323: Chapter 323 Destroying Everything in Its path

The roar of a million-strong army converged into a sound wave that tore through the firmament, while dense Evil Qi, blood energy, and immortal essence flowed toward the formation eye like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

The world suddenly grew dim.

Hum, hum, hum——!!

Amidst a resonance that made the Soul tremble, a phantom of a terrifying giant beast, ten thousand zhang tall with a blurred face, coalesced above the army formation!

The giant beast phantom roared at the sky, its might terrifying!

This Vicious Beast, which gathered all the strength and will of a million elites, had already touched the edge of the Golden Immortal Realm, enough to make an ordinary Golden Immortal retreat three times over!

Shan Xiao was at the formation eye, his body wrapped in pitch-black blood Evil Qi, his injuries seemingly temporarily suppressed.

He looked at the small figure in green robes in the sky, his eyes flashing with cruelty and gratification, as if he had already seen the outcome of the other party being torn to pieces by the war Vicious Beast.

But facing this terrifying formation that could change the color of the world, Su Mo just tilted his head slightly, a trace of helplessness appearing on his face:

"Tsk, how much money do you even earn in a month..."

"...Why risk your life?"

The moment his voice fell, Su Mo moved.

There was no earth-shattering eruption of Aura, no complex and profound hand seals. He simply took a step forward.

With Chaos Qi swirling around him, the moment he touched the army formation, he turned it into nothingness.

Subsequently, he passed straight through the barrier of the army formation and arrived inside.

The million-strong army held its breath, and Shan Xiao's sinister smile froze.

The next moment, something even more hair-raising happened to him.

Su Mo's figure, without any warning, appeared directly in front of Shan Xiao as if teleporting!

So close that they could almost feel each other's breath.

The sinister smile on Shan Xiao's face completely stiffened, his pupils constricted, and his eyes were filled only with boundless horror.

He hadn't even seen how the other party came over!

"You...!"

He only had time to spit out one word.

Su Mo had already raised his hand, a point of Chaos light condensing at the tip of his index finger, as if containing the Origin power to dissolve all things, and gently tapped the center of his brow.

Cold.

No severe pain, no impact.

Shan Xiao only felt an indescribable cold will instantly crush all his conscious defenses and invade tyrannically.

The process was as fast as an illusion.

Su Mo withdrew his finger.

The brilliance in Shan Xiao's eyes had faded away, becoming hollow and calm, reflecting only Su Mo's shadow in the depths.

His injuries remained, his Aura remained withered, but that violent temperament belonging to a commander had completely vanished.

He spoke to Su Mo in a tone without any waves, clearly saying: "Master."

Su Mo nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping past him and casting down toward the Xuan Ye army below, who were still in a daze and somewhat chaotic because the army formation had been easily broken, and faintly spat out two words:

"Go."

Shan Xiao did not hesitate at all; he turned abruptly, mobilized all his remaining strength, and like a blood-colored meteorite, plunged straight down toward the core area where his own army was most dense!

The deputy general Fierce Blood had been nervously watching the changes in the sky, and at this moment, seeing Shan Xiao's abnormal behavior, alarm bells rang in his heart, and a chill rushed straight to his crown!

"Not right!!" Fierce Blood's face turned pale as he roared hoarsely, "Scatter quickly! Everyone! Scatter——!"

However, his roar was still a moment too late.

Many ordinary soldiers below, seeing their "Marshal" falling from the sky, could not react in time, and some even subconsciously wanted to step forward to meet or ask.

"Marshal? You..."

Shan Xiao accurately landed in the center point where the crowd was most dense.

He steadied his figure and looked up, his eerily calm face happening to meet Fierce Blood's terrified gaze.

Immediately after, his body swelled violently at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Under his skin, it seemed that countless violent streams of energy were frantically moving, and a terrifying Aura that made the Soul tremble, like a volcano about to erupt, was released without reservation!

"It's a self-detonation!!!"

"The Marshal is going to self-detonate!!!"

"Run!!!"

At this moment, the surrounding soldiers finally reacted completely, their Souls fleeing in terror, issuing desperate screams, and desperately trying to escape in all directions!

But, it was too late.

Shan Xiao's body, swollen to the limit, suddenly shrank inward, and then——Boom!!!

It was as if thousands of thunderbolts exploded simultaneously in his ears!

