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When he saw Nie Li's group gathered at the center of the Thunder Divine Pool, Gu Heng was instantly consumed with rage.
Although he didn't know what methods Nie Li had used to destroy the Black Cloud Divine Pool and the Ancient Domain Divine Pool, seeing Nie Li standing at the heart of the Thunder Divine Pool made it easy enough to figure out — Nie Li was undoubtedly deploying techniques to destroy this pool as well!
After losing the Black Cloud Divine Pool and the Ancient Domain Divine Pool, this was the only one they had left!
And now Nie Li wasn't even going to leave them with that last one!
Gu Heng was practically going insane.
"Kill! Slaughter every last one of them!" Gu Heng screamed hysterically, his long sword pointed straight at Nie Li and the others. In moments, tens of thousands surged toward the Thunder Divine Pool with a thunderous roar.
"Nie Li, we'll hold them off with everything we have — you need to hurry! Gu Heng's forces are already here!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A fierce battle erupted. Gu Heng's side simply had too many people — three to four times the combined numbers of the Heavenly Path Alliance and the Demon Alliance. They swarmed into a frenzied assault, and over three hundred Heavenly Rotation Realm experts led by Gu Heng charged straight toward the Thunder Divine Pool.
Beside the pool, the Heavenly Path Alliance and Demon Alliance fighters found themselves locked in a desperate struggle.
Gu Heng, leading more than three hundred Heavenly Rotation Realm experts, was virtually unstoppable. He cut a bloody path straight toward the Thunder Divine Pool.
"Nie Li, we can't hold on much longer!"
There were simply too many Heavenly Rotation Realm opponents.
Boom!
A bolt of lightning struck Nie Li, sparks flying in every direction.
Fortunately, Nie Li was wearing a complete set of sixth-grade treasure armor. A shield of protective power deflected the lightning bolt back. Otherwise, he would have been killed in a single hit.
Seeing the bolt strike Nie Li without any effect, Gu Heng was furious. That damn sixth-grade treasure armor set again!
"Hold them back!" Gu Bei called out.
The group rushed to intercept Gu Heng and his forces.
Meanwhile, Nie Li was fully focused on hammering runic pattern after runic pattern into the divine pool. Before long, the runic array began to take shape, forming a series of looping paths of light.
"It's done!" Nie Li smiled faintly. He could just make out a divine root slowly materializing. He reached out to grasp it.
At that moment, a blast of dragon fire struck the runic array head-on. With a deafening explosion, the array shattered.
"What happened?" Nie Li frowned, discovering that a few hundred meters away, one of Gu Heng's Heavenly Rotation Realm subordinates — a man who had fused with a Dragon Blood Demon Spirit — was locked in combat with a Heavenly Path Alliance expert. The dragon fire had come from him.
Nie Li couldn't tell whether the attack had been intentional or not. The dragon fire had hit the runic array and broken it apart, and the divine root that had just barely begun to surface retreated back into hiding.
Nie Li immediately began writing new runic patterns, preparing to restore the array from scratch.
"Nie Li, we can't hold here much longer!"