Chapter 1053: Blood Surge of Rage

Chapter 1054: Blood and Fury Rise

"Kneel before me! If you don't show yourselves, I will slaughter the entire True Sage City!" The Heavenly Sovereign's Son, exceptionally handsome, now wore a terrifying expression. He held a demonic saber, poised to cleave the city below.

Chaos erupted in True Sage City. Cultivators scattered like startled birds in all directions, terrified of dying unjustly in this place, while mortals, panic-stricken, cried out and rushed towards the city gates.

"Cornered, he's completely dropped his pretense to force us out," the Holy Sovereign's Son said to Ye Fan. "Perhaps he believes you, as a human, won't abandon all of this."

"How dare you!"

Suddenly, an overwhelming aura surged from within True Sage City. A powerful demonic saint's presence permeated the surroundings, shaking the entire area as if a starfield had descended.

"What? A saint's presence? Is there a demonic saint cultivating here?" Everyone was astonished.

"It's Saint Xuan Gui," Dongfang Ye, with his disheveled hair, laughed like a wild man, revealing a mouthful of pearly white teeth. They had chosen this city because they heard that Saint Xuan Gui, the guardian deity of the Southern Ridge barbarians, had come here to revisit ancient sites and indulge in nostalgia. Hence, they made this their final stop.

"You, a mere Dao Slasher, dare to boast so shamelessly, thinking you can destroy a great human city? If you make a move, I will flay you alive!" A cold voice emanated from True Sage City.

No one had expected a demonic saint to be present in True Sage City. The fleeing people quieted down, no longer afraid. Even if the Heavenly Sovereign's Son was powerful, he wouldn't dare provoke a saint's might. Otherwise, a single finger could crush him. A "saint" transcended the realm of "human," an insurmountable chasm. Although it was said that saints should not intervene, there were conditions. The premise was that one should not provoke them. If someone dared to slaughter a city protected by a demonic saint like this, no one would object if they were annihilated ten times over.

Whoosh! Gritting his teeth, the Heavenly Sovereign's Son's face was extremely grim. With a single strike, his saber cleaved the sky, carving a hundred-mile-long abyss that transformed into a black hole devouring everything. He suppressed a surge of anger in his heart, but he dared not actually destroy the city. Otherwise, even the Primordial Ancestor Kings wouldn't be able to save him; he would be killed on the spot.

"Let's go!"

The Heavenly Sovereign's Son's thick hair fluttered as he departed, carrying his divine saber. The ancient war chariot sliced through the sky with a rumbling sound, and the Eight Divisions of Divine Generals followed closely. Meanwhile, Huang Xudao, Huo Qilinzi, and Huo Linger vanished into the sky. Their cultivation was extraordinary; no one could stop them. They came and went as they pleased, their whereabouts unknown.

"This city cannot be slaughtered. I will destroy ten other cities instead, letting blood flow like rivers across the land, with millions of corpses. We'll see if you emerge then!" His cruel words echoed through the sky.

Everyone had anticipated that the Heavenly Sovereign's Son, bringing such a large force south, would surely cause a bloodbath and tens of thousands of casualties. However, his ruthlessness exceeded all expectations. The ancient war chariot rumbled. The Heavenly Sovereign's Son stood upon it, his divine saber strapped to his back, his eyes sharp as lightning. Black hair obscured half of his face, and his murderous aura shook the nine heavens.

Exotic beasts galloped forth, and the Eight Divisions of Divine Generals transformed into a torrent of steel, crushing their way across the sky. Their thundering hooves made the very void tremble. Large banners flapped fiercely. This army was filled with pervasive killing intent, their iron armor glinting with cold light, exuding a deadly aura. They sought to flatten dozens of cities in one go; they had endured enough!

"They're here," the Black Sovereign sneered. "The large trap I meticulously prepared outside True Sage City has long been open. This time, let's see where you can go!"

