Nowadays, the Ji family only had a little over a hundred people left.
As for the group that had emerged from the ancient city, only around forty remained.
Those who survived were the more elite forces on both sides.
Beyond the three-thousand-zhang perimeter, several thousand onlookers had gathered, among them the old, weak, women, and children of the Ji family, the relatives of those fighting inside.
After all, this was the Ji family headquarters.
When the anomaly first appeared at the Ji family gate, they had been ordered to stay indoors, but the noise of the battle had drawn them out.
Seeing so many of their own killed, they were filled with uncontrollable rage.
However, the Ji family had an unwritten rule: the weak did not participate in external conflicts.
That was why, even after the seal vanished, they did not immediately charge into the battlefield, and besides, they lacked the strength to fight those people.
Of course, not all of them were weak. Some had eyes red with fury, power surging within their bodies.
The surrounding crowd who were not from the Ji family also began to stir, many eager to take advantage of the chaos and curry favour with the Ji family.
“Kill them! Leave no one alive!”
At that moment, Ji Yang let out a furious roar. Terrifying momentum exploded from his body, an overwhelming pressure sweeping in all directions. His long hair whipped wildly in the wind, his presence earth-shaking. He charged straight towards the position of Lin Xiao and Bi Zhuang.
The instant Ji Yang’s words rang out, everyone moved. A large number of people from the periphery poured into the fray.
“Kill!” Xi Yucheng also shouted loudly. His aura erupted as he slashed downwards with his blade. A hundred-zhang-long brownish blade light burst forth, cleaving vertically through the air.
Now that the seal had been lifted, the power Xi Yucheng unleashed was simply too great; it affected far more than just one or two people.
If he were not afraid of harming his own allies, a single horizontal sweep could have struck a huge number of enemies.
At the same time, Ji Yang had already reached a spot not far from Lin Xiao and Bi Zhuang. He threw a punch. Fist energy rolled out like the Yangtze River, carrying peerless fluctuations as it smashed diagonally towards Lin Xiao and Bi Zhuang.
The terrifying pressure caused even Lin Xiao’s brows to furrow tightly.
A sixth-level Martial Emperor like Ji Yang was indeed frighteningly strong.
The fifth layer of the Nether Heaven Demonic Art circulated. Surging black qi poured from Lin Xiao’s body, revealing the aura of someone merely at the eighth-level Martial Monarch realm.
Yet Lin Xiao’s presence was in no way inferior.
He swung his pillar. A massive black beam condensed into a gigantic column containing terrifying demonic-attribute power. It let out an eerie whistling sound as it smashed towards Ji Yang.
At the same moment, Bi Zhuang also punched into the air. Dazzling cyan fist light bloomed in front of his fist, illuminating all directions. Peerless fist force roared like a beast as it met Ji Yang’s fist energy head-on.
Boom! Boom! Boom! …
The three forces collided, erupting into heaven-shaking shockwaves that swept in every direction.
The strength of both sides was unexpectedly evenly matched.
Even Lin Xiao could not help feeling startled.
He and Bi Zhuang, a sixth-level Martial Emperor, had joined forces yet could only barely equal this Ji Yang?
Ji Yang was equally astonished by Lin Xiao’s presence. With only eighth-level Martial Monarch cultivation, he could unleash such might?
Even with his cultivation sealed, he had still managed to kill their ninth-level Martial Emperors?
Nevertheless, Ji Yang did not take Lin Xiao’s combat strength too seriously.
In his view, the majority of his strike had been blocked by Bi Zhuang of the Azure Dragon Sect; Lin Xiao’s attack had only countered a small portion.
While the three of them unleashed their attacks, terrifying shockwaves and fluctuations also erupted in other areas, including clashes between two or three pairs of seventh-level Martial Emperors.
Everyone was fighting within a three-thousand-zhang area, far too close together. The torrential energy sent people from both sides flying backwards and tumbling away.
Among them were Lin Xiao, Bi Zhuang, and Ji Yang on the opposite side.
Lin Xiao felt his blood and qi churn violently inside him; he nearly spat out blood.
Some people were even killed outright by the impacts.
After this single exchange, the distance between the two crowds had been forcibly widened.
In just a short moment, Ji Yang charged towards Lin Xiao once more. Many others also rushed in Lin Xiao’s direction.
Lin Xiao had killed a ninth-level Martial Emperor of their Ji family; he was the primary target they had to eliminate.
By now, Bi Zhuang and Lin Xiao were some distance apart. Ji Yang shouted to several people charging nearby, “You deal with him. This boy is mine to kill.”
As soon as the words left his mouth, several people unleashed their power and attacked Bi Zhuang.
A blindingly brilliant sword beam burst from Ji Yang’s hand, carrying an incomparably sharp aura as it slashed straight at Lin Xiao.
The supreme power of a sixth-level Martial Emperor was terrifying beyond measure; this sword beam seemed capable of splitting the very void.
Even Lin Xiao sensed mortal danger. A prefecture-level genius of the Ji family was indeed formidable.
Demonic essence surged within him. He instantly activated the Nether Heaven Demonic Art’s Nether form. His entire body turned pitch black, thick demonic qi pouring out. He swung the Nether Heaven Demonic Pillar, sending a columnar black beam containing heaven-shaking demonic essence power to meet Ji Yang’s sword beam.
At the same time, he summoned the War God Primary Spirit. A transparent humanoid figure abruptly condensed.
This transparent figure’s features and aura were now almost solid.
It resembled a war god who fought against heaven and earth itself; the slightest movement seemed capable of annihilating all creation. The figure appeared to contain terrifying spiritual force that could obliterate anything. Just looking at it made one’s heart pound and flesh crawl.
Aside from manifesting the phenomenon, this was also Lin Xiao’s strongest pure spiritual attack combined with his demonic essence strike.
After all, his opponent was a sixth-level Martial Emperor, the gap in realm far too vast. This was Ji Yang’s full-power strike; if Lin Xiao did not reveal his spiritual force, he would be in real danger.
“Sixth-grade intermediate spiritual force capable of fighting across realms?” Seeing this, Ji Yang was utterly shocked.
This twenty-year-old youth not only possessed eighth-level Martial Monarch demonic power, but also such immense spiritual force?
Dual cultivation of essence and spirit, yet still able to reach this level?
Not just Ji Yang; everyone who saw it was stunned.
By then, Lin Xiao’s and Ji Yang’s attacks had already collided.
Boom! …
A heaven-shaking explosion rang out. Vast, ocean-like shockwaves surged in all directions with unstoppable fluctuations, sending large numbers of nearby fighters flying.
Lin Xiao was flung far away by the dreadful impact, his blood and qi roiling; he nearly vomited blood.
Ji Yang, surprisingly, had barely been pushed back. In this exchange, Ji Yang held a slight advantage.
Lin Xiao was greatly shocked. A genius sixth-level Martial Emperor was this domineering? Even after activating the Nine Nether Demonic Body and the War God Primary Spirit, he still could not fully withstand the opponent’s attack.
