Beneath the Great Wall, the human cultivators had already fallen into a disadvantage.
The most direct manifestation of this was that the brutal battle line was being pushed inch by inch, continuously toward the foot of the Great Wall's towering ramparts by the demon army.
Although no one suggested retreat to He Yeye, as Demon-Suppressing City's highest decision-maker, her heart was already in turmoil.
"He Yeye, your heart is in chaos!"
Just as her spirit wavered for an instant, Yue Kan let out an earth-shaking roar and charged forward with towering fierce flames.
He Yeye's scythe broke through the heat waves but at this moment, the Heaven and Earth Law Manifestation appeared behind Yue Kan, giant claws tearing through the air as they struck down at He Yeye's head.
He Yeye raised her giant scythe to block.
"Boom!"
With a tremendous crash, He Yeye's petite body fell like a meteorite, smashing hard into the bloody battlefield below, instantly creating a massive crater in the ground.
"Cough, cough, cough."He Yeye climbed up from the bottom of the pit, wiping away the bright red blood flowing from the corner of her mouth, her eyes still sharp.
The next moment, without even looking, He Yeye casually swung her scythe to the side. Cold light flashed, and a demon beast attempting a sneak attack was instantly severed in half.
Fresh blood splattered before He Yeye, reflecting in the girl's crimson eyes.
"He Yeye, today is your death day, this place shall be your burial ground!"
Yue Kan pressed closer through the air, the scorching flame clouds churning around his body suddenly condensing into countless blazing flame swords, stabbing down toward He Yeye in the crater like a blanket covering the sky!
"Tch!"
He Yeye cursed silently at the trouble.
Her breath hadn't stabilized yet, and he had seized the opportunity.
"Roar!"
But at this moment, Big Guy rushed over regardless of everything, using his massive body to shield He Yeye tightly in his embrace.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"
The blazing flame swords easily tore through the giant's tough skin, burning his flesh, even exposing white bone.
The intense pain made Big Guy emit muffled low roars, but his arms protecting his sister didn't move an inch.
"Brother..." He Yeye looked up, her voice carrying a barely perceptible tremor.
"Roar!" Sensing the moment his sister's breath stabilized, Big Guy leaped up, wielding his giant axe and chopping toward Yue Kan.
"Brother! He Gang! Get back here!" He Yeye's heart trembled violently as she shouted desperately.
"Hehehe, seeking your own death! Don't worry, this master will definitely reunite you siblings, making wine cups from both your skulls to accompany each other day and night!"
Yue Kan sneered, his massive Heaven and Earth Law Manifestation instantly contracting into human form.
He condensed a flame giant sword in his hands and swung it at the charging giant!
A blazing white sword light like silk stretched out, like lightning tearing through the sky, instantly expanding with the sharpness to cut through everything, striking directly at the giant's massive head.
"Roar!"
A majestic and long dragon roar resounded through the clouds.
A black dragon shot up from within Demon-Suppressing City, its form so massive, winding and coiling like a flowing black river, instantly spanning the battlefield!
"Rumble!"
The black dragon slammed hard into that deadly blazing white sword light, and the sword light shattered with the impact.
The dragon's momentum continued unabated as it roared and crashed into Yue Kan's newly condensed human-form manifestation.
"Puh!" This Ascension realm demon elder was struck as if by a heavy hammer, suddenly spitting out a large mouthful of fresh blood, his face changing drastically as his shocked gaze instantly turned toward the depths of Demon-Suppressing City.
"Rumble!"
Almost simultaneously, the sky above the Great Wall suddenly changed color.
Purple heavenly thunders as thick as water barrels, containing destructive auras, struck down continuously like divine wrath toward a scholar.
However, the scholar paid no attention to the heavenly tribulation above his head.
He walked calmly, each step covering several li as he approached this battlefield.
After the last tribulation thunder crashed down with deafening roars, strange phenomena suddenly appeared.
Above the firmament, clouds parted and mist dispersed, revealing ethereal phantom roads that appeared out of nowhere, crisscrossing and filling the sky.
Beneath this blue-robed scholar's feet, a black avenue extended straight through, reaching directly to the horizon's end.
Melodious and grand celestial music like great bells and drums drifted down from the depths of the nine-layered clouds.
The phantom forms of human race sages appeared one after another, their gazes unanimously falling upon that young man in blue robes, their eyes filled with wordless comfort and expectation.
