Chapter 1829: Sand and Earth Warrior

After hearing the enormous stone gate collapse with a thunderous crash, Qingya's expression subtly shifted, and she couldn't help but give Xu Yang a thumbs up. “As expected of Sir Xu Yang,” she said. “This method of breaking through a door is probably something that fellow Long Kun couldn't figure out even if he thought about it for hundreds of years.”

Xu Yang gently shook his head. “You two shouldn't bicker anymore,” he said. “This is nothing; the real challenge lies deep within the ruins of this city-state.”

With the thunderous shattering of the enormous stone gate, a perfectly clear path forward appeared before everyone. Xu Yang and Po Xiao continued to act as guides and vanguards, while Long Kun and Qingya remained in charge of protecting the hundreds of female captives and the infants in their arms.

After stepping into the ancient ruins of the city-state, everyone felt varying degrees of emotional stirrings deep within them. Xu Yang and Po Xiao experienced the most intense emotional fluctuations, as they were the most spiritually powerful individuals among them all. They quickly sensed the cold, chilling aura pervading the city-state ruins.

After a moment of contemplation, Po Xiao quietly spoke to Xu Yang. “Sir, have you noticed that this place, in its prime, was likely an ancient battlefield, and also a testament to a once prosperous civilization?”

Upon hearing this, Xu Yang nodded gently in agreement. “Your observation is easily proven,” he said, “because all the ruined buildings here tell of their past glory. However, they couldn't sustain their civilization's prosperity and were ultimately buried in this endless desert.”

As the two slowly advanced, in an unnoticeable instant, all the shallow yellow sand around them, under the influence of a strange gust of wind, suddenly began to rapidly gather towards the central area. In the blink of an eye, one after another, individuals appeared, seemingly entirely enveloped by a special yellow energy.

They were all in the form of warriors condensed from yellow sand. These warriors seemed to possess independent soul fluctuations, but they did not have complete physical bodies; they merely manifested a plausible form by gathering and controlling the yellow sand.

However, in the blink of an eye, thousands of such sand warriors gathered within the ruined city, blocking the path of Xu Yang and Po Xiao.

“Oh, are these the monsters with special life forms that the great toad mentioned?”

Xu Yang immediately developed a strong interest in this sudden change. He wanted to understand what kind of power formed these sand-form warriors before him. Furthermore, Xu Yang judged that the outline of every warrior was not baseless; they all had independent soul wills supporting them.

This was enough to prove that within this ruined city, there was still a sealed power legacy. Otherwise, these suddenly appearing sand warriors would have no reason to guard this ruined city-state.

Without hesitation, Xu Yang activated his Heavenly Eye. Through the thousands of sand warriors, he saw the palace hidden behind them amidst the dim yellow aura.

If it were ordinary warriors and cultivation elites, faced with such a large group of powerful guardians with extremely strange life forms suddenly appearing before them, their first instinct would undoubtedly be to flee.

However, at this moment, when Xu Yang and Po Xiao faced such a large threat, their first action was to look at each other and then both revealed a calm smile.

Xu Yang slowly spoke again, displaying his unparalleled power and pride. “It seems the game in these ruins is full of fun,” he said. “How about we have a competition here? Let's see who among us can first break through the encirclement of these thousands of sand warriors and reach the entrance of the palace behind them.”

Po Xiao heard Xu Yang's proposed new way of playing, but gave no response. However, the next moment, she seized an opportunity and acted first, without even greeting Xu Yang. Her two purple-glowing daggers had already appeared at the necks of the first few sand warriors.

In just a flash of purple light, the sand warriors blocking Po Xiao were instantly slain by her, turning back into scattered piles of yellow sand slumped on the ground.

Xu Yang's lips curved into a smile as he then charged out, catching up. However, his method of eliminating these sand warriors was even more formidable.

He merely conjured a concentration of Light Law above his head, and then the domain of light covering a hundred-meter radius around Xu Yang's body began to take effect.

Any sand warriors encompassed within Xu Yang's domain of light would completely lose their mobility in a very short time. The moment Xu Yang's Light Law ceased to envelop them, they would automatically lose all life functions and revert to piles of yellow sand.

Xu Yang, who had been rampaging straight through with his domain, was clearly far more skilled in his killing methods than Po Xiao beside him. This was because he hardly needed any detailed movements; he simply needed to control his body's movement trajectory to mow down large numbers of sand warriors.

In comparison, while Po Xiao's harvesting methods appeared more agile, in terms of efficiency, they simply couldn't compare to Xu Yang's domain of light.

In less than a few minutes, Xu Yang had almost reached the center of the entire battlefield area. In contrast, Po Xiao, the assassin behind him, had only advanced a quarter of the way. Even though she had pushed her killing speed to the limit, she still couldn't compare to Xu Yang, whose domain power was transcendent.

“As expected of Sir Xu Yang, to be proficient in such mysterious and unpredictable domain techniques,” Po Xiao thought. “It seems your cultivation scope extends far beyond just martial arts. This man is truly as mysterious as an enigma. The more I learn about him, the more I feel his incredible aura. I'm afraid I'll never be able to catch up to him in terms of cultivation strength in this lifetime.”

Po Xiao clearly understood the unbridgeable gap between herself and Xu Yang. All she could do was gaze at Xu Yang's back and follow in his footsteps to find her own grand path.

As expected, this game-like competition had no real meaning, because Xu Yang was destined to be the winner from the very beginning.

However, after Xu Yang secured victory in the competition ahead of time, his next action was to, surprisingly, help Po Xiao, who had only made it halfway. A vast and powerful domain of Light Law rapidly expanded.

It directly enveloped all the remaining sand warriors. As the domain of light gradually disappeared, the power belonging to light disintegrated, and the light that enveloped these warriors also transformed into a powerful law that devoured their life force.