Slaying demons and eliminating evil, a martial saint among mortals.

As the two talked, they arrived at the foot of the drum platform.

The drum platform wasn't very tall, but Qin Lie could still feel the oppressive atmosphere.

I glanced at the air in mid-air.

The nail beneath the seal was spinning rapidly.

Shen Shuyan, who was suspended in mid-air, was also as pale as a sheet.

He gritted his teeth, flicked his finger slightly, and the nail in mid-air flew towards Qin Lie.

Qin Lie reached out and caught it.

As soon as he got his hands on the nail, he felt as if something was pulling his hands down, and he couldn't hold them up at all.

too heavy!

It was just a nail, yet it felt as if he held the entire Broken Wind Pass in his hands.

Li Tiezhu almost lost his temper when he saw this scene.

"You better hold on tight, kid!"

Qin Lie didn't speak, but grasped the ninth nail with both hands and strode to the bottom of the drum platform.

A ring of crimson array patterns lit up below, with a palm-sized indentation in the center, which should be the array eye that Shen Shuyan mentioned.

Qin Lie took a deep breath, aimed the nail in his hand at the key point of the array, and pressed it down hard.

But the nail did not budge.

He frowned, and tried harder, but still couldn't press it down.

Even though the nails were already pressed against the key point of the formation, it was as if something was still missing.

No matter how hard Qin Lie tried, it remained firmly rooted to the spot, refusing to fall.

Qin Lie immediately became anxious. What exactly happened?

This is no ordinary nail; it is something forged with the lives of the soldiers of the Broken Wind Battalion.

They are dead, having poured everything they had into this nail.

Now things are stuck with him.

Qin Lie gritted his teeth and pressed down with all his might, the veins on the back of his hand bulging, but the nail still wouldn't budge.

Li Tiezhu looked anxiously at Qin Lie, then at the nail that hadn't fallen, and his anxiety vanished instantly.

Because he remembered what the strategist had just said.

"Kid, don't forget what I told you, that place has really good liquor, you absolutely have to try it."

Qin Lie was in a hurry to press the nail in, and didn't even look up when he heard this.

"I'm so anxious right now, don't talk about this, just think of something for me."

Li Tiezhu didn't care about Qin Lie's attitude at all. He opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly turned his head to look at the other side of the drum platform.

Something was wriggling inside a pile of demon corpses.

Immediately afterwards, a monster the size of a person, standing on all fours, emerged and bared its teeth at Qin Lie.

Li Tiezhu could sense that this monster was probably a bit stronger than him.

At this moment, the monster suddenly sprang up and pounced towards Qin Lie.

It was so fast that Qin Lie had barely reacted before it pounced on him.

At this moment, Qin Lie's hand was still on the nail. If he let go now, the nail would spring back, and the formation might be destroyed.

But if he didn't let go, Qin Lie estimated he would be finished if he got hit by that claw.

At that moment, Li Tiezhu rushed in front of Qin Lie without hesitation and collided directly with the monster.

"You son of a bitch, come at me if you dare!"

The monster's claw pierced directly into Li Tiezhu's chest. Li Tiezhu's body stiffened, and blood gushed from the corner of his mouth.

Qin Lie's eyes immediately turned red.

"Brother Li!"

Li Tiezhu clung tightly to the blood-corpse demon puppet.

He glanced down at the claw piercing his chest, then looked up at Qin Lie.

He even had a smile on his face.

Do you know why you can't drive your nail in?

"Because I'm still missing!"

"Haha, it's an honor to fight alongside you."

Qin Lie vaguely understood what Li Tiezhu was going to do.

"No! Brother Li!"

The image of those soldiers self-destructing flashed before Qin Lie's eyes once again.

"Alright, stop being so long-winded."

"I said I'd treat you to drinks, you have to come! Don't go back on your word after I'm dead!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Tiezhu used all his strength to hug the monster and move away from Qin Lie.

The next moment, his blood and qi suddenly exploded.

boom!

The violent explosion occurred directly next to the drum platform.

The shockwave made it impossible for Qin Lie to open his eyes, but he still held the nail firmly in his hand, preventing it from slipping out of his grasp.

As the smoke dissipated, Qin Lie could feel that Li Tiezhu's aura had completely vanished at that moment, but his flesh and blood had not disintegrated.

Qin Lie could see a red aura slowly merging into the nail in his hand from the site of the explosion.

The nail that was almost there finally solidified completely.

The blood patterns on the nail suddenly lit up.

Qin Lie stared at the nail, his eyes bloodshot.

At that moment, he finally understood that the reason he couldn't push the nail in wasn't because he wasn't strong enough.

But the fate of the last soldier in the Duanfeng Camp was still in danger.

Li Tiezhu used his own life to mend this nail.

Qin Lie gritted his teeth, pressed down hard on the nail with both hands.

This time there was no hindrance whatsoever.

puff!

The nail in his hand was driven directly into the eye of the formation.

boom!

The entire Broken Wind Pass suddenly trembled.

The crimson array patterns beneath the drum platform instantly spread outwards.

Everything Qin Lie could see was connected by the formation at this moment.

