The black rain of blood fell without end.Though it should have been afternoon,the sky was black as ink, as though night had already descended.A mass of lifeless soldiers let out low growls from their throats and advanced toward Xia Li on stiff, rigid steps.Mo Ye was full of confidence, certain that he had calculated everything perfectly.Beside him, the xiao demon, back in its true form, gave off several sharp, miserable cries that sounded almost like mockery toward Xia Li, as though he had been toyed with from beginning to end in the palm of their hands.They needed war.Why they fought did not matter.How many more lives they could sacrifice into fodder did.And yet, facing such a desperate situation, Xia Li's expression remained utterly calm.Mo Ye could not read a single emotion from his face.At that mont, Xia Li did not even seem like a living person."So I need to slaughter every human and demon here before I can kill you, is that right?""You can..."【Heaven Chip, permission granted for full bodily control takeover.】"What a pain you've gone and made for ."Xia Li had gradually beco more accustod to killing,but in the end he was still human.He would grow numb.He would suffer.His mind would be constantly stained by blood and violence.So long as he still possessed a conscience, he would never be capable of enjoying slaughter.At most, he could force himself not to think about it.But killing over ti would eventually beco his nightmare.Letting the Heaven Chip act in his place was not escape.It was the final rcy he could offer those pitiful souls.He did not want those unfortunate humans and demons to suffer even one extra slash.He wanted it clean,swift,the fastest and most direct possible release into death,where they could beco their truest selves again, burdened by no more worries."Perhaps so of you still retain a trace of reason. I will not let any of you suffer. I offer only the grace of release."Xia Li turned and looked at the massed humans and demons.Everything he had done in the battle so far had been aid at the heart.He had not wanted to incur too much slaughter. He had wanted to force the armies back and fight Mo Ye and the xiao demon directly.But that plan had failed.So be it.He would hand all control to the Heaven Chip.Its rcilessness happened to be the final gentleness left for the innocent.Xia Li slowly closed both eyes.Then snapped them open again.His right eye now glowed faintly red, and from deep within the pupil ca the subtle sound of chanical components turning.The pupil of his left eye, anwhile, widened slightly and lost focus. It looked blank and unfixed, yet at the sa ti seed to be taking in everything in the world."Mission start."Xia Li plunged into the crowd.For the first ti in a long while, he drew his demon blade Nightcutter.He moved through the army with elegant, precise footwork, lightly flicking the blade to pierce each human or demon once through the brow.Never twice against the sa target.The army, drained of mind and spirit, moved with unbearable stiffness.To Xia Li, they posed no threat at all.The hopeless encirclent that Mo Ye had believed would bring despair now looked like little more than a joke.Mo Ye could not see hesitation in Xia Li.He could not see struggle.He could not even see the slightest fluctuation of emotion!Even he himself would feel sothing in such a situation.Even a killer would grow excited.But Xia Li was calm beyond reason,so calm he no longer seed alive."Mo Ye, do you want to interfere and strike at him?"The xiao demon glanced toward Mo Ye.Maintaining the current art prevented Mo Ye from acting for the ti being.His technique, for all its viciousness, was not without flaws."No. Don't fall into his trap. I don't believe he can really kill every last one of them. I've already polluted this patch of heaven and earth for the mont. Since there's no spiritual energy left here, all you need to do is keep an eye on him and don't let him find any chance to replenish.""I'll wear him down if that's what it takes!"Mo Ye had complete confidence in his technique.Even ants could bite an elephant to death.He could simply drag Xia Li down and exhaust him alive.There were over a hundred thousand people here between the soldiers and the camp followers.Mo Ye believed that even if he himself were thrown into a situation like this, eventually he would grow tired of killing.His blade would dull.He would grow numb and forget even how to resist.Wounds would begin to accumulate on his body.He would not even notice how much blood he had lost,until at last he collapsed.And yet...after one hour, Xia Li was still killing.After six hours, Xia Li was still killing.After a full day had passed,Xia Li was still killing without the slightest sign of fatigue.There was no exhaustion in him at all.His expression remained as cold as ever.He dodged every incoming attack in ti, weaving through the army without adding even the thinnest line of blood to his own body.No weariness.No hunger.No questions.No confusion.
