Chapter 511: Chapter 450 Harmonization’s Death, Astounding Victory
"Boom! Old bird, let me have a go at you!"
Chiyou grinned savagely and leaped straight into the Wind Eye.
Swish!
The countless Wind Blades within the Wind Eye shredded him into the tiniest particles.
Was this thing joking? All show, no substance?
The next instant, Chiyou reformed again.
Boom!
With one punch, he shattered the Wind Eye.
"What kind of monster is this?"
Hee Ao exclaimed in shock. The body of this half-human, half-demon creature was simply too strong!
With the Wind Eye destroyed, the immediate danger dissipated. Chiyou opened his mouth and inhaled, instantly sucking countless demons dry, their essence transformed into streams of blood energy that surged into him.
Chiyou’s body grew ever larger, and the world was tainted a bloody crimson.
"What nerve!"
Hee Ao charged forward, and the two clashed ferociously.
At the same time, the Human Clan’s forces reached the demon army.
Battle commenced in full fury.
The Human Clan’s vanguard was led by Zhonghuang Zi, Taihua, and Spirit Treasure Celestial Master.
The others covered the flanks.
"Giant Turtle Demon Monarch, this poor Taoist is here to slay you! Haha!"
Spirit Treasure Celestial Master laughed heartily as the Three Corpses and Three Talents Formation encircled the Giant Turtle Demon Monarch and his battalion.
The two sides were drawn into a separate space.
Azure Dragon and Bai Mei, acting as the left and right generals, jointly battled the Giant Turtle Demon Monarch and three Great Saints of the Giant Turtle Clan.
Azure Dragon chanted under his breath, summoning towering ancient trees from the earth, while Yimu Divine Thunder transformed into thunder beasts one after another.
This was Azure Dragon’s Yimu Grand Formation of the Primordial Spirit. Such dharma forms were not necessarily humanoid; some, like the Azure Dragon, manifested as entire formations.
Bai Mei exhaled a breath, conjuring three ghosts—White-faced, Red-faced, and Blue-faced.
Each Ghost King possessed Primordial Spirit level combat power.
"Oh? Bowing low before, and now you’ve grown a backbone? Let me see if you can even stand before me,"
the Giant Turtle Demon Monarch sneered without a trace of fear.
So what if they had achieved Harmonization?
The power difference between the two sides was on entirely different levels.
No matter the realm, the demon clan outnumbered them several times over.
Perhaps that freak was keeping Hee Ao occupied, but what about the Whale Master?
...
"Kill!"
Erlang God led the Mei Mountain Seven Saints against another Great Saint of the demon clan.
Every Daoist sect and department had its respective opponent.
From a bird’s-eye view, explosions covered a thousand miles in every direction, dazzling the sky with multicolored bursts of radiance. With every passing second, lives were lost. Even a meat grinder wasn’t this brutal.
Decades, even centuries, worth of cultivated demons and cultivators vanished in an instant.
"Die for me!"
Six demons surrounded a lone cultivator from the Cultivation Forest. Realizing his imminent demise, the cultivator detonated himself, instantly taking the six demons with him.
Similar scenes unfolded across the battlefield.
A Demon Commander of the Giant Turtle Clan exclaimed in shock, "Are these still humans?!"
For centuries of dealings with humans, it was the first time he’d encountered human warriors with such indomitable resolve.
"Hold the formation! Anyone who disrupts the formation dies!!"
"Tsk!"
A faint chuckle sounded next to his ear, and the next moment, a silver-haired Sword Demon decapitated him with a single strike.
It turned out to be Xiangling’er leading a thousand overseas cultivators into the fray.
By rights, the Donghua Hidden Lineage should never have joined the battle; their duty was to ensure the continuation of the magical lineage. If their primary sect was wiped out, they would inherit the mantle.
Yet, Song Lin had called them out.
When death was inevitable, mere survival had no meaning.
Better to shatter like jade than survive as mere tiles.
The battle raged fiercely.
Victory now hinged on who could first eliminate the two Harmonization-level threats and thereby shift the tide of war.
Another key lay in dealing with the Whale Master.
Boom!
The Three-headed and Six-armed Dharma Image clashed with the Whale Master, their towering physiques evenly matched.
The Whale Master gazed at thirteen nearly identical figures of himself on the opposing side, sneering, "Banking on numbers? Let me show you the chasm between a Harmonization Demon Master and the likes of you."
