Chapter 618

Of the hundred divine envoys, the vast majority were practically swept aside at the first touch.

Fortunately, the lowest cultivation among these divine envoys was the Earthly Immortal Realm.

Though battered by the tremendous impact and forced back step after step, once they deployed their martial techniques, they finally fought the dragon horde to a standstill.

Add to that the fact that a Divine General, an expert of the Heavenly Dao Golden List caliber, was charging at the very front.

Though the beast horde came in a ferocious tide, it was ultimately held back.

Once they had steadied their formation, these divine envoys joined hands to lay down an array.

Gradually they merged into a single whole, as if they had become a millstone.

And so they ground the beast horde down, bit by bit, slowly slaughtering them within the great array.

"What array is this? Brother Duan, do you recognize it?"

Nie Renwang, looking down at the battlefield from high above, asked his companion out of curiosity.

His companion turned out to be none other than the Southern Qilin Sword Leader Duan Shuai, who had once dueled him and then been taken away by the Fire Qilin together with him!

Duan Shuai glanced over and felt that the array was not only bizarre but immensely powerful, yet he could not recognize it.

"Brother Nie, please forgive your brother's poor eye — I cannot tell what array this is either."

"This is the World-Grinding Great Array I myself devised, drawn from the World-Destroying Demonic Body.

Once deployed, it can withstand enemies more than ten times our number.

These beasts are all walking to their own deaths."

Even from a great distance, Master Changsheng the Immortal had somehow overheard their exchange and offered a brief explanation.

Only his tone was brimming with self-satisfaction.

The Twelve Realms of martial dao — every step is a tremendous threshold.

The higher one climbs, the fewer the people, needless to say.

And every gap of a major realm means one's strength rises by an order of magnitude over the previous realm.

The World-Grinding Great Array devised by Master Changsheng the Immortal could withstand enemies more than ten times their number.

Does that not mean it could let these Earthly Immortal Realm divine envoys, once arrayed, withstand Heavenly Being Realm experts?

Then would it mean that if Heavenly Being Realm divine envoys formed the array, they could stand against those of the supreme Mythical Realm?

The strength of the Search God Palace was actually this terrifying?

For a moment, Nie Renwang and Duan Shuai's thoughts ran wild, and they could not help but lose themselves somewhat.

Over on that battlefield, as the World-Grinding Great Array unfolded, the beast horde's numbers far exceeded those of the hundred divine envoys.

Yet it was like great waves slamming against a boulder — it looked fierce and surging.

But it could not trouble the boulder in the slightest.

The beast horde gradually piled up the dead and wounded, and then the great millstone formed by the divine envoys slowly ground toward them.

In about half a shichen, the once-fierce beast horde was slaughtered to the last by these divine envoys.

Apart from many of the hundred divine envoys being wounded, not a single one had fallen in battle!

Terrifying!

Seeing such combat power from these divine envoys, Nie Renwang and Duan Shuai both caught a hint of dread in each other's eyes.

After this dragon-slaying, could they really withdraw unscathed?

Once the beast horde had been slaughtered to the last, the Fire Lake side trembled once more.

Then, all at once, a great many giant-bird beasts, a size smaller, flew out.

At the same time, on the land, many giant beasts appeared once again.

These giant beasts differed somewhat in appearance from the previous beast horde, but anyone with eyes could tell the two were of the same species.

Some giant beasts had three fearsome great horns on their heads, and their galloping momentum was utterly terrifying.

Some giant beasts were covered all over in scales and barbs, as if clad in heavy armor, and they ran at no slow pace.

Some giant beasts had necks several zhang long at the very least, and when they moved it sounded like thunder.

Some giant beasts had slender bodies, but their backs bristled with things like swords and halberds.

These giant beasts came in all manner of strange and varied forms, too many to enumerate.

Yet every single one of these giant beasts radiated an aura no less than that of a Heavenly Being Realm expert.

"Could there be a divine dragon among them?"

