187: Chapter 187 Fallen Heroic Spirits

This was a complete and utter rout.

The Boundary Sea army, which had been so aggressive just moments ago, as if they wanted to drag the entire Immortal Realm into eternal darkness, were now like a pack of wild dogs with their tails between their legs, scrambling to escape, wishing they had been born with more legs to run faster.

Their so-called fearlessness and killing instincts were shattered in the face of absolute, overwhelming, and incomprehensible power.

When their proud commanders—two Grand Unity Golden Immortal figures as imposing as demon gods—were poked and disintegrated like paper lanterns, only one primal thought remained in their chaotic consciousness: Run! Get as far away from those two monsters as possible!

"Kill!"

"Avenge General Wang!"

"Hahaha, cut off this Dark Titan's head and use it as a chamber pot for me!"

In stark contrast to the chaotic collapse of the Boundary Sea army was the soaring Battle Intent of the Heavenly Court side.

The suppressed frustration, anger, and sorrow had now transformed into the ecstasy of revenge and the glory of victory. Every soldier's face was flushed with a near-fanatical fervor as they wielded their Immortal Rank weapons, reaping lives like farmers during an autumn harvest.

This was no longer a battle between evenly matched forces. It was a one-sided massacre.

The ten thousand True Dragons, the Incarnation of the Dragon Guard Army, galloped wantonly through this Chaos Void Realm. Sometimes they spewed dragon breath, evaporating swaths of the Dark Demon Legion; other times, a flick of their tails would smash several massive Vicious Beasts into blood mist. The enemies that had previously felt so troublesome were now as fragile as paper.

The hundred-thousand-strong army of the Yuhua Immortal Dynasty acted like a precise war machine, forming attack Formations and advancing steadily. Thousands of immortal swords were unleashed simultaneously, and the light of the Dao rained down, clearing away the enemies scattered by the Dragon Guard Army one by one.

They didn't even need Li Changsheng to give any specific orders. Because chasing down a pack of stray dogs was the instinct of every soldier!

On the bow of the zhou tian star boat, Li Changsheng stood with his hands behind his back, watching all this calmly.

His Divine Thought covered the entire battlefield, but he no longer performed the precise calculations and deductions for every detail as he had before.

His gaze traveled beyond the vast pursuit, through the countless explosions of light and splashing black blood, and finally landed before the pitch-black Boundary Sea Rift.

There, the last Dark Titan, the commander-in-chief Carlos, who had never moved an inch nor spoken a word from the beginning, still hung silently in the air.

It was as if this tragic rout before him had nothing to do with him.

Li Changsheng's brows furrowed imperceptibly. Things did not seem that simple.

Li Qingyue appeared silently beside him. The chill capable of freezing time and space had been reined in, but her cold, clear eyes also held a trace of scrutiny.

She could feel that the Dark Titan named Carlos possessed an Aura that made even her uncomfortable. It was a purer, more ancient darkness.

"Brother," she said softly, "that guy is very strange."

"Hmm." Li Changsheng nodded, his gaze never leaving Carlos. "He seems... to be waiting for something."

The moment his voice fell, Carlos, who had been silent and motionless, finally made a move.

He did not fly into a rage at the tragic death of his companions, nor did he panic at the rout of his army.

He simply raised his hand slowly.

In his hand, he held a palm-sized, ink-black rhombic crystal.

The crystal was covered in dense, eerie patterns like blood vessels.

Then, in front of everyone, Carlos slowly closed his palm.

"Crack."

A crisp sound, like shattering glass, clearly reached the ears of every living being on this noisy battlefield.

The next moment, a sudden change occurred!

On the vast battlefield, all the dead dark creatures—whether they were ordinary Dark Demon Legion soldiers or massive Vicious Beasts—their corpses simultaneously turned into wisps of the purest black Qi and shot into the sky!

Even Gru, who had been killed by Li Qingyue and turned into sky-filling ice-blue stardust, and Odin, who had been disintegrated by Li Changsheng's sword into endless gray dust—their Origin particles scattered in the Chaos Void Realm also seemed to receive some irresistible summons, forcibly condensing into two thick black torrents!

"Roar—!"

"No—!"

Countless torrents of black Qi, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, surged back into the firmament, carrying the shrill roars of countless aggrieved souls, madly rushing toward Carlos in front of the Boundary Sea Rift!

They poured entirely into Carlos's seemingly not-so-massive body!

"What is... this evil art?!"

The Heavenly Court soldiers in the midst of pursuit stopped in their tracks, shocked by this bizarre scene.

They saw that as the endless black Qi poured in, Carlos's body began to expand, twist, and deform in a terrifying manner!

His already burly body, like a balloon being inflated, grew frantically!

Ten thousand zhang!

