Chapter 654

Since the Human Race awakened quite a few Mahayana elders this time.

The Human Race's Mahayana experts held a certain numerical advantage this time.

Even though the Human Race had pre-positioned eighteen experts who had comprehended a sliver of the true meaning of the Great Dao's laws, lying in ambush and hidden somewhere in the void.

After the great war erupted, several battlefields still saw two Human Race Mahayana experts besieging a single Green Demon Race Mahayana expert.

However, because those Human Race Mahayana experts with little lifespan remaining feared exhausting their life force during the battle and directly dissolving into the Dao within the void, they hesitated to unleash their peak combat power.

Thus, even when besieged by two Human Race Mahayana experts, the Green Demon Race Mahayana experts in several battlefields were more than capable of defending themselves, even achieving a stalemate.

This situation did not arise because those Human Race elders nearing the end of their lives feared death.

Rather, these Human Race elders were calculating gains and losses in their hearts.

Compared to dissolving into the Dao within the void, these elders with little lifespan remaining preferred to dissolve into the Dao within the Earthly Mystic Realm.

By dissolving into the Dao within the Earthly Mystic Realm, they could use the spiritual power accumulated throughout their lives to nourish the Earthly Mystic Realm and their own factions before perishing.

To expect them to hold nothing back, seal their lifespans which were about to reach the critical point, and directly unleash their peak combat power.

Unless they could ensure that after unleashing their peak combat power, they would be able to kill a Green Demon Race Mahayana expert within a short time.

Otherwise, they would not simply dissolve into the Dao within the void for nothing.

Moreover, these elders nearing the end of their lives clearly understood that the main force of this plan to trap and kill Green Demon Race Mahayana experts was not them.

They only needed to do their best to hold their opponents, preventing them from noticing anything amiss and fleeing the battlefield prematurely.

Long before the great war began, the Human Race had already planned this out in advance.

The Human Race elders with little lifespan remaining only needed to pair up and hold back some Green Demon Race Mahayana experts who lacked Immortal Artifacts for protection and possessed ordinary combat power at critical moments.

As for the Green Demon Race Mahayana experts who were not the targets of this trap and possessed Immortal Artifacts for protection.

To prevent these Green Demon Race experts from breaking the Human Race's trap plan at critical moments and unleashing the power of their Immortal Artifacts to rescue Green Demon Race Mahayana experts in other battlefields.

It was also to prevent these Green Demon Realm Mahayana experts from using the power of their Immortal Artifacts to kill ordinary Human Race Mahayana experts, causing casualties among the Human Race experts.

From the moment combat began, Human Race experts wielding Immortal Artifacts had already been assigned to pin them down.

Somewhere in the void.

Cen Zhe held the Profound Heaven Sect's inherited Immortal Artifact, the Profound Heaven Sword, gazing coldly at the nearby Demon Evil Great Venerable.

"Demon Evil, that sword strike over a hundred years ago must have been unpleasant, right?"

Upon hearing this, the Demon Evil Great Venerable's face instantly darkened, and the wound deep in his chest, which had not yet healed, throbbed with pain.

This was not his illusion; deep within the wound in his chest, a sword light containing a sliver of the Great Dao's laws still stubbornly clung to the depths of his injury.

The power of the Great Dao's laws contained within that sword light originated precisely from the Profound Heaven Sword in Cen Zhe's hand.

If not for the interference of this sliver of Great Dao law power, Cen Zhe's sword light would have been expelled by the Demon Evil Great Venerable long ago.

Seemingly sensing its master, this sword light, now significantly dimmed, trembled slightly and radiated its final glow.

However, the power of this faint sword light had been worn down considerably by the Demon Evil Great Venerable over the years, and it could no longer significantly affect the Great Venerable's combat performance.

"Hmph!"

With a cold snort from the Demon Evil Great Venerable, the dim sword light stirring within his body was instantly suppressed, unable to raise even a single ripple.

Although the Demon Evil Great Venerable had not yet comprehended his own Great Dao laws, he too possessed an Immortal Artifact for protection.

Utilizing a wisp of Great Dao law power contained within the Immortal Artifact.

He could not use his own body as a battlefield to forcibly expel the sword light containing a sliver of Great Dao law power deep within his body by unleashing the Great Dao law power from the Immortal Artifact in a short time.

However, he could temporarily suppress that sword light and gradually wear it down; over a hundred years had passed, and the sword light Cen Zhe had originally struck into his body could no longer inflict effective damage upon him.

Glancing at the Profound Heaven Sword in Cen Zhe's hand, the Demon Evil Great Venerable said calmly, "Cen Zhe, the Profound Heaven Sword in your hand is indeed strong; but times have changed, and it can no longer inflict effective damage upon me."

While speaking, the Demon Evil Great Venerable clasped his hands behind his back, chest out, looking confident and calm.

Seeing that the Demon Evil's calm demeanor did not seem feigned, Cen Zhe felt a sudden surge of curiosity.

