162: Counterattack and crush!!!

However, these battlefields were just the beginning of Long Country's counterattack!

At the peak of Kunlun Mountain, from the azure light pillar that pierced through heaven and earth, several figures shot out like meteors towards the urgent battlefields across the country.

In the ancient village deep within the Southwest Miao Frontier, a clear phoenix cry echoed through the sky, and a crimson flame domain swept out, incinerating the venomous insects and miasma besieging the base city.

On an inconspicuous rocky island along the East Sea coast, the calm sea surface suddenly parted. A figure holding a trident and clad in water-blue armor stepped out from the waves. The towering waves transformed into docile mounts beneath his feet, and wherever his Domain of Raging Tides passed, all invading sea beasts were swept into deep-sea whirlpools and crushed!

In the Northern Snowfield, a ten-thousand-year-old ice cave exploded, and a biting cold ice domain of eternal silence spread out. Its power far surpassed that of a Frost Giant Lizard, instantly freezing and shattering the invading ice-type alien race along with the extreme cold environment they created!

One by one, epic-grade powerhouses who had been living in seclusion awakened like slumbering dragons, descending upon the battlefields they were responsible for.

Their rule domains unfolded wantonly on the battlefield, like the authority of gods!

The Domain of Fire incinerated the sky and boiled the sea, the Domain of Ice froze time and space, the Domain of Strength twisted gravity, the Domain of Light purified everything, the Domain of Darkness devoured all things... Each domain represented a terrifying power that developed rule power to its extreme!

Within their respective domains, they were the absolute masters!

Those elite alien race that brought despair to ordinary soldiers and caused Transcendent-level cultivators to struggle were like paper toys in front of epic-grade powerhouses.

The energy carapace of the Void Overseer was as brittle as thin ice under the erosion of rule power.

The Shadow Assassin's proud spatial stealth had nowhere to hide under the higher-dimensional spatial rules.

The massive size of the War Beast, in the face of rules like "annihilation," "cutting," and "decomposition," instead became the most conspicuous target!

The battle, or rather, the slaughter, became exceptionally "concise" and "efficient" after the intervention of the epic-grade powerhouses.

Often, with just one step and the unfolding of their domain, everything within their sight, whether it was a surging beast tide or powerful Transcendent-level elite units, was instantly obliterated, decomposed, suppressed, or annihilated by rule power!

It was like autumn winds sweeping fallen leaves, or boiling water pouring over melting snow! The originally precarious defense lines quickly stabilized under the absolute crushing power of epic-grade strength.

The collapsing momentum was forcefully halted, and the tottering base cities were injected with a powerful stimulant, straightening their spines once more.

The soldiers looked at those god-like figures, at the terrifying enemies easily wiped out like ants within the domains, and their wild joy of surviving the calamity turned into earth-shattering cheers!

"Seniors are mighty!"

"Long Country lives forever!"

"Kill! Kill all these beasts!"

Morale soared, and fighting spirit reignited!

However, the faces of the epic-grade powerhouses did not show much relief.

Their gazes remained solemn, fixed on the spatial rift that resembled scars on the earth.

Just as they made their move, sweeping away the invading alien race army with thunderous force and temporarily stabilizing the situation in various base cities, those dozens of spatial rift also underwent eerie changes!

Some relatively smaller rift, having lost subsequent energy support and the will-lock of powerful presences within, began to fluctuate and flicker violently. In the depths of the rift, the terrifying aura, which had previously pressed down on everyone's souls like a tangible entity and surpassed Transcendent-level, rapidly receded and dissipated like a tide.

Immediately after, the rift themselves began to contract and close at a visible speed, eventually turning into faint spatial ripples and completely disappearing, leaving only the ravaged land, eroded by energy, in their wake.

It was as if the presence behind them had given up on invading from that point.

But more, especially those core rift located near large base cities, which were the largest in scale and had the most intense energy fluctuations, reacted completely differently!

"Buzz—!!!"

In front of the main rift in Bashu, guarded by the Kunlun elder, above the huge sea abyss rift in Modu, gazed upon by the woman in white, and at the edge of the frozen earth where the withered old monk suppressed the Ice City rift... From the depths of several core rift, the aura that had previously only emanated pressure suddenly became violent, condensed, and filled with destructive hostility!

