"Don't you dare hurt our human juniors!"
An anxious cry rang out from afar, shaking the starry river. Dido and the other three exchanged strange looks when they heard it.
The dozen or so Eighth-Stage experts of the Longjue Race nearly spat blood. They wanted to curse, but had no time: the blade light pursuing them was already bearing down. Before it even reached them, every hair on their bodies stood on end and warning bells blared in their hearts!
We can't block it. We'll die!
The phoenix-like bird soared through the air, its wings suddenly blazing with deep-blue fire as it sent the flames against the descending blade light. "Give it everything you have, or none of us will survive!"
The other aliens knew that well enough. All of them went all out. Dragons breathed fire, giants lashed whips, thunder and fiery rain erupted... More than a dozen Eighth-Stage aliens unleashed their last-resort moves, turning the entire starry river into a dazzling riot of color.
At the same moment, the blade light covering a radius of one light-year finally fell!
Boom!
The instant they met, the blade light wiped out every attack. A sea of blood, it crashed down and crushed all beneath it!
"No!!"
"I won't accept this!"
"..." In an instant, the blood sea of blade light swallowed the dozen or so Eighth-Stage aliens. Some struggled desperately, but it was futile. The blade light passed through every part of them, dissolving body and soul alike. Others were fierce enough to self-destruct. Blinding radiance burst forth, only to be drowned by the surging blood sea the next second without raising a ripple.
The starry sky soon fell silent. Behind Huang Tian and the others, a sturdy old man clad in golden armor, a huge golden hammer in his