Translator: CinderTL
The sword's roar pierced the sky.
Li Chunjun, sword and man as one, charged ahead, directly into the formation of over fifty Divine Spirits.
Many Divine Spirits had already been watching the battlefield where the two Apex Divine Spirits were leading the charge.
When they sensed Li Chunjun's approach, the two Apex Divine Spirits immediately mobilized thirteen Divine Spirits, unleashing a concentrated barrage of Mystical Powers.
Their swift reaction demonstrated their discipline and coordination.
Streams of light, mixed with various Mystic Treasures, shot toward Li Chunjun like anti-aircraft missiles.
But just as these Mystical Powers and attacking Mystic Treasures were about to collide head-on, a Divine Sense so profound that no Divine Spirit could match it, combined with the Grand Ruins Sword Intent—a Mystical Power imbued with the perfected Destruction Sword Intent—erupted.
Under the impact of the Grand Ruins Sword Intent, all Mystical Arts and attacking Mystic Treasures were affected, their power, transformations, and agility plummeting.
At the same time, the Scarlet Sky Sword in Li Chunjun's hand suddenly split into eleven, forming eleven Sword Qi that slammed into the Mystical Art Essences and attacking Mystic Treasures, shattering and scattering them.
After shattering eleven attacks, Omni skillfully and nimbly dodged four more, effortlessly piercing through the combined assault of fifteen Divine Spirits.
As he passed through the energy fluctuations created by their interception, the Sword Qi that had just split into eleven strands re-entered his body. With his right hand raised high, it reformed into the Scarlet Sky Sword's blade.
Then, pointing at an Apex Divine Spirit who had charged over ten miles away, Omni flicked his finger. The Scarlet Sky Sword, now fully formed, roared once more as it shot forward.
Before the sword even reached its target, nine strands of Sword Qi had already dispersed.
Five of them targeted the five Divine Spirits closest to the Apex Divine Spirit, who might intervene to provide aid. The remaining four strands of Sword Qi shot directly toward the leading Apex Divine Spirit.
With a roar, the Apex Divine Spirit erupted in ten thousand feet of dazzling light. A towering giant, over a hundred meters tall, materialized from within his body, facing the four Sword Qi head-on.
Yet each of these four Sword Qi strands seemed to rival a Mystical Power in its destructive force.
The hundred-meter-tall Giant of Light shattered the first two strands, but it couldn't withstand the third.
Under the third strike of Sword Qi, the Giant of Light was struck like a colossal object by a super cannonball, exploding into a dazzling shower of light.
The radiant light and debris released in that instant resembled a hundred-meter-wide meteoroid shattered mid-air.
Amidst the swirling fragments of light, the fourth Sword Qi slammed fiercely into the Apex Divine Spirit's Protective Magic Treasure.
Immediately afterward, the Scarlet Sky Sword itself descended, ruthlessly piercing through and shattering the Apex Protective Magic Treasure.
Boom!
Energy erupted.
Li Chunjun's figure followed, passing through the torrent of energy unleashed by the Apex Divine Spirit's demise.
At first glance, it appeared as though Li Chunjun had transformed himself into a weapon, directly colliding with the Apex Divine Spirit's body and shattering the powerful being into pieces.
"Let this world embrace its glorious end!"
As Li Chunjun defeated the Apex Divine Spirit, another Apex Divine Spirit seemed to have already burned their Qi, cultivating a Great Mystic Power.
But at that moment, thousands upon thousands of White Flame Flying Moths swarmed forward.
Like a torrential rain of flower petals swept up by a summer breeze, they battered against the Apex Divine Spirit with a crackling sound.
"You're my opponent!"
It was Xuan Zhu, unwilling to be outdone, who broke away from the team, mounted his Full Moon, and swiftly followed.
On the other side, Li Chunjun, having re-condensed the Scarlet Sky Sword, glanced at Xuan Zhu but didn't continue focusing on the Apex Divine Spirit.