Master Changsheng the Immortal felt rather speechless — he had clearly come to slay dragons.

What on earth were these monsters, three parts dragon and seven parts lizard!

Old Fahai was also a bit dumbfounded — none of this had appeared in his deductions?

He could only extend his spiritual sense to detect whether the target divine dragon was hidden among these beast hordes.

But though Old Fahai was strong, he had after all never seen the divine dragons on Dragon God Island.

Let alone being able to sense a divine dragon's aura through spiritual sense alone.

After all, setting aside the giant-bird beasts in the sky.

Just the various giant beasts running on the ground numbered no fewer than several hundred.

Yet every single one of these giant beasts possessed Heavenly Being Realm cultivation.

With their auras masking one another, even Old Fahai, a Shattered Realm expert, could not sense anything.

Let alone the fact that he had not yet reached the Shattered Realm!

"God… this poor monk cannot sense it…"

Old Fahai's face flushed red, and after a moment of sensing he could only admit.

"Hmph!"

The God of Immortality snorted coldly, then issued orders to the Left and Right High Priests,

"You two, lead the remaining Divine Envoys into the grand formation and hold the formation steady.

Since you cannot sense it, this God shall personally divine it."

With the God of Immortality's command, the remaining four hundred Divine Envoys, along with the Left and Right High Priests, charged forward together.

Originally, a hundred Divine Envoys plus the Divine Generals, facing this surging tide of colossal beasts, were like a lone skiff amidst towering waves.

Now, with the remaining four hundred Divine Envoys and the addition of the Left and Right High Priests, the formation was finally stabilized for the time being.

Though the beasts' impact was fierce, fortunately this World-Ending Grinding Formation seemed truly just as the God of Immortality had boasted.

It had finally been stabilized.

Yet all they could do was hold the formation steady; to counterattack or even kill, relying solely on the five hundred Divine Envoys, plus the Left and Right High Priests, and the three experts that were the Divine Generals, was far from enough.

The God of Immortality did not care whether these subordinates of the Soul-Searching Palace lived or died.

So-called Divine Envoys and High Priests over the years—he had no idea how many batches he had replaced.

If they died or aged, he would simply find suitable candidates anew from the jianghu and use secret arts to bestow initiation upon them, would that not work?

The Divine Generals, however, were his chief disciple, the only one he needed to pay a little attention to.

Yet at present, what he cared about most was neither the Divine Generals, nor the High Priests and Divine Envoys.

Rather, it was finding the possibly existing Divine Dragon amidst this vast beast tide.

Although, looking across this beast tide, not a single one resembled the Divine Dragon of the Nine Provinces.

But the information Old Fahai had divined was absolutely not wrong.

What the Water Clan folk had worshipped for generations would not be false either.

Perhaps the Divine Dragon was skilled at concealing its tracks, or perhaps this Divine Dragon actually looked just like this?

Just as the God of Immortality extended his spiritual sense, frantically scanning the beast horde.

Within the beast tide, a strange dragon with a vicious appearance, standing on two legs, with only a pair of short claws before its chest, suddenly leapt over the beast horde and charged toward the World-Ending Grinding Formation.

"Roar!"

With an earth-shaking sound, the Left High Priest discovered in time the incoming ferocious beast.

Seeing its direction of attack, he directly circulated his true essence, preparing to resist.

But this ferocious beast was extremely violent; with a thrust of its great head, it directly broke through the Left High Priest's true essence barrier.

Then, to everyone's horror, it opened its blood-filled maw bristling like blades and swallowed the Left High Priest whole in a single gulp.

430 Tian Qiwu slaying dragons? Can't even break through the armor, alright

"Th-this... this beast's strength, surely has already reached above the mid-stage of the Supreme Mythical Realm, hasn't it?"

Breaking through the true essence barrier of the Left High Priest at the early stage of the Supreme Mythical Realm in a single move—this colossal beast's strength was absolutely above the mid-stage of the Supreme Mythical Realm!