"Buzz!"
The fourth and fifth guards tried to defend back-to-back.
But with a casual slash through the air, Zong Shen neatly cut both guards in half along with the pale flame barriers surrounding them.
Their cross-sections were mirror-smooth before they promptly crumbled apart.
The last guard let out a desperate roar.
It poured all its pale flames into its greatsword and threw it at Zong Shen.
The greatsword became a pale meteor, looking tremendously imposing.
Zong Shen merely extended his right hand, spread his five fingers, and made a grasping motion at the incoming greatsword.
The greatsword wreathed in pale flames slowed sharply, as though it had fallen into a swamp.
It eventually came to a stop less than a foot in front of Zong Shen.
The flames on the blade rapidly went out, while countless cracks appeared across it and it began to break apart inch by inch.
Then the fragments clattered to the ground.
As for the guard that had lost its weapon, Zong Shen pressed down with a palm from afar, crushing its entire body into the rocky ground and leaving behind a deep pit. It made no further movement.
[Killed Flame Demon High-Rank Guard (Tier 8 Leader) ×5, obtained 600,000 points]
[Current Total Points: 2,785,660]
In less than a minute.
All six leader-level guards had been wiped out.
The island became empty once more. Only the quietly burning evil altar remained, along with the slowly rotating vertical-pupil vortex at its peak, as though it contained endless fury.
The altar seemed to sense that all its guards had been slain. The dark blue cold flames over its surface abruptly surged, followed by a crackling explosion.
The vertical-pupil vortex at the top began spinning faster, unleashing a suction force ten times stronger than before!
This suction force was