Miaowen glared at Lin Shan in fury and unwillingness. The assassination had been organized by drawing elite forces from every faction—were they really going to suffer such a crushing defeat?
But battles at the demigod level were nothing like battles involving Saints or weaker mortals. For warriors of the Human, Earth, and Heaven ranks, without more than ten opponents of the same rank, it was basically impossible to thoroughly kill an evenly matched enemy. The same held true for Saints.
That was because, although people at those realms possessed tremendous power, their bodies were correspondingly robust. Ordinary attacks required several heavy blows before they could truly maim or kill someone. Thus, it was common to see a group of Heaven-rank warriors fight noisily for a full day and night, only for one or two people to die or be injured in the end, while everyone else scattered in all directions, covered in wounds and utterly exhausted.
But upon reaching the demigod realm, every strike contained a trace of the power of laws. Every blow could easily destroy a mountain or a city. Unless one possessed some peculiar defensive method, battles between demigods had always been decided in a single strike. Everyone's destructive power was simply too great—so great that it surpassed even the limits their own physical bodies could withstand!
That was why clashes between demigods rarely erupted. After all, everyone had struggled to cultivate to this point, and once a conflict broke out, death could come at any moment. Thus, in the religious war between the Heavenly Temple Upper Court and the Church of the Western Continent, the main forces deployed were the Saint-realm experts both sides had accumulated over a thousand years. Demigods seldom took action; even when they did, it was usually only near the end of