The final showdown between the two great dynasties dragged on, and the smoke of war never cleared from the Void-Slaying Realm.
In the first month after all-out war erupted, Li Yang led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion in tearing open a breach in the Ten Thousand Miasma Mountains, claiming the first major victory.
In the third month, three of the Nine Nether Dynasty's defensive lines fell in succession, and more than half its territory passed into the Heavenly Origin Dynasty's hands.
Half a month later, the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion under Li Yang suffered a counterattack from that Crown Champion of the Military Dao.
His opponent painstakingly refined top-tier puppets that possessed no killing intent, then laid a lethal Self-Destruct Formation. At the cost of tens of thousands of Nine Nether cultivators, he dealt the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion a devastating blow.
Over a thousand sword cultivators were lost, and the Myriad Swords Return to the Sect Formation was destroyed.
Without the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion, the Heavenly Origin Dynasty retreated again and again, at one point falling back to the Rosy Cloud Mountain Range.
After this incident, Li Yang realized that Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and the others had discovered his secret-his ability to sense killing intent.
Soon, Li Yang rallied his forces. Rather than shrinking, the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion expanded from fewer than two thousand members to five thousand.
These people were not sword cultivators-or rather, they were not sword cultivators among the Trial Takers.
Instead, they had been selected from cultivators within the Heavenly Origin Dynasty. With Li Yang and the entire dynasty sparing no expense to train them, every one of them had at least cultivated sword qi.
They were already elite cultivators of the Void-Slaying Realm, no less capable than the prodigies of