481: Burning Heaven Purgatory

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—"

A continuous, piercing sound filled the air. The hit aliens maintained their charging posture, but their bodies had already begun to decompose into the most primitive Chaos particles.

Immediately after, the second wave of cannon fire directly slammed into the center of the enemy formation.

"Boom!!!"

Black mushroom clouds rose into the sky, one after another.

The explosions produced not flames, but pure spatial annihilation. All matter within a thousand-mile radius, whether the Dao bodies of the Tianyang aliens or the Chaos Sea beneath their feet, was instantly torn into fundamental particles.

Those Dao Lord-level Tianyang commanders attempted to raise their shields, but upon contact with the annihilation wave, they, along with their shields, were instantly reduced to ashes.

The most terrifying were the third batch of special cannon shells.

These shells did not immediately explode upon impact, but rapidly expanded into black hole-like spheres.

Millions of Tianyang aliens were pulled by the powerful gravity, involuntarily flying towards these spheres of death. Their bodies were torn to shreds even before they got close, unable to even let out a scream.

"Damn it!"

A Half-Ancestor-level Tianyang powerful being roared and shot into the sky, intending to destroy these black hole shells.

But as he flew halfway up, he was simultaneously hit by dozens of tracking special shells.

This powerful being, capable of destroying an entire world, left only a ripple of expanding space in the air before completely disappearing into the annihilation storm.

When the cannon fire ceased, the area where the Tianyang aliens had gathered had become a Void Realm of "blankness."

There were no corpses, no bloodstains, and even space itself appeared like shattered glass. Only the chaotic fluctuations indicated that tens of millions of Tianyang warriors had once existed here.

On the city wall, the warriors operating the divine cannons silently loaded the next round of shells.

There was no joy on their faces, only numb determination. Such scenes had been repeated too many times in the long history of Tianyang Pass.

In the distance, new Tianyang aliens began to gather in the darkness. Although tens of millions of Tianyang aliens had died or been injured, their numbers were still considerable.

However, the previous round of attacks had also instilled fear in the Tianyang aliens.

Thus, several Half-Ancestors joined forces.

Although two Half-Ancestors had fallen earlier, those two were at the bottom tier among Half-Ancestors and had no time to evade. As long as they evaded, the damage to Half-Ancestors was limited.

Even among the shells, only the third type could harm them, but such shells were bound to be few.

The burly man's vertical pupils reflected the approaching enemy tide, and cold sweat seeped from his forehead. Although Outpost One had achieved brilliant results just now, that was due to the powerful firepower. However, firepower was ultimately limited. Once it ran out, it would be a disaster for Outpost One.

He knew that with Outpost One's firepower, they could at most block the Tianyang aliens for one hour. After one hour, they would only be able to rely on the defensive grand formation for self-preservation. At that time, the Tianyang aliens would inevitably bypass Outpost One and advance towards Pass City Number Seven.

If a Second-Step Half-Ancestor attacked them, Outpost One would inevitably fall, and most of the soldiers here would die.

On the battlefield where Chaos had not yet dispersed, darkness surged again.

Five towering figures stepped through the Void Realm, each step stirring up ten thousand-foot-high waves in the Chaos Sea.

These were five Tianyang Half-Ancestors. They no longer maintained their mountain-like true forms but compressed their bodies to human size, yet the pressure they exuded was more than ten times more terrifying than before!

"Boom!"

The first wave of Chaos divine cannons roared again, and thousands of destructive light spheres whistled out.

However!

"Trifling tricks."

The leading Black Crystal Half-Ancestor sneered and raised his hand, his five fingers spread like a giant net covering the sky. All the shells attacking him strangely paused in mid-air, then shot back at an even faster speed!

The protective grand formation on the city wall shook violently from being hit by its own cannon fire, but it was ultimately an Ancestor-level formation and was not breached.

Another Half-Ancestor with bone wings on his back was even more ferocious. He vibrated his wings, his figure transforming into a black lightning bolt, actually moving freely through the gaps in the cannon fire.

God-slaying arrows locked onto him and shot, but he shattered them with a backhand claw. The exploding Lightning Tribulation did not even scratch his scales.

