Chapter 1097

Thirty-six massive God-Slaying Vessels lined up side by side, the battlefield stretching tens of thousands of miles.

The battle flags of the human commoners floated high in the sky; on the various banners, the surnames of the human commoners' clans and the totem emblems of the great tribes—such as the Flying Bear, Flood Dragon, Soaring Snake, and Golden Crow—shone with a fierce light.

Innumerable human warriors, clad in heavy armor and roaring, formed a massive battle formation and fiercely charged at the thirty-six God-Slaying Vessels lined up in a row.

It was clear that the high-ranking leaders of the human commoners were truly enraged.

Even when the lackeys of the various divine races—those demons and monsters slaughtering human dynasties at hunting grounds and battlefields—attacked, the human commoners' high-ranking leaders did not mobilize their true foundations to send reinforcements.

When the various human dynasties were slaughtered to the point of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the high-ranking leaders of the human commoners remained as steady as Mount Tai, merely watching from the sidelines, with not a single soldier appearing on the battlefield.

At this moment, the elites of the human commoners poured out nearly to the last; on the battlefield, not a single "weakling" at the Fetal Storage Realm could be seen, and even the most ordinary soldiers were beings of the Divine Manifestation Realm.

The battle formation they formed was vast and astonishing, often stretching hundreds of miles.

Such a massive battle formation released towering killing intent; the battle spirits condensed into forms, becoming huge tribal totem divine beasts standing on the clouds and roaring. Vast magical power poured into the commanders' bodies, forcibly raising their combat power to the level of a Venerable.

These commanders, whose strength was at most the Tenth Heaven of the Divine Manifestation Realm, suddenly possessed combat power comparable to that of a Venerable.

But after all, they were merely of the Divine Manifestation Realm; neither their flesh nor their souls could easily withstand such sudden, immense power.

These commanders unleashed the Heaven-and-Earth Law divine ability one after another; within their thousand-zhang giant bodies, constant cracking of bones and tendons echoed. Wielding various heavy weapons, they bombarded the God-Slaying Vessels indiscriminately, causing flames to shoot into the sky and making the vessels tremble incessantly.

After each unleashed seven or eight moves, these human commanders, who had borne the support of the massive battle formation, repeatedly withdrew their divine techniques, spat blood profusely to heal, and naturally other commanders stepped forward to take their place.

Gongsun Yao, together with those who had entered the Wa Clan's Ancestral Spirit Space and, by drawing on the accumulated faith power of the human commoners within that space, had attained Venerable-level strength as human powerhouses, were then engaged in frenzied slaughter in the air against Ji Baijie and other high-ranking figures of the Heavenly Court.

At the center of one God-Slaying Vessel, within the Crystal Stone God Stele, the Investiture of the Gods emitted a blinding divine light that illuminated the entire battlefield.

Heaven knows how many stolen treasure fragments the Investiture of the Gods has devoured; but now, the soldiers of the Heavenly Court have all seen their cultivation soar. Ji Baijie, together with the myriad Heavenly Lords, Heavenly Kings, Divine Lords, and Heavenly Sovereigns, each possesses combat power comparable to that of a Venerable.

Especially Ji Baijie, as the Great Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Court, his aura actually approached the Great Perfection of the Venerable level.

He brandished the iron rod with golden hoops at both ends; a sky-filling barrage of staff shadows fell like a torrential rain, stirring the void into a thin porridge. The dozen or so human powerhouses opposing him were smashed by him into chaotic tumbling across the sky.

This is no exaggeration; they were truly sent rolling and crawling through the air.

Wherever Ji Baijie's iron rod passed, swords snapped, spears shattered, lances broke, and armor was pulverized.

The high-ranking leaders of the human commoners—these clan chiefs, elders, and the like—had cultivated superb techniques from childhood, possessed countless resources to squander, and each had mastered top-tier body-refining methods; their golden physiques, dharma bodies, dao bodies, and divine bodies were all fully accomplished.

After breaking through to the Venerable level, their tendons and bones had been honed to the extreme; ordinary divine weapons could not pierce their skin at all.

