456: Chapter 455 Golden Core Tenth Level

"Your Majesty, save me——!"

Master Wang cried out in terror, but his proud Formation defense was as thin as paper before the Human Race Cultivators whose strength had surged by fifty percent, instantly being blasted into shreds of flesh by a dozen or so Magic Treasures.

Immediately following were several other powerful Yao Race Golden Core great demons. Suppressed by the "Weakening Halo" and "Fear", they couldn't even display thirty percent of their usual combat power, and were successively besieged and suffocated to death, transforming into a sky full of blood rain fluttering down.

Watching those once arrogant Yao Race high-ranking officials who usually assisted her fall one after another, and watching millions of Yao Race elites fall in rows like harvested wheat, Fairy Qingling's face turned as pale as paper, her heart sinking to the abyss of ten thousand zhang.

Defeated.

A complete and utter crushing defeat!

And the mastermind behind all of this...

Fairy Qingling violently turned her head, her incomparably venomous gaze locked firmly onto "Hu Nan", who stood upon the city wall, calmly overlooking the battlefield.

It was him! It was all because of this damned Human Race Hu Nan!

"Your Majesty, run quickly!!"

Just as Empress Fairy Qingling's mind was shaken violently and she was on the verge of madness, two blood-soaked figures suddenly fought desperately to tear open the Human Race Cultivators' encirclement, shielding her in a disheveled state.

They were precisely Shen Bing and Granny Qing.

At this moment, Shen Bing's white robes had long been dyed red with blood, her Aura withered to the extreme, and her left arm hung limply down—evidently, she had suffered extremely severe internal injuries.

Granny Qing was even more miserable. Her Lifespan was already near its end, and she had forcibly executed a taboo curse. Now, under the siege of Human Race experts, half of her body was almost shattered, bones glistening white, relying entirely on a breath of demonic power to sustain her life.

"Your Majesty, the general trend is lost, run quickly!" Blood overflowed from the corner of Shen Bing's mouth, her eyes filled with anxiety and despair. "If we don't leave now, everyone of us will perish here today!"

A resolute, wretched smile appeared on Granny Qing's withered face. She tremblingly extended her right hand, and resting plainly in her palm was an archaic token emitting deep blue water vapor and carved with esoteric sea beast patterns.

"Your Majesty... This is the 'East Sea Teleportation Token' that this old woman accidentally obtained in her early years!"

Granny Qing shoved the token tightly into the Empress's hand, her voice hoarse and urgent: "This token can head to the Great Array, leading directly to the boundless East Sea! The East Sea is vast and boundless, filled with countless opportunities, and is not suppressed by the Heavenly Dao Laws of this Southern Domain."

"Your Majesty, you bear the Luck of our Yao Race. As long as you can escape to the East Sea, breaking through to the Soul Transformation Stage is just around the corner! The day you cultivate into a Soul Transformation Yao Emperor, return to take revenge for this old body, for Shen Hu, and for our tens of millions of Yao Race citizens!!"

Looking at the two heavily wounded and dying individuals before her, and then looking at the Yao Race army being slaughtered and collapsing like a landslide on the battlefield below, Fairy Qingling's arrogant self-esteem was completely shattered at this moment.

She knew that Granny Qing was right.

Staying behind meant certain death for her. Only by living, escaping to the East Sea, and breaking through to the Nascent Soul would the Yao Race have a glimmer of survival!

"This Emperor... remembers this!"

Fairy Qingling clutched the cold Teleportation token tightly, blood and tears streaming from her phoenix eyes. She venomously cast a glance at Hu Nan on the city wall, as if wanting to carve this man's appearance deep into her Soul.

"Human Race... Hu Nan! This Emperor vows to kill you!!"

Before her voice fell, Fairy Qingling spat a mouthful of Essence Blood onto the token, and a deep blue light instantly enveloped her.

With a loud bang, the Void Realm was torn open with a crack, and her figure instantly turned into a blue light, escaping into the distance at an incredible Speed.

"Not good! That demoness is escaping!"

"Leave your life behind!"

Sect Leader Xuanyangzi and Immortal Master Moyuan's expressions changed drastically upon seeing this. Cut weeds without eradicating the roots, and the spring breeze will cause them to grow again! If this half-step Yao Emperor were allowed to escape, she would definitely become a huge trouble in the future!

