With a crisp bang.
A vast surge of spiritual power shredded the Myriad Spider Devil Lord's body before him. His divine soul, wearing an expression of terror as it tried to flee, had barely taken a few steps before the pursuing lightning struck it into complete nothingness.
"You idiot, I told you already—stop trying to bargain with me using my own things."
Ye Xiu spat disdainfully, turned, raised his sword, and circulated his spiritual power as he charged back into the battle formation before him.
With the chief culprit eliminated, the demonic beasts and insect swarm below had no chance of stirring up any further waves. Still, ending the battle sooner and reducing casualties was a good thing.
The large demonic beasts that still retained a shred of reason watched the Myriad Spider Devil Lord scatter into ashes, and the situation they had been struggling to resist finally collapsed completely.
They wished to retreat, but the Alliance cultivators before them had no intention of letting them leave alive.
These things grew their cultivation and strengthened their bodies by devouring human flesh, blood, and spiritual power. If released, they would surely become a calamity.
If they had been powerless before, so be it. But now that they possessed the corresponding strength, if they still turned a blind eye, then Heyang City's many years of peaceful days would truly have been lived in vain.
The moonlight overhead faded from bright clarity into gradual concealment, while the sounds of slaughter upon the battlefield below slowly grew sparse as well.
The shattered corpses of demonic beasts blanketed the ground so thickly that they had nearly raised the entire mountain gate by a level. On the ground, the Heyang City cultivators, divided into groups, were carefully inspecting and clearing the battlefield bit by bit.
Although