217: Chapter 217 The First Flame of the Foxfire Burns the World

The sky suddenly turned dark.

Lead-gray clouds spun frantically, forming a massive vortex that engulfed the entire Zhaoge wilderness.

Su Daji remained standing where she was.

Her purple robes snapped in the violent airflow.

She tilted her head slightly, eyes closed, feeling the surging, boundless power within her.

There was no expression on her incredibly beautiful face, save for the trails of blood tears running from the corners of her eyes.

Under the dim sky, they were shockingly, piercingly red.

Seeing that such a heavenly phenomenon had descended due to Su Daji's actions, the cruel sneer on Ji Fa's face instantly froze.

He, Ji Fa, could be considered a mortal cultivator with decent cultivation.

When those clouds began to spin, every cell in his body screamed in unison.

"Quick, stop her, or you will all die!"

"Stop her! Fire arrows! Use the spells those Immortals taught us, hurry!"

Ji Fa shrieked hoarsely, frantically urging his mount to retreat.

With his other hand, he took advantage of the chaos to activate the life-saving jade pendant bestowed upon him by the Immortal Master.

A layer of pale golden light instantly enveloped him.

In this war, it was true that someone had to die at Su Daji's hands.

But that person certainly could not be him, Ji Fa.

He had worked so hard to conquer this empire; he hadn't even begun to enjoy it yet.

Hearing their master's orders, the cultivators beside him reacted quickly.

Various talismans, magical treasures, and spells they had already prepared were unleashed upon Su Daji as if they cost nothing.

The various attacks, a kaleidoscope of colors, instantly submerged Su Daji's small figure.

In the distance, at the generals' commands, the crossbowmen fired a volley of ten thousand arrows.

The pitch-black arrows whistled through the air as they converged on the same center.

However, upon entering the three-zhang radius around Su Daji, all attacks hit an invisible, intangible, and indestructible wall.

They stalled, then... silently annihilated into dust.

Su Daji slowly opened her eyes.

Those once charming and affectionate fox eyes had now completely turned into two pools of blood-red.

She looked at Ji Fa, at those cultivators, at the dense masses of the Allied Forces.

Then, she gently raised her other hand.

Her five fingers slightly splayed, aimed forward.

"You..." she parted her red lips slightly.

"Are not worthy... of touching him."

"And even less worthy... of living."

The moment the last syllable fell, "Whoosh—!"

A soft, pinkish-purple radiance gently rippled outward from the center of her palm.

The speed at which the radiance spread appeared slow, but in reality, it was faster than the perception of time.

It was a conceptual level of speed.

Before anyone in the Ji Dynasty Allied Forces could even see the color of the radiance, they realized with horror that their bodies were already immersed in it.

It brushed gently past Ji Fa, who was closest, and over the pale golden Immortal protective barrier around him.

The barrier provided no defense whatsoever.

With a soft 'pop', it shattered instantly.

The mighty and valiant King Wu of Ji could not even let out a scream.

His entire being, along with the magnificent warhorse beneath him, his golden armor, and the precious sword in his hand, silently and rapidly disintegrated in the pinkish-purple radiance.

They turned into a cloud of dust.

Then came the cultivators.

Even those with the highest cultivation at the Xiantian stage could not stop the spread of the purple radiance despite exhausting all their means.

Their bodies crumbled inch by inch within the light.

The light wave continued to spread, sweeping over the Allied vanguard that was standing in battle formation.

Armor, weapons, flesh, bones... everything touched by the pinkish-purple radiance instantly lost its inherent form and existence, decomposing into the most basic particles.

One breath.

In the span of just one breath, with Su Daji as the center, everything within a radius of several hundred zhang—the previously dense ranks of the Zhou Dynasty elite and the Allied vanguard, along with their mounts, banners, and even the ground beneath their feet—had all vanished.

Only a massive circular crater remained, along with dust drifting across the sky.

"Damn it... Mon, monster!!!"

"Ji Fa, you (Ji Dynasty profanity) piece of trash, look at what kind of monster you've unleashed!"

"What are you still standing there for? Run! Run!"

"Can you outrun that light? Call for the Immortal Master now! Immortal Master, save us—Immortal Master!"

The Allied Forces in the rear witnessed this scene, which transcended their understanding.

All their courage collapsed in an instant.

The army of hundreds of thousands instantly broke formation, wailing and screaming, abandoning their helmets and armor.

They fled in all directions like headless flies, with countless being trampled to death by their own kind.

However, that pinkish-purple wave of death did not spare them because of their fear.

Su Daji just stood there quietly, her splayed fingers slightly changing direction.

The light wave followed, sweeping across the fleeing crowd.

Wherever it passed, lives vanished in swathes.

In just a few breaths, the entire Allied Force of hundreds of thousands, along with their commander Ji Fa, the cultivators they relied on, and the so-called "divine weapons" bestowed by the immortals, were all reduced to ashes.

The wilderness before Zhaoge City was empty.

Nothing remained but the howling north wind and the dust quietly settling into the earth.

Su Daji slowly withdrew her hand.

The surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations, which were so overwhelmingly powerful that they defied comprehension, did not dissipate.

Instead, she looked up, her blood-red eyes slowly turning to gaze at the higher sky.

"You've watched for so long..."

"Are you not coming out yet?"

"A bunch of ants..."

"It's your turn now."

"The idea to bully my husband came from you, didn't it?"

"You all deserve to die."

Su Daji extended her seductive little tongue and gently licked her fingertips.

Her beautiful eyes were filled with dangerous red light.

"Kill... kill them all..."

As if in response to her words, "Rumble—!"

From the center of the dark, swirling cloud vortex, several blazing pillars of light of various colors suddenly pierced through the clouds and crashed down.

Within the pillars of light, several towering figures with flowing robes were vaguely visible.

Around them, they radiated the same powerful cultivation that marked them as Immortals.

Unlike the blurry projections on the day of the Altar of Heaven ceremony, this time, they chose to descend in their true forms.

On one hand, because they no longer needed to consider the restrictions of the Heavenly Dao regarding Su Daji, who had already committed such a massacre in the mortal realm.

On the other hand, it was because... Su Daji's strength after awakening was too great.

If they did not all strike together to strangle her here, they, this group of "Immortals," might end up suffering a defeat.

In the leading cyan pillar of light, an old Daoist with a long beard reaching his chest appeared.

This person held a horsetail whisk and possessed an ethereal, immortal demeanor.

He was one of the Immortals who had appeared at the Altar of Heaven.

"Demon fox Su Daji!"

The old Daoist, full of vigor, channeled his cultivation, his voice booming like a great bell, causing the heavens and earth to hum.

"You bore the Heavenly Law and were banished to the lower realm. Yet, instead of repenting, you dared to slaughter hundreds of thousands of mortal lives."

"You have committed boundless slaughter, your karmic debt is monstrous!"

"Today, we shall act on behalf of Heaven to eradicate you, this world-plaguing monster, destroying both your body and soul to uphold the Heavenly Order!"