The battlefield had reached a boiling point.
Blood was now the eternal, unchanging theme.
No commands were needed. After months of ceaseless slaughter atop the city walls, the soldiers had already forged an unimaginable level of tacit understanding. This kind of coordination allowed them to instinctively react with precision to the ever-shifting tides of battle.
"Fire! Fire! Fire!!!"
Across the battlefield, waves of Evernight troops surged forward. There was no need to aim — the crossbow bolts shot out in bursts, striking down the enemy with lethal accuracy. The dense arrow rain turned the approach to the wall into a death zone for the Evernight demons, leaving their corpses strewn across the blood-soaked ground.
A thick layer of bodies piled up on the earth.
It was a scene many human elites had never even imagined witnessing before.
"The human army is actually this powerful... Unbelievable. It's shocking. So this is the Great Yi? The soldiers of Great Yi are this strong?"
Guan Yu's heart was shaken.
Although he had already speculated on the strength of the Great Yi Dynasty, witnessing it with his own eyes made him realize how inadequate his assumptions had been. His gaze instinctively turned to Zhang Fei, who stood firmly atop the city wall, commanding his legion in the counterattack against the Evernight forces.
"So this is the dynasty you now serve, Third Brother. This army… I've never seen anything like it."
A thought flashed through Guan Yu's mind.
Since Liu Bei had yet to be found, he didn't want Zhang Fei to follow him in a life of hardship and wandering. Great Yi could give him status, stability, and the life he desired — and that was what mattered most.
Suddenly, a massive swarm of Zerg forces descended from the sky. Among them, waves of flying drakes appeared, their tails firing beams of divine light like lasers that blasted toward the city wall.
The divine beams were unimaginably dense and devastating.
They filled the skies.
Fortunately, the defenders atop the wall were well-prepared. The moment the flying drakes were spotted, ranks of shield-bearers raised their tower shields in unison, forming a shield wall that blocked the oncoming divine beams.
Crossbow bolts whistled, relentlessly bringing down the drakes.
"Devour them!!"
At that moment, Yi Tianxing made his move.
As his voice rang out, a red-and-blue jade bottle suddenly appeared above the battlefield. It shimmered with divine light as it floated in the air. Red and blue rays alternated along its surface, and at the mouth of the bottle, a strange vortex formed — radiating an indescribable devouring power.
The moment it manifested, wave after wave of Evernight demons on the ground were sucked upward toward the Yin-Yang Treasure Bottle.
Against this suction force, the Evernight demons stood no chance. They were drawn in like ragdolls, their towering bodies shrinking at impossible speed, as if some invisible, divine power was compressing them.
The power radiating from the bottle was simply too bizarre to resist. The Yellow Turban soldiers being devoured had no chance to fight back. Bathed in the alternating red-and-blue divine light, they were swept into the bottle.
Ever since the Feast of Rare Fruits, Yi Tianxing's cultivation had reached the pinnacle of the Fate Map Realm, with immense foundations and an even more formidable physique. The Yin-Yang Treasure Bottle, under his control, had become astonishingly powerful — like a bottomless pit, devouring the Evernight demons without end.
SHUA!
The bottle reappeared in Yi Tianxing's hand. With a casual flick, light streamed from it. Countless strands of Yin-Yang Dao Rhythms danced within as mysterious celestial harmonies echoed faintly.
A gentle shake—
DING DING DING!!
Clear, crisp chimes rang out. The demons that had been devoured were now refined into Yin-Yang Pills within the bottle.
"Rather than waste them, I might as well turn them into pills to benefit my Great Yi soldiers. They're all valuable resources. If this is the best the Evernight has, then I'm sorely disappointed. Keep sending more — I'll never have enough."
Yi Tianxing looked coldly toward the five Stargates in the sky, laughing icily.
Meanwhile, his Yin-Yang Life Orifice continuously devoured massive quantities of souls.
One Yin-Yang Ring after another manifested across the battlefield, suppressing and stealing souls into the Life Orifice. Within, the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Diagram rapidly crushed them into pure Yin-Yang essence — spiritual and soul origin — to fuel his Yin-Yang divine powers.
