Elsewhere, Demon God Meng Qi was about to deliver the final, fatal blow to Wei Changsheng when he suddenly sensed Lu Qingshan's aura surge beside him.
Immediately afterward...
Bang!
The Heaven-Shaking Long Staff in Lu Qingshan's hands smashed viciously into one of his fleshy wings.
Originally, Demon God Meng Qi had paid little attention to Lu Qingshan's attack, but the instant the Heaven-Shaking Long Staff struck his fleshy wing, he suddenly felt a terrifying force sweep through his entire body.
Immediately afterward, the bones and tendons in Demon God Meng Qi's wing of membrane and flesh snapped, leaving it unable to move.
"Aooo!"
The tremendous pain made Demon God Meng Qi let out an involuntary roar of rage!
After all, throughout his battle with Lu Qingshan and the others, Demon God Meng Qi had suffered quite a few injuries, but none had ever been as serious as this one.
"What's going on?"
The powerhouses surrounding and attacking Demon God Meng Qi were also startled when they saw Lu Qingshan suddenly erupt with power and save the gravely wounded Wei Changsheng.
They did not think Lu Qingshan had been hiding his strength at the start. Rather, they were puzzled by his sudden outburst of power.
"He's staking his life on this! He must be staking his life on this!"
Chu Zhongtian, the first to react, immediately roared, "Everyone, King Yongning is already staking his life on this! He probably can't hold on for long. Let's all put our lives on the line! We must kill Demon God Meng Qi!"
Hearing Chu Zhongtian's roar, the other powerhouses around him instantly understood as well.
After all, their greatest source of confidence in facing Demon God Meng Qi was Lu Qingshan, who had entered the Domain Realm. If even staking his life could not let Lu Qingshan kill Demon God Meng Qi, humanity would be completely finished.
At that thought, all the remaining human powerhouses around them began putting their lives on the line.
"Kill this beast!"
"Even if we die, we have to kill him!"
The human powerhouses let out furious roars, one after another.
Although they could not burn their souls like Lu Qingshan, who possessed a domain, they could close the distance between themselves and Demon God Meng Qi. At such close range, unleashing their ultimate moves would surely multiply their power!
Under these circumstances, however, it would also be much easier than before for Demon God Meng Qi to hit them.
But the human powerhouses no longer cared about such things. After all, even King Yongning, who was far stronger and far younger than them, and who would most likely enter the Martial God level in the future and gain a lifespan of ten thousand years, had begun staking his life on this. What reason did they have not to do the same?
"Wooo!"
Surrounded and attacked by everyone, Demon God Meng Qi let out an earth-shaking roar of pain.
Then his scale-covered tail instantly became a blur, sweeping through layer upon layer of space toward Lu Qingshan.
And directly in the path of that enormous serpent's tail stood a sixth-tier Martial Saint.
Seeing Demon God Meng Qi's serpent's tail sweep toward him, this sixth-tier Demon God instantly unleashed his strongest attack, thrusting the black spear in his hands straight forward!
Squelch!
Under the sixth-tier Martial Saint's exquisite control, the black spear pierced straight into a gap between the scales on that enormous serpent's tail.
Unfortunately, this sixth-tier Martial Saint was still too weak. The black spear, over two meters long, had only pierced five or six inches deep before Demon God Meng Qi's muscles locked it firmly in place.
At that moment, the terrifying serpent's tail also struck the sixth-tier Martial Saint. His body instantly shattered, and all signs of life vanished.
After that, Demon God Meng Qi's enormous serpent's tail continued sweeping toward Lu Qingshan without losing any momentum.
"Damn you, Demon God Meng Qi!"
Seeing another sixth-tier Martial Saint fall at Demon God Meng Qi's hands, boundless fury rose in Lu Qingshan's heart.
After all, apart from Lu Qingshan, Wei Changsheng, and Chu Zhongtian, the strongest martial artists on Xuanhuang Star were only sixth-tier Martial Saints.
The sixth-tier Martial Saint who had just fallen was Xuanhuang Star's sixth-strongest powerhouse, Liu Dehui, known as the "Spear Saint."
In his early years, Liu Dehui had experienced a terrifying beast tide. Apart from him, who had survived by sheer luck, all his relatives had died in that beast tide.
Thus, after reaching the Martial Saint level, Liu Dehui had devoted himself to hunting demonic beasts!
Over nearly a thousand years, more than a hundred Demon Saints had fallen at his hands. Even now, with the end of his lifespan approaching, he had still intended to seek out powerful Demon Saints in the seas and fight them to the death!
And now, such a powerhouse, who had spent his entire life hunting demonic beasts, had fallen so easily at Demon God Meng Qi's hands.
Whoosh!
Facing the enormous serpent's tail hurtling toward him, Lu Qingshan immediately employed his movement technique, his entire figure becoming a phantom.
As his figure shifted, the Heaven-Shaking Long Staff in Lu Qingshan's hands smashed viciously into the butt of the black spear embedded in Demon God Meng Qi's tail.
After all, Lu Qingshan's strength and technique were far beyond anything Liu Dehui could compare to!
