76: The Demon Lord is not someone to be trifled with.

Lin Xuan, carrying the bronze battle axe, caught his breath. This thing was good, but it consumed too much energy. Just now, he had chopped down several Immortal Monarch-level Asuras like slicing melons and dicing vegetables, which was satisfying, but the spiritual power of his late-stage Heavenly Immortal cultivation in his dantian had depleted by almost half.

He raised his eyes and scanned the battlefield.

The Demon Clan guys were indeed fierce, roaring and clashing with the Blood Slaughter Legion. Demonic energy and malevolent energy mixed into a chaotic mess, fighting with flesh and blood flying everywhere. But a closer look would reveal that the Demon Clan was at a disadvantage. They fought purely on ferocity, without any strategy, and were slowly being cut down by the Asura War Generals of the Blood Slaughter Legion, who formed battle formations and cooperated tacitly, suffering significant casualties. They relied entirely on numbers and their fearlessness to hold on.

Jin Bao, that dragon, was frolicking in the sky, spewing dragon flames, clawing wildly, and lashing his tail. He did burn many bugs and smash many Asuras, but his posture looked intimidating, though his efficiency was actually not high; he was purely relying on his thick skin and great strength to mess around.

The hundred-mile thundercloud A Zi conjured was quite lively with crackling sounds, but it was just for show. Besides making the Asura War Generals curse in frustration and their hair stand on end comically, it was useless.

The other disciples displayed their various divine abilities, looking very powerful, but they were only barely holding on. Want to push back? Difficult!

“It’s still up to me,” Lin Xuan spat, feeling his spiritual power return a bit. He weighed the bronze battle axe in his hand. The axe seemed to sense his killing intent, humming softly again. That viciousness drilled up his arm into his mind, urging him to chop something.

“Alright, I know you’re hungry.” Lin Xuan patted the axe handle, his gaze fixed on the several most active Asura Commanders of the Immortal Monarch mid-stage, who were directing the Blood Slaughter Legion on the battlefield.

You guys it is!

He moved his feet, no longer using the energy-consuming spatial leap, but instead relying on his formidable physical strength to explode the air, emitting a sonic boom. His entire being shot out like a cannonball!

An Asura Commander in the Immortal Monarch mid-stage was brandishing a giant bone saber like a door panel, cleaving a charging giant demon, man and club, flying away, letting out a triumphant roar. Suddenly, he felt a fierce wind coming from the side. Without thinking, he swept out with a saber strike!

Clang—!

Another deafening clang that could shatter eardrums!

This time, the bronze battle axe couldn't directly shatter the bone saber like it did with the early-stage ones before, but it still carved a deep gap in the massive bone saber, sending sparks flying! The Asura Commander was shaken by the terrifying force from the axe, his massive body stumbled back several steps, a look of horror appearing on his face.

“Oh? Quite tough, aren’t you?” Lin Xuan raised an eyebrow, a little surprised. But he didn’t stop. Using the recoil, he spun his body, and the battle axe traced a strange arc, cutting towards the Commander’s lower body at the waist!

The Asura Commander roared, his body boiling with blood fiend energy, condensing into thick armor. At the same time, his bone saber pressed down to block!

Splat! The battle axe cleaved through, and the blood fiend armor was torn like paper. The axe blade savagely struck his thick leg!

“Aow!” The Asura Commander let out a painful wail. One leg was almost completely severed, only connected by a bit of flesh, and dark green blood gushed out like a fountain!

Lin Xuan pressed his advantage, giving him no chance to catch his breath. The battle axe was raised again, chopping down directly at hisferocious head!

“Save me!” The Asura Commander cried out in terror.

Seeing this, the other two Immortal Monarch mid-stage Commanders nearby hastily shook off their opponents and lunged at Lin Xuan from left and right. One wielded a bone hammer with barbs, and the other spewed highly corrosive venomous breath!

