An old man with white hair, cradling a little girl with pigtails, struggled forward with trembling steps.
At that moment, a foul wind swept in. With a flash of blood-red light, the old man's head was severed by a swipe of a black-winged great bird's wing.
The old man's head, frozen in terror, tumbled through the air before being swallowed whole by the black-winged great bird's gaping maw filled with fangs. The bird let out an excited squawk.
A torrent of blood gushed from the old man's headless neck, splashing all over the little girl still in his arms.
The little girl, her face covered in blood, stared blankly, still clutching a candied hawthorn in her small hand.
A moment later, she began to wail, "Grandpa!"
As the little girl cried her heart out, she was unaware that a claw covered in black scales was descending towards her from above—it was the black-winged great bird.
"Vile beast, how dare you be so arrogant!" A white-robed sword cultivator nearby roared, his eyes about to burst. He commanded his flying sword, which transformed into a streak of light, instantly piercing the black-winged great bird's skull.
Just as he was about to rescue the girl, three second-grade dog demons lunged from the side, their foul saliva nearly splashing on his face.
The white-robed sword cultivator's sword light swirled, severing the head of one dog demon, but the other two, with their blood-soaked maws, clamped down firmly on his arm and leg.
In the excruciating pain of his bones cracking, he watched helplessly as the little girl was engulfed by more approaching demonic beasts. The only sound he heard was a brief, tragic scream.
"Ah!!" The white-robed sword cultivator let out an enraged roar, his internal spiritual power surging in reverse.
"We cultivators, though we may die, cannot stand by and watch you slaughter our kin!"
Boom!
A dazzling white light exploded from his abdomen, transforming into a torrent of berserk sword qi that tore apart over a dozen demonic beasts around him.
Scenes like this were unfolding in every corner of Yong'an Immortal City.
Newly initiated cultivators in the early Qi Condensation stage fumbled with their hand seals, only to have their throats torn out by demonic beasts just as they managed to condense a weak fireball.
The patriarch of a small family threw himself into a horde of beasts to cover his clansmen's retreat, detonating himself valiantly.
A middle-aged scholar, a cultivator in the early Core Formation stage, held a long street alone, covering the retreat of the human race here.
Sword qi crisscrossed like a net from his hands, and the sides of the street were piled high with over a hundred demonic beast corpses.
He too was covered in blood, his body swaying precariously. Finally, he fell under the assault of several third-grade great demons.
Just as those third-grade great demons were about to feast on his body, the human Core Formation cultivator burst into laughter.
A brilliant golden light flared in his abdomen, and a terrifying halo of spiritual power surged forth, engulfing the three third-grade great demons, who looked on in panic.
In the northern part of Yong'an Immortal City, the Sea Race army was wreaking havoc.
A third-grade Sea Race member with strange horns on its head suddenly raised its hands, and countless blue flames surged forth, instantly igniting over a dozen buildings.
Dozens of human cultivators who hadn't yet escaped were engulfed in these peculiar blue spirit flames. Though their bodies didn't melt, they seemed to be suffering the most brutal torture imaginable, their faces contorted in extreme agony as they let out miserable screams.
The third-grade Sea Race member laughed heartily. Once the human cultivators were frozen like statues, it flicked out a handful of blue spirit sand.
These human cultivators, their faces frozen in expressions of extreme pain, instantly had their bodies disintegrate, their essence transforming into streams of spiritual light that attached themselves to the spirit sand, causing it to grow slightly larger.
The third-grade Sea Race member licked its lips, its face alight with excitement, and then darted forward like lightning.
On a nearby street, a grim-faced old Sea Race elder conjured a black stone tablet.
Innumerable black energies, as dark as ink, surged from the tablet. Wherever the black mist touched, humans couldn't even scream before their flesh and blood were rapidly stripped away, leaving only skeletons moments later.
In a short time, over a thousand humans had been consumed by this black mist, leaving only piles of skeletons. The black stone tablet grew even darker and more lustrous, appearing to have greatly increased in power.
"Hahaha, it was worth the considerable price I paid to secure this spot and come to this dilapidated minor realm.
As long as I can devour more human flesh and blood, my Black Nether Tablet will surely undergo a transformation. It's not this easy in the Sea Origin Realm!"
The Sea Race elder's eyes glinted with a sinister smile. With a flash of black light, he flew further into the distance.
Similar scenes were playing out everywhere.
Large numbers of humans who couldn't retreat were being slaughtered en masse by Sea Race cultivators. Even mortals were not spared.
The Sea Race's actions were solely to enhance the power of their treasures. The casualties they inflicted far surpassed those of the demonic beasts, who preferred to devour human flesh.
