He knew that if not for Lu Xuan turning the tide, fighting the three giants alone and defeating them, the Ancient Realm would likely have been doomed today.
After this battle, Lu Xuan’s name would truly resound throughout the heavens and myriad realms, becoming a supreme existence that even the source of darkness and the Foreign Land would fear!
And the alliance between the Primordial Ancient Realm, the Golden Crow Clan, and the Immortal Domain had, through this trial of blood and fire, become unbreakable.
The smoke of battle gradually dispersed, but the road to rebuilding their homeland and facing even greater storms in the future remained long.
The three dark giants had fled in defeat, Chi Wang and Wushang had escaped with injuries, and the allied forces of darkness and the Foreign Land had utterly collapsed, fleeing for their lives toward the rift in the Realm Sea and the direction of the Foreign Land like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
But how could Lu Xuan allow them to leave so easily?
The Foreign Land had taken advantage of their peril, stabbing the Ancient Realm in the back at its most desperate hour and plunging countless living beings into misery and death. Such a blood debt had to be repaid in blood!
Though his magical power had been greatly depleted and his aura rose and fell unsteadily, within those double pupils that contained chaos and the great sun, killing intent burned like tangible icy flames!
“You want to leave? Have you asked this Emperor?”
Lu Xuan’s voice was icy. He took one step forward, his figure merging into the void, and in the next instant, he had already appeared above the fleeing army of the Foreign Land.
He paid no attention to the ordinary dark creatures and miscellaneous soldiers. His divine sense spread out like an invisible net of heaven.
In an instant, it locked onto those most conspicuous figures within the routed army, those exuding the aura of Immortal Kings!
They were the backbone of the Foreign Land’s invasion, executioners whose hands were stained with the blood of the Ancient Realm!
The first to be locked onto was a Thunder Demon King skilled in controlling storms and thunder.
It transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang thunder demon body, destructive dark lightning coiling around it as it tore through the void, attempting to flee back to the Foreign Land at the fastest speed possible.
“Thunder? Before this Emperor, you dare call yourself king?”
Lu Xuan did not even use the Chaos Bell. He merely brought two fingers together like a blade and slashed from afar toward the Thunder Demon King!
Taiyi Divine Ability—Solar Judgment!
A resplendent golden divine blade, condensed to the extreme and seemingly formed from pure solar laws, appeared out of thin air.
Ignoring the distance of space, it swept across the Thunder Demon King’s neck in an instant!
The dark lightning shield, powerful enough to tear apart stars, was easily sliced open before the radiant golden divine blade!
The Thunder Demon King’s massive head, still bearing an expression of disbelief and terror, separated from its body. Dark purple demonic blood sprayed out like a waterfall!
The primordial spirit within had just attempted to flee when it was instantly burned into nothingness by the true solar fire attached to the divine blade!
An Immortal King, slain in an instant!
When the fleeing army of the Foreign Land saw this, their souls nearly left their bodies, and they fled even more frantically!
Lu Xuan moved again, appearing like a ghost behind another Shadow Slaughter King who was trying to hide within the interlayers of dimensions.
This Immortal King was most skilled in concealment and assassination, its aura hidden to the utmost limit.
“Hiding your head and showing your tail. Die!”
Chaotic currents swirled in Lu Xuan’s left eye, instantly seeing through all of its concealment. His right fist struck out simply and directly, chaos qi and true solar fire interweaving upon the edge of his fist!
“Bang!”
That dimensional interlayer shattered like glass, and the Shadow Slaughter King’s figure was forcibly blasted out.
Before it could even react, that domineering fist force struck it squarely in the back!
The terrifying power of chaos and the sun instantly invaded its body, igniting its sturdy Immortal King physique from within. Like ice thrown into a furnace, it rapidly melted away, unable even to let out a scream!
A second Immortal King had fallen!
“Scatter and flee! Don’t let him defeat us one by one!”
An older and more experienced Immortal King roared in terror, warning his companions.
However, before Lu Xuan, who wielded spacetime and chaos, what use was scattering and fleeing?
