91: Battle of Tunan (Part 1)

On the Tunan City wall, the Red Tiger Demon Race Dominator, Hong Yan, sat as still as a bell, his dark red mane fluttering in the wind.

The ruler of Yuzhou, the Wild Dragon Dominator Dragon Disregard, had quietly led his forces to infiltrate the Tunan City Lord's Mansion. A thick barrier of Divine Thought completely sealed off the Auras of the ten Yao Mo Dominators, making it perfectly airtight.

The panic in Hong Yan's heart had long since subsided. Upon learning that the Human Race's terrifying expert might attack Tunan City, he immediately sought aid from the main city.

The intelligence indicated that the being capable of instantly killing King-level experts, and from whom even the Prodigy of the Sheep Demon Race, Thorn Venerable King, could not escape with a single glance, was very likely a top-tier expert among the Human Race's Myriad Manifestations Realm. Hong Yan knew full well that he was no match.

Thorn Venerable King, known as the third-ranked King-level expert in Yuzhou, would require considerable effort for even an ordinary Dominator to defeat, yet he was annihilated by this "thunder butcher" with a single glance!

Upon first hearing this news, Hong Yan found it hard to believe. After repeated confirmation, he finally accepted reality. Seeking aid was his most decisive choice.

Fortunately, the Wild Dragon Dominator Dragon Disregard took it very seriously and personally led reinforcements to arrive swiftly.

"thunder butcher... You slaughtered four of my Yuzhou cities, cutting off nearly half of my blood food supply... I'd like to see how you die today!" Hong Yan's expression was calm as he sat on the city tower, appearing utterly unconcerned, which inspired immense reverence in his personal guards behind him. However, in his heart, only cold killing intent surged.

"Dominator! Look!" A sudden exclamation rang out behind him.

The moment his red pupils contracted, a golden light had already torn through the clouds!

The wind pressure from the extreme speed twisted the clouds into a massive, swirling tornado, and the King's banner on the city wall was ripped and flapped loudly by the strong wind.

"It's him!" Hong Yan's heart tightened. According to the original plan, he had to confront the enemy first to create an opportunity for the ambushing Wild Dragon Dominator and others to launch a sneak attack.

He dared not show the slightest slack. His fangs bared, he slammed his giant palm onto the ground, and his entire body soared into the air with a roar! As dark red patterns swirled, he transformed into his thousand-zhang (3.3 km) Red Tiger true form, and terrifying red flames capable of incinerating all things rose around him: "thunder butcher! I've been waiting for you!"

Before his words finished, the sky-filling red flames had already converged into a hundred-zhang (330 m) giant meteoric fireball, carrying an Aura of destruction, and fiercely blasted towards that golden light tearing through the air!

"The thunder butcher is really here!"

"Dominator-sama has made his move! That damn butcher is dead for sure!"

"It's Dominator-sama's Red Flame Meteor! Back then, Dominator-sama used this move to defeat the Wolf Race Dominator! This is a sure win!"

...In Tunan City, countless Yao Mo looked up at the magnificent giant fireball in the sky, their spirits greatly boosted, and their roars shook the heavens.

However, the next scene made all the Yao Mo tremble with fear!

The golden light in the sky did not dodge or evade, but with an unstoppable momentum, it directly crashed into the hundred-zhang (330 m) Red Flame Meteor!

Hong Yan's mouth had just curved into a cruel smile, intending to detonate his killing move, when he saw the entire meteor shatter with a roar!

He was stunned for a moment—this move required him to personally detonate it to unleash its ultimate power, and it clearly hadn't been activated yet!

It's over! I've fallen into a trap! Hong Yan instantly understood that this Human Race expert had precisely sliced apart the core runes of the meteor the moment they made contact!

The out-of-control, shattered giant fireball disintegrated into a sky full of meteoric fire rain, pouring down towards Tunan City like a doomsday judgment.

The flying Yao Mo were terrified, desperately fleeing the areas covered by the fire rain; while the low-level Yao Mo on the ground had nowhere to escape, and could only watch as the lava meteors, carrying destructive high temperatures, fell.

Earth-shattering roars rose and fell, flames and lava raged, and countless low-level Yao Mo vanished into wisps of smoke before they could even let out a scream.

More than half of the city was engulfed in flames.

Hong Yan, however, had no time to worry about anything else! Because that golden light, tearing through the sea of fire, had already arrived before his eyes!

A giant blade, condensed purely from lightning, emerged from the golden light, faster than lightning, flashing in and out of existence!

Hong Yan's tiger eyes widened, his giant claw, which had only been halfway raised, suddenly stiffened, and his thousand-zhang (3.3 km) tiger body was split in two by a brilliant lightning bolt!

Immediately after, his entire massive body vanished into thin air.

He was actually cut down by the newcomer with a single saber strike!

Xiao Zhuo's saber strike had already penetrated Hong Yan's entire body, instantly locking onto the location of his primordial elixir. The Thorn of Nothingness condensed with a thought, precisely annihilating his Divine Soul.

Slaying the Physical Body, finding the primordial elixir, annihilating the Divine Soul, collecting the remains—the entire sequence of actions was smooth and flawless, completed in one go!

Almost at the same moment Hong Yan's body disappeared, in the City Lord's Mansion, ten terrifying Auras erupted with a roar!

Ten figures tore through space, carrying monstrous Devilish Qi, and surrounded Xiao Zhuo from all directions!

"Heh!" Xiao Zhuo's figure solidified at the spot where Hong Yan fell, standing in the Void Realm, looking at the ten Yao Mo Dominators charging towards him, a cold arc forming on his lips, "There's even an unexpected bonus!"