As if provoked by the epic-grade powerhouses' actions!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom! Boom!

Several terrifying light pillars of indescribable color, composed purely of destructive energy, erupted without warning from the depths of those rift!

They did not attack the armies or facilities near the rift, but instead, with the terrifying might of tearing space and piercing through world barriers, they directly targeted the reclusive powerhouses standing directly in front of the rift, emanating powerful epic-grade auras!

This attack came too fast, too suddenly!

The energy level it contained was far beyond any previous Transcendent-level alien race attack!

Wherever the light pillars passed, space was forcibly twisted and torn, emitting a mournful groan of unbearable strain, and the scattered energy aftershocks carved bottomless ravines into the ground below!

Facing this sudden and destructive strike from the other side of the realm, the epic-grade powerhouses' expressions were solemn, but they showed no panic.

"Hmph!"

The Kunlun elder snorted coldly, his peach wood staff striking the ground in front of him. The Domain of the Void instantly contracted and solidified, transforming into a deep barrier that seemed to devour all light, directly clashing with the destructive light pillar!

When the light pillar collided with the Void barrier, there was no earth-shattering explosion, only silent energy annihilation and devouring. Space twisted violently, forming a chaotic vortex!

The woman in white waved her hands repeatedly. Within the Domain of Severed Space, countless tiny spatial crack instantly wove into a huge, invisible net, meeting the incoming light pillar!

The light pillar crashed into the net, being frantically cut, diverted, and guided into different spatial dimensions by countless spatial crack, its power weakened and disintegrated layer by layer!

The withered old monk chanted a true mantra, and the golden light of the Formless Domain surged, transforming into a colossal golden Buddha dharma-form that reached the heavens. His palms pressed together, carrying supreme suppressive power, and he slammed them fiercely towards the destructive light pillar!

The golden light and destructive energy collided violently, emitting a deafening roar, like a heavenly god beating a drum, and shockwaves swept across the four fields!

This was a remote magical duel!

It was the first direct confrontation between epic-grade powerhouses and unknown presences on the other side of the realm!

Every collision caused space to vibrate violently and the earth to tremble!

The scattered energy storm swept across the battlefield. If not for the protection of the epic-grade domains, everything below would have been completely flattened!

This brief but thrilling remote confrontation did not last too long.

Seemingly realizing that they could not harm these guarding epic-grade powerhouses across the world barrier, several unwilling and violent roars and growls, like muffled thunder, came from the depths of those core rift.

Immediately after, the terrifying destructive energy light pillars suddenly retracted.

Following that, all spatial rift that had not yet closed, whether they were shrinking or had just erupted with attacks, began to flicker and fluctuate violently, like a bad signal. The edges of the rift became blurred, and the alien scenes surging within them quickly dimmed and disappeared.

Finally, under the gaze of countless eyes, these hideous wounds, like scars hanging in the sky of Long Country, one by one, silently vanished into the void.

As if they had never appeared.

Only leaving behind the scarred earth, the lingering smoke and blood, the corpses of comrades and alien race everywhere, and those epic-grade figures, standing like pillars of stability in the center of the battlefield, their auras as deep as the sea.

The wind, carrying the smell of burning and blood, blew through.

The cheers gradually subsided.

The soldiers and civilians who had survived the calamity looked at the vanished rift, at the scattered corpses of their comrades and alien race, at their homes turned into ruins, and then at the epic-grade powerhouses who had pulled them back from the brink of destruction. Their hearts were filled with mixed emotions: relief, sadness, and an indescribable heaviness.

Had the crisis... truly passed?

The epic-grade powerhouses did not relax in the slightest due to the disappearance of the rift.

Their gazes, like lightning, scanned the void where the rift had vanished, sensing the subtle fluctuations in space, their brows tightly furrowed.

The Kunlun elder stroked his long beard, looking towards Kunlun Mountain, a trace of worry flashing in his eyes.

The woman in white's figure remained aloof, but at her fingertips, a faint spatial crack silently appeared and then annihilated, as if she were calculating something.

The withered old monk pressed his palms together, softly chanting a Buddhist name, but his gaze was directed towards the distant northwest...