Chapter 149: Spilling Liver and Brain onto the Ground

"Soldiers!" Zhou Yi's voice shook the heavens: "The Demon Race slaughters our brothers and sisters, tramples our homes. Tell me, can you tolerate such atrocities?"

"Never! Never! Never!" A roar like mountain and sea thunder startled flocks of birds into flight.

The four elders met each other's gaze and saw the shock in their eyes; such a spirit of shared hatred had never appeared in the tribal ages before.

Zhou Yi tightened his grip on the sword at his waist and continued: "I once swore that anyone who offends the Human Race, no matter how distant, shall be exterminated. Now the Demon Race attacks again, seeking to destroy the home we have painstakingly rebuilt. Do you agree?"

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death! Fight to the death!" Tens of thousands of spears halted simultaneously, and the earth trembled.

"Then let the Demon Race understand." Zhou Yi suddenly drew his long sword and pointed it at the firmament: "Anyone who invades our borders shall be exterminated."

"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The sound burst through the clouds; amid thunderous war cries, the three armies surged forward like a torrent of steel.

In the seventh era of the Honghuang Chronicle, the Human Race's iron‑blooded torrent stepped out of the survival forbidden zone for the first time.

Three elite brigades, totaling 115,000 soldiers, formed a formation and advanced, their banners pointing straight at the Demon Race's stronghold.

Zhou Yi, holding a bronze war halberd, stood atop a dark‑yellow war chariot, his brows gathering a resolve that would cleave the era's gloom.

"Report!" the scout Feng Bo rode the clouds to the front, "Three hundred li to the northeast, demonic qi soars, the Nine‑headed Snake Demon is meeting with the Three‑footed Golden Crow."

Zhou Yi tapped the map with his fingertip, his bronze armor reflecting the blood‑red setting sun: "Order the three armies to change formation; the Long Forest troops encircle from left and right, the Red Flame troops lay a fire‑evading Heavenly Net."

He knew the significance of this juncture all too well; the Human Race needed not only survival but also the awakening of battle spirit that shatters the bloodline's shackles.

As night fell, Cang Wen of the Cangjie lineage delivered a secret report sealed in black turtle shell: "The Demon Race's High Priest Bai Ze has arrived in person and has gathered the Seventy‑two Celestial Demon Kings."

Zhou Yi stared at the blue‑glowing runes on the armor plate, then laughed loudly: "Perfect timing. Order the whole army—tomorrow at the hour of the Rat, ignite the flint fire; I will turn the Demon Race's night‑vision gift into a death‑calling talisman."

Amid the thunderous war drums, a Golden Immortal battle formation presented a Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State.

When the first spark of flint fire lit the battlefield, the Demon Race, in terror, discovered that those bipedal beings who had once knelt in supplication now wielded a fire of civilization beyond the demons' comprehension.

The instant Zhou Yi waved the command banner, a totem of the Twenty‑Eight Mansions rose within the Human Race's formation; it was the Zhou Tian Star Array, conceived by Sui Huang after three years of sky observation.

"Demon‑slaying Sword Array, commence!" With the roar of the Wind Empress, a curtain of light formed by one hundred thousand bronze swords tore through the demon clouds.

When the first Demon Race Golden Immortal was crushed by the mortal battle formation, the very qi of Honghuang quivered subtly.

Zhou Yi knew that from tonight onward, the Demon Race's myth of invincibility would forever be etched with the Human Race's sword marks.

Under the blood‑red setting sun, countless demon shadows swarmed in the valleys a hundred li beyond the Human Race's territory.

Four demon kings of varied forms sat around the blood‑stained altar, their surrounding murderous aura tinting the sky a dark violet.

"Every word you just said is true?" the bear demon, its muscles knotted, let out a low growl that made the ground's stones tremble. Its sharp claws sank deep into the altar stone, and dark red demon fire flickered intermittently among its fur.

The eagle‑falcon spirit, its body cloaked in golden feathers, hurriedly bowed: "Exploding Bear Sovereign, your insight is clear; had the Human Race's flesh and blood not contain the mysterious workings of creation, how could we dare offend the Saint's creation?"

This was unmistakably one of the four demons who once escaped the Zi Yi Clan's sword; now the charred scar on his left wing still oozed demon blood.

The white elephant demon, clad in silver armor, coiled its long trunk around a dark‑iron war hammer and asked in doubt: "How could a mere post‑heaven race possess such divine power?" Before the words finished, the blue stone beneath its seat was crushed into powder by an unseen pressure.