His figure flickered. Every time he appeared, an Immortal King would inevitably fall!
At times, he was a Golden Crow transforming into rainbow light, catching up with extreme speed and tearing apart their primordial spirits with one claw!
At times, chaotic tribulation light swept past, assimilating them and their protective king weapons into chaotic currents!
At times, the Chaos Bell merely trembled lightly, and as the bell waves swept by, an Immortal King’s body would disintegrate, the Great Dao wailing in grief!
He was like a god of death walking the mortal world, accurately and efficiently harvesting the lives of the Foreign Land’s top experts!
The fall of every Immortal King was accompanied by sorrowful phenomena across the sky and the increasingly despairing wails of the routed Foreign Land army!
These Immortal Kings, who normally tyrannized the Foreign Land and looked down upon the cycle of eras, were now nothing but clay chickens and pottery dogs before Lu Xuan, unable to withstand a single blow!
“No! Don’t kill me! I am willing to submit!”
An Immortal King shaped like a giant scorpion had its path blocked by Lu Xuan. In terror, it gave up resisting and prostrated itself in the void, begging for mercy.
Lu Xuan’s eyes were cold, without the slightest fluctuation.
“You violated my allies. A blood debt must be repaid in blood. The Foreign Land must offer king’s blood in sacrifice.”
Before his words had finished, a streak of true solar fire swept past, reducing it to ashes.
He was not a bloodthirsty man, but toward these invaders—especially the kings of the Foreign Land whose hands were stained with the blood of the Ancient Realm’s living beings—he would show not the slightest mercy.
This was war, a struggle for the survival of races. There was no room for even the slightest softness!
Under his merciless hunting, in a short span of time, more than seven Immortal Kings were forever left behind in this starry sky of the Ancient Realm they had once ravaged!
Their origins and Great Dao fragments scattered, instead replenishing the damaged heaven and earth of the Ancient Realm to a certain extent.
The remaining Immortal Kings of the Foreign Land were scared out of their wits. No longer able to care about anything else, they burned their blood essence one after another and unleashed all kinds of forbidden escape techniques, seeking only to get farther from this baleful star—farther still!
Lu Xuan stood in the void, watching those fish that had slipped through the net flee in panic into the mist of the Realm Sea or toward the Foreign Land. He did not continue pursuing them.
He understood well that one should not pursue a cornered enemy too far. Moreover, after this round of hunting, more than half of the Foreign Land’s top forces in this invasion had already been lost. Their vitality was gravely damaged, and it would be extremely difficult for them to pose a threat again in the short term.
He slowly calmed the surging qi and blood within his body. The continuous high-intensity battles and slaughter had also pushed his consumption to a critical point.
His gaze swept across the battlefield that was gradually settling down, looking at the allied forces of the Ancient Realm and Immortal Domain as they cleared away the remaining enemies, rescued the wounded, and gathered the remains of their fallen comrades.
He looked at the Ten-Sun Golden Crow Grand Formation, which was still slowly revolving, scattering radiance to purify the darkness.
In Lu Xuan’s heart, there was not much joy of victory—only a heavy sense of responsibility and solemnity toward the future.
After this battle, he and the Golden Crow Clan could be considered to have completely stood on the opposite side of the source of darkness and the Foreign Land.
The storms of the future would only grow fiercer.
But so what?
He clenched his fist, sensing the embryonic Dao of Chaos Gestating the Sun that had begun to merge within his body, and his gaze once again became firm and sharp.
“When soldiers come, a general will block them; when water comes, earth will dam it. My Dao shall be forged in battle and sublimated through protection!”
He turned and flew toward the direction where Wuzhong Immortal King and the others were.
Though the war had temporarily ended, there were still many matters that needed discussion and aftermath to be handled.
And his name—Lu Xuan—as well as his invincible record today of battling the three giants alone and hunting down the kings.
They would surely be like an immortal monument, deeply branded into the hearts of all living beings of this era, becoming a legend passed down through the ages!