Azure Cloud Gorge.
The air was thick with the suffocating stench of blood and charred flesh, mingled with the savage aura of purple heavenly lightning that had yet to disperse.
Once they lost the bloodline command of the Purple Abode Great Demon Kings, the hundreds of thousands of demon beasts became a heap of loose sand, shrieking as they fled madly into the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains like a black sea at ebb tide.
Yet above this scorched battlefield, where deathly silence mingled with chaos, the ten dark-gold, heavily armored warships that blotted out the sky still hovered steadily, like divine weapons of ancient gods.
Black banners bearing the words "Heavenly Abyss" whipped wildly in the fierce wind, radiating a chilling pressure that could shatter a man's courage.
The warships' hatches burst open with a thunderous crash. At the low commands of Commandants Hu Hao and Pang Song, thirty thousand [Heavenly Abyss Mystic Guards], clad in dark-gold heavy armor and carrying Demon-Slaying Heavy Blades, descended from the sky in perfect formation, like walls of steel.
After landing, they showed no relief at having survived the disaster. They did not waste even a moment catching their breath, instead dividing into hundred-man squads and becoming ruthlessly efficient battlefield harvesting machines.
The sound of sharp blades slicing through flesh rang out across the battlefield.
The surviving soldiers of the Qingzhou Grand Commandant's Office leaned against the ruined walls in a daze, watching the bizarre scene before them with chills creeping through their bodies.
The Heavenly Abyss Mystic Guards moved with a proficiency so practiced it almost hurt to watch.
The strength cultivators in front split open the bones of the dead or grievously wounded ancient great demons with their heavy blades, while lightly armored cultivators behind them used specially made skinning