Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

”Look, what is that?”

Not far outside the west gate of Guanshan City, a cultivator, who was fighting countless strange spirits, suddenly exclaimed, pointing toward the north. It seemed he had discovered something extraordinary.

This exclamation drew the attention of many nearby human cultivators. They all turned their gaze towards the distant north, where a towering tree, dozens of feet tall, had somehow appeared.

The cultivators who had been in Guanshan City for years clearly knew there had never been such a large tree there. Even if there was, it would have been cut down long ago to allow a clear view of the movements of strange spirits outside the city.

”It should be the true form of that ninth-grade high-level otherworldly being leader!”

Ultimately, it was the more knowledgeable and powerful individuals at the middle stage of the Earth Bending Realm, such as Duan Gen, who sensed the unusual aura of the towering tree. Moments later, a look of anticipation appeared on their faces.

In general, strange spirits do not reveal their true forms when facing low-grade human cultivators. They can easily defeat their enemies with their humanoid transformations.

Only when encountering opponents of the same level will they fight in their true form. In this situation, it was clear that Lord Yun Xiao had approached the otherworldly being leader closely enough to force it to reveal its true form.

”Hmm?”

However, just as Duan Gen was about to look away, he suddenly noticed a flash of blood-red light emanating from the location of the giant tree, the true form of the strange spirit.

In the next moment, that blood-red light burst into brilliance. Even from such a distance, Duan Gen and the others could clearly see that it was a cloak of blood-red flames.

In just a moment, the once weak blood-red flames engulfed the towering tree, the true form of the strange spirit. From afar, it looked like a dazzling and mystical fire tree with silver flowers.

”He actually did it?!”

Seeing this scene, Duan Gen muttered to himself. To be honest, even after Yun Xiao swiftly killed Liao Qiguang, who was in the late stage of the Earth Bending Realm, he had never thought the beheading operation would truly succeed.

Moreover, the speed was astonishingly fast. How long had it been, half an hour? Watching the fire tree that seemed to set the sky ablaze, Duan Gen no longer had any doubts.

”The lord succeeded, everyone, put more effort into eradicating these strange spirits!”

Compared to the shock of the Earth Bending Realm cultivators, the low-grade cultivators were simply thrilled.

Now that the north’s strange spirit leader was defeated, the strange spirits’ army was in disarray, and they clearly sensed it. This shifted the balance, instantly boosting the morale of the human side.

Although the southern strange spirit army still maintained a relatively orderly formation, with Yun Xiao having slain the leader of the northern army, it might now become possible to bring the fight to the southern strange spirit army.

Before the fire tree, Yun Xiao watched the ancestral vein fire, which had ignited the entire tree in an instant, and couldn’t help but feel a twinge of awe. He marveled at how merging the Chaos Sub-fire had made the ancestral vein fire much more formidable than before.

Even with the advantage of fire over wood attribute, it was still a ninth-grade high-level strange spirit. To have it so easily reduced to charcoal was something Yun Xiao had not anticipated.

In fact, had the wood attribute strange spirit not revealed its true form, Yun Xiao might not have been able to subdue it so swiftly. But since it showed its true form as a towering tree, it provided Yun Xiao with the perfect opportunity for the ancestral vein fire to shine.

”The northern strange spirit army is no longer a concern. Next, it’s time to move south!”

Yun Xiao collected the ninth-grade high-level spirit crystal, and casually defeated a few remaining ninth-grade intermediate strange spirits. He then turned his gaze south, spread his thunder wings, and soared into the sky, drawing cheers from many human cultivators.

At this moment, Yun Xiao had become the spiritual beacon for all cultivators of Guanshan City. Numerous human cultivators who had rushed over from various places, even if they hadn’t witnessed the strength of this plainly dressed youth, had heard of the extraordinary feat he had just accomplished.

And seeing Yun Xiao flap his thunder wings and rapidly head south, everyone below knew what he intended to do. Their fighting spirit surged again as they slaughtered the northern strange spirits, which had descended into chaos without their leader.

About half an hour later, a beam of golden light shot into the sky, followed closely by a black light. Everyone could clearly see that the black light overtook the golden light, piercing right through it, abruptly stopping the golden light’s advance.

”It’s already been slain?”

Duan Gen and the others were wide-eyed because, with their level of power, they could clearly see that the golden light was actually the true form of a gold attribute strange spirit.

However, even such a ninth-grade high-level strange spirit couldn’t withstand a single strike from that black light. It was truly frightening.

At this point, the leaders of the alien armies from the north and south have been slain by Yun Xiao, and these two Ninth Rank Advanced alien leaders were actually the highest commanders of the aliens outside Gushan City.

