Chapter 2047 1492: Defeated (2)

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Accompanied by earth-shattering war cries, cultivators and devil beasts unleashed their attacks almost simultaneously. The once vibrant plain had already become a fearsome, blood-soaked, ever-grinding colossus that crushed life without respite.

On the ground, the pitch-black beast tide launched a frenzied assault, constantly battering against the cultivators' defensive line. As long as the obstructive Formation was broken, the devil beasts believed that, with their strength and numbers, they could easily annihilate these cultivators!

Behind the Formation, the cultivators unleashed wave after wave of attacks—Divine Powers, Spells, Sword Qi, and all kinds of Spirit Light interwove, forming an enormous net of death.

Any devil beast caught within it had no chance of escaping alive!

The great battle had barely begun, and already the field was carpeted with mangled flesh and bones, piled into mounds—a sight to make even the bravest shiver with dread.

Yet this didn't frighten or demoralize the devil beasts. On the contrary, it only fueled their defiance. Even when faced with death at every turn, they didn't retreat or give in, but kept launching themselves madly into the assault.

"Something's wrong! There's something off about these devil beasts!" A Li family Earth Immortal frowned deeply, his gaze piercing as he scanned the beast tide.

One must know, most living beings fear death. Only a rare few possess the resolve to see through life and death—such beings are exceedingly scarce, and could never appear en masse among these devil beasts.

Then, he realized the clue—the devil beasts had been tampered with. Though they seemed normal, they were actually controlled, like Puppets, utterly lacking will of their own.

"We have to find a way to resolve this!"

The devil race already held the advantage as natives with superior numbers. If they were willing to pay the price and sacrifice countless low-level devil beasts, they could shatter the cultivators' Defensive Array.

Already, the Defensive Array was swaying and faltering; at this rate, it wouldn't last much longer.

So he had to act quickly!

After much effort, he finally identified several devil beasts controlling the beast tide.

They thought hiding at the rear would keep them safe from discovery. Unfortunately for them, they had still been spotted.

As for how to break the devils' control, the best option was to kill the spellcasting devil beasts and directly dispel their Secret Technique.

The alternative was to deduce and perfect a countermeasure against the Secret Technique, but that required time for analysis and refinement.

Evidently, there was no such time on the battlefield.

Thus, their only choice was to slay the spellcasting devil beasts—no other option remained.

To leave the safety of the Defensive Array and pass through tens of thousands of beasts alive—while possessing enough power—such cultivators were rare indeed.

This time, they couldn't even assemble a team of four.

With only three, it would be extremely risky.

At their wit's end, they approached Wan Qingxuan.

"Fellow Daoist, we require your help for a task."

"I am called Wan Qingxuan."

He offered a simple introduction, then asked, "What do you wish of me?"

The clansman explained, "So now, we need someone to leave the Great Array, go to the rear of the beast tide, and eliminate those four devil beasts controlling the low-level devil beasts."

"Understood!"

Wan Qingxuan agreed without hesitation, even a hint of anticipation shining in his eyes.

As a battle fanatic, he was already bored of sitting inside the Formation—the initial thrill had faded.

"Then Fellow Daoist, prepare yourself. We leave in two hours!"

"Very well." Wan Qingxuan didn't ask further, nor did he hesitate. He simply turned and began readying himself.

Though arrogant, he was no fool; he knew this mission was perilous in the extreme—with a real chance of dying if he was careless. Of course he would prepare meticulously.

Two hours passed in a flash.

"Move out!" With the command from a Li family cultivator, four beams of Spirit Light shot through the Formation, racing straight to the rear of the beast tide.

The few devil beasts hiding in the shadows—the Human Immortal realm devils controlling the low-level beasts—instantly sensed danger. They began directing the devil beasts to intercept the intruders, trying to keep them at bay.

At the same time, they contacted other Human Immortal realm devils, urging them to return and protect them.

Of the four cultivators, Wan Qingxuan was by far the swiftest. Before the others could even react, he had already broken through the beast tide, arriving near one of the hidden Human Immortal realm devil beasts.

Clang—

With a flash, he drew his sword, slashing at the devil beast. Unexpectedly, it had a Defensive Magical Artifact that blocked Wan Qingxuan's blade.

But with his next strike, the beast felt doom descending—forced to abandon its control over the low-level monsters and focus all its power on defense.

Yet even so, it could not preserve its own life!

The remaining devil beasts never imagined Wan Qingxuan would be so terrifying—dispatching a peer in just two sword strikes.

In that instant, terror took hold. Two devil beasts didn't say a word—they just fled!

The slowest devil beast was unlucky—it caught Wan Qingxuan's eye. Though it fought with everything it had, in the end, it still could not escape death.

As those Human Immortal realm devils controlling the low-level beasts were killed or driven off, their control vanished; the beasts returned to normal.

When these low-level devil beasts saw the towering mountains of corpses and the severed limbs littering the ground, their first instinct was to flee!

If they didn't run now, what—stay here forever and die as well?

And as the devil beasts scattered in wild retreat, this brutal, blood-soaked battle abruptly concluded.

But before long, new hostilities erupted yet again.

The cultivators, of course, seized the chance to press the attack—striking while morale was at its peak, tremendously boosting their combat effectiveness!

The devil race, desperate to resist, rallied even more beasts—swelling their numbers from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

What they failed to anticipate was that just as battle raged at the front, the Human race from This Realm launched their assault on the devils from another direction.

The timing of the This Realm humans was impeccable!

Taking advantage of the devil race's depleted strength to attack, they reaped rich rewards and could more easily defeat the devil race.

But for the devils, beset on both sides, their plight grew dire indeed.

In such circumstances, the devil race was battered into retreat, steadily losing ground.

In just a few short years, the devil race fell from masters of the Primordial Beast Realm to reviled monsters everyone sought to destroy!

It could be said that with events reaching this point, the Li family's invasion had achieved perfection.

The remaining devil beasts could no longer make any difference.

What's more, the Primordial Beast Realm would soon become the Primal Spirit Realm's possession, and their strength would return once again.