Chapter 61: The Battle Royale Every member of the Four Divine Beast Families across the entire Heaven-Sacrifice Mountain Range heard those jeers and insults. Many clansmen felt their rage boiling over, their eyes gleaming with murderous intent, no longer able to endure it. Roars erupted from all corners of the mountain range.
"Kill!"
"Kill these bastards!"
Countless figures soared into the sky above the Heaven-Sacrifice Mountain Range, swift as lightning, all charging frantically southward. Many patrol warriors had gone red-eyed with fury, and not a few among them also rushed toward the south.
They had gone mad!
The clansmen of the Four Divine Beast Families had been driven to madness! Killing was one thing — a clean strike to the head — but this kind of humiliation was enough to make them lose their minds. Pride forged over countless years made it impossible for them to endure.
"Bastard!" Javi the Elder, standing beside Lin Lei, had also gone red-eyed with rage.
Choosing to retreat had been a reluctant but necessary decision for the sake of the clan. But when the enemy pointed fingers at their faces and spat insults, even that patience broke. Every elder was shaking with fury. Even Lin Lei, upon hearing those mocking words, felt a fire ignite in his heart. "These Eight Great Families are forcing us to fight!"
"Go back! Everyone, go back!" Gaisensen bellowed.
"Go back!"
Multiple shouts of command rang through the Heaven-Sacrifice Mountain Range, but most ordinary clansmen had never laid eyes on the Patriarch. In their blind rage, how could they tell his voice from anyone else's? Each one ignored whoever was trying to stop them, still charging southward, wishing nothing more than to drink their enemies' blood and devour their flesh!
"Hummm~~~"
A sky-darkening mass of over ten thousand clansmen blanketed the heavens, plunging southward. Still at a distance, they unleashed their attacks in a frenzy. Material attacks and soul attacks instantly blanketed the sky.
"Kill!" Inside the Heaven-Sacrifice Mountain Range, countless clansmen who hadn't yet taken flight likewise launched frenzied attacks of their own.
"Whoosh~~"
Lights of every color blazed across heaven and earth, all surging toward the south.
"Rumble~~~"
In the south, the vast numbers of the Eight Great Families unleashed their own terrifying attacks in response. Heaven and earth seemed to change color as countless strikes collided in midair, producing deafening booms. And still more attacks hurtled toward the enemy.
"Boom!" "Crash!"…
Members of both the Four Divine Beast Families and the Eight Great Families — one after another, their bodies exploded in midair, or simply plummeted from the sky.
"Kill them!"
Blood boiling, the frenzied clansmen threw themselves forward without a care. But because so many had been shouted down, only a little over ten thousand had actually charged ahead. Each clansman who rushed forward immediately underwent dragon transformation, fighting until they killed their enemy or were killed themselves!
Heaven and earth were filled with thunderous noise.
In this atmosphere, the clansmen still remaining in the Heaven-Sacrifice Mountain Range found their fury burning to the extreme, utterly beyond containment. The killing intent in Lin Lei's heart surged ceaselessly as well.
"Quick — all of you elders, rush out and stop the clansmen! Now!" Gaisensen shouted at Lin Lei and the others, his voice cracking with fury. "They're throwing their lives away!"
"Yes, Patriarch!"
Lin Lei and the other elders, though their own hearts burned with rage, had no choice but to restrain themselves. They flew off in every direction throughout the Heaven-Sacrifice Mountain Range, calling out urgently: "Stop! Stop right there!"
"Stop! Stop!"
After all, it was the elders and patriarchs of the Four Divine Beast Families who had decided to cease fighting the Eight Great Families. The leadership understood. But the ordinary clansmen did not. They were still as proud as they had been ten thousand years ago, and they could not tolerate such humiliation.
Under the elders' shouts and the orders bellowed by the patrol warriors they had dispatched, this wave of madness finally — gradually — subsided.
In the span of a few short moments, the Four Divine Beast Families had already lost tens of thousands of clansmen. Naturally, the Eight Great Families' losses were no less staggering.
"Everyone, go back!" Lin Lei called out to clansman after clansman.
Every last one of those clansmen had eyes full of unwillingness, brimming with fury, all gazing southward. Over the years, a great many within the Four Divine Beast Families had come to know Lin Lei, and the authority of an elder still carried weight. One by one, they held themselves back.
"Elder Lin Lei, are we really not going to fight back?" A young man, his face flushed crimson, looked at Lin Lei with desperate urgency.
Lin Lei faltered.
"You're going to let them trample all over us, keep insulting us like this?" The young man's whole body trembled with anger. "I'd rather die taking a few of them with me than stay here and swallow this kind of humiliation!"
"Elder Lin Lei, are we truly not going to resist?" A number of clansmen stared at Lin Lei, a hint of despair flickering in their eyes.
To be insulted like this and not fight back — it was worse than death for these clansmen of the Four Divine Beast Families.
"We will have our revenge," Lin Lei said in a low voice. "Rest assured, we will have our revenge."
Only then did the clansmen calm down slightly, and, heeding Lin Lei's words, began to withdraw. Lin Lei looked all around him… countless furious clansmen being ushered back. When he had first arrived at the Four Divine Beast Families, he had felt little sense of belonging.
Because deep down, he had always considered himself Lin Lei
But as time passed — he had now spent eight or nine hundred years with the Four Divine Beast Families. In those centuries, he had seen too many clansmen. They could all undergo dragon transformation just as he could, and when they saw him, they would call out, "Elder Lin Lei." Without even realizing it… here in Hell, Lin Lei had come to regard himself as a full member of the Four Divine Beast Families.
"The Eight Great Families." Lin Lei gazed southward, his eyes narrowing involuntarily.
Then he turned and flew toward Patriarch Gaisensen's residence. Just at that moment, once again the air was filled with that loathsome, booming laughter.
"Haha — what's wrong? Is this all the courage your Four Divine Beast Families can muster?"