For him, the rewards from killing an Apex Divine Spirit weren't as valuable as killing three Greater Divine Spirits or eight Common Divine Spirits.
Yet, in terms of difficulty, an Apex Divine Spirit was far more troublesome to kill than eight Common Divine Spirits.
Since Xuan Zhu had taken over the Apex Divine Spirit, Li Chunjun decided to let him handle it.
He turned his attention back to the thirteen Divine Spirits who had been redirected.
Concentrating his Divine Sense, he launched the Scarlet Sky Sword, which spun rapidly.
This rotation not only reduced resistance from the Void but also propelled the flying sword to unprecedented speeds.
This extreme speed, combined with the Great Void Destruction Sword Intent and the Scarlet Sky Sword's inherent ability to conceal itself—enhanced by the Void Particles it had absorbed—transformed the flying sword into an unstoppable phantom of death once more!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In an instant, three Divine Spirits had their heads pierced through by the Flying Sword.
The remaining ten Divine Spirits desperately searched for the Flying Sword's location, but they couldn't even keep up with its movements.
Occasionally, by sheer luck, they caught a glimpse of its trajectory, or their survival instincts alerted them to its impending attack, but they were utterly unable to block or defend against it.
As they watched Divine Spirits fall one after another beneath the Flying Sword's relentless assault, the Apex Divine Spirit, who had been holding off the endless waves of White Flame Flying Moths, finally broke.
"Retreat! Full retreat!" he roared, his body bathed in flowing light as he shot towards the horizon.
Upon receiving this order, the remaining eight Divine Spirits, along with the thirty-odd Divine Spirits nearby who were fending off the counterattack of a Nascent Soul True Lord, immediately disengaged from their opponents and fled at full speed.
Though they had been occupied with repelling the Human Race's Nascent Soul counterattack, they were not oblivious to the events unfolding around them.
Li Chunjun had instantly slain an Apex Divine Spirit and then, with overwhelming force, crushed five more Divine Spirits...
Sixth!
How could they possibly fight against such genuine Prodigy-level combat power!?
If they had a decisive numerical advantage, it might have been different.
But now, their side had only forty-odd Divine Spirits left, while the Human Race Nascent Soul cultivators numbered at least sixty.
If they continued fighting, their only fate would be complete annihilation.
Realizing this, the Apex Divine Spirit issued an order, and all the Divine Spirits simultaneously disengaged, scattering like a flock of panicked birds.
"Damn it!"
Xuan Zhu glared at the fleeing Apex Divine Spirit and the other escaping Divine Spirits, a low growl escaping his lips. "Did I say you could leave!?"
In the next moment, countless White Flame Flying Moths swarmed toward the fleeing Divine Spirits.
While a few dozen, a hundred, or even several hundred moths might not have posed a threat, Xuan Zhu had released tens of thousands of them.
Conservatively estimated, there were no fewer than thirty thousand.
These moths proved incredibly disruptive to the Divine Spirits, trapping them and making it difficult to escape.
Li Chunjun glanced at Xuan Zhu.
This Mystical Power...
It's a perfect mass-combat technique.
Especially with a cultivation advantage, it could easily wipe out any number of lower-level cultivators.
And on the Two Worlds Mountain Battlefield, if used against the million-strong Servitor hordes, a single strike could easily kill hundreds or even thousands.
Among the hundreds or thousands of Servitors, Common Servitors were more numerous, but there were also a significant number of Greater and Apex Kin. Averaging it out, that meant a Merit Points haul of one or two thousand.
That alone was equivalent to him killing more than a dozen Common Divine Spirits.
No wonder this person's ranking on the Merit Points Ranking always fluctuated between second and third place, locked in a fierce battle with Xu Yu.
Li Chunjun carefully sensed the technique for a moment.
The mastery of Divine Sense and Qi in this technique was refined to the extreme.
It was not something an ordinary person could cultivate.
