It was a monstrous beast resembling a giant ape, covered entirely in dark gold scales. Its eyes were blood-red, and it stood a full hundred zhang tall. With every step it took, a deep, massive crater was left in the ground.
Walking at the very rear of the beast horde, it looked like an emperor patrolling its territory.
The expressions of the eight City Lords changed completely.
Over forty Half-Immortal beasts!
One must know, in previous beast hordes, the most Half-Immortal beasts they had ever encountered was merely twenty or so!
But this time, the number had actually doubled!
Not only that, but the number of Tribulation Crossing stage beasts was also several times greater than before. They were densely packed, enough to make one's scalp tingle with numbness.
Were the beasts of this Outer Domain endless?!
How did so many Tribulation Crossing beasts suddenly appear at once?!
After all, while Half-Immortal beasts posed a massive threat, the ones that truly gave the Outer City a headache were the Tribulation Crossing stage beasts.
Their numbers far exceeded the Tribulation Crossing cultivators of the Outer City. Often, a single cultivator had to face several beasts simultaneously, making it impossible to hold their ground.
And this time, so many had come.
The vast and mighty beast horde crushed toward the Outer City like a black flood.
The earth wailed, the sky trembled, and the air burned.
The suffocating sense of oppression rushing at their faces made everyone on the city wall turn pale.
Even on Gu Changyuan's face, a trace of solemnity appeared.
This force was enough to easily flatten the Outer City.
It seemed this Outer Domain was much larger than he had imagined, and the hidden beasts were far more numerous than he had estimated.
Moreover, he could clearly sense that the suppression from the Heavenly Dao's rules in this Outer Domain was extremely weak. It was almost a black zone free from the heavy pressure of the Heavenly Dao.
Perhaps precisely because of this, the beasts here were not bound by the rules, allowing them to grow at such an astonishingly fast pace.
However, the reason for Gu Changyuan's solemnity was not that he found the situation difficult to handle.
With his strength, even if there were ten times as many beasts, he could easily deal with them.
His true concern was that if he annihilated all these beasts, what if the resource chain of the entire Outer Domain was completely broken?
He had just taken over the Outer City not long ago. It would be a shame if, after a wave of top-tier beast hordes, he slaughtered the entire Outer Domain clean, leaving his disciples without even a place to gain experiential learning.
But the current situation was no longer something the people of the Outer City could handle.
If he hadn't happened to be here, the Outer City would likely have been destroyed today.
A good place he had just acquired was almost gone.
Gu Changyuan felt an inexplicable surge of anger in his heart.
Usually, he was the one in control of everything. Yet, the entity hiding in the dark hadn't even shown its face, hiding behind the scenes to manipulate the beast horde and having a good time?
Since that was the case, he would first slaughter these Half-Immortal beasts, and then go meet them personally.
Gu Changyuan took a deep breath.
"Boom—!!!"
The spiritual energy around his body instantly surged!
Like a volcanic eruption, the spiritual energy spread madly in all directions with him at the center.
Wherever it passed, the void trembled.
In an instant, the majestic spiritual energy shrouded the entire Outer City, then continued to advance, enveloping all the charging beasts within it.
The beasts rushed to the barrier and smashed against it desperately.
The barrier did not budge an inch.
They couldn't break it at all.
Right at this moment.
"Ahhhhh!!!"
A massive shriek echoed from the depths of the Outer Domain.
Clearly, the sound wave Gu Changyuan had just reflected back had struck the beast hiding behind the scenes.
Following the shriek, an earth-shattering roar sounded, carrying apocalyptic fury.
Immediately after, deep within the Outer Domain, a faint white point of light slowly lit up. The point of light grew larger and larger, its radiance becoming increasingly blinding.
In the next second, a white laser as thick as a water barrel appeared in Gu Changyuan's field of vision, carrying ultimate destructive power.
Without caring about the lives of the beasts blocking its path, it pierced straight through.
Countless beasts were instantly vaporized in the laser, not even having the time to let out a cry.
"Boom—!!!"
The laser slammed viciously into the barrier.
At that moment, the entire world trembled.
The power of the laser was extremely terrifying. The instant of collision, the barrier caved in violently. Cracks instantly spread across its surface, and the pale golden light dimmed sharply, as if it would completely shatter in the next second.
The laser continued its relentless bombardment, an endless stream of destructive energy impacting the barrier.
The entire barrier trembled violently, its light flickering. The cracks grew denser and denser, almost covering the entire barrier.
However, with Gu Changyuan's continuous supply of spiritual energy, the barrier would instantly restore itself the moment it was about to break! Shatter, restore; shatter, restore...
Cycling endlessly, indestructible!
Gu Changyuan raised his right hand slightly, parted his thin lips, and slowly spat out two words. His voice was not loud, but it carried absolute majesty, echoing through heaven and earth:
"Nine Tribulations!"
Above the firmament, the void suddenly tore open.
Nine gigantic swords tore through the void from above, abruptly appearing over the Outer Domain.
The nine longswords varied in shape and possessed entirely different auras.
They hung vertically above the Outer City, tips pointing down, forming a massive circular array that enveloped the entire city.
The moment the Nine Tribulations Sword Array descended, the colors of the world changed.
The originally dim sky was illuminated as bright as day by the nine rays of sword light.
The clouds were torn apart, the void was suppressed, and even the continuously firing white laser was forcibly suppressed at this moment, dissipating completely.
The beasts in the distance were all suppressed to the ground the instant the Nine Tribulations Sword Array appeared.
The vast majority of the Half-Immortal beasts were also crushed to their knees. Only the few strongest ones were still struggling desperately, trying to stand up.
A cold light flashed in Gu Changyuan's eyes.
In the next instant, his figure appeared above the head of the giant ape beast at the ninth level of the Half-Immortal realm.
A cold light flashed in Gu Changyuan's eyes.
In the next instant, his figure appeared above the head of the giant ape beast at the ninth level of the Half-Immortal realm.
The giant ape beast, a hundred zhang tall and covered entirely in dark gold scales, was currently suppressed by the Nine Tribulations Sword Array. With its hands pressing against the ground, it was trying with all its might to stand up.
Its blood-red eyes were filled with unwillingness and tyranny. Its massive fangs protruded as it let out a low, guttural roar.
But it could not stand up.
Gu Changyuan looked down at it from above. His expression was indifferent, devoid of any superfluous emotion.
He raised his right hand.
One of the nine giant swords above instantly converged, transforming into a streak of flowing light that fell into his hand, shrinking to the size of a familiar longsword.
With a flick of his wrist, Gu Changyuan swung the silver-white longsword, unleashing a dazzling burst of sword qi in an instant.
The sword qi landed precisely on the giant ape beast, instantly cleaving the massive creature in two right down the middle. Black blood spewed forth, dyeing a large patch of the ground red.
Without even having the time to let out a scream, the giant ape beast perished on the spot, its divine soul completely annihilated by the sword qi.
Not only that, but the sword qi did not dissipate. It slashed straight forward, sweeping past like a silver dragon.
It directly sliced through all the beasts in the line ahead, whether they were in the Half-Immortal realm or the Tribulation Crossing realm, cutting them in half and killing them instantly.
With a single strike of the sword, a massive rift was forcefully cleaved through the beast horde.
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e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
