If I don't go to hell, who will

【The Grand Elder was speechless too.】

【What methods does this sect possess? As the Sect Master, don’t you understand them better than I do?】

【Actually, it wasn’t just this Grand Elder. Quite a few people in the Heavenly Fiend Sect had once suspected your identity.】

【They had investigated you in secret, but the results of their inquiries were always the same—“Who am I?” had confirmed that you were indeed Si Duo Duo.】

【On top of that, under your leadership, decision-making, command, and heroic exploits, the Heavenly Fiend Sect had expanded into the number-one force on Firelight Star.】

【They could only conclude that even if this Sect Master was a fake, he seemed to be better than the real one. They had resigned themselves to it.】

【The Grand Elder of the Heavenly Fiend Sect, a dragonman named Ya Dada, glanced up at the corpse of the Flying Feather Patriarch before speaking in a deep voice.】

【“Though I, Ya Dada, am unworthy, I have also reached the late stage of the Heaven-Connecting Realm. Allow me to test this battle corpse. Sect Master, please observe its abilities carefully so that we may defeat it.”】

【Ya Dada was prepared to sacrifice himself to scout the enemy’s capabilities for you.】

【You didn’t feel the slightest bit of pity.】

【“Go.”】

【You listened to the Grand Elder’s thoughts.】

【He deeply admired your heartlessness and lack of sentiment.】

【Yes, that was exactly right. Anyone who wished to accomplish great things had to be ruthless! This was the chosen Sect Master of the Heavenly Fiend Sect. He would surely lead our sect to unify the entire world! Long live the dragonmen!】

【You were rather impressed by the dragonmen’s collectivism.】

【Before Ya Dada could make a move, you called out to him.】

【“Wait.”】

【“What is it?”】

【“That thing has gained something new in its hand.”】

【A streak of dazzling light flew in from the horizon.】

【The radiance gathered in the battle corpse’s hand, transforming into a round wheel that shone with brilliant golden light. It looked as though he were holding up a tiny sun.】

【The golden wheel emitted a terrifying heat. The temperature around it rose sharply, and some dry branches in the forest spontaneously ignited. Soon, a forest fire began to spread.】

【The Heavenly Fiend Army was suffering badly. Their orderly battle formation began to fall apart.】

【Many soldiers struggled to endure the scorching heat, and the army’s morale plunged into chaos.】

【You had no choice but to order the vanguard to become the rear guard and withdraw the entire army to a distance beyond the golden wheel’s heat waves.】

【You could clearly sense a pressure radiating from the golden wheel.】

【Despite your cultivation, strength, and the many traits that had bolstered your mental fortitude, you still felt awe and dread when facing the golden wheel.】

【As for the ordinary soldiers of the Heavenly Fiend Army, they were even worse off. All of them felt an impulse to fall to their knees.】

【Fortunately, they could also benefit from your “Leader’s Aura” trait. Otherwise, a large portion of them would already have been kneeling.】

【“What is that thing? It possesses such terrifying power merely by appearing?”】

【Ya Dada struggled to open his eyes and get a clear look at it.】

【“I have never seen it either. But judging from the direction it flew in, it should belong to the Azure Hill Sect.”】

【The Flying Feather Sect and the Azure Hill Sect had actually combined their ultimate trump cards!】

【“Send in the next two battalions. Attack!”】

【You were using the foreign races as cannon fodder to test the waters again, without the slightest burden on your conscience.】

【This batch of cannon fodder performed even worse.】

【The moment they came within five kilometers of the battle corpse, they spontaneously combusted!】

【“That golden wheel really is a sun…”】

【Seeing that Ya Dada was about to charge forward again, you called him back once more.】

【This old dragonman was quite capable. It would be a waste to use him as cannon fodder here.】

【“I’ll go instead.”】

【“Sect Master…”】

【“Sigh. If I do not enter hell, who will?”】

【In the hearts of Ya Dada and the other high-ranking members of the Heavenly Fiend Sect, your image instantly grew much more magnificent.】

【“Boom!”】

【It was still the same explosive launch. You shot into the sky in a single step.】

【You leaped ten thousand meters into the air, then accelerated as you descended, headfirst, pressing one palm downward with tremendous force.】

【“Rumble…”】

【Though you were only one person—one dragonman—the air pressure produced by your descent caused the heavens and earth to roar. The mountains trembled.】

【Wave after wave of air surged up directly beneath your falling body, repeatedly tearing up the earth around you before smashing it back down.】

【Allow me to grandly introduce your new divine technique, one that you invented yourself.】

【You had incorporated the “Rending” divine ability into a martial art you had learned long ago, the Cloud-Burning Palm. The quality of the original martial art had nothing to do with the divine technique. No matter how inferior the martial art, once combined with a divine ability, it would at least become a third-grade Earth Fiend divine technique.】

【The name of this new divine technique was…】

【“Plasmolysis Palm!”】

【A gigantic palm print condensed in the air. The lines on the palm were clearly visible—even the cytoplasm flowing through each individual cell could be seen!】

【Because this divine technique incorporated the Rending divine ability, any target it struck would suffer a powerful tearing effect that damaged its structure.】

【That was why it was called the Plasmolysis Palm.】

【The palm blotted out the sky and sun, unstoppable as it descended. The air pressure locked onto the hundred-meter-tall battle corpse, leaving it unable to move.】

【The battle corpse itself could not move, but the golden wheel in its hand did.】

【“Vrrrrrr!”】

【The golden wheel spun wildly. Torrents of heat surged like solar prominences, twisting through the air like circling dragons.】

【The light on the surface of the golden wheel gathered together before blasting toward the enormous palm descending from above.】

【“Boom!”】

【The collision between the two tremendous forces flattened the land for a hundred miles. Not a blade of grass remained; the entire area became scorched earth!】

【“Pfft!”】

【The force of the backlash struck you head-on. You spat blood and were sent flying backward, crashing into the clouds.】

【The self-healing effect of the “Wolverine” trait worked desperately, dragging you back from the brink of death.】

【Actually, you could not die in your current state. You were in the transformed state of “Guangzhi, Save Me.” Death would merely end the transformation, causing you to wait a year before transforming again.】

【That was also why you dared to charge over and clash directly with this battle corpse.】

【Still, it would be best if you did not die. Otherwise, you would be unable to transform into Si Duo Duo, and all your hard-won advantages would be lost.】

【“Retreat!”】

【You swept over the Heavenly Fiend Army and ordered them to withdraw.】

【Seeing that you could still fly, everyone felt somewhat reassured.】

【Even from far away, the terrifying shock wave had made everyone in the army feel that death was only a thought away.】

【From a distance came the mocking laughter of Kuer Dong, Sect Master of the Flying Feather Sect, and Yang Ju Ren, Sect Master of the Azure Hill Sect.】

【“Si Duo Duo! Why are you running away with your tail between your legs? Aren’t you very powerful? Let’s fight until dawn!”】

【“Hahaha! He’s scared! Did you see that? Hahaha! Victory belongs to our Flying-Azure Alliance!”】

【The war had reached a stalemate.】

【The Flying Feather Sect’s ancestral battle corpse, combined with the Azure Hill Sect’s mysterious golden wheel, had blocked the Heavenly Fiend Army’s path of advance.】

【At the same time, the Flying Feather Sect began attacking the territories already occupied by the Heavenly Fiend Army, taking back quite a few cities.】

During this time, the Xinhuo forces in the rear joined with hidden human factions in various regions to wage a guerrilla war against the Flying Feather Sect. They repeatedly sabotaged the sect’s offensives and slaughtered numerous nonhuman cultivators from the Flying Feather Sect and its affiliated forces.