The Zhenguan Seal in mid-air emitted a muffled roar.

Pei Jinghan over there also suddenly raised his head, his eyes now completely red.

Black scales grew back on its body, and its arms turned into claws.

This time, however, he did not slaughter the soldiers of the Broken Wind Camp, because they had all already sacrificed themselves.

Pei Jinghan turned his gaze to the demon race outside the city.

The next moment, Pei Jinghan moved, and his half-human, half-demon body rushed out instantly.

With a single claw strike, a blood-corpse demon puppet was torn in two.

After his successful attack, he did not stop, but continued to slaughter the demons around him.

However, Qin Lie didn't look at Pei Jinghan; his eyes were bloodshot as he stared at the spot where Li Tiezhu had self-destructed.

The monster that Li Tiezhu had just blown up hadn't been killed; it staggered and crawled out of the pile of flesh again.

Qin Lie had only one thought in his mind right now.

Li Tiezhu has already self-destructed, so why isn't this bastard dead yet!

Kill it to avenge Li Tiezhu.

Qin Lie took out the Blood Explosion Pill from his pocket and swallowed it without hesitation.

The moment the pill entered his stomach, Qin Lie felt as if his body had been set on fire.

My blood and energy were surging, and it felt like a fire was burning in my heart.

The fire surged from his chest to his limbs and bones.

At this moment, Qin Lie could only hear Li Tiezhu's last words.

"You absolutely have to go! Don't let me go back on my word after I'm dead!"

Qin Lie grasped the broken snow blade that Pei Jinghan had given him; the originally cold hilt was now burning hot in his palm with his blood and qi.

The monster roared and pounced on him.

Qin Lie raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, and uttered a single word.

"kill!"

With a single step, he charged forward. Before the demon's claws could even land, Qin Lie's Shattered Snow had already slashed out.

This strike was neither fancy nor did it hold back.

All the blood and energy ignited by the Blood Explosion Pill were poured into this one strike.

puff!

The blade flashed down from above the monster's head!

It slashed through the blood-red array patterns on his chest!

Finally, it cleaved out from between his legs!

The monster stood frozen in place.

The next moment, his body split in two and fell to the ground.

[Gain 7 free attribute points]

A notification popped up in front of Qin Lie's eyes, but he couldn't focus on it anymore.

His eyes were bloodshot as he hacked at the other demons around him!

On the other side, Pei Jinghan transformed into a killing machine, attacking any living thing near him.

The blood array under Wugu Luobu was constantly collapsing under the counter-pressure of the Broken Wind Array!

Pei Jinghan slew those blood-corpse demon puppets one after another!

Soon, only Shen Shuyan was left by Pei Jinghan's side!

Struggling to maintain his composure, he watched Pei Jinghan in the midst of the carnage, his eyes filled with pain.

Pei Jinghan suddenly turned his head, his dark red eyes fixed on Shen Shuyan, and the next moment he slapped at Shen Shuyan with a claw.

Shen Shuyan didn't dodge, or rather, he was too exhausted to dodge at that moment.

Just as Pei Jinghan's claw was about to strike, a giant hand suddenly appeared in the sky.

boom!

The giant hand blocked Pei Jinghan's attack.

Then, with a flick of his giant hand, he directly grasped Shen Shuyan in his grasp.

Shen Shuyan's expression changed.

"Let me go! I won't leave! I need to find a way to save him!"

He struggled to get out of that big hand, but no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't move an inch.

An aged voice echoed from the sky.

"The outcome was already decided when the ninth nail fell."

"Once the Wind-Breaking Formation is complete, not only you, but even I can't change anything."

Pei Jinghan gritted his teeth.

"Even if I can't change anything, I'll stay here with him, after all, it's all my fault."

The aged voice sighed.

"You'll only die at his hands if you stay. Go back to Zhenyao Pass."

"If you spare your life, you can still tell others what happened here and clear Pei Jinghan's name."

Shen Shuyan's eyes were bloodshot, but regardless of whether he wanted to or not, the large hand still carried him little by little back towards the sky.

"Old Pei, promise me you won't forget who you are!"

Pei Jinghan did not respond to him, but turned and rushed towards the demons outside the city.

The giant hand carried Shen Shuyan higher and higher until it disappeared into the horizon.

Outside the city, Wugu Luo looked at Pei Jinghan, who was going berserk inside Duanfeng Pass, and his face was extremely gloomy.

His most perfect work was forcibly taken away by the human race.

The battle, which was originally a sure win, was completely lost.

"withdraw!"

Left with no other choice, he waved his hand.

The matter is already settled; we can't afford to waste all our manpower here.

"But after planning for so long, I can't leave empty-handed."

Wu Gu Luo made a hand seal, and a line of blood emerged from the ground, wrapping around the wound on Pei Jinghan's ankle.

At this moment, Qin Lie was still holding the Broken Snow, constantly killing the demons around him.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

He wanted to kill all the monsters here; he wanted to avenge Li Tiezhu!

And then there's Uguro, the culprit!

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Who are you going to kill?"

Qin Lie, who had fallen into madness, felt a sliver of clarity return to his mind.

Then a very charming voice came to my ear.