His eyes shifted slightly, and a sharp silver-white sword light tore through the void, breaking all obstacles as it slashed toward the opposing Demon Evil Great Venerable.

"Voom!"

The void trembled and distorted slightly.

Where the sword light passed, the chaotic and extremely violent void energy instantly evaporated.

The various rule storms stirred and spread by the clashes of Mahayana experts in other battlefields within the void were also suppressed and extinguished in an instant.

Facing Cen Zhe's casual strike with an Immortal Artifact, the opposing Demon Evil Great Venerable showed no fear whatsoever.

Waving a black-and-gold large flag in his hand, he launched an attack woven with rules and containing a thin sliver of Great Dao law power directly at Cen Zhe.

This black-and-gold large flag was precisely the Sky-Shielding Flag, a lower-grade Immortal Artifact.

However, the Sky-Shielding Flag was an auxiliary magic treasure; when the Green Demon Realm invaded the Earthly Mystic Realm's subordinate worlds, it was the Demon Evil Great Venerable who used the Sky-Shielding Flag to block all fluctuations and heavenly secrets.

"Bang! Boom! Boom-boom!"

When their attacks collided, the resulting energy and rule shockwaves spread tens of thousands of li even within the void, which possessed greater compression.

Layers of spreading shockwaves drew upon the energy of this void, triggering energy tides spanning tens of thousands of li.

The chaotic void energy became turbulent once more, evolving into various rule storms that swept in all directions.

The scope was so vast that it even affected the battlefields of other Mahayana experts.

Fortunately, this shockwave aftermath was directly ignored by the many Mahayana experts and did not affect the battles between other Mahayana experts.

After the collision, although the sword light slashed by Cen Zhe had dimmed considerably, it was not completely destroyed.

After piercing through the Demon Evil Great Venerable's attack, in the blink of an eye, Cen Zhe's sword light shot toward the opposing Demon Evil Great Venerable again.

Facing this significantly dimmed sword light, the Demon Evil Great Venerable did not dodge, nor did he launch another attack to counter it.

Under Cen Zhe's gaze, the Demon Evil Great Venerable stood still in place with his hands clasped behind his back, allowing the sword light to slash directly at his body.

Seeing this, a trace of astonishment appeared in the eyes of Cen Zhe in the distance.

"Bang! Boom! Boom-boom!"

The sword light struck the body of the Great Demon Sovereign, triggering a chain of explosions that erupted into a violent roar of energy.

Yet Cen Zhe's face showed no joy; instead, he frowned slightly and said, "A lower-grade Immortal Artifact-grade armor? Is this your trump card that lets you remain so composed?"

His sword light did not strike the Great Demon Sovereign's body directly; instead, it was blocked by a suit of armor that suddenly appeared on the Great Demon Sovereign's body, covered in black-gold patterns.

Seeing Cen Zhe's slightly frowning expression, the Great Demon Sovereign laughed loudly in response, "Hehehe, correct. This is the Lower-Grade Immortal Artifact, the Profound Origin Demon Armor, which I recently obtained from the secret realm of my clan's territory."

"Although the Profound Heaven Sword in your hand is powerful, with the Sky-Shielding Banner and the Profound Origin Demon Armor, I have no fear of your attacks."

Hearing this, Cen Zhe's gaze sharpened, and he spoke coldly:

"Is that so? Then let us test it."

As soon as his words fell, Cen Zhe's figure shifted in an instant, transforming into a series of afterimages that unleashed relentless attacks upon the arrogant Great Demon Sovereign.

Seeing this, the Great Demon Sovereign suppressed the smile on his face, held the Sky-Shielding Banner, wore the Profound Origin Demon Armor, and charged forward to meet the attack head-on.

"Voom!"

"Bang!""Pow!"

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"Boom!""Boom!""Boom-boom!"

This fierce head-on collision instantly triggered turbulent energy tides and chaotic rule storms within this void.

Although it was indeed difficult for Cen Zhe to slay the Great Demon Sovereign, who was protected by Immortal Artifacts—two of them.

Yet his mission for this journey was simply to tie up the Great Demon Sovereign, rendering him unable to attend to other battlefields.

To this end, after probing the source of the Great Demon Sovereign's confidence, Cen Zhe directly unleashed a continuous high-intensity offensive, leaving the Great Demon Sovereign no opportunity to think or be distracted.

On the other side.

The Master of Lingxiao and the Demon Abyss Emperor, ignoring the chaotic energy tides and rule storms around them that were mixed with various violent energies, stood facing each other.

Gazing coldly at the Master of Lingxiao, the Demon Abyss Emperor frowned and said:

"Old man Lingxiao, what scheme is your Human Race plotting?"

"After the battle over a hundred years ago, you should know that such a great war holds no meaning for either side!"

"Why now suddenly stir up another great war between Mahayana realm experts on both sides?"