In the distance, the Heavenly Sovereign's Son, his face cold, said, "The only one in this world, apart from a saint, who can silently enter my Undying Palace is that dog!" Over the years, others might not dare challenge the Heavenly Sovereign's Son, but that dog was an exception. It had once set up a grand formation to kill the Son of God. Although it ended in failure, it had indeed shaken the world.

"I hope it doesn't appear, or I'll make it regret it!" The Heavenly Sovereign's Son's gaze turned chilling as he looked into the distant sky.

Far from True Sage City, as the Eight Divisions of Divine Generals entered the airspace above a mountain range, an astonishing killing intent suddenly erupted. Below them, on dozens, even hundreds, of mountain peaks, towering sword qi crisscrossed the sky.

"What? Someone dares to ambush the Heavenly Sovereign's Son?"

Hundreds of mountain peaks seemed to come alive, transforming into interwoven traces of the Great Dao, forming a sea of stars. Ancient stars could be clearly seen appearing and rotating there; the area seemed to become a starfield.

"Ah..." The ancient race cried out as many of them instantly disintegrated, turning into blood mist. White bones, quickly stained with bloody threads, splattered everywhere. No one had expected the killing formation to activate so suddenly.

"This is bad, Heavenly Sovereign's Son, we've fallen into a trap! We're caught in this vast grand formation; it was clearly prepared in advance." The Eight Divisions of Divine Generals were greatly alarmed. Their ancient beasts neighed loudly. Chaos erupted in this place, with ancient stars rotating within the sea of stars. Each rotation unleashed world-grinding power.

"Pfft!" In the blink of an eye, over a dozen powerful members of the ancient race turned into bloody light, as if crushed by a massive millstone, becoming a mix of blood and shattered bones, utterly unable to resist.

"Don't panic! I knew it would jump out. Deploy the formation flags; we'll counter-attack and break the formation!" The Heavenly Sovereign's Son flicked his hand, and a full hundred and eight large flags flew out, each adorned with complex and mysterious patterns.

"Primordial formation flags." In the distance, the Black Sovereign's heart skipped a beat. These formation patterns were powerful, seemingly capable of shattering ancient stars.

Boom! The one hundred and eight large flags swayed, causing the sea of stars to collapse. Many ancient stars exploded, as if a universe had been destroyed, turning into a terrifying black hole and void.

"Rise!" the Black Sovereign roared. Forty-nine formation platforms flew out, each glowing softly, operating along the trajectories of the Dao, suppressing the killing formation in this place.

"Mere tricks," the Heavenly Sovereign's Son said chillingly. "I've been waiting for this day, hoping to eliminate all of you together." He opened his mouth and spat out three special ancient flags—Heaven, Earth, and Man—which flew out to suppress the area.

"Bad news. Years ago, I ambushed him and nearly caused him great regret. These are formation flags specifically deployed against me," the Black Sovereign said gravely.

"Won't he counter us?" Li Tian asked.

The big black dog replied, "These were forged for him by several Primordial Ancestor Kings. Fortunately, I have multiple contingencies. Quickly, go to the other three directions around True Sage City and move the other formation platforms here for a joint assault!" They had set up a trap, luring the Heavenly Sovereign's Son to the Southern Domain and into True Sage City. Killing formations were prepared in all directions, but only one had been activated so far.

"I'll move the formation platforms," Yao Yuekong, Yan Yixi, and others went together. They already knew how the grand formation was arranged and could manage it.

Before long, the grand formations were superimposed. The four-sided formation platforms operated simultaneously, and the collapsing sea of stars reappeared, with a distinctly world-grinding aura. The Black Sovereign had put in immense effort this time, using years of accumulated resources, intending to completely wipe out the Heavenly Sovereign's Son and his Eight Divisions of Divine Generals.

Boom! However, with an earth-shattering roar, all of the Heavenly Sovereign's Son's deployed flags shattered and ignited, forcefully tearing open a path, and he charged out. The Eight Divisions of Divine Generals followed behind, banners unfurled. A vast army pressed forward, breaking through and charging out, their iron cavalry trampling the sky.

