In the span of a mere few breaths, the ice world dissipated, leaving behind only two corpses devoid of life force.
Two Intermediate Stage Sovereign Gods of the Myriad Spears Sect had fallen.
Thus, of the nine Sovereign Gods of the Myriad Spears Sect, only the patriarch remained!
"Aaaaah...!
Dark Faction!
I'll perish together with you!"
Witnessing his sect's higher echelon slaughtered to the last, his Dao Heart nearly shattered, the patriarch descended into a state akin to a maddened demon. Ignoring all consequences, he ignited his life essence. An ancient black spear appeared in his hand; man and spear merging into one, transforming into a shaft of annihilating black radiance that pierced through the void as he threw himself at Lü Dandan in a suicidal lunge! This was his desperate, all-or-nothing strike, its power sufficient to threaten even a Peak Sovereign God!
"Dark Heart, Great Method of Dark Annihilation."
Lü Dandan's gaze turned grave. Her hands formed a seal, and the Dark Heart within her chest throbbed violently, channeling endless dark origin energy that condensed before her into a bottomless vortex of darkness, as if connected to a realm of eternal extinction.
The shaft of annihilating black radiance plunged headlong into the vortex of darkness, erupting in a cataclysmic storm of energy. In the end, however, all light and shockwaves were devoured, obliterated by that boundless dark.
As the storm dispersed, the patriarch's body was lifeless. Only his ancient black spear, now shattered into several pieces, fell from the sky.
The patriarch of the Myriad Spears Sect had fallen!
With their sect master and all higher echelons slain in battle, the Myriad Spears Sect army completely collapsed. Under the combined onslaught of the Dark Faction army, the ghost cultivator army, and the puppet army, they rapidly disintegrated, collapsing like a house of cards.
Another major power had been exterminated by the Dark Faction, reduced to a speck of dust in history.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder atop the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, Ye Yunfei and Lü Dandan felt a moment of reflection, yet the greater part of their gaze was filled with resolute determination.
Through all these years, the two had always advanced amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood—they were long accustomed to it.
"Onward! Our final target—the Divine Beasts Gang!"
Before the smoke of the Myriad Spears Sect had fully cleared, the Dark Faction army, led by Ye Yunfei and Lü Dandan and carrying the overwhelming, ferocious momentum of consecutively annihilating four sects, swept forth like a tide of death that engulfed heaven and earth, charging toward their final target: the Divine Beasts Gang!
Not long after, the Dark Faction army arrived before the Divine Beasts Gang's headquarters—a relatively large world cluster.
From afar, one could already hear countless, interwoven cries of beasts and shrieks of birds—high-pitched, low, sharp, or booming—forming a raw and savage symphony.
Gazing into the distance, they saw that inside and outside this world cluster were densely packed with countless battle beasts of various forms.
There were titanic, primordial rhinoceroses clad in scales with a single horn sprouting from their heads, immense roc birds whose wings eclipsed the sky and claws hooked like sickles, gargantuan serpents hundreds of zhang long spewing venomous flames, and entire packs of bloodthirsty wolves and lions, their fangs bared.
It was as if all the savage beasts of the Third Void had been gathered here, forming a terrifying defensive line forged of flesh, blood, and sharp fangs.
The Divine Beasts Gang was established upon the Path of Beast Taming; its higher echelon were all beast taming masters. The foundation of this power lay in its endless army of warbeasts.
Ye Yunfei and Lü Dandan hovered before their army, their gazes penetrating the layered shadows of beasts to fall upon the depths of the Divine Beasts Gang headquarters.
Both of them could sense, beneath the sky-piercing bestial aura, some exceptionally powerful yet clandestine auras that stood starkly at odds with the surrounding environment.
"It seems the Guardian Faction's experts have also come.
Has the Guardian Faction finally ceased hiding behind the scenes and begun taking action personally?"
Lü Dandan's voice was cool, dark energy surging around her like tidal waves. Her Dark Heart throbbed faintly, emitting an oppressive might that stirred apprehension.
Ye Yunfei's eyes were sharp as blades. Within him, his blood and qi surged, while his Soul Sea remained placid and unrippled—yet it harbored the dead calm that precedes a storm.
"It's even better if the Guardian Faction's experts have come. We'll settle them together." Ye Yunfei sneered.
"Let's attack! Kill our way in!"
Lü Dandan's jade-like hand swept down, her command like lighting the fuse of a powder keg!
Kill...!
The Dark Faction army erupted with earth-shaking roars, akin to a breached river of the netherworld, fearlessly charging towards that boundless tide of beasts.
At the same time, from the Divine Beasts Gang direction, sharp whistles and roars arose. Countless warbeasts, pupils blazing crimson, driven by their beast tamers, madly charged out.
In an instant, two massive torrents violently crashed together!
Boom...!
At the foremost frontlines of both armies, the sounds of physical collisions, of bones shattering, of energy explosions, and death throes instantly intertwined. Blood spilled down like a torrential downpour, while severed limbs and broken bodies flew about in all directions.
