Chapter 796: Slaughtering the Green Mountain

"Blood Vine Grand Array!!!"

Chen Yuanxin roared, and as the sound fell, surging blood-colored vines suddenly shot up into the sky, lunging toward Li Zhiyi.

Li Zhiyi's eyes were icy, and Blood Brand suddenly vibrated at a high frequency, the blade dragging out thousands of blood-colored afterimages.

Clatter, clatter, clatter!!!

The surging blood-colored vines were slashed into fragments.

With a bang!

A flash of gunfire, blindingly bright, instantly shattered Li Zhiyi's shoulder, blood sprayed out, and Li Zhiyi's body began to stagger backward.

At the very rear of the army, a short-haired woman crouching on a tree trunk cried out in surprise; she held a three-meter-long silver sniper rifle, and strands of mysterious light flowed around the muzzle, condensing into mysterious bullets.

"I hit him!"

The short-haired woman laughed in surprise, her single eye fixed on Li Zhiyi through the scope.

"Well done!" Chen Yuanxin laughed loudly.

Finally, blood was drawn.

The short-haired woman sneered and pressed the trigger again.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!!!

A rapid-fire burst.

Li Zhiyi's chest, abdomen, and neck were hit by three bullets, his body blasted backward, blood spraying wildly.

The short-haired woman secretly thought it a pity; one bullet had clearly been aimed at Li Zhiyi's head, but he had dodged it.

But these few shots were enough to cripple half of the opponent, especially in a battle where every second counted; Li Zhiyi's combat power being damaged would only lead to his own defeat.

Immediately following.

The short-haired woman aimed again, her line of sight locked onto Li Zhiyi's eyes through the scope.

Yet, she suddenly felt a chill wash over her.

For she saw that the man who had been shot had only taken a step back, and when he looked back, his eyes were as icy as the Nine Netherworlds.

The short-haired woman's breath hitched, and it was in the moment of this hitch.

Li Zhiyi moved!

Boom!

Soil waves flew beneath Li Zhiyi's feet, and the forest was filled with a murderous blood-red light.

Following that, hand raised and blade falling, streaks of blood-colored blade light were slashed out, fast to the extreme!

Wherever they passed, a needle-point-sized red dot appeared between the brows of the military guards.

The soldiers in the rear only saw their comrades suddenly stand stiff, and then their physical bodies began to split apart.

Just as they opened their mouths wide, Li Zhiyi had already leaped up, Blood Brand slashing vertically like a pouring river of blood.

Before the blade radiance arrived, the rock layer beneath the army had already collapsed with a roar.

The short-haired woman gritted her teeth and opened fire again.

Bang, bang, bang!!!

Wherever the streaks of gunfire reached, they were shattered by the blade light.

Looking again, one military guard after another had their bodies sliced open, blood spraying wildly.

Shattered armor, broken weapons, and minced flesh were everywhere.

Li Zhiyi was like a crazed wild wolf charging into a flock of sheep; no one could block his fangs and blades.

"Retreat!"

"Activate him!"

"Charge!!!"

Sounds of either anger or panic suddenly rang out.

The military formation deployed by the army was already showing signs of collapse, and Chen Youqing, above the void, already had a face ashen with rage.

"Stop him, stop him, I will shoot him dead!"

The short-haired woman at the very rear roared, and for some reason, the sniper rifle in her hands began to tremble.

"You're courting death!!!"

Chen Yuanxin roared in fury, falling from high altitude, throwing out a punch; the punch was like a dragon, and streaks of blood-colored long air accompanied him as he descended.

Such heavy casualties would also be a great crime for him.

Li Zhiyi's body stepped horizontally across the void, not even looking at Chen Yuanxin, as his power of will exploded instantly.

Like a great sun shattering, the endless power of will surged wildly in all directions, uncontrolled.

Chen Yuanxin only felt as if he had fallen into a quagmire, his consciousness vanishing.

"Retreat!"

High above, Chen Youqing's voice was icy to the extreme, as if the words were squeezed out from between his teeth.

As this command fell, Chen Yuanxin's consciousness regained clarity.

But he had already seen the blade Li Zhiyi slashed from below.

"Ah ah ah ah!!!"

As Chen Yuanxin's heart-wrenching roar rang out, Li Zhiyi thrust his blade upward, directly piercing through Chen Yuanxin's forehead and body.

