Chapter 467: Outbreak, Kill!

Led by Shi Tianjing, the other veterans also followed closely, all revealing their auras. Most of them were at the seventh and eighth level of the True Immortal Realm.

The others followed as well, all at the fifth level of the True Immortal Realm. Huo Xiaoqi, the only True Immortal Realm eighth level expert present, followed Li Hao and took off.

"Stay close to me."

Huo Xiaoqi was being very responsible and considerate towards Li Hao, afraid he might get lost, so he deliberately slowed down.

Li Hao sped up slightly, reaching a speed comparable to the fifth level of the True Immortal Realm to avoid falling behind.

Seeing that Li Hao's movement technique was quite fast, Huo Xiaoqi was a bit surprised and sent a voice transmission in surprise: "Kid, you're really hiding your abilities! To have such movement skills, no wonder you have the guts to come to this border battlefield."

Li Hao was taken aback, immediately understanding, and smiled, "It's alright."

Seeing Li Hao's calm and composed demeanor, Huo Xiaoqi immediately realized that this speed wasn't Li Hao's limit. If he truly exploded, he might even reach the sixth level of the True Immortal Realm. Feeling slightly relieved, he also sped up a little, keeping pace with Li Hao at the back of the formation.

They flew for thousands of miles before reaching the edge of the city. This Qinghe Fallen City was extremely vast. Their Wildfire Army camp was already located near the outer edge of the battlefield, yet it still had a diameter of thousands of miles.

Surrounding them were other Wildfire Army camps. Millions of people were advancing simultaneously, figures filling the front, back, left, and right, like a torrential rain of arrows shooting out, densely packed. The feeling of being in such a torrent made everyone feel their own insignificance and the immensity of this battlefield!

Before long, an extremely vast, sky-encompassing golden light barrier appeared before them.

Figures in front passed through like raindrops, their bodies reflecting gold as they passed through the barrier, appearing as if transformed into fireflies.

Beyond the golden barrier, however, was a sinister, barbaric, and desolate landscape.

Li Hao and the others followed Shi Tianjing through the barrier, finding themselves in an ancient star battlefield.

Everywhere were flying rocks, floating rubble, and enormous skeletons, fragmented bones, scattered helmets, and other remnants.

Clearly, this was already an old battlefield.

"We are now outside the border defense line. Be careful of lurking Ancient Demons at any time. Let's go to the front lines!"

Shi Tianjing said, his eyes sharp.

Hearing his words, the veteran soldiers' expressions subtly changed. They glanced at Li Hao and the other newcomers, but no one said anything, heads down, they followed.

This time they moved even faster. Shi Tianjing continuously used short-distance Void Return Teleportation, and the others followed closely, quickly traversing tens of thousands of miles.

Along the way were rocks and wreckage. The vastness of the battlefield gave the new recruits a sense of shock.

However, Li Hao had previously walked the Ancient Starry Road, so coming to this battlefield now, he wasn't too surprised. After all, the scenes on the Ancient Starry Road were even more tragic.

As they continued forward, suddenly, in the distant reaches of Li Hao's divine sense, he saw countless iridescent glows and bursts of divine light. Immortal power converged, and there were rumbles of thunder, forming semi-transparent thunder dragons, scarlet fire seas, and other immortal spell phenomena.

Li Hao's eyes narrowed. It seemed they were approaching the front lines.

After advancing another few hundred miles, Shi Tianjing abruptly slowed down, saying, "Approaching the front lines, be careful."

The others wore puzzled expressions. As they continued, they finally noticed the intense battle scene ahead.

"We were in a hurry before and didn't have time to properly tell you how to accumulate Immortal Merit on the battlefield."

Shi Tianjing stopped, turned around, and said sternly:

"Killing an Ancient Demon at the first level of the True Immortal Realm grants one thousand Immortal Merit. The second level grants two thousand, the third level three thousand, and so on."

"A single Ancient Demon at the tenth level of the True Immortal Realm completion grants ten thousand Immortal Merit!"

"Killing ten of them is one hundred thousand. One hundred thousand Immortal Merit can directly allow you to apply to enter the Tiger-Lion Army, become a battalion commander, and even through connections, you could enter the Peacock Army!"

These veterans already knew this, but Li Hao and the other new recruits silently memorized it.

"And how is Immortal Merit distributed? We are the Yinglong Imperial Guard Battalion. Earning Immortal Merit is divided into two types. One is hunting alone outside, you get as much Immortal Merit as you kill!"

