I gain permanent defense when attacked; even gods and demons can't hurt me.

Baal screamed as a torrent of black blood gushed from the wound on his back, staining the ground beneath his feet black.

Then, Baal lost his balance and fell heavily to the ground, convulsing in pain.

Xue Li was left with only half of his body, lying motionless in a pool of blood.

Clearly, both of them had lost the ability to continue fighting.

They all knew very well that they had no chance of winning against Chen Qingxuan and Xue Dingbang.

If they remained here, only death awaited them. This siege of Blood Moon Fortress was ultimately a complete and irreversible failure.

In order to survive, Xue Li gritted his teeth and decided to unleash the most forbidden secret technique.

He endured the excruciating pain in his body and used his only remaining hand to rapidly move it through the air.

Xue Li's fingers traced intricate crimson runes in mid-air, which emitted a faint red glow.

He directly sacrificed half of his soul and half of his original lifespan.

Xue Li's face was deathly pale, and his eyes were filled with resentment and bitterness.

He was well aware of the consequences of activating this forbidden technique; losing half his lifespan meant he would grow old.

Losing half of his soul means his strength will be greatly diminished and his magic power will be significantly reduced. If he doesn't find a secret medicine to restore his soul, he's doomed.

However, if he didn't do that, he would die by Chen Qingxuan's sword now, completely annihilated.

As his soul and lifespan were rapidly depleted, the remaining half of Xue Li's body quickly withered.

A surge of energy rapidly gathered in front of Xue Li, forcefully distorting the surrounding space and melting a gap in the void, forming a small blood-red passage.

Upon seeing Xue Li's actions, Chen Qingxuan immediately brandished the Celestial Master Sword and unleashed the Five Thunder Orthodox Technique to stop her.

Several thick bolts of purple lightning descended from the sky, accompanied by deafening thunderclaps, and struck the blood-red passage fiercely.

However, this crimson passage was constructed by Blood Dawn sacrificing his own soul and lifespan.

Even Chen Qingxuan's Five Thunder Orthodox Technique could not destroy it in a short time.

The purple lightning struck the red shield, but the lightning energy was blocked by the red light, canceling each other out.

Baal saw the blood-red passage form and knew it was his last chance to escape. He let out a low growl and paid a heavy price to buy himself time to escape.

He forcefully activated the last remaining power within his body, directly sacrificing two drops of his heart's essence blood.

These two drops of blood essence contain Baal's core destructive energy, which has a fundamental impact on his strength.

After the essence blood left the body, it instantly transformed into two dazzling black beams. The two black beams, accompanied by a piercing sound of air being torn apart, shot directly towards Chen Qingxuan and Xue Dingbang in mid-air, respectively.

Wherever the black light passed, the air was distorted by the high temperature, emitting a strong aura of annihilation.

The attack was so powerful that Chen Qingxuan and Xue Dingbang had to stop their pursuit.

Chen Qingxuan held his sword horizontally in front of him, summoning a lightning barrier to block the black light.

Xue Dingbang then brandished his greatsword, using his iron-blooded battle aura to shatter the black light.

Taking advantage of the brief moment when the two were blocked by the attack of the essence blood, Baal struggled to climb out of the pit.

He extended his last remaining claw, grabbed the immobile Xue Li on the ground, and charged into the blood-red passage with Xue Li.

As the two figures entered the passage, the crimson passage rapidly contracted.

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In less than a second, the passage closed completely in the void, and all traces of life vanished.

With the Cardinal and the Abyss Lord fleeing in disarray, the Abyss faction has completely lost its supreme commander.

At the same moment they fled, the massive Nine Netherworld Altar behind them also underwent a change.

Without the power to sustain it, the energy structure inside the altar began to collapse.

The white bones and dark red boulders on the altar shattered, large stones crashed to the ground, and with a tremendous roar, the entire main altar collapsed completely on the wasteland.

The million-strong beast tide, which was originally controlled by the power of the altar, instantly lost the altar's pull and mental suppression.

The crimson light in the eyes of these abyssal monsters gradually faded, and their berserk state began to subside.

The monsters began to regain their original survival instincts.

Once the monster regained its senses, it looked at the human defenses standing ready ahead, and the corpses of its kind littering the ground.

They instinctively felt fear and lost all desire to continue charging forward.

The massive beast horde formation collapsed instantly, losing its unified command.

Countless monsters turned around and fled, with only one goal: to escape back to the abyss rift that had given them their birthplace.

During the escape, many monsters pushed and trampled each other, making the scene extremely chaotic.

He strode into the air and stood directly in mid-air, looking down at the entire wasteland battlefield below.

Xue Dingbang circulated his iron-blooded battle qi to its limit, and his voice became incredibly loud with the support of the battle qi.

His voice transformed into rolling sound waves, instantly spreading to every corner inside and outside the Blood Moon Fortress.

"The Abyss Lord and the Cardinal have fled! The Abyss Altar has been destroyed!"

"All troops, listen to my command! Launch a full-scale counter-offensive immediately! Pursue the enemy! Don't let these monsters escape!"

Upon hearing the commander's shout, all the human soldiers inside and outside the fortress paused for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, the morale of the entire army soared, and the soldiers' fighting spirit reached its peak.

The anger that had been suppressed for so long and the hatred for seeing his comrades die in battle erupted completely at this moment.

The soldiers raised their weapons and roared.

Lin Yuan stood in the center of the group, his knightly dance aura still operating steadily.

Led by Lin Yuan's absolute defensive perimeter, the human soldiers charged towards the demons.

Warriors brandished greatswords and spears, mages unleashed fireballs and ice spikes, and the human army launched its fiercest and most direct pursuit.

The soldiers at the forefront completely abandoned raising their shields; they gripped their weapons with both hands and slashed with all their might.

Even if the monsters turn around and retaliate, their attacks will not cause any damage to the soldiers.

This absolutely safe combat environment greatly improves the soldiers' efficiency in killing enemies.

The terrain on the wasteland was uneven due to the previous battle, which made the pursuit more difficult.

But the soldiers paid no heed; they crossed deep pits, leaped over boulders, and relentlessly pursued the fleeing monster.

After a massive counterattack that lasted for several hours, the number of monsters on the wasteland decreased dramatically.

The ground was littered with the corpses of abyssal monsters. The human army pressed forward relentlessly, driving all the remaining abyssal monsters into the abyssal rift.

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