When everyone else was grounded, one person shattered the limit and rose into the air.

Not only were you stunned, the Heaven Venerable and Earth Venerable on the Dragon-Man side were also inexplicably shocked.

"Who is this person? Why can he control the air?!"

"He doesn't look like a living person, more like a tangible force!"

"The human world is full of the strangest things!"

Li Wentian's combat style was extremely simple.

He looked more like a martial artist, not like a cultivator who had reached the late stages and relied on various arcane powers.

Li Wentian's fists and palms moved like wind, his footwork like thunder. He used no weapon, fighting purely with unadorned fists and kicks.

His strikes landed solidly, his footwork uncanny, his balance of power and technique maxed out.

He landed every hit and dodged every attack.

Several Earth Venerables were beaten into submission by him, and they even had to endure Li Wentian's taunting interrogation.

"Is this worthy of the title Earth Venerable? Your combat technique looks like child's play!"

"What Super Soul Combat Art? Either your realm reached godhood or you're gods themselves. Do you even know what the word 'god' means?!"

"You are unfit to fight me, stand down!"

The Earth Venerables were furious and their battle mindset took a hit.

The second and third Martial God-level reinforcements were the Dragon Corpse and the Phoenix Corpse.

"Old Wan! Release Hu Tiangong! Don't let his soul be taken for salvation!"

Souls sealed inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner could not be dragged away by the Underworld.

But once released, that protection vanished.

Unless the soul had been refined by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and lost the qualification for being taken by the Underworld.

Hu Tiangong had not been refined, you only kept him temporarily inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

Of course he could not be refined now, refinement consumed energy. Hu Tiangong had wandered for thirty thousand years and was already extremely weak. You still needed him to activate the paired Dragon and Phoenix corpses.

Hu Tiangong glanced back at the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

"Brother Wan, sorry for the trouble."

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner spoke in the tone of a great immortal.

"Brother Hu, no need for formalities."

The banner quivered and continued to release souls, like a dam bursting, countless demon souls spreading across heaven and earth.

Ordinary martial artists and mortals could not see these soul bodies; one needed a special method to open their eyes.

These demon souls came from the Demon World.

When the Qiankun Mirror went mad back then, it didn't send you from the Three-Headed Realm to the human world, it sent you to the Demon World.

In hindsight, it was quite a grand manipulation.

During your adventures in the Demon World, you had the Ten Thousand Souls Banner collect all the demon souls encountered along the way.

After the Ten Thousand Souls Banner advanced into a super Immortal Artifact, its internal capacity became absurdly large. Even after years of stuffing in demon souls it wasn't full; it even boasted that what was inside was only the tip of the iceberg.

Hu Tiangong today did not intend to use living sacrifices, because this day was not for the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array, so such extremes were unnecessary.

Today, just bringing back these wandering, lonely souls from the Demon World would suffice.

The demon souls, seeing the Dragon-Man tribe, flew into a rage on the spot.

"Dragon-Men! It's the Dragon-Men! They destroyed our homeland!"

"Let me kill them! Let me kill them!"

"Damn it! We are all dead souls now, our cultivation has largely dissipated, we can barely hurt them!"

These demon souls had died thirty thousand years ago.

Their hatred for the Dragon-Man tribe was far deeper than those who merely inherited bloodline memories like the Azure Dragon or White Tiger.

They had watched their homeland be destroyed and had been slaughtered by the Dragon-Men themselves.

Seeing their enemies now before them, the resentful aura exhaled by these dead souls had a tangible effect, chilling the entire battlefield like an icehouse.

Hu Tiangong rose into the sky, sending his will among all the dead souls.

"Compatriots! Lend me your strength one more time! With ancestral hatred before us, how can we not fight?!"

The demon souls hesitated not a whit; they all closed their eyes and waited to be offered.

"Young Master! Take these remnants, please! If only I could do more!"

"General! Please bring our share into this fight again!"

"General! Let us burn once more! Take my soul power!"

Countless demon souls transformed into points of soul power light and converged onto Hu Tiangong.

Cunning Heaven Venerable noticed this and tried to stop Hu Tiangong.

But Li Wentian had latched onto him.

"I hear you're the strongest among the Dragon-Men troops? I'd like to have a word!"

Cunning Heaven Venerable raised his hand and unleashed a wave, a beam of darkness piercing sky and earth.

Li Wentian tilted his head, dodged it, avoiding the greatest harm with the smallest movement. Then he closed in at top speed and struck, using the hardest fist to hit Cunning Heaven Venerable at his weakest point.

"Ugh!!"

Cunning Heaven Venerable was speechless to the extreme.

Li Wentian continued his trash talk.

"If not for the limits of the laws of this world and my approaching end, even with you rotten fish and shrimp, would you dare slaughter my people?!"

Li Wentian's personal charisma surged, greatly bolstering the morale of the entire army.

It was as if he had an unseen "Leader Aura" trait.

Of course he didn't have one, but inexplicably, after Li Wentian acted, the Five Regions' fighters' combat abilities noticeably rose a tier.

Their will to fight surged dramatically; injuries that had made them unable to continue suddenly became irrelevant.

Cunning Heaven Venerable ordered several Earth Venerables to stop Hu Tiangong, but they were blocked by the explosive force of you and Shen Qingshan.

In addition, Sword Lord, Zhuge Zhujin, Wan Sanqian, Li Liushui and other veteran Martial Saints served as Hu Tiangong's escorts, intercepting enemy attacks.

Under everyone's protection, Hu Tiangong completed the casting of the Ten Thousand Demon Power.

"Dragon Marshal! Phoenix Marshal! Awake!"

"Boom—"

The earth trembled violently.

All parties fighting on the ground, affected by the Air-Banning Grand Array, were stuck on the surface.

The ground's quake made everyone stagger, and combat nearly ground to a halt.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Accompanied by earth-shattering roars, two gigantic figures burst from the ground.

Amid towering dust, dragon roars and phoenix cries filled the ears.

One was a golden five-clawed dragon, over ten thousand meters long, dragon might immense, sovereign over heaven and earth!

The other was a giant bird engulfed in golden flames, its wings spread to blot out the sky, its fire outshining sunlight, a scorching wave roaring across the land, making everyone immediately sweat profusely!

Hu Tiangong cast more demon magic.

"My heart is like a mirror, it can split! Open!"

Hu Tiangong's soul split in two, merging separately into the Dragon Corpse and the Phoenix Corpse.

Now standing before the Dragon-Men were the temporarily restored Martial God-level bodies of the Dragon God and Phoenix God.

Controlling those two bodies was Hu Tiangong, the Demon Emperor's son, the Demon World young master who had harbored three-thousand-century hatred—today finally able to strike freely at the Dragon-Men!

"Dragon-Men! Had you not used filthy tactics to ambush and attack our realm back then, would our demon tribe have been defeated? Today I will teach you the supreme Body Refining technique of the Void Realm!"