By Heaven’s command.

The white-haired, white-bearded Water God of the Celestial Court was transported to the edge of the battlefield by the elegant and composed ancient divine beast that symbolized auspiciousness…

A simple strategy, yet one that exceeded countless beings’ imagination.

The combination of the Celestial Court’s Water God and Baize completely proved that shattering the morale of the entire Demon Army truly required but an instant.

The Demon Army’s three-line formation was nearly completely routed!

The Dragon Clan’s experts naturally weren’t shocked by Baize’s unexpected appearance. Most of the Dragon Clan experts merely praised the Water God’s entrance for its ingenuity.

Under the leadership of dozens of ancient battle dragons, hundreds of Azure Dragons danced across the sky, swiftly tearing open gap after gap in the demon battle formation!

The two lines of demon soldiers immediately retreated, intending to regroup and fight again. Fortunately, more demon soldiers surged forward, preventing the two battle lines from completely collapsing…

But at this moment, the protagonists of the battle were no longer the demon masses!

The Celestial Army’s soldiers and generals, descending through pillars of golden light, spread out row by row, like bricks stacked into a high wall, or like a net spread between heaven and earth.

From afar, the Celestial Army’s battle formation resembled the spread wings of the Kun Peng soaring ninety thousand li into the sky, with gold and silver light shining in harmony!

Li Changshou now stood directly above Black Mountain, his back to the already dazzling sunlight of the Eastern Heaven, his white hair dyed golden.

He didn’t rush to make his move, instead locking onto one Karmic Demon Lord after another while issuing orders to the various divisions of Celestial Generals.

Taking advantage of the brief opportunity created by his and Baize’s appearance, which had caused great shock to the demon army and scattered their morale, throwing them into confusion front and back, the Celestial Army swiftly completed their formation.

Over three hundred thousand Celestial soldiers simultaneously cast spells!

Their chanting voices could almost scatter the morning clouds!

A golden disk appeared before each Celestial soldier and general, and they each took out a celestial bean and threw it into the center of their disk. The beans were instantly broken down, transforming into towering figures holding shields.

“Sweep away all demons!”

East Wood Duke shouted, his treasured sword slashing vertically, and three hundred thousand celestial bean shield soldiers surged toward the demon army!

The phrase “as overwhelming as a mountain collapsing” couldn’t be more fitting here.

The Celestial soldiers followed suit, offering up a second batch of celestial beans, summoning ice archers in their original positions;

The Celestial soldiers each ordered their archers to draw their bowstrings toward the distant demon battle formation, unleashing celestial power!

And so, orderly shield walls, Celestial soldiers charging in formation, explosive arrow rain…

On the demon side, even the ancient demons were now cowed by the Celestial Army’s momentum.

How could those demon soldiers of lower cultivation have ever seen such a formation?

During the Demon Ascension Mountain incident, the Celestial Army had merely observed from afar without participating in battle.

But today, these Celestial forces who had once been protected behind the Water God would finally blood their battle robes and let their blades drink blood!

However…

The Celestial Army’s actions, whether deploying the “vertical wall” formation, hiding behind celestial bean shield soldiers to charge, or their various behaviors of starting to shoot arrows, throw magical treasures, fling hidden weapons, and using the celestial power gathered in their spears to shoot out blade shadows while still far from the demon soldier groups…

It all gave an impression of being excessively steady.

But the effects were indeed excellent.

Before they even came to close combat, demon soldiers were falling in swathes; while the Celestial soldiers, following their daily drill contents, habitually took out pills and stuffed them in their mouths, quickly recovering celestial power, maintaining sufficient distance…

Recklessness is not the mark of a qualified Celestial soldier.

The demon side nearly completely lost their composure.

This seemingly vulnerability-ridden “sandwich” vertical wall formation allowed the Celestial Army to launch saturated firepower coverage attacks against the demon soldiers.

At this moment, many demon lords attempted to regroup, but most demon soldiers had lost their morale and nearly handed over battlefield initiative, and the Celestial Army’s momentum was now unstoppable.

Several ancient demon kings, attempting to salvage the situation, led the demon experts to charge forward. They transformed into their true forms and crashed toward the Celestial Army formations on both sides.

But the Dragon Clan experts had long been waiting on their advance route!

One Azure Dragon after another moved forward, successfully blocking this group of demon beasts, and from ground to sky, a series of hand-to-hand battles erupted!

The power of the Dragon Clan’s ancient overlords was now fully displayed.

Although some Dragon Clan experts were also suppressed by the fierce demon lords, in most of the hand-to-hand combat skirmishes, the Dragon Clan gained the upper hand.

Just then!

A purple lightning bolt penetrated half the battlefield, passing by several Azure Dragons being suppressed by demon beasts, striking toward where the demon experts were gathered!

Within the lightning, a figure was shuttling back and forth!

