Three thousand mighty figures strode forward in a direct confrontation! Meanwhile, Saint Venerable Lu and his seven brothers held the rear, maintaining a distant watch!
They absolutely could not make a move before the enemy's experts entered the fray! Those eight men were the most crucial force protecting the three thousand Eagle Clan warriors!
They could not afford the slightest lapse while the three thousand Eagle Clan warriors were recovering! As for the current situation, Saint Venerable Lu and his companions were certain this battle would not require their intervention!
Xiong Kaishan and his clan could handle it entirely! All they needed to do was wait quietly, waiting for the moment the enemy masters could no longer restrain themselves!
The three thousand Bear Clan warriors rolled forward, their powerful footsteps merging into an unstoppable iron torrent! In their three thousand pairs of eyes, there was nothing but undisguised, frenzied fighting intent: soaring killing aura!
Although the foreign race members were conjoined at the head, one person equivalent to two ordinary men, standing alongside the Bear Clan warriors, they still lacked the physical substance of the Bear Clan fighters! The two forces collided like two surging floods racing toward each other, both imbued with an irreversible momentum; with a unified roar, they charged at their opponents!
At this moment, the earth trembled even more violently! With only a hundred-odd zhang separating the two sides, after just a few hurricane-like strides, they slammed into each other with brutal force!
This impact erupted in a sky full of blood mist and a ground covered in severed limbs and shattered bodies! When they crashed together, to an outsider's eye, both groups were advancing, pushing forward heedlessly.
Those who fell mid-way were instantly reduced to a pulp of flesh! The screams, the roars, the clash of weapons shook the earth, reverberated through the heavens, and utterly stunned everyone from the Deku family watching from the rear!
So terrifying was the combat strength of the Beast King of Heavenly Punishment! This battle began swiftly, yet it concluded even faster.
Once the two forces were jammed together, it became the bloodiest, most brutal fight to the death! Just as Deku Bushang had judged, the fighting prowess of the Bear Clan warriors far surpassed that of the Kamigawa Clan samurai.
Especially since the stout men of the Bear Clan were all wielding the long sabers meticulously prepared for them by Jun Moxie, which had already reached the level of divine weapons. The sharpness of the sabers was secondary; each one was immensely heavy, long, and broad, about two meters in length!
Once swung, it was like a barrage of thunder and lightning filling the vision! Such a blade, even without a sharp edge, when combined with the weight of the blade and the immense strength of the Bear Clan warriors, was enough to smash a man into a paste!
The vitality of the foreign race members was undeniably tenacious, far surpassing ordinary humans; even if a long sword pierced a vital spot like the heart, the other half of the body could still continue fighting. But...
even such a formidable and peculiar physique could not withstand the full force of a swing from such long, incomparably sharp sabers! With one swing, the struck individual was instantly cleaved into four pieces; no matter how strong the life force, before such ferocious weapons, it was merely a joke!
Just a joke! After all, not every member of the foreign race was a Nether Ghost Ninja!
Though these combatants were numerous, only seventy or eighty were truly capable of stealth. In a melee of this scale, while these individuals did play a significant role, severely wounding many Bear Clan warriors, the very chaos meant that quite a few Nether Ghost Ninjas were unexpectedly felled by random slashing blades amidst the scrum!
Three thousand giant two-meter long sabers swinging simultaneously... Even if you could turn invisible, your body didn't truly turn into air, did it?!
If you happened to get caught by sheer luck and were cleaved into a shower of blood mist, the next moment would see an overwhelming flurry of Bear Clan blade light covering a circle tens of zhang wide! Once the two sides collided, at least twenty or thirty Nether Ghost Ninjas were muddled to death under the chaotic blades!
Any single Nether Ghost Ninja possessed considerable strength! If they utilized invisibility during one-on-one duels or small-scale skirmishes, they would undoubtedly exert a far-reaching influence capable of deciding the battle's outcome!
But against a large-scale engagement where tens of thousands were entangled, hacking away desperately with barely space between them, the drawbacks of this invisibility technique were finally revealed in their entirety! Because no matter how well they could hide, they could not completely evade the relentless attacks from equally powerful experts coming from all directions!
Thus, this level of casualties was entirely expected and anticipated! In the end, Kamigawa Haku also realized something was wrong and immediately ordered all the Nether Ghost Ninjas to withdraw.
He was so heartbroken he almost fainted: of the seventy-six Nether Ghost Ninjas dispatched, the original plan was to sow chaos among the masses and pick off targets, but they hadn't expected such devastating losses. In the end, fewer than fifty returned, and over thirty percent were wounded!
This was an extremely heavy blow to the Kamigawa family! But once the Nether Ghost Ninjas retreated from the melee, the fighting on the field turned into a one-sided slaughter!
What the Bear Clan warriors feared and were most cautious about were these stealthy fighters. They weren't afraid of being attacked themselves, but rather that the Ninjas would slip past them while invisible to attack their recovering Eagle Clan brethren.
