Chapter 144: Cleaving A Bloody Path, Dominating The Youming

Outside the mirror.

The gathered cultivators stared in shock at the scene before them.

No one expected that the so-called extraterritorial beings, the Youming clan, would be powerful to this degree!

“The Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Palace joined forces, and the outcome was decided so quickly…”

Countless cultivators were dumbfounded.

They had seen the deep foundations of the Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Palace.

Despite having such foundations, their assault on the Youming clan’s lair couldn’t even last a day before the result was decided!

This undoubtedly indicated one fact.

The Youming clan was stronger and more terrifying than the Dragon Clan!

“So, if they were such a great clan, why did they still not enter the Beixuan Continent in the end?”

“Was the annihilation of the Dragon Clan really the doing of the Heavenly Emperor?”

If even the Dragon Clan could not contend with them, it would mean that on the Beixuan Continent, no force could withstand the Youming clan’s assault.

If that’s the case, how could such a great clan possibly have failed to pour into the Beixuan Continent?

And the Dragon Clan.

It seemed the current Heavenly Emperor had no reason to slaughter the Dragon Clan.

Previously they judged that the Heavenly Emperor held back to let the Youming clan weaken the Dragon Clan.

But if that were true, why would the Heavenly Emperor intervene now? He could have simply waited for the Youming clan to destroy the Dragon Clan.

Even if it was to save Mu Nanzhi and fulfill a promise to the former Heavenly Emperor… He could have just saved her alone. Why save anyone else?

The gathered cultivators found it hard to comprehend.

…

Inside the mirror.

In an instant, the vast Youming army surrounded Gu Changqing and the others like an ocean swallowing a pebble.

“Stick close to me…” Gu Changqing murmured softly.

The proud woman of old immediately clutched his sleeve now, obedient like a little kitten.

Gu Changqing linked the Dragon Clan cultivators and Heavenly Palace cultivators of this realm by his qi.

Then, using the Heaven Burying Bell to clear a path, he charged straight through!

“Block!”

Gu Changqing kicked the Heaven Burying Bell and sent it flying.

At that moment the Heaven Burying Bell burst forth, unleashing terrifying divine light that devoured everything.

The vast Youming army was immediately cleaved open, a bloody path torn through them.

Endless waves of blood splashed, spacetime was smashed open with a dreadful rift.

All those Supremes and Quasi-Emperors caught in that rift were pulverized. As for everyone else, there was no need to mention them.

Dong!

Amid the dull boom, the radiant burst from the Heaven Burying Bell suddenly halted.

Where the Heaven Burying Bell stalled, a Youming Great Emperor with terrifying qi stood at its forefront, single-handedly blocking the bell’s path!

The Dragon cultivators’ eyes dimmed. Even the Heavenly Palace cultivators and Mu Nanzhi had thick despair welling in their gazes.

The Youming clan was too terrifying!

They had felt it the moment they had just charged into the Youming domain.

Mu Nanzhi, previously with Qin Yuan and another, had charged into this domain and in an instant the Youming army’s assault severed their contact with the others.

Even Qin Yuan was in a moment surrounded by three Great Emperors, left with little strength to resist.

Only by relying on his own cultivation and fighting desperately to open a bloody path did he allow many Heavenly Palace cultivators to escape.

As for Nan Muzhi who came out a step too late, she was again surrounded by the Youming clan.

The many Quasi-Emperors and Supremes beside her had absolutely no power to resist the Youming clan.

People were dying by the moment.

Those Supremes and Quasi-Emperors who once scorched heavens and boiled seas, erasing stars with a flick. At that moment, they bled in the void like rain.

Now, Gu Changqing’s appearance at last gave Mu Nanzhi a glimmer of hope for survival.

But the appearance of the three Great Emperors in the distance plunged her into utter despair again.

Gu Changqing was only a Quasi-Emperor. How could he face Great Emperor-level beings, let alone three of them?

Moreover, Mu Nanzhi understood that the Youming domain was vast. This realm was just a corner of the battlefield, and in that boundless war there were who knew how many Great Emperors and Half-Step to Immortals were lying in wait!

But Mu Nanzhi never expected what came next.

Facing the three Great Emperors, this man charged forward as well.

And his methods were exceedingly brutal.

Before everyone stood the three Great Emperors like mountains, and Gu Changqing’s response was simply to unleash a single punch.

With that punch, demonic flames coiled like dragons, roaring outward.

The vast unorthodox dao laws, mixed with the terrifying might of world-shaping power, in an instant blasted those three Great Emperors and sent them flying.

These noble Great Emperors, before this man, were like paper tigers!

Mu Nanzhi froze abruptly.

In that moment she seemed finally to understand why her father had wanted this man to protect her.

“Go!”

Gu Changqing tugged at the woman behind him.

He continued to lead her and the many cultivators behind them away.

Vast imperial might erupted. Gu Changqing led the crowd like a divine rainbow streaking through this spacetime consumed by the Youming clan.

Wherever they passed, shattered skulls and remaining bones lay everywhere.

He did not hurry to leave. Instead, he rescued other Heavenly Palace and Dragon Clan cultivators amid the battlefield.

Soon, the number of cultivators behind him grew steadily.

But likewise, the number of peerless Youming beings blocking him also increased.

When Gu Changqing arrived at the rift, he was already drenched in blood.

Before him.

Qin Yuan seemed finally to have noticed Mu Nanzhi’s disappearance from earlier on and stood at the rift, guiding Mu Nanzhi and the others in.

The Heavenly Palace general who had been shouting to subdue Gu Changqing now looked unbelievingly at the man bathed in imperial blood, long struck dumb.

“You all go first,” Gu Changqing said in a low voice and hurled Mu Nanzhi toward the rift ahead.

Beside him, countless Dragon Clan and Heavenly Palace cultivators madly rushed toward the rift.

Gu Changqing glanced back at the pursuing Youming clan.

He did not enter the rift but charged out toward the Youming clan once more.

The Heaven Burying Bell suddenly slammed down. Divine radiance exploded, the boundless unorthodox dao laws coiled, spewing endless majestic might.

The first two Great Emperors who charged forward, still hoping to take the Heaven Burying Bell with their bare hands, were suddenly blasted to powder the moment they neared it!

The two Great Emperors turned into blood mist. Imperial blood stained the galaxy!

In that instant.

Countless Youming clan members halted.

Tens of thousands of Supremes, thousands of Quasi-Emperors, and dozens of Great Emperors abruptly stopped their pursuit.

They quietly stared up into the nine heavens at the man like a nightmare.

He stood on that battered ancient bell, blood continually dripping from it.

But no one dared to make another rash move!