Chapter 1072

While Wu Tie and the four Xuan Wu were chatting idly, he kept his eyes on the situation inside Wahuang Miao.

The Heavenly Mirror hovered behind him; this supreme treasure, capable in ancient times of penetrating the three realms and overseeing countless cave-heaven secret realms, could see the Wahuang Miao only tens of li away as clearly as if it were in his palm, despite any layers of great formations guarding it.

Wahuang Miao will not fall for now; its internal formation restrictions are profoundly marvelous, and within it a statue of the Wahuang Holy One hoards an immeasurable amount of incense-vow power, enough to keep its great formation running for tens of millions of billions of years.

No matter how many demons and divinities join forces to attack, as long as their attack power does not reach a certain extreme threshold, this great formation can operate and recover on its own, making it impossible to breach from outside.

At that moment, the essence-blood avatars descended by the four Xuan Wu exploded with a bang.

Wu Tie and the others stared in shock as the Xuan Wu burst into a rain of light filling the sky.

No one could understand what had happened, nor did anyone know at what distance a single strike could slay the Xuan Wu, whose strength had already reached the peak of the Venerable level.

Not even Wu Tie could do that.

Wu Tie is indeed powerful, but he can only grind their physical bodies down bit by bit from the outside, then annihilate their divine souls.

As for the four Xuan Wu, it was clearly their divine souls that were shattered first, and only then were their physical bodies blown apart!

Terrifying!

Utter terror!

Wu Tie and the others sucked in a cold breath, and then the Heavenly Mirror hovering beside Wu Tie trembled slightly, the light and shadow on its surface instantly shifting violently.

Near and far, countless demons wailed in shrill cries: "The Holy Ancestor has fallen!"

Close and distant, countless divinities roared frenziedly: "The Prince has perished!"

The allied army of demons and divinities fell into chaos at once…… Inside Wu Tie's Slaughter-God Vessel No. 2, the War God Army and the myriad divinities under Wu Tou's command charged out, exuding a rich and pure divine aura as they fearlessly plunged into the demon army's ranks.

These demons and monsters possess martial arts for slaughtering humans; when facing humans, each one becomes a ferocious evil spirit, cruel and violent.

But upon sensing the divine power fluctuations from the War God Army's reincarnated soldiers and the pure divinities under Wu Tou's command, these demons and monsters instantly turned from ferocious evil spirits into soft-footed rabbits.

If the Xuan Wu were still alive, a single command from them would make these demons' morale surge a hundredfold and they would counterattack immediately.

But the four Xuan Wu were slain on the spot, and the Holy Ancestor in their hearts had fallen; how could they dare to strike back against the divinities brought by the Holy Ancestor?

Countless demons and monsters had their morale shattered and turned to flee.

Commanders of the War God Army such as Xia Ru Meng and Xun Yin, together with the divinities under Wu Tou, pursued relentlessly, and torrents of blood like waterfalls poured down, extinguishing the raging flames on Wahuang Island.

The army of the myriad gods also fell into confusion.

The four Xuan Wu died mysteriously from bodily explosion, yet the princes of all the other great divine clans remained lively and active.

They had no leisure to restrain those collapsing demons and monsters; they merely shouted hoarsely, ordering their own peoples to gather toward them.

Under the leadership of numerous divine generals, the five great divine clans—the Lava Giant Gods, Barbarian God Clan, Ice Spirit Divine Clan, Dark Soul Divine Clan, and Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan—launched a frenzied counterattack against Wu Tie's great army.

Meanwhile, the other great divine clans slowly withdrew, quickly breaking away from the battle formation of the five great divine clans.

The great divine clans formed battle arrays for self-preservation, then they activated, as fast as possible, the massive teleportation formation they had arrived with……

There was no response.

The massive teleportation formation that had brought them from the Heavenly Crystal War Star to Mu Dalu produced no response!

The high-ranking members of the divine clans roared and cursed; a divine general of the Light Divine Clan brandished his weapon, and behind him his splendid wings flung forth a blinding light: "This is a conspiracy, this is a conspiracy… a trap, we have fallen into a trap!"

"Damn it, the Xuan Wu descended as essence-blood avatars, while we all descended in our true bodies!"

"This is a trap… the Xuan Wu have colluded with humanity, intending to kill us all!"

The high-ranking divinities shrieked and screamed, cursing at the top of their lungs; they were like a swarm of mad hornets, utterly disrupting their formation.

Wu Tie brandished his holy sword forward, and the Wuguo army surged ahead in a frenzied crush.

The formation restrictions on Wahuang Island, damaged by the lime, were now repairing themselves in waves of gentle spiritual light.

The shattered land masses re-coalesced, the burning lava cooled rapidly, and waves of immense life energy swept across Wahuang Island, causing countless trees and grasses to sprout quickly.

