"Hahaha!"
Zhou Xuan felt the surging, almost explosive power within him and couldn't help but burst into wild laughter.
His aura at this moment was already infinitely close to that of Half-step Supreme.
"Before the Sacred Dragon Army Formation, you are all but ants!"
Zhou Xuan grinned maliciously, his gaze sweeping over the pale-faced Li Tian and the other two, before turning to Li Yuansheng was surrounded in the distance and looked on in despair.
"Let's use you three old devils as a sacrifice first!"
Then, send Li Yuansheng, his pitiful few men, and the entire Li Family on their way!
He slowly raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and made a clenching motion towards the void where Li Tian and the other two were.
"Sacred Dragon Army Formation - Ten Thousand Dragons Devour the Heart!"
Roar--!
Within the illusory Military Formation, the scene of ten thousand dragons roaring suddenly solidified. Hundreds of Lecher, condensed from pure Blood-Sha Army Qi, roared and flew out, each radiating a terrifying aura no weaker than that of Early Heavenly Immortal.
The giant dragon, baring its fangs and claws, exuding an aura of annihilation, lunged at Li Tian and his companions, along with the Li Family Members behind them, with overwhelming ferocity!
At this moment, heaven and earth seemed to be swallowed by Sea of Blood.
Despair was evident in the eyes of everyone in the Li Family, including Li Tian, Li Di, and Li Ren.
The giant dragon, baring its fangs and claws, exuding an aura of annihilation, lunged at Li Tian and his companions, along with the Li Family Members behind them, with overwhelming ferocity!
At this moment, heaven and earth seemed to be swallowed by Sea of Blood.
Despair was evident in the eyes of everyone in the Li Family, including Li Tian, Li Di, and Li Ren.
Buzz...!
Just as life and death hung in the balance, a terrifying Sword Intent, capable of annihilating everything and freezing the Divine Soul, shot out without warning from the direction of the Li Family Ancestral Land!
The Sword Qi appeared too suddenly, too fast to be perceived or understood.
One moment it was on the horizon, the next it had traversed dozens of miles and appeared in the center of the battlefield.
Wherever it passed, space silently cracked open with a thin, black rift, as if the heavens and earth had been ripped open with an unhealable wound.
"What?"
Zhou Xuan's pupils contracted sharply, and the sinister smile on his face froze instantly, turning into disbelief and horror.
He sensed the destructive aura contained within that Sword Qi; it was a terrifying killing power far surpassing that of Heavenly Immortal!
"No--!!"
He cried out in alarm, trying to control the giant dragon of the Military Formation to dodge and to activate his Law Treasure for defense, but the moment any thought arose, the Sword Qi had already arrived.
Laugh--!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, no ear-piercing tearing sound.
There was only a soft sound, like a sharp blade slicing through thin silk.
Wherever the Sword Qi passed, the hundreds of blood-red Lecher, formed from the Blood Sha Qi of millions of soldiers, froze instantly, like ice and snow under the sun.
Then it silently disintegrated and annihilated, turning into countless blood-red light spots that vanished without a trace.
The Sword Qi energy continued its relentless advance, like a death line cleaving the heavens and earth, gently slicing across the Military Formation below composed of millions of the Sacred Dragon Army.
Puff--!
Like a hot knife cutting into butter.
The blood-red light shield of the Military Formation couldn't even hold them off for a moment before shattering with a deafening roar.
Wherever the Sword Qi passed, it struck down both heavily armored soldiers and powerful generals.
Whether it was a well-organized formation or a chaotic crowd, everything was split in two.
There were no screams, no resistance; life was completely wiped out the moment it touched the Sword Qi.
The earth let out a muffled groan, and a terrifying ravine, tens of feet deep, hundreds of feet wide, and stretching for hundreds of miles, suddenly appeared in the center of the battlefield, like a scar on the earth.
The edges of the ravine were smooth as a mirror, exuding a chilling aura of destruction, and its bottom was unfathomable.
And the trajectory of this ravine of death, precisely, cuts through the center of that enormous Blood Pit that buried over 800,000 civilians and tens of thousands of Li Family Members, a pit constructed from countless souls and Essence Blood.
Boom!
The dense Blood Light shooting into the sky from the Blood Pit, the nascent Curse power, the terrifying Altar built from human heads, bones, and Vengeful Soul, along with the Black-Robed Cultivator at the Mid Heavenly Immortal...
The moment it touched the Sword Qi, it was like a snowman thrown into the blazing sun, completely vaporizing and disappearing without a trace without even raising a speck of Smoke and Dust.
Only a trace of dark red remaining at the bottom of the ravine proves that something once existed there.
Dead silence.