"The other is following the army, which is me, to kill Ancient Demons together in formation. If we kill an Ancient Demon in this way, half of the military merit goes to me, and the rest is divided according to the number of people!"

He swept his gaze over Li Hao and the other new recruits, saying, "Hunting Ancient Demons alone grants a lot of Immortal Merit, but this is the extra-territorial battlefield. Without backup, you can fall at any moment. Killing Ancient Demons in formation, although the Immortal Merit is halved, the advantage is safety. With everyone working together, casualties can be avoided."

Hearing this, many people nodded slightly. Someone said, "I want to join the formation, please lead us, Battalion Commander."

Shi Tianjing looked at the speaker and nodded slightly, "No problem, but our battalion has rules, divided according to cultivation realm. They are all veterans. When killing Ancient Demons in formation, they will naturally work harder and contribute more. When dividing by headcount, the proportion will also be increased. You are newcomers, it's good enough if you can survive. Your Immortal Merit will be reduced accordingly, any objections?"

Hearing this, many new recruits looked at each other, expressions of difficulty on their faces, but no one raised an objection.

"Alright, since no one objects, let's go."

Shi Tianjing was about to turn around.

Li Hao suddenly said, "Wait, um, I want to hunt Ancient Demons alone."

Hearing Li Hao's words, everyone turned their heads to look at him, stunned, looking at Li Hao with expressions as if they had seen a ghost.

The one with the lowest cultivation level actually proposed to go out hunting alone?

Shi Tianjing was also stunned, a hint of speechlessness in his eyes, but it quickly turned into a contemptuous sneer. Low cultivation and also stupid, truly not worth pitying his death!

"As you wish."

He was too lazy to say more and spoke directly.

For him, keeping Li Hao to join the formation, he also had to consider the emotions of the other veterans, it wasn't worth it.

After all, with Li Hao's cultivation, joining the group would only be dragging them down, leeching Immortal Merit.

Huo Xiaoqi stared blankly at Li Hao. When Shi Tianjing's indifferent words rang out, he reacted and couldn't help but grab Li Hao, saying, "Are you crazy?"

Li Hao shook his head, "I want to train myself."

Huo Xiaoqi was speechless, then smiled wryly, "You're too impatient. We're not familiar yet, first follow them and get acquainted, next time I'll take you out to hunt Ancient Demons alone."

Li Hao shook his head. The other party wasn't familiar, but he was. He already knew the structure of True Immortal Realm Ancient Demons like the back of his hand.

"How about, you come out with me too?"

Li Hao invited.

The other party sincerely wanted to take care of him, which also made Li Hao feel like taking care of him in return.

Huo Xiaoqi was taken aback, looking at Li Hao with regret, "Sorry, I can't risk it like this."

He admired Li Hao's sense of righteousness in coming here, but he couldn't play with his life with Li Hao like this. After all, they had only just met. He was willing to help Li Hao, but risking his life was too much.

"Alright then."

Seeing this, Li Hao didn't try to persuade him further.

The others saw the conversation between Li Hao and Huo Xiaoqi, and ridicule and mockery appeared in their eyes. Someone whispered, "What's he thinking?"

"Thinking about dying, obviously."

Someone replied.

Shi Tianjing was too lazy to waste any more time. Huo Xiaoqi's narrow escape made him very gratified, otherwise he would definitely have intervened to stop him. After all, a newly arrived recruit was already at the eighth level of the True Immortal Realm, their future potential was worth nurturing, to be regarded as his own trusted aides.

"Let's go."

Shi Tianjing called out to everyone, while also increasing speed, teleporting to a far away location in the blink of an eye.

Fearing falling behind, the others also quickly followed.

Huo Xiaoqi looked back at Li Hao, seeing that Li Hao really didn't intend to join the group, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly, retracting his gaze to catch up with the main group ahead.

Li Hao watched them all go far away. At this time, soldiers from other battalions continuously passed by Li Hao.

Li Hao paused for a moment, and without lingering, he deviated towards another direction in front.

His primordial spirit was powerful, and the range covered by his divine sense was also extremely vast. He saw a place of intense fighting ahead where many immortal spells had already dissipated, indicating that a gap had been torn open there.

It also meant that the number of Ancient Demons there must be extremely large.

"Taowu, come out!"

While accelerating, Li Hao drew a crack in his palm, and a celestial weapon wreathed in killing intent appeared.

This was a weapon that only Celestial Monarch Realm experts could control and wield. If Taowu didn't know Li Hao's identity, it would have devoured its master long ago.

"Such a rich smell, blood, it's blood!"

