Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 486 - 470: Seizing the Banner

Boom, boom, boom...

The dense hail of special magic artillery shells fell upon the demon army, spreading thick fog and viscous magical power, blinding the demons’ sight and spell detection.

The demon warlocks continuously cast spells to disperse it, but the fog persisted.

Amid the dense black fog, the heads of the green Angels of Death swayed.

On either side of the demon army, an innate battalion charged obliquely, heading straight for the Angel of Death battalion.

Fierce magic energy bombs exploded over the Angel of Death army, depleting the spell shields and forcing the demon warlocks to be too distracted to control.

Zhou Leng, as the final trump card, did not take the lead but hid in the middle of the team.

The innate battalion, like a long spear, easily pierced through the outer demons, rushing close to the Angels of Death, but soon found themselves heavily surrounded by demons, becoming increasingly difficult to advance.

No one retreated, no one feared, no one panicked.

Under the cover of continuous special magic artillery, the innate battalion kept moving forward, advancing.

Like a chisel, it stabbed into the rocky line of defense bit by bit.

Getting closer and closer.

But also getting slower and slower.

"Slay the demons!"

A martial artist at the front growled low, and several people beside him fiercely threw powerful magic energy bombs one after another.

The powerful magic energy bombs instantly cleared a large area, raising a massive wave of earth, with dense shockwaves smashing everything, burning everything with strange magical power.

Masses of demons fell like cut wheat.

Even though the innate martial artists were prepared, more than a dozen were knocked back, bleeding from their mouths and noses.

"Advance!" Zhi Liao’s voice rang out.

The team surged forward, and soon, the martial artist in front threw another round of magic energy bombs.

Boom, boom, boom...

"Advance!"

Soon, they threw the third batch of demon spirit bombs.

Less than two hundred meters from the Angels of Death.

Zhou Leng took a deep breath, stepping forward with the Sky Dragon Flash, charging near the Angels of Death with exquisite stepping techniques that the demons could hardly reach in the midst of the fog.

"Kill him!"

Countless innate demons surrounded Zhou Leng.

Various spells assaulted him.

The demon spirit artifacts on Zhou Leng lit up one after another, forming colorful demon spirit shields, blocking out all external attacks.

This time, Zhou Leng did not use spears.

Because spears could not penetrate the dense spell shields and innate demons.

Amidst the myriad of troops, his body charged forward.

With a light leap, he stepped into the air, using the heads of demons as his path, crushing numerous demon heads, landing in front of an Angel of Death.

"Stop..."

"No..."

Amid the desperate cries of the nearby demons, Zhou Leng stomped through the head of the first Angel of Death.

The Angel of Death exploded, spreading a toxic mist with a radius of over five hundred meters in an instant.

The martial artists nearby looked up.

In the command center, commanders watched the green mist enveloping the enemy army through drone aerial views.

In the next instant, one Angel of Death after another was flung by Zhou Leng out of the toxic mist, hurling towards the four directions of the demon army.

Some Angels of Death exploded in mid-air, and the rest exploded as soon as they hit the ground.

The toxic mist spread in all directions.

The demons here were so densely packed that in no time, over thirty thousand demons were swallowed by the toxic mist.

A large number of demon warlocks stood near the Angels of Death, and they were the first to die when the toxic mist exploded.

From a high altitude, the toxic mist was seen spreading toward the City Lord’s Mansion.

Within the toxic mist, one Angel of Death after another was hurled towards the rear of the demon army, forming a large swath, advancing towards the City Lord’s Mansion.

All the demons outside the toxic mist were stunned, not daring to recklessly cast spells to disperse the toxic mist, because no one knew where the mist would drift.

The way to deal with the toxic mist could only wait until the dispersal was complete, then slowly disperse it with spells bit by bit.

The Angels of Death battalion was just one or two kilometers from the City Lord’s Mansion.

Before anyone could react, an Angel of Death flew out of the toxic mist, landing in the City Lord’s Mansion.

In the City Lord’s Mansion, grandmaster-level demons hesitated over what to do, but the moment the Angel of Death flew in, they all fled.

Infected with the deadly poison of an Angel of Death, even a grandmaster would be crippled if not dead.

One Angel of Death after another flew out, and the toxic mist quickly covered the entire City Lord’s Mansion.

The battlefield developments far exceeded everyone’s imagination. The demons couldn’t fathom what had happened, and ordinary martial artists dared not imagine it.

Only Chen Shouhu and senior commanders in the command center suspected it was the work of the Monkey King.

Causing a surprise at the shore of Tai Lake, daring to use strategy at the third mine, and at Huqiu Fortress, not only risking life but also combining risky maneuvers with audacious tactics.

These experienced military commanders couldn’t even fathom how human martial artists could kill tens of thousands of demons at once and force the entirety of the enemy’s command to retreat.

Before everyone’s eyes, a bloodied figure rushed to the City Lord’s Mansion wall.

First to ascend.

Then, the blurry figure climbed to the top floor of the City Lord’s Mansion’s main building in two steps, grabbing the black flag of the Celestial Calamity Army.

Flag capture.

He turned around; his face was a bloody mess, yet he seemed like the king of Huqiu Fortress, overseeing the world.

The invincible Angels of Death were his bloodied sword of triumph.

The indefatigable Undying Knights were his ceremonial guards hoisting the great flag.

Zhou Leng tossed the black flag far into the toxic mist.

Like a mental shockwave, it instantly shattered the morale of the demon army.

The routed green-skinned army once again justified their nickname, trampling over each other in a frantic flight.

Then, the demons fled.

In the end, the giant insect fled.

