276: sharp knife

“It’s the Black Peak Blade!”

“Quick! Activate the Void-Rending Formation! Max out the defensive barrier’s energy!”

“Useless! Bring it here! New recruits really can’t be relied on! Even moving a demon crystal, you’re so slow!”

The moment the Third Battalion fiercely charged the floating fortress, the Blood Prison Demon Army on the Bloodbone Fortress suddenly awoke.

Demon General Kun Yu, who was stationed in the fortress, had a drastic change in expression and roared furiously.

“Haha! Brothers! Let’s f*** them up!” Ban Xuanji burst into a wild laugh, taking the lead. With a wave of his hand, an eight-faceted crystal appeared in his palm.

As surging demonic essence madly poured in, the crystal hummed and vibrated, erupting with terrifying, heart-pounding energy.

Om—!

A thick, Dragon-like black and red light beam shot out from the crystal’s surface, slamming heavily into the fortress’s defensive barrier, which glowed intensely as its energy rapidly increased.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The moment the light beam and the barrier made contact, deafening roars tore through the sky!

The barrier’s light screen twisted and rippled wildly, like a lake into which a giant rock had been thrown. Its fluctuations rapidly intensified, nearing its limit.

The elite of the Third Battalion, who followed closely behind, launched their attacks simultaneously. In an instant, a torrential downpour of colorful, violent attacks rained down on the barrier.

Piercing cracking sounds rang out densely, and spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly across the light screen.

Kun Yu’s face was ashen, his eyes bloodshot, and he shrieked, “Is the Void-Rending Formation not ready yet?! Prepare for battle! The barrier can’t hold much longer!”

Before his words finished, “Crack-la-la—” an ear-splitting, grating explosion echoed across the battlefield. The massive defensive barrier shattered in response, transforming into a sky full of light fragments!

The wolf-like elite of the Third Battalion, led by Ban Xuanji, surged into the fortress like a breached black torrent.

As the sharpest spearhead of the Black Peak personal guard, all members of the Third Battalion possessed cultivation above the Demon Realm, and Profound Demon powerhouses were everywhere.

In contrast, the Bloodbone Fortress, apart from Demon General Kun Yu, only had over three hundred Demon Realm experts. The rest were ordinary demon cultivators who had not yet undergone the Ascension Tribulation.

The moment the barrier shattered, blood splattered within the fortress, and screams rose and fell, filling the air with the scent of blood.

Ban Xuanji, like a black lightning bolt, charged straight at Demon General Kun Yu!

Xiao Zhuo also charged at the front, his gaze like a blade, instantly locking onto other Blood Prison Demon Realm experts.

Beyond his general’s armor, a scarlet blood god armor instantly condensed, with blood flames rising fiercely.

He tightly gripped the jade blood saber in his hand, but he did not activate its Origin power. Relying solely on the inherent sharpness of this High-grade Heavenly Tier divine weapon, wherever he passed, even Blood Prison Profound Demons could not withstand the might of three of his moves!

Attribute Points frantically jumped and refreshed on the panel before his eyes.

Over a hundred True Demon points, nearly a thousand Demon Realm points, and at least two thousand Profound Demon points... The Attribute Points, which had already accumulated to over fifty thousand from the battle for the top position, rapidly climbed within a mere hundred breaths!

Xiao Zhuo cleaved out with one saber strike, and a bloody saber light swept across like a silk ribbon, sending a Profound Demon along with two True Demons flying.

His figure did not pause. Just as he was about to pounce on the next target, a sudden warning surged into his heart!

Without the slightest hesitation, the myriad souls bell instantly appeared, its body humming, completely enveloping him.

Boom—!!!

A terrifying, irresistible force suddenly erupted beside him. The violent shockwave sent him and the bell flying out of the floating fortress, plummeting like a meteor towards the area below the fortress.

“Kun Yu! You dare to be distracted and launch a sneak attack while fighting me! You’re courting death!” Ban Xuanji’s enraged roar boomed like thunder.

