Smoke and sand rolled, the world a barren wasteland.
Luo Xiu and Lin Tong walked side by side, their feet treading over a ground of ashes and corpses, stepping heavily toward the enemy camp.
A hundred zhang ahead of the two of them.
Two hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers were brimming with battle intent, all already poised to strike!
Yet those Heavenly Soldiers standing in the very front row, facing those two tall, slender figures walking straight toward them, gradually felt their legs go weak, fear surfacing in their eyes as cold sweat streamed down their faces.
Obvious as it was that the place was packed with people, this land was so quiet at this moment it felt like a grave.
The atmosphere was just too suffocating!
Or rather, these two people were just too terrifying.
The other side only had two men, yet they could bring such pressure to bear on a full army of two hundred thousand!
Just what kind of monstrous existences were they?
"Killā!"
The leading War General suddenly raised the War Sword in his hand high, his voice like rolling thunder.
And that shout of his was like a fully drawn bowstring being loosed.
"Killā!"
The two hundred thousand Celestial Soldiers and Generals roared in unison, their voices shaking the heavens, charging in like arrows released from the string!
Luo Xiu suddenly stopped, his gaze calm as he watched the Heavenly Soldiers charging from sky and ground ahead. He said to Lin Tong, "Same as before, you're in charge of killing the living, I'm in charge of burning the dead."
A feral grin spread across Lin Tong's face. His figure flashed, turning into a streaking afterimage.
The Long Scythe whirled madly, deathly qi roaring into the sky!
Under the shroud of death qi, the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals at the very front collapsed in an instant, their souls reaped and spirits taken.
But in the very next moment, those fallen Heavenly Soldiers and Generals turned into Shidalin and crawled back up, charging again!
Seeing this, Luo Xiu's gaze tightened slightly as he took out the Sun Well.
At this moment the Sun Well was still scorching hot; he figured if he used it any more it would reach its limit.
But right now Luo Xiu couldn't be bothered to care. He promised, "Once this battle's over, I'll at least inlay you a ring of gold, and set a few diamonds too."
At his words, the Sun Well trembled lightly, expressing how aggrieved it felt.
At this moment.
Lin Tong had already plunged deep into the enemy ranks.
Where the Death God passed, it brought nothing but death.
Those Heavenly Soldiers and Generals fell in swathes, like stalks of wheat blown down by a raging wind.
Suddenly, Lin Tong threw his head back and let out a long howl, an even denser death aura erupting from his body!
He planned to unleash his Domain directly, aiming to harvest these two hundred thousand Celestial Soldiers and Generals in the shortest time possible!
But just then, a vicious blade light descended from the sky, like heavenly judgment falling, chopping straight down toward the crown of his head.
Seeing this, Lin Tong's eyes narrowed sharply. In an instant he sensed the threat within this blade light and did not dare hesitate, immediately lifting his scythe to block.
With a thunderous boom.
The ground exploded.
Lin Tong was knocked back scythe-horizontal, stumbling as he landed, his expression grave as he looked at Watari Kagura floating in midair.
Watari Kagura stood proudly in The Void, black dress and black hair whipping wildly in the wind, Tai Ah of Great Qian in her hand, like a war goddess descended.
"Your opponent is me."
Lin Tong grinned, baring his teeth. "You nasty woman, I knew you'd make a move. Just wait, I'll tie you up and let my big bro use his spear to 'take care' of you!"
Watari Kagura lifted her jade-white hand slightly, and a strange gray light bloomed from her palm like a spell.
In the next instant, Lin Tong felt the scene before his eyes flicker and found himself within a Different Space.
"This is my Oracle Small Realm. You and I will fight here."
Lin Tong swung his scythe. "This god's not exactly good at close-quarters brawling, but I know a thing or two about fists and feet."
Watari Kagura didn't say anything more. She raised her blade and slashed.
The clash of God versus God erupted in an instant!
...
...
Inside the Heaven Sealing Formation.
Seeing Lin Tong taken into a Different Space by Watari Kagura, Luo Xiu felt a bit helpless in his heart and said to the Sun Well in his hand, "Looks like I don't need to bother you after all."
After putting away the Sun Well, Luo Xiu took out the Gaze Mask again.
He had just been about to put the mask on when Natuoyasi's burping voice sounded in his mind. "Brat, I ate too much before. I, Natuoyasi, need time to calmly digest, so I can't help you right now."
Luo Xiu cursed, "Fuck your grandpa, can you be a little more reliable?"
"You're the first to dare speak to me, Natuoyasi, like that!"
Luo Xiu muttered curses as he put away the Gaze Mask, then gave the spear in his hand a shake. "No choice, gotta do it solo."
