69: Chapter 69: He was sealed away, his clan wiped out, and his divine kingdom barren!

"Lin Ye! How dare you!"

A shrill, furious roar echoed across the forest battlefield. Ye Feng's mind trembled, and a continuous, piercing pain originating from the depths of his Divine Kingdom struck him. That plague-like rot was like a malignant tumor clinging to his bones, taking root within the veins of his Divine Kingdom and frantically devouring the cultivation foundation, resources, and spiritual energy he had accumulated over several years.

He could see clearly that before his subordinates had even completely died in battle, their vitality was rotted and their flesh festered by the invisible plague, causing them to collapse and perish in rows. This bizarre, unsolvable erosion was far more fatal than head-on combat.

At this critical juncture of life and death, Ye Feng no longer held anything back, forcefully squeezing the spiritual energy of his Divine Kingdom and recklessly driving the lightning and fire across the entire domain to purge everything!

Rumble—!

Endless purple-gold lightning and fire spewed out from his Divine Kingdom, transforming into sky-filling, world-burning flames that covered the entire combat zone. The extreme thunder high temperature and purifying divine fire specialized in subduing all dark, evil, plague, and malignant powers, frantically washing over every inch of land and the bodies of his subordinate races stained with the plague.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!

The grayish-black plague patterns filling the sky rapidly receded, vaporized, and dissipated under the scorching of the lightning and fire. The plague insect eggs and rotting origins that had burrowed into the bodies of his subordinate races were forcefully burned to ashes by the thunder divine fire.

The plague was forcibly cleared out!

However, the price of this forced purification was extremely heavy!

The plague of the Plague Seed Mosquito had long penetrated deep into the origins and bloodline textures of the subordinate races. Ye Feng's rough and domineering domain-wide lightning and fire purification made no distinction between friend or foe, righteousness or evil. While burning away the plague, it also directly ignited the bloodline spiritual energy of the injured subordinate races.

In an instant, more than two hundred already injured Hell Three-Headed Hounds and Thunderstorm Berserk Rhinos had their bodies abruptly explode. Their flesh was charred black, their souls were destroyed, and their origin contracts were burned away along with them, leaving them thoroughly dead with no possibility of recovery.

A single round of forced plague clearance directly resulted in the loss of two to three hundred elite subordinates!

Watching his high-tier subordinates perish in rows and feeling the increasingly depleted foundation of his Divine Kingdom, the last shred of rationality in Ye Feng's eyes completely shattered, and bone-deep madness and tyranny swept through his entire body.

On the other side of the battlefield, Lin Ye was likewise thoroughly ignited with ferocity by this endless, life-or-death battle.

The accumulated grievances of enduring for days, being repeatedly plotted against and assassinated, and being humiliated by public bets completely erupted amidst endless slaughter and bloodshed.

Around the two opposing youthful figures hovered a layer of thick, impenetrable killing intent that was bone-chilling and froze the surroundings.

Their once clear eyes were now completely stained with a layer of scarlet blood, devoid of any composure of proud geniuses playing a game, leaving only bloodthirst, tyranny, and an all-extinguishing madness.

The slaughter across the entire forest completely entered its most cruel and unsolvable white-hot stage.

Both sides fought to the death with all their members, not retreating a single step and not yielding an inch of land!

The Shahun Hounds bit and tore frantically against the lightning and fire, and even though their bodies were burned and festering, they still locked onto the enemy subordinates to the death.

The Hell Three-Headed Hounds endured the excruciating pain of the lingering plague, opening all three sets of fangs to unleash lightning, fire, and toxic miasma in a desperate counterattack.

Severed limbs continuously flew about, and blood soaked layer upon layer of scorched earth, turning the forest battlefield into a true purgatory slaughterhouse.

However, as the slaughter continued, the gap in combat power was infinitely widened, and Ye Feng's subordinate legion gradually could no longer hold out.

All of Lin Ye's malignant-type subordinates had grown up and been tempered for generations within a Divine Kingdom filled with extreme tyranny and malignant Qi, being washed by the power of nirvana and honed through life-and-death combat every day.

Their physical body density, tendon and bone toughness, and bloodline strength were already far superior to ordinary subordinates of the same rank, which could be glimpsed from their attributes alone.

At the same time, not only were their physical bodies formidable, but their year-round immersion in an environment intertwined with malignant Qi and toxic miasma also brought their resistance to various toxins, corrosion, and abnormal statuses to an unimaginable degree.

In contrast, Ye Feng's subordinates relied on piled-up resources and accelerated time-flow to grow; although their foundation was sufficient and their rank was high, they lacked the iron-blooded resilience forged through life and death.

Their lightning and fire bloodline was overbearing and fierce, but it could not endure protracted battles or corrosive consumption. Once injured, their combat power would plummet, self-healing would be slow, and they would easily be harvested one after another.

With one side growing and the other waning, the battle situation completely tilted.

In just a short moment, over a small half of Ye Feng's eight thousand subordinates were killed or injured, and the number of those collapsing and perishing far exceeded Lin Ye's side. The surviving legion members were all injured, their combat morale was low, their formation was on the verge of collapsing, and they completely fell into a desperate situation of passively taking beatings.

