Longzang

Chapter 734 Return to Heaven and Earth
The death of the seaweed instantly enraged Wei Yuan, while the enemy's heroic spirit and tragic fate were worthless in Wei Yuan's eyes.

Wei Yuan pointed forward and shouted, "Kill them all!"

Countless speedboats, like a pack of wolves, circled the enemy. The stronger boats used powerful bows and crossbows, while the weaker boats carried large-caliber hand cannons, desperately unleashing their firepower.

The mane-haired warriors were already adrift at sea, which greatly affected their accuracy. Wei Yuan then used the power of human fireworks to suppress them, increasing their own range and accuracy, and interfering with the enemy's firing. With this back and forth, the mane-haired warriors could hardly hit anyone, while their own side was shot into the sea one by one.

Two large ships also arrived at the battlefield, and their cannons became deadly weapons. A single shot would blast even the largest sampan of the mane-haired warriors to smithereens along with its crew.

Wei Yuan separately commanded a speedboat force, which rapidly advanced to the interface between the two worlds, intending to wipe out the enemies who had gone to sea.

With each death of a warrior with flowing hair, a tiny bit of spiritual energy dissipates and is absorbed by the mortal world. At first, no one notices, but when the number of fallen warriors reached hundreds or thousands, the Heavenly Dao chains binding Han Li, Jun Weizhi, and the others loosened almost imperceptibly.

Although the loosening might only be one in a thousand, with their talents, they could clearly sense the change. Long Wushuang's aura instantly erupted, and he propelled the speedboat beneath him straight into the enemy's rear.

Jun Weizhi's aura became deep and unpredictable. He personally held a crossbow and shot enemies into the sea one by one. The firing speed was neither fast nor slow, but its strength lay in its stability.

Han Li first looked around, then carefully observed his opponent, while his hands were also quick, his two flying swords shuttling back and forth, reaping lives one by one.

Dugu Cangqiong looked at Long Wushuang and Jun Weizhi with a strange expression, not understanding what had triggered Long Wushuang, nor why Jun Weizhi had become dangerous.

Wei Yuan remained hidden in the air, overseeing the entire situation and suppressing the battlefield with the power of heaven and earth. At the same time, he secretly added three strands of advanced celestial fortune and the last strand of purple energy to the girl Yin Yang.

The bloody battle with the Liao tribe had depleted Wei Yuan's luck, especially his high-level luck. Facing immortals directly, Wei Yuan could only rely on his luck to counter their power, which depleted it exceptionally quickly. This was all the high-level luck he possessed, enough to allow the young girl to unleash three full-force attacks while ensuring her freedom of movement back to the central city.

Wei Yuan's plan was that once the enemy Yu Jing appeared, he and Long Ying would do their best to hold them off, with the various immortal plants providing support. After withstanding the strongest attacks from the Yu Jing powerhouse, the girl Yin Yang would suddenly strike with all her might in three attacks, aiming to kill the opponent on the spot, or at least severely injure him.

All of this is contingent on Wei Yuan and Long Ying being able to withstand the opponent without dying.

At this moment, Wei Yuan had nothing to worry about on the battlefield. He was also present amidst the everyday life of the people. Everyone on each speedboat received their own unique mission instructions in real time, and all they had to do was follow them without having to think.

For example, the speedboat drivers are given instructions like "one, two, three, four, two, two, three, four..." They just need to crank the handle in rhythm.

Then one could see countless speedboats like a pack of wolves, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes splitting up and sometimes joining together, each one moving erratically, yet cooperating with each other in perfect harmony.

Wei Yuan breathed a slight sigh of relief. Judging from the current battle situation, the enemy would be completely annihilated, while his own losses would be limited. This was all contingent on Yu Jing not intervening.

Suddenly, a terrifying, enormous will filled with cruel and bloodthirsty killing intent descended, like a fog covering the entire battlefield, even forcing the power of heaven and earth to retreat.

The man with dark silver hair and the warrior with light gold hair walked in from the sea. Wherever they went, the sea was as smooth as a mirror, without a ripple. Everyone's movements froze for a moment, as if time and space had been displaced for a moment.

The warrior with pale gold hair shouted, "The enemy is powerful and cunning! We can no longer sacrifice ourselves in vain, my kin! It is time to return to the Holy Throne!"

The mane-haired warriors roared, their movements becoming even faster and more ferocious. They extended their sharp claws, slicing open their own iron-like bodies, letting the blood flow freely.

Facing a suddenly crazed opponent, Wei Yuan showed no mercy, nor did he have the habit of making his opponent complete any rituals. He gave the order for a full-scale attack, and simultaneously, his hundred-odd Dao Foundation Establishment warriors, mixed among the mortals, also charged forward. Long Wushuang exhaled, drew back a giant bow, and fired an arrow! This arrow was powerful and heavy. Initially slightly off course due to the waves, its trajectory automatically corrected as it flew, its speed increasing, and it pierced through a warrior with flowing hair.

