“My sword!” roared Sky Sword. A massive broadsword cut through the void and severed the firmament.

A taciturn Tyrant Blade laid around him with his long blade. Northern Fist and Southern Fist unleashed a barrage of punches at the enemy in front of them.

They were back!

All Silver Moon martial masters shouted internally—we’re back! Silver Moon martial masters are back!

While we are weaklings in the chaos, we continue to move forward and have never given up. Even if we cannot keep up with Li Hao, even if we are unable to shelter him from the elements as we once did...

We Silver Moon martial masters are still here!

They upended the stars, just as they once had. Silver Moon martial masters poured in from all directions. Even when they glimpsed no hope and could not see the future... Today, at least, we see hope!

“Kill!” Battle cries shook the heavens. They vented long repressed grievances, humiliation, anger, panic, and despair...

Indeed, they’d once been frantic and lost all hope in life. We thought we’d been abandoned. But no, we are still here!

Auras rose!

Standing within the world of emptiness. Void started and quickly looked around him. Auras were flaring all around him. This was Silver Moon’s distinctive characteristic, one that Li Hao could not specifically define even now.

Was it great dao?

No.

Dao was dao, the aura was the aura.

Then what was it?

It was difficult to say, just that it was something unique to martial dao. It was the martial dao comprehension of a powerhouse, even if such a powerhouse was incredibly weak in someone else’s eyes. It was a mental metamorphosis.

Auras themselves weren’t that damaging, but in this moment, they were as if the arrival of heavenly might!

The auras induced apprehension and spread out like domains!

Indeed, auras also seemed to be a kind of dao domain, but not really. They were just a kind of... domain.

Once the auras were out, so did numerous Silver Moon exalted emperors flare their imperial might. It took only a moment to flood their targets. The chaos beast world masters were completely astonished.

What was going on here? Where did so many exalted emperors come from? Many of them seemed to be human exalted emperors—how did so many exist? Even if they did, they should not be present here. This was the intersection of the Phoenix and Dragon spheres of influence!

“Damn it, it’s humans!” The fifth rank had just started reacting when a little black dog, dark as night, appeared on top of its massive head.

Sharp claws struck with the Nine Forged Force!

The world aura came down on Panther’s target and delivered force layered nine times over!

Crunch!

Chaos beasts possessed an incredibly durable body, particularly when it came to their heads. But Panther’s sharp claws passed right through the other fifth rank as easily as if they sliced through tofu!

Brains and blood spurted outward. A dao mark immediately appeared, as brilliant as a chaos star.

A yawning maw shot toward it as soon as the dao mark appeared and closed down on it.

CRUNCH!

Sharp teeth that also seemed overlaid with forged force snapped the thick chaos dao into two. The dao mark shattered. The fifth rank didn’t even have time to wail before it was executed by the fifth rank Panther!

An assassination!

Panther was not skilled at frontal offensives. It knew a lot of skills and could wield thunder and lightning, water energy, and devour targets. But even Li Hao had forgotten that the dog was most adept at hiding.

That had ever been the case.

It was king of the darkness and could find cover anywhere so it could leap out anytime to deliver a lethal blow. Its body wasn’t strong enough to truly measure up to the most premier heavyweights, but Panther seemed to be able to instinctively hide itself in the darkness. People’s eyes just naturally drifted over the dog!

Li Hao tilted his head at Panther and paused at the takedown. He suddenly recalled some details, that his dog wasn’t proficient at mounting a direct attack, but hiding in a fashion that he himself had forgotten and overlooked!

He hadn’t paid it any attention before and felt it seemed a natural matter of course!

It was normal for Panther to appear in any location and at any timing for a successful ambush, but that was the most abnormal of all.

Li Hao took a deep look at the dog and didn’t say a word.

Compared to the Ash Emperor, Number Two, Heavenly Dog, or even third generations like Capsize Sea... there was nothing special about Panther. It seemed to be a very ordinary dog.

It possessed some serpent-dragon bloodline, yet that was insignificant in the grander picture of the chaos. Panther had surpassed the serpent-dragons of New Martial.

However, the dog was still very commonplace. It was so mundane that everyone felt that if it wasn’t for Li Hao, the dog would have difficulty reaching even Fused Dao, to say nothing of fifth rank.

But in this moment, the dog seemed far from ordinary. It’d killed a fifth rank with one claw strike.