Lin Xuan didn’t even look. He clenched his left fist, his fist wrapped in chaotic demonic energy, and directly slammed it into the bone hammer! His right hand’s battle axe continued its downward trajectory, still cleaving towards the head of his current target!

Boom! Crack! The fist collided with the bone hammer, and that intimidating bone hammer was shattered by Lin Xuan’s punch! Fragments flew everywhere! And almost simultaneously, the battle axe fell! Pfft! That massive, bone-spiked Asura head was split open like a rotten watermelon! Red and white matter splattered everywhere!

An Immortal Monarch mid-stage instantly killed!

The other venom-spitting Commander was startled. The venomous breath reached Lin Xuan’s back, but it was blocked by a layer of chaotic energy shield that automatically appeared, sizzling but unable to corrode in the slightest.

Lin Xuan suddenly turned, his eyes, interwoven with chaotic lightning and Nirvana Sword Intent, coldly fixed on him.

The Asura Commander felt a chill in his heart from the stare and instinctively wanted to retreat.

“Since you’re here, don’t leave.” Lin Xuan’s voice was cold, and the battle axe swung again, simple and direct, yet as fast as lightning!

The Commander desperately dodged, blocked with his claws, and lashed with his tail, but in the face of absolute power and the sharp battle axe, everything was futile!

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! After a few clashes, his body had several deep, bone-visible wounds, and one tail was severed at the root!

“Bastard! Everyone, attack! Kill him!” He shrieked in terror towards the Asura Commanders in other directions.

Immediately, four or five more Immortal Monarch mid-stage Commanders broke free from their opponents, eyes red, and surrounded Lin Xuan to kill him! Various malevolent energy attacks and bone blade slashes rained down on Lin Xuan like a storm!

Lin Xuan’s pressure sharply increased! He swung the battle axe, parrying left and right. The chaotic demonic energy formed a shield around him, but he was still forced to retreat repeatedly, and several wounds appeared on his body. Although not severe, they stung painfully.

“Damn it, ganging up on me, are we?” Lin Xuan cursed, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter, that fierce spirit completely ignited.

He suddenly took a deep breath, and the Chaos Nascent Soul within him furiously circulated, pouring all his power without reservation into the bronze battle axe!

“Demon Venerable Splits the Heavens!”

He let out a low roar, gripping the axe with both hands, and unleashed a sweeping strike at the several Commanders who were encircling him!

Buzz—! An unprecedentedly brilliant greenish-black light erupted from the axe blade! A crescent-shaped axe-light, containing ultimate destructive power, detached from the blade, instantly expanded, becoming incredibly massive, as if to cleave the heavens and earth, sweeping out!

The faces of those Asura Commanders drastically changed. They felt a fatal threat and desperately exerted all their strength to defend! Blood fiend shields, bone armor, natal demonic artifacts... various lights lit up!

Boom!

The axe-light and defensive measures collided fiercely, causing a deafening explosion! Space was torn like cloth into countless tiny black cracks!

As the light dissipated, the several attacking Asura Commanders were all wounded and disheveled. Two of the slightly weaker ones had their defenses broken, leaving terrible, bloody wounds on their bodies!

Although they didn't die, their encirclement was completely shattered by this axe strike!

Lin Xuan gasped for breath, feeling his body hollowed out. This axe strike was powerful, but it almost drained him dry.

Just as his old strength was gone and new strength had yet to emerge!

A highly concealed, incredibly sinister black stream of light, like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, silently shot from an extremely tricky angle, aiming directly for his vital back! Its speed was extreme! And it perfectly bypassed his divine sense perception!

It was that Shadow Killer Immortal Monarch, Old Dog Xuan Gu’s loyal subordinate, who had been hiding in the dark and was skilled in sneak attacks! He had been lurking on the battlefield, just waiting for this opportunity!

“Master, be careful!” Yun Qingyao, who had been distracted and paying attention to this side, cried out in alarm!

But it was too fast! There was no time for rescue!

Lin Xuan also felt the fatal crisis, his hair standing on end, but his body couldn’t keep up with the reaction!