The Dark Faction army's dark secret arts clashed wildly against the beasts' fangs, claws, and innate divine abilities—the scene was chaotic and brutal to the extreme.
Almost the very moment the two armies made contact, Ye Yunfei and Lü Dandan felt dozens of powerful auras instantly lock onto them!
"Kill Lü Dandan and that little bastard! The Dark Faction army will crumble without them!" a Sovereign God bellowed sharply.
In the next moment, over twenty Sovereign God-level experts—including Divine Beasts Gang elders, Guardian Faction experts, and dozens of enormous, ancient warbeasts emanating Sovereign God-level ferocious might—surrounded Ye Yunfei and Lü Dandan from all sides, launching a joint attack!
Among them were five Advanced Sovereign Gods!
Such a lineup was sufficient to sweep through a major power in any region!
"Dark Domain—activate!"
Fearless, Lü Dandan let out a clear shout. Endless darkness spread rapidly from her as the center, instantly enveloping a vast swath of void.
Within the Dark Domain, the Laws of Darkness reigned supreme, devouring light, isolating divine sense, and weakening all energy not of the dark attribute!
Seven Dark Sacred Lotuses floated up and down within the domain, showering down rays of inky light, shielding Lü Dandan at the center. Clutching a dark short blade, she transformed into an elusive shadow, weaving through the domain as she engaged several Advanced Sovereign Gods and over a dozen fierce beasts. Her dark energy morphed at times into massive palms that slammed down, at times into chains that ensnared, at times into black holes that devoured all—her moves were unpredictable and strange. Despite fighting one against many, she momentarily held her own without losing ground!
"Miss Lü's power grows ever stronger. It seems her fusion with the Dark Heart is becoming ever more complete," Hun Lao said with a smile.
Meanwhile, however, Ye Yunfei had also been surrounded.
"Come then! A good, hearty fight!" Ye Yunfei let out a long roar that resonated through the void. Instead of retreating, he advanced, taking the initiative to charge into the midst of his enemies.
Ye Yunfei first employed the ghost race's sleep-inducing secret art. Waves of immense Soul Power fluctuations swept out, causing seven or eight Primary Stage Sovereign Gods and several warbeasts with weaker Soul Power to momentarily freeze, their gazes turning dazed for an instant, overcome by boundless drowsiness.
"One Thought Ice World!"
Seizing this fleeting opportunity, Ye Yunfei pointed towards two Intermediate Stage Sovereign Gods and a towering giant ape.
With a humming resonance, a miniature ice world abruptly took shape, instantly sealing and immobilizing the trio!
Ice Dragon Technique!
With Ye Yunfei's soft chant, his ice-attributed deity power roared. Several crystalline ice dragons condensed and charged roaring towards the temporarily trapped enemies, extreme cold force madly eroding them.
Simultaneously, Ye Yunfei unleashed his physical body's might, akin to a humanoid rampaging dragon. He charged directly towards an Advanced Sovereign God from the Guardian Faction, his fists ablaze with radiant blood and qi, containing the terrifying physical secret arts of the Mighty Devil God race. His punches struck like lightning, meeting head-on the silver battle halberd the opponent cleaved downwards with.
Clang!
The deafening clang of metal on metal erupted. The Advanced Sovereign God only felt an indescribable, immense force transmitted through the impact, his palms splitting open, the halberd almost flying from his grip. He stumbled backward, his eyes filled with shock!
Soul Sword!
Ye Yunfei multitasked. From his Soul Sea, a Soul Sword shot out silently, directly piercing through the Soul Body of a Primary Stage Sovereign God attempting to ambush him from the side, killing him on the spot.
Surrounded by nearly twenty Sovereign Gods, Ye Yunfei was plunged into a fierce battle.
Ye Yunfei's combat style was ferocious and efficient: physical body, Soul Power, ice secret arts, occasional slashes of black-and-white blade radiance, or the heavy sword beams of the Ten Thousand Swords Return to One Great Art, weaving a web of death. Amidst the combined assault of so many powerful enemies, he appeared utterly at ease, and within a short time, managed to slay another man and beast!
"Space Immobilization!"
The Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm transformed into a golden streak of light, darting across the battlefield. From time to time, it employed its race's spatial secret art, abruptly immobilizing a particular warbeast or Sovereign God for a few moments, creating killing opportunities for Ye Yunfei or the Dark Faction army.
With immense strength, the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm occasionally used its own body to ram into somewhat weaker enemies, shattering bones and tendons.
"Primordial Chaos Illusion World!"
Hu Miao manifested nine immense fox tails, her eyes swirling with pink light. Large swathes of illusory realms descended upon the battlefield, causing many warbeasts and some enemies with less resolute minds to fall into bizarre and kaleidoscopic fantasies. They either began fighting among themselves or stood stock-still, paralyzed.
"Ten-Thousand Ghosts Devour Souls!
Zombie Tide!"
