Against The Heavens - 158 Lambs to the slaughter.

Li Yang plummeted down to the ground after pushing himself off of the top of the wall, crashing into the ground with a loud rumbling sound as the earth cracked beneath him. His arrival could be considered rather noisy, but he still remained practically unnoticed thanks to the thunderous noises of the chaotic battle unfolding in front of him.

Li Yang dusted off his robe and casually headed for the battlefield, his pupils flickering around as he took in the scenes of the battle, observing the Deathcloud Warriors and how they fought. They were humanoid in shape but they actually fought like savage beasts, lashing out with their wispy hands and even trying to bite anyone that got close to them. They completely ignored all the attacks that were launched at them, not even making any attempts at dodging as they were torn apart.

They had indeed acquired a consciousness of their own, but for these Deatcloud Warriors, it was definitely no more than the faintest consciousness possible, just barely enough to follow their instincts. These were probably the scouts and stragglers they had been told about by the chubby man, the solider and general-level ones would definitely be smarter than this.

Li Yang ducked down for a quick second when he was only a few tens of meters away from the battlefield, a spear surrounded by a cloud of sharp dust flying over him and crashing into the ground a short distance away. He turned his head and sent a slight glare to one of the soldiers standing atop the wall, his sharp gaze causing the armored woman to tremble slightly.

But he didn’t take any further action against her, only placing his finger in front of his lips and giving a slight shake of his head before turning around and continuing to head towards the battle. His robes didn’t belong to any of the three factions and his gait was far too casual for the situation, it was inevitable that he would attract some attention now that he didn’t have Fang Ying and Zhao Feng to obscure him like earlier.

He finished walking the last few tens of and properly entered the battlefield, which was practically like entering a completely different world. The thunderous sounds got louder, the smell of blood and death hung heavy in the air, and attacks were flashing by all over the place. From the looks of it, the people taking part in this battle had actually set up a formation at the very edge of the battlefield as they charged forward, it was probably done to avoid any stray attacks flying towards the wall while they were battling.

Li Yang bent backward just as he entered the battlefield, a halberd with a circle at the tip instead of an axe-head just barely missing his throat. Li Yang flicked his finger, a bolt of lightning flashing out and temporarily paralyzing the woman from the Earth Rendering Empire that had just attacked him.

Li Yang stepped past the paralyzed woman and headed for the Deathcloud Warriors up ahead, a guess forming in his mind. Since he had already been attacked twice in such quick succession, he was starting to guess that it wasn’t just because of the fact that he looked so casual or the fact that he didn’t wear the robes of one of the three great sects, there was a chance that strong Deathcloud Warriors were incredibly close to human’s in appearance. It was just a guess of his, but Li Yang had always held his sharp intuition in high regard so he was confident that his guess was close to the truth.

Li Yang stepped past several groups of soldiers and dodged a few more attacks, not bothering much with those that attacked him right now. At worst he only paralyzed them or blew them away with a quick punch, clearing a path directly to the incoming cloud of death. In this situation, it didn’t take long for a Deathcloud Warrior to break free from the chaotic battle and rush directly at him.

Li Yang glanced at the Deathcloud Warrior, leaning back and dodging a swipe of its barely formed claws as he studied it from a closer perspective. It had a head but no features, the wispy smoke that made up its body simply splitting open when it wanted to bite at the being in front of it. The arms and legs were constantly changing in size and number, it was almost as if the Deathcloud Warrior wasn’t quite sure which shape it wanted to take on yet.

The Deathcloud Warrior continued to unleash a frenzied barrage of attacks at him, Li Yang dodging them one by one as he tilted his head. The Deathcloud Warrior in front of him radiated an utterly terrifying aura that was a mixture of the laws of life and death, but the actual strength it managed to produce was only at around the middle stage of the Ascending Heaven realm.

But the confusion he felt at it quickly cleared up, the aura it was radiating was likely a result of the sheer height that the laws of life and death that created this being had reached. This spoke more about how terrifying the man who unleashed these two laws was rather than how terrifying these Deathcloud Warriors were. Of course, should there be a Deathcloud Warrior that could perfectly use these two laws that formed it then it would be a completely different story, that would be an entity that Li Yang would avoid like the plague. After he cleared up the confusion, Li Yang’s right hand stretched out as fast as lightning.

“Alright, I’m done with you now.”

Li Yang’s hand landed on what should be the throat of the Deathcloud Warrior and unleashed a brilliant splendor, golden flames bursting forth and swallowing up the black smoke. The Deathcloud Warrior released a shrill and ear-piercing screech as the flames of the Golden Crow engulfed it and completely ate it up. The screech quickly died down once the black smoke was gone, only a droplet-sized orb of white light remaining.

The black smoke was the law of death that formed the Deathcloud Warriors and this white light was the law of life that gave them consciousness, it was basically their heart. Normally it would be very hard to destroy the black smoke and reveal this white heart, but not only did Li Yang have the flames of the Golden Crow, famed to be among the most destructive, but he also had his strange ice that was specialized in freezing immaterial things.

It wasn’t too hard for him to freeze this heart and then use his flames to destroy the black smoke. Fang Ying and Zhao Feng, however, would find it quite a bit more difficult to accomplish this, which was part of the reason why they didn’t follow him down as he jumped down from the wall.

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Li Yang lowered his outstretched hand and tapped the white orb with his finger, the orb turning into a white light that sank into his body as a result. Li Yang could feel a tremendously pure lifeforce move through his body the moment the white light entered him, a supremely pleasant feeling emerging in his body. It was almost as if he had lowered his body down into a hot spring after wandering through a blizzard, every inch of his body relaxing.

He could also detect that the lifeforce strengthened his body ever so slightly, it was to the point that he wouldn’t have noticed it if he wasn’t actually looking for it. But this was just what the lifeforce managed when it wasn’t controlled, if he took it over and directed it he guessed that the effects would be better, especially if he focused it on one spot. This proved his earlier guess correct, the Deathcloud Warriors were perfect cultivation resources if one knew how to take advantage of them.

But just as he was starting to think about the various ways he could use this lifeforce, a small sliver of it split off and sank into his dantian. The pure lifeforce sank into the unconscious bodies of Jinwu and Shenlong, who had laid dormant ever since they had donated their Essence Blood to Li Yang. Their bodies trembled slightly once the lifeforce entered them, the signs of life coming from them actually growing slightly stronger.

Li Yang’s breath nearly caught in his throat, this lifeforce was so pure that it could replace the Essence Blood of a Divine Beast? The more Li Yang discovered about these laws of life and death, the more shocked and curious he became about the person who left them behind, the man known as the Bloodwind Emperor. But he quickly pushed these thoughts to the back of his mind, his eyes lighting up with flames as his lips curled into a grin.

“Hehe, alright then, let’s make it a feast. Come one, come all, be nice and become food for me.”

The lifeforce within Li Yang’s body rushed forth as he chuckled to himself, the Dark Star Essence that was a result of his body cultivation exploding forth. His body instantly became a burning beacon to the Deathcloud Warriors, his practically burning vitality so strong that the Deathcloud Warriors almost started salivating as they rushed at him. To most this army of Deathcloud Warriors was a great horror, but to him it looked like no more than a flock of lambs rushing to the slaughter.