Looking down from above Yong'an Immortal City, the once prosperous immortal city had now become a living hell.
A thousand miles southwest of Yong'an Immortal City, a flying boat was speeding through the air.
On board were Ning Fa, the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant, Ancestor Nihuo, and his disciples.
Ning Fa stood at the bow, gazing solemnly ahead.
Just then, he seemed to sense something, his expression suddenly turning ferocious. An immense killing intent, like that of an ancient fierce beast awakening, erupted from him.
Ancestor Nihuo's Core Formation stage disciples could not withstand it and were violently thrown against the flying boat's protective shield.
"These beasts deserve to die!!!"
Ning Fa's voice sounded as if it came from the deepest abyss, his face filled with sharp, violent killing intent, and his entire being exuding a terrifying aura.
Before his words even fell, Ning Fa transformed into a blinding bolt of lightning, vanishing from his spot instantly.
The Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant also took a light step forward, disappearing just as quickly.
On the other side, Ancestor Nihuo, though his spiritual sense hadn't detected anything amiss yet, had a premonition that the situation was dire. He said gravely, "Your master will take his leave first. You two hurry and follow!"
With that, Ancestor Nihuo also transformed into a streak of crimson light and sped eastward.
In Yong'an Immortal City, the slaughter continued, escalating with each passing moment.
The high-level demonic beasts were even fighting amongst themselves over human cultivators, turning every street into a river of blood, littered with the remains of human flesh and bone.
A giant demon resembling a ferocious ape swung a spiked club in its hand, its fangs bared as it let out a threatening roar.
On the other side, a third-grade giant python, over ten zhang long, cast a reluctant glance with its vertical pupils at the dozen or so human cultivators trapped by a beast net nearby. It then powerfully slammed its tail against the ground and rapidly slithered away in another direction.
The giant ape pounded its chest in an excited roar before greedily eyeing the human cultivators ensnared by the beast net.
This was a Foundation Establishment family that hadn't managed to escape, caught in one net by this giant ape.
"Wretch, I'll fight you to the death!"
An elder with white hair, in the late Foundation Establishment stage, glared with furious eyes. His abdomen suddenly lit up with spiritual light, and a spiritual pressure surpassing the Foundation Establishment realm rapidly surged. He broke through the giant net and charged at the giant ape like a moth to a flame.
The giant ape cackled strangely, clapped its massive hands together, and crushed the elder into a meat patty. It then inhaled sharply, and the elder's corpse was quickly swallowed into its belly.
"Father! Grandfather!" the others within the net cried out in grief.
The giant ape then reached out with a large hand and grabbed a boy in his teens, with rosy lips and white teeth.
It licked its lips, its fierce eyes filled with greed.
In its view, although this human youth was only at the late Qi Condensation stage, he was far more delicious than those old bones.
"Mu'er!" a green-robed woman in the crowd screamed in despair, tears of blood streaming from her eyes.
Beside her, a middle-aged man with a resolute expression pulled the woman forcefully towards him, preventing her from witnessing the scene. With tears streaming down his face, he said, "My lady, fear not. We will have each other for company below. In the next life, we will surely kill all the alien races in the world!"
Just as the giant ape was about to stuff the boy in its hand into its gaping maw, it found its hand unable to move.
A look of surprise flashed in the giant ape's fierce eyes as it looked down.
A human youth had appeared inexplicably, looking at it with a blank expression, but the chilling killing intent in his eyes was like an erupting volcano, making its hairs stand on end.
The giant ape suppressed its fear and swung its spiked club fiercely at the youth.
Without even turning his head, the youth unleashed a palm strike. A colossal force, like an overturned mountain and raging sea, surged forward. The house-sized spiked club, along with the giant ape's right arm, exploded into pieces.
The giant ape let out a sky-shattering howl of pain.
At this moment, the youth's face suddenly contorted, and he roared, "Die for me!!"
As he unleashed a punch, the sound of wind and thunder accompanied the intense lightning. This late third-grade giant ape was directly blasted into ashes.
The power of this punch was far from over. The surging lightning spread like a tide, instantly covering an area of dozens of miles ahead.
Everywhere it passed, whether it was houses, buildings, or those demonic beasts and Sea Race members, they all turned to ashes in the lightning.
The newcomer was naturally Ning Fa, his expression as cold as ten thousand years of ice.
With a pat of his left hand, the young boy, held by the giant ape, landed on the ground within a spiritual light. The beast net also exploded.
More than a dozen cultivators rushed out. The green-robed woman tightly hugged the young boy, weeping uncontrollably. Then, she knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly to Ning Fa in the air. The others did the same.