The Demon Alliance Army completely collapsed.

"Slay the demons!" From the main building of the City Lord’s Mansion, a rugged shout erupted from the voice cords damaged by poison, wild and vast, like the winter wind sweeping across a desolate plain.

"Slay the demons!"

"Slay the demons!"

A call to slay the demons echoed in all directions.

A faint golden light of united strength covered half of Huqiu Fortress.

The Undying Knight glanced at Zhou Leng on the city wall, then suddenly made a supersonic charge, breaking through the line and fleeing.

All the martial artists behind the camp outside charged out, their roars shaking the sky.

Chen Shouhu and the other grandmasters exchanged glances.

"Old Xu, you three stay here to hold the line, help take care of the Monkey King."

After saying this, Chen Shouhu quietly led the remaining grandmasters away, heading toward the direction where the demon grandmasters were fleeing.

Zhou Leng stood on the main building of the City Lord’s Mansion, looking at the poison fog below, vast as the sea and clouds.

A team of 104 people charged inside, with only him standing outside the poison fog.

Zhou Leng jumped down from the main building, not pursuing the enemy army, but instead ran out of Huqiu Fortress and headed outside the camp.

After setting up a tent, Zhou Leng bent down to enter, then stood up again, turning to gaze at the stagnant poison fog.

After a few seconds, he bent down and entered the tent.

He sat down to meditate.

This time, his injuries were severe, with large areas of flesh corroded, and even his internal organs and bones heavily damaged.

As strong as the Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique, it couldn’t heal him because he hadn’t reached the Wan Wu Realm.

So, he took out the high-grade sacred magic potion he exchanged for a few days ago, along with a large amount of Water of Life, ant queen insect fluid, aphid honey, ancient tree fossil, and other life medicinal fruits.

First, he swallowed a large amount of life medicinal fruits, then drank the high-grade sacred magic potion.

It was as if a demigod demon spirit master personally cast a spell; the flesh on his body grew and multiplied crazily at a visible speed, so fast it was like red foam expanding.

Meanwhile, a large amount of Power of Life merged into his body, preventing his life span from being consumed by the high-grade sacred magic potion.

A grandmaster silently approached not far from the tent, seemingly an ordinary middle-aged martial artist.

In the distance, several human martial artists exchanged looks, slowly approaching; as they neared the tent, they suddenly sprang up, pouncing towards the tent.

The four people, who originally had the aura of Blood Shocking Innate, reached the realm of Great Innate when fully unleashed.

The grandmaster tossed four steel coins of one yuan upward, and his right hand flicked four times rapidly.

Boom boom boom boom...

The four coins wrapped in True Qi shot forward like meteors, flying out at three times the speed of sound.

Thud thud thud thud...

The heads of the four Great Innate traitors exploded, their bodies falling to the ground, blood gushing out.

The four coins continued to accelerate forward, slowing down five hundred meters away.

The nearby martial artists were both shocked and envious.

This should be the deputy commander of the Seventh Division, Xu Yuanjing, renowned for his "Flying Finger Technique," one of the Dragon Country’s grandmasters most skilled in long-range attacks.

The momentum of the human race’s army was like a rainbow, pursuing and killing all the way, for a full ten hours, even encountering some demon counterattacks.

By late night, each team gradually returned.

The grandmasters quietly returned to the command post.

In this battle, they killed eight demon grandmasters and assassinated dozens of Great Innate, innumerable ordinary Innate demons.

The Undying Knight fled quickly, with the help of a demon grandmaster, escaping the pursuit.

Chen Shouhu walked outside Zhou Leng’s tent, approaching Xu Yuanjing.

"How did it go? You reported that you killed four traitors."

Chen Shouhu glanced at the four pools of blood on the ground.

"He used the high-grade sacred magic potion, with his toxin resistance ability, he’ll need to rest a few days at most."

Chen Shouhu said: "Huqiu Fortress is the key to this Shuizhou battle. The main demon army has collapsed. Unless something unexpected happens, the other demons will also withdraw. We will act separately, sweep up the demons..."

The two of them sent four Innates to encircle the tent, rested briefly, and then led the army overnight to charge towards the next demon stronghold.

The major pursuit in Shuizhou Demon City officially started.

By the next noon, Zhou Leng stopped his meditation, exhaling a long breath.

His physical injuries were too severe; even though his organs regrew, his whole body was sore and numb, feeling soft.

The newly grown muscles couldn’t compare to the body tempered repeatedly before.

However, within a month of training at the most, he would reach the peak period again.

Putting on his hood, Zhou Leng walked out of the tent, casting his first glance towards the location of the City Lord’s Mansion, where the poison fog had dispersed.

Looking back, only less than twenty thousand martial artists remained in the camp, most of them wounded.

A million-strong army had all departed.

Empty.

A nearby Great Innate approached to explain the situation.

Each army had launched a pursuit battle, and Chen Shouhu hoped that the Monkey King would not participate, but go back to recuperate.

After listening, Zhou Leng asked, "Has anyone from our last Innate suicide squad come out?"

The Great Innate martial artist sighed softly, saying, "No, they were completely corroded by the poison."

Zhou Leng turned to look at Huqiu Fortress, silent for a long time.

"I’m heading back."

"I will escort you."

Such was the status of a Great Innate, voluntarily using honorifics.

Willingly.

"No need, you all do your work. Even at my weakest, I have the strength of the Bone Forging Stage."

"We are executing Commander Chen’s orders."

"Suit yourselves."

After saying this, Zhou Leng walked back to the tent he previously lived in, beside the tents of the other members of the Hidden Martial Artists.