David didn’t answer.
He just walked forward step by step, his gray robe fluttering in the dusk, blocking everyone’s path.
His right hand slowly rose and grasped the hilt of the Dragon Slayer Sword. Purple light flowed in the scabbard, as if it was ready to be unsheathed at any time.
His eyes were calm and focused, without any fear or hesitation, only icy calm.
“Old Xuan,” David said quietly.
“I’m here.” Xuanzhenzi spit out the dry grass in his mouth, standing to the left and behind David, his hands were slightly open, and blue light flowed in his palms.
“Xue Lan”.
Jiang Xuelan stood behind David on the right, condensing icy blue cold air at her fingertips, freezing the surrounding air into fine ice crystals.
“You protect the people behind you,” David’s voice was as calm as still water. “I’ll hold off the people at the front.”
Jiang Xuelan bit her lip and nodded.
David took a deep breath, cold fighting spirit blazing in his purple eyes.
Even if there were 150 people on the opposing side, even if today the situation was doomed to failure, he would never give up.
“Time to act.”
David said in a low voice, his fingers gripping the sword hilt tightly, “Get ready.”
The blonde divine leader raised his spear, and golden light condensed into a dazzling ball at the tip of the spear.
His gaze swept across the human and animal cultivators, then he said loudly, “Human and animal brothers! These demonic cultivators are right in front of you. Kill them and you can exchange them for the God Clan’s Golden Cores! Why haven’t you acted yet!”
His voice echoed in the twilight wilderness, carrying an undeniable command.
The majesty of the gods was apparent at this moment.
He thought everything would go according to his plan.
At his command, the human cultivators and beastmen would pounce like hunting dogs, tearing the devil cultivators to pieces.
However, what happened next surprised everyone.
The leader of those human cultivators was a gray-haired old man, whose cultivation level was at the eighth rank of the Golden Immortal Realm. He wore a faded blue robe and held an ancient longsword in his hand.
He glanced at the divine cultivators, then at the demonic cultivators behind David, and finally turned to look at the beastman leader beside him.
A man built like a lion, with his golden mane fluttering in the wind, held a huge battle ax in his hand.
The two looked at each other then nodded simultaneously.
“Attack!” shouted the human elder suddenly.
“Kill!” shouted the beastman leader.
Then, something completely unexpected happened.
Instead of rushing towards the demonic cultivator behind David, the human and beast cultivator suddenly turned around and pounced on the divine cultivator.
Swords flashed and axes fell.
Those divine cultivators were caught off guard.
They never expected that their allies, who were supposed to be on the same side, would suddenly turn their swords against them.
The golden armor creaked as it was hit by the swords and axes, and screams and cries of fear mixed together, exploding in the twilight wilderness.
“You are all crazy!”
“We are allies!”
Why are you attacking us?!
The face of the leader of the gods instantly turned pale, his voice filled with shock and anger: “What are you doing! Attacking the gods means making the entire god race an enemy! Do you know the consequences?!”
Nobody answered him.
Those human cultivators and beastmen seemed to have planned it beforehand, their movements were synchronized and fierce, and each of them had a glint of greed and determination in their eyes.
Three or four of them surrounded a divine cultivator, using swords, axes, and hammers to slash at the divine cultivator who had no time to react.
Golden blood splattered across the wilderness, dyeing the withered grass and gray-brown rocks red.
The sound of armor splitting sounded like cloth being torn, and screams of pain rose and fell.
Even though those divine cultivators were each quite strong, they were completely unable to put up any effective resistance when faced with a surprise attack that greatly outnumbered them and an attack from behind when they were caught off guard.
The moment a god-level cultivator raised his longsword, he was simultaneously stabbed through the chest by three human cultivators.
A god-level cultivator tried to escape by flying into the air, but his back was hit by the beastman cultivator’s ax and fell from the air.
Although the leading god race commander tried to stabilize the situation, his golden spear swept through and repulsed several human cultivators, more enemies had surrounded him, blocking all his escape routes.
In less than a quarter of an hour, all fifty or so divine cultivators lay dead in a pool of blood.
Golden blood flowed slowly in the dusk, coalescing into small streams.
The bodies beneath the golden armor no longer moved. Some had their heads cut off, some had their hearts pierced, and some had their limbs chopped off. Their deaths were different, but their fates were all the same.
FAQ Novel
Q: Who initially surrounds David and his group?
A: Over fifty divine cultivators are the first to encircle David and his companions.
Q: What new threats emerge during the encirclement?
A: Two more groups, human cultivators and beast-human cultivators, arrive from different directions to join the standoff.
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