Follow the path of Dao from infancy

"Not even worth the dirt on the ground, and you dare to stand in the way?"

"Die!"

The vine demon elder took the lead in opening the path, trying to make up for his previous neglect. He suddenly raised his hand and struck out, his palm forming a dark purple imprint composed of withered vines, imbued with the Ultimate Meaning of the Grandmaster Martial Realm, pressing down with a suppressive force.

The void in his palm seemed to be torn asunder, and the many soldiers who had rushed over formed the Tiger's Might and Flood Dragon Formation, erupting with the roar of tigers and the howl of dragons. A brilliant golden light surged out, colliding with the imprint!

With a loud bang, the storm of blades within the palm imprint tore the flood dragon-like golden light into shreds, pressing straight down overhead.

Merely a few thousand soldiers forming a military formation could not stop a Demon King, who flattened them into a bloody mess on the spot, turning them into a pool of blood!

The might of a Demon King, terrifying and unstoppable!

Li Tian Gang trembled all over, his eyes bloodshot, his breathing heavy.

On the battlefield, he had always been as calm as iron, commanding the whole army, but at this moment, he couldn't help but feel overwhelmed.

A frenzied killing intent washed over his mind like waves, but he clenched the divine blade tightly, restraining his body. His other half, honed through prolonged combat, told him with sober rationality that they truly couldn't hold the eastern front!

If they couldn't hold it, they had no choice but to retreat and shrink the defensive line!

Shrinking the defensive line, then joining hands with his fifth brother from the Western Yan, Li Xuan Li, to guard the previously established secondary defense line.

At the same time, they could wait for reinforcements from the various families and the assembly of the Liangzhou gentry.

Don't underestimate this power of the gentry. If it were just a small part of them, they wouldn't amount to much before the Li Family's iron cavalry. But if the entirety of the Liangzhou gentry, numbering hundreds of cities, were to unite, it would be an enormously terrifying force indeed!

This force was normally not fearsome only because they were like loose sand, but if united, they would be strong enough to shake a great army.

Thinking of the millions of people of Liangzhou behind him, Li Tian Gang gritted his teeth, his eyes burning with rage as he watched the ten approaching Demon Kings. Without a second word, he turned and fled!

Military law is as immovable as mountains; he too abided by it. Although his emotions drove him to rampage, his reason held him back, driving him to choose to retreat and flee!

Otherwise, if Liangzhou was left unguarded, it would fall even faster!

"Tiangang, farewell..."

Li Fu watched as Li Tian Gang turned and dashed away, a sense of relief in his heart as a contented smile appeared on his face.

In that moment, his address for Li Tian Gang was no longer that of a marshal in the army, but the affectionate nickname from their childhood days.

Li Tian Gang's entire being shuddered, turning his head to look at Li Fu, his eyes brimming with tears, scorching hot.

He had witnessed the funerals of his brothers, seen the mutilated corpses of countless fellow soldiers in Northern Yan, and now, Li Fu, the orphan picked up by the Li Family and raised alongside him, was also about to leave.

"Tiangang, reconcile with your son, the young master... he is actually someone you can be proud of..."

Li Fu whispered softly.

"Shut up!"

Before he could finish, the vine demon elder already strode forward, his palm descending with a strike.

Li Fu's divine soul burst out from his body, blazing brightly, howling as it charged forth.

But the descending demon's palm, like a massive mountain, pressed down relentlessly, devoid of emotion and without impediment.

With a loud crash, Li Fu's body was smashed into mush, his divine soul and flesh obliterated!

Li Tian Gang, who had already charged into the distance, had blood-red eyes, the whites stained with bloody threads, his teeth nearly shattering with the force of his clench.

But after only a glance, he turned his head and continued to run madly away, shouting orders loudly to those around him, "Fazi Camp, heed my command, resist the demon tide with all your might!"

"Yuan Camp, heed my command, follow me in retreat!!"

He chose to take the battalion name established by his ancestors and left behind the many soldiers of the Fazi Camp he had personally trained.

To stay behind meant to die, to be completely annihilated!

Among the demon tide led by the Demon Kings, there were no survivors!

Upon hearing Li Tian Gang's orders, at that moment, the entire battlefield erupted with responses like a tidal wave.

The soldiers of the Fazi Camp, their gazes sharp as swords, revealed even more frenzied killing intent in their eyes, fearlessly charging toward the demon horde.

To those left behind to resist the demon tide and cover the retreat, there was no despair or rage, only the ironclad execution of military discipline.

Each man charged toward the demon tide as if resigned to death, igniting their divine souls and snapping their bodies' major arteries, all to slay more demons!

Gunpowder rose in plumes, the whole frontier line trampled underfoot, as countless waves of the demon horde swept over like a deluge.

"Think you can escape?"

Ms. Yin had set her eyes on Li Tian Gang early on, not allowing him to slip away. In an instant, she moved like teleportation, covering hundreds of miles with each step, catching up with Li Tian Gang almost in the blink of an eye.

Li Tian Gang roared as he turned around and struck furiously with his blade, the divine sword blazing like fire as he slashed at Ms. Yin's palm.

However, the green eye on Ms. Yin's face suddenly widened, its strange demonic technique causing Li Tian Gang's body to abruptly shudder, slowing his strike. With a thunderous impact, he was sent flying by a slap.

The slap landed directly on his armor, extinguishing all of the divine light on that precious armor.

Li Tian Gang rolled out, spewing a mouthful of fresh blood. His Indestructible Body reigned supreme in the Three Immortal Realms, but in front of this practitioner of the Ultimate Study Realm, it barely kept him from being killed in one strike.

"The way you killed my son, I will have you pay back a hundred, a thousandfold!"

Ms. Yin's eyes were fierce and chilling as she struck continuously. Wave after wave of dark light seemed to tear through the sun and moon, dragging torrents of demon light, slamming into Li Tian Gang repeatedly.

Li Tian Gang howled as he wielded the Xing Tian Blade, managing to extinguish two beams of demon light before being struck again. His ribs fractured, the flesh of his palms bursting, his entire body as if trampled by a hundred thousand behemoths, his skeleton nearly shattered.