While that appeared to be a simple ambush to the rest, Li Hao knew that one could not ambush a fifth rank so easily. Hence, being so ordinary was in itself also a type of dao, wasn’t it?

Panther was a fifth rank and a world master, yet an utterly run-of-the-mill little black dog. That was the most extraordinary about it. Panther was so used to being middle-of-the-road that it’d forgotten that it knew such a dao.

How interesting!

Perhaps Panther hadn’t realized such a dao existed, or perhaps it believed it was just a little dog from the bottom of its heart. It’d been a stray taken in when it met Li Hao.

The dog itself believed in its mundaneness. It was so humble that to claim itself as a descendant of a serpent-dragon was to elevate its own status. But was one still a descendant one hundred thousand years later? The Heavenly Dog came one hundred thousand years before the serpent-dragon!

That meant their heritage had been passed down for thousands, even tens of thousands of generations. Did that still count as a descendant?

Not at all!

To call oneself a descendant was just to elevate one’s status. New Martial was very strong, so it simply borrowed from New Martial’s reputation.

In reality, Panther was just an ordinary little black dog. Li Hao’s fondest hope for it was that the little dog could become as ferocious as a panther. That was all.

Crunch!

Boom!

An explosion ripped through the void as the fifth rank died. This shocked the other chaos beasts to their senses. There were pros and cons to authority being centralized in Dragon Region. The greatest con was on display right now.

The formerly wandering chaos beasts had lost their vigilance after years of easy living. They’d even forgotten that their deaths were a possibility.

It was too safe here. It was so safe that apart from the Dragon master, they feared no one. Not even seventh ranks would make them think twice because this was the Dragon master’s territory.

“Humans!”

“This is an ambush!”

“......” Chaos beasts reacted only now and let loose with furious howls that shook the void. However, Li Hao’s people had long since sealed off the premises.

Two great rivers of dao suppressed the worlds, cutting off all avenues of escape for these exalted emperors!

A bright moon appeared within the worlds. The queen’s voice echoed in all directions throughout the land.

“I am the Sky God Ling Yue of the human race! I recall with deep emotion the miseries of survival and the suffering of humanity. Our worlds have fallen and our family and friends relegated to food.

“Today, I execute demons and glorify humanity. Salvation is at hand! Those who believe me can enter the divine nation. There, you will find no oppression, pain, illness, or torment. Families will be reunited. Peace and joy will be known by all!”

Her beguiling tones reverberated from the sky.

Countless humans in a dozen nearby minor worlds lifted their heads up to the sky. Disbelief shone out of their eyes. They were stunned, shocked, and lost. But there was also a burgeoning fervor in their eyes!

Had humanity turned the tables?

A supreme god was upon them to liberate everyone!

Boom!

The firmament bled blood as endless armored cultivators descended from above. A powerhouse wearing golden armor obliterated a domineering beast with one punch.

“I am the king of humanity, the king of Great Li!” he roared. “My name is Bei Wu! Those who believe in the gods may enter the divine nation. Those who wish to build their homes with me and work with their own two hands, to utilize their own strength in hard work can remain where they are. Once my army exterminates the demons, you will join Great Li to make humans glorious again!”

Unrest rippled through the crowd as blood splattered across their faces. Countless monster spirits and chaos beasts were being slaughtered by human cultivators!

It was a complete massacre! Blood flowed in rivers!

Some danced with abandon, others knelt in worship. Some prostrated themselves while others tilted their heads back up at the sky. A golden light developed around some as faith enveloped them. They ascended to the heavens with one step and entered the divine nation. Heaven reflected out of their wide-eyed looks.

Another group remained where they were and looked into the distance, at where the golden armor powerhouse eradicated demons with each punch. Their blood boiled with enthusiasm.

“Great Li, Bei Wu!” they shouted.

Despite the differences in language and the fact that the Great Li king had only communicated through mental ripples, the humans of these worlds were still able to give voice to this name. That was the name of their liege!

Kill!

He was using the most basic technique and the most violent method to annihilate these demons!

As wondrous as the divine nation was, a god... was too far removed from them.

But when worlds shook and mountains fell apart? That was very real and tangible.

This was a bloodbath of monster spirits and an extinction event for chaos beasts. Keening wails sounded throughout lands far and wide as the killing did not stop!