The two immediately transformed into a golden and a black streak of terrifying escape light, whipping up a sky full of Sword Qi, intending to forcefully tear open the Void Realm and pursue her.

"Cackle... Human Race scum, don't even think about harming Your Majesty in the slightest!"

Granny Qing let out a piercing, shrill laugh, her skin instantly withering away, and the Golden Core within her body lit up with an extremely blinding blood-red light at this moment.

"Your Majesty, Shen Bing shall take her leave first!"

Shen Bing also gave a wretched smile, her beautiful eyes filled with determination, as she similarly and frantically burned her own life Essence Blood and Golden Core Origin!

At the very last moment of their lives, the two Late Stage Golden Core great demons chose to completely self-detonate!

Rumble——!!!

Accompanied by two earth-shattering loud bangs, a destructive demonic power storm exploded in the sky, transforming into a sea of blood-red fire that blocked out the sky, forcefully completely sealing off the pursuit route of Sect Leader Xuanyangzi and Immortal Master Moyuan!

After more than half an hour, the deafening sounds of slaughter and Spell roaring gradually subsided, and the entire battlefield finally slowly drew its curtain.

The rolling smoke and dust dispersed, revealing a scene so shocking it made one unable to breathe.

Outside Zhenyao Pass, the land for hundreds of li around had long been dyed dark red with blood, and the mountain-like corpses of the Yao Race stretched endlessly.

The terrifying giant crater produced by the self-detonation of Shen Bing and Granny Qing was still radiating residual warmth, and upon this scorched earth, there was not a single living Yao Race member left.

Millions of Yao Race elites, along with top-tier Golden Core Stage experts of the Yao Race such as Shen Hu and Master Wang, were completely wiped out and slain right here!

Numerous Human Race Cultivators stood within the pool of blood, holding Flying Swords that were still dripping with blood. Looking at this battlefield that could be called a miracle before them, they were momentarily in a daze.

"We... really won?"

A young Cultivator muttered to himself, even pinching himself hard until the sensation of pain arrived, before waking up as if from a dream.

In the past tens of thousands of years, the wars between the Human Race and the Yao Race had always seen more defeats than victories.

Every time the Yao Race made a massive invasion, the Human Race had to use the lives of countless experts to fill the gap just barely to defend the strategic pass.

When had it ever been like today, not only annihilating the main force of the Yao Race with negligible casualties, but also almost rounding up all of the opponent's top combat power in one net!

Although at the very last moment the Yao Race Empress escaped relying on the East Sea Teleportation Token, after this battle, the Yao Race elites were completely lost, and Golden Core experts were killed and injured to the last, having long thoroughly hurt its vitality, making it difficult to amount to anything for thousands of years!

After a brief silence, outside the entire Zhenyao Pass, cheers erupted like rolling mountains and overturning seas!

"Alliance Master, great joy!!"

"We have won! The Human Race has won a great victory!!"

Sect Leader Xuanyangzi and Immortal Master Moyuan descended from the sky.

Although they were somewhat disheveled by the self-detonation of Granny Qing and Shen Bing, with a little dust stained on their Dao robes, their faces were filled with wild joy and fanaticism.

The two walked quickly to the bottom of the city wall, bowing and cupping their fists towards "Hu Nan" standing at the very top, their voices trembling slightly with excitement:

"Alliance Master is truly brilliant and resourceful, using counter-stratagems! In today's battle, not only did we annihilate the main force of the Yao Race, but we also slew several great demons! From this day forward, there will be no more demon afflictions in the Southern Domain!"

"Long live the Alliance Master! Long live the Human Race!"

In the rear, countless Human Race Cultivators shouted in unison. In their gazes looking toward Hu Nan, besides awe, there was only a faith bordering on that of a deity.

In their view, it was Hu Nan who used a fake death stratagem to lure the enemy deep, and it was Hu Nan who executed a Heaven-Defying divine ability at the critical moment, bestowing Divine Power upon everyone while weakening the Yao Race.

The greatest contributor to this battle was Hu Nan alone!

Facing the sky-full of cheers and adoration, "Hu Nan" on the city wall smiled slightly, raising his hand to signal everyone to quiet down.

At this moment, Master Chu of Sword Villa stepped out from the crowd, taking a step forward.

He was still stained with the blue blood of the Yao Race, and the Flying Sword behind his back hummed, its Killing Intent still unsubsiding.

