With a mortal body, he can stand shoulder to shoulder with gods

Under the gratitude of the crowd, Shen Fan traveled through the air.

The fiery trail disappeared from the eyes of the women and children who longed for peace.

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In just a few breaths, Shen Fan saw countless densely packed people, like ants, intertwined on the distant wilderness.

Smoke signals rose everywhere, and war raged on.

Such a tragic battlefield, but Shen Fan looked at it with an unruffled heart.

How to put it?

Immortals and Mortals were separated, a class transcended.

Having seen the cruelty of the Cultivation World, the life and death of the secular world seemed to have faded.

At this moment, amidst the battle between the two armies.

A burly man, riding a warhorse, holding a large saber, with several long sabers on his back, was surrounded by a group of gray-robed Cultivators.

"Cultivators do not intervene in secular wars. You guys, who claim to be Immortals, commit such acts. How truly shameful!"

Even though he was besieged by Cultivators, the burly man remained fearless.

"What if they are Immortals? Haven't I still cut them down from their horses?"

At his feet, corpses lay everywhere.

Two Cultivators, also dressed in gray, had already died tragically.

One was cut in half at the waist, and the other had his head lopped off.

From afar, Shen Fan felt the strength of this group of gray-robed Cultivators.

There were fewer than ten of them, but every one of them was at the Middle Stage of Qi Refinement Stage or above.

"Mere Mortals, dare to kill gods? Yannan City, I will make sure you don't die a good death!"

Seeing his subordinates die tragically, the leading Cultivator was enraged.

"Dark Cloud Transforms into Rain!!"

With a low shout.

The gray-robed Cultivator waved his cloak, and bursts of gray mist rose into the sky, covering a thousand-meter radius centered on the burly general.

The sky instantly darkened.

Immediately after, thunder and rain poured down.

"Ahhh!"

Piercing screams echoed across the wilderness.

Those soldiers, dressed in rags, some even using farming tools as weapons, immediately covered their faces and fell to the ground, writhing and groaning in pain.

Looking closer.

The rainwater pouring down from the dark clouds was highly corrosive, like sulfuric acid.

In the blink of an eye, it melted these people into white bones.

"Evil Heretics! Our Great Li Kingdom's Four Great Immortal Sects will not let you off!"

The burly general was furious.

Seven long sabers behind him shot into the sky.

They rotated in mid-air to form a saber wheel, blocking the rainwater.

Immediately after, the saber wheel rotated forward, and the general, holding his great saber, charged towards the evil Cultivators under the cover of the saber wheel.

"Earth-Splitting Mountain-Collapsing Slash!"

Leaping seven or eight steps, the burly middle-aged man soared into the sky, holding his saber with both hands, and fiercely chopped down at one of the people.

Protective Aura left the great saber.

A visible four to five-meter Saber Qi fiercely slashed down.

Seeing this, the gray-robed Cultivators showed fright and quickly dodged.

This was the first time since they began Cultivating that they felt fear from a Mortal.

This guy was simply unreasonable; he single-handedly held them off and even killed two of them.

Boom boom boom!!

The fierce Saber Qi split the ground for more than ten meters.

But the burly general did not stop; he turned his great saber and swept it horizontally again.

"Dragon-Trapping River-Locking Saber!"

The Saber Qi swept across, and one person, unable to dodge in time, was cut in half at the waist, his intestines spilling onto the ground.

"Argh argh argh!! Die for me!"

Seeing another person die tragically, these Cultivators were enraged.

The leader made a hand seal, and bursts of dark clouds converged, transforming into a thirty-meter-long snake, biting and roaring as it charged towards the general.

"Eight Extremes Wind Demon Wheel!"

Unexpectedly, the general was fearless, his entire body boiling with blood Qi.

The eight long sabers blocking above his head transformed into a rapidly rotating saber wheel.

Boom!!

The next moment, it actually directly decapitated the dark cloud snake.

But how could martial arts contend with Cultivation?

Even the lowest-level Wind Blade Technique, Fireball Technique, Wind Control Technique, and so on, were beyond what ordinary people could resist.

Swish!!

The severed snake head reformed and immediately coiled around, subduing the general.

Then it opened its huge mouth and bit down.

The general fought desperately but had an arm bitten off clean.

His arm was torn off and swallowed whole by the long snake, yet the general didn't utter a single sound.

With the general subdued, the other, already temporarily assembled army instantly collapsed and was all captured.