Behind those four demon beasts locked in combat with Dragon Clan experts, the same phantom appeared in succession with only an instant’s difference!

The phantom held a bronze ruler, seemingly effortlessly swinging forward, either striking the demon beasts’ foreheads, their necks, or their heart meridians…

When the lightning passed, the parts of the four Golden Immortal realm demon beasts’ bodies struck by the bronze ruler mysteriously turned to powder, leaving behind four three-foot diameter circular holes!

In half an instant, the circular holes collapsed inward, the space-time showed wrinkles, and these four demon beasts’ massive bodies directly shattered!

As the obscure Dao rhyme left behind by that bronze ruler slid past, space-time was like a wrinkled tablecloth being pulled flat again, and of those four demon beasts, only a few ashes remained dancing in the air.

It was as if some beast hidden outside of space-time had opened its mouth and swallowed these four fierce demons!

The false Space-Time Ruler: can be any size, throw it to hit people.

The true Space-Time Ruler: hold it, and you grasp the Dao of Space-Time!

The demon crowd was shocked in horror. Following the previous lightning bolt, Li Changshou, who had fallen among the demon crowd with the Xuanhuang Pagoda above his head and the Space-Time Ruler in hand, calmly swept his gaze across various locations.

So much merit…

“Kill the Water God!”

An old demon shouted, and among the demons was no shortage of fierce ones. They immediately shot streams of light at Li Changshou, and several demons with profound auras directly pounced toward him.

White Bear Spirit shouted “Power of the Bear” and smashed down from the sky with two large hammers; Crocodile Spirit swung a saw-toothed blade forged from its fangs, slashing horizontally toward Li Changshou…

The many attacks were too numerous to describe in detail, but Li Changshou paid them no attention at all. His left hand drew talismans in the air, his mouth chanting continuously, while the Xuanhuang Pagoda above his head dropped strands of Xuan Huang qi, blocking all incoming attacks.

Li Changshou’s form was as stable as Mount Tai, and just the reactive force of the Xuanhuang Pagoda alone made the pouncing demon experts retreat with injuries.

The lightning talisman formed, and divine lightning appeared again!

Thousands of lightning dragons penetrated the surrounding rushing demon experts. Those whose cultivation hadn’t reached the Golden Immortal realm were directly heavily injured by this divine lightning!

Li Changshou’s eyes were filled with lightning, and his body was wrapped in tiny electric arcs. His toes lightly touched the ground, and his figure disappeared with a whoosh.

In an instant, phantom after phantom appeared beside dozens of Karmic Demon Lords!

Moving by teleportation, following the lightning!

Lightning Teleportation – Space-Time Ruler Point Kill!

Li Changshou’s cultivation was merely basic support. His mastered teleportation methods, combined with this supreme-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure “borrowed” from a Sage, actually displayed effects comparable to a Grand Magus’s attacks in this chaotic battle of multiple beings!

At this moment when Li Changshou struck, he didn’t care whether the opponent’s cultivation was high or low, anyway even if the opponent’s cultivation was high, they couldn’t break through Tower Lord’s defense.

Li Changshou chose priority elimination targets purely based on how much karma they carried. Alternating between space-time teleportation and lightning teleportation, he almost brought out the Space-Time Ruler’s power to its ultimate extent.

In just the blink of an eye, one Karmic Demon Lord after another was “devoured by space-time.” This sight almost became the last straw that crushed the demon experts’ hearts.

One person charging into formation, no demon could block!

Li Changshou slightly divided his attention, and the paper dao body in Black Mountain turned and shouted softly, shaking the witch crowd!

Gaps appeared in Black Mountain’s defensive formation, and six open stone doors appeared on the rocky mountain. That group of wind-swift battle witches charged out with earth-shaking battle cries.

Four Great Witches activated formations, condensing into ancient Witch Ancestor phantoms, leading the battle witches to charge into battle. Their fists were like thunder, leaping thousands of feet, and scenes of them tearing apart demon soldiers were everywhere…

The Celestial Army coordinated with the witch clan’s strong assault on the left and right sides, and after consuming a large amount of demon army strength, they also engaged in close combat with the demon soldiers.

Within several hundred li in all directions, both ground and sky were filled with fighting shadows of people and beasts.

The battlefield of demon beasts and Azure Dragons fighting had already spread to within several thousand li, and the North Sea’s surface was also quite lively.

And in this moderately interesting great battle, the most dazzling was the one who had already charged to the rear of the demon formation, that one who accompanied constantly flashing lightning, freely harvesting the lives of Karmic Demon Lords…

A certain ordinary official of the Celestial Court, a third-rank true god, Water God Changgeng.

With the Water God advancing unstoppably, almost cutting through the demon formation, how could the Celestial soldiers and generals not fight to the death?