Chen Yuanxin, dead!

"Retreat!"

"Retreat!"

"Flee!!!"

With the Creation Realm expert fallen, the remaining Allied Army collapsed in an instant, each of them roaring as they began to flee.

Li Zhiyi's eyes were cold to the extreme; he would not give these people any chance to escape.

Gripping the hilt with both hands, Blood Brand erupted with blinding blood-red flames.

The blade traced a profound trajectory, as if the surrounding air had been drained dry, leaving only the blood-red light slashing down.

Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!!!!

Body after body was slashed to pieces, flesh and blood splattered, and heads rolled.

The military formation vanished; there was nothing left that could stop Li Zhiyi.

The short-haired woman who had originally been aiming at Li Zhiyi now had a deathly pale face, and the flesh and blood all over her body were wailing.

Run!!!

Her speed was extremely fast; she was not an ordinary Allied Army soldier to begin with, and her speed was much faster than the others.

Behind her, wails rang out one after another.

"Ahhh!!!"

"Save me!"

Boom, crack, swish!!!

The sound of blades cutting through flesh, the sound of trees snapping, screams, and wails rang out, weaving together to shake the entire Green Mountain.

The short-haired woman flew through the void like a streak of light, her expression growing increasingly ugly as she listened to the screams behind her.

She did not dare to look back to see what was happening behind her at all.

At this moment, being even one step slow meant death.

She gritted her teeth; if she could just get back, she could apply for a merit exchange and obtain a Bright Moon-grade Blood-Qi martial technique.

Once she learned it, her strength would undergo a qualitative leap, allowing her to snipe enemies from a hundred miles away.

She would remember today's humiliation, and one day she would personally shatter Li Zhiyi's head.

With a swish.

A strange sound rang out.

The short-haired woman did not pay it any mind, yet her body began to fall.

Her eyes widened as she fell uncontrollably, her body slamming into an ancient tree and crashing into the mud.

She was completely bewildered, not knowing why she could not manifest her Blood-Qi.

Only at this moment did the excruciating pain gradually wash over her, and she saw the other half of her body hanging bloodily on a tree not far away.

Blood sprayed, and her internal organs dangled down.

She opened her mouth but could not speak; her body had been cleanly sliced in two from her crotch to the top of her head.

"Li Zhiyi!"

A cold woman's voice rang out once more.

High above in the void, Chen Youqing's expression was ugly to the extreme, and the killing intent between her brows was impossible to hide.

Pfft!

Li Zhiyi slashed apart the head of a military guard on the ground whose body was already shattered but who was still struggling.

It was as if he hadn't heard Chen Youqing's voice at all.

"Don't... don't come over, ahhhhh!!!!"

An Allied Army guard with both legs severed watched Li Zhiyi approach and crawled backward with all his might, but his head was still slashed apart by Li Zhiyi.

"Ahhh!"

"Don't!"

"We're all family, we're all..."

One by one, the guards who still had a breath left had their bodies slashed to pieces amidst the most desperate wails, dying completely.

Li Zhiyi stood in a pool of blood, his knuckles white as he gripped the blood blade, dark red fluid dripping from the edge to the ground, splashing into tiny blood flowers.

He was bathed in blood, his brows covered in frost, and there was not a hint of warmth in his pupils, as if he were an Asura just dragged out of an ice cellar.

He turned his head and saw Jidao Wu approaching; Jidao Wu pursed his lips, looking at Li Zhiyi in this state, unable to speak.

"You..." Li Zhiyi looked at Jidao Wu, paused, and said:

"I don't have a Source Space."

Jidao Wu nodded:

"I understand."

He opened his mouth and glanced at the high sky, but he still began to store the shattered corpses of the guards into his own Source Space.

Chen Youqing hovered high in the sky, her skirt whipped by the heavenly winds, yet it could not hide the taut fury throughout her body.

If it weren't for the rule that Eighth-Rankers do not enter the fray, she would have already descended personally to completely annihilate Li Zhiyi.

Out of five thousand people, fewer than one thousand guards had escaped.

A full four thousand had been annihilated by Li Zhiyi right under Chen Youqing's nose.

If it had been a life-or-death battle, that would be one thing.

This person was killing purely for the sake of killing, even handling the finishing blows personally.

