Facing these, the ghost soldiers who were already fighting in a frenzy, and the remaining cultivators, were now like headless flies, terrified and fleeing in all directions.
Not everyone fears death.
Humans have a herd mentality. When everyone around shows a fearless attitude, most people can persevere in the fight until death!
But once this spirit is gone, cultivators with fragile minds will immediately be scared out of their wits. In their panic, they will have no intention of resisting, only one thought: escape.
As for those cultivators with firm minds, seeing everyone else flee, they will also choose to prioritize their own lives. This is human instinct, and no one is exempt.
And during this chaos, no one noticed a figure disappear in an instant.
The next second, when it reappeared, it was already outside Hedong City.
The figure emerged, and the familiar face was none other than Wu Tao.
As a cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage, Wu Tao naturally did not take these ghost soldiers seriously, but this was a good opportunity to escape.
So Wu Tao seized this opportunity to feign death and escape.
After all, judging by the situation, not many people would be able to escape the pursuit of the ghost soldiers!
Just then, an extremely powerful pressure spread throughout Hedong City, and cultivators and ghost soldiers alike looked up at the sky!
Aurora! Endless brilliance flashed across the sky...
The sky above Hedong City was enveloped in boundless radiance. The extreme light, even more intense than the sun, illuminated the area until it was a sea of white, and nothing could be seen except light.
Do not underestimate light. Light is also one of the energies in this world, and especially when gathered to such an extent, the power it can unleash is absolutely astonishing.
The human cultivators and ghost soldiers tilted their heads, staring blankly at the dazzling river of light in the sky.
"What is that?"
"It's the Aurora Divine Strike Stream, it's the ancestor's great divine ability!"
"In past battles with others, the ancestor has not used it for many years. Why this time... Is he trying to perish together with the enemy?"
Suddenly, a member of the Liu royal family, who had a higher cultivation base and was at the late Nascent Soul stage, seemed to have some relation to Liu Shan. He looked at the stream of light flowing above his head, as if thinking of something, and his face turned extremely grim.
After a moment of stunned silence, he reacted and began to exclaim in horror.
"Not good, the ancestor is going to fight to the death, quickly leave here."
"Liu family disciples, run quickly, the ancestor has not used this great divine ability for so many years, and to use it so suddenly this time, I fear that..."
He didn't need to finish his words, because all the cultivators knew.
Even the Qin family disciples controlling the ghost soldiers noticed something and slowly retreated.
Even if some did not understand, the sound emanating from the sky was enough to make them understand.
"Aurora Divine Strike Stream!"
Liu Shan roared, and all the aurora laws in his body condensed into this single strike, which erupted with irresistible force.
"Hahahaha....... Are you going to fight to the death? It's a pity that even if you unleash such a mutually destructive divine ability, it won't be able to harm me in the slightest."
Qin Ruohuo's triumphant laughter spread in all directions, and the Qin family disciples, who were originally terrified by the brilliant river of light, gradually relaxed.
Moreover, they seemed to have gradually adapted to the astonishing pressure emanating from the sky.
Their gaze once again fell upon the surviving cultivators in Hedong City.
The dense army of ghost soldiers, the despairing one-sided slaughter, seemed to be reenacted.
After days of fierce fighting, out of the hundreds of thousands of cultivators in Hedong City, there were not more than ten thousand survivors.
What's worse is that they were all at their limit. Although most of those who could hold on were high-level cultivators, they were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of ghost soldiers, and escaping was harder than climbing to heaven.
In fact, there were probably fewer than a hundred cultivators who could truly escape the encirclement.
Except for some Nascent Soul stage cultivators with special secret arts and divine abilities who could forcibly carve out a bloody path to escape, most Core Formation, Foundation Establishment, and Qi Refining stage cultivators had no hope of survival.
"Qin Ruohuo, guess why I didn't detonate the entire Hedong City just now? If I had wanted to detonate Hedong City, you wouldn't have been able to stop me..."
Liu Shan stood in the sky, with the dazzling river of light above his head, and said with extreme calmness!
Although it was a rhetorical question, it was uttered by Liu Shan in an extremely peaceful manner, with no trace of anger or resentment.
If an uninformed person were to see this, they would never guess that this calm, top-tier expert had just watched his countless descendants die before his eyes...
