102: Destroy the army

“A million demons?” Xiao Zhuo’s eyes flashed upon hearing this.

“This situation is a mess you stirred up! The demons are clamoring that you flattened the entire Yuzhou region, this time it’s a blood feud reckoning!” Immortal Master Xuan Yun added with a complex gaze.

Xiao Zhuo touched his nose, embarrassed, and said, “It’s not entirely a misunderstanding.”

“Did you really slaughter all the demons in Yuzhou?” Immortal Master Xuan Yun’s almond-shaped eyes widened. Even though she knew Xiao Zhuo had advanced to the Shattering Realm, she had still been half-skeptical. One person slaughtering an entire region, while exaggerated, wasn’t impossible with Xiao Zhuo’s strength. It was just, why didn’t the powerful figures on the demon side stop him?

“Not just Yuzhou.” Xiao Zhuo nodded, revealing even more surprising news to Immortal Master Xuan Yun. “I also cut down a Clone of the Blood Ancestor.”

The sword pellet hovering in Immortal Master Azure Heaven’s palm pulsed with cold light. His gaze swept over the cloud heaven mirror and Xiao Zhuo’s face, then he said indifferently, “Since it’s already a done deal, it saves us the trouble of planning. Now that our Human Race has three Shattering Realm cultivators guarding, those three old demons will certainly not sit idly by. It’s better to settle this sooner rather than later!”

Xiao Zhuo, however, heard the hidden meaning in Immortal Master Azure Heaven’s words and asked, “Prince Hong?”

“Precisely! Ji Tianhong doesn’t have much time left.” Immortal Master Azure Heaven nodded. “He came to see me shortly after I emerged from seclusion. He only has a few years of Lifespan left. Even if you hadn’t advanced to the Shattering Realm, we would have had to make our move.”

Ji Tianhong was Prince Hong’s given name.

Xiao Zhuo was pensive. If what Immortal Master Azure Heaven said was true, that person likely harbored thoughts of mutual destruction.

Now, it didn’t have to be so tragic.

“These demons arrived at quite the opportune moment.” Golden light shimmered from Xiao Zhuo’s fingertips. He casually waved his hand towards the Void Realm. “I was just thinking I hadn’t killed enough in Yuzhou yet. I’ll go ahead first.”

Before he finished speaking, a dark blue rift had already torn open in the Void Realm. When he returned, he had passed through Demon-Subduing Pass and had casually left a Divine Sense mark, allowing him to directly open a spatial passage to Demon-Subduing Pass.

Immortal Master Azure Heaven had no objections to this. After all, the first batch of Taiyi Sect Disciples’ trials had not yet concluded, and he also wanted to see if there were any Genius Disciples who could inherit his mantle.

With Xiao Zhuo stationed at Demon-Subduing Pass, if the Three Demon Ancestors appeared, he could also calmly make his way over.

Stepping into the spatial rift, Xiao Zhuo merely flew a few miles within the rift, following the direction of his Divine Sense coordinates. He then sliced through space again, and another spatial rift appeared above a majestic city pass.

Demon-Subduing Pass was built between two colossal mountains. It was a formidable fortress with walls a hundred zhang high. If the demons wanted to bring their main forces into Jizhou, this pass was the only way.

If they were to bypass it, unless they were all Nightmare Grade demons or higher capable of flight, the terrain at this time consisted mostly of treacherous mountains and forests, which would instead provide opportunities for the Human Race to ambush them.

At this moment, the city walls were already filled with soldiers who had at least entered the Body Tempering Realm. Each of them had a serious expression, looking into the distance.

Inside the pass were rows of tents. Demon-Subduing Pass was permanently garrisoned by two hundred thousand of the Human Race’s most elite Black Armored Army. With the demons once again initiating war, both the capital and Jizhou were continuously sending reinforcements to the front lines.

As the spatial rift appeared, countless soldiers in Demon-Subduing Pass looked up at the sky with solemn expressions.

When they saw that it wasn’t Prince Hong, nor the recently rumored Immortal Master Azure Heaven of the Taiyi Sect, but a young man in a dark robe and cloak, even the strictly disciplined Black Armored Army couldn’t help but stir with some minor commotion.

“This Venerable One, Xiao Zhuo of the Yuyang Sect, has come to take charge of Demon-Subduing Pass!” Xiao Zhuo naturally understood what kind of commotion his appearance would cause. He immediately spoke in a clear voice that echoed for a hundred miles.

As soon as these words were spoken, the Human Race soldiers in Demon-Subduing Pass all showed expressions of joy.

The one who broke through space and descended was neither Prince Hong nor Immortal Master Azure Heaven; the Human Race had gained a third Shattering Realm cultivator.

Immediately, three generals in black battle armor flew towards Xiao Zhuo.