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Only killing.Every movent remained precise and elegant,and every stroke of his blade raised no more than a tiny flower of blood at the tip.Mo Ye began to panic.How was this possible?How could this be possible?If Xia Li had chosen broad, large-scale attacks to clear the field, Mo Ye would not have feared it.But Xia Li was killing with the smallest possible movents, expending only the barest amount of qi, blood, and spiritual power.And because the soldiers had been polluted and frenzied by the black blood, they had courage to spare but no flexibility of movent.They could not even brush Xia Li's sleeve.Had he simply picked up a rock only to smash his own foot with it?But if he had not done this, the army would have mutinied!"Damn it! Is this brat so kind of innate demonic body? With this much slaughter, not even the slightest emotional wave? I don't even have a chance to take advantage of an opening!"Mo Ye still had deadlier moves in reserve.So long as Xia Li's heart and mind wavered in the slightest, Mo Ye could invade the gap with all kinds of murderous illusions and destroy his consciousness.But forget instability.In Mo Ye's perception, Xia Li's divine soul now shone only with a single faint point of light,as though it had entered dormancy.In that state, a hundred ghosts could not invade him.Ten thousand evils could not touch him."I don't believe it!"Mo Ye changed strategy.The soldiers surrounding Xia Li suddenly threw away their weapons and charged straight at him,then self-detonated the mont they got close enough.For a cultivator, self-destruction was the final thod and one of the deadliest.But because it consud essence blood and spiritual power, Mo Ye had not originally chosen to make them attack this way.As a chain of detonations thundered out, blood mist rose and spread...and when the blood fog cleared, Xia Li stood almost unhard, though splashed head to toe in blood.Within one-thousandth of a second, the Heaven Chip had calculated the weakest regions produced by the overlapping interaction of the multiple explosions.The reason explosions killed over such a wide area was the blast wave.And waves could cancel one another out.When Mo Ye saw the severed limbs and broken bodies around Xia Li after that chain of detonations, he realized the truth.Those explosions had caught other humans and demons in the blast.Instead of harming Xia Li, they had only helped him clear the battlefield faster.Once he recognized that, Mo Ye fell silent.This should have been a situation where victory was already his.And yet he could not sense the slightest advantage.He wanted to use the strong to bully the weak,but he feared Xia Li's sudden burst thods.He wanted to use many against one,but Xia Li was powerful enough to shake an army's morale.And more than that, he could kill like a machine,without even the smallest emotional fluctuation."You cared about them before, didn't you? They really are innocent. But if you keep killing like this, I will declare that they all died because they tried to desert before battle. Their relatives and loved ones won't escape the consequences! Are you still going to keep killing?""You will beco the cause of heaven's wrath and humanity's hatred! So what if what you did was right? In the end, all you'll earn is the hatred of a thousand n, the whole world wanting to hack you apart and suck your bones dry!""You're a demon. How much more slaughter are you going to create?"Mo Ye tried everything he could think of to create weaknesses in Xia Li's heart.Moral coercion, twisted reasoning, every ugly thod he could use, he used.If Xia Li could only be made to think he had done wrong...whether by believing he had dragged others down with him,or by believing he never should have resisted in the first place...then Mo Ye could rewrite reality itself and make that guilt real.But...Xia Li said nothing.He only danced through the crowd,letting flowers of blood bloom from the tip of his blade beneath the rain of blood,without weariness,without asking right or wrong."Xiao Ji, attack him! Wear him down! I want to see how much spiritual power he really has left! Is his spiritual energy endless?!"At last, Mo Ye truly felt things slipping outside expectation.After battling to this point, Xia Li's aura had not fallen in the slightest.If anything, it had grown stronger.The bastard had fought for a full day and not only failed to spend much spiritual energy, he had actually recovered so.Xia Li had to possess so kind of treasure that stored spiritual energy!What was even more deadly...outside the curtain of black blood rain, more and more humans and demons were arriving, watching the battlefield from beyond it.A great many people were now paying attention to this battle.He could not allow too many witnesses to see that it was he who had sacrificed the army to further his own ends.This bla had to land on Xia Li!It had to be Xia Li who had fallen to demonic thods,who had used taboo arts to slaughter the army and refine blood.Mo Ye could give up his own face,but the people above him could not.He had worked far too hard to crawl from being a re ga piece into becoming half of a player.How could he fall here?
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