With the annihilation of the Three-Headed Flood Dragon clan, a faint blood-red hue permeated the Boundary Sea of Mengzhou, yet the slaughter did not cease. Led by Yue Yi and Zhuge Liang, the grand army, utilizing the wooden ox and flowing horses crafted by Zhuge Liang, penetrated the remaining two boundary lands controlled by the Three-Headed Flood Dragons within mere days.
Across these lands, countless beings fought with all their might. Less than half an hour after the battle commenced, soldiers clad in black armor surged into the blood-soaked battlefield.
The appearance of this massive legion ignited excitement among the myriad beings inhabiting the two boundary lands. The regular forces of the Void Demons had finally revealed themselves. The unseen hand behind the Three-Headed Flood Dragons was at last emerging, risking defiance of the supreme ruler's decree, and charging towards the mighty Han army!
"So, you've finally shown yourselves!"
Zhuge Liang, fanning himself with a feather fan in one hand and holding an Eight Trigrams diagram in the other, calmly observed the vast Void Demon army.
"Clang!"
The million-strong Han army drew out new crossbows. These were Zhuge Liang's Repeating Crossbows, handed over to Gan Jiang. In just a few days, the Han's master blacksmiths had worked day and night to forge ordinary crossbows for the army. However, with the backing of the military camp, these were akin to ordinary immortal treasures.
Each crossbow was capable of firing ten arrows!
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
This was precisely what they had been waiting for. The unseen hand behind the Three-Headed Flood Dragons and the Dragon Nether Sacred Court had finally emerged. The Han, having slain a clone of a Void Immortal Emperor in the lower realm, faced this relentless retribution as a consequence of karma.
Deafening roars of slaughter echoed. A million soldiers, each unleashing ten arrows simultaneously, fired a torrent of ten million formidable divine arrows, ignited by a crimson divine fire. It was as if this land was originally a world of flames. The rolling demonic energy emanating from the colossal Void Demon army was utterly torn asunder!
Ten million arrows, each a full-powered strike from an ordinary immortal treasure, was equivalent to the combined might of ten million True Immortal beings. For the Void Demon army, composed of beings at the peak of the Chaotic Dao Venerable realm, this was a devastating blow!
"Ordinary immortal treasures!!"
"Quick! Quick! Soldiers above Golden Immortal realm, step forward and form arrays to resist the arrows!!" A demon general, a Celestial Emperor, exclaimed in alarm. His current army was incapable of withstanding this onslaught. Ten million arrows, each a True Immortal's strike, would force even Golden Immortals to retreat, let alone ordinary soldiers.
*Boom!*
"Roar!"
Towering black phantoms, tens of thousands of feet tall, with eyes like blazing divine suns, scanned the torrent of ten million arrows. Powerful soldiers and peerless generals simultaneously launched their attacks, charging towards the vast volley of arrows.
"A futile struggle!"
"Go!"
With a wave of his feather fan, Zhuge Liang directed the ten million arrows. A Vermilion Bird erupted in flames, transforming each arrow into a divine beast. Crimson radiance surged, and not a trace of black demonic energy could be seen in the heavens and earth!
*Boom!*
The cries of the Vermilion Bird lingered, as if a true divine beast had manifested in the firmament. Streams of crimson light, largely moving on a single plane, pierced directly towards the ten-thousand-foot-tall demon phantoms suspended in the void!
*Boom!*
The towering demon phantoms were directly incinerated by the arrows. Golden Immortal soldiers and powerful warriors alike found their bodies covered in crimson cracks, instantly shattering!
"Ah!!"
"Shields, defend!"
"Shields, defend!"
As the demon phantoms of the army formation shattered, only one-tenth of the ten million arrows were lost. Countless arrows plunged into the army. Two-thirds of the territory of this boundary land transformed into a world of crimson. Uncountable numbers of the defending local beings perished. The arriving Void Demon reinforcements suffered a casualty rate of three-sevenths!
Demonic energy billowed towards the heavens!
There was no dripping blood, nor the tragic sight of corpses strewn about. Everything was instantly reduced to dust by the Vermilion Bird divine fire brought by the arrows!
"The Han!"
"How dare you injure my Void Demon army! Can you withstand the fury of the Immortal Emperor!"
"In a snap, he can turn your Han into dust!"
The Celestial Emperor leading the army roared furiously. These were his elite forces! He tilted his head back and roared, shattering tens of thousands of crimson arrows.
"Immortal Emperor?"
"Feel free to let him try!"
"Dare to enter the Han, and you shall perish in the void!"
Amidst the sea of fire, a general clad in the armor of the Qiongqi Legion, wielding a long sword, glanced at the Celestial Emperor. With a single sword strike, he unleashed a divine light ten thousand feet long, like a crescent moon sliced by a great saber, cleaving through the crimson inferno and aiming directly for the Celestial Emperor's head!
*Boom!*
Starlight erupted, and brilliant radiance exploded before the Celestial Emperor.
The Celestial Emperor did not perish instantly. He managed to block the light from Yue Yi's sword, his body sent flying for ten thousand miles, shattering the sky. The breastplate on his chest cracked, and his Imperial-grade immortal treasure saber suffered several nicks!
"Interesting!"
Yue Yi, seeing the shattered breastplate on the Celestial Emperor's chest, raised his long sword again. The sword light struck directly at the Celestial Emperor's wings. A fearsome desolate aura, imbued with ancient intent, descended like a divine punishment upon the retreating figure!
*Boom!*
With a deafening roar, the sword light surged into the battle saber before the figure. The chaotic white light suddenly exploded!
The figure instantly vanished into the void. The unleashed sword energy pierced into the distant horizon, shattering countless magnificent and majestic mountain peaks.
"Kill!"
Yue Yi turned back, raising his long sword and commanding the army. Zhuge Liang watched this scene, dispersing the Eight Trigrams diagram in his hand. The Quasi-Emperor beings had not appeared. The deployment of these mere foot soldiers would not violate the supreme ruler's decree. However, if a Quasi-Emperor under the Void Immortal Emperor had appeared, the situation would be vastly different.
Yet, Zhuge Liang also looked forward with anticipation and curiosity: what would become of the Void Demons if those powerful supreme rulers truly descended?
Would the scales truly tip in favor of the Han!
"Qiongqi Legion!"
"Follow me and kill!"
"Control the boundary lands and establish immortal merit for the Han!"
*Rumble!*
Following Yue Yi's order, from the far end of the horizon, an army of approximately five hundred thousand soldiers clad in Qiongqi Legion armor traversed ten thousand miles of void from the southern sky. A desolate aura, ancient slaughter, and the presence of supreme divine beasts caused the heavens and earth to boil!
"Kill!"
A flag shook the sky, inscribed with: "Meng!"
Meng Tian, mounted on a warhorse, held a long spear.