Eternal life begins with saving my clan

As Patriarch Tang fell to the ground and split into two, the battleground descended into an abrupt silence as everyone looked at Biyu and the corpse of Patriarch Tang.

Huh!

Everyone sucked in a cold breath, and a pang of fear combined with panic hit their chests like a powerful tidal wave.

Patriarch Tang might not have been the strongest, but his defensive skills were the best.

His arrogance was not baseless; it came from his secret defense skill.

But now, such an expert was sliced into two under two movements. In front of Biyu, he was like an ant—weak and helpless.

Ah!

Just as they were lost in the trance of Patriarch Tang's easy death, a miserable scream came from their left, jolting everyone back to their senses.

To the side, one of the Core Refining experts from the Mai clan was screaming with a dreadful expression.

His right hand had been severed, with blood gushing continuously. His face was pale, full of fright.

The seemingly Qi Refining Warrior stood confidently and swung his sword once more.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Qianlong city lord cried in panic.

Bang!

The old man tried to move his body out of the sword's attacking range; however, the horror of the pagoda bloodline fell on his body.

He froze and watched helplessly as the sword slit his throat. He could only let out a slight grunt from his mouth before his head flew off from his neck.

Thud!

His headless body fell to the ground, blood gushing out like a broken dam. Looking at one of the Supreme elders of her clan killed like a dog, Mai Chen lost every trace of rationality and screamed.

"I WILL KILL YOU ALL!"

Her eyes were bloodshot, veins protruding from her forehead as she went wild.

The Celestial Heavenly Soldiers, unperturbed by the chaos, continued their relentless onslaught.

Biyu, the indomitable leader, moved with an otherworldly grace, leaving a trail of death in her wake.

She only had to swing her sword one or twice before he slice off the head of her target off their neck. The unlucky ones were split into two.

Blood and various humans organs, intestine flush to ground while their head rolled to the side with their eyes still wide opened.

As for the remaining city lords and patriarchs, gripped by terror, faced a daunting reality.

The once-mighty warriors of their clans were falling like leaves in a storm. The strength they had taken pride in was rendered useless before these mysterious invaders.

Another Core Refining expert attempted to launch a counterattack, but Biyu swiftly closed the distance, her sword leaving a streak of silver in the air.

The expert's defensive postures were shattered like glass as the blade cut through him. His leg was severed from his body and a cry of anguish escaped from his mouth.

He wriggled on the ground, covered in his pool of blood. His face was white as paper as he helplessly watched the incoming cold steel.

"P-Please….Don't…"

He couldn't finish his sentence when the cold blade cleaved his body into two.

Watching all this, a chilling breeze swept through the square, carrying the scent of blood and despair.

Mai Chen, her mind clouded by rage and grief, gathered what remained of her forces.

"Attack! We must kill them all!" she screamed, her voice a mixture of fury and desperation.

The city lords and patriarchs, realizing that their survival hinged on their ability to unite against this unforeseen threat, rallied their forces.

A desperation to clung to thin thread of life: a semblance of hope they clung to. Everything had bone south from what they expect.

Previously, they could command rain and thunder in their city and the neighboring cities.

But now, they need gathered in the last bit of survival.

Yet, as they launched their counteroffensive, the Celestial Heavenly Soldiers displayed an uncanny coordination, seamlessly defending against each attack.

Their impressive armor shield them completely from all form of attack. The attack bounced off their body like straw hitting a hard rock.

What follow was a complete massacre.

One by one, the experts of the Qianlong city and other clans fell.

The once-proud warriors were reduced to mere casualties with their body split into while some lost their head in the face of an unstoppable force.

Main Chen, the city lord of the Qianlong city lord grit her teeth in hatred, anger and confusion.

Why was this happening to her?

She offend no one?

She had been a benevolent leader and have the interest of her people in mind.

Why would the heaven go against her and her people.

Why! Why!

She thought the heaven was impartial but not, she thought otherwise. If not, why would this savage people be allow to exist.

Drowned in the rabbit hole, her thought was getting twisted and she was the edge of losing her insanity.

From the corner of her eyes, she glimpsed on Biyu. The leader of the devils that turn her city into a graveyard.