Consequently, everyone was under immense psychological pressure and extremely vigilant during the battle. But once the Kamigawa family's Nether Ghost Ninjas withdrew, all the Bear Clan warriors exploded like wild bulls released from their pens!
The gleaming long sabers, each weighing several hundred jin for a weapon two zhang long, swept down like reaping grain; one cut brought down a swath! Later, Xiong Kaishan, getting into the frenzy, simply ordered the Bear Clan warriors to swing their blades in groups of ten!
Ten sabers swung out uniformly, and within a thirty-zhang radius, nothing remained but rolling heads, tumbling about like spilled watermelons from a overturned tractor. Blood sprayed out like competing fountains, occasionally arcing into the sky to form brilliant rainbows before falling onto the ground, where they turned into wisps of smoke on the scorching, almost dark-red earth.
"Kill! Leave none alive..." Xiong Kaishan roared with a ferocious face.
"Kill! Nmn..." the great Bear Clan men roared in unison!
The battle intent accumulated over countless years, the feral nature deeply embedded in their bones, was fully unleashed in this blood-drenched battle! What terrifying Bear Clan warriors!
What terrifying Heavenly Punishment warriors! Kamigawa Haku’s face was ashen as he stared at the current battlefield; his body couldn't help but tremble.
His clansmen continued to charge forward in wave after wave, but Kamigawa Haku knew this battle was over! Regardless of the final outcome, he himself was finished—utterly defeated!
No matter how fierce or spirited they were, the vast gap in strength had already been laid bare! Aside from the few dozen Nether Ghost Ninjas who had already retreated, the strongest among the rest were only Ninth-Level Ninjas.
At best, they were equivalent to the Supreme level of humanity! To pit such fighters against three thousand solid Saint Emperors and Sages!
And every one of them wielded divine weapons in their right hands! This difference...
was undoubtedly the vast chasm between heaven and earth; it would only be a one-sided massacre! For every one that went up, one would die!
Those savage black bears would never show the slightest bit of mercy! As the ferocious roaring and fighting continued, the blood on the ground grew thicker.
Initially, the ground could quickly evaporate the blood due to the high ambient temperature, leaving behind only brown stains. But now...
it was vast pools of blood! Even the intense heat couldn't evaporate it fast enough!
The Bear Clan warriors were almost entirely drenched in blood! Yet, their own injuries were negligible.
The damage that a swarm of low-level ants could inflict upon them was too minimal. Except for the few who were seriously wounded when the Nether Ghost Ninjas first joined the fray, the rest had sustained virtually no damage!
Once the Nether Ghost Ninjas withdrew, the disparity in power widened even further, directly eliminating the possibility of injury. Out of the three thousand Bear Clan warriors facing an enemy force several times their number, there was zero mortality!
In truth, this result was understandable; no matter how numerous the ants, they meant nothing to an elephant that was full of vigor and vitality! Especially when it wasn't just one elephant, but quite a sizable herd of them!
Not a single one of the three thousand great Bear Clan men was willing to retreat, including those who had been injured by the Nether Ghost Ninjas. Every one of them vigorously swung the long sabers in their hands, resembling a colossal mountain of blades, continuing the one-sided slaughter, hacking ceaselessly and frantically, leaving behind a ground strewn with meat paste!
There wasn't a single intact corpse! This was because these fighters swung their blades in unison!
Often, one foreign race member would be struck by nearly ten men and ten blades, so the result was naturally not just four pieces, but perhaps forty pieces or more... The moment a blow landed, it wasn't merely a clean cut in two; they were directly sliced into dried chunks, like sweet potatoes.
The nearly ten thousand members of the Kamigawa clan force, facing the three thousand warriors of the Heavenly Punishment Clan, were reduced to pools of bloody filth and scattered meat in less than the time it takes half an incense stick to burn! And the three thousand Bear Clan warriors stood tall before the foreign race members, led by Xiong Kaishan, stepping over the ground covered in blood and gore.
Three thousand pairs of massive eyes stared out, simultaneously emanating a chilling killing intent! It was a profound, lingering murderous aura!
Such bloodthirsty eyes gazed uniformly upon the growing number of foreign race members gathering behind the Kamigawa family! The gaze of every Bear Clan warrior was brimming with eagerness, thirsting for another clash!
For another satisfying, brutal fight! It was clear that for them, this battle hadn't been fierce enough, hadn't reached the right level!
They hadn't had their fill of killing! All three thousand gleaming great sabers were pointed downward neatly, thick, viscous blood still dripping continuously from them.
Among them were several dozen warriors who had been seriously wounded by the stealth attacks of the Nether Ghost Ninjas; they still stood ramrod straight within the formation! There was no expression of pain on their faces.
It was as if the lacerations with curling flesh and the actively bleeding wounds did not belong to them at all!