"Jie jie jie!"

Taowu let out a strange laugh, appearing extremely excited.

The battlefield was its favorite place.

"Go and release yourself to your heart's content."

Li Hao knew that Taowu had been suffocated from following him for this period, and didn't suppress it. This time he let it drink blood to its heart's content.

"Thank you, Master!"

Taowu said excitedly.

As Li Hao accelerated, with his Space Origin fourth level realm, he compressed ten Void Return Teleportation steps into one. Just one step spanned tens of thousands of miles, surpassing ten Void Return Teleportations from others.

In just seven or eight steps, stepping out with the Heavenly Traceless Body Technique, in just an instant, he arrived at the battlefield where immortal spells were fading.

Here, Li Hao's divine sense instantly enveloped all directions, and he had already seen many large, ferocious-looking Ancient Demons.

That familiar body structure, that familiar smell, made Li Hao seem to return to the moment of desperate battle in front of the Double-Seam Demon Valley.

The blood throughout his body seemed to boil up in response, and a dense killing intent bloomed in his eyes!

"Go!"

Li Hao released Taowu, letting it fly out of his palm. Taowu drew a blood-colored light trail, instantly rushing into the Ancient Demon horde. In just a breath, it shot through and exploded the heads of three Ancient Demons, like a red aurora!

Li Hao then took out the Heavenly Academy disciple's sword, a True Treasure weapon, and charged towards the Ancient Demons on the other side.

The True Treasure longsword flew out of his palm, unleashed with the Battle Heaven Imperial Method, its power instantly soared, nine strands of immortal power entangled around it, and the power it fired out increased exponentially!

Slash!

The longsword pierced through the Ancient Demon's body. Like a butcher expertly carving meat, following its body structure, in just a split second, it killed an Ancient Demon at the third level of the True Immortal Realm.

Then, its primordial spirit had just separated from its physical body, and before it could even escape, it was pierced by the longsword and directly annihilated.

This True Treasure longsword contained extremely strong power to suppress primordial spirits, possessing even greater lethality against primordial spirits.

Since the Ancient Demon Cataclysm swept across the True World, the cultivation methods practiced by all races, and the weapons forged, had gradually shifted over time to be created specifically targeting the Ancient Demon race.

Most weapons possessed extremely strong primordial spirit killing power, and immortal techniques were the same.

With Li Hao's arrival, the gap here was suddenly blocked off, but even more Ancient Demons roared and charged over.

Roar!

Accompanied by the roar of an Ancient Demon, suddenly a black vortex locked onto Li Hao from the distant reaches and crushed over.

Clearly, these Ancient Demons had noticed that the youth blocking the gap was quite troublesome and wanted to directly obliterate Li Hao.

From the black vortex, Li Hao sensed an aura of death. His expression changed slightly, and his eyes also became solemn. This was not the method of a single Ancient Demon, but a joint Ancient Demon killing move performed by dozens of Ancient Demons using their innate secret techniques.

Just as the armies of the Yan-Chu Immortal Dynasty could form formations to resist the Ancient Demons, the Ancient Demons would also form formations to attack and kill, and even more efficiently!

"Taowu!"

Li Hao focused his gaze and immediately summoned the Taowu celestial weapon.

Taowu, who was happily slaughtering, sensed Li Hao's summons, and immediately noticed the black vortex.

"Master, I'm coming!"

Taowu transmitted a roar, suddenly breaking through the air from a distance, tearing black cracks in the void, and then blooming with a dense, bloody red light, illuminating dozens of miles into a blood color, like a sea of blood, crashing towards the black vortex.

Boom!

The center of the black vortex was suddenly pierced by the red light. Then, large swathes of red light swept out like fog shadows, shattering the outer edges of the vortex.

The feeling of deathly danger also vanished. Li Hao roared, "Break the formation!"

"Understood!"

Taowu responded loudly, then quickly killed its way into the Ancient Demon horde.

Li Hao then brandished the True Treasure longsword, extreme realm erupting, unleashing overwhelming power, swinging out a dazzling sword light.

Azure Sky!

The sword light stretched across hundreds of miles, and the Ancient Demons wherever it passed were all cleaved open, including Ancient Demons at the eighth and even ninth level of the True Immortal Realm!

At this gap where Ancient Demons were pouring in, Li Hao was like a reef, going against the current, constantly fighting.

As primordial spirits of Ancient Demons were shattered one by one, Li Hao, while hunting, also collected all the corpses of the Ancient Demons into his Heaven and Earth space. This was his purpose in coming here to hunt.

