The desolate plain outside the great rift of Immortal Ancient had long since turned into a slaughterhouse.
Dark-red bloodstains soaked the parched earth. Several Heavenly God Realm experts lay sprawled among the jagged rocks, their corpses stripped of their former sacred radiance.
The vice sect master of the Demon Dragon Dao Sect had been reduced to a puddle of bloody pulp, its pungent stench churning through the air above the plain with the gale.
Qi Daolin's golden Dao robe billowed in the wind as he shielded the blood-soaked Shi Hao firmly behind him.
Not far away, the ten-thousand-foot Undying Being stood proudly between heaven and earth. His golden fur shone with a blinding brilliance, like an invincible ancient Demon God.
The forceful intervention of these two great experts had indeed intimidated some of the cultivators present for a short while.
But those supreme Giants who truly controlled the rise and fall of the Three Thousand Provinces could not possibly retreat because of this.
They had waited through long ages for the fortunes of Immortal Ancient. The Ten Thousand Spirits Diagram on Shi Hao, the Immortal Seed, and his heaven-defying Dao Fruit all held an irresistible allure for them.
After a brief silence, the suppressed killing intent surged forth once more like a tidal wave.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble."
A deep roar came from the distant void, as if an army of thousands upon thousands of horses was charging forth.
An immense ancient war chariot crushed through the void as it slowly approached this battlefield.
The entire chariot was crimson red, gleaming with an icy metallic luster. It was covered in sword slashes and blade holes, marks left behind by battles across the long years.
A dense blood-colored mist shrouded the chariot, and within it, one could faintly hear countless wronged souls