In order to catch Gushan City off guard, these two wood and gold attribute alien leaders personally led their troops to encircle from two directions, preparing to break through the city’s weakest point, the West Gate.

Little did they know, a small human lad would suddenly arise, daring to open the city gates for a deadly battle, and with his own strength, he slew both of these Ninth Rank Advanced alien leaders.

It can be said that he dissolved the alien pressure outside Gushan City single-handedly with his sword, and after the two leaders died, the many low-level aliens lost all their fighting spirit.

The alien army, highly reliant on their leaders for command, became leaderless like headless flies, each fighting for themselves and pursued for slaughter by the human side, especially with Middle Stage Earth Bending Realm experts like Duan Gen, it was almost like entering an uninhabited realm.

The reason, after all, was Yun Xiao, who, while killing the two alien leaders, casually exterminated those Ninth Rank Intermediate aliens as well.

These were the pinnacle combat power of the alien army; once wiped out, it effectively severed the entire command chain of the alien army.

Another half stick of incense time passed, and the human cultivators, with their one-sided advantage, grew more valiant in battle, while the alien side finally couldn’t hold on. After barely resisting for a while, they fell into a state of rout.

The human cultivators pursued their victory, slaying countless aliens and collecting numerous Spirit Crystals. Each of them was exuberant, feeling the type of exhilaration never experienced before in this Slaughter Spirit Battlefield.

Since the aliens wiped out Impermanence Island, occupying a large area of the Eastern Domain of Tenglong Continent, the human side had been on the defensive, pushed to the edge of Yin Sha Mountain.

Although under the leadership of human experts, they reclaimed dozens of cities, the aliens soon came pressing again, suffocating the human side almost to the point of retreating entirely to their cities, making passive defenses against inevitable sieges.

Previously, Gushan City was undoubtedly facing the same situation, almost having its East Gate breached by the alien army, causing fear and trepidation among the cultivators inside the city.

Yet the turning point came so quick, and so unexpectedly.

Besides Duan Gen and others, those cultivators within the city didn’t know that Gushan City had changed leadership, and it was because of this leadership change they found themselves in such an exhilarating victory.

”This is really... really...”

Duan Gen looked at the alien army retreating like a tide and the continuously excited charging human cultivators, voicing his thoughts aloud, yet couldn’t find the words to express his current feelings.

”It’s really satisfying, so relieving!”

Another Middle Stage Earth Bending Realm expert beside him completed Duan Gen’s unfinished sentence, his tone full of excitement, his voice slightly trembling.

”I have a premonition, under the leadership of that Lord, perhaps the entire Slaughter Spirit Battlefield’s current will soon change!”

A third Middle Stage Earth Bending Realm expert, looking at the silver-gray youthful figure rising slowly in the south, voiced his sentiment, and the nearby few were in full agreement.

Who would have thought that today’s battle would be fought so overwhelmingly and impressively? All of these cultivators who witnessed everything knew who brought this about.

Previously, Gushan City had never dared to venture out to confront the alien army; such an act would highly likely result in the alien army breaking into the city and committing mass slaughter.

Yet when Yun Xiao initially ordered to open the gates for battle, Duan Gen and others only felt suppressed and wanted to fight desperately, thinking at most they would be killed by aliens, better than waiting to die within Gushan City.

That coarse-clothed youth’s strength far exceeded their imagination, directly targeting the alien leaders within the sprawling alien army, then killing them in a very short time.

Such a rapid slaying of the alien leaders greatly reduced human losses, and now this grand victory, like a powerful stimulant, filled each human cultivator in Gushan City with renewed vigor.

Previously, the human side was always barely defending against alien attacks; when had they ever felt today’s sense of pride? All of this happened just because Gushan City changed its power holder.

”Indeed, the sky of this Slaughter Spirit Battlefield is about to change!”

Duan Gen watched the dazzling youth flying towards them, a hint of emotion in his eyes, quickly turning into respect, unlike the previous attitude toward Liao Qiguang, this was genuine awe from the heart.

Returning to the West Gate City Wall, Yun Xiao did not act against those low-level aliens. He knew that after successfully killing the alien leaders twice, the alien army’s morale had been completely shattered and was no longer a concern, leaving only slaughter.

As expected, the following battle unfolded just as Yun Xiao predicted. Under the leadership of Duan Gen and several other Middle Stage Earth Bending Realm experts, not only was the alien army outside the West Gate nearly annihilated, but even the alien army originally amassed outside the East Gate was affected.