Chapter 491: Slaughtering Ten Thousand Enemies

Chapter 491: Chapter 489: Slaughtering Ten Thousand Enemies

From the very beginning, Li Qiye hadn’t used a single treasure artifact. Even his long saber and iron sword were forged from mortal iron, and most of the time, he fought bare-handed.

Even bare-handed, he fought one against ten thousand. And these enemies weren’t just common thugs; they were all renowned experts of the younger generation or famous elders—Princes, True Masters, Ancient Saints, and even hundreds of Saint Venerables!

How terrifying was such a battle? And yet, Li Qiye had still slaughtered them until rivers of blood flowed and their wails shook the heavens. If he had a Heaven-defying Treasure Artifact in his hand, how could anyone even stand against him? Wouldn’t he slaughter all ten thousand foes in the blink of an eye?

Seeing that Li Qiye hadn’t produced a single astonishing treasure artifact since the battle began—not even one at the level of a King and Marquis True Master—some of the more far-sighted, older Ghost Emperors came to a realization.

“To him, this isn’t a life-or-death struggle!” The expression of one far-sighted, older Ghost Emperor changed as he muttered, “He’s merely polishing his Cultivation Techniques. He’s using blood as a Baptism for his skills, evolving what he has learned to its absolute limit, seeking ultimate sublimation! What better way is there to comprehend the ultimate Mystical Meaning of every last move than on the brink of death? What better place is there than real combat to elevate every punch and kick to a new level?”

From the start, Li Qiye had been unleashing one Cultivation Technique after another: the Three Talents Sword, the Kunpeng Six Transformations, the Heaven-Spanning Eight Blades… One by one, these techniques evolved in his hands, reaching a state of ultimate sublimation. He cycled through them again and again, and with each enemy slain, the techniques themselves transformed, reaching new heights.

“This kid is too vicious.” Seeing Li Qiye slaughtering everyone around him, not even frowning despite being covered in wounds, caused the expressions of the Old Undyings hiding behind the scenes to darken.

Now, these Old Undyings were even less willing to make a move. From start to finish, Li Qiye hadn’t brought out a single decent treasure. Having grown cunning with age, these Old Undyings understood his goal all too well. They had no desire to become his whetstone. If they were to be trapped and killed by him, their lifelong prestige would be ruined at the hands of this junior from the Human Race.

So, the Old Undyings remained hidden behind the curtain. To them, there would be plenty of chances later on. As long as Li Qiye couldn’t escape the Ghost Sacred Realm, a more opportune moment to kill him would eventually present itself.

As for the younger generation of the Ghost Race watching from a distance, their faces turned pale white and their hearts pounded in terror. Such dominance, such ferocity… they knew they couldn’t possibly do the same. Fighting one against ten thousand, slaughtering until the world itself seemed to break and rivers of blood flowed—very few in their generation were capable of such a thing.

Even heirs from Emperor Immortal Gates like the Ju Que Saint Child and the Ghost Insect Demon Child wore extremely ugly expressions as they watched the battle. They exchanged a glance, realizing that without an Immortal Emperor’s Treasure or an Immortal Emperor True Artifact in hand, they stood no chance of contending with Li Qiye. This Little Ghost from the Human Race was simply too terrifying.

Even Tian Lunhui, concealed at the horizon, wore a solemn expression. His intuition told him that this junior from the Human Race, Li Qiye, could pose a significant threat to an existence such as himself.

After all, Tian Lunhui was already at the pinnacle of the younger generation. Even older Saint Venerables—never mind Little Saint Venerables, but even Baosheng Venerables and World Venerables—were wary of someone like him.

And yet, at this very moment, even Tian Lunhui, one of the Three Heroes, had no choice but to regard Li Qiye with the utmost seriousness, treating him as a powerful adversary.

Among the crowd, no one understood Li Qiye better than Lan Yunzhu. She watched him slaughter until rivers of blood flowed and the very heavens seemed to crack, and she finally let out a soft sigh. She knew Li Qiye possessed something incredibly heaven-defying, an item in no way inferior to Emperor’s Soldiers!

Yet, Li Qiye still hadn’t brought out a single treasure. This told her that he was confident he could see this through to the very end. She understood that, just like the day at the Qianli River when he’d declared he would unleash a massacre, he possessed the absolute certainty that he could kill every last one of his enemies. No matter how powerful they were, the outcome would be the same.

The members of the Snow Shadow Ghost Clan who followed Lan Yunzhu—Elder Zhi, Peng Zhuang, and the six minors—now had the chance to witness Li Qiye’s battle from afar. As they watched him slaughter until rivers of blood flowed and the very earth cracked open, their hearts pounded in terror and their faces turned deathly pale. They had never imagined Li Qiye could be so Heaven-defying. This was nothing short of slaughtering tens of thousands and remaining invincible!

“The world’s Three Heroes are probably only at this level.” Elder Zhi finally muttered. Although he was an elder from a minor clan with a limited worldview, watching this battle made him understand just how terrifying Li Qiye truly was.

Qiu Rong Wanxue watched the battle, holding her breath, her own heart thumping in her chest. When she saw her Young Master covered in wounds, her heart ached with worry for him. But when she saw him rampaging through the enemy ranks, slaughtering until the heavens themselves seemed to collapse, she couldn’t help but clench her fists, silently praying that her Young Master would be able to fight until the very end!

