Hundreds of figures were locked in a fierce melee inside the cavernous hall. The local factions of the Central Plains soon crumbled amid the fighting, leaving only the forces of several ancient clans battling on. Yet these ancient clans shared certain ties and had their own reservations, so although the fighting remained intense, there had been no casualties.
That strange balance shattered when a Dou Zun of the Stone Clan suddenly exploded and died. It happened in the flash of lightning and the spark of flint, so quickly that everyone-even the Spirit Clan member fighting him-wondered whether his opponent had lost control of his strength and killed him. What followed was the Stone Clan's frenzied retaliation. To protect themselves, the Spirit Clan members could only unleash their full strength, and the battle instantly reached a white-hot pitch.
Similar scenes unfolded on several other parts of the battlefield. In an instant, the members of all six clans, who had still been holding back somewhat, began striking to kill. Countless immensely powerful Dou Techniques erupted throughout the hall, and eventually even their original matchups dissolved into chaos. All anyone remembered was not to attack their own clansmen; everything else had long since been flung to the back of their minds.
Clearly, the forces sent by the Yan Clan were the strongest of them all, especially with Huo Xuan's eight desolations destruction flame. Although it could not kill those Dou Zun outright, even they would suffer considerable injuries if it struck them unprepared. The Yan Clan thus easily gained the upper hand. Before long, the Gu Clan, Lei Clan, Spirit Clan, and Stone Clan had all been defeated, leaving only the Yao Clan struggling to hold on.
Huo Zhi, however, had not lost her head like the others. During the fighting, she had