Chen Youqing gritted her silver teeth:

"I will give you one more chance; join my Five Clans, and this matter, including your previous killing of Chen Zhixian, can be resolved.

My Five Clans..."

As Chen Youqing spoke, she saw Li Zhiyi below suddenly raise his head:

"Get lost!!!"

A cold and furious voice resounded, shaking the mountain forest.

Chen Youqing's expression stiffened, and she looked at Li Zhiyi in disbelief.

The next instant, Chen Youqing turned and left directly.

Someone was waiting above the void, and it was none other than Chen Qi.

With such a massive disturbance at Green Mountain, it was difficult for Chen Qi not to notice.

"This person..." Chen Qi's expression was also very ugly:

"Could this person already know the secret of the Blood Brand?"

Chen Youqing gritted her teeth:

"How could he know?

Even if he knows, so what?

Becoming a Blood Gu is already stepping onto a path of certain death; how can he stop it?"

Chen Qi was silent for a moment:

"You... what do you intend to do?"

"Continue the attack. Send twenty thousand Alliance troops to surround Green Mountain—drown them, burn them, or use poison gas, it doesn't matter.

Whether the Alliance troops kill him or he kills the Alliance troops, it is all fine!"

Chen Qi was stunned for a moment, then looked at Chen Youqing and nodded.

Chen Youqing had spoken very clearly.

Since Li Zhiyi would not come to the Five Clans, then they would send the Alliance troops to him, continuing to let Li Zhiyi kill.

The Blood Brand accumulates killing intent; it only needs killing.

Whether it is killing Great Xia military guards, Alliance troops, or even ordinary living people, it all works.

All Chen Youqing wanted was for the Blood Brand to emerge.

This was already a solution with no other choice.

The other clans did not know the secret of the Blood Brand, nor did they know that Li Zhiyi was actually just a Blood Gu.

If they knew.

Then Chen Youqing's current decision to send her own people to feed the Blood Brand with their lives would absolutely incite the fury of the Alliance's high command.

But Chen Qi could not refute it.

Because, what he could think of was also this method.

"I want him to die without a burial place!"

Chen Youqing drank coldly:

"Once the Blood Brand emerges and he is devoured by it, I will seize his divine soul and punish him personally!

To appease the anger of the fallen Alliance troops!"

Chen Qi frowned:

"You need not be like this. If a war is entangled with personal emotions, the nature of the war will go wrong."

Chen Youqing glanced at Chen Qi coldly:

"Didn't that Chen Yan also punish Chen He for ten thousand years, altering Chen He's cognition to inflict endless torture—how terrifying was that?

Where is there any talk of gentleness regarding Chen Yan?

His coldness made even my father feel alarmed.

But he is Chen Yan; he is a monster, he is one of a kind throughout the ages.

I am not trying to imitate him; what I want is to be like him, with no regrets in my heart!"

In the past, Chen Yan altered Chen He's cognition.

To the outside world, it might have been only a short time, but Chen Yan's alteration of cognition could blur others' perception of time.

For Chen He, it was as if he had been tortured for ten thousand years.

What made the Chen Lord feel palpitations was exactly this: Chen He was being tortured, and Chen Yan was clearly aware of every single detail, yet Chen Yan did not stop at all.

After Chen Youqing finished speaking, she left.

At this moment.

Li Zhiyi's eruption of powerful will, wielding the Blood Brand to annihilate four thousand Alliance troops and two Creation Realm experts, spread crazily.

Not just the Five Clans, but also Great Xia—this news spread into the ears of the high command on both sides as if it had grown wings.

The name of the Blood Brand resounded through the human world once again.

Besides the Blood Brand, the name of the Blood Brand's wielder, Li Zhiyi, also spread.

Crackle...

In the forest, electric light flickered, and in a place Li Zhiyi did not even notice, this bolt of current instantly darted into the depths of the earth's core.

Beneath the mantle, within the magma.

A massive thunder ball floated slowly.

Only by lurking beneath the mantle could the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison evade the perception of an Eighth-Rank.

At this moment, inside the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

Zhang Huizhi slowly opened his eyes; his consciousness returned from the Enlightenment Myriad Forms Map.

When the thunder ball creature transmitted the intelligence regarding Li Zhiyi, Zhang Huizhi's pupils constricted.

"Good!"

Zhang Huizhi laughed out loud:

"Such a treasure is meant to be used by me!"