Absolute silence enveloped the entire battlefield.
The wind stopped, the clouds settled, and even the sound of breathing seemed to disappear.
Millions of troops, whether from the Sacred Dragon Divine Dynasty Side or the Li Family.
Everyone stood frozen in place, as if under Movement Method.
They stared blankly at the bottomless, terrifying ravine, at their comrades and soldiers who had instantly evaporated on both sides of the ravine, and at the Blood Pit and Altar that had completely vanished.
"What... what is this...?"
A Centurion from the Sacred Dragon Divine Dynasty trembled, his long sword clattered to the ground, and his legs went weak uncontrollably.
"Demon... Demon God... It's a Demon God..."
Another soldier slumped to the ground, his crotch soaked, his eyes filled with boundless fear.
"One sword... just one sword..."
Wang Xuan's face was ashen, his body was ice-cold, and his teeth chattered uncontrollably.
He was only a hundred feet from the edge of the ravine, and he could clearly feel the destructive aura lingering from that Sword Qi —an absolute Killing Intent that made his very soul tremble.
He had no doubt that if that sword had been aimed at him, he and the thousands of personal guards around him would have been reduced to ashes by now.
"How is that possible...?"
Zhou Xuan stood frozen in the sky, his previous arrogance and Killing Intent completely gone, leaving only a deep-seated fear and bewilderment.
The Sacred Dragon Army Formation he relied on was as fragile as paper before that seemingly casual yet terrifyingly incomprehensible Sword Qi, and was instantly destroyed.
He couldn't even see where the Sword Qi came from or how it disappeared.
The three Old Ancestor, Li Tian, Li Di, and Li Ren, were also frozen in place, their faces still showing despair, which had been replaced by unparalleled shock.
They were closest to the Sword Qi and therefore felt it most clearly.
The killing, destruction, and all-severing Daoist essence contained within that Sword Qi were all too familiar to them; it was something that had tormented them for tens of thousands of years.
"It's... it's the aura of that sword... but it's different... stronger... purer..." Li Tian murmured to himself, his voice hoarse.
"It's Li Yu... it must be Li Yu."
Li Di abruptly turned his head, looking towards the direction of the Li Family Ancestral Land, his eyes blazing with an indescribable light. "He... he succeeded?"
Li Ren didn't speak, but stared intently at the ravine, his body trembling slightly with excitement and shock.
He knew that the Li Family was saved!
Li Yuansheng forced back the enemy in front of him with a sword strike, panting heavily, and also looked towards the direction of the Ancestral Land.
His armor was shattered, and his clothes were stained with blood, but his eyes were filled with ecstasy and the relief of surviving a calamity. "Our Ancestors protected us... our Ancestors protected us!"
After a brief silence, came screams and chaos like a landslide and a tsunami.
"Divine punishment! This is divine punishment!"
"Run! Run now!"
"A demon! The Li Family has summoned a world-destroying demon!"
The Sacred Dragon Divine Dynasty Side has completely collapsed.
The surviving soldiers abandoned their armor and weapons, crying and screaming, and scattered like headless flies, no longer heeding military orders.
The generals tried desperately to maintain order, but faced with this terrifying force beyond comprehension, any orders seemed pale and powerless, and many generals themselves joined the ranks of those fleeing.
After the initial shock and fear, the Li Family erupted in thunderous cheers.
"We won! We won!"
"Kill! Slaughter all these Holy Dragon Dogs to avenge our fallen kin!"
With their morale greatly boosted, the Li Family Disciples, led by Li Yuansheng and others, began to launch a counterattack against the fleeing Sacred Dragon Remnant Army.
The battlefield situation reversed in an instant.
Looking at the scene of the army collapsing below, and listening to the cries and cheers around him, Zhou Xuan's face turned from white to green, and then from green to black.
He knew that the situation was hopeless.
The Sacred Dragon Army Formation was broken, the Bloodline Curse was destroyed, and the army collapsed.
Even he himself lost his confidence in victory in the face of that terrifying Sword Qi.
"Walk!"
Without hesitation, he shouted to his trusted confidants, including Wang Xuan, who were also pale-faced, and turned around, transforming into a streak of Blood Light as he sped off towards the Sacred Dragon Divine Dynasty.
All talk of crushing the Li Family, seizing the treasure, and receiving the Your Majesty's congratulatory gifts has become a joke. Survival is the most important thing!
With Zhou Xuan's escape, the remaining will to resist of the Sacred Dragon Divine Dynasty Side completely collapsed, and a rout was inevitable.
"You think you can just kill someone and walk away? It's not that easy."
Just as Zhou Xuan and the others began to flee, a faint voice came from the Li Family Ancestral Land.