With the plan to seize the Heavenly Flames a complete failure, the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and its Heavenly Demon Phoenix servants no longer hid. A war that would shake the entire continent had begun.
The battlefield stretched so far in every direction that no one could take in the whole war with the naked eye. Only powerful soul perception could grasp its general shape—and even an Emperor Realm Soul could not pass through the chaos unaffected.
Yet one vast region stood apart from the fighting. A barrier of energy separated it from everyone else, leaving onlookers able to glimpse only the surges within, unable to join the battle. That was where the continent's strongest fought.
All four of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan's true core members were there. Facing them were five opponents!
Zhukun, Soul Heavenly Emperor, Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying!
Each possessed the peak combat strength of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng. Only they could stop the four leaders of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
Dou Qi and Black Mist crisscrossed without pause as waves of energy slammed outward, one after another. Before an old ripple could fully spread, a new one tore it apart. Those ripples alone were enough to drain the color from the faces of the many Dou Saints present. The shocks repeated tirelessly. This was no battle an ordinary expert could enter.
Outside that clash at the very top, Xiao Yan had become a pillar of the Continental Allied Army.
As soon as he emerged from the Demon Flame Space, his Nihility Devouring Flame clone merged with his true body again, restoring his Eight-Star Dou Saint strength.
Xiao Yan did not join the battle at the peak. For one thing, he was still an Eight-Star Dou Saint, short of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng. He also