Xiao Zhuo, who was flying through the air, only felt some tremors. With a thought, he put away the myriad souls bell, forcibly stabilized his backward-flying figure, and transformed into an afterimage, rapidly returning to the battlefield.

Looking up, he saw Demon General Kun Yu, who had already revealed his three-zhang demonic body and was clad in red armor, sent flying by a punch from Ban Xuanji, who had seized an opening. Kun Yu crashed through several fortress walls, and Xiao Zhuo instantly understood that it was this person who had launched the sneak attack earlier!

However, he didn’t think about revenge. With Ban Xuanji present, it was less effort to kill other Demon Realm cultivators than to join forces with him to attack this person.

“Primal Beginning! How are you?” Ban Xuanji’s urgent Divine Thought echoed in Xiao Zhuo’s mind.

“Big Brother Ban! I’m fine!” Xiao Zhuo responded, his figure already like an arrow shot from a bowstring, carrying a chilling killing intent as he shot towards a Blood Prison Profound Demon who had just slain a Third Battalion Demon Realm cultivator.

Seeing that he was unharmed, Ban Xuanji’s killing intent grew even stronger. He transformed into a stream of light, chasing after Kun Yu, who had crashed deep into the fortress.

Xiao Zhuo understood in his heart that his earlier killing edge had been too dazzling, already arousing the apprehension of the opposing Demon General.

But with Ban Xuanji, this God of Slaughter, tightly holding Kun Yu, this person would absolutely not be able to spare any more attention.

The resistance in the core area of the fortress quickly disintegrated after Ban Xuanji completely defeated Kun Yu.

The elite of the Third Battalion swept through like a broken bamboo, segmenting, encircling, and annihilating the remaining Blood Prison Demon Army.

Xiao Zhuo moved like a ghost through the chaotic battlefield. Each flash of the jade blood saber light was accompanied by a jump in the attribute point numbers.

He was precise and efficient, transforming into a cold and ruthless reaper.

As the Third Battalion penetrated the fortress core, they destroyed the giant demon crystal Formation within the fortress.

The twisted, wriggling bloody runes on the inner walls of the fortress successively dimmed and extinguished, as if this Blood Prison outpost had bled its last drop of blood.

“Bloodbone is broken! Target—‘Shattered Star Fortress’! Follow me and kill!” Ban Xuanji was covered in blood, his demonic flames soaring. The eight-faceted crystal floated beside him, sounding a new charge.

The soldiers of the Third Battalion roared in unison, their Battle Intent boiling like lava, forming an unstoppable black torrent. They rushed out of the still burning, collapsing wreckage of the Bloodbone Fortress, and fiercely charged towards another floating fortress in the sky—the Shattered Star Fortress—which was continuously spewing beams of destruction and wantonly slaughtering the Eternal Calamity Demon Army!

The battle instantly escalated to a fever pitch!

Shattered Star Fortress had clearly learned its lesson from the fall of Bloodbone, and its defenses were fully engaged.

Countless hideous blood-colored energy turrets and a dense network of demon soldier firepower intertwined into a curtain of death, raining down madly.

The soldiers of the Third Battalion, with Ban Xuanji clearing the way with his Natal Demonic Artifact, braved the sky full of artillery fire, fearlessly launching their assault.

Xiao Zhuo pushed his blood god armor to its limit, and the phantom of the myriad souls bell flickered around him, directly confronting the dense, rain-like bombardments.

The jade blood saber light in his hand swept across, constantly tearing open Breakthroughs for his comrades behind him.

This siege battle was exceptionally brutal. Demonic essence surged like boiling water inside and outside the fortress, and explosions of fire were continuous, illuminating the originally deep starry sky with a glaring crimson.

The fierce battle lasted a day and a night, with shouts of killing shaking the heavens and earth.

When the Shattered Star Fortress’s final core defensive node exploded under the combined fierce assault of Ban Xuanji and several fierce generals of the Third Battalion—

From the direction of the Eternal Tribulation Demon Abyss, a vast, extremely ferocious and terrifying dark cloud tore through the Void Realm, sweeping in!