It was as if the firmament had collapsed and the earth had sunk!

A dazzling beam of light, indescribable in words, mixed with Chaos color and destructive black, rose into the sky with the point where Shan Xiao was as the center!

Immediately after, the destructive energy shockwave spread and swept in all directions in a perfect sphere!

The first to bear the brunt were all the Xuan Ye soldiers within a hundred zhang radius.

They couldn't even let out a scream, and the moment they came into contact with the destructive light wave, they evaporated directly, leaving not even a trace of residue!

Those slightly further away were torn into blood mist and fragments by the shockwave, or swallowed and strangled by chaotic and runaway spatial cracks.

At the core of the terrifying explosion, the ground was forcibly blown open into a bottomless giant pit, the pit walls smooth as a mirror, and the edges extended outward in a radial pattern with countless spiderweb-like terrifying cracks.

The violent energy turbulence and dust formed a huge, slowly rising gray-black mushroom cloud, obscuring the sky and sun.

Just one strike.

Nearly a quarter of the core battle formation of the Xuan Ye Immortal Dynasty's million-strong army was directly wiped out!

The remaining army, those who were lucky enough not to die, were mostly injured, and more fatally, their morale and organization had completely collapsed in this deafening roar of destruction!

"Run! Run quickly!!!"

"Devil! He is a devil!!!"

"It's over! It's all over!!!"

The surviving Xuan Ye soldiers cried for their fathers and mothers, threw away their helmets and armor, completely lost their Battle Intent, and fled in all directions like headless flies, the scene chaotic to the extreme.

Su Mo was still suspended at the original height, his body immaculate, calmly overlooking the scene of purgatory below.

"It seems the effect is not bad..."

He had injected a trace of Chaos Qi into Shan Xiao's body, otherwise, it would have been far impossible to achieve this level with just the self-detonation of a Peak Profound Immortal Realm expert.

The self-detonated Shan Xiao was resurrected again, his eyes hollow and expressionless. Once he appeared, he did not pause at all, his gaze locked onto the torrent of fleeing troops in the distance, and his figure turned into a blood-colored streak, diving down again!

"Again... it's coming again?!!!"

"Marshal... no! That monster is alive again!!!"

"Run quickly!!!"

The fleeing Xuan Ye soldiers looked back and caught a glimpse of this scene, scared Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, their cries becoming even more shrill, only wishing their parents had given them two fewer legs.

Shan Xiao accurately landed in another dense point of the fleeing crowd.

Rumble——!!!

A second mushroom cloud of destruction, slightly smaller in scale but still terrifying, rose abruptly in the middle and rear sections of the fleeing army!

Even more desperate wails were completely drowned out by the roar of the explosion, and another ten thousand fleeing soldiers turned into flying ash in this strike, completely shattering their last possibility of huddling together to escape.

Two consecutive weird resurrections and self-detonations of the commander, especially the second strike against the fleeing crowd, became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The last shred of resistance will of the Xuan Ye army was completely crushed, turning into pure, hysterical fear.

Just at this moment, Su Mo's calm and indifferent voice clearly spread throughout the entire battlefield, overpowering the lingering echoes of the explosion and the cries:

"Those who surrender, kneel and will not be killed."

"Those who flee, die."

The voice fell.

As if a switch had been pressed.

Swish——

On the battlefield, more than 80% of the nearly 600,000 living Xuan Ye soldiers, almost without any hesitation, like wheat being cut down, knelt on the ground in unison, threw away all weapons in their hands, buried their heads deeply, their bodies trembling violently with fear, but dared not make any objection.

Only a small number, about tens of thousands of soldiers who were scared out of their wits, were still fleeing desperately toward the distance.

Su Mo's mind moved slightly.

The resurrected Shan Xiao appeared instantly in front of those soldiers.

Without any extra movements, he simply raised his hand, pointed, or just crashed directly into the crowd, again triggering a small-scale but lethal energy detonation.

Every appearance was accompanied by the complete disappearance of a small group of fleeing soldiers.

The efficiency was heinous, and the coldness was chilling.

In just the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, all the Xuan Ye soldiers who dared to continue fleeing were cleared away.

On the battlefield, only a dark mass of surrendered soldiers kneeling on the ground, silent as cicadas in winter, remained, along with the heavy smell of blood, burnt odor, and despair permeating the air.