344: Chapter 344 Breaking Through the Demon-Suppressing Pass!

Huangzhou, Zhenmo Pass.

The city wall, cast from black iron stone, stood thirty zhang high. Its surface was covered in flowing Formation patterns capable of resisting a Golden Core, making it the sturdiest gateway in the eastern part of the Xuanzhen Kingdom.

On the city wall, Immortal Master Minghe stood with his hands behind his back, his expression as gloomy as water.

"Elder, the soul tablets of Master Qingyun and Master Qingding have shattered."

Hearing the Disciple's report, Immortal Master Minghe sighed, his eyes full of disappointment. He was too lazy to even speak, his gaze fixed intently on the eastern horizon.

There, a black line was rapidly expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye. Accompanied by a deafening roar, the earth trembled violently.

"Enemy attack!!"

The alarm bell pierced the sky as dark clouds loomed over the city.

Hundreds of thousands of Yao Beasts surged forward like a black tsunami.

Above the beast tide, six terrifying auras of the Yao Race shot straight into the clouds, suppressing the defensive light screen of Zhenmo Pass until it lost its luster.

"I never expected six Yao Generals to come. No wonder Master Qingding perished."

Immortal Master Minghe no longer held any illusions. He had never imagined that the Myriad Demon Domain would actually dare to directly trigger a war between the two races...

Why would they choose to attack at this moment, for no reason?

One moment, Immortal Master Minghe was wondering if the Myriad Demon Domain wasn't afraid of being pincered by the Qingcang Kingdom, leading to the destruction of the Demon Domain; the next moment, he realized that the Human Race had long since rotted from within.

Would the Shangqing come to save them?

If the Shangqing came to help, and the Yao Race seized the opportunity to attack, waiting specifically for the reinforcements of the Shangqing, what would happen then? Would the Shangqing be willing to take such a risk?

Thinking through the pros and cons, Immortal Master Minghe felt only a profound sorrow in his heart.

The Human Race, how did it come to this!

At the end of his vision, the black tide had completely swallowed the horizon; hundreds of thousands of Yao Beasts galloped, the dust they raised blotting out the sky and sun.

There were even clouds of fire filling the sky, water swamps overflowing, yellow sand swirling, and wild winds howling.

"Old man Minghe!"

A wild laugh rolled like thunder.

Kuang Dou stepped on raging flames, his twenty-zhang giant dog body looming in the Void Realm, looking down upon the majestic Zhenmo Pass.

"That trash, Master Qingding, has already turned to ash, and now it is your turn!"

Minghe's face turned livid. Without wasting words, he directly crushed a Formation talisman in his hand.

"Xuanwu Heavy Water Formation, rise!"

Hum—

Underneath Zhenmo Pass, dozens of Formation altars continuously extracted power from the Spiritual Veins. A thick, deep blue water curtain rose from the ground, enveloping the entire majestic pass.

On the surface of the water curtain, a faint phantom of a Xuanwu roared toward the sky.

"A coward hiding in its shell."

Shi Pan gave a cold snort and took a large step forward.

His entire body was covered in thick rock armor, and his physique swelled to more than ten zhang. As he pulled one arm back, earth-attribute Spiritual Qi gathered crazily, forming a huge rock hammer.

"Break!"

Shi Pan leaped into the air, and the giant hammer, carrying the force of ten thousand jun, smashed fiercely onto the Xuanwu water curtain.

Bang!

The water curtain dented violently, sending out layers of violent ripples.

The Cultivators inside Zhenmo Pass felt their eardrums ache; many Qi Refinement Stage Disciples bled from their seven orifices and collapsed to the ground.

"My turn!"

Golden Crocodile roared, his hundred-zhang-long golden body rolling in mid-air.

He opened his bloody mouth, and a terrifying devouring force erupted. Strands of Heavy Water Spiritual Qi from the Xuanwu water curtain were forcibly pulled out by him and sucked into his belly.

"Water and fire share the same origin, burn!"

Flame Bear followed closely behind. Magma flowed from his body, and he slammed his palms out. Two pillars of Earth Heart Fire transformed into huge fire columns, fiercely bombarding the node of the water curtain weakened by Golden Crocodile.

Water and fire clashed, erupting into white, high-temperature steam that filled the sky.

The Formation's light screen began to flicker violently, and the Xuanwu phantom let out a mournful cry. After just one exchange, it showed signs of collapsing.

"Presumptuous beasts!"

Immortal Master Minghe was shocked, and his might erupted without reservation.

With one hand forming a seal, an eight-sided bronze ancient mirror flew out from his sleeve, hanging above his head and erupting with dazzling mysterious light.

"Taiyi Diverging Light, execute evil!"

The ancient mirror rotated, shooting out dozens of bucket-thick cyan divine lights, penetrating the water curtain and heading straight for the four Yao Generals.