Master Chu bowed deeply toward Hu Nan, saying in a solemn and loud voice: "Alliance Master! Although today we annihilated the main force of the Yao Race before the pass and successively slain several great demons, deep within the Yao Race hinterland, that 'Yaoling City' symbolizing the Yao Race regime remains completely intact! The Yao Race territory is vast, and there must still be countless Yao Race remnants and tribes lingering outside the pass!"

Speaking of this, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in Master Chu's eyes as he cupped his fists and said: "Cutting weeds without eradicating the roots leaves the spring breeze to blow them back to life. If we give them a breathing Spell, it's hard to guarantee that a new Empress won't be born thousands of years from now. This subordinate implores the Alliance Master to issue an extermination order; we are willing to wave our forces outside the pass and completely exterminate the Yao Race, cutting off future troubles forever!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the breathing of many Cultivators around became heavy, and they turned to look at Hu Nan one after another.

Hu Nan stood upon the city wall with a calm expression, not speaking immediately. His deep gaze slowly shifted, sweeping past Master Chu, and finally landing on Sect Leader Xuanyangzi and Immortal Master Moyuan.

After all, the ones who understood the Yao Race best were still the Sect Heads of these two major Sects.

Sensing Hu Nan's gaze, Sect Leader Xuanyangzi and Immortal Master Moyuan exchanged glances, then simultaneously stepped forward, cupping their fists with solemn expressions as they said:

"Alliance Master, what Fellow Daoist Chu said is extremely right! Those not of our race must surely have different hearts. The Yao Race regards us of the Human Race as blood food, and over the years, they have devoured countless Mortals and low-stage Cultivators in our Southern Domain. Now that the Yao Race main force is destroyed, it is precisely the time when they are at their weakest. We must completely slaughter the Yao Race and leave no future troubles!"

Immortal Master Moyuan was even more brimming with Killing Intent, speaking coldly: "We must thoroughly sweep through the Yao Race hinterland and destroy the Foundation of the Yao Race!"

Seeing the two Sect Heads express their stance, Hu Nan nodded slightly, a trace of decisiveness flashing in his eyes.

He violently waved his sleeve, his voice resounding like a great bell, issuing the final judgment:

"Very well! Pass down my Alliance Master's order!"

"Sect Leader Xuanyangzi, Immortal Master Moyuan, Wang Cheng, Daoist Master Liu, and Master Chu, hear my Command!"

The bodies of the several Golden Core senior Cultivators whose names were called trembled slightly, and they immediately and respectfully bowed in salute: "This subordinate is here!"

Hu Nan pressed his fingers together like a sword, pointing toward the vast and dark land outside the pass, and shouted coldly:

"You five, each lead an army and immediately exit the pass! Taking Zhenyao Pass as the starting point, advance in five separate routes and sweep across the outside of the pass! Anyone from the Yao Race who dares to resist shall be executed without mercy! Be sure to cleanse their lairs completely, raze Yaoling City to the ground, and slaughter all the Yao Race remnants!"

"This Alliance Master wants to ensure that outside the pass in this Southern Domain, there will never be a place for the Yao Race to stand ever again!!"

"We strictly obey the Alliance Master's decree!!"

Sect Leader Xuanyangzi, Immortal Master Moyuan, Wang Cheng, Master Chu, and the others shouted in unison, their voices shaking the nine heavens.

"Set out! Slaughter all the Yao Race scum!!"

As military orders were passed down one after another, the Human Race allied forces, having just experienced a great victory and with their momentum at its Peak, couldn't even care about taking a prolonged rest. Led by several Golden Core senior Cultivators, they transformed into five mighty, turbulent golden torrents, carrying towering Killing Intent as they frantically poured into the territory outside the pass that once belonged to the Yao Race.

The iron cavalry and Flying Swords of the Human Race began mercilessly harvesting the lives of the remaining Yao Race.

...

Spring went and autumn came, cold and heat alternated, and in the blink of an eye, two years passed.

Ever since the battle of Zhenyao Pass two years ago that shook the entire Southern Domain, the Luck of the Yao Race had been completely declared severed.

Having lost the Empress's leadership and suffered the loss of almost all Golden Core combat power, the surviving Yao Race had simply no power to resist under the iron cavalry and Flying Swords of the Human Race army.

