Primordial Emperor
Chapter 749: The 2nd Soul Split Arrives, The Counterattack Begins

Chapter 749: Chapter 749: The 2nd Soul Split Arrives, The Counterattack Begins

Before Gu Yuan, Lin Chen’s Divine Soul Puppet had already vanished without a trace.

"How foolish, to actually think of perishing together with me, what a pity, I’m completely unharmed, it’s only you who died."

Gu Yuan sneered coldly, silently mocking Lin Chen’s stupidity for truly adopting a mutually assured destruction strategy. In his heart, he thought it was such a pity for Lin Chen because he, Gu Yuan, was completely unscathed. It was merely the death qi inside him that was injected into the Trident, draining it significantly.

However, just as Gu Yuan was smug, an overwhelmingly powerful force swept across from the sky.

Gu Yuan looked up in terror, only to see a streak of light already closing in on him.

Within the streak of light, thunder and lightning, flame, and wind forces interwove, their power unrivaled.

The light struck Gu Yuan before he could react, and he was blasted ten miles away, creating a huge crater upon impact.

The light exploded upon hitting the ground, leaving a miles-long trench in its wake, turning everything it touched to ashes.

With the force exploding, gale force winds scattered in all directions, instantly annihilating nearly fifty thousand soldiers from the Dark Demon Race.

Luckily, Qin Kaifeng, Dongfang Yun, and the others returned to the formation in time, switching to a defensive array, and managed to withstand the residual fury of the blast.

Nevertheless, the defensive array was riddled with cracks, on the verge of collapse.

Ultimately, the array barely withstood the shockwaves, and everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Both armies were shocked by the sudden display of power, all turning their gazes towards the sky, where Lin Chen’s Second Soul Division slowly emerged.

Seeing Lin Chen safe and sound, Mu Qianqiu, Yu Weilian, and Xia Wanxin heaved a sigh of relief.

They knew Lin Chen had been concealing his strength all along, deliberately luring Gu Yuan in before delivering a fatal blow.

Still, none of them knew how Lin Chen had managed to escape under such a heaven-defying attack.

Mu Qianqiu was especially baffled, knowing that even if she had been in Gu Yuan’s place, she wouldn’t have been completely certain of escaping such formidable power.

And Lin Chen’s position had been very close to Gu Yuan’s.

What they did not know was that the Divine Soul Puppet that had remained very close to Gu Yuan had actually died under his attack.

Gu Yuan also perished under the Thunder Chasing Arrow Feather strike from Lin Chen.

Under such force, Gu Yuan’s body was directly blasted to smithereens, but the Dark Magic Trident in his hand remained undamaged, now lying on the distant ground, clearly an extraordinary artifact.

In fact, Lin Chen had indeed intentionally lured Gu Yuan closer to kill him.

After all, under those circumstances, it wasn’t easy for Lin Chen’s Second Soul Division to make an entrance; since Lin Chen’s Divine Soul Puppet was already in tatters, it made sense to abandon it entirely, letting it serve its final purpose by drawing Gu Yuan closer.

Furthermore, with Lin Chen’s Second Soul Division now present, his strength was incomparable to that of the Divine Soul Puppet; with him there, the situation could be completely turned around.

That is why Lin Chen had previously instructed Qin Kaifeng and Dongfang Yun to withdraw from the front lines, to return to the Killing Formation and change it to a defense.

Although baffled, they immediately obeyed Lin Chen’s orders, retreating to the Killing Formation and transforming it into a Defensive Array.

One must understand that giving up the offensive Array Formation would put the Formation Sect’s army in an even more passive position. But they trusted Lin Chen, so they didn’t hesitate at all.

If Gu Yuan had heeded Bu Lu’s words and ignored the Formation Sect for the time being, instead finishing setting up the Demon-summoning Array, Lin Chen might really have had no way to breach the Dark Demon Race’s ranks.

But who knew the enemy would be so arrogantly self-important, to actively provoke and even target Lin Chen personally.

Even though he possessed an incredibly powerful Dark Magic Artifact, he was unable to unleash its full power, which gave Lin Chen an opportunity to counterattack.

Thus Lin Chen had been leading him on, allowing Gu Yuan to close in. Lin Chen’s Second Soul Division had actually reached the battlefield long before, hiding its presence in the clouds above, watching.

Now, with Gu Yuan dead and the Dark Magic Artifact losing its master, the Dark Demon Race’s army witnessed their commander’s death and their death qi diminished, presenting the perfect opportunity for Lin Chen to counterattack.

Lin Chen’s Second Soul Division, without exchanging much with Qin Kaifeng and the others, summoned the Gale Sword in his hand and immediately performed the High Mountain Flowing Water Sword Technique, charging into the dispirited ranks of the Dark Demon Race’s army.

The army meant to annihilate the Formation Sect numbered only two hundred thousand, with fifty thousand held back by Mu Qianqiu and another fifty thousand wiped out by Lin Chen’s Thunder Chasing Arrow Feather, leaving only a hundred thousand.

At that moment, with a sword in hand, Lin Chen penetrated the Dark Demon Race’s forces, his sword technique erupting in a massacre as if cutting through vegetables.

Due to the Divine Fire shielding his body, Lin Chen’s Second Soul Division wasn’t greatly affected by the death qi.

The fighting spirit of the Dark Demon Race’s army dissipated, and they could only feel terror in front of Lin Chen.

Lin Chen’s slaughter did not cease, and in a short time, more than thirty thousand fell to his sword.

Seeing this, Mu Qianqiu knew the time for a counteroffensive had come and unleashed her full power, beginning to slaughter the fifty thousand Dark Demon soldiers she had held back.

Seeing the tide turning, Qin Kaifeng and the others also joined the battle.

With low cultivation and the loss of the advantage provided by the death qi, strength become the decisive factor in victory.

Under the fierce onslaught led by powerhouses such as Lin Chen, Mu Qianqiu, and Qin Kaifeng, the Dark Demon Race’s army crumbled and began to scatter and flee.

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