As this earth-shaking celestial phenomenon gradually dispersed, a gentle book-turning breeze swept across the entire brutal battlefield.
Many exhausted and wounded human cultivators suddenly felt their nearly depleted spiritual energy recover slightly.
He Yeye looked at Xiao Mo and breathed a sigh of relief.
Indeed, she hadn't misjudged this young man.
"After thousands of years, another Confucian Sage has been born. Does Heaven truly favor your human race so much?"
Yue Kan stared intently at this blue-robed scholar, his cold tone filled with intense unwillingness and disbelief.
This great battle was clearly about to be won by his side.
The Great Wall was about to be breached but unexpectedly, a Confucian Sage had appeared out of nowhere!
And from the phenomena when he entered the Ascension realm just now, he had actually carved out an entirely new Confucian path, directly ascending!
"Who knows?"
Xiao Mo responded indifferently, his footsteps never pausing.
With this step, several black dragons of even greater power roared as they condensed from the void and shot skyward.
They howled as they rushed into the chaotic battlefield below, precisely pouncing on those powerful demon cultivators to assist human cultivators in their slaughter.
Then, Xiao Mo raised his right hand, his slender fingers pointing seemingly casually toward Yue Kan's direction.
Countless wind blades condensed from pure literary energy, like surging tidal waves, layer upon layer, carrying the howling sound of tearing everything apart, swept toward Yue Kan.
Yue Kan's body instantly erupted with towering fire waves, trying to block them but the wind blades passed through the flames, cutting toward his body.
Deep wounds exposing bone and dripping with blood instantly appeared on Yue Kan's powerful demon body!
At the same time, Xiao Mo's Heaven and Earth Law Manifestation thunderously appeared behind him!
The manifestation held a long sword in one hand while cradling a book in the other, with "Unity of Knowledge and Action" written in four large characters on it.
The book's pages turned rapidly without wind.
The black character "Prison" smashed toward Yue Kan.
He Yeye naturally wouldn't miss this excellent opportunity.
She fiercely wiped away the remaining blood at the corner of her mouth, her eyes fierce as a wolf's, tightly gripping that giant scythe as her figure became a bloody streak of light shooting skyward.
Her Heaven and Earth Law Manifestation also appeared simultaneously!
The character "Prison" transformed into an indestructible black cage, instantly trapping Yue Kan who was trying to escape.
Then, a "Sharp" character flashing with keen cold light and a solid, heavy "Edge" character, like two stars, precisely branded themselves onto the blade of He Yeye's scythe.
"Hum!"
The scythe emitted an excited hum.
"Die!"
She roared and swung the scythe with all her might.
A pitch-black scythe wind with void cracks flickering at its edges struck directly at Yue Kan's head.
"Boom!"
A terrifying explosion that seemed capable of shattering the ninth heaven violently erupted in the sky.
"Yue Kan!"
In the distance, the demon race's first sword immortal Lin An sensed trouble and hurried toward Yue Kan.
"Roar!"
Amid deafening painful roars, Yue Kan forcibly broke out and fled toward the rear.
"Retreat!"
Yue Kan's shout, filled with endless unwillingness, instantly spread throughout the Great Wall but no matter how unwilling his heart was, he understood clearly that with an Ascension realm Confucian Sage added to the battlefield, this great battle's chances of victory were slim. He had lost and could only look to the other two battlefields!
"Woo, woo, woo!"
Low and urgent retreat horn sounds rang out mournfully from behind the demon army like funeral bells.
Like a receding tide, all demon cultivators, regardless of their realm, now scrambled to disengage from combat and fled in panic toward the Demon Realm.
"Chase them! Kill them all!"
He Yeye's ice-cold, killing-intent-filled voice like an arrow instantly pierced every corner of the battlefield.
Her petite figure had already become a bloody streak, first rushing into the retreating demon army.
"Kill!"
The human cultivators, originally exhausted to their limits and barely able to stand, had their final potential completely awakened, their earth-shaking battle cries merging into one.
Xiao Mo stood in the sky, his gaze sweeping over the retreating demon tide, his expression solemn as he recited loudly, "Through a hundred battles the golden armor is worn through, but we won't return until we've conquered the distant foe!"
This world also had similar historical allusions. Xiao Mo resonated with the Dao, and golden light showered down from the sky.
Every human cultivator was instantly covered with a layer of ethereal golden armor.
A magnificent, fearless fighting spirit of dying for the cause erupted like a volcano in their chests.
All fatigue and pain seemed miraculously dispelled in this moment.