The mountain‑like giant python suddenly lifted its head, its vertical pupils reflecting demonic runes: "Does the Blue Snake think the Nv Wa Sheng Ren's creative art is something ordinary can comprehend?"

Its tail tip swept across, turning the entire locust‑tree forest instantly into skeletal statues, "It is some of the rat folk, perhaps frightened them into shattering their courage?"

"Audacious!" The golden‑mane lion beast, its mane blazing like fire, rose suddenly; its claws ripped a ten‑zhang trench as it roared, "When I flatten the Human Race's tribe, I shall feast on the Great Luo Golden Immortal's heart‑blood!"

The white elephant demon still hesitated: "If we slaughter the Human Race completely, the Saint's wrath…"

"Foolish!" the Exploding Bear King hammered his chest and roared, his voice shattering mountain peaks a hundred li away, "Lady Nüwa herself was of our kind; the Human Race struck first against our kin, how could the Saint protect them?"

The Blue Snake Demon King inhaled toxic mist and sneered coldly: "Why must we eradicate them completely? Leaving a spark for the Saint's face is enough." The other three demons, upon hearing this, saw blood‑lust glint in their eyes.

As the demon horde stirred, black‑azure ice fell from the sky.

The previously arrogant four demon kings froze instantly, gazing at the figure in a dark robe drifting down from the Ninth Heaven Palace; they all knelt on one knee, the cuffs of the newcomer embroidered with Northern Sea cold patterns, indicating the Great Peng Bird's personal guard status.

"Welcome, Honored One!"

The Blue Lion King first clasped his fists in salute, the White Elephant King followed with a bow, and the Exploding Bear King and Blue Snake King hurriedly bowed their heads in respect.

This tardy Oversea Great Saint made the four demon kings feel as if standing before an abyss; as the chief war commander under the Great Magpie Bird, Jiao Demon King not only commands a million demons in the North Sea, but his true dragon bloodline presses ordinary demon kings to the point of suffocation.

The Jiao Demon King, his dark‑scaled armor shimmering coldly, raised his hand in a hollow gesture and said gravely: "I come by the demon master's decree; we must gather 99,900 innate Dao bodies to sacrifice to the Zhou Tian Star Array."

Before the words finished, the Blue Snake King stepped forward half a pace: "To serve the demon master, we are willing to spill our liver and brain upon the ground."

The other three demon kings immediately echoed in unison, and foul saliva even dripped from the Exploding Bear King's fangs.

As the demon horde prepared to set out, Jiao Demon King suddenly narrowed his vertical pupils and looked toward the heavens.

On the north‑west horizon, a battle formation clad in dark armor gleamed in the sun, advancing with city‑crushing force; the spear‑like array of one hundred thousand Human Race cultivators caused the mountains to resonate.

The Blue Lion King's claw sliced rock, sparking: "In just three thousand years, these ants have cultivated into so many Golden Immortals."

"The richer the flesh's essence, the higher the quality of the demon master's blood pills," the Exploding Bear King licked his war axe and sneered, but the White Elephant King's long trunk suddenly rose: "Something's off; these cultivators' qi connections are like a reversed galaxy, could it be…"

Before the words finished, the hundred‑thousand‑strong Human Race battle formation suddenly exuded Purple‑Imperial aura, and the Big Dipper stars manifested in broad daylight.

The previously scattered demon horde instantly stirred; even Jiao Demon King's dark‑iron war boots crushed the rocks beneath his feet.

Yet within the Human Race's array, eighty‑one bronze battle flags fluttered loudly; each cultivator bore a star‑mark on the brow, and the mighty Zhou Tian stellar power condensed in the void into the Twenty‑Eight Mansions diagram.

"Star Array." The Blue Snake King's scales tipped and whistled.

At this moment, the pressure emitted by the Human Race's battle formation caused the seven orifices of ordinary demon soldiers to bleed.

Jiao Demon King slowly drew the water‑splitting spear from his waist, the Dragon Race's imposing aura turning into tangible black mist: "Form the array; let these two‑legged sheep witness the North Sea's black‑ice killing formation."

When the hundred‑thousand iron‑clad formation took the field, it seemed as if an invisible barrier rose between heaven and earth.

Even the rulers who command the demon hordes had to temper their edge at this moment; the murderous aura that surged skyward became as solid as matter, grinding soaring birds in the clouds to powder.