For a ti, Mo Ye fell silent.The xiao demon, having received no further instruction for quite a while, also returned from berserk state to normal.The army stopped moving.As though they had lost their souls, they simply stood in place and let Xia Li cut them down like grass.Seeing this, the xiao demon imdiately flew to Mo Ye's side."Mo Ye, do we retreat?"The xiao demon could already feel that the overall montum had been lost.Though Xia Li was only Golden Core, he truly possessed Nascent Soul power,and it was not rely temporary.This had completely exceeded the xiao demon's expectations.Even a ninth-grade golden core should not have been that outrageous.Just what grade of core had Xia Li ford?For soone newly entered into Golden Core to already have Nascent Soul combat power...there was no doubt.It had to be a ninth-grade golden core.If Mo Ye withdrew now and abandoned his breakthrough into Soul Transformation, he could still reverse the situation in one last way by claiming Xia Li had used demonic arts to control the army.That would further reduce the spread of the path Xia Li had transmitted.At this point, the xiao demon believed the best option was to cut losses.Even if they could still defeat Xia Li in the end, the price might very well exceed what either of them could bear.They had both fought too hard to crawl to where they were now,to rise from pieces on the board into half-players themselves.How could they willingly beco re pieces again?They looked glorious now, yes.But in the shadows, who knew how many others were waiting to drag them down and devour them whole?That was why, until the very end, they would never truly fight with everything they had.They had to preserve themselves.Preserve as much as possible.They could not be injured.They could not let outsiders know how many cards they held.They knew better than anyone that they were still only gu insects trapped in a jar.Only by becoming the gu king could they truly have a future.Whether that made them vermin or cowards did not matter.They too...were not free to choose."If we retreat in defeat this ti, I don't know when the next chance to mobilize an army of this scale will co...""And after losing today, how are we supposed to command armies again in the future?"Mo Ye understood that this chance would co only once.A perfect scapegoat stood right before him.If this opportunity were lost, then what excuse would he use next ti to ignite a war of this size?Even if he personally wanted to,the higher authorities had already decided to suspend open war for the ti being and deal with internal unrest first.And more than that, if he lost today, he too would face punishnt.Lose today,and the road ahead for him would be severed."But..."The xiao demon wanted to say sothing more.But Mo Ye's blood-shadow body suddenly released a powerful surge of aura."I think I understand now... what truly separates us from a real genius. If we retreat now, we will fade into diocrity forever. Since ancient tis, true geniuses have had nothing to do with righteousness or wickedness.""It is simply that, when facing every opportunity, they are willing to stake everything on it!"Mo Ye truly admired Xia Li now.Even though they were enemies, Xia Li was the first person ever to drive him into a corner like this.Sches and calculations always had an end.And when that end ca,only the most direct kind of head-on battle could settle things.There, one determined superiority,and one determined life and death."So even if we must walk evil and crooked paths, then we will beco the greatest monsters on them!"Mo Ye made his decision.Blood-red radiance exploded from the blood-shadow body.Across the ground, the countless soldiers and demons let out grief-stricken cries as they dropped to their knees and began to convulse.A blood line appeared on the forehead of every human and demon,then stread upward toward Mo Ye's blood-shadow form,rapidly weaving together into a cocoon of blood in the sky.And from that cocoon...a thread connected itself to the xiao demon."Xiao Ji, I am sharing my power with you as well. Guard my Dao.""You..."The xiao demon fell silent.The price of this act was obvious.The spectators now continuously gathering around Sunscorch Valley would all understand what had truly happened on this battlefield.It was Mo Ye who had refined the blood of a hundred-thousand-strong army in order to advance himself.Even if Mo Ye succeeded in the end,even if he killed Xia Li,he would face the condemnation of the world.From then on, he could only go into hiding as an unknown figure,or betray the Demon-Hunting Army outright and beco a true demon of the demonic path.Doing this would wreck the calculations of the people above him.How then would Xia Li's na still be ruined?If he won, he would only complete the fa Xia Li would leave behind after death.If he lost, he would complete Xia Li's fa while living.In either case, he would beco a stepping stone.Those above him did not care whether Mo Ye won or lost.Even if he crawled back like a dog, so long as Xia Li's na could be blackened beyond repair, it would be enough.And yet Mo Ye had chosen, at this mont, to seek elevation through breakthrough,to discard the plan above entirely.As Xia Li's enemy, sothing deep inside him had also been lit.He too desired one final, no-reservations battle.If he lived, let him be heroic among n.If he died, let him be divine among ghosts.If upright, then transmit the Dao to the world.If demonic, then beco king among demons.Only that...was worthy of being called a true genius.What did the judgnt of the world matter?Heaven and earth began to tremble.
