One of the Snake Clan experts glanced around. Every other force's cultivators was locked in fierce combat, leaving no one able to reinforce them.
"They won't be coming to save you," Ao Zhengxiong said coldly. "The Holy Master of Yuntian prepared thoroughly for this battle. This time, every one of you will die here."
"You could have targeted anyone, yet you chose to ambush the Holy Master of Yuntian. You're the ones who brought this upon yourselves."
Having lived for countless years, Ao Zhengxiong understood better than anyone what it meant to provoke the Yuntian Holy Land.
More than seven thousand years ago, the Demon Race had killed a cultivator from the Yuntian Holy Land. In retaliation, the Holy Land launched a devastating campaign that swept through the entire Demon Race.
That was just how domineering the Yuntian Holy Land was.
But they had the strength to back it up.
No major power wanted to become their enemy—not even the Dragon Clan at the height of its glory.
Before long, the Snake Clan's experts were slaughtered one after another, leaving only their Holy Master alive.
Even the Snake Clan Holy Master had been gravely wounded.
"What?!"
"They're even using an Imperial Divine Weapon!"
"The Great Qin Imperial Sword has been brought out as well. Looks like the Holy Master of Yuntian really spared no expense this time."
Ao Zhengxiong's pupils contracted sharply as he looked toward the Qin Emperor's battlefield.
It wasn't surprising that the Holy Master of Yuntian had brought an Imperial weapon.
What truly shocked him was that the Qin Emperor had also come wielding the Great Qin Imperial Sword.
"No wonder Old Devil Han died without complaint," Ao Zhengxiong murmured. "Against the Qin Emperor wielding the Great Qin Imperial Sword, all his tricks were meaningless."
In terms of cultivation alone, the Qin Emperor wasn't necessarily the strongest present.
But once armed with the Great Qin Imperial Sword, everything changed.
With that weapon in hand, he could even defeat both Ao Zhengxiong and the Holy Master of Yuntian.
The difference between possessing an Imperial Divine Weapon and not having one was like heaven and earth.
That was why any force that possessed such a weapon qualified as a true great power. Once activated, an Imperial Divine Weapon was comparable to an actual Emperor Realm expert.
Before such power, even Quasi-Emperors were insignificant.
"Old Devil Han must have died full of resentment," Ao Zhengxiong continued calmly. "He had countless escape techniques, but this entire region had been sealed into a cage. He couldn't break out in time and became nothing more than a turtle trapped in a jar."
Old Devil Han excelled in spatial arts and concealment techniques. Without overwhelming power, killing him was nearly impossible.
Ordinary spatial seals couldn't stop him at all.
But this time, the Heavenly Demons of the Heavenly Abyss Demon Domain had deployed an ancient spatial sealing formation specifically to prevent the Holy Master of Yuntian and Li Hanyue from escaping.
Even Quasi-Emperor experts couldn't break free.
Faced with the Great Qin Imperial Sword, Old Devil Han stood no chance and was swiftly cut down.
"The Heavenly Demons won't last much longer either."
Ao Zhengxiong shifted his gaze to another battlefield.
The Holy Master of Yuntian, Bai Luoyang, was fighting two Heavenly Demons by herself, completely overwhelming them.
Against the peerlessly elegant Holy Master, the two demons couldn't gain even the slightest advantage.
"What?!"
Suddenly sensing a change in the surrounding aura, Ao Zhengxiong abruptly turned toward the Yuntian Holy Land's flying ship.
There, Li Hanyue, who had been sitting with her eyes closed, slowly opened them.
A terrifying aura surged from her body, as though an Emperor Realm expert had descended upon the world.
"First Heaven of the Quasi-Emperor Realm!"
"The Frostmoon Sword Immortal has broken through!"
Ao Zhengxiong's expression turned solemn.
Dressed in flowing white robes, Li Hanyue radiated an overwhelming presence.
The pressure she released shook heaven and earth.
A clear sword cry rang across the skies.
Then a pillar of sword light erupted, stretching from earth to heaven as if it intended to cleave the very firmament in two.
Compared to that single strike, every other attack seemed pale and insignificant.
Feeling the terrifying sword intent, Xiao Chonglou's face changed dramatically.
His hands rapidly formed seals as his body seemed to merge into the void.
But the sword qi was simply too powerful.
Under the heaven-splitting sword light, space itself appeared to shatter.
Xiao Chonglou's hidden figure was struck head-on.
Boom!
His body reappeared, already badly wounded by the overwhelming sword qi.
Like a falling meteor, he was blasted violently toward the ground.
With Li Hanyue joining the battle, the tide shifted immediately.
Once the Qin Emperor also entered the fight, the Heavenly Demons and the Saint Realm experts of the Shangguan Family began suffering catastrophic casualties.
In the blink of an eye, three Saint Realm experts from the Heavenly Abyss Demon Domain had fallen.
Soon after, the remaining two Heavenly Demons were also slain.
With their deaths, the ancient formation sustaining the battlefield collapsed on its own.
The illusion shattered, revealing the true landscape of the Heavenly Abyss Demon Domain.
Standing outside the ancient formation were four enormous shadowy figures.
The moment they saw the formation collapse, their eyes widened in disbelief.
They couldn't understand how every Heavenly Demon inside, along with the human and demon traitors who had sided with them, had been wiped out.
"Impossible!"
"How could this happen?!"
The four Heavenly Demons simply couldn't believe that the two great lords inside had been killed.
Before they could recover from the shock, a heaven-piercing sword light swept across them.
They were instantly annihilated.
Thus, the expedition into the Heavenly Abyss Demon Domain came to an end.
Without question, the Yuntian Holy Land had achieved a complete victory.
"Holy Master of Yuntian, your preparations were remarkably thorough."
"I'm curious. Where did you obtain all this intelligence?"
Ao Zhengxiong's eyes flickered as he stared intently at Bai Luoyang.
The alliance between the Heavenly Abyss Demon Domain and the other three great powers had been arranged in absolute secrecy.
There was no reason the Human Race should have learned of it.
Even the Ghost Hall had been unaware.
Yet the Holy Master of Yuntian had known everything in advance and prepared countermeasures for every possibility.
That was what puzzled him the most.
He was certain the Ghost Hall hadn't known because he'd personally asked them before coming.
Their answer had been simple:
They knew nothing.
The Ghost Hall was mysterious, but one thing was certain—they belonged to no faction.
As long as one paid a sufficient price, they would sell information to anyone.
"Phoenix Patriarch," Bai Luoyang replied with a faint smile, "I simply guessed."
"You think I'm that easy to fool?" Ao Zhengxiong said.
"What kind of excuse is that?"
"If you wanted to brush me off, you could at least have come up with something more believable."
"This was an operation involving four major powers, and you're telling me you guessed it? Who would believe that?"
Bai Luoyang looked at him coldly.
"Do I look like an idiot to you?"
Ao Zhengxiong's gaze flickered.
In the end, however, he said nothing more.
His figure gradually faded into the void before disappearing completely.
The Holy Master of the Nine Suns approached Bai Luoyang.
"Holy Master of Yuntian, why didn't we keep Ao Zhengxiong here?"
"If we had joined forces, we could have killed him."
"There were enough Human experts present. Leaving him behind wouldn't have been difficult."
"Ao Zhengxiong is one of the Demon Race's most important figures. If he had died here, the Demon Race would have suffered an enormous blow."
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