"May I ask senior's honored name? Our Zhou Clan will forever be grateful for this life-saving grace!" the middle-aged man exclaimed excitedly.
Ning Fa did not reply. At this moment, his entire body was enveloped in intense electrical light, like a thunder god descending.
With a sweep of his spiritual sense, the hellish scene in Yong'an Immortal City was immediately revealed.
Ning Fa couldn't help but let out an angry, long cry towards the sky and then shot up into the air.
Like a thunderous storm, purple electrical light surged around him, like a purple sun igniting in the sky.
At this moment, Ning Fa exuded a terrifying spiritual pressure fluctuation that neared the Spirit Transformation stage.
From within the purple sun, Ning Fa spread his arms, and a supreme, pure, ancient, and vast aura emanated from him.
Within his body, the three great Innate Thunder Sea Divine Treasuries of Supreme Metal, Supreme Fire, and Supreme Wood were being frantically mobilized.
Especially within the Supreme Wood Thunder Sea Divine Treasury, the cyan-gold-purple three-colored thunderwood swayed incessantly, unleashing endless thunder power like falling leaves, surging upwards into the sky like a vortex.
Soon, an incredibly dazzling pillar of lightning shot upwards from Ning Fa's raised hands.
The wind rose and the clouds churned, and a five-colored thundercloud of white, crimson, cyan, gold, and purple instantly formed in the sky.
The surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy boiled like water, surging towards this thundercloud, causing it to expand rapidly and blot out the sun and moon.
Thunder rumbled, and countless thick bolts of lightning churned within the thundercloud, like the arrival of the apocalypse.
At this moment, Ning Fa, in his great rage, had unleashed the full power of his three Innate Divine Thunders.
He was now no different from a Spirit Transformation cultivator going all out.
In fact, the range and power of destruction even surpassed that of an ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivator.
After all, lightning contained the ultimate destructive power, especially Innate Divine Thunder.
Countless Sea Race and Demon Race cultivators, who were rampaging and slaughtering in the city, stopped their actions and looked up at the terrifying thundercloud in the sky.
The rolling thunder seemed to strike their hearts fiercely, filling their faces with fear and trembling in their minds—they all felt that disaster was imminent.
The vast number of low-level Demonic Beasts were so terrified they trembled uncontrollably, prostrating themselves on the ground and losing control of their bodily functions. In their fear, they even began attacking other Demonic Beasts beside them, causing widespread chaos.
The Second-grade and Third-grade Sea Monsters and Demon Race cultivators, who had already achieved considerable cultivation, no longer cared about slaughtering the Human Race. Instead, they fled frantically, attempting to escape the area covered by the Thunder Cloud.
But it was already too late.
The next moment, it was like a volcanic eruption.
As the sky-obscuring Five-Colored Thunder Cloud in the air churned, it began to rain down dense, varied lightning, almost completely engulfing the massive Yong'an Immortal City. The terrifying scene was like a thunderstorm descending upon the world.
Where the lightning struck, low-level Demonic Beasts turned to ash in swathes.
Even Third-grade Sea Race and Demon Race cultivators could only endure for a moment under the terrifying Innate Divine Thunder before they screamed and turned to dust in the lightning.
The Strange-horned Sea Race, which had been controlling the Blue Spirit Flame, fearfully unleashed all its Spirit Sand in an attempt to resist. However, under the intensely pure and yang Divine Thunder, these items of extreme evil were directly annihilated.
In the desperate eyes of the Strange-horned Sea Race, a bolt of Divine Thunder descended, striking him into dust.
"Ah! I am not reconciled!" The gloomy-faced Third-grade Sea Race elder frantically urged the Black Stone Tablet, desperately fleeing into the distance.
A bolt of Divine Thunder descended, and amidst the elder's despairing shout, he and the Black Stone Tablet alike vanished into nothingness.
Such scenes played out everywhere, with the sounds of explosions echoing incessantly, like a grand yet cruel fireworks ceremony.
Every breath, thousands of Sea Monsters and Demon Race members perished under the terrifying lightning.
In a short period, tens of thousands of Demonic Beasts and Sea Race members had fallen under Ning Fa's furious strike.
Strangely, the rampaging Thunder Power, as if possessing sentience, avoided the Human cultivators and mortals of this city, allowing them to remain unharmed amidst the terrifying thunderstorm.
"It is a Mighty Figure of our race who has come to save us!"
In Yong'an Immortal City, countless Human cultivators and mortals who had narrowly escaped death knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly, their eyes filled with tears of excitement!