In such a chaotic battlefield, Huang Chang was utterly in his element. He drew out a ghastly, ghost-attributed spirit streamer and waved it continuously. This standard, named the Soul-Convoking Banner, trembled as he waved it. Countless malevolent spirits formed into the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation, specifically targeting enemies with weak Soul Bodies.
The corpse army under Huang Chang's control formed into a Zombie Formation—impervious to blade or spear, possessing immense strength—it surged recklessly through the tide of beasts like a steel fortress, slaughtering large numbers of low-tier warbeasts and disrupting the enemy's battle formation.
Hidden within the Phantom Tower, Hun Lao cooperated with Ye Yunfei, striking from time to time. The spatial divine abilities of the Chaos World Tree were profoundly subtle; he either warped space to make enemy attacks miss their mark, or reinforced their side's defenses, playing a huge role.
Yet, the combined force of the Divine Beasts Gang and the Guardian Faction was truly formidable.
Those Sovereign God-level warbeasts had thick hides and sturdy flesh, tenacious life force, and bizarre, difficult-to-defend innate divine abilities.
The Guardian Faction experts practiced high-grade techniques, cooperated seamlessly, and employed relentless, varying methods.
For a time, the battle descended into an exceedingly brutal stalemate.
Before long, wounds began to appear on Ye Yunfei's body, besieged by over twenty Sovereign Gods. A deep, bone-revealing gash came from a stealth-attacking war leopard; another bleeding wound was from a sneak attack by a Guardian Faction expert.
Lü Dandan's Dark Domain was also continually compressed, and a trickle of blood seeped from the corner of her mouth. Clearly, simultaneously fighting multiple opponents of the same rank and many fierce beasts put immense pressure on her.
"What a satisfying fight this is!"
Though wounded, Ye Yunfei's battle spirit soared even higher.
He pushed the power of his Primal Chaos Mystical Ice Soul to its limits while simultaneously connecting with all energy sources within him!
Silencing Frost Curse Technique!
Ye Yunfei abruptly clasped his hands together. With him as the center, an incomparably terrifying cold wave erupted and spread like an exploding ocean.
Crack-crack-crack...
The temperature across the surrounding vast void plummeted sharply below absolute zero. Space froze solid; time seemed to stand still.
Over ten Sovereign God-level warbeasts and five or six Primary and Intermediate Stage Sovereign Gods, having no time to escape, were instantly frozen into eternal ice sculptures. Even their soul fluctuations were thoroughly solidified and snuffed out!
This single strike instantly cleared a vast area!
Eternal Night Devourer!
Seizing the opportunity, Lü Dandan let out a light shout. The dark light in her chest blazed to its zenith. The vortex of darkness before her abruptly expanded tenfold, erupting with terrifying suction force that dragged two badly wounded Advanced Sovereign Gods and three powerful warbeasts straight into its depths, grinding and devouring them!
With the simultaneous unleashing of Ye Yunfei and Lü Dandan's two great killing moves, nearly half of the enemy's top-tier combatants were instantly decimated!
The scales of victory began to tip!
Kill!
Ye Yunfei and Lü Dandan, their momentum like a rainbow, led the Dark Faction army to launch a final, ferocious assault.
The Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm tore the wing off a Sovereign God-level golden-winged roc. Huang Chang's Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation shredded the soul of a Guardian Faction Intermediate Stage Sovereign God into fragments. Hu Miao's illusion caused a Divine Beasts Gang elder to lose control of his mind, whereupon the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm punched and exploded his head.
When the last Guardian Faction Advanced Sovereign God perished, form and spirit extinguished under the dual assault of Ye Yunfei's Soul Sword and fists, and when the last mountain-like warbeast collapsed with a thunderous crash under the combined attack of Ye Yunfei and Lü Dandan, the sky-shaking sounds of slaughter gradually stilled.
The Divine Beasts Gang headquarters was strewn with corpses everywhere, rivers of blood flowed, and tens of thousands of beasts lay dead—resembling a hellish realm of asuras.
Ye Yunfei stood soaked in blood, hovering mid-air, his eyes still as sharp as an eagle's.
Lü Dandan came to his side, her dark energy slightly dimmed, her face pale, yet carrying an expression of relief and steadfastness after victory.
"This battle was somewhat challenging," Ye Yunfei said, glancing at his own injuries, then at the wounds on Lü Dandan's delicate form, unable to help but offer a bitter smile.
"But we still won," Lü Dandan said, her gaze resolute and unwavering.
"Yes.
With Miss Lü here, we were bound to win."
Ye Yunfei smiled.
"You contributed half the credit for this victory."
Lü Dandan shot Ye Yunfei a sidelong glance with her beautiful eyes.
"Thank you for fighting alongside me all this time."
She fixed her eyes on Ye Yunfei and added her gratitude.
"Of course.
Miss Lü, my master treats you so well. How are you going to repay him?"
Hu Miao, never missing a chance to stir up some fun, laughed as she said this.
"Hu Miao, stop talking nonsense. Miss Lü is one of our own; what 'repayment' is there to speak of."
Ye Yunfei immediately stopped her.