290: Chapter 290 The Battle Never Ends

But not a single person chose to retreat.

With their own flesh and blood, they built one line of defense after another at the gaps in the broken city walls—defenses that would never fall!

Gao Feng stood atop the section of the city wall that was most severely damaged and soaked in blood.

There was no longer a single uninjured spot on his body.

The spiritual power within his body had long since been completely exhausted.

Yet, his upright frame still stood tall like a javelin!

He looked down from the city at the endless army of the myriad races, still surging like a tide.

He slowly raised the cracked vajra sword in his hand and, using the last ounce of his strength, let out a heaven-shaking roar!

"Defend the city, protect the myriad souls!"

"As long as humanity lives, the battle never ends!"

His voice, carried by Luo Li's already hoarse zither music, spread to every corner of Meteor City!

"Humanity lives on! The battle never ends!"

"Humanity lives on! The battle never ends!"

On the city walls, all the surviving defenders, no matter how heavy their injuries or how exhausted they were, used all their strength at this moment to shout along with him!

Their morale was reignited at this moment!

They would use their lives to defend this last city! To defend the final dignity of humanity!

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The seven days of bloody battle finally came to an end with the temporary retreat of the Myriad Race Allied Forces.

Meteor City had been held, for now.

However, the Human Race defenders had paid a devastatingly heavy price, with their combat strength reduced by nearly half.

And Gao Feng, through this extreme bloody battle that lasted seven days and seven nights, had received unprecedented and ultimate tempering.

His Foundation Establishment Third Layer Early Stage spiritual power had been refined several times over, and his initial Star Battle Body had completely stabilized.

His cultivation had been consolidated to an incredible extreme, and his spiritual power reserves had reached an unprecedented state of saturation!

The opportunity to reach the Foundation Establishment Third Layer, Mid-Stage had fully matured!

As for the members of the squad, though everyone was injured, they had all achieved significant growth through this baptism of war.

Luo Li and Chu Lan both broke through to the Foundation Establishment Second Layer Late Stage!

Su Ning and Yao Guang also successfully stepped across the threshold into the Foundation Establishment Layer Two, Mid-Stage!

Tian Xin completely stabilized her Early Stage of Foundation Establishment Layer Two cultivation.

This young team, with their strength and achievements, had undisputedly become the core and most powerful backbone of this precarious city!

The night was as dark as ink.

The sounds of battle that had lasted for seven days and seven nights finally gradually subsided.

The entire Meteor City fell into a deathly silence.

Atop the city walls, tattered war flags fluttered feebly in the cold night wind.

Below the walls, bones were piled like mountains and blood flowed like rivers.

Both the Human Race and the myriad races had paid an unimaginable and heavy price in this extremely tragic bloody battle.

Marquis Fen Tian stood atop a hill formed by countless bones, gazing at Meteor City in the night—silent and tenacious like a crouching giant beast; his eyes, burning with dark golden flames, were filled with unprecedented tyranny and irritability.

Seven days!

A full seven days!

He had personally led the main force of the Myriad Race Allied Forces, coming with a thunderous momentum enough to level everything, yet he had been stubbornly blocked here by this tiny, isolated city!

The elites under his command had been reduced by nearly thirty percent!

Even he himself, after seven days of sleepless, high-intensity combat, had reached an unprecedented level of spiritual power consumption!

And that city still had not been taken!

The fighting spirit of those lowly human insects seemed to have no end, reignited time and again by that damned young man!

Gao Feng!

At the thought of this name, an uncontrollable, heaven-toppling killing intent surged within Marquis Fen Tian's heart!

He knew that this person had become the final spiritual pillar for the entire Human Race!

If he could just kill him, the humans' ridiculous morale would collapse instantly like a stray dog whose spine had been removed!

Then, Meteor City would fall without a fight!

"Since you all want to die so badly, this seat shall grant your wish!"

An aura more terrifying and violent than any before erupted from Marquis Fen Tian!

He would no longer hold anything back!

He would use his strongest power to completely crush this city and shatter the last hopes of those humans!

Boom—!

Marquis Fen Tian's figure turned into a dark golden meteor that pierced through heaven and earth, ignoring the tattered Talismans and traps on the city walls, and slammed into the core guardian Formation of Meteor City with an unstoppable, domineering posture!

Crack—!

A loud bang like the shattering of the firmament echoed!

The Star Guardian Formation, which Chu Lan and Lin Yue had spent immense effort to repair and upgrade, lasted less than a breath before it shattered under this terrifying power that exceeded the limits of the Foundation Establishment Third Layer!

"Not good! He's launching a direct assault!"

Elder Ling Zhan, who was in the city seizing every moment to meditate and recover, had a sudden change of expression!