Ao Yi transformed into an Azure Dragon, fought with more than ten demon experts; Bian Zhuang wielded the Nine-Toothed Rake, mercilessly hunting several True Immortal realm demon women;

East Wood Duke, who had originally received Li Changshou’s voice transmission to be responsible for battlefield coordination, was now also charging forward with the Celestial soldiers and generals, bravely killing enemies at the edges.

In the high sky, streaks of golden light constantly struck down, and the occasionally falling lightning curtains were also covering the Celestial soldiers and generals.

The demon clan was facing a great defeat!

Just then!

Tiger roars and wolf howls came from the miasma-thick region to the south!

It was those tens of thousands of demon elites who had previously hidden in North Continent’s miasma, as well as several hundred demon experts, charging forth at this moment!

This group of demon elites directly charged toward the left wing of the Celestial Army.

But just as these demon elites appeared, on their advance route, gusts of yin wind suddenly began to blow.

Heaven and earth suddenly darkened, sounds of ghost cries and wolf howls emerged from all directions, clusters of phosphorescent fires floated in the air, and countless faint shadows appeared between heaven and earth.

Netherworld Ghost Soldiers!

No, not just Netherworld Ghost Soldiers, there were also fierce ghosts and demons among them!

Eighty thousand Netherworld demons and several hundred thousand Ghost Soldiers who had been lying in ambush here now surged like a tide, attacking this group of demon clan ambushers!

A demon lord shouted fiercely:

“The Heavenly Dao is unjust! The Netherworld’s Ghost Office and Witch Clan cannot interfere in the witch-demon conflict! The Heavenly Dao is unjust!”

“Are you stupid?” Ox-Head stood atop Black Mountain and shouted, “These are soldiers and runners of the Netherworld Ghost Office, here by the Celestial Court’s orders, what’s wrong with that?”

Li Changshou, who was freely harvesting Karmic Demon Lords, heard this and twitched the corner of his mouth.

A small trump card.

However, speaking of which, did Lu Ya not plan to show himself today, and would just watch this demon army be decimated here?

After today, the power balance between the demon clan and the Celestial Court would be rewritten.

Even though the demon clan could gather a batch of newly transformed myriad spirits from the Three Thousand Worlds, the Celestial Court could recruit more Celestial soldiers in a short time.

While “fighting fiercely” with the demons, Li Changshou continuously observed the situation everywhere, never letting down his guard in his heart.

Finally…

Just as his Merit Golden Body made a small advancement, that familiar death-summoning sound reached his ears.

“Please turn around, treasure!”

At the same time, the Xuanhuang Pagoda above his head trembled slightly. Tower Lord’s hearty laughter paused, and he shouted and high-pitched:

“It’s here! This Tower is getting excited!”

Li Changshou turned abruptly. A sharp light bloomed before him, but he felt nothing, only seeing the Xuan Huang qi before his eyes indent slightly.

Suddenly, Tower Lord erupted with even more brilliant light, and finally transformed from a small pagoda into a hundred-zhang-tall treasure pagoda, enveloping Li Changshou within its phantom.

The Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife had embarrassed itself again!

Li Changshou also saw that old Daoist carrying a large gourd, and he gripped the Space-Time Ruler tightly.

Lu Ya’s eyes burned with two flames. He suspended the large gourd above his head and gripped a sword gleaming with a green light in his hand.

A Primordial Spiritual Treasure, the Demon Emperor Sword!

His gaze met Li Changshou’s, sparking off several arcs of electricity.

In the next instant, lightning erupted from Li Changshou’s palm while Solar True Fire exploded around Daoist Lu Ya. The two figures, leaving two space-time-shattering sounds, disappeared from their original positions!

The Golden Crow’s extreme speed and the Water God’s teleportation methods were so fast that ordinary Golden Immortals’ divine consciousness could only capture a few afterimages!

Almost in an instant, they fought from midair to the dome of heaven, then plunged from the heavens toward the North Sea’s ice fields, where those perennial ice mountains were crumbling one after another…

At the edge of the great battle, Baize watched this scene, his eyes revealing slight helplessness.

East Wood Duke could only spare attention to sense a bit of it, his expression somewhat complex, but gradually becoming at ease.

In the high sky, sea bottom, and distant forests, several shadowy figures were also paying attention to the battle between the Celestial Court’s Water God and the Demon Court’s prince.

‘Tsk tsk, Water God’s cultivation progress… isn’t it a bit too frightening?’

At the sea bottom, Daoist Wenjing slightly furrowed her brows. She could certainly see the battle situation.

What surprised her now wasn’t the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife in Daoist Lu Ya’s hand that could hard-counter the Orthodox Teaching’s supreme treasure, nor that Xuanhuang Pagoda that no method could penetrate and nothing could break, nor even that bronze ruler that controlled the Dao of Space-Time.

