their bodies, a radiance that Gu Jinlai.

With his spiritual consciousness burning with all his might, a blazing sun appeared above his head, releasing a terrifying radiance that pierced the soul, instantly freezing the demonic ape leader's thought process.

Great Sun Divine Light!

As he unleashed the Great Sun Divine Light, he suddenly shifted to the side, avoiding the Flame Demon Ape Commander's attack, which could shatter even hundreds of tons of boulders!

Dominate the world and the eight wastelands!

Immediately afterwards, he swung his heavy sword swiftly, using the momentum of his body to slash fiercely at the wound on the Demon Ape Commander's waist.

One person, one ape...

They passed each other by.

The raging flames nearly set the clothes worn by people Gu Jinlai ablaze...

But in the instant their figures crossed, the Gu Jinlai greatsword ruthlessly slashed across the demonic ape leader's already gaping wound at the waist, and further cut into its body, reaching its bones...

"Roar!"

The intense pain instantly jolted the demonic ape leader, who had been overwhelmed by the divine light of the great sun, awake.

It suddenly let out a roar of alarm and anger, as if some kind of power had suddenly erupted within its body, reverberating and spreading through its spine.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud.

Gu Jinlai felt an overwhelming and irresistible force slamming into his hands, which were gripping the giant sword. Instantly, his whole body trembled violently, his tiger's mouth cracked, and the bones in his hands creaked and popped.

The force traveled through the sword and rebounded onto his body, instantly turning the capillaries in his sword-wielding hands blood red. The further shock seemed to break the ulna, radius, and humerus in his hands, and then send him flying.

Looking at the demonic ape commander who had already awakened and was within arm's reach, Gu Jinlai's eyes flashed with divine light.

He knew that he had no way to retreat in this situation.

Once retreated...

The demonic ape leader could kill him on the spot with a single slap.

A high-ranking Demonic Beasts has condensed an indestructible demonic body definitely possesses this kind of power.

"All directions will be annihilated!"

Upon realizing this, spirituality from Gu Jinlai erupted, and the heavy sword in his hand entered an overclocked, spiritually connected state, trembling rapidly.

Within his body, which manifested as the Great Sun True Demon form, the Eternal Furnace was operating at high speed. The fusion of all the deuterium and superdeuterium within his body was like detonating a nuclear bomb inside him. All the power was transformed into a surging, violent force that poured into his hands holding the giant sword, causing the giant sword, which was almost blasted away by the recoil, to fiercely slash into the spine of the Demon Ape Commander, which was as tough as diamond...

Transition!

"Tear!"

A broken bone!

Blood spurted out!

Their figures intertwined!

"Ah!"

Gu Jinlai, people have wielded swords with both hands and roared to the sky.

The Eternal Furnace instantly detonated all the deuterium and superdeuterium, and the resulting violent force caused the body to bleed from multiple places as if it could not withstand the strain...

However, he used this terrifying power to grip the greatsword tightly, and after severing the spine of the dragon within the body of the demonic ape leader, all the power contained in the greatsword was released and erupted.

In an instant, it felt as if a bomb had been detonated inside the Demon Ape Commander's body.

With a muffled roar, this enormous creature, which was at least twelve meters tall, was actually snapped in two at the waist by the violent force of the surge.

In an instant, the demonic ape commander, who had just woken up and was slamming down with fury, stared wide-eyed as his fist, which was about to smash into Gu Jinlai's head and flatten him on the spot, missed its target because his body had been blasted in two. It only managed to create a burst of air around him.

"No!"

The demonic ape leader let out a painful and powerless wail, and its upper body collapsed heavily to the ground, causing a violent tremor and raising a cloud of dust.

It Gu Jinlai.

The shockwave from the demonic ape leader's punch that blasted away right next to him caused blood to spill from his ears.

But his movements were not slow at all. Just as the demon ape commander was cut in two and lost his balance, he turned around quickly.