"Yannan City, oh Yannan City! I didn't expect you to be so troublesome! No wonder General Tuoba spent a fortune to call us over!"

The gray-robed Cultivators gathered around, the remaining six also secretly sighing in relief.

There was no other way; this guy was simply too difficult to deal with.

"Martial Dao reaching its peak, it's incredible that there's still someone in this world who can Cultivate the Martial Dao to such a Realm!"

The leading Cultivator couldn't hide his admiration for Yannan City.

"You truly live up to your name as the Northwest Guardian King of the Great Li Kingdom! With you here, this Northwest gate truly cannot be opened!"

"It's a pity you're old. If someone had guided you into an Immortal Sect from a young age, your achievements would probably have already reached Foundation Establishment and even Golden Core by now!"

"However, no matter how powerful you are, what good is it? Martial Dao is just Martial Dao; how can it compare to Cultivation?"

"Heh heh!"

Yannan City had lost an arm, and his face was pale, but he raised his proud head, glaring at the other party with unconcealed defiance.

"What? Not convinced?"

"Alas! It's that look. It's good that you're not convinced. Before you die, I'm not afraid to tell you, do you know why we dared to risk being killed by the Four Great Immortal Sects to make a move? It's because you've already been sold out by your own people, do you know that?"

"What? That's impossible!"

Yannan City's eyes, which had been ready to face death, instantly filled with disbelief.

"Then why do you think our people were able to bypass Yandang City and cut off your support?"

"The most ruthless are those of the imperial family. Yannan City, you've guarded this Northwest gate your entire life, and you only obeyed the orders of the Great Li Emperor. Now that the Great Li Emperor has died of old age, where will you, the Northwest Guardian King, go? Whose orders will you follow?"

"Your achievements overshadow your lord. If the old emperor didn't pass the throne to others, would others tolerate you?"

Upon hearing this, Yannan City deflated like a punctured balloon, instantly collapsing to the ground.

He muttered to himself, "Impossible! This is impossible!"

"Senior Brother, why waste words with him? Just chop him down and avenge the other Junior Brothers!"

At this moment, another gray-robed Cultivator said.

"Hmph hmph! A living Northwest Guardian King is worth more than a dead one. Take him back and hand him over to General Tuoba. The men of Yandang City have all come to the front lines, so the women inside are all ours. Selling them to the Mystic Yin Enchantress Sect will definitely fetch a lot of money!"

The leading Cultivator sneered.

Not far away, Shen Fan frowned upon hearing this.

"Mystic Yin Enchantress Sect? Isn't that Jiang Country's only Demonic Sect?"

"These guys actually colluded with Jiang Country's Demonic Cultivators to cause trouble in the Great Li Kingdom? They really don't care about distance when it comes to making money!"

This Jiang Country was not a vassal state of the Great Li Kingdom.

Instead, it was a great nation just like the Great Li Kingdom.

Both were among the Five Nations of the East Flower Spirit Province.

Adjacent to the Great Li Kingdom, there had always been friction due to their smaller vassal states.

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The Five Nations of the East Flower Spirit Province were the Great Li Kingdom, Jiang Country, Yun Chi Dynasty, Fusang Ancient Kingdom, and Great Xia Ancient Kingdom.

The Great Li Kingdom was famous for its Four Great Immortal Sects, with the Nine Underworld Corpse Kui Sect and the Blood Refinement Sect leading the Demonic Sects.

As for Jiang Country, only the Azurewood Longevity Sect was dominant, with several other smaller Sects, and the only Demonic Sect was the Mystic Yin Enchantress Sect.

The Yun Chi Dynasty had no Immortal Sects; it was directly dominated by the imperial family, whose members Cultivated the "Azure Dragon Transformation Art" and could transform into a half-Dragon body. Within its borders, there was a "Dragon Transformation Pool" to help Cultivators Break through their Bottlenecks.

The Fusang Ancient Kingdom was not the tiny island nation of Japan, but rather possessed the Fusang Divine Tree, hidden from the world, not meddling in worldly affairs. Its entrance was concealed within the "Fusang Secret Realm." Its Cultivators had long Lifespans but found it difficult to reproduce, and it was famous for its "Fusang Longevity Vine" grafting life-extension techniques.

As for the Great Xia Ancient Kingdom, it also had no Immortal Sects.

That was a prosperous land for the Human Race, where the Martial Dao flourished, allowing individuals to enter the Dao through martial arts and ascend to the Immortal Realm.

There were many individuals like Yannan City, who had reached the pinnacle of Martial Dao.