The leader was none other than Dragon Disregard! The giant saber in his hand, burning with purplish-red Devilish Flames and shaped like a door-panel, slashed out fiercely!

A thousand-zhang (3.3 km) stream of fire tore through the sky, and wherever it passed, the air was scorched and twisted, emitting an ear-piercing wail!

Xiao Zhuo's right hand made a grasping motion in the air, and a long saber, condensed purely from violent lightning, instantly took shape.

He merely flicked his wrist, and the long saber, with an upward and outward diagonal motion, easily deflected the imposing thousand-zhang (3.3 km) stream of fire, which whistled past him.

Dragon Disregard's figure had already approached like a ghost, and the door-panel-like giant saber, carrying immense force, cleaved down with the power to split mountains and break peaks! The Saber Intent was utterly domineering!

Xiao Zhuo raised his saber to parry!

"Clang—!"

A deafening clang of metal rang through the sky! A powerful force came, and Xiao Zhuo's body was forcibly pushed back several hundred meters.

"Not bad strength." He stabilized his figure, golden lightning flickering in his eyes, and commented indifferently.

"Arrogant!" Dragon Disregard, seeing Xiao Zhuo so easily block his full-force saber strike, felt even deeper apprehension in his heart, but the casual comment was like adding fuel to the fire, and an unknown rage shot straight to his head! He let out a low roar, his figure flashed again, pursuing him like a persistent ghost!

At the same time, the attacks of the other nine Dominators also came pouring down like a deluge!

Hundred-zhang (330 m) ice cones tore through the cold air and descended from the sky, a sky full of hideous weapons condensed from foul demon blood rained down densely, and the Nether Thunder Dominator even wielded a giant bone hammer larger than his own body, blasting out a pale, twisted pillar of destructive lightning!

Xiao Zhuo's expression remained unchanged, and the lightning long saber in his hand traced a perfectly circular trajectory.

In an instant, an energy barrier, like a watercolor ink wash yet intertwined with dazzling golden lightning, appeared out of thin air, shaped like a giant vortex!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of violent attacks slammed into the golden lightning vortex, but only stirred up circles of intensely fluctuating ripples, before being completely swallowed and neutralized by the vortex as if a mud ox had entered the sea.

Blazing Thunder Saber Canon defensive stance—Azure Thunder Vortex!

Having neutralized the encirclement, Xiao Zhuo's figure suddenly vanished! When he reappeared, he was like a teleportation, appearing beside a Blood Demon Clan Dominator!

The lightning long saber unleashed thousands of saber shadows! Although the Blood Demon Dominator reacted quickly, his mere Early Stage Dominator strength was useless before Xiao Zhuo!

Where the saber light passed, his body was instantly cut into a sky full of splashing foul demon blood! The sharp Saber Qi, imbued with Thunder Tribulation Saber Intent, even evaporated nearly half of his demon blood!

Xiao Zhuo was about to press his advantage when the second wave of violent attacks, like shadows, pursued him, forcing him to turn his saber to defend.

For a moment, ice, Devilish Flames, pale lightning, and foul blood rivers intertwined and collided, exploding into a sea of destructive light in the sky!

Xiao Zhuo, alone with his saber, fought against ten Yao Mo Dominators, yet he remained as steady as a rock amidst the furious encirclement, showing no signs of defeat!

"Who exactly is this Human Race expert?! How can he be so terrifying!" The Nether Thunder Dominator's bull eyes were wide open. He had just been sent flying a hundred li (50 km) by Xiao Zhuo's backhand saber strike, crashing through three giant peaks, and had just flown back to the battlefield in a sorry state, his Aura not yet calm, but his heart was already churning with monstrous waves.

"According to the intelligence, he is one of the Blood Demon Clan's targets for this mission, Xiao Zhuo of the Yuyang Sect!" Dragon Disregard said through gritted teeth, clutching a deep, bone-visible saber wound on his abdomen, entangled with golden lightning and difficult to heal. He fiercely clawed out the flesh at the wound that had been eroded by the lightning intent, and only then did the wound barely heal as Devilish Qi surged. "But the Blood Demon Clan's intelligence stated that this person was merely a newcomer to the Myriad Manifestations Realm! How could he be so powerful!"

"Damn it! I don't believe that the ten of us can't even gnaw a bone off him!" The Nether Thunder Dominator's bull nose snorted two angry black smokes, and he swung his giant bone hammer, fearlessly charging towards the golden figure in the center of the battle again.

"Extreme Ice Hell!" A low chant, as clear and cold as a spring from the Nine Nether, sounded from above Xiao Zhuo's head!

Nearly a hundred hundred-zhang (330 m) ice cones condensed out of thin air, carrying extreme cold power that could freeze space, and crashed down with a roar!

The air instantly solidified, and Xiao Zhuo's figure, as fast as a flowing light, suddenly slowed, forcibly revealing his afterimages, trapped and locked in the center where the ice cones intertwined!

The ice cones were connected by their Qi, shining brightly with cold light, instantly transforming into a crystal-clear, bone-chilling giant ice cage, firmly imprisoning Xiao Zhuo within!

"Haha! Ice Craving! Well done!" The Nether Thunder Dominator let out a wild laugh, his body rapidly expanding during his charge, and the giant bone hammer in his hand transformed into a colossal object that covered the sky!

Destructive black lightning coiled around the hammer body, carrying the power to shatter mountains and crack the earth, and slammed fiercely towards the ice cage that trapped Xiao Zhuo!

Before the giant hammer even arrived, the terrifying oppressive force already made the surrounding space tremble violently, as if unable to bear the weight!