Volume 1, Chapter 268 – The Battle Situation

Before Shi Lan could even step forward, that Heaven Demon lifted a hand and swept the surrounding Demon Kings, along with a great mass of beasts, far off to the side, clearing out a vast open space.

Bai Weiyang’s face was deathly pale, his blood and qi badly depleted, yet as he stared at the Heaven Demon before him, there was not the slightest fear in his eyes. They were as calm as still water.

“Such pure Human Emperor bloodline is rare indeed…”

The Heaven Demon swept Bai Weiyang with a glance, and a trace of satisfaction flashed through his beastly pupils. Although Bai Weiyang had suffered heavy losses to his blood and qi, the imperial blood within him would still be of no small benefit.

Perhaps because they saw that Xianwu City had already fallen and that Chengtian Domain was now practically within reach, the Heaven Demons above all began to ease their offensive. They were no longer fighting for their lives, and there were signs that they intended to pull back.

After all, once Xianwu City fell, Chengtian Domain was effectively in the demon race’s hands. At this point, they no longer needed to fight with their backs to the wall.

Several Heaven Demons surrounding Yan Mobei had even begun to rein in the fluctuations of their laws, preparing to withdraw.

Yan Mobei did not tangle with them. The moment he had a sliver of freedom, he struck out in fury. A strand of sword qi slashed down from the heavens, tyrannical beyond compare. The sword qi stretched across tens of thousands of zhang. With one sword descending from the Ninth Heaven, the entire world was covered in azure sword qi.

The Heaven Demon’s fur stood on end as he sensed mortal danger, but the sword qi was already upon him. The vast sword might nearly crushed his bones and sinews. There was nowhere left for him to evade. He could only stake everything on one desperate struggle.

“Hrrgh—”

A muffled roar squeezed from his throat as blazing fluctuations of law surged up, trying to block the sword qi.

But the gap in cultivation between him and Yan Mobei was simply too great. The instant his laws touched the sword qi, they melted away like snow meeting scalding soup, without the slightest power to resist.

Whoosh—

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A streak of seven-colored light arrived later but struck first, sweeping across the air and weaving itself into a vast net that wrapped the sword qi completely and blocked that heaven-shaking strike.

Yan Mobei looked up, and when he saw Lan Die’er in the distance, her body covered in spirit patterns, his eyes brimmed with killing intent.

Lan Die’er’s gaze was cold. She paid no attention to Yan Mobei’s killing intent at all. The spirit patterns on her body flashed violently, as if on the verge of collapse. Under Yue Xiuwen’s relentless attacks, she was in constant peril.

The pressure descending from above suddenly vanished, and that Heaven Demon finally breathed a huge sigh of relief. Not daring to linger, he raised a hand and moved to seize Bai Weiyang into his small world.

Bang!

A burst of fresh fragrance spread through the void. Countless bamboo vines appeared and instantly grew with mad speed. In the blink of an eye, they turned into a sea of bamboo, wrapping Bai Weiyang up in an instant.

The sea of bamboo swayed across the sky as a woman in a green dress, with a jade-green hairpin in her hair, stepped down through the air.

At the sight of this woman, Shi Lan’s eyes brightened, and she could not help relaxing inwardly. She halted her advance and slowly retreated.

“Zhu Xiyang, I had my eye on this Human Emperor bloodline descendant first. You still want to keep him all for yourself?”

When that Heaven Demon saw Bai Weiyang vanish, he let out an enraged roar.

“And what if I do? What can you do about it?”

“You!”

Zhu Xiyang merely glanced at the Heaven Demon and did not care in the least. She raised a hand, tore open a spatial passage, and, wrapped in the sea of bamboo, slipped into the void.

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Yan Mobei cast a distant glance in that direction, then pressed down the Qingyu Sword in his hand, which kept giving off bursts of sword cries, and did not pursue.

He could sense that Bai Weiyang’s aura had not vanished, and the woman in green carried no killing intent whatsoever. Clearly, she had some other purpose. With the situation already so chaotic, any rash move would only be unwise.

