Bai Xueqing's breath caught the mont she saw it.
The Voidstep Razorhorn's horn punched straight through Bai Zihan's stomach- clean, brutal, rciless.
Her eyes widened, a rare crack in her normally expressionless mask.
Even she, who almost never showed emotion, visibly trembled.
(He... got hit? Directly?)
Chu Ziyan scread.
"No No no no..."
Her voice broke, panic surging.
She refused-refused-to believe what she had just seen.
Bai Tianheng's veins bulged on his fists as he swung his sword at the Hellridge Basilisk.
For a mont, even he felt his heart seize.
But he forced down the dread.
"Zihan won't fall so easily," he muttered, jaw tightening.
Then-blood poured from the hole in Bai Zihan's abdon.
Yet his grin... was sharp and confident. Like he had caught his prey.
That familiar scheming smile.
Bai Xueqing exhaled sharply-relief and disbelief mixed on her face.
Having known him for so long, she knew what that expression ant. It ant that he caught the prey in his trap.
And then-
The world trembled.
A power so imnse it made even the clouds tremble suddenly surged from Bai Zihan.
Everyone felt it.
Everyone!
On the far distant battlefield, the Immortal Realm experts waiting for the Demonic Cultivators or Immortal Realm Demonic Beasts froze mid-breath.
"What is this power...?"
"It's too strong... is that an Immortal Realm Demonic Beast?!"
Bai Ren sensed a familiar Qi but didn't fully recognize it.
"Should we go check?"
One of the Immortal Cultivators suggested. After all, if an Immortal Realm enemy had appeared without being sensed, it would be a disaster.
But one of the officers hurried in and clarified the situation.
"Immortal Sirs, please be at ease. Soone from our side is using a powerful technique."
He didn't go into details-it would require too much explanation if he told them that "soone" was only eighteen years old.
"Oh ho? Who is this person? Looks like he might rise to the Immortal Realm soon!"
One Immortal Cultivator laughed.
The officer only offered a strained smile.
Next Immortal? He isn't even in the Void Refinent Realm yet...
An invisible pressure slamd across heaven and earth!
A technique so mighty that even beings at the peak of the mortal felt a sense of crisis.
A blade of light carved the sky open-splitting the heavens like paper.
A single slash.
A single instant.
The Grade-10 Voidstep Razorhorn was bisected cleanly down the middle.
Silence.
Shock.
Reverence.
When the dust cleared, a lone figure stood in the devastated landscape...
Bai Zihan!
Blood dripped from the hole in his stomach, yet smirking like it had all gone according to the plan.
For a second, everything beca silent.
Even the Demonic Beasts seed to understand what had happened. Like the
humans, they too were too shocked to accept it.
The first to kill a Grade-10 Demonic Beast wasn't a Sect Leader or a Clan
Leader.
It was an eighteen-year-old in the Spirit Severing Realm.
Bai Zihan, unaware of the significance of his achievent, took a pill to heal his wound and then turned his gaze toward the Grade-9 Demonic Beasts.
"I wasted too much ti.""
He muttered as he pulled out his System Interface and checked how many points he gained for killing a Grade-10 Demonic Beast.
"1000 points? Not too bad."
However, risking his life wasn't worth it. He would've earned far more total
points slaughtering Grade-9 Demonic Beasts.
So while getting ten tis the points for one kill sounded nice, it didn't justify the risk and ti involved.
Not only were Grade-10s much tougher, he had to risk his life.
Even though he had planned to take the hit to force the Voidstep Razorhorn into close range, he hadn't expected the beast's attack to be that powerful. If his body hadn't been refined multiple tis, he would have died on the spot. Not to ntion, he could probably only use Fate Severing Slash one more ti. So, if he was lucky then perhaps he could kill one more Grade-10 Demonic Beast and earn 1000 points and that was it.
Fighting Grade-9s was far more efficient.
His Qi expenditure was negligible-moreover, several Grade-9 Demonic Beasts
died in under a single second.
Slash! Slash!
Bai Zihan returned to his slaughter of Grade-9 Demonic Beasts.
"Wha-What is he doing?"
"He still wants to continue fighting? Doesn't he get tired?"
"After using such a terrifying technique? And his injuries are already healed?
Just what kind of body does he have?"
Everyone was stunned. Bai Zihan had just survived a life-threatening situation, but instead of retreating, he was already back to killing.
Just what kind of motivation was this?
Anyway, the Grade-10 Demonic Beast was dead. But the advantage wasn't
entirely one-sided because the Azure Sun Holy Sect Leader could no longer
fight.
If not for Bai Zihan, the Demonic Beasts would have had the advantage with One of the Great Ascension Realm Cultivators down on their side.
But now, he had reversed the situation-and even granted them an advantage
by mowing down the weaker beasts.
Then-
"RRRAAOOOHHH!!!"
A desperate command roar surged across the wilderness.
Grade-9 and Grade-8 Demonic Beasts flinched, seemingly receiving an order
from the remaining Grade-10s.
They turned and ran.
Massive shapes thundered across the broken terrain, retreating deeper into the
Wildlands.
"Are they... actually fleeing?"
"Damn! Since when do Demonic Beasts know how to retreat?"
The Humans Held Their Ground
"Don't chase!"
A Sect Leader barked, raising his arm.
This could easily be a trap set by the Demonic Beasts. Who knew what they
would encounter if they charged in recklessly?
Moreover, after such a heaven-shaking battle, even Great Ascension Cultivators
felt fatigue creeping into their bones.
Compared to the Demonic Beasts who kept sending in reinforcents, many
human cultivators had been fighting all day.
They didn't have the energy to pursue them into their ho ground.
But...
One person clearly didn't give a damn.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Bai Zihan's voice echoed coldly through the carnage.
He took a step.
Then vanished.
Swoooosh-!
He reappeared among the fleeing beasts like a phantom.
His sword flashed once-
SLASH!
A Grade-9 Demonic Beast collapsed into two halves.
Then another.
And another.
"Is he insane?!"
"He's chasing them alone! Does he want to die!?"
"Does he even feel fear?!"
"Just what kind of grudge does Bai Zihan have against Demonic Beasts- especially Grade-9s? He must have killed hundreds by now!"
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