Without a moment's hesitation, he led the three Golden Core Cultivators, whose spiritual power was also heavily depleted and whose auras were withered, as they soared into the sky to meet that terrifying figure descending like a demon god!

"Marquis Fen Tian! Your opponents are us!"

Elder Ling Zhan shouted, pushing what little Golden Core power remained in his body to its absolute limit!

However, this time, a cold smile full of disdain and mockery appeared on Marquis Fen Tian's face.

"Old man, do you really think my previous strength was my all?"

His voice was cold and full of playfulness.

"Let you frogs at the bottom of a well see what true power is!"

Boom!

A terrifying pressure far exceeding the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer Early Stage—even faintly touching the threshold of the Golden Core Stage—erupted from him!

He had been hiding his strength all along!

"What?!"

Elder Ling Zhan's pupils shrank violently, and for the first time, a hint of despair appeared in his eyes!

"Fen Tian: Demon God Descent!"

Behind Marquis Fen Tian, a terrifying hundred-zhang-tall phantom of a demon god, composed of pure dark golden demon flames, slowly emerged!

He simply threw a casual punch!

That seemingly simple punch seemed to trigger all the fire Laws in heaven and earth!

Pfft!

The defense jointly set up by Elder Ling Zhan and the three Golden Core Cultivators was instantly torn to shreds like paper before this absolute power!

The four figures fell heavily from the sky like kites with broken strings, smashing four huge craters into the ground!

Elder Ling Zhan coughed up blood incessantly on the spot, suffering severe injuries!

As for the three Golden Core Cultivators, their bones and tendons were shattered, and they completely lost their combat effectiveness!

One strike!

Just one single strike!

The last four top combatants of the Human Race were completely defeated!

At this moment, the entire Meteor City fell into the deepest, unprecedented despair!

Humanity's final line of defense was about to collapse!

Marquis Fen Tian didn't bother looking at those four old fogies lying like dead dogs.

His gaze, filled with endless killing intent, locked directly onto the young man on the city wall whose face was also pale, yet whose eyes remained full of defiance.

"Now, it's your turn."

His voice sounded like the sentence of a death god.

"Gao Feng!"

"Run!"

Lying in a pool of blood, Elder Ling Zhan used the last of his strength to let out a hoarse roar toward Gao Feng!

"As long as the green hills remain, there will be no shortage of firewood! You are the last hope of our Human Race! Go!"

However, Gao Feng acted as if he hadn't heard.

He simply wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and, leading his equally scarred and spiritually exhausted squad, stepped down from the city wall one step at a time.

They proactively charged toward that terrifying figure that resembled a demon god!

They were the last hope of this city!

"Luo Li! Chu Lan!"

Gao Feng's voice was hoarse, but filled with unquestionable determination!

"Zheng—!"

Without any hesitation, Luo Li bit her fingertip and used her essence blood as a catalyst to play the Star Battle Song which could trigger the power of heaven and earth!

Above the entire Meteor City, the stars that had been dyed red during the bloody battle seemed to be summoned by her at this moment!

Streams of incredibly pure Meteor Star Power converged frantically toward Gao Feng's body like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!

"Top-tier Spirit Gathering Formation! Rise!"

Chu Lan likewise focused all her Formation mastery into this single moment!

Using herself as the Formation core, she laid down a Top-tier Spirit Gathering Formation beneath Gao Feng's feet, capable of forcibly gathering all the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a hundred-mile radius!

"Tian Xin!"

"Go!"

Tian Xin unhesitatingly threw her last three and most powerful star demon suppressing talismans at Marquis Fen Tian!

She would use this final trump card to suppress those terrifying Fen Tian Flames and buy even a single breath of time for Gao Feng!

"Su Ning!"

"Space Fold!"

A flash of determination crossed Su Ning's eyes!

Ignoring her already overextended Divine Soul, she forcibly activated her strongest binding technique, attempting to use folded space to restrict Marquis Fen Tian's movement!

Pfft!

The demon flames naturally radiating from Marquis Fen Tian's body alone burned her Space Fold full of holes!

She spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot, her body swaying, but she still maintained that crumbling spatial binding with everything she had, refusing to back down!

"Yao Guang!"

"I'm here!"

Yao Guang didn't try to heal herself; instead, she unreservedly transferred the last of her healing spiritual power to Elder Ling Zhan and the three Golden Core Cultivators!

Then, she transformed all her life Origin into a stream of the purest energy and injected it into Gao Feng's body, helping him rapidly recover his long-depleted spiritual power!

"Lin Yue! Protect them!"

"Yes!"

Lin Yue roared, pushing the star tortoise shell to its limit, transforming it into a massive, heavy earth-yellow light shield that firmly protected all his injured teammates within!