It was purely the Water God’s current strength.

Yet peculiarly, treasures were obscuring it, making it impossible to see clearly exactly what the Water God’s cultivation level was.

Daoist Wenjing pondered carefully – if she were to fight the Water God now, what were her chances of victory?

Zero chance of victory, unrelated to divine abilities, the Water God’s heart was too black.

“Aunt Wen, when do we move?”

“Wait to cover the retreat, let the demon clan preserve some strength,” Daoist Wenjing said calmly. “Did you see those Ghost Soldiers? The Netherworld’s witch clan experts haven’t shown themselves yet, obviously, they’re prepared by the Water God for us.

Going out now would only get us trapped in the battle, making it difficult to escape.”

The silver-haired Rakshasi carefully considered, her peripheral vision looking toward the dozens of figures transformed from fierce beasts not far away.

“Aunt Wen, this Water God is terrifying.

When I had the thought of slaying him, my sword resisted.”

Daoist Wenjing laughed lightly, continuing to watch the show with folded arms, saying with a smile: “Your sword was once defeated by that ruler, along with its brother.”

“Oh,” the Rakshasi hugged the treasure sword in her arms, whispering: “Don’t be afraid.”

Just as Daoist Wenjing was about to tease her a bit, a strand of voice transmission entered her ear, making her smile charmingly.

“Everyone, prepare to move.

Orders from above, this time we’re to cover the demon clan experts’ retreat. Don’t worry about those below the Golden Immortal realm.”

Those dozens of figures each rose, circles of fierce aura surrounding them.

The Primordial Fierce Beast Team had come to thro- ahem, to rescue the demons.

…

The Celestial Court’s side indeed hadn’t expected the demon clan’s demon kings and old demons could retreat so decisively.

When the battle situation was most deadlocked and the demon clan clearly still had fighting strength, these demon clan experts chose to abandon most of their demon soldiers and directly withdraw.

When their side wanted to chase these demon clan experts, several dozen Primordial Fierce Beasts appeared to block them, instantly killing most of the several dozen Dragon Clan experts who were pursuing most urgently.

The Dragon Clan discovered some of the culprits who had sneak-attacked the Dragon Eye that day, demonstrating what it meant to instantly lose their heads. They chased and fiercely attacked these Primordial Fierce Beasts, giving the demon clan’s old demons a chance to escape.

When Li Changshou, who was fighting with Daoist Lu Ya, captured this scene with his divine consciousness, he also felt somewhat helpless.

And Baize, who had been observing at the edge, had a trace of self-mockery flash through his eyes. He closed his eyes and lay on the clouds, no longer watching.

Lu Ya’s eyes revealed some unwillingness as he wielded the Demon Emperor Sword to confront Li Changshou head-on. The Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife showed its power again, making Li Changshou’s form pause.

Lu Ya took the opportunity to turn around, directly transforming into his three-legged Golden Crow true form, shooting toward the horizon.

Li Changshou snorted coldly, the Space-Time Ruler in his hand flowing with light. His figure flashed continuously above the ice field, disregarding celestial power consumption and pursuing rapidly the space-time teleportation method!

That three-legged Golden Crow, only half a zhang long, suddenly turned its head, its eyes full of anger.

Li Changshou had already caught up!

More than ten afterimages nearly overlapped as the Space-Time Ruler smashed down toward the Golden Crow’s head!

The Golden Crow raised its head and crowed loudly, Solar True Fire erupting around its body. The white-hot light stabbed pain into Li Changshou’s eyes, but the Space-Time Ruler still carried the sound of wind and thunder as it smashed through the true fire.

Whoosh–

A horizontal slashing light suddenly appeared in the Solar True Fire. Li Changshou seemed to see waves surging in a sea of blood. The Space-Time Ruler seemed to deflect something, and the falling force was mostly neutralized.

The true fire completely erupted, space-time appearing with layer upon layer of ripples. Li Changshou’s form was pushed back several hundred zhang, but because of the Xuanhuang Pagoda’s protection, he felt no heat at all.

When the firelight receded, the Golden Crow had vanished. Tower Lord’s unrestrained voice sounded in Li Changshou’s heart:

“Oh? The Element-Severing Sword?

Spirit Mountain has really reached the height of shamelessness, didn’t the Two Sages personally say they would seal this sword in Spirit Mountain?

What’s this, it got stolen?”

Li Changshou shook his head slightly, in his heart appearing the silver-haired young woman he had seen in the Solar True Fire. She seemed to have some strange divine abilities…

Looking at the few drops of blood floating in the air, Li Changshou took out a porcelain bottle, collected this Golden Crow blood, and turned to rush toward the great battle site.

He didn’t care about maintaining any expert’s dignity, completely not minding harvesting weaker demons.

As long as they had karma, they were a demon clan, good brothers!