Screech!!
The Whale Master let out a sharp cry, and invisible energy blades shot forth from all directions.
These blades carried devastating power. At the same time, a massive jade mountain descended with billions of tons of force, crushing toward Song Lin’s dharma body.
Boom!
All spells were blocked by the Heaven and Earth Xuan Gate.
"A fine Magic Treasure! But it isn’t enough!"
The Whale Master’s rooster-like beak pecked toward Song Lin’s head.
The scattered Sound Blades struck Song Lin’s dharma body, leaving faint white marks.
"Impressive power."
Song Lin retrieved the Pure Yang Golden Fire Lamp, its flames extinguishing the Sound Blades, while the Heaven and Earth Xuan Gate once again held off the giant mountain.
Each strike of the jade mountain dealt catastrophic damage, forcing Song Lin to expend considerable mana to block it.
Overall, the demon clan still held the upper hand, and the longer the battle dragged on, the more daunting the fight became.
The Whale Master’s confidence wasn’t unfounded either.
For the moment, Song Lin couldn’t truly deal with him.
Once again, the rooster-like beak struck, and though Song Lin dodged, he appeared increasingly battered.
"Cough, cough. Killing him is simple: Step one, defeat him. Step two, seal him inside the Heavenly Burial Coffin."
This, Song Lin thought.
The difficulty lay in step one.
Boom!
The two clashed yet again.
The jade mountain, formed from the Great Dao itself, smashed apart eight of the Yuan Chen manifestations.
As time passed.
The Humans, who had been holding the line through sheer willpower, began to lose ground, the casualties mounting ever higher.
After all, the gulf in power was an objective reality. The human spirit might sustain them momentarily, but it couldn’t override the disparity.
"Report! The Black Heaven Law Realm Alliance has fallen and surrendered!"
"Report! The Witch God Heavenly King Dao Alliance has fallen and surrendered!"
"Eight Great Saints from the two armies are regrouping for reinforcements!"
"Two allied Human Dao Alliances are sending support!"
Battlefront reports poured in relentlessly. The demon messengers deliberately spoke loudly for all to hear.
Hearing this, the Heaven and Earth Xuanmen Alliance members turned ashen-faced.
It was over. Three armies converging, combined with the defection of Red Wujie and the two Heavenly Masters of the Dao Alliance—this, surely, was the end.
Looking upward again, Chiyou and Hee Ao’s fight showed no signs of concluding, and Song Lin’s position remained purely defensive.
"Can this succeed?"
Everyone but the Donghua Taoist Sect seemed to share this doubt.
Just as Spirit Treasure Celestial Master had managed to eliminate the Giant Turtle Demon Monarch, he emerged only to hear this string of reports.
This was the end.
Even if Chiyou and Song Lin could hold out, the reinforcements would obliterate everyone else beneath them.
"Heavenly Master, flee quickly!"
Azure Dragon whispered, "I’ve arranged a group. Just nod, and we’ll escape overseas."
Spirit Treasure Celestial Master didn’t reply; he simply watched the battle above.
Song Lin now had the strength to hold off a Harmonization-level foe, while Chiyou was a Harmonization Weapon.
If this battle could successfully repel the demons, the situation would improve dramatically.
If they fled like stray dogs now, they might be left with nothing at all.
"Kill!"
Suddenly, the three demon armies attacked.
Each army numbered three hundred thousand, with two more groups of humans trailing behind.
Azure Dragon continued urging.
"Charge!!"
A thunderous roar snapped the crowd out of their stupor.
It was Guu Yuchan, blood-soaked, charging into the demon ranks like a suicide squad, with the cultivators behind him following closely.
Boom!
Lightning flashed, demonic energy filled the air.
The cultivators immediately lost twenty percent of their numbers.
Blood soaked the earth; the battle was horrific beyond words.
"Forward! Who cares anymore? Just kill!"
Spirit Treasure Celestial Master had reached his breaking point as well.
Meanwhile, the three armies merged, threatening to turn the tide.
Boom!
Golden light burst forth, scorching heat reducing countless demons to blackened ash. Some turned to dust on the spot.
The crowd beheld the sun.
The searing Innate Yang Qi radiated unabated.
"Song Lin?! He actually consumed two Nine-Transformation Golden Pills at once? Madness!"
Spirit Treasure Celestial Master muttered, was there anything more insane than this?
