80: Chapter 80 One Man Forms an Army
There was no earth-shattering roar.
More accurately, with him as the center, all demons within a ten-meter radius were shaken into a mist of blood and flesh by the terrifying impact the moment he landed.
A brief vacuum zone suddenly appeared.
But in the next second, it was brazenly filled by a relentless tide of demons; with bloodthirsty madness, they lunged at the human who dared to charge alone into their formation.
On the city wall, Zhen Hai's eyes were nearly splitting.
It's over!
However, the expected scene of Lin Yuan being torn to pieces did not occur.
Just as the demons' sharp claws were about to touch Lin Yuan's body.
Chichi chi—!
The earth was torn asunder!
Countless deep purple, hideous vines, like giant subterranean pythons dormant for ten thousand years, suddenly burst from the ground.
They proliferated, spread, and intertwined at a speed that defied logic, constructing a massive, three-dimensional vine cage over a thousand meters in diameter within just three breaths!
All the demons enveloped within froze simultaneously.
On the vines, those eerie silver cracks suddenly lit up.
Buzz!
An invisible spatial erosion force field instantly activated!
The movements of the wildly charging demons suddenly became sluggish and comical; they swung their claws as if trapped in a vast swamp, enduring unimaginable resistance with every step forward.
The rules of the battlefield were forcibly rewritten!
"Roar?"
A Heaven Realm-level Three-Headed Demon Hound growled in confusion, not understanding why its body had suddenly become so heavy and weak.
In the next moment, it had no further chance to think.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
The countless microscopic pores on the vines simultaneously exhaled the Breath of Nine Miasmas, which was colorless and odorless.
This corrosive breath, mixed with Xiangliu's deadly poison, was omnipresent.
The Three-Headed Demon Hound didn't even have time to scream before its flesh, harder than steel, began to emit white smoke; it then rotted and melted at a visible rate, finally turning into a pool of foul-smelling pus and blood that dripped onto the ground.
This was only the beginning.
Looking around, within the thousand-meter domain, tens of thousands of demons, regardless of their rank, were heading toward annihilation in this silent poison.
They struggled futilely in the sluggish space, only able to watch helplessly as their bodies rotted and vanished into nothingness.
No sky-shaking roars.
No violent collisions.
Only a collective death so quiet it was hair-raising.
Atop the city wall, there was dead silence.
Zhen Hai and all the members of the Emergency Support Group behind him were petrified where they stood.
They still held weapons, and the fighting intent to face death still burned within them, but their minds were a complete blank.
The tens of thousands of soldiers who had just been prepared to leap off the wall with their commander to forge a defensive line with their own flesh and blood also stopped in their tracks.
They stood dazed at the edge of the wall, looking down at that purple domain of death.
That slender figure stood right at the center of the domain.
He did nothing.
He just stood there.
Yet he, alone, was an insurmountable line of defense!
"That... what is that..." a young soldier's lips trembled, his long blade falling to the ground with a clang.
No one could answer him.
Because everyone had been completely stripped of their ability to think by this god-and-demon-like scene before them.
But that wasn't all!
Lin Yuan seemed to feel that it wasn't enough.
He slowly raised his right hand.
Buzz!
A phantom of an emerald-green willow tree quietly emerged behind him.
Rustle!
The willow branches moved without wind, and millions of Emerald Spirit Blades, as thin as a cicada's wing, fell from the branches, converging into a green storm of destruction!
This storm did not charge at the remaining enemies within the vine domain; instead, it bypassed that area and swept toward the endless tide of beasts still frantically surging outside the city walls with an unrivaled posture!
Whoosh—
The extremely sharp sound of breaking air formed a death symphony that sounded like the wailing of ghosts and gods!
Wherever the spirit blade storm passed, it crushed everything in its path!
Whether they were Rank 1 or Rank 5 beasts, there was no difference before this metal storm composed of millions of sharp spirit blades!
Cutting!
Shredding!
Cutting again!
Shredding again!
This was a carpet-style, indiscriminate bombardment!
A violent clearing of the field with an efficiency so high it was appalling!
