At this point, the outco of the battle had already been decided.Facing the soldiers who were scattering in all directions in panic...the xiao demon and Mo Ye both frowned and chose to act personally, slaughtering the deserters closest to them.The xiao demon revealed his true form, opened his huge jaws, and directly devoured fleeing soldiers.Mo Ye raised one hand and ford an enormous blood-red palm seal, seizing hundreds of deserters in one grab and crushing them alive. The color of that giant palm instantly deepened into an even more vivid crimson."Those who fear battle die! Where are the armored overseers!""Disciplinary battalions, move out! Record the identities of all deserters. If anyone dares flee again, execute them on the spot and implicate their families!"At the rear of the demon Human-Subjugation Army, a group of demon soldiers in red armor appeared, their faces blue-green and fanged, staring viciously at the fleeing troops.At the rear of the human Demon-Hunting Army, a group dressed in black armor and ghoul masks also erged.The deserters, who had just monts ago been terrified and throwing away weapons and armor, all froze.Then, with grief and hatred filling their eyes, they turned back toward Xia Li.They gripped their weapons again,but their arms shook uncontrollably.The xiao demon and Mo Ye would not take the field until every soldier had died.No, more accurately, even if Xia Li really proved capable of killing them all, those two still would not fight him head-on.They would run.They would only move when they were certain they could kill him.They would never gamble with even the slightest risk in a fight to the death."Do you want to go ho?"Xia Li looked at those soldiers whose eyes now held a willingness to die.Among them were many rogue cultivators and minor demons,as well as young people from small clans who had found no road forward.This was an unjust war.And they were an unjust army.Even if they chose not to ask questions and only stood by their assigned duties, following orders to the letter, they were still living beings.And so long as they lived, they would think.And once they thought, they would beco confused.And their hearts would still know where right and wrong lay.The demons and soldiers did not answer.They only shouted hoarsely and charged again,yet there was a trace of pleading in their eyes, as though they were begging Xia Li to grant them a quick death.If they died cleanly on the battlefield, their families would at least receive so compensation.Perhaps their relatives and friends might even be able to struggle into a future through that."I do not enjoy aningless slaughter. Slaughter is a process, not the goal.""I will help you."Xia Li raised his head and looked toward the demon overseer troops.They were hiding at the very rear of the army,yet an army that had already lost its will to fight was even worse than a mob.Azure-blue streams of light blasted from Xia Li's back.He shot forward like a teor straight into the heart of the army.The soldiers had no desire to stop him, and so even intentionally gave way, letting Xia Li charge with remarkable ease all the way to the rearmost lines of the demon host.Standing before those armored overseers was the xiao demon, blocking the path.The xiao demon understood very well that ordinary soldiers could be thrown away as cannon fodder,but the overseers could not be allowed to die."Why aren't you all gathering and killing this demon already!"The xiao demon shouted loudly.But the demon soldiers rely went through the motions, deliberately slowing the speed at which they closed in."And what about you? You're the commanding general. You should have been the first one charging and fighting at the front. What kind of ability is it, hiding at the rear?""You're courting death!"The xiao demon opened his jaws wide.Xia Li responded only by lifting a hand casually.That single motion made the xiao demon bolt like a startled rat, flapping his wings and fleeing from where he stood.Turning his head to look at the retreating xiao demon, Xia Li gave a cold, contemptuous laugh."So the glorious demon genius doesn't even have the courage to fight once? As expected, kneel long enough and even a treacherous tyrant turns into vermin."Xia Li said no more.His Virtual Spirit Avatar hurled itself straight into the overseer battalion.Even if the xiao demon wanted to stop it now, he was already too late.His usual caution had made him miss the crucial mont of battle.To achieve the greatest possible effect in the shortest ti, the Virtual Spirit Avatar exploded right in the middle of the overseers, whipping up an azure firestorm like a coronal ejection. Superheated flas scattered in every direction, and under the screaming gale those armored overseers were all burned to ash."Xiao Ji, what the hell are you doing?!"Mo Ye roared in fury.By then he had already reached the xiao demon's side.After the overseer battalion had been wiped out by Xia Li, the eyes of the demon Human-Subjugation Army were already beginning to change when they looked at the xiao demon.