"Haha, meet your end!"
Song Lin held the Emperor Sword, summoning the Nine Elders Immortal Capital Seal as the Yuu Emperor’s Nine Tripods gathered the world’s Dragon Qi. The Heaven and Earth Xuan Gate briefly restrained the Whale Master.
One strike!
The sword radiance blazed as if the entire world had been reduced to a single ray of light.
This strike carried the Dragon Qi of mountains and rivers, the faith of all living beings, the will of the Great Dao,
and Song Lin’s unyielding determination to slay demons.
"Demons, meet your death!"
Song Lin’s entire body turned golden, emitting pure masculine light from his eyes, ears, and nose. His Nine-Transformation Indestructible Body began to crack, and even the fissures exuded golden light.
He endured the immense power of two Nine-Transformation Golden Pills, rapidly absorbing their two billion-fold medicinal energy to deliver this strike.
"Madness!"
The Whale Master’s hair stood on end. He wanted to flee, but it was too late.
Swish!
The Emperor Sword split him in two.
Residual sword energy plunged into the demon ranks, instantly claiming tens of thousands of demons.
Of course, such injuries weren’t enough to kill the Whale Master outright.
Clang!
The next second, the Heaven and Earth Xuan Gate suppressed his body, and the Heavenly Burial Coffin sealed the Whale Master inside. The coffin jolted briefly before falling silent.
"The Whale Master is dead! Charge with me!"
Song Lin’s body continued to fracture, resembling a shattered vase.
Ignoring his own condition, he charged headlong toward Hee Ao, brandishing the Emperor Sword.
The sight of a golden divine figure carrying the Heaven and Earth Xuan Gate and wielding the Emperor Sword roused the spirits of all present.
"Kill!"
The Human Clan, inspired, cast aside their fear of death and launched a fierce counterattack.
Above, the addition of Song Lin made Hee Ao’s situation increasingly dire. He now resembled a featherless rooster, completely devoid of his former majestic immortal crane form.
Boom!
The Heaven and Earth Xuan Gate blocked Hee Ao’s escape path.
"Haha! This old bird is mine too!"
Chiyou inhaled deeply, absorbing the Whale Master’s Primordial Energy from within the Heavenly Burial Coffin, instantly restoring himself to peak form.
"What is this thing?!"
Hee Ao was utterly distraught.
What sort of weapon was this?
Chiyou cared little for the old bird’s despair, grabbing one of Hee Ao’s wings.
Rip!
The pair of wings was torn off with brute force.
"You won’t get away unscathed!"
Hee Ao steeled himself, his body rapidly inflating.
Boom!
The sky went dark, and the world fell silent. Within the pitch-black chaos, a massive purple Wind Eye began to form.
The Wind Eye was on the brink of expansion, threatening to annihilate the land.
Once again, the Heaven and Earth Xuan Gate temporarily suppressed the Wind Eye.
"Mine! All mine! Suicide bombing? Nice try!" Chiyou devoured the enormously destructive Wind Eye in one gulp, and his body began to swell alarmingly, as if about to explode.
"This isn’t good!"
Song Lin sealed Chiyou within the Furnace of Eight Trigrams for refining; the fellow had clearly overdone it.
With the deaths of the two Harmonization-level foes, the demon army completely crumbled, scattering in all directions.
Deprived of their leaders, this rabble was like loose sand. The five demon tribes couldn’t even unite, each trying to push the others to take the rear, which led to internal conflicts.
"Regroup and charge!"
Song Lin raised his sword and pressed forward, with the others following closely behind. While they looked battered—missing limbs and covered in grime—they laughed nonetheless.
Victory was theirs!
An earth-shaking triumph.
Since the founding of Wu Country, this marked humanity’s first total victory over the demons.
History had reached another turning point, and this battle had etched a new miracle.
Was this the power of unity?
For a moment, whether it was the three incoming armies, the deserters who had pledged allegiance to the demons, or the spies from Jiuxiao Dao Alliance, Xuanzong Shangqing, Spirit Treasure Celestial Master, and Weiling Heavenly Master—they all shared the same thought.
Had they really succeeded?
Be it enemy or ally, everyone, including the newly joined reinforcements, asked this question.
Could humanity’s united strength truly be this powerful?
(Special thanks to the Alliance Hierarch of "Birds Resting in the Forest" for the five bonus Chapters.)