An endless, mountain-like silent torrent of black armored figures, with fluttering banners emblazoned with a ferocious and domineering character “Dou”—one of the Three Great Legions of the Eternal Tribulation Demon Abyss, the Dou Demon Legion!

Black Peak, Dou Demon, Eternal Life—the three sharpest spearheads of the Eternal Tribulation Demon Abyss—victoriously converged on this battlefield!

“Crush them!” The commanders of the Three Great Legions needed no words; a grim and cold order instantly spread throughout the entire army.

The Blood Prison’s two major legions, the Mad Blood and the Raging Waves, which had been stubbornly resisting by relying on numerous fortress positions on the outskirts of the Tianjue Mountain Range, found their resistance crumbling in an instant when faced with this terrifying combined assault that gathered the strongest forces of the entire Eternal Tribulation Demon Abyss.

The defense line was easily torn to shreds, demon soldiers scattered and fled, and generals were encircled, slain, and fell in despair.

The Three Great Legions of Eternal Tribulation were like three destructive Chaos hurricanes. Wherever they passed, Blood Prison Demon Army corpses lay strewn across the fields, and wreckage floated throughout the Void Realm. The retreat was irreversible.

Pressing the advantage!

The destructive torrent formed by the Three Great Legions, carrying the monstrous ferocity of breaking through enemy lines and crushing the two major Blood Prison legions, swept through everything in its path, reaching the main range of the Tianjue Mountain Range!

Xiao Zhuo also accumulated over three hundred thousand Attribute Points in his frantic slaughter.

At this moment, he once again followed Ban Xuanji into a floating fortress that was frantically retreating.

The defensive barrier of this fortress had already been torn apart.

As Ban Xuanji fiercely entangled with the fortress’s Demon General, Xiao Zhuo, familiar with the routine, headed directly for the fortress’s main control room—there were bound to be a dozen or so Demon Realm Formation Masters who were not skilled in combat, all easy Attribute Points!

Streams of eerie blood flowers burst open in the passage leading to the main control room. Their essence blood and demon infants were all devoured by Xiao Zhuo.

Having fought his way through blood to this point, Xiao Zhuo no longer concealed the power of his Devouring Divine Body, keeping his own state always at its Peak.

Moreover, with continuous slaughter, his Physical Body and immortal power, which were already at the Peak of the Profound Demon stage, were still subtly strengthening at an imperceptible rate.

This seemingly insignificant increase, at the Peak realm, was exceptionally precious, enough to tip the scales of combat power.

After this battle, he would be able to use these hundreds of thousands of Attribute Points to deduce and perfect his three Laws, condense a Dao Fruit, and break through to the Demon General Realm in one fell swoop!

His Free and Natural Heavenly Art could refine both immortal and demonic Qi, and with the Heavenly Illusion Sacred Art, disguising himself as an immortal or a demon was as easy as flipping a hand. Even an existence like Demon King Luó failed to see through his true nature.

Rumble!

The heavy alloy hatch of the main control room was shattered by Xiao Zhuo’s single strike!

Inside, the faces of a dozen or so Demon Realm Formation Masters in blood-colored robes instantly changed drastically.

There were no words between them; killing intent instantly ignited!

Several streaks of demonic artifact light struck the blood-flame-engulfed armor on Xiao Zhuo’s body, yet only sparks flew, and a clang of metal echoed, like a mere tickle!

“Saint-Grade demonic armor?!” A voice filled with extreme horror rang out.

Xiao Zhuo’s eyes were cold; he didn’t bother to respond. The jade blood saber in his hand swept out, and an incomparably sharp blood-colored saber light instantly tore through six Demon Realm Formation Masters!

Immediately after—

“Courting death!”

A furious roar, imbued with a Divine Soul attack, exploded!

A strange, cold sound wave ignored spatial distance, piercing directly into Xiao Zhuo’s Sea of Consciousness!

Xiao Zhuo felt his Divine Soul hit by a heavy hammer, trembling violently. An unprecedented, fierce sense of crisis suddenly struck him!