Yu Tian let out a clear crane cry. The thirty-zhang cyan giant crane flapped its wings, and the invisible clear Qi turned into streams of air, meeting the cyan divine light.

Boom boom boom!

Clusters of extremely dazzling spiritual power halos exploded in the air, and the violent impact blew away thousands of low-level Yao Beasts below.

Immortal Master Minghe let out a muffled groan, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

Fighting four against one, even though he was at the Late Stage of Golden Core, he felt a bit overwhelmed. Just at this moment, a warning sign suddenly arose in his heart.

A feeling of extreme danger and stinging pain came from the back of his neck.

Too fast!

The Six-Winged Golden Cicada had appeared behind him, having penetrated the gap in the Formation at some point.

Its six Dark-Gold thin wings vibrated at high frequency, and a drop of pitch-black heavy water transformed into a slender water sword, stabbing straight at the back of Minghe's head.

"Get lost!"

Minghe roared, the Eight Trigrams Dao robe on his body instantly lighting up with dazzling golden light, transforming into a golden bell cover to protect his Physical Body.

Crack.

The golden bell cover only blocked it for half a breath before being pierced by the heavy water sword.

Taking advantage of this half-breath, Minghe desperately tilted his head.

The water sword grazed his right shoulder, taking away a large chunk of flesh and blood. The violent power of the true water burrowed into his Meridians, causing the pain to instantly numb half of his body!

"So fast..."

Minghe broke out in a cold sweat. If not for the protection of his Dao robe, that strike would have already pierced his skull.

"Shatter!"

Outside, Kuang Dou seized the moment when Minghe was distracted.

The Sun-Devouring Demon Fire transformed into a huge fireball, smashing fiercely into the weakest top part of the Xuanwu water curtain, breaking through it in one go!

Boom!

A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering loud noise.

With the Formation bases of three third-order Spiritual Veins exploding simultaneously, the Xuanwu phantom let out a shrill, mournful cry and collapsed with a bang.

The water in the sky turned into a torrential downpour; Zhenmo Pass was broken!

"Kill!"

Kuang Dou roared toward the sky, and the black beast tide surged into the pass along the collapsed city wall like a burst dam.

Screams, the sound of Magical Artifacts shattering, and the chewing sounds of Yao Beasts instantly intertwined into a hell on earth; the war was imminent!

The three thousand elites of the Yiqi Dao Sect were like a drop in the ocean in front of the hundreds of thousands of beast tides; they were completely submerged without even causing a ripple.

Immortal Master Minghe stood in mid-air, looking at the tragic situation of the army collapsing like a mountain below, his face pale.

Knowing that the situation was lost, although Minghe had the heart to fight to the death, could the fear of death be overcome just by saying so?

After hesitating for only an instant, Immortal Master Minghe made a decision, not even glancing at the Sect Disciples who were fighting to the death.

He formed a Dao seal and spat a mouthful of essence blood onto the eight-sided ancient mirror.

"Go!"

With the command, the ancient mirror exploded with a burst of blood light, enveloping Immortal Master Minghe and transforming into a blood-colored meteor that fled a thousand miles away, disappearing into the horizon in an instant.

"Old thing, where are you running!"

Kuang Dou roared, fire sprouting from his four claws. Just as he was about to pursue, he saw Shi Pan flash and block Kuang Dou's path.

"Kuang Dou, do not pursue a desperate enemy."

"Minghe is at the Late Stage of Golden Core. If he is determined to escape, you cannot catch him; besides, the Sovereign's order is to take Zhenmo Pass, not to fight to the death."

Hearing this, Kuang Dou snorted, spitting out a spark of fire, and stopped his footsteps unwillingly.

"These old dogs, they really run fast!"

The six great Yao Generals hovered above Zhenmo Pass, coldly watching the massacre below.

Half a day later.

The sounds of fighting had completely subsided.

Inside Zhenmo Pass, there was not a single living person left. Blood stained the black iron city wall a dark red, and severed limbs piled up like a mountain.

Zhao Xuanqing brought dozens of half-Yao, soaked in blood, to Shi Pan, knelt on one knee, his expression fanatical.

"Reporting to all the lords, the Human Race in the pass has been completely executed, and the resources in the treasury are being counted!"

Shi Pan nodded slightly, looking toward the west.

That was the direction of the hinterland of the Yiqi Dao Sect. It remained to be seen what would follow.

"From today on, one thousand miles east of Huangzhou shall be the territory of our Myriad Demon Domain!"

Shi Pan's voice was like thunder, spreading throughout the wilderness.

Roar—!

Hundreds of thousands of Yao Beasts roared in unison, their Demonic Qi rushing into the sky for ten thousand miles, shaking the Nine Heavens.