When the green storm finally subsided.
The scene outside the city wall made everyone's breath hitch.
The earth, originally covered with demon corpses and black blood, had disappeared.
In its place was a massive fan-shaped abyss, three meters deep and over a thousand meters wide, that had been forcibly leveled!
The cross-section of the abyss was as smooth as a mirror, declaring the absolute dominance of the power just now!
A man-made chasm of death now lay across the front of the second defensive line!
On the other side of the chasm was the black sea of demons that still seemed endless.
But at this moment, that violent tide of beasts had come to a strange halt.
They were afraid.
They looked at that abyss, at the purple death domain behind it, and at the tiny human figure in the center of the domain; their primitive killing instinct was overwhelmed for the first time by an emotion called "fear."
The vine domain isolated the nearby enemies.
The death abyss blocked the distant beast tide.
Lin Yuan, with his own strength, had built a true, insurmountable, absolute line of defense!
On the city wall, tens of thousands of soldiers were silent.
They looked at Lin Yuan's back. Their original resolve to face death had, at some point, transformed into a near-fanatical worship and awe.
In their eyes, that figure was already a god!
And this was still not the end!
Beneath Lin Yuan's feet, the guixu black lotus that had been silent finally began to rotate slowly.
Pitch-black flames silently climbed up the purple vines from his ankles.
Like a living venomous snake, it followed the veins of the vines and instantly spread throughout the entire thousand-meter domain!
All the demons bound by the vines and eroded by the poison jerked violently the moment they touched the flames.
Their life force, blood essence, and even their soul origin were forcibly extracted by an irresistible, overbearing power!
Tens of thousands of streams of extremely pure energy flowed back along the vines, eventually all pouring into Lin Yuan's body!
This was a true gluttonous feast!
The terrifying energy feedback caused the sea of qi within Lin Yuan's body to boil instantly!
The Martial Dao Golden Core that had recently condensed began to rotate wildly at a frightening speed, erupting with brilliant golden light!
Under the watchful eyes of the multitude, Lin Yuan's aura began to climb steadily!
One-star Sect Realm... peak!
Just one step away!
...
Ten thousand meters high in the sky.
"Break for me!"
Yue Qingtian threw a punch, and the red-gold iron fist of the Domineering Star-Shattering Manifestation shattered half of the bat wing of the Eternal Night Heaven-Shaking Manifestation.
However, he and Cain opposite him stopped their movements at the same time.
The two peak Emperor Realm Experts coincidentally turned their gaze toward the strange battlefield below.
"Hmm?"
On Yue Qingtian's wild face, astonishment appeared for the first time.
He saw the purple cage, the circular chasm, and the young man who, by himself, had stabilized the entire battlefield.
"That kid... is Lin Yuan?"
He remembered this name; that old fellow Yan Tianjin had buzzed it in his ear countless times.
But didn't the intelligence say he had just broken through to the Sect Realm?
Is this the kind of destructive power someone who just broke through to the Sect Realm should have?
"Yue Qingtian!"
Cain, opposite him, let out a roar filled with rage.
It also felt its subjects dying in large numbers at a terrifying speed.
That wasn't combat loss!
That was being harvested!
"Your human race... still hides a monster like this?!"
It stared intently at the center of the energy convergence below—that human youth!
In the moment when both Emperor Realm Experts were distracted.
Below.
The energy accumulation within Lin Yuan's body finally reached a critical point!
"Break... for me!"
He let out a silent roar toward the sky.
Boom!!!
An incredibly powerful surge of true essence erupted with him as the center!
The materialized airwave blew away all demon remains within a hundred-meter radius, forming an absolute vacuum zone!
His combat suit was torn shred by shred, revealing the well-defined body underneath, flowing with a faint precious radiance.
Within his Dantian, the Martial Dao Golden Core let out a crisp cracking sound, and its size expanded once again!
Under countless horrified gazes.
Under the incredible perception of the two Emperor Realm Experts.
Lin Yuan's aura brazenly broke through the shackles and stepped firmly into a completely new level!
Two-star Sect Realm!
Breaking through in front of everyone!