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This...was their great general?A general who had been scared off by the simple raising of an enemy hand,a coward who only knew how to act ruthless toward his own side?"The military has everyone on record before deploynt. Even without overseers, so what? If any of you dares retreat even one step, you'll all be judged as traitors!"Mo Ye, commander of the human Demon-Hunting Army,was now shouting at the demon Human-Subjugation Army and forbidding them to retreat, threatening them with the cri of treason.Even Xia Li had to laugh at the absurdity of it."He is a human commander. Does he even have the right to give you orders?"Xia Li looked toward the demon host.Not a single demon answered him.But at a mont like this, silence was answer enough.It also laid bare a deeper truth:the Human-Subjugation Army and the Demon-Hunting Army were in truth one body.The bloodshed between them had never had any aning at all.Those above them made peace when they pleased and made war when they pleased, using these armies as pieces on the board while talking and laughing beyond it.And as for the soldiers themselves?Their bones would grow cold, and no one would ever ask after them.Seeing the army's morale fully collapse, Mo Ye knew that further threats would only trigger a mutiny on the spot.At that point, he actually started clapping for Xia Li."You're remarkable. To force a great army to this point alone... if this were another age, perhaps you would already have won, gained fa, and reaped every reward. In that old world, people at least still cared about appearances.""Unfortunately... the present age only cares about results, not face.""So long as you die in the end, then everything we did was right. Victory makes kings, defeat makes bandits. If you think..."Xia Li stood there as if listening with complete seriousness.But when Mo Ye reached what sounded like the important part, Xia Li abruptly raised his hand and fired a concentrated energy blast.Though the shot seed aid at Mo Ye,he twisted the cannon's line of fire the instant it was launched and redirected it straight at the xiao demon instead.By any standard, that should have counted as a surprise attack.But Xia Li was facing two cunning rats.They had watched every single movent he made.The xiao demon instantly fled again.Mo Ye's body also dissolved at once into a blood-shadow form.No matter who Xia Li had aid at, the beam had been dood to miss."You should at least let finish speaking, should you not? Having the fortune to kill you today will surely be one of life's great pleasures. I've destroyed many people like you before. So knelt before , wagging their tails and begging. So were humiliated to the utmost and died roaring with rage.""And so... beca demons and devils nailed forever to the pillar of sha. Which ending will be yours?"Mo Ye spoke with the air of soone who had already secured victory.Xia Li did not attack again because the Heaven Chip was currently analyzing the state Mo Ye was in.Mo Ye was maintaining a translucent blood-shadow body, which the Heaven Chip classified as a semi-energy form.That alone showed how eerie his thods were.Mo Ye gathered a single drop of black blood in his palm,then fired it directly into the clouds...The gap in the storm clouds that Xia Li had torn open closed once more.The sunlight vanished.The wind and rain grew fiercer.The downpour transford into an ominous black rain of blood.Though the blood rain could not stain Xia Li's body,every demon soldier and human troop touched by it lost the light in their eyes.All the odd glances and murmurs vanished.Even the relatives of the dead who had been deceived and brought along with the army now looked up at Xia Li with empty, lifeless expressions."You're thinking about how to break my art right now, aren't you? Unfortunately for you, I tampered with the army's provisions long ago. The fools who ca here with them actually believed I was being hospitable and really went ahead and ate the spirit fruits and drank the wine I prepared.""What will you do now? Never once did I trust them, so I knew very well that when the critical mont ca, they would never obey my commands.""But who am I? Why would I not have prepared for that? What makes you think that your feeble struggle can compare to a whole life of my extre caution?"Mo Ye's blood-shadow body itself started taking on darker color."I don't mind telling you the rest either. If you don't kill them, then I do not die. If you do kill them, then they all beco my nourishnt. What will you do now? Fear? Despair? Or rage?"Mo Ye threw back his head and laughed from within the blood-shadow.He had prepared a great deal for this battle.He had even made repeated military pledges to stop the upper ranks from interfering.Because he intended for everyone present to beco nourishnt for his ascent into Soul Transformation.And in truth, whether Xia Li killed them or not,no one present today would be allowed to survive.And Xia Li would be made into the one carrying all the bla.
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