“Greetings, Heavenly Venerable!” The three bowed in mid-air as soon as they approached.

The leader, a middle-aged general with three terrifying claw marks on his face, introduced himself: “I am Lin Heida, Commander of Demon-Subduing Pass, and a Great Chen Demon-Suppressing General.”

Xiao Zhuo nodded to the three upon hearing this and said, “General Lin, you don’t need to worry about me. This Venerable One is here to guard against sudden attacks from Ancestor Level opponents.”

“Yes!” The three clasped their fists in agreement and returned to the city pass below.

Xiao Zhuo looked to the west. A vast, dark demon army was gathered dozens of miles away. The accumulated Devilish Qi had dyed the clouds above them black, creating an oppressive feeling of dark clouds pressing down on a city about to crumble.

Xiao Zhuo’s Divine Sense enveloped the demon side, discovering that the Three Demon Ancestors had not yet arrived.

However, the demons gathered here already exceeded two million, while the Human Race, even with the arriving reinforcements, totaled less than eight hundred thousand.

In terms of high-level combat power, there was still a huge gap between the two sides. At this moment, there were already over thirty Yao Mo Dominators among the demons, while the Human Race only had seventeen.

The disparity in Sea of Consciousness Realm numbers was also enormous, almost a two-to-one ratio.

This made Xiao Zhuo frown involuntarily.

It seemed that if this battle was to be won, the key would only be to see who was stronger between the Shattering Realm and the Ancestor Level cultivators.

However, feeling the immensely powerful Law of Thunder within his soul infant, Xiao Zhuo’s lips curled into a cold smile.

Even though he had not yet achieved perfect control over the Law of Thunder, the power of ninety-nine percent of the Law of Thunder was far beyond what he had seen from the likes of the Blood Ancestor in the past. The current Xiao Zhuo even had the confidence to kill the Blood Ancestor, but that old demon was cunning and unpredictable, and it was unknown how many Clones he possessed.

Suddenly, Xiao Zhuo’s eyes narrowed. He discovered that there were actually hundreds of thousands of Human Race individuals gathered in the demon assembly area.

This group of Human Race individuals was hidden by the demons in a camp behind a small mountain at the very rear, with demons surrounding the camp.

These Human Race individuals had all reached the Body Tempering Martial Artist level, and among them, there were even many who had reached the Pulse Opening and Marrow Cleansing stages.

Slave soldiers! Two words instantly flooded Xiao Zhuo’s mind.

He feared that when the battle officially began, these Human Race slave soldiers would be the demons’ meat shields and would definitely be sent out first.

At that time, even if they couldn’t break through Demon-Subduing Pass, it would greatly demoralize the Human Race’s army.

After all, these hundreds of thousands were all Human Race.

Thinking of this, a cold glint flickered in Xiao Zhuo’s eyes. The Human Race slave soldiers had long been domesticated by the demons like pigs and dogs. Xiao Zhuo had long experienced this firsthand.

Even if he slaughtered all the demons in the Yuan Realm, those enslaved Human Race adults would probably never be able to return to a normal life. After all, they had been domesticated by the demons for a thousand years. Only some young children still had a chance of being saved.

Thinking of this, Xiao Zhuo hardened his heart. He stomped his foot, and his figure passed through more than ten miles of space, appearing above the slave soldier camp.

He raised his palm and struck down.

A giant thunderous hand, tens of thousands of feet in size, condensed with a roar of wind and thunder, and slammed down towards the entire slave soldier camp.

The thirty-odd Yao Mo Dominators who had already noticed Xiao Zhuo also perceived his action.

They all transformed into thousand-zhang Dharma Idols and rose to meet him in the sky. Midway, they had already formed a strange Formation, condensing the demon and fiend Qi of the thirty-six Yao Mo Dominators into a dark, ten-thousand-zhang demon axe, which hacked towards the giant thunderous hand.

Almost simultaneously, a ripple in space appeared not far away, clearly indicating that one of the Three Demon Ancestors of the Yao-Mo Clan was in the process of spatial descent.

A cold smile appeared on Xiao Zhuo’s lips. He increased the power in his palm, and the edge of the giant thunderous hand surged with golden light, its might increasing once again.

Palm and axe collided. The ten-thousand-zhang demon axe instantly shattered and annihilated, like ten thousand tons of divine metal crushing a piece of firewood, not even worthy of making the giant hand pause.

“Boom!”

The giant thunderous hand fell without surprise. The thirty-six Yao Mo Dominators all spat blood and flew backward, looking at the slave soldier camp, which had already sunk a hundred zhang, their eyes filled with horror.

“Xiao Zhuo!”

Just then, an angry roar came from Xiao Zhuo’s side.

Xiao Zhuo turned his head indifferently, a cold, sharp smile on his lips.

A streak of blood light was rushing towards him.