Now, even he himself was in danger of perishing.
In front of him, besides Qin Ruohuo, there were countless ghost soldiers, their numbers so vast that one could not see the end of them at a glance.
Upon hearing this, Qin Ruohuo's face, besides pride, held a trace of mockery.
"What? Do you think the same trick can be used twice?"
"Do you really think our Qin family is unprepared?"
"Don't waste your breath trying to stall for time. this is where you will die! Die here!"
Qin Ruohuo seemed to have great confidence and didn't want to waste any more words.
In fact, once a certain level of cultivation is reached, it becomes quite difficult for cultivators of the same level to kill each other.
Many Qi Refining stage cultivators could slaughter more than a dozen cultivators of the same level like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.
But after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, this would not happen. Being able to defeat opponents at a ratio of three to one was already considered a prodigy.
It was even more so at the Core Formation stage; being able to kill cultivators of the same level one-on-one was already a matter of pride.
After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, unless participating in a particularly large war, one would generally not be defeated and die.
The fall of a cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage would cause a storm strong enough to affect the entire cultivation world.
Precisely because of this, if a Purple Mansion stage cultivator was determined to escape, cultivators of the same level would generally not be able to stop them.
This means that if Liu Shan had wanted to escape from the beginning, he could have done so with ease.
Of course, the current situation was different. Not only was Qin Ruohuo, whose combat power was even greater than Liu Shan's, present, but there were also hundreds of thousands of ghost soldiers surrounding him from all directions.
Under such circumstances, it was extremely difficult for Liu Shan to escape.
...
Because Qin Ruohuo would not let him go, even if it meant sacrificing lives and resources, he would still kill Liu Shan here.
...
After Liu Shan unleashed his full-power attack, he saw...
It moved. The extremely dazzling river of light, under everyone's gaze, grew larger and larger, gradually occupying the entire sky!
A wondrous sight of the day inverted appeared. The river of light slowly descended from beneath the sky, its light illuminating everything so transparently that nothing could be hidden.
In fact, when light fills everything, it is no different from darkness. Everything becomes invisible and disappears.
Light and darkness are one. Where there is light, there is darkness. Absolute light is also ultimate darkness!
Facing this attack, the soul laws that enveloped Qin Ruohuo's body instantly expanded violently.
The High-grade spiritual treasure, the Samsara Ghost Wheel, instantly transformed into a size of tens of thousands of feet. An ancient aura emanated from its body, as if time and space around it had stopped.
The artistic conception of life and death, the cycle of reincarnation, radiated from the dark wheel, and faintly, the sounds of countless ghosts could be heard, as if to draw the entire earth into reincarnation.
When the soul laws representing life and death collided with the shining ultimate aurora laws, the void began to emit a rumbling sound!
After a considerable period of stalemate, the High-grade spiritual treasure, the Samsara Ghost Wheel, gradually suppressed the Mid-grade spiritual treasures, the Aurora Immortal Sword and the Immortal Light Spirit Shield.
"Surprised? Do you think you can still cause any trouble?"
"The amount of law power is crucial for Purple Mansion stage cultivators. A slight difference can mean a great deal..."
"With the gap between us, no matter how hard you try, you cannot threaten me."
Qin Ruohuo looked at the stubbornly defiant Liu Shan, sighed, and said without mercy.
Liu Shan, who had always maintained a calm expression, suddenly revealed a strange smile after Qin Ruohuo finished speaking.
It was as if his plan had succeeded at this moment!
"It seems you still don't understand what I meant by that sentence earlier..."
"The reason I risked staying here was not to deal with your Qin family's ghost soldier army, but to find a way to heavily injure you..."
"Meaning, this time, the prey is you..."
Liu Shan revealed a sinister look as he said this!
The next second, Liu Shan's mouth slightly opened, and a green flying knife, traveling faster than light, pierced through Qin Ruohuo, who was protected by soul laws!
The green flying knife entered Qin Ruohuo's body and quickly disappeared.
A vibrant green light quickly bloomed, engulfing Qin Ruohuo!
"Ahhhhhhhh..."
A heart-wrenching cry came from Qin Ruohuo's mouth, as if he was suffering greatly at that moment.