With temporal-spatial power surging, some destroyed palaces and halls were actually drawn directly from the river of time, recondensing into towering ancient-style palace buildings.

Above Wahuang Island, as the starlight and moonlight surged frenziedly, the disrupted Grand Dao principles emerged one after another from the chaos; Mu Dalu's Grand Dao resonance grew ever clearer and stronger, resealing this region of void.

Near and far, within each fate field controlled by Wahuang Island, ancient beings that had survived since antiquity slowly opened their eyes, stepped out of the giant coffins where they hid, and lifted their gazes toward Wahuang Island.

There were headless giants wielding giant axes.

There were long-armed giants drawing long bows.

There were dragon-stepping giants raising elephant-dragon figures.

There were mountain-moving giants heaving the earth's veins.

In the high sky, broken phantoms of bells, towers, cauldrons, and seals overlapped and flickered, while mighty waves of heaven-and-earth pressure surged from all directions.

Previously, the myriad gods were unwilling to descend to Mu Dalu because they would suffer erosion and backlash from the entire Mu Dalu's heaven-and-earth principles, facing unpredictable danger at any moment.

The lime promised to break open Wahuang Island's defensive great formation, and even entrusted his own life and death to the control of the five Xuan Wu; only then did they dare to invade Wahuang Island boldly.

But the five Xuan Wu's essence-blood avatars fell in battle, Wahuang Island's great formation was swiftly recovering, and the heaven-and-earth principles near Wahuang Island were rapidly reordering. All the descended myriad gods felt uneasy in mind and spirit, as an immense danger loomed over them from the unseen.

Wu Tie's body flickered; a strand of his long hair fell away, transforming into his likeness—crowned with a reliquary pagoda, wielding a golden sword, with four vicious weapons swirling around him—and, aided by his three-corpse avatars, he fearlessly charged into the myriad gods' battle formation.

The myriad gods' aura kept declining; as the heaven-and-earth principles near Wahuang Island rapidly reordered, their suppression and weakening of the myriad gods grew stronger, so that many Venerable-level gods had their combat power reduced to the Divine Realm.

Correspondingly, humanity's combat power was continually increasing.

Each of their strikes exerted only a fraction of their strength, yet they could receive a hundredfold augmentation from heaven-and-earth immense power.

One Lava Giant God after another exploded, one Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan member after another shattered, ice spirit divinities turned into falling ice crystals, barbarian god giants roared as they collapsed, and vast numbers of dark soul divinities obscured by black and gray mist had their bodies burst into specks of firefly light that vanished……

Human warriors' morale soared; amid the battle cry to exterminate demons, they strode forward, forward, ever onward……

The Light Divine Clan held the highest rank on the field; a royal prince who had originally been second only to Sheng Rong suddenly saw Sheng Rong in Wu Tie's camp, a spark flashed in his mind, and he shrieked hysterically.

"Prince Sheng Rong, we fight side by side with you… this is a shameless conspiracy; the five great divine clans want to use a borrowed knife to kill us… we, fighting beside you, will help you eradicate the five great divine clans and their lackeys!"

Amid the chaotic battlefield, the voice of this Light Divine Clan prince rang out loudly.

Lao Tie, Pei Feng, Xiahou Wuming, Sheng Rong, and others all turned their gaze this way; Pei Feng's cold, proud voice echoed across Wahuang Island: "Those who turn from the lost path and aid my Wuguo in exterminating demons shall be spared death!"

As soon as Pei Feng's order left his mouth, Sheng Rong bellowed with all his might: "O radiant spirits, holders of the most noble radiant bloodline across myriad worlds, let us join hands to eradicate the treacherous, faithless demons; let us join hands to eliminate all darkness and conspiracies in the world!"

Sheng Rong soared into the air, made a splendid flying lunge, and with a single sword slew hundreds of dark soul divinities into a sky-full of glowing fireflies: "Kill!"

Present were millions of Light God Clan divine spirits, divine warriors, and divine servants, as well as those who believed in the Light God Clan—human slaves—who instantly flashed with splendid bright light and fiercely stabbed a sword into the Dark Soul God Clan's battle formation.

The Light God Clan is inherently the natural enemy and nemesis of the Dark Soul God Clan.

When the Light God Clan fights the Dark Soul God Clan, they always possess an innate advantage, able to completely suppress the Dark Soul God Clan.

At the observation outpost, if the Dark Soul God Clan were not allied with the other four great god clans, relying on their numerical advantage to overwhelmingly suppress the Light God Clan, they could never be a match for the Light God Clan.

Under Sheng Rong's leadership, the Light God Clan dealt the Dark Soul God Clan a vicious blow from behind… the Dark Soul God Clan's battle formation immediately collapsed.