"Damn it," the big black dog sighed. "Several Primordial Ancestor Kings studied the formations left by the Undying Heavenly Sovereign and designed a targeted layout, leaving me helpless." All of the Heavenly Sovereign's Son's formation flags were destroyed, but the Black Sovereign's formation platforms also turned to dust. The army charged out unharmed, their main force unaffected.

"Go! Invade the Southern Domain! Level everything connected to Ye Fan!" The Heavenly Sovereign's Son issued a deadly command. Even with his Celestial Eye, he couldn't locate the Black Sovereign and others. Ruthless beyond measure, he intended to flatten the place where Ye Fan rose to prominence, seeking to erase all traces since his origin was in the Southern Domain.

"Although it's directed at me, it seems he suspects you've returned?" the big black dog said to Ye Fan.

"Hard to say," Li Tian replied. "Because the Black Sovereign and Ye Fan have a close relationship, he's desperate and will stop at nothing to eliminate us, which is why he's gone mad."

"This is trouble now," the Black Sovereign said. "Although we set up a killing formation, he actually had flags to break through it."

"Then we fight!" the Holy Sovereign's Son said in a deep voice, instructing it to open a domain gate and head to the Southern Domain.

"Let's go!" Ye Fan also nodded.

The Southern Domain boiled once more. The Heavenly Sovereign's Son had returned, now completely throwing caution to the wind. Having already been utterly humiliated, with even his golden undergarments put up for auction, this time he didn't hesitate to vent his anger on countless innocent people.

"I once heard that Ye Fan cultivated in a small sect called the Spiritual Void Cave Heaven, located near the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land," the Heavenly Sovereign's Son said. "Then today, let it become ashes, leaving no one behind." His face was cold, without a hint of emotion. His eyes were like ice, radiating a chilling aura. "In the past, these ants were never in my sight, but today I am enraged. I will make sure the humans in that place die without a burial!"

That region was called Yan Land, a small country. The Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land was located at its center, with six smaller sects like the Spiritual Void Cave Heaven surrounding the outer perimeter of the mountain range.

Boom! Chaos erupted in the Southern Domain. The Heavenly Sovereign's Son led his iron cavalry south, utterly unrestrained. They flattened several human sects, causing blood to flow freely, severed limbs to fly, and Daoist mountains to be razed. They charged into the heart of the Southern Domain, unafraid of provoking human outrage. They unleashed a massacre, successively destroying over a dozen sects in a bloody conquest. All this happened simply because these mountain gates blocked their path. Whenever this occurred, the Heavenly Sovereign's Son and the Eight Divisions of Divine Generals would directly swing their sabers, cleaving the towering mountains in front of them.

Blood flowed in torrents. It was lamentable that these sects were massacred simply because they lay in the path of the southward-marching iron cavalry. Large numbers of cultivators were slaughtered, and piles of corpses and blood lay everywhere. Resentment soared throughout the Southern Domain, yet many dared not speak out despite their anger. This army was too powerful. Even after destroying over a dozen sects, no one dared to stand up.

"Ah... Master!" Wails erupted as a medium-sized sect along the iron cavalry's path southward was annihilated. A young man cried out in sorrow, covered in blood, standing on a broken mountain, furiously wielding a long halberd to confront the Eight Divisions of Divine Generals.

Pfft! However, the Eight Divisions of Divine Generals swept past. One individual, holding a war spear, easily pierced him. Blood-soaked, he was impaled on the spearhead and carried for dozens of miles. He struggled in vain, his chest bleeding profusely, ultimately dying with eyes wide open in disbelief.

"Beasts!" From the back mountain, an old man emerged from seclusion, rising to meet the sky, only to be struck down by a single palm from an ancient race expert atop an exotic beast. His sternum collapsed, and he coughed up large mouthfuls of blood. His snow-white hair was drenched crimson, and his cloudy eyes gradually dimmed.

