"What did you do to the formation?!"
The teleportation array in the sky had already become unstable. When the Demon Lord appeared, the heavens and earth had already trembled. This initial instability was not too obvious for people to notice.
The demons were still cheering with abandon.
Wan Lei knew that this was the time for him to do something.
He could not just stand by and watch the teleportation array collapse, and the Demon Lord be carried away by spatial turbulence. If that happened, what credit would he, Wan Lei, have for destroying the teleportation array?
He couldn't exactly tell the world that he, Wan Lei, had set up the teleportation array for the Liu family and the demons, and had also left a trap, could he?
Who would believe him?
Therefore, he had to do something to make others see that he was the one who destroyed the teleportation array.
He needed credit and prestige, so that when he rebuilt the Thunder Emperor Hall, people would be willing to follow him.
Only then could he better unite people's hearts and resist the demons.
Don't blame Wan Lei for acting. At least, his intentions were good, which was to save the Thunder Wind Realm.
Wan Lei did not speak. He flicked his finger, and the Thunder God's Hammer lit up with the Fire Rune. His body was immediately covered by the runes, and flames and lightning entwined around him.
He wanted to break through Liu Naiweng, who was blocking his path.
"Oh? Are you going to fight to the death?"
Liu Naiweng gripped his Green Scale Sword tightly, the tip pointing directly at Wan Lei.
Wan Lei lit up the seventh rune of the Thunder God's Hammer, the Earth Rune, and yellowish-brown lightning spread out around him.
Immediately, he exploded forward, charging towards Liu Naiweng at an incredible speed.
Wan Lei's body seemed to transform into a sharp blade, the tip aimed directly at Liu Naiweng's chest.
This was a skill granted to him by the Earth Rune,
Lightning Slash.
It condensed high-intensity lightning currents into a single point, concentrating all force to maximize attack power, piercing through defenses with a single, fatal blow.
If the Thunder Roar of the Fire Rune was a close-combat skill, then Lightning Slash was an assassin's skill that dealt burst damage.
Liu Naiweng crossed his sword in front of him to block.
Wan Lei and Liu Naiweng collided violently.
After a deafening roar, Liu Naiweng spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying backward.
No matter how strong Wan Lei was, he couldn't kill a peak Tribulation Crossing old monster in one move. Injuring the opponent was already a miracle.
With no time to check on Liu Naiweng, Wan Lei soared into the sky, surrounded by thunder and lightning, flying towards the teleportation array.
"Wan Lei, come back, it's dangerous!"
Old Fang shouted in alarm, his eyes splitting with fury.
The soldiers from both sides who had stopped fighting below looked up at the sky and saw the figure soaring like a moth to a flame, treading on lightning.
On the side of the allied forces, everyone vaguely guessed what Wan Lei was about to do.
Wan Lei was going to stake everything and risk his life to destroy the teleportation channel.
But that was where the enemy's forces were most concentrated. Wasn't he just looking for death?!
Yes, he was looking for death. Although he was acting, Wan Lei had to take a huge risk to play his part well.
The six Demon Commanders guarding the teleportation channel charged towards Wan Lei.
"Die!!!"
Wan Lei let out a shrill roar. All the runes on his hammer lit up, and a violent, multicolored lightning bolt shot out from the Thunder God's Hammer towards the teleportation array.
A Demon Commander rushed forward, using his own body to block the "Five Thunders Falling Head" divine ability!
Boom!!!
Under everyone's gaze, the multicolored lightning directly blasted the Demon Commander away, its force slamming his body directly onto the teleportation array.
Then, with another earth-shattering roar, the teleportation array, under the watchful eyes of all, exploded.
Following that, the teleportation pillar of light in the sky suddenly dissipated, leaving only the dark teleportation channel and a bewildered Demon Lord who had no idea what had happened.
Deprived of the teleportation array's guidance, the rules of the spatial channel suddenly became chaotic. The originally stable channel immediately turned into spatial turbulence, tearing at the Demon Lord within.
The Demon Lord screamed, reaching out his hands to forcibly tear open the spatial turbulence, but to no avail.
Whoosh!
The black spatial hole in the sky was directly repaired by the laws of space. The spatial turbulence and the Demon Lord within vanished without a trace.
"No!!!"
From the shattered teleportation array, the Demon Commander Qiong Shen flew out, roaring at the sky!
Having endured for ten years, having planned for ten years, and seeing that the great task was about to be accomplished, the scene from ten years ago repeated itself.
"Despicable natives!!"
Demon Commander Qiong Shen was so angry that he spat blood. He hated these Thunder Wind Realm natives who dared not fight head-on but only resorted to schemes and tricks to the extreme.
Wan Lei grinned and shouted,
"Retreat! We won, retreat!"
Below, the allied forces erupted in cheers that echoed through the clouds, each person fleeing westward with all their might.
The victors were fleeing.
What a joke! If they didn't flee, would they wait for the enraged and desperate demons to tear them apart?
They were already no match for the enemy. Now that the Huo family and the Kaitian Sword Sect had arrived, if they continued fighting, they risked annihilation.
The enemy's teleportation array had been destroyed. The rest was to regroup and await a decisive battle with the enemy.
This time, it was just the first battle.
As Wan Lei said, the war against the demons would not be completed overnight.
"Die for me!"
Demon Commander Qiong Ku roared and was about to pursue, but was stopped by Liu Naiweng.
"What's the use of chasing them now? What's the use of killing them all? The Demon Lord is still dead. Be careful of enemy traps!
The priority now is to return first, return to our families, regroup, and find a way to bring the Demon Lord back to life!"
The demons' goal was to conquer the Thunder Wind Realm, but Liu Naiweng had no great interest in this. He didn't care how many people he ruled or how much territory he controlled. He only cared if he could achieve immortality.
Now that the Demon Lord was gone, and the demons were only those who had entered the Thunder Wind Realm, with no further reinforcements, he was no longer so polite to the demons.
"It's all your fault, you useless good-for-nothings!"
Demon Commander Qiong Ku pointed at Liu Naiweng and cursed.
"Hmph, hmph, we're useless? None of you six Demon Commanders could stop a mere Great Ascension cultivator, and you still have the nerve to call us useless after he destroyed the teleportation array?"
Liu Naiweng certainly wouldn't tell the demons that Wan Lei had left a trap when he set up the teleportation array. Wouldn't that make him, Liu Naiweng, seem incompetent?
The responsibility for the failure would fall on him.
At the same time, he was also a little relieved. The act Wan Lei had put on at the end had cleared him of any responsibility and even allowed him to shift the blame onto the demons.
"Humph!"
Qiong Ku snorted unconventionally and ordered the entire army to assemble and take stock of their forces.
Demon Commander Qiong Shen was still roaring at the sky in unwilling anger. He was on the verge of madness. In the end, Qiong Ku and a few other Demon Commanders beat him and forcibly calmed him down.
Looking at the retreating figures of the enemy, Qiong Ku and Qiong Shen's eyes were sinister and filled with brutality. The seeds of revenge had been sown in their hearts.
At the same time, the consecutive failures made them take this seemingly weak native world seriously.