The formations of the Demon-Suppressing Army slowly withdrew. Yue Xiuwen and the other Demon-Suppressing Marshals likewise began to hold back and retreat into the city. Most of them were relying on the blood and qi of the entire army to contend with the Heaven Demons and could not leave the formations for too long.

Lan Die’er folded away the seven-colored wings behind her back, and the spirit patterns on her body gradually dimmed until they finally disappeared without a trace.

“Great Venerable, are we still pursuing them?”

“Now that Xianwu City has fallen, we can count the Demon Emperor’s command as fulfilled, can we not?”

The Heaven Demons gathered together and spoke cautiously. Most of them had already lost the will to fight.

In this war, the human race had suffered grievous losses, but they too were utterly spent and badly weakened.

“There has been a great deal of clan business lately. If possible, I would like to return to the demon domain for a while…”

Some had even begun to think of retreating and wanted to go back to the Boundless Demon Domain to recuperate.

Lan Die’er said nothing. Her eyes lowered, and her body suddenly slackened, like a kite with a broken string, dropping from the clouds.

She had forcibly suppressed her Dao injury, broken through the Xianwu Yin-Yang Grand Array, and then fought fiercely against the Demon-Suppressing Marshals. At this point, she was nearly spent to the last drop of oil. If she had not feared implicating her clan, she would have collapsed long ago.

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“Great Venerable!”

One of the Heaven Demons moved at once, carefully catching Lan Die’er and sending her to the great hall behind the beast tide.

“What are we supposed to do now…?”

The Heaven Demons looked at one another, then down at Xianwu City, where the slaughter had descended into madness, and for a time none of them spoke.

…

In the boundless universe, a spacetime wormhole opened, and an enormous warship stretching nearly ten thousand li slowly emerged.

[Spacetime jump complete. Current location: Lingyang Starfield, Cold Sea Star. Distance to destination: 132 light-years.]

The cold mechanical announcement echoed through the ship’s compartments and set off a burst of cheers.

“We’ve finally arrived. I never expected it to take nearly forty years.”

“A distance of 780,000 light-years. Forty years is already considered fast.”

“This starfield is too remote. It’s far too distant from the main route.”

At the highest point of the warship’s command center sat a burly blue-skinned humanoid. As he studied the star chart before him, he let out a long breath of relief.

“Captain, our energy reserves are already insufficient to return to the main route. If this trip yields nothing, then we’ll have no choice but to drift through the universe.”

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A white-haired woman at his side spoke in warning, deep blue pupils filled with worry.

“It’s fine. The energy of this high-level plane is beyond estimation. We should be able to replenish our reserves very quickly.”

The captain waved a hand dismissively. Just as he was about to order them to continue forward, a shrill alarm suddenly rang in his ears.

[Warning!]

[Unknown lifeform approaching. Energy exceeds assessment range. Initiating Level One Alert!]

The atmosphere aboard the warship instantly tensed. A Level One Alert meant that the warship’s artificial intelligence had determined it was about to suffer a catastrophic strike.

The walls around the command center instantly turned transparent, revealing the boundless starry sky in full. The captain rose to his feet and looked in the direction indicated by the artificial intelligence, only to have his breath catch.

A golden figure came surging from the depths of the cosmos, crushing countless meteors and dead stars along the way. Its body stretched for who knew how many tens of thousands of li. The stars scattered around it looked like mere toys in its presence, pitifully small. The warship beneath their feet was even less worth mentioning.

While the people aboard the warship were still frozen in shock, the Level One Alert had already been fully activated, and the main cannon began charging.

“Stop! Full speed evasive maneuver!”

The captain came back to himself and barked out the order in a panic. A creature like that was simply not something his warship could possibly handle.

Yet under a Level One Alert, the main cannon charged at astonishing speed. Before his words had even fully fallen, the star-killer main cannon, capable of blasting through stars with a single shot, had already fired…