Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 560 - 485: Ancient Heavenly Court Great Array

Bang——

Like the crash of an otherworldly realm falling onto the earth, a colossal mushroom cloud of dazzling colors rose into the sky, blocking out the sun.

As if to envelop the entire Southern Ming Wasteland beneath it.

Following the thunderous sound!

A fierce storm whipped the ground bare, creating a terrifying shockwave that could instantly annihilate anything below the Dao Body Realm!

Over two hundred Human Race Dao Body True Monarchs clashed with nearly three hundred Demon Kings and Demon Lords from the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains!

An unprecedented brutal and bloody battle!

As if this realm had returned to the Middle Ancient Era.

Returning to that monumental Middle Ancient Era's Humans vs. Demons decisive battle!

Rumble——

The earth and sky quaked endlessly, traces of the Great Dao appearing one after another. Over two hundred Dao Body True Monarchs joined forces, merging their auras, practicing a supreme formation. Grotto Heavens rose in the void like a sea of brilliant stars, forming a terrifying Slaughter Great Formation that could sweep across everything!

The Demon Kings and Demon Lords of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains outnumbered the Human Race's Dao Body True Monarchs by a full thirty percent.

In pure combat, the Human Race is at a disadvantage.

Therefore, before heading to the Southern Ming Wasteland, the Dao Alliance transmitted this formation, said to originate from the Ancient Heavenly Court, for the Dao Body True Monarchs heading there to practice.

This formation is mysterious, ancient, and distant. Though incomplete, once deployed, it can exert limitless power.

Unknowably, the boundless power of the stars was drawn by this formation.

Grotto Heavens, like ancient stars of billions of years past, linked by some special sequence, transformed the power of the stars into terrifying Slaughter!

The formation quivered slightly, and the void instantly collapsed, disintegrating in silence. As earth, water, wind, and fire boiled, terrifying Slaughter starlight surged forth.

Such a horrifying scene caused a group of Demon Kings and Demon Lords on the opposite side to tremble with fear.

"How can we fight? If we enter, won't we be ground into powder in minutes?"

"No, no, we can't do this suicide mission."

"But if we leave like this, wouldn't it be too shameful?"

"Are you stupid? Is face more important than life?"

"Since we can't win, should we... retreat?"

Continuous whispers gradually spread like waves among the Demon Kings and Demon Lords.

Compared to the Human Race, most of these Demon Kings and Demon Lords were forced to come.

They should have been enjoying themselves in their own cave mansions, but had been brought to such a place where they could die at any moment, harboring thousands of reluctances.

Now, seeing themselves forced to recklessly charge into such a terrifying formation, they naturally hesitated to retreat.

But as this sentiment flooded through the Demon Kings and Demon Lords, a silver light flashed by, sharp enough to sever heaven and earth.

The first Demon King or Demon Lord who suggested retreat hadn't even reacted.

The next moment!

A thin line of blood cracked open from their forehead down!

Slash!

Before everyone's eyes, several Demon Kings and Demon Lords instantly turned into a grotesque mess of flesh and blood, their souls becoming nothing, truly dead.

"Disturbing morale, cowardly deserters!

Execute!"

The sword-holding woman in the void spoke indifferently, her voice monotonous, yet reaching the ears of the Demon Kings and Demon Lords like a thousand-year-old cold ice, stabbing their marrow with pain!

Their necks felt as if a chilling blade hovered.

The sword edge faintly cut their skin.

In the next second, it would slice off their heads!

With the sword-holding woman herself supervising, the small schemes within the Demon Kings and Demon Lords vanished into smoke, not daring to test the sharpness of the sword edge with their lives.

"What the hell are you all waiting for, charge together!"

With an earth-shattering roar, a storm of demonic clouds and devil beasts surged up, like a massive dark tide crashing fiercely towards the Human Race Dao Body True Monarchs' Celestial Formation.

Rumble!

Upon breaching the Ancient Heavenly Court Great Array, the Demon Kings and Demon Lords revealed their original True Bodies, towering tens of thousands of feet, shouldering the sun and moon, engaging in a fierce clash with the endless formation's might.

Yet this Ancient Heavenly Court Great Array could draw power from all the heavens and stars relentlessly, with murderous starlight seemingly inexhaustible, no matter how many the Demon Kings and Demon Lords destroyed, it would regenerate, and in greater numbers!

As the number of Slaughter starlight increased.

These Demon Kings and Demon Lords within the formation began to struggle, unable to withstand the incisive, terrifying starlight, their original True Bodies and Law of Heaven and Earth failing to defend.

Being struck by it leaves an injury that is extremely difficult to heal.

The starlight continually obliterates their cultivation and Dao, truly terrifying.

Soon some Demon Kings and Demon Lords endure too much starlight attacking internally, scream in agony, and dissolve into a shower of light fragments, vanishing silently.

"Destroy these Grotto Heavens, without them, they can't draw the power of the stars."

Soon, a sharp-eyed Demon King or Demon Lord noticed the Ancient Celestial flaw.

In an instant, massive hands reach out fiercely, engulfing infinite devilish fire and demon wind, crushing down, forcibly demolishing the Grotto Heavens.

As the Star Grotto Heaven collapsed, vast swathes of slaughtering starlight immediately dimmed. Within the entire formation, the heavens wept and the earth wailed, great swathes of darkness surged forward, intent on swallowing this configuration whole.

"Reversal of the heavens, extinction of the stars!"