Long Wushuang did not wait for the result of the first arrow. In the short gap, he shot six more arrows, which were directed at six of his enemies.

However, the mane-haired warrior who had been pierced suddenly uttered a strange incantation, his figure vanished, and he reappeared next to Long Wushuang, the two standing almost face to face!

Long Wushuang was shocked and before he could react, the mane-haired warrior had already plunged his short sword into his body! Then, six more mane-haired warriors appeared around him, and six short swords pierced Long Wushuang's body from different angles.

After the assassination, the seven warriors with maned hair turned to ashes and vanished without a trace.

Covered in blood, Long Wushuang stood at the bow of the ship, his eyes wide open, a hoarse sound escaping his throat. All his doubts and resentment were frozen on his blood-red face. After trembling for a moment, Long Wushuang plunged into the sea and sank.

On the battlefield, one by one, the warriors with flowing hair would disappear from their spots and reappear beside the opponents who had delivered the fatal blow. With a backhand slash, they would plunge their swords into the opponent's vital points, and then the opponent would turn to ashes.

In a short time, hundreds of warriors with flowing hair dragged their mortal enemies to their deaths.

Those capable of killing opponents from a distance on the open sea are all Foundation Establishment cultivators. In an instant, over two hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, along with over a hundred of Wei Yuan's Foundation Establishment warriors, were all killed in the chaos of battle!

Being stabbed in a vital spot by the short sword of the mane-haired warrior means the annihilation of both body and soul, regardless of whether one is a mortal cultivator or a Dao Foundation warrior. Even with the Gate to All Realms in hand, Wei Yuan was powerless in the Black Pool filled with spider lilies.

The mane-haired warrior's move can almost be described as a causal law, allowing him to instantly teleport to the attacker's side and deliver a fatal blow. The price is that he burns his physical body and primordial spirit, instantly burning himself down to ashes!
Wei Yuan was both shocked and furious. At first, when the crimson-haired warrior and the seaweed perished together, Wei Yuan simply assumed it was some kind of powerful magic. The crimson-haired warrior was also at the late stage of the Dharma Aspect realm, so it wasn't surprising that he could use it. However, he never expected that every member of this race possessed such a secret technique!
What kind of bizarre race is this that could research such a secret technique?

For a moment, Wei Yuan couldn't find a way to break the deadlock. Seeing that all the Dao Foundation-level warriors on the sea were dead, even those who had reached the Great Perfection of Body Forging had slashed their own bodies open!

Wei Yuan immediately ordered the speedboats to retreat, and then bombarded the enemy ships with the cannons mounted on the warships, repeatedly blasting them to pieces along with their crews. However, after a few shots, several surviving warriors with maned hair appeared on the ship and slaughtered the gunners!
Wei Yuan was about to retreat further to devise a new strategy when Han Li suddenly said, "We can't retreat! If we retreat too far, they can pick and choose who to kill. We must attack and let the believers go first."

These words startled Wei Yuan, who then realized that this was the best solution, albeit an overly cold-blooded and cruel one. Those warriors with flowing hair could clearly choose their targets; if they suffered several fatal wounds simultaneously, they could choose one to die alongside them.

The short swords they obtained by burning their primordial spirit and soul have the effect of annihilating the soul. Even if their cultivation is higher than that of the mane-haired warrior, being hit by one of these swords could be fatal.

Han Li's idea was to send the core followers of the Immortal Plants—those who were fearless but weak—first. Armed with rifles, they could inflict fatal wounds at close range. The number of Mane Warriors was small, less than ten thousand; even if the followers were used to overwhelm them, it would be enough.

Wei Yuan instantly weighed the pros and cons and immediately issued orders to the corresponding believers through the various immortal plants. Thousands of believers charged at full speed, crashing into the ranks of the maned warriors. Gunfire roared, and swarms of lead pellets rained down on the maned warriors. The warriors, almost instinctively, retaliated, exhausting their prepared attack, and perished along with these mortals who were far from reaching the Great Perfection of Body Forging.

A moment later, the sea calmed down, with only a few empty ships drifting on its surface. The maned warrior turned to ashes after his death, and the inhabitants of the human world also turned into vital energy after their deaths, returning to the world.

Thus, despite the massive battle that resulted in tens of thousands of casualties, there were no bodies found.

In the middle of the sea, only the silver-maned warrior and the woman with pale gold hair remained.

Wei Yuan appeared, slowly drawing his demonic sword, July, and pointing it at the silver-maned warrior.

(End of this chapter)