Chapter 878: The Second Unification of the World Boundary!

Crack, crack, crack!

The outside world.

Li Zhiyi sat cross-legged atop the Golden Dragon of Will, cracks appearing and spreading across his physical body.

He kept his eyes tightly shut, the power of will within his body constantly extinguishing, showing signs of collapsing.

"You..."

The Longevity King spoke in astonishment, looking at Li Zhiyi; he could feel a great terror being born within Li Zhiyi's body.

Beside him, the Blood Sword Saint, Chen Min, and others also looked at Li Zhiyi in shock.

"Where did something go wrong?!" Chen Min asked, his tone somewhat anxious.

The Hidden Family ancestor, Yin Xue, who had not spoken until now, also frowned.

Even he could sense the anomaly in Li Zhiyi.

Yin Xue fell silent.

Was this the reason why Li Zhiyi retreated his troops?

Looking at the rapidly approaching World of Malice, Yin Xue's gaze locked onto the three-headed dragon shadow soaring within it.

He gritted his teeth, then looked toward the direction of Xiaoyang City:

"If it doesn't work, then replace him!"

He transmitted his voice with the power of an Eighth-Rank, speaking to Xia Hanzhou.

However, he received no reply from Xia Hanzhou.

Yin Xue's jaw tightened, his gaze cold and hard yet he did not act, though his hands had already begun to tremble.

The Hidden Family had always been a great family within the Great Xia, and every generation of the Hidden Family served in the Military Guard.

In the past, Yin Xue's eldest son followed Lu Xunyang to attack and kill in Jizhou, where he fell.

That time, Yin Xue wept bitterly for three days, and his cultivation realm plummeted.

And his last hope fell upon his daughter, Yin Qingshuang, and his grandson, Yin Youming.

Fortunately.

His daughter, Yin Qingshuang, became a world-renowned, extremely powerful Eighth-Rank.

His grandson, Yin Youming, was a Second-Rank General Star at a young age, with a promising future.

However, things in the world are unpredictable.

Both his daughter and grandson disappeared within that World of Malice.

The aged Yin Xue held a breath in his heart, a breath that would cause his death the moment it was exhaled.

He only wanted to come over, to come and see his daughter and grandson.

But now, he could not see them.

Originally, Yin Xue had been harboring anger toward Li Zhiyi, but seeing Li Zhiyi's current state, he turned his head away, unable to speak.

He hung his head and made no further sound, like an old lion gathering its strength, waiting for its own desperate final struggle.

Li Zhiyi's whole body trembled, his eyes tightly shut, as the strength of the Will path was constantly suppressed.

The main body was within the Sea of Malice, encountering great danger, even the risk of falling into madness.

Absorbing thirty-four strands of Ancient God aura at once was not dangerous.

But those thirty-four strands of Ancient God aura had already formed a vague shape of a status, possessing a certain ability of an Ancient God status.

Even the current Chen Yan found it difficult to shake.

Malice and will are like ice and fire.

Ice can extinguish fire, but if the fire is torrential, it can also melt the cold ice.

Chen Yan was getting closer and closer to the position of the Ancient God, and the danger was also constantly devouring Chen Yan's path of retreat.

"Protect me!"

Li Zhiyi said in a muffled voice.

"Good!"

The Longevity King spoke, the Qi and blood around his body surging, condensing into the Bronze Longevity Cauldron.

The ten-thousand-year patterns on the cauldron body flowed, steadily protecting Li Zhiyi within it.

Inside the Ten-Thousand-Year Longevity Cauldron, Li Zhiyi suddenly opened his eyes wide.

The outline of his left eye disintegrated into black fluff filling the sky, and the cracks on his physical body continued to spread.

"Ka!"

A strange screech erupted from Li Zhiyi's mouth.

He could feel that the evil from the ancient times wanted to transform him at this moment, to transform the Will path.

This scene could not be seen by outsiders.

But the white-haired Longevity King, who was manifesting the Ten-Thousand-Year Longevity Cauldron, had his pupils shake violently, with immense fear and confusion surging in the depths of his eyes.

"What happened?"

Xia Hanzhou's voice transmission arrived.

"I felt... the aura of an Ancient God on him."

The Longevity King transmitted his voice with a trembling tone.

"What?!"

Xia Hanzhou exclaimed.

The next instant.

A spear light erupted from Xiaoyang City, piercing through layers of spatial arrays, stabbing toward Tuizhou.

At the same time.

Above Xiaoyang City, Zhang Xing, clad in golden armor, stood calmly, looking toward the direction of Tuizhou.

Beside him, the Zhang family ancestor, Zhang Wang, sent a voice transmission to Zhang Xing:

"Good, that Li Zhiyi doesn't even dare to fight."

Zhang Xing's eyes were calm; he did not send a voice transmission, but a flash of mockery crossed the depths of his eyes.