But when Ji Baijie's iron rod came down, the sound of breaking bones rang out like popping beans; these human powerhouses each spat fresh blood, lost their footing, and were struck into wailing screams, spinning wildly across the sky like tops.

In just a few breaths, over a dozen human powerhouses were beaten by Ji Baijie into serious injuries; they exerted all their strength to flee backward, and then quickly a dozen or so powerhouses in peak condition surrounded him.

"You ants!" Ji Baijie swung his iron rod, bringing forth a sky-wide cold light; with three "crack" sounds, he sent the three powerhouses who had closed in vomiting blood and flying backward. Then, with his left hand, he unleashed a thunderbolt that blasted half of a commoner clan chief's body into ruin.

"You are no match for my Heavenly Court; following this yellow-mouthed brat, what future could you have?" Ji Baijie, at ease, shattered several incoming weapons with ease, exhaled a blast of flame, and burned the five or six powerhouses before him to a scorched, disheveled state.

"You also have some ability; why not surrender to my Heavenly Court?" Ji Baijie dropped his iron rod, suddenly lunged into the embrace of a human powerhouse, and with elbows like thunderbolts slammed into the opponent's chest, shattering the chest cavity, causing a massive spit of blood and collapsing limp.

"Otherwise, today you will all die here!" Ji Baijie retreated like lightning, seized his iron rod, and burst into loud laughter as he faced the many powerhouses before him.

Gongsun Yao donned heavy armor, gripped a sharp sword, let out a mighty roar, and with a single strike beheaded several Heavenly Kings of the Heavenly Court's Combat Division before him.

He transformed into a flowing light and lunged at Ji Bai Jie, hoarsely shouting: "Ji Bai Jie, where is my mother?"

Several slain Heavenly Kings' bodies had just exploded into scattered points of light filling the sky; below, in the Slay God Ship, several slain Heavenly Kings again gave a weird laugh and rushed out. Their bodies flickered, once again blocking in front of Gongsun Yao.

Gongsun Yao was quickly surrounded by several Battle Department Heavenly Kings, starlight filling the sky, a Great Star Dipper Formation again blocked him, forcing him to carefully respond.

"Where did your mother go? You should ask your father..." Ji Bai Jie gave a sinister, weird laugh: "Or she abandoned her wifely duties and ran off with someone; or your father wanted a new one and sold her off... All of that is possible, what does it have to do with this venerable one?"

Another dozen or so human powerhouses rushed forward, hoarsely roaring as they charged at Ji Bai Jie.

"Ji Bai Jie, you destroyed our holy temple, plundered our people... you deserve to die!" The high-ranking members of the human populace hated Ji Bai Jie to the bone.

Our ancestral temple was smashed, looted.

Our people were plundered countless times.

Even the beautiful mountains and waters around our holy land were all taken away by this guy in one fell swoop.

Imagine our holy land, once like a fairy's cavern dwelling, now turned into a Gobi desert, barren of even a blade of grass... my heart bleeds.

The human populace utterly hates Ji Bai Jie!

"Your holy temple holds so many treasures... and you have countless people, countless valiant generals and elite troops, yet you all shrink back like turtles." Ji Bai Jie sneered: "Having clan leaders and Elders like you is truly the misfortune of humanity!"

"With you lot, humanity has no hope. These treasures in the holy temple, these human people, might as well follow this venerable one."

"This venerable one will surely exterminate all extraterrestrial demons and lead humanity to achieve an unsurpassed grand imperial undertaking!"

Ji Bai Jie said confidently: "This venerable one is humanity's savior! You lot, you can't!"

Gongsun Yao felt a surge of bitter acid rush straight from his heart to his mouth...

He roared: "Exterminating extraterrestrial demons, such magnificent achievements are all mine, mine, mine... On Wa Island I slaughtered countless demons... these magnificent achievements are mine!"

Wu Tie stepped on flowing clouds, slowly descending from high above.

"Everyone, fighting so lively? We're all of the same human lineage; why be so vicious?"

Wu Tie swept his wide sleeve, with a clang, the holy sword in his hand unleashed a golden sword waterfall stretching a million li, forcibly splitting the battlefield in two.