As he spun around, he swung the greatsword in his hand with the power of the Ten Directions Annihilation technique, like the sharpest and most ruthless flying knife, and it struck the head of the demonic ape leader who had lost his lower body and was unable to dodge!

"Bang!"

Blood splattered everywhere.

The head of this powerful Demonic Beasts was pierced through by a single sword strike.

Even so, the great Demonic Beasts still stared intently at Gu Jinlai, its face covered in blood, its ferocious and terrifying features filled with resentment and madness.

"Humans..."

A few seconds later...

Only then did its life force completely dissipate.

The two body parts also stopped moving.

Gu Jinlai, battles with the Demon Ape Commander have been slow in appearance but fast in reality.

The outcome was decided almost in a single exchange.

However, the terrifying aura emanating from the Demon Ape Commander was too horrifying. In this nightmarish scene, every second was suffocating and agonizing, to the point that even though it was only a moment, everyone felt as if a day was an eternity.

With the death of the demonic ape leader, the suffocating oppressive aura finally dissipated, allowing Zhao Qian, Zhan Hongying, and even Gu Chifeng, Gu Luochen, and others who had been holding their breath to finally catch their breath.

"Dead... dead... finally dead!"

Zhao Qian was panting heavily, as if he had just been pulled out of the water, his voice filled with trembling fear.

"This powerful Demonic Beasts... is dead! He died at the hands of the Ancient Heavenly Lord! He was killed by the Ancient Heavenly Lord himself!"

Zhan Hongying stared at the upper body of the demonic ape, which remained ferocious and crazed even in death...

He put himself in the leader's shoes and thought about it. If he were facing this demonic ape leader, he probably would have turned and run away as soon as it charged.

Otherwise, in the blink of an eye, his so-called peak Spirit Refining would be smashed into a meat pie.

"This is... a high-ranking Demonic Beasts that has condensed an indestructible demonic body..."

The remaining Core Forming were all filled with lingering fear.

The higher one's cultivation level, the more one can understand the terror of a high-ranking Demonic Beasts.

This monster, so powerful that even a True Lord Primordial Spirit's flying sword might not be able to kill it, is beyond the realm of possibility in some respects.

If it weren't for the fact that the high-ranking Demonic Beasts couldn't fly, or that the Primordial Spirit True Lord didn't have to fly on swords, any Primordial Spirit True Lord would have been killed on the spot by the high-ranking Demonic Beasts in a one-on-one fight.

Gu Jinlai suddenly stepped forward, raised his battle sword, and his thunderous voice resounded across the battlefield. "The Demon Ape Commander is dead. The remaining Demonic Beasts are leaderless and a rabble. Hear my command, open fire with all your might! Don't conserve ammunition! Kill all these Demonic Beasts!"

Upon seeing the towering, god-like figure standing beside the corpse of the demonic ape leader by the river, the atmosphere in the arena held its breath for a moment, then everyone cheered.

"Fire! Fire! Full power!"

"Kill! Slaughter Demonic Beasts!"

"Long live the ancient city lord! Long live the ancient heavenly emperor!"

Morale was greatly boosted.

The morale, which had been suppressed by the relentless and fearless charge of the Demonic Beasts, surged dramatically amidst the cheers.

Machine guns, artillery shells, and rockets poured down the Jade Belt River as if they were free, creating wave after wave of blood and water.

Occasionally, some Demonic Beasts who manage to cross the river will soon face a barrage of attacks from numerous Qi Refining, Gang Condensing, Core Forming Formation experts, preventing Demonic Beasts from entering even half a step west of the Jade Belt River.

In contrast to the Gu Jinlai faction whose morale soared, the Demonic Beasts fell into panic after the fall of their demon ape leader.

Some Demonic Beasts controlled by instinct were one thing, but those Demonic Beasts that still possessed enough intelligence seemed to realize that the situation was hopeless and that they could not do anything to Gu Jinlai with their power. They immediately turned around and retreated towards Taihe City and even the Yunqi Mountain Range.

In an instant, the Demonic Beasts were routed and their forces collapsed.