Under Lu Qingshan's terrifying impact, the entire black spear sank into Demon God Meng Qi's serpent's tail, while the tremendous force of the Heaven-Shaking Long Staff also slammed viciously into that enormous tail.
For a time, the black spear's keen aura and the Heaven-Shaking Long Staff's weighty force both ran rampant within Demon God Meng Qi's body.
"Aooo!"
Demon God Meng Qi instantly let out a howl of agony.
At that moment, he finally felt the threat of death he had once experienced when facing Lu Qingshan.
Lu Qingshan's last blow had clearly dealt a grievous injury to Demon God Meng Qi's tail, the strongest part of his body, so he finally began to feel somewhat afraid.
Now, Demon God Meng Qi only wanted to flee back into the sea below. That was his home ground, where he could enjoy far greater advantages when fighting humanity's powerhouses!
"Roar!"
Once the thought of retreat took root in his heart, Demon God Meng Qi soon let out another furious roar, filled with boundless rage, tremendous unwillingness, and a trace of fear.
Then...
Whoosh!
Demon God Meng Qi suddenly burst into speed, about to charge toward the sea below.
"The beast is trying to escape!"
"Stop him!"
Seeing Demon God Meng Qi attempt to flee, humanity's powerhouses all grew incredibly excited, because they knew they were finally about to win this battle.
But all of that depended on stopping Demon God Meng Qi. They absolutely could not let him return to the sea.
If Demon God Meng Qi escaped back into the sea, all their earlier sacrifices would have been for nothing!
Whoosh!
Near Demon God Meng Qi's path, a fifth-tier Martial Saint stepped directly into his way.
This fifth-tier Martial Saint knew he was no match for Demon God Meng Qi, and he knew he would be torn apart for blocking his escape, but he stepped in front of him anyway!
Bang!
Demon God Meng Qi's enormous serpent's head slammed viciously into the fifth-tier Martial Saint, killing him instantly, but his speed was also greatly affected!
By then, Lu Qingshan, who had burned his soul, had already caught up.
Whoosh!
As Lu Qingshan swung the Heaven-Shaking Long Staff, staff shadows even filled the sky, before all of them crashed viciously into Demon God Meng Qi's body!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Under Lu Qingshan's attacks, Demon God Meng Qi trembled all over, and copious amounts of blood even seeped out across the surface of his body.
He wanted to flee, but the other human powerhouses around him always blocked his path at the cost of their lives;
He wanted to fight back, but his technique was a hundred and eight thousand miles behind Lu Qingshan's. Even resisting with all his might, he could not so much as touch Lu Qingshan's figure!
At first, Demon God Meng Qi was still roaring furiously, but after a dozen or so seconds, his howls began to weaken, until he finally made no sound at all.
His enormous single black eye grew dull and lightless, his six membranous, fleshy wings drooped limply, and his massive body plunged toward the sea below. Clearly, all signs of life had vanished.
"We won!"
"Hahaha, we finally killed Demon God Meng Qi!"
Seeing that all signs of life had vanished from Demon God Meng Qi, the remaining human powerhouses could not help showing a trace of relief on their faces.
After all, in this brief span of time, only eight of the original nineteen powerhouses remained!
If Demon God Meng Qi had been able to hold out any longer, it would truly have been difficult to say who would win!
Across every region of Xuanhuang Star, the humans who witnessed this scene also erupted in excitement.
At that moment, regardless of gender, race, or age, all of humanity cheered excitedly.
Just then, however, Lu Qingshan, who had just finished killing Demon God Meng Qi, likewise lost his aura, and his entire body began plummeting toward the sea below.
"Oh no!"
Seeing this from nearby, Chu Zhongtian flashed forward, rushing to the falling Lu Qingshan and steadying his body.
"Saint Chu, what's wrong with King Yongning?"
"Ancestor Chu, what happened to King Yongning?"
Seeing this, the other human powerhouses around them also flew straight toward Chu Zhongtian and asked with deep concern.
"I'm not sure either!"
Chu Zhongtian carefully examined the condition inside Lu Qingshan's body, then said, "King Yongning may have fallen into a deep sleep because he just used a life-risking technique. But we shouldn't linger here. Let's return first and discuss what to do!"
"All right!"
"No problem!"
At this, the gathered powerhouses soon left this stretch of sea, taking the sleeping Lu Qingshan, the gravely wounded Wei Changsheng, and Demon God Meng Qi's corpse with them.
Half a day later, the upper echelons of the various factions on Xuanhuang Star finally announced the battle's final outcome.
To slay Demon God Meng Qi, the world's strongest powerhouse, King Yongning Lu Qingshan, had fallen into a deep sleep, while the world's second-strongest powerhouse, Wei Changsheng, had suffered grievous injuries and, with the end of his lifespan also approaching, had perished.
In addition, a total of eleven Martial Saint Fifth Stage and Sixth Stage superpowerhouses had fallen at Demon God Meng Qi's hands.
Although humanity had won this battle, its victory had been incomparably devastating!