"Of course, it was to keep you all here."
The Merfolk Clan Patriarch stepped forward slowly, his voice steady. "When the day comes, I shall hand you over to the Heavenly Yao Emperor for judgment. After all, without this Heavenly Yao Emperor's method of transmitting through the Yao Realm, someone like this old man, at the Half-step Great Emperor Realm, might not know what year or month he would be able to advance further. Naturally, I must thank him properly."
The moment those words were spoken, Shangguan Qingming and Wu Jianzhang no longer dared harbor even the slightest hope of luck. Without a moment's hesitation, they charged forward together, moving at the utmost speed.
"I think you're courting death."
Wu Jianzhang struck first, and the Yao Realm crowd behind him immediately followed. Yet before absolute strength, such actions only seemed utterly laughable.
The Merfolk Clan Patriarch's Half-step Great Emperor Realm strength erupted with a roar. With merely a slight raise of his hand, a heaven-destroying, earth-shattering pressure swept across the entire battlefield.
With a whoosh, the Yao Realm creatures before the Yao Realm passage were instantly frozen in place. Their meridians were sealed throughout their bodies, leaving them utterly unable to move. They could only wait helplessly where they stood to be slaughtered.
The battlefield on the Yao Realm side was decided in an instant.
Immediately afterward, everyone's gaze fell upon the Sky Phoenix Quasi-Emperor on the Human Realm side.
Qin Jiuge spoke slowly, his gaze indifferent and his expression solemn. "I had originally planned to wipe out your entire Sky Phoenix Royal Family back then. But I never expected you to possess a grand formation powered by Immortal Power, one that even those of the Great Emperor Realm could not break. I had thought that only after the great