693 Purgatory (5)
“That’s the edict bearer of the Sword Holding Palace’s Palace Master…”

“Xu Qing!”

“I heard that Xu Qing and Director Yao… have some conflicts.”

Although the cultivators of the Law Palace didn’t pay as much attention to Xu Qing as the Sword Holding Palace, they had still heard of him.

This was especially due to the events in the early stages of the war. Because the Sword Holding Palace’s Palace Master was acting as the County Governor, Xu Qing naturally attracted the attention of the entire county when he stood beside him.

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However, no matter what, it was far inferior to the shock they got from the previous scene.

At that moment, some people recalled the rumors about Xu Qing and Yao Yunhui. Hence, they secretly looked at Yao Yunhui.

Yao Yunhui fell silent.

Waves of emotions rose in her heart. Everything from the past appeared in front of her eyes. As the scenes turned vivid in her mind, her feelings turned complicated.

After a long time, she suppressed the waves in her heart and ordered the surrounding Law Palace cultivators.

“Guard the teleportation array strictly!”

Her identity, cultivation, and experiences during this period of time caused Yao Yunhui to emit a lot more dignity.

As the order was given, everyone in the surroundings lowered their heads and agreed, putting away the emotions that had been stirred up by the arrival of the army.

However, the arrival of the army still gave them hope for this war.

This hope was like fire, burning the Yutian Province and rising in the Linlan province. It also began to shine on the western front line.

At the current moment, on the western front, both the human race and the Holy Wave Race were taking a brief rest after a thirteen-day conventional battle.

The battlefield was divided into two distinct parts, separated by a massive ravine.

At the end of the ravine was the Sky Ridge Mountain Range. That was originally the third gateway to Linlan Province.

Once you passed beyond the mountains, there was a vast region separated by the Heaven’s Eye Abyss and the Nine Provinces Plain, which was the territory of the Holy Wave Race.

From a high altitude, the Sky Ridge Mountain Range looked like a giant dragon that couldn’t struggle. It lay there and had no choice but to submit.

The overall view revealed multiple areas in ruins, with several mountains having collapsed and emitted thick black smoke.

There were also a large number of magic artifact fragments that filled the surroundings.

Those were the traces of war.

This place was originally the third line of defense for the human race against the Holy Wave Race. However, half a month ago, as a result of the partial collapse of the Taboo treasures of Fenghai County, this place… was breached.

The human army had no choice but to retreat 5,000 kilometers and defend the fourth defense line with the help of the reformed Taboo net.

Hence, at this moment, there were no humans in the Sky Ridge Mountain Range. Instead, there was an armored Holy Wave Race army.

There were no less than millions of them. In fact, in the huge area behind the mountain range that one couldn’t see the end of, there were even more tents.

It wasn’t just the Holy Wave Race. There were also countless races that had been enslaved by it.

As for the Sky Ridge Mountain Range itself, it had been modified by the Holy Wave Race in the past half a month. Countless fortifications and millions of tall spires had been built.

Bolts of lightning swam at the top of the spires, forming a huge net of lightning that enveloped the surroundings.

From time to time, lightning would be guided into the sky, emitting deafening thunder. The dark clouds were outlined by this spectacle, revealing the presence of numerous colossal entities hidden within the misty sky.

These colossal beings, each spanning ten thousand feet in size, had a uniform diamond-shaped form. They all possessed a single red eye at their center

There were no less than a hundred thousand of them.

These beings loomed within the boundless expanse of clouds in the sky, spreading across the battlefield of the frontlines. They emitted a terrifying aura and their roars continued to echo in the surroundings.

As their sound reverberated, the surrounding space seemed to distort and blur, as if the gods were murmuring.

These were the war magic artifacts that the Black Heaven Race had provided to the Holy Wave Race.

Their sound could destroy one’s mind, the pressure they emitted could crush flesh, and the spells they released could shatter everything.

The most dangerous thing was the harvesters they emitted.

They were strange existences that couldn’t be seen or sensed. They appeared on the battlefield like grim reapers, causing huge casualties to the human race.

Their attacks were not limited to individual combat; they also unleashed devastating assaults.

The anomalous substances emitted from their bodies were different from the forbidden zones and regions.

That was a type of serious contamination that specifically targeted the human race.

Within the range of the grim reapers, the human forces often withered away after only a few encounters. Their bodies would eventually undergo a transformation, and the points of transformation would be triggered, turning them into mindless, mutated beasts.

These were only one of the Holy Wave Race’s war methods.

The sky above the battlefield was black and gloomy. There were even black snowflakes flowing down.

These snowflakes were another method of the Holy Wave Race.

They looked like snow, but upon closer inspection, each of these countless snowflakes had thin limbs and sinister faces.

They were everywhere, capable of materializing as individual spells or joining forces to unleash powerful divine techniques that span the entire battlefield. Their mere inhalation or contact with human forces proved highly toxic, inflicting severe harm upon them.

They had endless transformations and could even transform into weapons in the hands of the Holy Wave Race cultivators.

They were extremely hard to guard against.

In the clouds, there were rhombus-shaped magic artifacts. Under the clouds, endless black snow floated.
However, this wasn’t all.

The ground was activated by the Holy Wave Race.

Countless soil and corpses gathered, forming huge broken hands that walked on the ground.

With the appearance of each broken hand, a portion of the ground there would cave in and be quickly filled up by the black snow.

These broken hands were holding black iron chains.

The number of chains seemed endless, extending into the sky and piercing through the clouds, converging above the mist.

At the end of the sky above the clouds, there was a huge black vortex.

This vortex looked like the sun. As it rumbled, all the iron chains that spread over from the ground entered the vortex.

As the broken hands on the ground pulled, the iron chains rustled, as though an even more terrifying existence was slowly being pulled out.

Waves of stench spread out from the vortex, forming more black clouds that transformed into even denser black snow that continued to fall.

When the armies of the Yinghuang Province and Quzhao Province got close to the front line area and transmitted their orders to the front line command center, waiting for the decree to allow them to get close, the Holy Wave Race battlefield they saw was like this.

Xu Qing stood in front of the army and looked at everything from afar. A huge wave rose in his heart. At the same time, he also noticed the countless corpses on the battlefield.

Mountains of corpses were piled up and seas of blood covered everything.

Xu Qing had killed many people in his life but even he was shocked by this battlefield.

There were too many corpses.

Almost half of it had some parts missing. All he could see was flesh and blood, and smell their stench.

War was like a millstone of the world. Under its crushing, all living beings, including them, couldn’t escape destruction.

In Xu Qing’s memories, the Three Spirits Suppression Mountain was already a living hell. However, compared to this place, it was insignificant.

This was the true purgatory.

The captain and the others also fell silent.