puff...!
A man suddenly emerged from the void, shirtless, sword in hand, slowly approaching the Wind and Snow Pass.
The Divine General Yeyue hadn't paid any attention to the man, because the man's aura was extremely weak, so weak that even the God's divine sense thought he was just an ordinary person.
But how can an ordinary person walk on air? And how can they keep getting closer to themselves?
Finally, the Divine General Yeyue turned around and looked at A Huo.
"Who are you?"
"The one who killed you!"
As soon as A Huo finished speaking, an unparalleled and terrifying sword intent erupted from his body, like a surging sea, sweeping towards the Divine General Yeyue and locking down all possible escape routes.
"Without self, Wukong, the pure and unblemished mind proves my path!"
He had gripped the longsword tightly with both hands for half a month, and finally swung it out.
It was a beam of dark light, silent and still, like the primordial chaos before creation, appearing instantly before the Divine General Yeyue.
Only then did the Divine General Yeyue sense the danger, but it was too late. The dark light pierced through his body, and a dark power remained on the wound, causing him extreme pain.
"It's the Great Dao of Destruction! Another being has emerged among all the heavens to possess the Great Dao of Destruction."
The Divine General Yeyue reacted extremely quickly, tearing off the part of his flesh that had been tainted by the dark light with a single palm strike, and then retreated rapidly.
After A Huo unleashed that sword strike, dark clouds gathered in the sky, as if a heavenly tribulation of lightning was about to descend.
With a whoosh, a towering sword light flashed, shattering the dark clouds and restoring tranquility to the sky.
In fact, A Huo had just completed a breakthrough, achieving mastery of Sword Dao and becoming a god who wielded the Great Dao of Destruction.
If Pan Emperor Heavenly Dao were still intact, it would surely have sent down a tribulation of lightning upon him. However, Pan Emperor Heavenly Dao is now extremely weak and has no ability to withstand such a test.
"Retreat! The entire army retreats!"
Divine General Yeyue immediately left the battlefield without looking back.
The Great Dao of Destruction is the most combat-oriented of Great Dao of the Universe. Even those who have just entered the Void God Realm are no weaker than those who are in the Late Void God Realm.
A Huo's sword strike, which he had just used to break through, embodied over a hundred years of A Huo Sword Dao and possessed terrifying power, already damaging the divine essence of the Divine General Yeyue.
If he doesn't leave soon, he might really die here.
"Kill! Avenge our brothers!"
Seeing the situation reversed, Chen Rufeng was not about to let such an opportunity slip by. He immediately led his remaining troops in a frenzied counterattack, as if they were risking their lives.
Seeing that even the Divine General Yeyue had fled, the other heavenly legions dared not linger and quickly formed battle formations to escape.
Whoosh... Hiss!
After A Huo dispersed the dark clouds of the Heavenly Tribulation, he also unleashed his Sword Qi to pursue the fleeing heavenly soldiers. Not long after, the Heavenly Court army finally escaped, leaving behind the corpses of hundreds of heavenly soldiers.
After A Huo, who had become a god, returned to the Chen Kingdom, the Chen Kingdom gained a significant advantage on the battlefield.
A Huo, leading the Demon-Slaying Sword, easily blocked Divine General Ziyu, who was supported by a high-level celestial army. Divine General Yeyue, having had his divine essence damaged by A Huo, dared not participate in the battle for a short time.
This made the battle more even.
A Huo, White Turtle, and Wei Shan each fought against the three divine generals sent by the Heavenly King Linlang, while the five high-level heavenly army groups were also resisted by the three ace legions of the Chen Kingdom, the Mountain Army, and the Rushing Thunder Legion of the Netherworld.
Although the Chen Kingdom was still at a disadvantage overall, the Heavenly Court had also lost its previous advantage and became more cautious, with the advance of the battle lines proceeding extremely slowly.
However, Heavenly King Linlang was not in a hurry. With the Nine Heavens Realm as his backing, he was not afraid of fighting with superior forces, nor was he afraid of attrition.
While waiting for the Divine General Yeyue recover, he urged the Talisman Department to speed up the process of deciphering the Chen Kingdom Rune Artifacts, patiently waiting for an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to the Chen Kingdom.
In the blink of an eye, Heavenly King Linlang's attack on the Chen Kingdom has lasted for more than three years.
During these three years, the Heavenly Court Army fell into many ambushes by the Chen Kingdom, suffering heavy losses of its soldiers.
However, thanks to their superior numbers, they slowly advanced the battle line, and now one-fifth of the Chen Kingdom's territory has been occupied.
One-fifth of its territory, more than a dozen large capitals, and hundreds of medium and small cities were all seized by the Heavenly Court. The losses suffered by the Chen Kingdom were undoubtedly devastating.
Meanwhile, the distance between the border and the Chen Kingdom continued to shrink, and both sides could sense that the final decisive battle could break out at any moment.
Chen Kingdom, located on the border of Yi Province, within Mountain and River Pass.
"Mom, I don't want to move."
"This place is so beautiful, why are people from beyond the Great Wall coming to attack us?"
Inside a house, a little girl asks her parents, who are busy moving, a question in her round eyes.
"My dear girl, be good!"
Because they want us to listen to them, not to Lord Chen Huang!
The girl's father patted her head and explained with a smile.
"Then why don't we listen to them? Does that mean we don't have to move if we just listen to them?"
Hearing the little girl's innocent words, the girl's father was stunned. He remained silent for a long time before finally speaking.
"There is still a difference. If it weren't for Lord Chen Huang, we wouldn't be living such a good life now."
The girl's father is in his forties. When he was young, his family was scattered and displaced during the invasion of the Abyss Devil Race.
Subsequently, various warlords rose up, warlords fought each other, and the people suffered greatly. Many of his contemporaries died in that era.
During his youth, the Chen Kingdom occupied Yi Province, not only blocking the Abyss Devil Race but also expanding the land outside the city, building transportation infrastructure, and vigorously developing the economy.
In just a few years, the people of Mountain and River Pass have come to live a prosperous life. Now, Mountain and River Pass has entered an era where everyone practices martial arts.
When he was young, there were less than one in a thousand martial artists in the city, but now, more than a third of the city's population are martial artists.
Especially five or six years ago, Chen Kingdom spread a large number of cultivation manuals to the people through the Spirit Network Realm, which greatly improved the martial arts skills of the common people.
Take this girl's father, for example. Six years ago, he was only Fourth Stage Martial Artist, but because he exchanged a cultivation technique suitable for himself with a cultivator friend, his cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds in the past few years, and he has now reached the Martial Artist Ninth Stage.
Judging from the current trend, he will definitely be able to enter the Qi Nourishing Realm in his lifetime. This is the Martial Dao realm he dreamed of when he was a child. He was a helpless homeless child back then, but now he has been able to reach this point. He is already completely satisfied.
"Let's go, little girl. There's nothing wrong with living in a different city."
We must trust Lord Chen!
"It won't be long before the people from outside the pass are driven away, and then we can come back."
The girl's mother packed everything up and placed it by the door. The father quickly picked it all up and then urged the girl to come with them.