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From within the void, scarlet blood lightning crackled into being.The blood cocoon pulsed softly like a heart, each beat carrying a terrifying pressure that shook the soul.The blood rain ceased.All around Sunscorch Valley, the onlookers noticed the strange phenonon in the sky and saw the evil blood cocoon."A great demon is being born!""What demonic prodigy is this, forming a demonic heart and drawing down a Heavenly Blood Thunder Tribulation?""Devouring ten thousand lives to beco a blood cocoon... isn't that the Blood God Sect's art? Does this demonic lineage still have a successor?"The surrounding observers were deeply shaken.Many of them could feel their own hearts being affected, beating in rhythm with the cocoon in the sky.So with weaker cultivation could not even control their heartbeats, collapsing to their knees and coughing blood while clutching their chests."That damned Xia Li... so he was actually a successor of the Blood God Sect..."Many of the spectators still had not fully reacted.After all, the Demon-Hunting Army and Human-Subjugation Army had both been proclaiming that Xia Li was of the demonic path.But the truth would reveal itself soon enough.At the floor of Sunscorch Valley,upon the ground ford from cooled magma,Xia Li looked up.The red glow in his right eye gradually faded,and his left eye, which had been unfocused, regained its clarity as well.As he looked at the blood cocoon in the sky,a faint smile actually appeared at the corner of his lips.Mo Ye doing this was sothing Xia Li truly had not expected.Among all the things worthy of hatred about the man, in this mont alone there was at least a trace of sothing worthy of respect.Mo Ye had ruined the na of the Demon-Hunting Army.Feeling the terrifying power radiating from the blood cocoon,and with the xiao demon still staring at him like a tiger from the side,Xia Li finally felt a genuine sliver of pressure from them.Good.That was how it ought to be."Xiao demon, I won't stop his breakthrough. I still need him to prove your true nature to the world. You don't need to guard against .""And what does that have to do with my wanting to kill you right now?""So now you dare make a move?""Why wouldn't I? I've had just about enough too."The xiao demon let out a piercing shriek and burst forward, whipping up killing gales as he smashed toward Xia Li.At that point, Xia Li no longer intended to hold back either.The reason he had left bodily control to the Heaven Chip and preserved his own strength was for exactly this mont.The stellar golden core had three modes of operation.Constant-Temperature Mode.In this state, the rotational speed of the core was locked to an absolutely safe value.Main-Sequence Mode.In this state, the rotational speed was raised to just below the threshold of overheating, though doing so also placed a burden on the body and caused damage.And then there was the state after overheating:Supernova Mode.After the blood rain started falling, Xia Li had naturally dropped back into Constant-Temperature Mode in order to preserve power.But now, against a xiao demon who had finally gotten serious, Constant-Temperature Mode was no longer enough.【Heaven Chip, release Constant-Temperature Mode.】【Released. Entering Main-Sequence Mode.】Xia Li gave the order.Inside his dantian, the stellar golden core imdiately began spinning faster, its temperature climbing rapidly.Flas burst over the surface of Xia Li's body.Light and heat spread from him without pause, scorching the blood-filth-soaked earth.In the next instant...the xiao demon's steel claws, hard enough to tear mountains, ripped toward Xia Li's head.Xia Li blocked with his blade.But the weapon could not bear the strain.With a crisp crack, fractures spread across the blade, and from those cracks leaked out fine streams of gale-force qi.Xia Li instantly erected a telekinetic wall in front of himself and then raised his right arm, blasting blue fla toward the xiao demon.In only an instant...the blade shattered.A gale burst out from within the broken weapon and shot straight at Xia Li's face.Though the telekinetic wall blocked part of it, the fragnted wind was too fine and invasive. Deflected at the front, it curved around and struck Xia Li's back instead.At the sa ti, the xiao demon had taken the azure flas head-on from the front.After the exchange, the two separated.So of the xiao demon's feathers had been scorched black.And on Xia Li's back, in the parts of his body not covered by prosthetics, countless tiny blood marks had appeared."I am xiao. I was born lord of gale-force winds!""Before this, I was only unwilling to be wounded, unwilling to reveal my strength!""Did you really think... you could scare off again?!"The xiao demon cried out with a thunderous shriek.More violent gales roared from all directions and slamd into Xia Li.Xia Li answered with only a light smile.The azure flas escaping from his body grew brighter and hotter.This was more like it.Xia Li did not resent them for becoming harder to deal with.After all, they had finally managed to serve at least one useful purpose in this world,even if only as a negative warning.If they were going to walk the demonic path, then they should do it openly and upright.Demons of the demonic path were arrogant and self-sovereign.They never explained right and wrong.They never cared how the world saw thempared to such people, these two had not even qualified as proper demons before.Now they could barely be said to have one foot in the demonic path.Xia Li needed them to enter it.This age needed them to enter it too.This battle no longer needed to prove anything to the world.What remained...was only the murderous proof of Dao between true geniuses.
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