Fifty thousand zhang!

One hundred thousand zhang!

His Aura also climbed frantically, like a rocket!

First Heaven of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal!

Fifth Heaven of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal!

Ninth Heaven of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal!

"Boom—!!!"

Accompanied by a terrifying roar that shook the entire Chaos Star Domain, Carlos's Aura violently broke through the shackles of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal!

A supreme pressure that transcended time and space, as if it could dominate the life and death of an era, erupted from him!

That was... the Aura of an Immortal King!

Although it was still unstable, it was definitely a power belonging to another level of life, surpassing the Grand Unity!

Half-step Immortal King!

Under this terrifying pressure, the Heavenly Court army, bearing the brunt, felt as if they were being crushed by billions of divine mountains!

The weaker True Immortal and Heavenly Immortal Rank Disciples couldn't even let out a scream before their immortal bodies collapsed on the spot, turning into blood mist.

The Golden Immortal Rank Dragon Clan and Immortal Dynasty soldiers vomited blood one after another, pinned to the spot, unable to move.

Even the Taiyi Golden Immortal rank generals felt their Dao Heart trembling and wailing, as if they would shatter at any moment!

The joy of victory they were just celebrating was instantly replaced by a cold, bone-chilling despair!

However, this was not the end.

This was just the beginning!

When Carlos's demonic body, which had expanded to the extreme, finally stabilized.

Everyone saw a scene that made their scalps tingle and their Divine Souls tremble even more!

Behind Carlos's massive demonic body that blocked out the sky, in the even deeper darkness, countless blurry figures with endless resentment slowly emerged!

Those figures were all clad in tattered, ancient immortal armor.

Some held broken divine spears, the tips still pointing forward, maintaining a charging posture.

Some carried shattered quivers, their bodies pierced with black magic arrows, yet their spines remained straight.

Some drove chariots that were nothing but skeletons, with soul fire burning in their empty eye sockets.

...

Although their faces were blurry and their figures were illusory, the Aura of iron and blood and glory that belonged to the warriors of the Ancient Heavenly Court was so clear!

They...

They were all spirits who had fought to the last man to protect the Immortal Realm during the Battle of the Fall of the Ancient Heavenly Court!

At this moment, their loyal souls, which should have been worshipped for ten thousand generations, were bound by an extremely evil dark force, turning into pitch-black chains that pierced deeply into Carlos's back, providing him with a continuous stream of power!

They were struggling, roaring, and letting out silent cries!

But they could not break free from those dark shackles!

This scene was ten thousand times more shocking to the Heavenly Court soldiers than the pressure of the half-step Immortal King!

"That... that is... the 'Shattering Army Divine General' under the command of the Wuqu Star Lord? I have seen him in the portraits of ancient books! How could he..." An old general of the Yuhua Immortal Dynasty pointed at one of the figures holding a giant axe, his voice trembling, his Dao Heart nearly collapsing on the spot.

"And over there! That is the 'Old Ancestor Ao Tian' of the Dragon Clan who died in battle! I recognize that dragon scale armor on him!" In the Dragon Guard Army, an elderly Dragon Clan Elder let out a roar of grief and indignation.

Fighting against the ancestors they once revered?

Fighting against the heroes who sacrificed themselves to protect them?

How... could they fight this battle?!

On the Heavenly Court side, the morale that had just climbed to the peak instantly plummeted to the bottom.

An emotion called "confusion" and "wavering" spread through the army like a plague.

On the zhou tian star boat, Li Changsheng's expression became incredibly grave for the first time.

The wooden sword in his hand, which had always been steady, was trembling slightly. Not because of fear, but because of anger! An unprecedented, extreme anger!

He could feel the monstrous grief and unwillingness in the lingering will of those spirits!

And beside him, Li Qingyue's beautiful face was also covered in frost for the first time, and the uncontrolled Taiyin chill emanating from her body actually began to freeze the surrounding Chaos.

In this suffocating atmosphere, Carlos's voice, like the roar of billions of aggrieved souls, full of mockery and cruelty, resounded throughout the starry sky.

"Feel... despair..."

He slowly raised his head, which had become incredibly hideous, and a cruelly extreme arc was outlined on his face made of pure darkness.

"These, were all the... heroes you were once so proud of! Hahaha Hahaha!"

That crazy and harsh laughter was like the most vicious heavy hammers, smashing fiercely into the hearts of every Heavenly Court soldier.

Making their vision go black and their Dao Hearts want to shatter.

"Pfft—"

Finally, a soldier could not bear the terrifying pressure and mental shock, spat out a mouthful of blood, their Dao Heart shattered, and they passed out directly.

One...

Ten...

Hundreds and thousands...

The joy of victory was gone.

In its place, was despair.