Chapter 53: Annihilate Them All—Leave No One Alive!
"Stop right there!"
"No... stop shooting arrows! If you keep shooting, you'll kill us all!"
"What... what kind of sorcery is he using? How can it be so bizarre?"
"Damn it, it was clearly him who got injured, yet... yet he acts as if nothing happened at all. Instead, three of our faction leaders suffered the exact same injuries he did and died on the spot!"
"What kind of evil magic is this little bastard using?"
The eight faction leaders and three immortal cultivators all wore extremely grim expressions. Having perceived the bizarre nature of the phenomenon, they immediately dared not fire any more crossbow bolts at Jiang Fan, fearing they would drop dead on the spot.
Moments ago, Jiang Fan had pulled the crossbow bolt from his body, and his injuries instantly healed as good as new, as though he had never been hurt at all.
To the eight faction leaders and three immortal cultivators, this sight was bizarre to the extreme.
At this moment, Jiang Fan bore not a single injury and even looked as spirited as ever.
"Since you've discovered my secret, none of you will leave here alive today!" Jiang Fan spoke with cold detachment, shouting in fury, "Break for me!"
Boom!
Pushed to its absolute limit, the Azure Wood Seal slammed violently into the already precarious Three-Phase Great Array the very moment the three cultivators were momentarily stunned, directly shattering the array's barrier of light.
"Sword, come!"
Seeing this, Jiang Fan immediately manipulated the talisman sword, driving it straight toward the head of the leading immortal cultivator.
Swish!
The talisman sword moved with such terrifying speed, and the distance between Jiang Fan and the group was so close, that the leading elder didn't even have time to react before a hole was pierced straight through his skull, killing him instantly.
"Die, all of you!"
Holding back no mercy, Jiang Fan once again manipulated the Azure Wood Seal, bombarding the remaining unshielded group.
"Not good! Earth Wall Technique!"
"Lesser Fireball Technique!"
The two immortal cultivators hurriedly cast spells to counter the attack, hoping to block the might of Jiang Fan's Azure Wood Seal. Regrettably, they still underestimated the power of the seal wielded by Jiang Fan. With a deafening blast, their spells were directly blown apart by the Azure Wood Seal. Fortunately, the eight Xiantian-realm faction leaders joined forces just in time to barely withstand the lingering shockwave.
"I'd like to see how many times you can block this!" Jiang Fan sneered, once again manipulating the Azure Wood Seal to smash down fiercely.
"Kill him, quickly!"
"Strike now!"
"Kill him!"
The three leading faction leaders hurriedly issued orders, commanding their subordinates to slaughter Jiang Fan.
Meanwhile, the leaders themselves threw their full strength into resisting the terrifying force of Jiang Fan's Azure Wood Seal.
"Hahaha, you truly never learn!" Jiang Fan's formidable physique shook. The battered armor on his body shattered completely. Protecting only his head with his magical power, he utterly ignored the attacks of the mortals.
Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud... Arrows, lances, and sabers flew through the air, piercing countless bloody holes into Jiang Fan's body. However, Jiang Fan had long since prepared, transferring all the damage directly onto the three names he had just inscribed in the *Grand Dao Heavenly Scripture*.
Those three names belonged precisely to the three Xiantian-realm faction leaders of the major factions. As Jiang Fan suffered severe wounds, the damage was instantly transferred to them, causing them to collapse to the ground one by one, completely incapacitated.
"Ah..."
"How... how could this be?"
"It... it hurts so much..."
The three faction leaders lay on the ground, howling in excruciating agony. As for the rest, even when joining forces, they could no longer withstand Jiang Fan's full-powered strike. With a thunderous crash, the Azure Wood Seal descended, slamming viciously into the crowd and leaving them all heavily injured or dead.
The two immortal cultivators fared slightly better, left hanging by a thread with grievous injuries, but the five surviving Xiantian-realm faction leaders were beaten to death on the spot.
"I'll spare your dogs' lives for now. Once I finish off the rest of them, I'll come back to execute you!" Jiang Fan said coldly. Right before the eyes of the two cultivators, he yanked out the arrows, spears, and swords impaling his body, then turned and charged without looking back toward the horde of the three major factions.
"Run! Run for your lives!"
"The fiend is coming, flee!"
"Our leaders are all dead, run!"
As the saying goes, when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. With the leaders of the three major factions all dead, the mortals belonging to those factions had long since been scared out of their wits, fleeing frantically in all directions.
"Listen up, all members of the Wild Wolf Gang—kill!" Jiang Fan roared furiously. Wielding his treasured saber, he began an unbridled massacre.
His speed was blinding, his strength immensely formidable, and coupled with the utterly demoralized state of the panic-stricken mortals, it was a completely one-sided slaughter.
Splat, splat, splat...
Heads rolled, and seductive blossoms of blood bloomed. Wherever Jiang Fan passed, not a single soul was left alive.
He slaughtered madly, his eyes completely bloodshot.
"Didn't you try to ambush me just now? Didn't you pierce my body full of holes? Still want to run now? In your dreams!" Jiang Fan spoke coldly, continuing his frenzied carnage.
"Let's join in too! Slaughter those bastard dogs from the three major factions!"
"They were trying to wipe us out completely earlier—the time for our revenge has come!"
"Charge! Don't spare a single one..."
The dozens of surviving members of the Wild Wolf Gang also joined the frantic slaughter, burning with fighting spirit.
With the overall situation now decided, they naturally felt no fear. Their previous dread of the three major factions had vanished completely into thin air. In their eyes, there was only the blazing fire of vengeance and blood-boiling zeal.
Barely half an hour later, every single member of the three major factions had been slaughtered. The Wild Wolf Gang had also suffered heavy casualties, leaving only twenty-three survivors.
"What a heavy loss indeed." Gazing at the vast expanse of corpses surrounding him, Jiang Fan could not help feeling a pang of emotion. His heart pounded fiercely, unable to calm down for a long time.
He... had killed again. In one breath, he had slaughtered one to two hundred people, while the rest were dispatched by his fellow Wild Wolf Gang members. Yet, his terrifying prowess struck deep dread into everyone's hearts.
At this moment, the twenty-three surviving Wild Wolf Gang members also wore dazed expressions, struggling to gather their wits.
"Why... why has the sky turned dark?"
"Good heavens! What is happening?"
"Why is so much black fog erupting from God-Descending Mountain, directly blotting out the sky..."
" Gang... Gang Leader, what... what should we do?"
"Gang Leader, perhaps... perhaps we should quickly leave God-Descending Mountain! A great calamity might be occurring here..."
Someone suddenly noticed the strange celestial phenomenon, and everyone's faces turned ashen with terror.
Jiang Fan hurriedly raised his head to look at the sky, only to see countless billows of black fog erupting from God-Descending Mountain. That black fog instantly engulfed the firmament, blanketing a radius of a mile. Moreover, the black fog continued to roil frantically, its bizarre spectacle stunning everyone, while the space beneath God-Descending Mountain began to grow dim...
"What is happening? Could it be... could the celestial destiny of God-Descending Mountain has finally appeared?" Jiang Fan's heart surged with excitement as well.