A blood-red formation shrouded the entire Shuihou City.
The temperature in Shuihou City kept rising continuously.
"Ghost Separation Fire?"
"Ghost Separation Fire!"
"What's going on? How can there be Ghost Separation Fire in this month?!"
"Where's the rain? Where's the Profound Soul Rain?"
Ghost Separation Fire erging from the ground kept rising upward.
Cultivators below the Golden Core realm would be completely engulfed in flas once touched by Ghost Separation Fire, burning until both body and spirit were destroyed.
Cultivators above Golden Core realm could resist, but it required large amounts of spiritual power, and when spiritual power was exhausted, they too would die here.
Unless one reached the Nascent Soul realm but the problem was, among the Zhao Kingdom army that Li Mu brought, how many Nascent Soul realm cultivators could there be?
So soldiers tried to use water to extinguish the fire on their bodies, but ordinary water simply couldn't extinguish the fire. It would even be like pouring oil on it, making the flas burn even more fiercely.
At the sa ti, above Shuihou City, a massive blood-colored formation appeared. Hundreds of thousands of souls imprisoned by the formation continuously wailed and dissipated, ultimately becoming fuel for the formation.
"Bai Qi!"
Li Mu's brows furrowed as he gripped his longsword tightly.
How could he not understand what had happened?
Although he didn't know what formation Bai Qi used, Bai Qi had used the entire city's population as sacrificial offerings to set up this formation, thereby triggering Ghost Separation Fire ahead of ti!
"General! This formation is extrely strange. It actually rged with all of Shuihou City. Before it activated, it was completely undetectable."
At this critical mont, a Jade Simplicity realm formation master accompanying the army explained to Li Mu, sounding like he was shirking responsibility.
"What use is saying this now?!" Li Mu suppressed the rage in his heart. "What's the solution?"
"The simplest principle in the world: advance ans death, exit ans life. Since we just entered through the north gate, the north gate has beco the death gate and we can't exit from there. So relatively speaking, Shuihou City's south gate is the life gate. We can exit from there!"
"Order the entire army! Entire army, charge toward the south gate! Breaking through the south gate ans survival!"
Li Mu decisively gave the order.
Soon, Li Mu's military order spread throughout the entire army.
Li Mu's forces were after all elite Zhao Kingdom troops.
After receiving the military order, they quickly cald down and, led by various generals, charged toward the south gate but Li Mu also knew there must be an ambush at the south gate. Bai Qi couldn't possibly be foolish enough to let them escape.
Indeed, as soon as Li Mu's army exited the city gate, they were surrounded and slaughtered by Bai Qi's army.
Bai Qi's army blocked the city gate opening. The longer the Zhao Kingdom soldiers remained in Shuihou City, the more people would be burned to death!
"Bai Qi! You actually used seven hundred thousand innocent people for blood sacrifice! Is there still any humanity in your heart?! Are you truly not afraid of divine retribution?!"
Li Mu was furious, not only because he was deeply trapped in an ambush, but also because seven hundred thousand Zhao Kingdom people had been blood sacrificed just like this!
"Divine retribution?" Bai Qi sat atop his horse, saying coldly, "The victor becos king, the loser becos bandit! Everything I do is for the Qin Kingdom's hegemony!"
"Kill! Block the city gate!" Bai Qi's voice spread throughout the entire army.
The battle situation at Shuihou City's south gate beca increasingly fierce.
Although Li Mu personally led troops to carve out a bloody path, after an hour passed, less than half the soldiers had left Shuihou City. The majority of soldiers simply couldn't get out!
Hearing the Zhao Kingdom soldiers in the city let out wail after wail.
Li Mu's heart burned with anxiety.
He knew that this ti, he might truly be defeated.
If he lost, Bai Qi could march straight in. At that ti, General Pang would be attacked from both sides, and the Zhao Kingdom would be in danger.
The Upper Three Realms royal offerings in Li Mu's army saw the situation was lost and knew the cause was hopeless. They also didn't want to continue fighting with the Upper Three Realms cultivators in Bai Qi's army and just as these offerings planned to abandon Li Mu and flee.
