Chapter 228: Frenzied Slaughter

Roar!

Xiangliu howled madly within the barrier.

But he could never break free of the Cloud Energy chains' restraint; Mu Yi controlled the Cloud Energy chains and played hit-and-run with Xiangliu, striking and withdrawing instantly, giving Xiangliu no chance to corrode the chains with poison.

However, after Mu Yi sensed the barrier being corroded by poison, he quickly adjusted his encirclement strategy.

He also understood why Xiangliu escaped so quickly; compared to other mountain-sea strange beasts, just this poison that can corrode anything is enough to constantly weaken the seal.

"Cavalry, throw the halberds!" Mu Yi waved the military flag, and several cavalrymen immediately swooped out, beginning to attack Xiangliu with throwing attacks in irregular formations.

The spears imbued with Metal Energy were two to three meters long, deadly to small and medium-sized creatures, but each of Xiangliu's heads was over ten meters in diameter, instantly greatly reducing their lethality.

Weapons that could pose a lethal threat to humans and animals could only inflict negligible injuries on Xiangliu.

Moreover, Xiangliu's powerful regenerative ability made these injuries vanish without a trace in an instant.

Covered in densely packed spears, it looked riddled with holes, but the actual injuries were not serious.

Xiangliu didn't even need to corrode with poison; merely the writhing of flesh inside its body squeezed out the spears one by one, which fell around its body and were swallowed by the poisonous swamp gathered beneath it.

Those torn openings healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if they had never been injured.

Only by seeing the spears and arrows constantly added to Xiangliu's body could one attest to how terrifying the attacks it endured were.

If the opponent were a human or a smaller creature, under this fierce assault they would already be dead...

Yet Xiangliu remained vigorous, even accumulating a pool of highly corrosive poison beneath it, and the all-encompassing barrier was constantly under attack.

Mu Yi narrowed his eyes, pretending not to see the poison Xiangliu had accumulated; as long as it was only corrosion, the barrier could hold for a while.

Boom!

Xiangliu swung its head at the nearby harassing cavalry; with just a glance, the struck cavalry unit instantly turned into a pile of mush—the disparity in size and strength made them unable to withstand even a single blow.

The nine-headed Xiangliu displayed terrifying multi-target combat ability; each strike was swift, precise, and ruthless, wiping out the harassing cavalry units.

"Have we reached the limit?" Mu Yi narrowed his eyes, watching Xiangliu's nine heads slaughter in all directions, continually slaughtering the cavalry tasked with harassment and containment.

A single swipe sent several cavalrymen flying into the air; even if not killed on impact, by the time they fell back down they were already breathless.

The enraged cavalry officer Chang Haoran went all-in, seizing the moment when a snake head smashed down to leap onto Xiangliu's head, desperately attacking it with his weapon.

But to little effect; even though Xiangliu's head was smashed into a bloody mess, it could still recover at extreme speed.

"Let's test it, see if it truly has no more poison to spit!"

Mu Yi gave orders to Chuyi and Aomo beside him.

Chuyi slapped the ground with both claws; the Chuyi enclosed by the barrier was equivalent to leaving the earth, its strength diminishing further and further—before it could easily manipulate earth and stone compression to resist Xiangliu's attacks, draining Xiangliu's strength.

Now it could only summon a stone-and-earth giant, which strode forward to charge at Xiangliu.

Meanwhile, Aomo transformed into a dragon coiling in the sky, let out a dragon roar, gathered all his mana around himself, condensed it into a huge water spear, and then hurled it down at Xiangliu.

Roar!

As Mu Yi expected, Xiangliu spat out a blob of slime that directly disintegrated Aomo's all-out water spear in midair.

After being corroded by poison, the water spear scattered across the ground, but before it even landed, Xiangliu controlled it into another equally huge water spear, which then pierced the stone-and-earth giant that Chuyi controlled, shattering it.

"Even if there's still some, there shouldn't be much left!"

Mu Yi snorted coldly, then directly stretched out his hand, transforming the barrier's space; the Xiangliu that had gathered a pool of poison ready to attack, in the instant of spatial change, discovered that the poisonous swamp he had painstakingly accumulated had completely vanished.

It wasn't truly gone; it had merely drifted from the Asura Path into the Hell Path, where the uninhabited Hell Path burned with raging flames, evaporating the poisonous swamp into boundless poisonous mist.

Although it couldn't be incinerated in the short term, wearing it down was merely a matter of time.

However, for Xiangliu, this was dire; being separated from water already weakened it, and now being deprived of poison, tasks that originally required the Mountain God's help were accomplished by Mu Yi alone.