Madness etched deeply on her face, her eyes wild with fury and confronted Biyu in a final act of defiance.

"If I'm going down… You're going down with me." Her voice eerily cold filled with madness.

Mai Chen, overcome by a potent blend of rage, despair, and the desperation to save what remained of her city, surged forward with unbridled determination.

Her long, loose gray robe billowed like a spectral silhouette in the air, an ominous harbinger of her impending attack.

Channeling her Qi to the absolute limit, she invoked a forbidden skill

"Netherworld Ghost Attack!"

As the words left her lips, an eerie wail emanated from her sword, sending shivers down the spines of those who bore witness.

The temperature in the surroundings plummeted several degrees, as if the very essence of death had touched the air.

Tens of ethereal ghosts materialized from the darkness, their haunting forms dancing ominously around Mai Chen, their hollow eyes fixated on the target of their malevolent intent.

In response, Biyu's eyes narrowed, and her grip on her sword tightened. The Celestial Heavenly Soldiers surrounding her observed with a stoic resolve, prepared for whatever onslaught awaited them.

Biyu, undeterred by the supernatural onslaught, moved with an ethereal grace.

Her sword met the ghostly claws in a symphony of clashes, each strike producing sparks that illuminated the darkness.

In a blink, she had cleaved the ten ghostly being into smithereens and glared at Mai Chen with unbridled pride, filled with confidence.

She prepared to deliver the last strike when Mai Chen threw a small bottle at her.

In the air the content of the bottle spilled and potent poison filled the air.

With the short distance, Biyu was unable to dodge the sinister poison attack.

Her heart skipped a beat and fear seem to consumed her rationality but she suppressed it quickly and invoke her bloodline power.

The air around her cackled with an otherworldly energy and a black pagoda materialzed behind her.

"Elemental - Blood Suprression" She muttered with eye filled with confidence.

Instantly, the incoming poison attack came to a stop slowly. It was as if an invincible hand stop the poison from moving forward.

The devilish grin on Mai Chen face contorted into a shock and her jaw dropped to the ground.

"What the hell..." She muttered, her eyes widened looking at the impossing pagoda behind Baiyu.

Behind, the few remaining city lord and clan masters frozed with their mouth agape.

"Is that..." One of the clan master suttered with a dreadful expression on his face.

Slowly, their faces contorted in dread. This pagoda was not a new phenomenon, it had appeared a couple of month ago, covering the world.

The Empire even send many powerful experts out to find the source of the heavenly phenomenon but no one found it.

But now, it was appearing right behind the seemly commander from a backward barren landers.

As they were gripped with shock, a powerful pulsating energy came out of the pagoda.

Right in front of everyone, the frozen poison moved at a breathtaking speed and entered the pagoda.

What!

They screamed in thier heart.

But to the Celestial Heavenly soldiers, this was nothing. Biyu breath a sigh of relief when she saw that her bloodline power could suppresed the deadly poison.

"Do you think your sinister plan will work again me?" She stood a step forward and the ground underneath her feet cracked.

Mai Chen jotted out of her stupor, raised her head and looked at Biyu.

Instantly, a dreadful feeling crept up her spine and her instinct was sceaming of danger.

The danger came from the depth of her soul. It was the prima feeling hardcoded into every human in the face absolute despair.

She wanted to move but then, she realized she couldn't a muscle. Every of her being failed to respond to her command.

Slowly, Biyu appeared right before her and she looked down directly into her eyes.

"What do you see?" Her voice dangerously cold that made Mai Chen pee to her pant.

"kill them!"

She heard her gave them and wondered who she was speaking only to hear the thunderous sound sword attack.

The remaining survivor didn't even realized what happend before they turned into smithereen by the powerful attack from the soldiers.

With tears dripping from the corner of her eyes, Mai Chen wanted to beg for her live, alas it was too late.

Boom!

The land gave in and thick cloud of dust rose to the sky. The shockwaves from the deadly palm attack destroyed all the surrounding building, turning the previous beautiful city into ruins.

At the the center was a twenty meter deep crater, covered in fragments of bones and flesh.