Suddenly, lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky above.
Bai Qi concentrated his mind and looked toward the sky above Shuihou City.
Dark clouds continuously gathered, and as the last lightning bolt streaked across, torrential rain fell.
This rainwater was all Profound Soul Water.
The rainwater fell on the Zhao Kingdom soldiers' bodies.
Shuihou City's temperature gradually decreased, and the flas throughout the city were gradually extinguished.
"Boom!"
A massive explosion ca from within the city. With Shuihou City as the center, the earth shook violently within a fifty-mile radius!
The formation covering Shuihou City's sky dissipated.
In the four directions of Shuihou City, those White Demon Sect cultivators responsible for powering the formation all had their souls scattered.
The White Demon Sect's master also coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood, severely wounded.
Seeing the formation completely lose control, he hurriedly flew to Bai Qi's side.
At the sa ti, except for Shuihou City itself, the temperature around Shuihou City kept rising.
Ghost Separation Fire even erged from outside Shuihou City, burning outward toward everything outside the city, including the Qin Kingdom army!
"What's going on?!"
Bai Qi looked coldly at the White Demon Sect master beside him, as if about to cut off his head with one sword stroke.
"General, I don't know either!"
The White Demon Sect master looked completely bewildered.
"We were controlling Ghost Separation Fire with the formation just fine, but suddenly, Ghost Separation Fire surged more violently, like a river bursting its banks, destroying the formation! Now Ghost Separation Fire has lost control!
Currently, only Shuihou City, because it's located directly above Profound Soul Lake, can avoid disaster.
General, please quickly withdraw the troops. This Ghost Separation Fire is spreading too fast! If this continues, our army may be completely annihilated!"
"..."
Hearing the White Demon Sect master's words, Bai Qi looked coldly at the heavy rain above Shuihou City's sky, then looked at the Ghost Separation Fire spreading outside the city.
At this ti, the Zhao Kingdom soldiers had already retreated back into Shuihou City and tightly closed the city gates, while the Qin Kingdom soldiers were turning to ash one by one.
Three breaths later, Bai Qi heavily sighed and said to his deputy general beside him, "Yu Sheng, the army is under your command. Lead the remnant forces to rendezvous with the Northern Pacification Prince..."
"General, what about you?" Yu Sheng asked.
"Today's defeat is entirely my fault. Before leaving, I issued a military pledge, promising the Northern Pacification Prince that I would definitely hold Shuihou City. Our Qin Kingdom's military orders are like mountains. Today the city has fallen. What face do I have to return?" Bai Qi said slowly.
"General!" Deputy General Yu Sheng still wanted to persuade him.
"Go!" Bai Qi looked coldly at Yu Sheng. "This is a military order!"
Yu Sheng's lips trembled. In the end, he could only clasp his fists in a deep bow, mount his horse, turn around, and lead the entire army in retreat.
Bai Qi dismounted and looked at his Black Profound Horse that had accompanied him through campaigns on the battlefield, "You go too. There's no need to die here with ."
After speaking, Bai Qi forcefully slapped the Black Profound Horse's rear. The Black Profound Horse looked toward the distance and galloped away.
Standing on the hillside, Bai Qi watched the flas gradually burning toward him.
Though his expression was incomparably calm, his heart was extrely unwilling.
"What cri have I committed against Heaven to co to this?"
Bai Qi looked up at the heavens, questioning the sky!
He had been so close!
So close to defeating Li Mu, destroying the Zhao Kingdom, achieving supre hegemony!
But a mont later, Bai Qi lowered his head again, looking at the longsword in his hand, as if talking to himself, "I deserve to die.
In the past, during the Battle of Nanshan Kingdom, Kong Quan led hundreds of thousands of surrendered soldiers, and I deceived them and buried them all alive.
Today, to achieve great undertakings, I again blood sacrificed seven hundred thousand innocents.
This is enough reason to die!"
"Frost Prince, your kindness in recognizing my talent, Qi will repay in the next life!"
After speaking, Bai Qi drew his sword across his neck.
Blood splattered.
He took his own life and returned to heaven.
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