Xiangliu fell into its weakest moment; aside from its robust physique and astonishing recovery speed, it lost all means.

Mu Yi held the Formation Blade, silently mobilizing Cloud Energy, gathering the Cloud Energy onto the blade in his hand.

"Cut it for me!"

A brilliant thunderbolt exploded on Xiangliu's body.

Bang!!!

With one strike, Mu Yi severed three of Xiangliu's heads, and a sky-filling blood mist sprayed from the wounds.

The blood mist suddenly came alive, transforming into countless tiny snakes that slithered toward the nearby soldiers.

Ah!!

Merely being entwined by the tiny snakes caused the soldiers to utter painful wails; Xiangliu's blood was even more terrifying than its poison, by a third.

The impurity permeating its flesh had long soaked into its blood and meat, giving its flesh strong toxicity and a horrifying contaminating effect.

However, Mu Yi noticed that when these tiny snakes dispersed, Xiangliu's head recovery speed obviously slowed greatly, its connection to water severed, and it was suppressed by the belief region tied to the barrier.

Weakened Xiangliu showed signs of decline; although its head was still constantly repairing, its regenerative power was clearly far weaker than before, and its recovery speed seemed unable to keep up with the rate of destruction.

"Asura Path!"

Mu Yi narrowed his eyes and summoned the Sea of Blood; Xiangliu tried to mobilize its energy to control this force, but the Sea of Blood had no water whatsoever—Xiangliu's efforts were utterly in vain, like casting flirtatious glances at a blind man.

"Long time no see, you bastard!"

Chang Haoran crawled up from the Sea of Blood; Mu Yi temporarily lacked the ability to revive them, so he could only use the linkage between the Asura Path and the Human Path, letting these fallen soldiers rise again as Asura-bodied beings.

Although their combat strength was greatly weakened, correspondingly they gained immortal bodies!

"Kill!"

Chang Haoran roared as he leapt up, swinging his weapon to leave a gruesome wound on one of Xiangliu's heads.

The attacked Xiangliu head painfully howled, flinging Chang Haoran off; before his body had even fallen from the sky, Xiangliu's head came crashing down with a heavy whoosh.

Chang Haoran's face grim, he gripped his weapon tightly and pointed straight at the falling Xiangliu head; even if he died, he wanted to leave another scar on Xiangliu.

Amid the roaring sound, Chang Haoran and the nearby soldiers were flattened, then immediately struck upward by the swinging head.

"Dying once sure hurts!"

Chang Haoran, drenched head to toe in fresh blood that dyed him crimson, crawled up from the Sea of Blood, grinning ferociously as he raised his weapon.

"We meet again! Damn monster!"

Endlessly, Asuras emerge from the Sea of Blood, leaving countless wounds on Xiang Liu. Even though Xiang Liu can kill several, even dozens, each time, its sheer size is overwhelming, allowing attacks from any direction.

Xiang Liu cannot attend to both head and tail, constantly receiving wounds on his body from the Asuras.

The weapons the Asuras wield are mixed with Hungry Ghosts from the Hungry Ghost Path; each attack forces Xiang Liu to expend more power to heal.

"Everyone except those with Guan Linglong, charge forward, and at any cost, hurt it for me!"

Mu Yi issued a near‑cold, suicide‑style order, and knowing the soldiers would revive, they launched a suicidal assault on Xiang Liu without hesitation.

They ignored Xiang Liu's attacks; even in death they would leave a wound on him, increasing his burden.

The slain soldiers bathed in the Sea of Blood, riding the surging river of death, crawled out again, and ferociously launched another suicide raid on Xiang Liu.

Xiang Liu's immortal body is terrifying, but Mu Yi, who controls the cycle of life and death, is even more frightening.

The clash of immortals is exceptionally brutal; even Ao Mo could not escape the falling calamity, his body was bitten off by Xiang Liu and fell into the Sea of Blood, becoming part of it.

Then Ao Mo roared out of the Sea of Blood; having died once, he no longer cared about anything, disregarding his own survival, and crazily attacked Xiang Liu.

Xiang Liu's wound‑healing slowed more and more; under Mu Yi's control, the barrier gave up suppressing Xiang Liu's strength and instead focused on suppressing his recovery.

With the might of the army, they warped reality, using idealistic power to limit Xiang Liu's regeneration.

When the scars on Xiang Liu's body multiplied, Mu Yi knew the time had come.

"Guan Linglong, bring your people and go up with me, shred it!"

Mu Yi led Guan Linglong, who had been gathering strength from start to finish, and the swordmen in a charge.

