In the void, Ma Yuan, wielding the Elephant Trunk Gu Yue Saber, strode through the Ninth Heaven. He looked down at the battlefield where the sea of blood churned below. Within the pale green streaming light, he could vaguely see figures engulfed in flames, struggling desperately.
From the moment he saw the Fire Crow Army appear on this treacherous mountain path, the outcome of this battle, in Ma Yuan's eyes, was already sealed.
Behind the Fire Crow Army, an impassable natural barrier blocked their retreat. Ahead and to both sides, a dense hail of arrows descended, drawn from two-thirds of the Azure Dragon Legion's archers.
Ma Xi, the commander of the Fire Crow Army and the second elder of the Fire Crow clan, was at the fifth level of the Creation Realm. To Ma Yuan, this was of no concern.
"Surrender!"
Ma Yuan spoke with icy words as he watched the rampaging Ma Xi below.
Three breaths after Ma Yuan's voice faded, a thunderous roar erupted from the summit of the endless mountains. Massive boulders plummeted down, dense and overwhelming, blackening the entire sky.
On the mountaintops stood thousands of Azure Dragon Legion soldiers, their numbers not vast, but each a Centurion or Captain, the backbone of the Azure Dragon Legion. They had been ambushed by Ma Yuan earlier at the peaks.
They shattered the rocks and hurled them down upon the Fire Crow Army!
"Boom!"
The void exploded with thunderous roars, deafening everyone. In an instant, the sky darkened, with only a faint pale green light illuminating the edges of the colossal rocks.
"Rumble!"
The earth shook violently, and huge craters suddenly appeared on the mountain path. Debris exploded and flew, and even some parts of the mountainside directly cracked.
"Bang!"
Ma Xi cleaved a massive boulder with his saber. After a freefall of ten thousand zhang, the immense force sent tremors through Ma Xi's arm, making his veins feel on the verge of bursting.
"Huh?"
Ma Xi's expression instantly changed.
He tilted his head slightly, his eyelids twitching uncontrollably. Gazing at the dense cascade of boulders from above, his face turned ashen.
As the boulders crashed down, the sharp stone edges from the mountain peaks shattered and fell, each one trailing wisps of white light, piercing the Fire Crow Army soldiers who had no way to resist.
"Bang!"
A stone shard shot straight towards Ma Xi's head.
He instinctively raised his saber, striking the shard. With a deafening roar, dust billowed up, and Ma Xi vanished from sight.
"Drip!"
"Drip!"
As the dust settled, Ma Xi knelt on one knee, blood trickling down his forehead.
The stone shards, possessing unique advantages, had been tempered by millions of years of elemental energy, making them extraordinary.
"Human race..."
Ma Xi licked the blood from his lips. He looked up at the figure in the void, instantly transforming into his Fire Crow true form. Flames blazed, not with the grandeur of a Vermilion Bird, but still vast enough to blot out the sky, flames erupting from the ground.
In an instant, Ma Xi stepped into the void, his gaze fixed on the solitary Ma Yuan. He clenched his fist, and a fiery long saber gradually condensed, burning with fierce flames.
"Human race, die!"
The damage to the Fire Crow Army was already irreparable. As Ma Xi transformed into his true form and ascended into the void, his body, battered by arrows, stone shards, and falling boulders, was already covered in blood.
The fiery long saber slashed out with fury, its blade's aura, cloaked in flames, slicing fiercely towards Ma Yuan, who regarded him with disdain!
The red saber aura was exceptionally sharp, its ultimate saber intent carrying wisps of white. The area around the saber aura was engulfed in fierce flames. From afar, it resembled a divine bird ablaze, diving down.
Ma Xi gritted his teeth, especially at his back where fragments of shattered mountain rock were deeply embedded in his flesh.
Ma Xi, with his Creation Realm physique, was actually wounded by these falling rocks. This demonstrated not only the effect of freefall but also the formidable nature of the rocks themselves.
The long saber descended directly.
"Human race, my saber carries tens of thousands of years of cultivation. A weakling like you, can you withstand it?"
With a great roar, the red light of the saber aura intensified, its power astonishing!
Ma Yuan's expression remained calm, his eyes filled with the fiery saber aura. A cold smile touched his lips.
He gripped his Elephant Trunk Gu Yue Saber.
"Moo!"
Suddenly, behind Ma Yuan, a thousand-zhang white divine elephant materialized, its trunk stretching like ten thousand zhang, spanning across the heavens.
Ma Yuan slowly raised his long saber. The phantom elephant's trunk swayed in rhythm with Ma Yuan's saber movements, causing the void to rumble.
Ma Yuan raised it high, a chilling glint flashing.
"Roar!"
Abruptly, the Azure Dragon armor on Ma Yuan's body erupted with layers of azure light. A ten-thousand-zhang Azure Dragon circled the white elephant!
"Slash!"
Ma Yuan roared suddenly!
"Moo!"
"Roar!"
The two divine beasts let out furious roars. The elephant's trunk was instantly covered by the Azure Dragon, becoming like a colossal blade that split the heavens and earth. An aura, as if from the Ninth Heaven, carrying a savage, bloodthirsty essence, shot forth.
"Boom!"
In an instant, the fiery saber aura unleashed by Ma Xi let out a mournful wail and instantly dissipated.
The colossal blade that split the heavens and earth spanned across the Ninth Heaven, as if severing the past from the present!
"Descend!"
Ma Yuan, wielding the Elephant Trunk Gu Yue Saber, slashed downwards. The blade that split the heavens and earth erupted with boundless elemental energy, white and green, descending upon Ma Xi.
Ma Xi stared at the colossal blade in the void, his face suddenly filled with shock.
Creation Realm, sixth level!
A human had actually produced a high-level Creation Realm expert!
His expression was bewildered. The emergence of a few newly-ascended Creation Realm cultivators would have been within his tolerance, but this was beyond belief!
A hundred years ago, during the last weakening of the seal, the Blazing Rhino clan had dispatched merely a Heaven-Shaping Realm commander, and they had almost brought the human race to its knees.
What had happened now...
Before him stood a high-level Creation Realm expert!
In a hundred years, the human race had not even produced a Heaven-Shaping Realm cultivator, and now, a sixth-level Creation Realm expert had emerged!
"Ah..."
Ma Xi, wielding his fiery long saber, slashed wildly. Sparks flew as he unleashed a torrent of strikes.
"Break!"
"Break!"
"Ah..."
Ma Xi furiously swung his fiery long saber, showing no fatigue. His elemental energy was instantly depleted. The entire world was covered by thousands of red saber auras, as if the sky itself had been torn open.
"Boom!"
Even the fiery saber auras that could collapse the firmament were no match for the blade that split heaven and earth. The saber aura, augmented by white and green, directly overwhelmed the red saber aura and split Ma Xi.
One slash penetrated!
In the face of the blade that split heaven and earth, Ma Xi's figure was as fragile as an ant.
In Ma Xi's unwilling eyes, the saber aura augmented by the white elephant and green dragon descended upon him. Instantly, his physical body turned into a mist of blood, and his primordial spirit was utterly annihilated.
In just a single breath, Ma Xi, who had been slashing wildly moments before, vanished into thin air!