While asking, the Demon Abyss Emperor was extremely vigilant, his spiritual sense constantly monitoring the situation on other Mahayana realm battlefields.

Had his innate spiritual sense not failed to detect any danger, he would have already forcibly ordered a retreat to the border of the Green Demon Realm.

But how could the Demon Abyss Emperor know that the trap set by the Human Race this time was not aimed at him, but at the Mahayana realm experts of the Green Demon Clan who lacked Immortal Artifact protection?

Thus, his innate spiritual sense naturally detected no danger.

As for the other ordinary Mahayana realm experts of the Green Demon Clan, their cultivation bases were inferior to the Demon Abyss Emperor's, and moreover, being in the chaotic void at this moment, their innate spiritual senses were greatly weakened.

Even if they detected a faint, looming danger, without receiving orders to retreat,

the pride of Mahayana realm experts would not allow them to flee without fighting before truly facing a life-or-death crisis.

Facing the Demon Abyss Emperor's question, the Master of Lingxiao smiled without speaking and offered no answer.

Perceiving the movement of the Demon Abyss Emperor's spiritual sense, the Master of Lingxiao understood in his heart that the other party was worried about a trap and was secretly observing the situation on other Mahayana realm expert battlefields.

To prevent the Demon Abyss Emperor from noticing something amiss too early, the Master of Lingxiao immediately waved the whisk in his hand.

The three thousand silver-white whisk threads on the whisk rapidly expanded and spread, transforming into a sharp rule net that wrapped toward the Demon Abyss Emperor.

Facing the Master of Lingxiao's sudden offensive, the Demon Abyss Emperor dared not be careless; he immediately withdrew all his spiritual sense power and stood ready for battle.

As time passed, just as the great war reached its peak intensity.

In the depths of the void, where the aftermath of the war had not yet reached, eighteen figures silently and slowly emerged.

These eighteen people were the Human Race experts who had arrived in the void earlier, concealed themselves, and had already comprehended a trace of the Great Dao laws.

Among them was the Ancestor Xuanmu from the Profound Heaven Sect.

After using his spiritual sense to subtly sense the situation on the various Mahayana realm expert battlefields, one of the elderly men, full of spirit, smiled slightly and said:

"Let us go! It is time for us to act."

Immediately, the eighteen people each selected a target, their figures moving quickly and silently through the void like ghosts.

They had not agreed to wait for others to be ready before striking at the same time.

Their targets were, after all, Mahayana realm experts; once they got too close, they had to act immediately.

Otherwise, they would easily be detected by the Green Demon Clan's Mahayana realm experts, who would then immediately flee back to the border of the Green Demon Realm.

Indeed, when the Ancestor Xuanmu of the Profound Heaven Sect silently approached a battlefield.

The Green Demon Clan Mahayana realm expert in that battlefield, who was currently dealing with the siege of two Human Race ancestors with little lifespan remaining, suddenly felt his spiritual sense erupt with a strong warning.

His face changed; this Green Demon Clan Mahayana realm expert's offensive paused slightly, and after a moment of thought, he decisively made a decision, preparing to break free and flee.

But he did not expect that at this moment, the two Human Race ancestors besieging him exchanged glances, smiled, and then shouted in succession: "Minor Divine Art · Wood Realm!"

"Minor Divine Art · Forest Domain!"

Disregarding their rapidly dwindling lifespans, the two Human Race ancestors abandoned maintaining their states, suddenly forcibly revived their essence, qi, and spirit origins, and unleashed their peak combat power.

They each activated their respective comprehended and primarily cultivated binding-type Minor Divine Arts, using the power of the Minor Divine Arts to suppress the void from front and back, entangling him as he prepared to flee.

This prevented him from escaping the binding and fleeing this void to retreat to the border.

At the same time, the Ancestor Xuanmu, who had already arrived at this battlefield, also immediately unleashed his peak combat power and activated his famous Minor Divine Art: "Minor Divine Art · Profound Wood Suppresses the Realm!"

In an instant, a Profound Wood tree, surrounded by the perfected layer of Wood rules and a faint trace of the Wood Great Dao law, appeared out of thin air above the head of that Green Demon Clan Mahayana realm expert, carrying a force of a million jun and pressing down.

Before this massive Profound Wood tree, that Green Demon Clan Mahayana realm expert was as insignificant as an ant.

Seeing this, the power within the body of that Green Demon Clan Mahayana realm expert, who was being held back, was driven to the extreme, and his face showed a look of eyes nearly bursting from their sockets.

"Minor Divine Art · ."

But in the end, he could not escape the fate of being suppressed.

Everything was too late; before he could even activate his Minor Divine Art, he was instantly suppressed by the arriving Ancestor Xuanmu.

"It's over, I've reaped the consequences. Waking up early, I'm feverish yet chilled, my throat is swollen and painful, and I feel dizzy; my innate Qi within is listless. Who exactly is cursing me? ╭(╯^╰)╮" (End of Chapter)