He was aware of the march of the State Within a State.

After all, he, Chen Liu, and Wu Yuan were the three human incarnations of the Unmanifested Void Sacrifice.

The three of them also shared cognition.

Chen Liu launching the march was precisely to force Li Zhiyi to act.

Once Li Zhiyi acted, the Nether Nightmare Beast hidden within the State Within a State would instantly kill Li Zhiyi.

It could even lure out Lu Xunyang, who had yet to recover from his heavy injuries.

Li Zhiyi retreating was actually something Zhang Xing did not wish to see.

But now, Li Zhiyi had already lost four cities, and the Great Xia's trust in him had dropped to the lowest point.

This was also one of the situations Zhang Xing wanted to see.

Zhang Xing wanted to become a Great Xia Divine General and, taking advantage of Lu Xunyang's inability to act, dominate the Great Xia Military Guards.

Li Zhiyi was the first opponent Zhang Xing had encountered.

Now that Li Zhiyi was like this, Zhang Xing was instead happy to see it happen.

Zhang Xing stood calmly, but his peripheral vision caught sight of the Acting State Leader, Xia Yuan, high in the distant sky.

As his gaze flickered, Zhang Xing bowed and said:

"Zhang Xing is willing to serve as the Great General for Subjugating Evil and pacify the State Within a State within one month!"

As Zhang Xing's voice fell, the various Eighth-Rankers and Creation Realm experts located in Xiaoyang all cast their gazes over.

Jiang Yuan and Shen Yiwu were standing together; noticing Zhang Xing looking over, Jiang Yuan hurriedly cupped his hands.

A smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Xing's mouth.

Jiang Yuan was a core figure of the Speech Party faction and had long been on good terms with him.

If he wanted to squeeze out Li Zhiyi and become the Great General for Subjugating Evil, the Speech Party faction would certainly nominate him.

Hearing Zhang Xing's words, Xia Yuan looked at Zhang Xing, remained silent for a moment, and said:

"There are some circumstances on Li Zhiyi's side; we can wait and see for now.

Only with you in Xiaoyang can we hold off the Five-Race Alliance."

Zhang Xing's eyes narrowed slightly, and he cupped his hands again:

"Ten days!

In ten days, Zhang Xing can pacify the State Within a State!"

His voice was resolute and decisive, resounding over Xiaoyang.

In an instant.

All the Military Guards looked up toward the high sky.

Someone spoke up:

"General Zhang Xing sweeps away all enemies; if he says ten days, it will surely be ten days!"

"Why not let General Zhang Xing try? I believe in him!"

"That Li Zhiyi retreats again and again; in the past, when he broke through the encirclement of the five races, he wasn't like this."

"The battle of the past concerned his life and death; today's battle does not concern his life and death, so naturally he is unwilling to use his full strength!"

"Retreating again and again, where is the backbone of our Great Xia, where is the face of our human race?"

One voice after another rang out.

These were Military Guards who had fought side-by-side with Zhang Xing; during this time, Zhang Xing's reputation had already spread throughout Great Xia.

A smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Xing's mouth as he puffed out his chest and looked at Xia Yuan.

This was not forcing the palace; this was the trend of the situation.

Xia Yuan frowned, swept a glance at the people speaking, locked his gaze back onto Zhang Xing, and said:

"Wait a little longer."

"Yes." Zhang Xing bowed, his eyes like an ancient well without ripples, showing no signs of anything unusual.

But below, the eyes of many Military Guards were already filled with anxiety.

Some had even begun to whisper, dissatisfied with Xia Yuan's decision.

Xia Yuan possessed great strength and had always been hiding in Jizhou, disguised as the Second Marshal of Jizhou; how could he not hear these voices?

Xia Yuan's brows furrowed slightly, and his Adam's apple rolled silently.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Xing spoke to the crowd:

"In this time of national ruin and family destruction, we cannot survive without unity.

Since the Acting State Leader has already set the policy, I hope all of you will cast aside personal prejudices, face the difficulties together, and raise no further objections."

As Zhang Xing's voice fell, the objections on the ground gradually diminished.

Xia Yuan looked at Zhang Xing and nodded.

A flash of mockery flickered in the depths of Zhang Xing's eyes.

Great Xia trusted that Li Zhiyi so much, perhaps because Li Zhiyi was a Will Warrior.

But now...

How much longer could Li Zhiyi hold on?

Yet it was also at this moment.

"Has the human race become this feeble?"

A vigorous and ear-piercing screech resounded through heaven and earth.

Within that boundless world of malice.

A three-headed dragon body was shrouded in darkness, yet that massive form coiling through the sky brought endless oppression to everyone.

A ferocious dragon head poked out from the black mist of malice, staring down at the human world:

"This Dragon King has already taken four cities; it is too little, far too little. Today, all of you Great Xia humans must move out of Great Xia for me!