Just as the Demon Kings and Demon Lords realized the formation's power was waning and revealed sinister smiles of triumph, a gentle shout rang out from the depths of the formation.

In the next instant!

The originally dim and sluggish Ancient Heavenly Court Great Array suddenly exploded in a burst of fury. In that moment, countless stars rolled in unison, blooming with brilliant polar radiance, transforming the sky into dazzling daylight.

Mouths of Star Grottos Heaven slowly collapsed inward.

When condensed to the extreme!

Whoosh—

As fine as a thumb, the ultimate starlight, shifting from white to black, suddenly shot forth, piercing the void, extinguishing the Qiankun. Its speed so fast, none among the Dao Experts present could react.

Poof, poof, poof—

In an instant, thirty-seven Demon Kings and Lords were shot through the brow and Ancestral Aperture by these pure black starlights. Their majestic bodies trembled, then collapsed backward. Their uncontrolled bodies and manifestations exploded on impact, unleashing terrifying ripples that tore through everything around them, causing the unsuspecting Demon Kings and Lords to be blasted, flipping over, bloodied and mangled!

As the Ancient Heavenly Court Great Array exhausted its reserves, after slaying thirty-seven Demon Kings and Lords, a group of True Monarchs of Dao Body fearlessly charged out, employing their methods, wielding their magical treasures, with divine light majestic and boundless, obscuring the heavens as they surged forward.

Boom, boom, boom—

The blood battle ignited, Demon Kings and Lords let out frenzied roars, their faces breaking out into grim smiles.

Having been suppressed and tormented by this Ancient Heavenly Court Great Array for so long, they could finally unleash their full might.

Hundreds of Dao Experts engaged in chaotic combat!

In an instant, an area nearly a million miles around transformed into a state of chaotic obscurity.

Occasionally, torrents of blood like a thousand-mile Changhe flowed by, massive remains of limbs and bodies, intent on reforming into complete entities, constantly fell from the depths of the void.

These remnants of flesh and limbs, essence blood all imbued with vast, magnificent power, fell to the earth, continuously mixing and merging, gradually generating areas suffused with eerie forces as forbidden zones.

"Damn it, can't fight back?"

A medium-built, wrinkled-faced middle-aged man resembling a haggard farmer tore off two of Spider Demon King's arms, revealing his true form. With his head full of compound eyes, he showed a look of terror.

He fought several thousand rounds against this man, growing increasingly alarmed. In this short span of less than half an hour, he was nearly killed by him.

Moreover, more frightening was that his companions around him, all confronted similar turbulent situations.

This time, these Human Race True Monarchs of Dao Body came prepared, their power exceptionally formidable!

"Still have time to watch others?"

Rubbing coarse hands together, Quadsplit Sea True Lord Feng Jun took a step forward, like a descending deity. Where he passed, the void collapsed, space-bounding shattered, unable to bear the weight of his physical presence.

Boom!

A fist of golden brilliance thundered forth, indomitable and peerless. The qi and blood emitted by the Undying Golden Body made the Spider Demon King ignite in blistering golden flames, howling in pain, mobilizing his entire cultivation, as black and red spider silk surged forth, enveloping strands of the Power of the Great Dao, wrapping Feng Jun into a giant cocoon in an instant!

"Hiss!"

With a fierce screech, the Spider Demon King pounced, sinking fangs laden with Dao-level poison into the cocoon.

But the next moment, the Spider Demon King's expression changed drastically, its remaining six legs flailing wildly, intending to withdraw.

Amidst ear-piercing wails, two massive hands grip the Spider Demon King's fangs tightly, then forcefully snapped them.

Crack—

"Ah!!!"

Accompanied by an incredibly crisp sound was an earth-shattering howl; those rough large hands tore the cocoon to pieces. As the palms clasped together, enormous golden handprints emerged in the void, crushing the Spider Demon King within.

Screech—

Thick viscous fluid and blood streamed down, pooling over the ravaged earth, forming yet another embryonic forbidden zone.

"Master Sword Servant, these Human Race True Monarchs came prepared, their power is overwhelming, not ordinary."

The Grey Robed Elder Monk approached the woman holding a sword with a worried expression, muttering lowly. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Human Race versus demons.

With the advantages of physical bodies and rapid advancement in the demon path, often the demons held a significant edge.

But this advantage dwindled upon reaching the Dao Body Realm.

Because, in the Dao Body Realm, it came to understanding one's cultivated Dao.

Additionally, with techniques like the Law of Heaven and Earth and the Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, the physical advantages of demons became leveled off.

As for understanding the Dao, the Human Race's cultivation techniques may be slow early on, but they grow increasingly formidable in the later stages.

The demon path, while rapid in early cultivation, suffers from an unstable Dao foundation and insufficient reserves, placing it at a disadvantage in the Dao Body Realm.

Thus, at the Daoist Body Level, the gap between the Human Race and demons is already very small, even sometimes reversed.

This time at the Southern Ming Wasteland, those from the Human Race dispatched were elite prodigies of Ancient Sect nobility, or renowned True Monarchs.

Yet, in contrast to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains here, most were forced into battle, with no other choice, even drawing lots of life and death, destined to participate.

Power varied greatly, less apparent when battling in small groups.

Now at the decisive confrontation.

The Human Race's overall strength and individual prowess were far ahead, casting a heavy shadow over the heads of the Demon Kings and Demon Lords.

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