"Grandpa!" a white-robed girl cried out in despair, stumbling and running over to embrace the old man's corpse, weeping uncontrollably.

"You are demons! Heaven will not forgive you!" The girl's clear tears streamed down her face as she wept helplessly, clutching the old man's body.

A cold laugh echoed as a cavalryman galloped forward. The ancient race expert swung his long saber, a dazzling flash of light. The young white-robed girl was powerless to resist. Her still-tender head, trailing a large amount of blood, flew diagonally away, and her headless body collapsed beside the old man's corpse.

"Today, no matter who it is, those who stand in our way shall die!" the Heavenly Sovereign's Son declared coldly, standing on the ancient war chariot and observing the scene. The Eight Divisions of Divine Generals became even more unrestrained, charging directly into the Southern Domain to vent the Heavenly Sovereign's Son's anger and destroy the Spiritual Void Cave Heaven. Everything along the way was merely done in passing; that was their ultimate target of destruction.

Resentment filled the Southern Domain. Over a dozen sects were ruined, many human cultivators were slaughtered, blood flowed endlessly, and corpses formed small mountains, shaking even the Eastern Barrens.

Finally, Yan Land was near. The Heavenly Sovereign's Son glanced ahead, then suddenly acted personally. A dazzling divine spear appeared in his palm, and he flicked his wrist, hurling it forward.

Boom! No one had expected the Heavenly Sovereign's Son to be so cold-blooded. With a single spear thrust, he pierced through a city inhabited by mortals. The capital city of Yan State instantly disintegrated!

"Ah..." Like the apocalypse, countless terrified human bodies split apart, blood splattering. The entire city's population turned to corpses, the ancient city itself shattered, mixing with bloodstains to become a heap of ruins.

"My target is the Spiritual Void Cave Heaven, but anyone blocking my path or sight along the way will also be flattened!" the Heavenly Sovereign's Son declared coldly.

"Cleanse them with blood!" The Eight Divisions of Divine Generals roared, men and horses alike, all bellowing loudly, each stained with human blood splattered from the sects they destroyed on their way south.

"Beasts!"

Ye Fan and the others pursued them. The grand formation set by the Black Sovereign proved ineffective, failing to eliminate the Heavenly Sovereign's Son and the Eight Divisions of Divine Generals, who instead broke through and escaped. They followed, witnessing too much bloodshed along the way.

Ye Fan was the first to act. His dark golden long spear swept across, its sharp tip like a blade, severing a section of the ancient race's cavalry. Blood splattered three thousand feet high!

Buzz! The Holy Sovereign's Son made his move, swinging his dark iron rod towards the Heavenly Sovereign's Son's skull. His courage was unmatched in the world; the black rod caused the sky to crack, emitting a wailing sound. The Heavenly Sovereign's Son met the attack, his Undying Divine Saber emitting blinding light. It unleashed ten thousand layers of saber light, suppressing the Great Dao itself. Its attack power was unrivaled in the world.

Clang! Saber and rod clashed with a deafening sound, like two stars colliding. Ten directions of mountain ranges collapsed, and the earth sank hundreds of feet deep. Their destructive power was unparalleled.

A phoenix cry echoed through the nine heavens. On the other side, a majestic man appeared, like an immortal phoenix descending from the nine heavens. He took a single step and arrived. Huang Xudao manifested, his entire being wreathed in Dao traces, appearing blurry and somewhat ethereal.

Boom! Ye Fan met him, unleashing a punch that blocked his path.

However, on the other side, Huo Linger and Huo Qilinzi also appeared, heading straight for the Holy Sovereign's Son, preparing to attack. These two were terrifyingly formidable. Their blue hair fluttered, and their bodies resembled divine physiques. A single drop of their blood could pierce this world, showcasing the ancient emperor's supreme blood power.

"You two come here too!" A clear qi emerged from Ye Fan's head, transforming into another version of himself, cutting off their path and blocking both of them.