Otherwise, malice will overturn the heavens, and there will be no place left in this world for you to dwell!"

Rumble!

Countless bolts of pitch-black thunder struck down, and amidst the three-headed dragon body soaring through the clouds, countless ghostly things appeared and vanished.

Screech!!!

One after another, the screeches of ancient divine beasts intertwined together.

There was a massive spider covering the sky and sun, crawling above the firmament; its abdomen split open into a vertical giant mouth, inside of which was an endlessly rotating nebula-like vortex.

There was a slender body spanning heaven and earth, formed by countless tentacles bound together, twisting and turning within the black mist of malice.

There was one without a fixed physical form, at times like writhing viscous mist, at times splitting into thousands of slender arms, silently clawing in the darkness.

Screech!

Countless screeches bound together, piercing into the hearts and minds of the human race.

Even the Great Xia living beings outside of Tui Province heard it, and looks of terror emerged in people's eyes.

"Malice is slaughtering the cities, malice is slaughtering the cities!"

"Where are the Sun-Patrolling Divine Generals, where are the Sun-Patrolling Divine Generals!"

"Heaven is going to destroy our Great Xia; it's over, everything is going to be over."

"If only the Heavenly Divine General were still here..."

In an instant.

Among the Great Xia living beings, some roared in anger, some were in despair, and some were filled with grief.

Above the skies of Qin Province and Tie Province.

The high-ranking members of the Five Clans watched; some frowned, but more were filled with keen interest.

"Heaven intends to destroy Great Xia; my Five Clans are merely acting in accordance with Heaven's will."

Chen Qi spoke indifferently, already harboring the thought of borrowing the momentum to dispatch troops.

Above the Golden Dragon of Will.

Inside the Longevity Ten-Thousand-Year Cauldron.

Li Zhiyi's necrotic eyes suddenly erupted with golden light, and streaks of golden-red flames burst forth and circulated upon his body.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

The power of malice and the power of will slaughtered each other, devouring and extinguishing one another.

"I have not yet seen the ancient gods, I have not yet raised my butcher's knife against the ancient gods..."

He whispered, never having worried that he would be defeated by that vague ancient god status.

All the scattered power of will returned like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, rampaging within Li Zhiyi's body.

On the side of the original body, the power of will finally began to devour and extinguish those thirty-four ancient god auras.

Xia Hanzhou's blood-energy figure appeared one step ahead inside the Longevity Ten-Thousand-Year Cauldron, and just as he was about to speak, his body was scorched by the power of will, which was like a blazing sun.

"Do not... disturb me." Li Zhiyi sat cross-legged, his entire body's aura constantly boiling.

"I cannot wait!" Xia Hanzhou was stunned at first, then roared in a low voice.

"Immediately!" Li Zhiyi said.

"Good!" Xia Hanzhou said, and his figure dissipated.

Hum, hum, hum!

Streaks of bright red destruction will intertwined and boiled within Li Zhiyi's eyes.

Gradually, the nineteenth!

The twentieth!

The twenty-first!

Li Zhiyi's broken physical body began to tremble, and blinding golden light burst forth from the cracks.

He was like a great sun constantly burning and exploding, his entire body's aura erupting at this moment!

Bang, bang, bang!!!

The powerful force of will constantly slammed against the Longevity Ten-Thousand-Year Cauldron.

Li Zhiyi's heart thundered as intensely as the war drums of a Heavenly Palace.

The twenty-second!

The twenty-third!

…………

The twenty-eighth!

The Longevity Ten-Thousand-Year Cauldron began to tremble, and the ten-thousand-year patterns inside were dyed crimson-gold.

Increasingly scorching temperatures radiated outward.

Li Zhiyi's head of red hair seemed wrapped in gold leaf, and his pair of eyes also erupted with scorching golden-red light, terrifying to the extreme.

He did not cultivate blood energy, nor did he cultivate hard-body tempering.

Yet the physical body is merely one-third of Chen Yan's domain of will.

His strength in the path of will is even more than ten times that of Chen Yan!

Hum!

A strange sensation emerged from the bottom of Li Zhiyi's heart.

A certain connection was formed in the darkness.

It is 【Unity】, this number one divine technique under heaven!

Within the gray, hazy world, Li Zhiyi sat upon the stone seat ranked fiftieth.

Based solely on the path of will!

Among the fifty Unity World-Suppressors, there are masters of the Martial Dao, ninth-rank humans, and supreme eighth-rank beings.

There are supreme eighth-rank ancient divine beasts, and even those two, Bai E and Fanni, who have suppressed the human race for ten thousand years.

And now, the fiftieth-ranked Unity World-Suppressor is Li Zhiyi.

This one, a will martial artist of the third realm of the path of will!