But then he had a thought.
A Sword Cultivator's Lifebound Flying Sword was naturally and intimately connected to them, as if it were an extension of their own arm. If he used his Lifebound Flying Sword as the core and applied a similar attack using the Sword Light Division technique, what would the effect be?
Lost in thought, his hand never faltered.
His sword blade swept through the battlefield, swiftly slaying Divine Spirits one after another.
But...
Just as a few Nascent Soul True Lords often carried Fifth-Tier Life-Preserving Talismans, Divine Spirits also had their own hidden methods.
A handful of Divine Spirits managed to break through the encirclement using these techniques.
This sight turned Xuan Zhu's face grim.
Li Chunjun had not only slain an Apex Divine Spirit with a single strike but had also killed nearly thirty Divine Spirits in total. Yet he...
Aside from six unfortunate souls who were incinerated by the White Flame Flying Moths, his record was meager.
The Apex Divine Spirit they had been targeting directly broke through the encirclement using a treasure.
Without the support of the other Nascent Soul cultivators in their team, he couldn't even stop a single Apex Divine Spirit desperately fleeing for its life!?
The disparity was stark and immediate.
Unfortunately, Li Chunjun didn't notice the change in Xuan Zhu's expression.
At that moment, he was fully focused on pursuing the escaping Divine Spirit.
The Human Race Nascent Soul True Lords followed closely behind, determined to slaughter the entire group of Divine Spirits tasked with intercepting them.
Nearly a hundred Divine Spirits!
If they could achieve this strategic objective, the pressure on Continent 6 would undoubtedly ease considerably.
Under this relentless pursuit, they quickly covered hundreds of miles.
It was only then that Li Chunjun noticed another battlefield nearby, one involving Servitors and Core Formation cultivators.
Thousands of Servitors were engaged in the fighting.
Cornered and desperate to survive, the few Divine Spirits who had fled to this area issued an order. Two or three thousand Servitors surged forward, breaking ranks and charging toward the Human Race Nascent Soul cultivators, ready to sacrifice their lives to buy the Divine Spirits a chance to escape.
"These Servitors..."
Li Chunjun scanned the tide of creatures, brainwashed by the Divine Being's power, and a thought struck him.
He carefully recalled Xuan Zhu's Boundless Cold Moon Mystical Powers.
In the next moment, he raised his right hand high, Scarlet Sky Sword piercing the clouds.
After soaring a thousand meters in a single breath, the Flying Sword suddenly exploded, scattering into thousands of Sword Qi.
These Sword Qi arced outward in parabolic trajectories, like celestial maidens scattering flowers, raining down with deadly precision upon the surging Servitors. Each strike pierced their bodies and heads, passing clean through.
With each Servitor pierced, the intense heat contained within the Sword Qi manifested as flames, rapidly incinerating them into ash.
Even those Servitors who possessed perfect control over their bodies, capable of surviving heart-shattering wounds and regrowing severed limbs, could not survive being reduced to charcoal.
As the Sword Qi rained down like a storm, hundreds and thousands of Servitors fell like wheat stalks battered by a gale, mown down in waves and then consumed by the searing flames.
By the time the Sword Qi gradually dispersed, nearly a thousand Servitors had fallen in this single strike!
The space within twenty to thirty kilometers in front of Li Chunjun had been completely cleared.
One strike, a thousand Servitors slain!
Among them were many Greater Kin and Apex Kin!
This indiscriminate, large-scale slaughter instantly stunned everyone on the battlefield.
Not only did the tide of Servitors surging forward falter, but even the Nascent Soul and Core Formation cultivators of the Human Race were deeply shaken.
They gazed at the figure with his raised right hand, orchestrating this terrifying slaughter, with profound awe.
For a moment, the vast battlefield, teeming with tens of thousands of Core Formation cultivators, Servitors, Nascent Soul cultivators, and Divine Spirits, ground to a halt.
(End of the Chapter)
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