Just then, a Heavenly Soldier dropped from the sky and hacked down at his head with a raised sword!
Luo Xiu didn't even look. He simply flicked his spear out with a casual thrust, and that Heavenly Soldier's sword snapped and body split in an instant, bursting apart midair into countless chunks.
Then Luo Xiu swept his spear horizontally, blasting away the other Heavenly Soldiers, and stomped his single foot savagely onto the ground.
"Primordial Ancientā¦ Netherworld Dance."
A terrifying heatwave surged from his body. With him as the center, the ground instantly turned into rolling magma.
Immediately after, countless Thunderfish and Thunderworm flew from his body. The Heavenly Soldiers closest to him didn't even have time to react before their bodies were punched through by those globes of spherical lightning.
In the rear of the enemy formation.
A white-haired old man in Armor suddenly shouted in a loud voice, "Ling Kong!"
The Heavenly Soldiers and Generals obeyed at once, soaring into the air to avoid the magma on the ground.
Luo Xiu stood atop the magma, his gaze suddenly turning razor-sharp as he locked onto that white-haired old man directly with his Divine Sense. He took a step forward and leapt, hurling the spear in his hand with a vicious throw!
The Shattering Star Spear shot straight out, and everyone in its path, those Heavenly Soldiers and Generals along that line, were like pearls strung on a needle and thread.
Luo Xiu turned into an afterimage and chased right after, body following the spear. Suddenly he grabbed out with one hand; the Mysterious Central Sword flew into his grasp. As Sword Light raged in all directions, the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals who tried to rush him turned into chunks of meat one after another.
In just a few breaths, Luo Xiu had already cut deep into the enemy rear and appeared in front of that white-haired old man.
"Old bastard, you hanging your head out here like a for-sale sign?"
With a casual sword swing, the white-haired old man's head flew from his shoulders, his corpse tumbling weakly down into the magma below.
But even with the white-haired old man in charge of command dead, the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals did not lose formation. They remained orderly, arranging themselves into a Slaughter Array in the sky.
"Demon of the Mortal Realm, this place shall be your tomb!"
"All of you heed my order, exterminate this demoā"
However, before the word "n" of "demon" could even leave his mouth, the Shattering Star Spear that Luo Xiu had kicked out crossed several thousand meters in an instant and pierced through the speaking general's throat.
Luo Xiu stood proudly above the magma, taking a slow breath as he ran two fingers lightly along the sword's edge.
"Come on then, let's see who kills who."
"..."
...
That slaughter lasted a full twenty days.
The magma that had filled the entire Heaven Sealing Formation had long since cooled and solidified, turning into black rock of all shapes and sizes, with quite a few charred Heavenly Soldier corpses still half-exposed on the surface.
Luo Xiu was half-kneeling on the ground, drained of strength, head hanging low as drops of sweat mixed with blood dripped from the tip of his nose.
The Heavenly Armor and Divine Armor on his body had long since fallen away; his torn clothes revealed blood-soaked flesh beneath.
He had still underestimated the Slaughter Array formed by two hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers.
Non-stop bombardment by Taoist Artsā even the Hongmeng Holy Body couldn't take that.
But by now, he had also slaughtered all two hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers.
Ten thousand a day, and he had hacked his way through like that!
Lin Tong staggered over, collapsing beside Luo Xiu with no strength left, his expression filled with exhaustion as he said weakly, "Big bro, I'm doneā¦ that bitch was way too hard to deal with."
The Death God Scythe in his hand was already in tatters, nicked and curled, as ragged as his own body.
In these twenty days, he had been tangled up with Watari Kagura the entire time, fighting her without a moment's rest!
Luo Xiu forced his heavy eyelids open and rasped, "That was one hell of a fightā¦ with a few hundred thousand going down with us, even if we die in battle it's not a loss."
Lin Tong weakly waved his hand. "I probably won't die. They'll capture me alive, lock me up, then refine me."
Luo Xiu chuckled. "I'm different. If I don't die, I'll probably end up worse off than you."
Lin Tong suddenly asked, "Big bro, what do you think, if a god self-destructsā¦ how big would the blast be?"
At that, Luo Xiu's face darkened. "It's not the last moment yet. We're not bled dry. Hold on a bit longer, wait for the Ancient Ten Emperors to resurrect!"
"..."
At this moment.
On the Formation Altar.
Watari Kagura looked a bit bedraggled, her long hair disheveled as she half-knelt weakly on the ground.
She suddenly said, "They're just about done. Notify the higher-upsāsend another two hundred thousand."
"..."