Chapter 1509: Pressing the Advantage

Chapter 1509: Chapter 1509: Pressing the Advantage

At this moment, there was no need for the group including Xia Yu to exert effort to break through the defense formed by Aleister and others. Once the attack was launched, the formation encircling Pei Yan naturally dispersed. Except for a few individuals, the fifteen people did not care about the attacks of Xia Yu and the others and each sought a direction to retreat.

Gu Shenghui stopped a few people who wanted to pursue the attackers and made them retreat. He, along with Hu Jiu, who had a strong self-healing ability, stayed behind. The attack launched by fifteen top Heavenly Dao experts was so powerful that even its caster dared not stand at such a close distance to withstand its aftermath. Now, with Pei Yan’s life uncertain, Gu Shenghui could only ensure his group was not affected by the attack. He would plan what to do after seeing the outcome.

The torrent of energy gathered from fifteen killing moves did not produce a violent explosion as everyone expected. Instead, it condensed without release due to the collisions and balance of various elements, forming a dazzling sphere of light around Pei Yan’s body. However, this light sphere existed only briefly; moments later, it exploded with a loud bang.

A scorching pillar of light shot towards the sky, tearing through the black clouds formed by the forbidden spell. As uncontrollable, violent magical elements completely erupted, the fierce impact burst out using the top and bottom ends of the pillar of light as outlets.

For a moment, the world was enveloped by a holy white glow, and the dark clouds above were almost instantly swept away. The greatest loss was suffered by the armies battling below the battlefield. Although Jiang Feiyang anticipated a potential impact and attempted to move the army directly below the battlefield to the sides, it was a battlefield of over ten thousand people; even the fastest speed required time. Unfortunately, their retreating speed was far from matching the spreading speed of the explosion.

After the explosion’s impact, the sky once again became clear without a cloud. At the core of the explosion range centered on Pei Yan’s location below, tens of thousands of mechanical puppets were completely rendered incapable of fighting due to the explosion’s impact. This demonstrated the power of top Heavenly Dao experts; just moments ago, armies of tens of thousands were intertwined in fierce conflict, with the mechanical legion losing fewer than several thousand. Yet, this single attack caused massive losses to the mechanical army.

However, the focus of all the spectators before the light screen and on the battlefield was not on this. Almost at the moment the light pillar disappeared, everyone’s attention concentrated on the main target of this attack, Pei Yan. Upon inspection, people in the investigation hall were shocked, while those in Council City were delighted.

Embarrassed! No! Pei Yan now couldn’t merely be described as embarrassed; he was truly a sight intolerable to look at! After being demonized and mechanized, his formidable physique, under the combined sealed attack of fifteen top Heavenly Dao experts using fifteen divine artifacts, had its defenses shattered. The mechanical state dissolved the moment the light pillar vanished. Pei Yan was drenched in blood, with most of his skin scorched and wrapped in a mess of flesh. In this attack, Pei Yan’s mechanically composed left arm and leg completely vanished, and the flesh on the front part of his right arm was gone, revealing charred bone. Most shockingly was his chest! One could even see his slowly beating heart through the damaged wound.

This horrific scene, combined with Pei Yan’s half-destroyed face exposing teeth, made him resemble a ghost returning from trials in Hell, prompting doubt about the amount of pain endured during such a brutal attack.

"Hehehe! Pei Yan, prepare to face the judgment of light!" At this moment, Lanloste was unusually excited. To prevent the possibility of Pei Yan surviving such an impact, while most retreated to avoid the aftermath of the forbidden technique’s attack, he and two other Round Table Knights chose to stay. With the divine artifact armor they wore and their formidable strength, they bore the brunt of the joint forbidden technique’s impact at the closest distance. Now, Pei Yan was barely hanging on at his weakest moment, while Lanloste found himself in the best position for attack—this was fate granting him the perfect opportunity for revenge.

If Lanloste’s previous anger towards Pei Yan had been an act, at this moment, faced with victory within grasp, he was truly excited and lost his composure. With a cry, he rushed towards Pei Yan, close enough to touch.

Simultaneously, Hu Jiu and Gu Shenghui also moved. Lanloste and others stayed to ensure Pei Yan’s demise with a swift follow-up attack, while they braved the impact to stay as close as possible to aid Pei Yan immediately. Both sides were equidistant from Pei Yan, yet whether due to their limited strength, or because Lanloste’s trio’s charge was too fierce, as Gu Shenghui and Hu Jiu arrived, they could not intercept all three. Each blocked one attacker, allowing Lanloste to breach the defense they formed.

"Lanloste, be careful!" There were still people maintaining composure on the scene! Seeing Hu Jiu, who signed a symbiotic contract with Pei Yan, still lively raised Aleister’s suspicion. The investigation hall’s actions were similarly abnormal! Not rushing to Pei Yan’s aid upon witnessing his severe injury, the three outside formed an alliance to attack a Violet Witch closest to them concurrently, after Gu Shenghui and Hu Jiu acted.

Careful? Lanloste hesitated upon hearing this, a glance catching the actions of Pei Yan’s companions. He realized something was amiss but was too close to Pei Yan, unable to dodge even if Pei Yan did anything. Decisively, he charged forward, concentrating all his elemental energy into his longsword, aiming to deliver a decisive blow and completely annihilate Pei Yan.

Under Lanloste’s intense watch, Pei Yan moved! He raised the arm already revealing bone, and Lanloste smirked cruelly; with injuries like that, attempting to block his attack was utterly foolish!

"Prepare for death!"

With a roar, Lanloste swung his longsword horizontally towards Pei Yan’s severely wounded chest. Almost instantaneously, Pei Yan’s right arm astonishingly regenerated flesh over the bone injury and faced the brandished longsword, Pei Yan grabbed at it barehanded.

"It’s futile! With such a defense, you’re destined to die! Holy Sword!" Pei Yan had yet to recover other wounds; to Lanloste, it seemed an emergency response, gathering all his self-healing abilities at the right arm, accelerating its recovery. Yet merely that could not withstand Lanloste’s life-or-death strike. For total effectiveness, Lanloste triggered the faith force accumulated on the longsword’s divine artifact properties, emanating a dazzling glow, sweeping forcefully towards Pei Yan’s arm.