This brutal pursuit continued for most of the day.
Finally, under the desperate protection of the two Ascension realm great demons Yue Kan and Lin An, regardless of cost, the remaining demon cultivators and beasts managed to escape in complete disarray back to Demon Realm territory.
At this point, the human cultivators had finally exhausted their last bit of strength and could no longer pursue even a single step further.
The surviving human cultivators dragged their heavy steps, supporting each other, and began returning to the foot of the Great Wall that had been completely soaked in blood, silently cleaning up this hell-like battlefield.
Xiao Mo slowly walked across the battlefield strewn with corpses and flowing with blood.
A man dressed as a shop assistant held a woman tightly in his arms, both pierced by long swords. Around them, abacus beads were scattered on the ground.
Xiao Mo recognized them.
During leisure time, Xiao Mo would go to that teahouse to drink tea and listen to music.
Not far away, Butcher Wang lay on the ground, his neck bitten off by a demon beast, but in his final moment, Wang's pig-slaughtering knife had pierced the beast's heart.
Miss Yingying from Emerald Flower House was severed in half, her hands tightly gripping a long sword, her pupils reflecting this expanse of sky.
Xiao Mo crouched down and slowly closed her eyes, involuntarily recalling how when he passed the brothel, she would constantly pull him inside, insisting "Young master, you're handsome, I won't charge you!"
After he refused, she was quite annoyed, saying, "What's wrong with you? This lady would even pay you and you still don't want it?"
Xiao Mo used magic to mend her body and placed her on a cart piled with corpses.
They would all be buried on the southern side of Demon-Suppressing City, where there was a mountain range covered entirely with tombstones.
Perhaps for them, having a complete corpse was fortunate.
Many human cultivators had exploded into blood mist or been torn apart and devoured by demon beasts, not even having the chance to rest in peace.
Xiao Mo continued forward, tending to the battlefield.
When he saw an old man with a large hole in his chest, he stopped.
Ding Shen leaned against a dead giant-tusked elephant, his hawk-like eyes staring ahead, his long sword reverse-planted in the ground.
It seemed that even in his final moment, he wanted to stand up and kill demons, but could no longer do so.
At the same time, a woman searching everywhere for someone saw Ding Shen's corpse and hurried over, kneeling beside him, her lips trembling, unable to speak for a long time.
"Do you know him, madam?" Xiao Mo asked.
"Yes, I know him."
Widow Qian nodded.
"He was my neighbor in the courtyard next door. He helped me a lot in daily life. When my son was seriously ill, he used his battle merit to exchange for medicine. He also said my son had good talent and introduced him to a sect for cultivation."
Widow Qian sighed and reached out to close his eyes, "Scholar Ding was also a pitiful person. I heard his whole family died at demon hands, and now he's died at demon hands too."
Finally, Widow Qian sighed heavily, carried Ding Shen on her back, and walked step by step toward the city.
Widow Qian said she would bury him.
Xiao Mo didn't stop her.
After a long while, Xiao Mo withdrew his gaze and saw He Yeye standing beneath the city walls in a daze.
Xiao Mo walked over. Steward Qin from the City Lord's mansion lay in a pool of blood, missing half his body.
"He's dead, killed by that Ascension realm demon sword immortal. His sword was very fast. Qin Feng probably didn't suffer much pain." He Yeye spoke slowly.
"Mm." Xiao Mo nodded, "My condolences."
"What's there to mourn?" He Yeye bent down and closed Qin Feng's eyes, "In war, death is normal. They died so that more people could live."
He Yeye straightened up and looked around.
Incomplete corpses densely covered every inch of this crimson battlefield, stretching to the horizon's end, merging with the blood-red burning sunset clouds, no longer distinguishable from each other.
The entire world seemed to contain only this expanse of blood red.
Just as He Yeye was about to place Qin Feng's body on the wooden cart, a sharp sound of cutting through air approached from far to near.
An ancient-styled message-carrying flying sword carrying Confucian scholarly aura streaked across the bloody sky like a meteor and hovered before He Yeye.
He Yeye caught the flying sword, opened the sword body, and took out the letter.
As she read, He Yeye's brow furrowed.
"What is it?" Xiao Mo asked.
He Yeye reached out and slapped the letter against Xiao Mo's stomach, her tone heavy like a mountain, "Both Sword Pavilion and Dragon Emperor Island failed to hold.
The demon army has entered the Ten Thousand Laws Realm."