A beautiful lotus slowly bloomed, spinning as it descended toward nearly ten billion Flesh Furnace Dao Soldiers. It was like a pure white lotus about to blossom amid endless filth and cleanse heaven and earth.
It was such a beautiful sight.
One could not help but stare, entranced.
But for the living beings caught beneath it, it was terrifying beyond measure.
That tiny Six Paths Lotus held a heaven-shaking killing intent. Against army formations in particular, it seemed to harbor a dreadful power of destruction.
Even under the protection of layer upon layer of troops, the Immortal Artifact Sect's puppet inheritors could not stop trembling. They were like a lone skiff amid raging waves, liable to capsize at any moment, without the slightest sense of safety.
"Tianwen back then!"
"Tianwen should have spared no cost to kill him back then! If he'd died, none of this would be happening now!"
A burly man growled.
He looked like a burly man, and his body had indeed belonged to an inheriting disciple who had risen from among the human prodigies of the Immortal Artifact Sect's territory. But that was only a shell. Among its flesh, bones, and meridians lay complex structures of black-iron bones, mechanism threads, power hearts, and more.
Those things, which seemed like foreign additions, were the true Immortal Artifact Sect inheriting disciple.
The other Immortal Artifact Sect inheritors were full of regret as well.
If they had paid just a little more attention back then, even sending a single cultivator at the quasi-celestial rank would surely have killed him in one strike and left no future trouble.
But it was a little late to talk about that now.
Beyond this battlefield, they were renowned inheriting prodigies throughout the Great Thousand World, feared by hundreds of millions of cultivators. Here,