At this critical moment!

“Chirp!”

A clear but incredibly anxious cry rang out!

The Little Blue Bird, which had been lying listlessly on Jin Bao’s head, somehow found the strength to suddenly break free from Jin Bao’s dragon horns, transforming into a pale blue stream of light, instantly appearing behind Lin Xuan!

Its tiny body, facing that sinister stream of light capable of severely injuring an Immortal Monarch, suddenly expanded. Although still very small, it exuded an ancient, vast defensive aura!

Pfft!

The black stream of light accurately struck the Little Blue Bird’s body!

“Chirp!” The Little Blue Bird let out a painful whimper. Its tiny body was struck flying like a kite with a broken string. A trace of strange black energy stained its pale blue feathers, instantly making them dim.

But it ultimately blocked this fatal blow! It bought Lin Xuan that insignificant but crucial instant!

“Little thing!” Lin Xuan’s eyes were bloodshot, and an indescribable rage instantly overwhelmed his rationality!

He suddenly turned around and saw the “Shadow Killer” Immortal Monarch, who had struck and was retreating, about to merge into the shadows and escape!

“You! Are! Dead!”

Lin Xuan’s voice was like freezing ice from the Nine Nether, carrying monstrous killing intent! He completely disregarded the consumption, forcefully activated his last bit of power, even burning a trace of his origin blood essence!

Law-Breaking Chaos Eyes Demonic Eye Shredding!

The vertical eye on his forehead suddenly erupted with terrifying suction, and a distorted, dark beam of light, mixed with chaos and demonic malevolence, instantly shot out, arriving later but striking first, accurately hitting the rapidly disappearing Shadow Killer Immortal Monarch!

“Ah!” The Shadow Killer Immortal Monarch let out a shrill, inhuman scream. He felt his shadow-merging divine ability forcibly interrupted, and his soul felt as if it had been thrown into a meat grinder; intense pain instantly overwhelmed everything!

The next moment, Lin Xuan’s figure appeared before him like a ghost. The bronze battle axe, carrying all of Lin Xuan’s anger and killing intent, simply and brutally chopped down!

“No—” The Shadow Killer Immortal Monarch’s eyes widened in terror, desperately trying to resist!

Pfft!

There was no miracle.

The axe blade, from head to toe, completely annihilated his entire being, along with his immortal soul! Not even a speck of dust remained!

Shadow Killer, a trusted subordinate of Xuan Gu and an Immortal Monarch in the early stage, had fallen!

Silence!

After a brief silence, there was an even more frenzied slaughter!

Lin Xuan didn’t even look at where Shadow Killer had vanished. He rushed to where the Little Blue Bird had fallen, carefully cradling it in his palm. The little guy’s aura was extremely weak, his eyes couldn’t even open, and the black energy on his feathers was still spreading.

Lin Xuan quickly transferred a pure surge of chaotic vitality to temporarily protect its heart, his eyes chillingly cold.

“Old Dog Xuan Gu, and your master,” he gritted his teeth, his voice squeezed out, “This isn’t over!”

He carefully placed the Little Blue Bird in the closest spot to his body in his embrace, then slowly stood up, his gaze sweeping across the battlefield.

Although he had killed Shadow Killer and intimidated the enemy, the opponent still held an advantage in high-end combat power. Moreover, his own strength was almost depleted.

Just as he was contemplating whether to retreat to the main formation to catch his breath.

Suddenly!

From the direction of the Immortal Alliance Headquarters, and from the more distant deep space occupied by the Asura Clan, several heart-pounding terrifying fluctuations simultaneously emerged!

Those fluctuations far surpassed the Immortal Monarch level! They carried an awe-inspiring majesty that overlooked all beings and transcended all things!

Immediately after, two cold, vast voices, yet coming from different directions, echoed throughout the entire battlefield like laws of heaven and earth:

“Enough.” “The farce, it’s time to end.”

Lin Xuan’s heart suddenly sank.