Compared to Immortal Merit, food was more attractive.

Swoosh!

Li Hao's figure quickly flew, reaping the surrounding Ancient Demons like the Grim Reaper.

The battlefield was extremely chaotic. Even though Li Hao's divine sense was vast and his reactions were extremely fast, some Ancient Demons still suddenly attacked Li Hao's side, swinging out sharp black rifts, wanting to tear Li Hao's body apart.

But these sneak attacks landed on Li Hao's body without causing any wounds, failing to break through the surface of his Ancestral Immortal body.

Unless it was the destructive power of the tenth level of the True Immortal Realm, could it injure Li Hao, but it would be healed in an instant. This was the terrifying aspect of the Ancestral Immortal body. Unless it was a monster of the tenth level completion, mastering incredible defying-heaven immortal techniques, could they compete!

Boom!

Li Hao raised his hand and directly slapped an Ancient Demon's head into mush with his palm.

This Ancient Demon's body was massive, but with a wave of Li Hao's hand, the spatial giant hand condensed with fourth level Space Origin power directly crushed it.

As Li Hao continued to slaughter, more and more Ancient Demons roared and rushed towards this "nail" that was Li Hao.

Li Hao's eyes became even sharper. The Ancient Demons around him were killed batch after batch. Li Hao deeply felt the sensation of being in the battlefield. Even if he could constantly attack and destroy Ancient Demons, the surrounding figures of Ancient Demons were still endless, attacking like the continuous waves of the ocean.

Despair?

No.

Li Hao never feared consumption.

All Heavens Star Veins, Open!!

Li Hao's eyes suddenly erupted with divine light, as if shooting straight from the abyss to the nine heavens. Golden light bloomed all over his body, his golden hair flying wildly in rebellion, like a peerless war god standing on the edge of a chaotic river!

Contrasting with the darkness all around, he was as bright as a deity!

As the All Heavens Star Veins connected, the heavens of the True World, the stars across countless billions of miles, seemed to, at this moment, hear the call of a certain youth, descending a beam of starlight for him, connecting his meridians!

A continuous stream of immortal power frantically poured into Li Hao's immortal body, filling it to the brim!

It was as if he possessed inexhaustible power that he could squander at will. Countless starlight emerged around his body, mottled and sparkling, appearing brilliant and mysterious.

Feeling this boundless power, Li Hao immediately had a bold attempt.

Fourth level Space Origin allowed him to have extremely tight control over the surrounding space. At this moment, he used this understanding in his Eternal Dao Domain.

"Eternal Dao Domain, Space Fourth Level, Suppress!"

Li Hao raised his hand, and the Eternal Dao Domain burst forth, spreading and expanding. Along with the word "suppress" falling, the Ancient Demons enveloped by his Dao Domain seemed to have their bodies stagnate.

Then, all of their bodies cracked open!

Li Hao didn't directly crush them, but used space power to shatter all the bones and organs within their bodies, essentially separating bone from flesh.

In the blink of an eye, these Ancient Demons all perished physically, leaving only their primordial spirits.

Swoosh!

The True Treasure longsword roared out, under the amplification of the Dao Domain, as fast as lightning, in the blink of an eye, it severed all the primordial spirits of these Ancient Demons, causing them to dissipate like smoke!

"Collect!"

With a thought from Li Hao, the Heaven and Earth space opened within the Dao Domain, and absorbed all the Ancient Demon corpses. Li Hao didn't have time to count carefully, but just now, there were at least forty or fifty!

And the immortal power in his body had also been exhausted, but in the blink of an eye, it was replenished again.

"The immortal power capacity in my body is still too small. If my realm was higher, with more immortal power capacity, the range of the Dao Domain would be larger, and its power would also be stronger..."

Li Hao's eyes flickered, took a step forward, and continued to kill towards the Ancient Demon horde ahead.

The battle here quickly attracted the attention of other Tiger-Lion Battalions nearby.

They thought that after the gap was breached, the Ancient Demons would attack the Wildfire Army behind, but unexpectedly, half of it was actually blocked by someone.

"Who is that? From the Wildfire Battalion?"

"Damn it, have you ever seen anyone in the Wildfire Battalion with this ability? Even the Battalion Commander is impossible!"

"Look, he's not wearing battle armor, he should be an elder from some sect, right?"

The Tiger-Lion Battalion soldiers nearby were all surprised and doubtful, but at the same time felt invigorated. With such a powerful reinforcement, this gap could be shrunk!

(End of chapter)