"Heavenly Path!"

Divine power surged from the Heavenly Path and gathered onto the Spirit of the White Tiger.

The White Tiger Spirit, which had been hovering over the army's heads, roared and turned into golden radiance that fell onto Mu Yi and his companions, coating their weapons with an almost razor‑sharp edge.

"Kill with me! Give it no chance to recover; chop it into minced meat!"

"Slash!"

Mu Yi rode ahead, his battle blade and holy sword crossing, instantly leaving a ferocious scar on Xiang Liu.

Bang!

Xiang Liu's head crashed down like a meteor, but Mu Yi, using Time Acceleration, dodged, his expression calm.

Only by getting close to Xiang Liu can one feel the enormity of his size, and with his agile attacks, the crushing pressure.

Although the suppression of the Faith Zone was relaxed, the Cloud Energy's suppression remained, yet even so, Xiang Liu's attributes were still exaggerated beyond measure.

But however exaggerated, the drawback of his massive size remained unavoidable.

Constrained by Cloud Energy, Xiang Liu, exhausted as if fleeing, launched attacks in all directions from his spot, yet his size was still so huge that he could strike from any angle.

Guan Linglong, with her personal guards, lunged at Xiang Liu's tail, using a sharp blade technique to sever it, continuously dismembering his body.

Even though a single strike would cause Xiang Liu's blood to splash and kill them, they launched the slash without hesitation.

The courage of battle spreads contagiously, especially among the Cloud‑energy‑sustained army; when everyone had gone mad from the Sea of Blood, no one would retreat.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Everyone had become Sea of Blood Asuras, crazily hacking at Xiang Liu, continuously dismembering his body.

Bang

Dodging the falling head attack, Mu Yi flipped his hand and thrust his battle blade into Xiang Liu's vertical pupil.

The suffering Xiang Liu twisted his head wildly.

Mu Yi gripped the holy sword with both hands, unleashed all internal force, radiated holy light, and sliced the writhing Xiang Liu's head.

This time, Xiang Liu's head did not recover at high speed.

Mu Yi activated Spatial Transposition, pulling Xiang Liu into the Animal Realm; the limbs Xiang Liu had severed in the Asura Path instantly lost vitality and began to be devoured by the Sea of Blood.

Heavenly Path, Human Path, Asura Path, Hell Path—four of the Six Paths have already been overtaken by Xiang Liu's blood, poison, and filth.

Mu Yi now has only the Hungry Ghost Path and the Animal Realm left to rely on.

Seeing the Xiang Liu before him, already covered in scales and missing three heads, Mu Yi knew victory was near.

"Ghost Gate, hold!"

A massive Ghost Gate descended from the sky, pinning Xiang Liu beneath it.

"Xiang Liu!?"

Two Gate Gods emerged from the Ghost Gate, staring in horror at the Xiang Liu trapped beneath.

I didn't check the almanac before leaving today; how did I run into this thing? If I'd known, I wouldn't have…

It was just boredom that sensed Mu Yi's commotion, so the true spirit descended onto the Gate Gods' bodies, but didn't expect Mu Yi to be fighting Xiang Liu.

"Although it's just a brat, this scent…"

The two dark‑faced Gate Gods dared not strike Xiang Liu, fearing his blood would splash onto them.

Few things make them fear; Xiang Liu is definitely one.

The two combined their mana in the high sky, pouring it into the Ghost Gate, making it press Xiang Liu down tightly.

The two Gate Gods watched the army, already driven mad by Xiang Liu in the Sea of Blood, and Mu Yi, whose body was soaked through with Xiang Liu's blood.

"A true man! No wonder Hou Tu Niangniang values such a spectacularly brilliant fellow!" The two Gate Gods' admiration for Mu Yi flowed endlessly.

Back then, even when the Human King ordered it, no one wanted to deal with Xiang Liu; the Human King's reserve, Gong Gong, took the task, using water‑control arts stronger than Xiang Liu's to clean up the mess.

Now, they have witnessed, with their own eyes, the fierce men whose swords meet Xiang Liu's blood and fists strike flesh.

Mu Yi's power seemed insignificant to them, yet his bravery had already surpassed themselves in their hearts.

Anyway, they lacked the courage to grapple Xiang Liu hand‑to‑hand.

But for Mu Yi, it no longer mattered; you might Instinctively fear the filthy thing, yet when you're already coated in it, only pure killing intent remains.

Xiang Liu, you Mu Ye Ye, today we blast you!

Even if the Heavenly King and Old Master came today, only one could survive.

(End of chapter)