Watching the top-tier legion he had built by exhausting one-fifth of the Ye family's resources and spending the cost of five years of time acceleration collapse and perish so quickly, Ye Feng's heart violently twitched, and monstrous fear and panic finally overwhelmed the arrogance deep in his heart.

He panicked completely.

If they continued to fight head-on, within a moment, all of his subordinates would surely be wiped out. Not only would he lose the bet and be publicly humiliated by kowtowing, but his accumulation of several years and his family's foundation would also completely go down the drain.

"All troops fall back! Retreat to the Divine Kingdom passage! Defend to the death relying on the passage barrier!"

Ye Feng gritted his teeth and roared, issuing a strict order to fall back and defend.

Hearing this, the remaining thousands of subordinates fought as they retreated, withdrawing layer by layer and rapidly approaching the open Divine Kingdom passage in mid-air, attempting to use the barrier power of the passage enchantment to isolate the berserk offensive of Lin Ye's subordinates, stabilize their formation, and stall their decline.

Watching the enemy legion's move to fall back and defend the passage, Lin Ye, standing outside the battlefield, not only felt no regret in his scarlet eyes, but instead flashed a trace of cold ecstasy.

He was just worried that the plague could only spread by attaching to injured subordinates and could not thoroughly invade the hinterland of Ye Feng's Divine Kingdom or completely rot every inch of vitality in the other party's Divine Kingdom.

The opponent falling back to defend the Divine Kingdom passage was precisely an excellent opportunity delivered right to his doorstep!

The passage was the only hub connecting the external battlefield with the interior of the Divine Kingdom, and it was also the best breakthrough point for the plague to invade on a large scale, take root, and spread!

Since you want to rely on the passage to defend to the death, then I will follow the passage, slaughter my way into your Divine Kingdom, rot away your vitality, and exterminate your clan!

With his mind made up, Lin Ye no longer reserved any trump cards, nor did he suppress his ferocity by even a fraction.

Endless malignant Qi surged into the sky from within his body, the scarlet patterns around him surged frantically, and the power of nirvana from the entire forest gathered onto his body!

"Talent — Blood Boiling! (Beast God Talent)"

A low, cold murmur resounded across the battlefield, and the invisible power of talent instantly covered all the malignant-type subordinates on the field!

In an instant, the scarlet color around all the Shahun Hounds, Soul-Devouring Owls, Demonic Blood Pythons, Shadow Foxes, Iron-Bone Mosquitoes, and Plague Seed Mosquitoes surged violently, and their fierce and malignant aura doubled.

Once this talent was activated, the combat power of all subordinate beast-type races skyrocketed significantly, their injury pain was completely shielded, and their physical explosive power, slaughter power, and endurance were comprehensively amplified!

But the price was equally extreme—all subordinates shed their last shred of rationality, completely discarding tactics and forbearance, leaving only a single obsession in their minds: slaughter, crush, and exterminate the enemy!

The entire army went berserk, living solely to kill!

On the other side, seeing that his legion was on the verge of destruction and his retreat hung by a thread, Ye Feng also completely bet everything and loaded his own Divine Kingdom talent!

"Talent — Thunder Domain Saintly Glow!"

Rumble!!!

Brilliant and dazzling golden lightning exploded abruptly from the Divine Kingdom passage, enveloping all the surviving subordinates who had fallen back to defend, forming a boundless thunder halo!

Within the coverage range of the halo, the thunder attribute power of all friendly subordinates was directly increased by forty percent, and their thunder-fire attacks and thunder defenses skyrocketed in all directions!

At the same time, the ultimate passive was unlocked: when any friendly subordinate died in battle, they would instantly detonate their origin spiritual energy, dropping a devastating divine punishment thunderbolt on all close-range enemies around them, trading life for injury, trading death for attack, and dragging the enemy down to be buried together at all costs!

Defend the passage to the death, burning their lives to the last breath!

The fiercely tragic battle for the Divine Kingdom passage completely erupted!

The berserk malignant-type legion was fearless of death, crushing and advancing toward the Divine Kingdom passage like a tidal wave. Ignoring the scorching of lightning and fire, and ignoring the divine punishment thunderbolts, they followed one another and fought to the death without retreating.

The thunder legion at the passage entrance bathed in blood and defended to the death, using their bodies as bait and their lives as sacrifices. Every time a subordinate fell, it would detonate a destructive thunderbolt, blasting the flesh and blood of the nearby malignant-type subordinates into flying pieces.

The roaring explosions were incessant, lightning and malignant Qi crazily annihilated each other, and the entire world was left with only destruction and bloodshed.

At this moment, Lin Ye's mind had long been completely occupied by extreme slaughter and undying hatred.

Quanzhou's first-place ranking, the glory of attracting all eyes, the dreamed-of rewards of Jinghun Hall, and all his arena layouts and future plans were completely thrown behind his mind and utterly forgotten.

In his mind, there were no other stray thoughts left, only a paranoid, cold, and crazy notion—

Slaughter them all!

Slaughter all his subordinates!

Slaughter your way into his Divine Kingdom!

Make Ye Feng, his clan extinct, and not a single blade of grass grow in his Divine Kingdom!