Over these past two years, Golden Core experts like Sect Leader Xuanyangzi and Immortal Master Moyuan led Human Race Cultivators, plowing through the Yao Race territory outside the pass over and over again like a razor combing through hair.

"Yaoling City", which once symbolized the supreme imperial power of the Yao Race, had long been reduced to a scorched-black ruin under the joint bombardment of Human Race experts.

Countless Yao Race tribes were exterminated, and only a tiny fraction of surviving Yao Race members fled haphazardly into the deepest parts of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, where poisonous fog lingered and dangers were extreme, barely clinging to life and unable to stir up any more storms.

During this two-year-long sweeping and rebuilding process, the name "Hu Nan" reached an unprecedented Peak of prestige among the Human Race of the Southern Domain.

Whether it was renowned Sects with a Legacy of ten thousand years or Mortal imperial towns and cities, every single one of them erected steles and built temples for "Hu Nan" in the most prominent places, with incense burning endlessly day and night.

In the eyes of the worldly, Hu Nan was the savior of the Human Race, a living deity among Mortals.

However, in the face of this towering fame, wealth, and faith, Qin Changsheng, who was the mastermind behind everything, appeared exceptionally low-key.

Over these past two years, he had almost never shown his face in public.

Aside from secretly manipulating his Incarnation "Hu Nan" to maintain the overall situation of the Human Race, his true body had always been concealed within the deepest Secret Chamber of the Heavenly Sword Sect, undergoing closed-door bitter Cultivation every day.

Utilizing the incomparable appeal and prestige of his Incarnation "Hu Nan", Qin Changsheng mobilized the power of the entire Human Race in the Southern Domain to search for those peerless rare treasures needed to refine the "nascent soul formation pill" and break through to the Nascent Soul Stage.

However, even after searching for two years, those precious Materials still could not be found.

During these two years, Qin Changsheng's Luck in drawing System traits appeared somewhat mediocre.

Although he had successively drawn two Golden Traits, most of them were practical traits that assisted Cultivation Speed or enhanced the success rates of Alchemy and Artifact Refining. traits capable of instantly turning the tide of battle and approaching the level of Laws like [Heavenly Dao Command] and [Weakening Halo] did not appear again.

Regarding this, Qin Changsheng was quite calm; after all, Luck always had its ups and downs, and by now the Foundation he had accumulated was already deep enough.

Within the Secret Chamber, Qin Changsheng slowly opened his eyes, a brilliant flash vanishing within the darkness in a split second. With a thought, he summoned his attribute panel:

[Lifespan: +∞]

[Cultivation: Golden Core Tenth Stage 10000/2400000]

[Golden Core Grade: Golden]

[Cultivation Technique: Five Elements Returning Origin Art (Perfection)]

[Vajra Body Refining Art: Perfection]

[Spell: Fire Snake Technique (Perfection), Fire Shield Technique (Perfection)]

[Sword Flight Technique: Perfection]

[Mountain Splitting Blade: Perfection]

[Movement Technique: Wind Chasing Lightning Technique, Perfection]

[Lifebound Treasure: Dragon Abyss Sword * 10]

[Golden Core Divine Ability: Law Manifestation Heaven and Earth]

[Treasures: Spirit Jade Prayer Mat, dongtian pearl, spirit suppressing pearl, Golden Light Spirit Stone, Golden Silk Inner Armor, bixia pendant, King's Bracers]

[Spiritual Root: Top-grade Five Spirit Roots]

[trait Draw Count: 0]

[traits: Immortality, Substitute Death, Pressure, Breath Concealment, Exchange, Sharing, Rebirth, Instant Spellcasting, Teleportation, Disease, Poison Resistance, Alchemy, Heart Demon, Insight, Armor Break, Disguise, Disguise, Sensing, Photographic Memory, Detection, Reversal]

[Heavenly Dao Traits: Cultivation, External Incarnation, Intelligence, Divine Sense, Source of Mana, Mana Absorption, Innate Divine Strength, Storage Space, Enhancement, Blade God, Repair, Bleeding, Sword Domain, Copy, Slow Cultivation, Speed, Spirit Seed, Spirit-Severing Seed, Spirit Stone, Encouragement, Indestructible Vajra Body, Weakening Halo, Ancestor of Ten Thousand Arrays, Spiritual Root, Fear]

Looking at that Golden Core Tenth Stage already reached on the panel, Qin Changsheng gently sighed.