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Chapter 875: Chapter 881: Battle to the Death
"As for the distant battlegrounds, we still have no knowledge, but in several nearby locations, we are at a disadvantage."
With these words, the Great Devils present all furrowed their brows.
It should be known that for this war, they had deployed a large number of Sea Clan members. To say that they had left no stone unturned was perhaps an exaggeration, but they had definitely brought out their full capabilities!
Yet still, they couldn’t overcome the cultivators! This left the Great Devils puzzled and bewildered.
In their eyes, the power of the Sea Clan was the strongest—what were mere cultivators in comparison?
But the reality was completely the opposite of what they had thought!
Not only were they not gaining the upper hand, they were actually at a disadvantage.
"What do you think we should do now?" the Great Devil asked.
"Other than fighting to the death, we have no other choice!"
They wanted to reclaim the near seas, but the cultivators would definitely not agree.
The cultivators needed a buffer to keep the human race and the Sea Clan apart, and the best choice was the territorial waters won by their ancestors.
Could they really concede the coastal zones? That would render them sinners of the human race for eternity.
After a few days of rest, the great battle erupted once again!
The Sea Clan received another batch of reinforcements, with several Fifth-order Great Devils joining the war and countless Low-Level Water Demons to say the least.
Li Zhirui was engaged in a fierce battle with a special Fifth-order Flood Dragon.
It was considered special because it was an extremely rare Poisonous Flood Dragon!
The Poisonous Flood Dragon’s entire body was covered in deadly poison. If it were another in Divine Transformation, perhaps many would hesitate, fearful of being poisoned.
But for Li Zhirui, he didn’t care at all!
Because the Purification Principle he mastered was the bane of all severe poisons in the world!
Of course, that mainly depended on one’s Cultivation and mastery of the Laws.
As of now, Li Zhirui had no problem dealing with a Poisonous Flood Dragon, so it was constantly being suppressed, which was tremendously frustrating for it.
As time passed, the Poisonous Flood Dragon was battered and bruised, its wounds oozing greenish-black poisonous blood which quickly corroded the nearby corpses upon dripping into the sea.
"Even in death, I won’t let you get away easily!"
The Poisonous Flood Dragon bellowed in rage, suddenly spewing a beam of Spirit Light from its mouth that even slightly fractured The Void where it passed, due to the corrosion.
Such terrifying poison would have caused considerable damage to other beings in Divine Transformation if contaminated.
But to Li Zhirui, it was useless!
He simply pointed his hand, and a Bai Lian bloomed out of nowhere, intercepting the deadly Spirit Light.
"Die!"
Wrapped in the purifying light, the Poisonous Flood Dragon let out mournful wails, as the giant body of the Flood Dragon struggled in vain within the Laws.
Sadly, the suppression by the Laws led to its inevitable death.
With the loss of a leading Fifth-order Poisonous Flood Dragon, the pressure on the Li family facing the Sea Clan army eased significantly, as Li Zhirui was able to free up his hands to assist others.
The situation for the Li family was looking very promising. Some among the other Divine Transformation beings were entangled in bitter struggles, while some held an absolute advantage.
One Divine Transformation being brandishing a crimson Treasured Sword fought with tremendous ferocity; his Swordsmanship had reached the pinnacle of perfection, his power extremely terrifying.
However, his luck was not as good as Li Zhirui’s—he had encountered an opponent with a strength that was equally formidable.
One person, one Flood Dragon, made the surroundings chaotically dark.
Yan Feng channeled all his mana into the treasured sword in his hand, aiming to unleash the most powerful strike to dispose of the Flood Dragon before him.
Whoosh—
The sword light was restrained, appearing very common at a glance, but it made the Flood Dragon sense a great threat, frantically wielding divine powers in an attempt to stop the sword light.
However, these divine powers were like thin paper before the sword light, easily punctured with a gentle poke, utterly incapable of obstruction.
Utter terror split the Flood Dragon’s heart as it immediately sacrificed its most precious Dragon Ball to try to block the sword light, reasoning that even if the Dragon Ball was damaged, it was still better than losing its life.
The next moment, the sword light descended, and the Dragon Ball was sent flying, the Flood Dragon vomited a large mouthful of fresh blood, its face revealing a look of despair.
It had already sacrificed the Dragon Ball, but it still couldn’t avoid death.
Whoosh!
The Flood Dragon was cut clean in two by the sword light.
But actually, the strength of the Flood Dragon race wasn’t this weak, for there were Divine Transformation cultivators who had died at their hands!
Overall, the strength of both sides was still evenly matched, and it was difficult to determine the victor in a short time.
As time passed, the nearby sea areas around the island chain reeked with a pungent smell of blood, but the sea hadn’t turned red; it was a dark and oppressive sight!
The cause of this was the excessive number of dead creatures; their carcasses covered the surface of the sea!
Jiang Fengwu shone radiantly on the battlefield!
Her mastery of the Void Formation, although somewhat weakened in strength, was deployed at an incredibly fast speed. Often before the first layer of the Formation could be broken, Jiang Fengwu had already set up the third layer.
The Great Devils simply couldn’t break through the Formations and were gradually worn down and killed by Jiang Fengwu.
Da Qing’s defense was excessive, but his offense lacking, so Li Zhirui didn’t have him join the battle, but instead had him strengthen the defense on the island to prevent it from being breached by the Water Devils.
If the Defensive Formation were breached like on other islands, the Water Devils would swarm in, and the clan members on the island would be in big trouble.
Xiaoqing and Cang, one mastered the Gang Wind Law Principle and the other the Cyan Thunder Rule, both had formidable combat power. However, the problem was that they had recently made a breakthrough and their mastery of the Laws was limited.
Although they performed well, that was all they could do.
The bodies of Water Devils and cultivators already covered the nearby sea, countless dead and wounded, yet even so, the great battle showed no signs of stopping!
The Sea Clan suffered more casualties, but the number of dead and injured cultivators was also not small, and both sides still maintained a roughly equal balance of power.
Even the Li family cultivators protected by Li Zhirui and others suffered numerous injuries and fatalities.
Because the Defensive Formation was briefly broken open by a large hole by the Water Devils, it happened so suddenly that the nearby clan members couldn’t react in time and were directly killed by the spells and divine powers that surged in from outside.
Fortunately, with Jiang Fengwu, a fifth-order Array Master present, the Formation was quickly repaired; otherwise, if the Defensive Formation had been breached, the casualties of the Li family would have been much more than double digits!
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Wanxian Island.
"How goes the situation on the front lines?" Li Mingzi enquired of the clansmen sent back due to severe injuries.
As the head of the clan, and since her cultivation was only at the Golden Core level, Li Zhirui would not have allowed her to join the battle, so Li Mingzi and several Elders stayed on Wanxian Island to deal with family affairs.
Of course, now with the great battle underway, their priority was to refine more Spiritual Objects to supply to the clan members participating in the war.
Besides that, they had to maintain the stability of Wanxian Province and prevent some cultivators with ulterior motives from causing trouble.
And Li Mingzi, along with the others, could only learn about which clansmen had been sacrificed through their Life Tokens. For more detailed information, they had to ask the clansmen who had returned from the battlefield.
When she heard that the family was being threatened and in danger, Li Mingzi reacted with great anger. Fortunately, they had gotten through the ordeal safely, otherwise, she couldn’t even bear to imagine the price the Li family would have paid.