On that day, after the divine army descended and was violently subdued by Wu Tie, many high-ranking princes and generals shouted, calling out to friends and comrades in the divine army's formation.

One after another, the deceived god clans ruthlessly launched a siege against the Lava Giant God, the Heaven Crystal God Clan, the Ice Spirit God Clan, and the Barbarian God Clan.

The Five Great God Clans, using the Crystal Bridge, sent large numbers of their people from the gods' ancestral land; their warrior count surpassed that of the observation outpost, enough to suppress the allied forces of the other great god clans.

But this time, the Five Great God Clans did not all descend.

But this time, the Five Great God Clans faced backlash from all god clans and faced the encirclement of the Wuguo army.

Thus this time, the Five Great God Clans fell into a complete disadvantage, not to mention their five great leaders have already fallen in battle, leaving them leaderless and their internal affairs in utter chaos.

A thorough purge erupted without doubt.

Countless divine spirits of the Five Great God Clans howled angrily, fighting with all their might.

But they were suppressed by the divine formation restored by Wahuang Island and by the Dao's resonance responding from Mu Dalu, their strength reduced to less than one in a hundred…

Countless divine spirits of the Five Great God Clans fell on the spot, and clusters of rich, vast divine power source spread wildly, merging into Wahuang Island and the surrounding seas.

Wu Tie derived a manifestation from a single hair, while his true self had already infiltrated Wahuang Miao.

The seals of Wahuang Miao posed no hindrance to him.

He merely touched the light shield enveloping the temple with the jade tablet the old matriarch gave him, and he easily entered Wahuang Miao.

A gentle, lovely young woman with a charming smile held a strangely shaped dagger, its whole body like a shade of shadow, emitting an especially profound and deadly aura, slowly pulling it from the old matriarch's back.

The old matriarch's body convulsed violently, blood continually spurting from her mouth.

She turned her arm, trying to grasp the young woman behind her.

The young woman unfastened a jade plaque from the old matriarch's waist, lightly sighed, and said: "Over these years, your attitude toward us clanswomen sent back from various Wahuang places has grown ever colder; you must have discovered some truth, right?"

"You can't even act; your coldness toward us is all too obvious."

"Ah, but whether you can act or not, the final result is the same: you lose utterly, while we win everything!"

Wu Tie slipped into the largest hall of Wahuang Miao like a ghost, and he said in a low voice: "You, who are you again?"

The young woman was startled by Wu Tie's sudden voice, she jerked her head up and shouted sternly: "Bold, without summoning, how dare you intrude into Wahuang Miao? Which family's child are you? You must be properly disciplined by your elders!"

"Heh, heh!" Several old matriarchs lay on the ground; except for one, the others were completely dead, the air not even retaining a trace of divine soul.

The sole remaining old matriarch struggled to lift her head, continuously emitting heavy "heh, heh" breaths.

She trembled, her right hand scratching as it reached toward Wu Tie.

Her life had long been extinguished; only her vast soul power barely clung together, forcibly sustaining a sliver of vitality in her body.

Wu Tie flashed forward to the old matriarch, reaching out to grasp her hand.

This old matriarch is precisely the woman who, years ago, went to Blaze Dynasty and gave Wu Tie the imperial edict of the thirty-six generations of Blaze Dynasty's early emperors, and also the one who gave him the jade tablet in his hand.

"Old matriarch…" Wu Tie made no sound, directly beginning to reverse time.

A terrifying backlash surged; Wu Tie's body shuddered, his attempt to reverse time and revive the old matriarch before him utterly shattered.

The backlash damaged his five viscera and six bowels, blood continually welling up from his mouth.

The young woman gave a cold snort, her body flickered, and a gleam of dagger light thrust toward Wu Tie.

Wu Tie's pupils contracted; this dagger's lethality is extremely fearsome—just now, when he tried to revive the old matriarch, he was struck by the dagger's terrifying annihilation force. With Wu Tie's current cultivation and realm, he actually cannot dispel its influence.

Reversing time is originally a divine ability of extreme difficulty.

Plus the dagger's interference, plus the old matriarch's own strength, Wu Tie's efforts completely failed.

The old matriarch's hand barely grasped Wu Tie's palm, thread after thread of extremely fine divine light flowing from her fingertips into his palm.

The dim dagger brought forth a cold light, sweeping toward Wu Tie's neck.

Wu Tie felt the silken streams of warmth transmitted from the old matriarch's hand; he abruptly lifted his head, opened his mouth, and a soundless roar exploded beside the woman's ear.

Wahuang Miao trembled slightly; the young woman's seven apertures burst open, and then her whole body shattered into fragments.

A clump of soul wrapped the dagger and several jade plaques; a mighty Wahuang ancestral spirit power protected the young woman's soul, a whirlwind rose on the spot, and the young woman vanished without trace.