He could feel his Yin-Yang essence surging every moment.
Innate Yin-Yang Dao Rhythms continuously fused into the divine arts. Each one gleamed with mystic brilliance, exuding an awe-inspiring aura.
Yet the Life Orifice was too vast. Despite consuming an unfathomable number of souls over the past few months, it had only grown larger. The internal space kept expanding, the divine diagram more refined, and the divine arts more potent — but it still remained at the peak of the Mystic Grade, unable to break through to the Earth Grade.
It was as if it lacked some mysterious catalyst — perhaps a special substance.
This was something even Yi Tianxing found frustrating.
If it could advance, the innate power of his Yin-Yang Life Orifice would give him the confidence to face any enemy, no matter how dangerous — even to crush them.
Devour! Devour! Devour!!
Tens of thousands of Evernight demons were devoured and refined into Yin-Yang Pills with every move. Wherever the treasure bottle swept across, entire swathes of the battlefield were cleared.
"Yi Tianxing of the Eternal Human Race, Lord of the Great Yi Dynasty — because of you, the fortunes of Evernight's chosen have been stripped away. As a mere native, you've dared offend Evernight. Today, you are sentenced to death."
From within one of the Stargates, a terrifying face emerged.
It was composed of dark, shifting light — its features ever-changing, flickering like shadows. Hollow eyes and a blank expression gave the sensation of being stared down by death itself.
It was more terrifying than any ghost — a presence that chilled the soul.
A voice echoed from its mouth, carrying a pressure that was nearly suffocating.
"Sentence me to death? Call me a native?"
Yi Tianxing lifted his gaze toward the void, his face twisting into a mocking sneer as he coldly retorted:
"What right do you Evernight scum have to call us natives? You're nothing but defeated invaders. What right do you have to judge me? Today, I, Yi Tianxing, stand here. Let's see what power you have to pass judgment on me."
"If you cannot judge me… then I will judge all of you!"
His voice brimmed with fierce battle intent and a touch of madness — a fearless challenge.
"Remember this — the one judging you is of the Evernight Void Spirit Clan. My name is... Void Adjudicator!"
The face twisted with icy menace. As soon as it spoke, a ghostly dark hook and chain shot out from the Stargate like lightning — a strike so fast it defied perception, as if it bypassed space itself.
The hook didn't seem solid — more like dark light, an illusion forged of shadows.
In the blink of an eye, it reached Yi Tianxing — phasing directly through his Chaos Battle Dragon Robe as if it weren't there — and pierced into his body.
He felt it instantly.
The hook latched onto his soul, freezing it in place. An unbearable pain coursed through him.
"Accept your judgment, native."
Void Adjudicator sneered. The hook surged with power, trying to lift Yi Tianxing from the wall and drag him through the Stargate into Evernight — to be judged.
"No! Cut the chain, now!"
"Don't let His Majesty be taken! All soldiers, attack the Stargate! Divine Crossbows, fire!"
The defenders were horrified and furious. No one had expected such a terrifying being to be hiding within the Stargate — nor that even Yi Tianxing would be caught off guard and hooked.
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!
Without hesitation, the divine crossbows turned and fired in unison at the Stargate, targeting the demonic face.
But a vortex appeared within the gate — swallowing every bolt like a black hole. Not a single shot landed.
DING!
Cheng Yaojin's battle axe slashed at the hook like a lightning whip — but passed straight through, as if it wasn't there. It was untouchable, existing in another realm entirely.
DING DING DING!!
Yet the hook still rang with metallic echoes, as though it somehow existed and didn't, simultaneously. A paradox.
The chain stretched taut, radiating immense force, trying to reel Yi Tianxing into the Stargate.
And then—something shocking happened.
Despite the hook being embedded in his soul, Yi Tianxing did not move.
It was as if the line had hooked a giant shark — no matter how much force the chain exerted, it couldn't reel him in.
"Impossible! Anyone struck by my Void Spirit Demon Hook should have both body and soul sealed, unable to resist. Why... why can't I pull him?"
Void Adjudicator's voice cracked with disbelief.