In an instant, Saber Qi surged around Lu Yang, turning the space around him into a field of blades. Every drop of poisonous blood that splattered his way was shredded by the invisible Saber Qi in the blink of an eye.
Yet his expression grew grave.
Mastering the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Saber had given him a sliver of capital with which to stand against a peak Devil Venerable. But the gap in cultivation and the chasm between their Dao principles still lay glaringly before him. There was simply no way to ignore them.
As he considered how he might create an opportunity to escape, an enormous Dharma form suddenly appeared behind him.
"Hmph. Black Demon, bullying a junior who hasn't even lived a hundred years—you really are getting worse with age."
High above, a gigantic hand came crashing down, slamming into the demonic claw as it took shape once more.
Black and purplish-gold light engulfed the entire Amethyst City in an instant. Already battered beyond recognition by battle after battle, the city was now reduced to utter ruin.
The two eighth-grade defensive formations were smashed as easily as tofu.
The city's buildings turned to ashes in an instant, swept away by endless gale winds and scattered across the thousand-mile plain.
Every living thing perished. Apart from Lu Yang, not a soul survived in the entire Amethyst City!
When the city gate caught fire, the fish in the moat suffered; when immortals fought, mortals bore the brunt. Lu Yang couldn't help thinking of the saying.
The shockwaves from the battle between two peak Venerables had directly destroyed a city with a population of hundreds of billions, perhaps even a trillion.
Every living being within it, human or demon, had been obliterated!
Among the trillion creatures in Amethyst City, there might