Rumble...!
Roar!
Roooar!
In the Hidden Dragon Mountains, the Four Great Sects and the Great Li Imperial Family were waging a war to hunt down the Gu Lineage.
Neither army had yet secured victory.
But the battle between their strongest fighters had already reached its most critical moment.
The sect masters of the Four Great Sects had used the Four Symbols Hall Master Tokens to summon divine beast phantoms at the half-step Great Grandmaster level to encircle and attack Gu Beiwu.
Their battle whipped up towering waves of energy, making mountains crumble and the earth split.
Under the combined assault of the Four Symbols Divine Beasts, the Azure Dragon phantom Gu Beiwu had become still exuded a terrifying aura.
Yet the combined might of the Four Symbols Divine Beasts gradually suppressed him all the same.
The Azure Dragon phantom began to dim. Alarming wounds appeared on both its draconic body and Gu Beiwu's true body, and his situation grew increasingly unfavorable.
The situation on the other two battlefields was no more encouraging.
Mo Nancang was fighting five opponents alone, and although his power of thunder and lightning was formidable and his evasion techniques exquisite,
faced with his enemies' desperate onslaught, he had no attention to spare for anything else.
Gu Lingxiao's battle with Emperor Xuan was even fiercer.
After concealing his strength for years, Emperor Xuan had unleashed it all at once.
Wielding a supreme treasure of the Imperial Household empowered by the empire's fortune, he displayed astonishing might, every move brimming with murderous intent.
Gu Lingxiao, meanwhile, had gone completely berserk from the anguish of losing his son.
Empowered by his towering killing intent, every stroke of the Severing Baleful Intent Sword in his hand carried an unyielding resolve.
These former sovereign and subject, these sworn brothers, were