In the blink of an eye, the bone-winged Half-Ancestor at the forefront had already reached the city wall.

His sharp claws slashed, but the attack was absorbed by the grand formation.

The burly man's vertical pupils reflected the Tianyang Half-Ancestors' destructive assault. His calloused hands gripped the Formation Plate tightly, his knuckles turning white from the effort.

"Activate the formation!"

With a hoarse roar, he abruptly rushed out of the grand formation, simultaneously pressing the Formation Plate into his chest.

Blood gushed out, instantly soaking the ancient runes on the Formation Plate. The entire Outpost One suddenly trembled violently, and the formation patterns engraved deep within the River Ruins Obsidian lit up one by one, like awakening Dragons opening their crimson eyes.

"Boom—"

A blood-red pillar of light, ten thousand miles in diameter, shot into the sky, tearing apart the darkness of the Chaos Sea.

The illusion of a sea of fire and Hell emerged within the light pillar, constantly spewing flames of different colors.

These flames were not ordinary fires, but were refined from various Nine Netherworlds Flames collected from the depths of the Chaos Sea.

In an instant, with Outpost One as the center, an area of several light-years transformed into a boiling sea of fire and Purgatory. Various volcanoes, fire forests, and lava from the Netherworld appeared one after another.

The Tianyang aliens discovered in horror that the chaotic soil beneath their feet had turned into scorching magma, blood-red fire rain fell from the sky above, and even breathing caused them to inhale soul-burning poisonous fire.

"Roar!!!"

The screams of countless vengeful spirits suddenly echoed in the sea of fire.

Countless monsters, condensed from pure flames, crawled out of the magma. Some were humanoid with three heads and six arms; some were like twisted giant pythons, covered in burning scales... And there was even a Fire Ghost King, a million zhang tall, burning with the Nine Netherworlds Burning Sky Flame, with nine blood-red coronas suspended above his head.

The weakest of these fire ghosts had the aura of a Half-Step Dao Lord, and over a hundred Fire Ghost commanders had even reached the Half-Ancestor level.

Although their individual combat power was not as strong as true Tianyang Half-Ancestors, the Nine Netherworlds Flames flickering in their eyes instinctively instilled fear in the Tianyang powerhouses.

"This is bad! It's an Ancestor-level grand formation!"

Several Half-Ancestors' expressions changed!

"Kill!"

The burly man coughed blood and gave the order. Billions of fire ghosts immediately surged towards the Tianyang army like a tide.

A Tianyang Half-Ancestor roared and swung his claw, tearing hundreds of fire ghosts to shreds, but the next moment, the scattered flames re-condensed and attacked again.

Even more terrifying, the sea of fire Purgatory itself was constantly giving birth to new fire ghosts.

Every time a Tianyang alien killed one, more fire ghosts crawled out of the magma. They felt no pain, knew no fear, and would only frantically pounce on the nearest living creature.

"Damn it! First, break the formation core!"

The Black Crystal Half-Ancestor was powerful, shattering a dozen Fire Ghost commanders with one palm. His crimson eyes locked onto the burly man standing at the heart of the formation.

He flashed, intending to break through the sea of fire and directly attack the formation core.

However.

"Boom!"

Nine chains condensed from the Nine Netherworlds Burning Sky Flame suddenly shot out from the Void Realm, tightly binding the Black Crystal Half-Ancestor. From the depths of the sea of fire, the Fire Ghost King slowly rose, and the nine blood-red coronas simultaneously lit up with dazzling light.

This Fire Ghost King was very powerful, having reached the Half-Ancestor limit, with faint signs of a Breakthrough to Dao Ancestor, but he had not broken through due to insufficient foundation.

The burly man grinned, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, "Want to kill this old man? First, get past the Nine Hellfire Demons!"

The entire Purgatory battlefield immediately fell into a brutal tug-of-war.

The fire ghosts rushed forward one after another, sacrificing themselves to deplete the Tianyang army's combat power.

Although the Tianyang Half-Ancestors could clear large areas of fire ghosts with each strike, more flame monsters would soon crawl out of the magma.

In this Heaven-Burning Purgatory, death was no longer an end, but the beginning of a new round of slaughter.