BANG—! On the blood-drenched battlefield, with a deafening crash, Li Qiye’s long saber, forged from mere Mortal Iron, finally shattered under a strike from the Black Mountain Corpse Emperor’s Great Sage’s Soldiers. Even though it had been infused with endless Blood Qi and transformed into something resembling a Divine Saber, it still crumbled. At the same moment, however, Li Qiye’s other fist punched clean through the Black Mountain Corpse Emperor’s chest. In that instant, the incomparably ferocious Black Mountain Corpse Emperor was blasted into a mist of blood.

At that moment, some lost their nerve entirely, while others began to shrink back. From the initial siege of tens of thousands, after round after round of chaotic slaughter, only a little over ten thousand remained. Now that even a Heaven-defying Saint Venerable like the Black Mountain Corpse Emperor had fallen, the morale of their enemies plummeted.

“It’s time to end this!” Li Qiye, drenched in blood, bellowed as he brought out the Nine-Word True Bow. *THWIP!* He loosed an arrow—the One Arrow with the Character “Zhen.”

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH! When the arrow struck the ground, a terrifying Arrow Array instantly took shape. From within the array, countless ferocious Celestial Arrows shot down from the Nine Heavens, while endless Hell’s Arrows erupted from the depths of the earth. Within moments, the countless Anger Arrows from above and below had woven together into a horrifying Killing Array.

“AHHH—!” Once caught within such an Arrow Array, it was nearly impossible to escape. Under the relentless assault of countless Celestial Arrows and Hell’s Arrows, no matter how powerful one’s treasure artifacts were, they could not block the inexhaustible barrage. Eventually, everyone was pierced by innumerable Anger Arrows.

“KILL—!” The remaining experts leaped into action. In that instant, several thousand of them reached an unprecedented consensus, joining forces to cut down Li Qiye with their combined power.

HUMMM—! Li Qiye loosed another arrow. This was the True Word Transformation Realm, one arrow becoming Ten Thousand Realms. In an instant, a multitude of realms materialized before Li Qiye, blocking the charging experts.

The Nine-Word True Bow was the greatest bow of all time. The stronger Li Qiye became, the more powerful the bow grew!

*THWIP!* He loosed the One Arrow with the Character “Zhe.” This arrow seemed to be augmented by the world itself, carrying the power of the heaven, earth, and all Ten Thousand Realms. It gathered all the ambient Heaven and Earth Power into a single point. With the whistle of its flight, the several thousand experts who had joined forces were annihilated. No matter how strong they were, no matter how amazing their treasures, they could not block this one arrow that concentrated all the power of Heaven and Earth. They were instantly blasted into a mist of blood.

To slaughter several thousand with a single arrow—the faces of the survivors turned ashen white. Li Qiye was already capable of fighting one against ten thousand and sweeping over all opposition without a treasure. Now that he wielded such an invincible Divine Bow, what hope was left?

At that moment, every enemy on the battlefield realized that killing Li Qiye was now impossible. Their goal was no longer to kill him, but to escape the battlefield with their lives.

“Move!” Just as the surviving experts on the battlefield were losing their will to fight, the Shen Ran Phoenix Lady, seated high upon the Celestial Vault, gave a sharp command.

Instantly, the army protecting the Shen Ran Phoenix Lady rushed onto the battlefield. Every single soldier carried a small furnace. When they opened these furnaces, they pulsed with black light. WHOOSH! In a flash, the small furnaces sucked in all the blood and bones from the battlefield.

The battlefield had been a scene of carnage, with mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. But now, the small furnaces held by the soldiers of the Divine Burning Country had sucked it all dry.

“Fall back! Retreat now! It’s the Divine Blood Burning!” Seeing this, many onlookers at the horizon were frightened out of their wits. One expert roared at those still on the battlefield.

BOOM! A giant Blood Furnace materialized, instantly swallowing the entire battlefield, including the army of the Divine Burning Country.

“AHHH—!” Screams of agony erupted. Many of the experts still on the battlefield had been caught completely off guard. They were instantly refined into a bloody mist, their blood sucked dry by the Blood Furnace.

BOOM—BOOM—BOOM—! The Blood Furnace rumbled without end. It was now a brilliant, scarlet, wreathed in a bloody mist—a truly horrifying sight.

“The Divine Blood Burning… this is a technique of mutual destruction. Either the enemy dies, or we die! They won’t even hesitate to use their own blood as a sacrifice if they’re outmatched.” Seeing the massive Blood Furnace, even the Ghost Race experts felt a chill crawl up their spines.

At this point, the entire Blood Furnace grew even more ominously beautiful, like a demonic crucible that had drunk its fill of everyone’s blood. The sight alone was enough to make one shudder.

‘The thousands of people on that battlefield… I fear they’ve all been used as a blood sacrifice.’ Watching the Blood Furnace grow more vibrant, many great figures from the Great Teaching Territories understood what was happening and muttered to themselves.

“It’s a blood sacrifice method, a Forbidden Technique of the Divine Burning Country!” a Great Sect Leader from the Ghost Race exclaimed. “That Shen Ran Phoenix Lady is utterly ruthless.”

Divine Blood Burning was the Divine Burning Country’s ultimate and most terrifying Forbidden Technique. It was a method of blood sacrifice that could use the blood of its casters as well as that of their enemies.

The army of the Divine Burning Country had transformed into the Blood Furnace, swallowing the entire battlefield and instantly sacrificing the several thousand, nearly ten thousand, Ghost Race experts within. They intended to use this blood sacrifice to kill Li Qiye. And, of course, if necessary, the soldiers inside the Blood Furnace would not hesitate to sacrifice themselves as well, fueling the technique until Li Qiye was finally dead.