Supreme Emptiness

At this time.

Everyone suddenly noticed abnormalities on the rat demon corpses.

Lei Zhenhai's face changed.

With a decisive wave of his sleeves, he sent the corpses of several rat demons flying down the mountain!

The other elders immediately took action as well.

Some purely used their spiritual power.

Others took out magic artifacts resembling palm leaf fans, which, with one wave, created a tornado.

The Great Elder of the Heavenly Sound Sect joined forces with the disciples, sending several sound waves in succession, pushing the rat demon corpses away.

The snow slope was smooth.

When people exerted a little force.

The rat demon corpses slid down without looking back.

However.

Only half of it was cleaned up.

The beast skin bags began to dissolve one after another.

Strands of black unknown liquid corroded through the beast skin bags, dripping onto the ice.

The ice couldn't withstand the corrosion either and melted into scalding water, melting a small section of the surrounding ice surface.

And similar scenes.

Played out across the snow slope!

Chunks of ice were melted.

The chain reaction brought about was...

Crack——

Under their uneasy gaze.

A cracking sound came from the ice layer on the snow slope, making their hearts sink!

The ice layer... broke!

Crash——

Without warning.

The lower half of the ice surface on Boundary Mountain collapsed dramatically.

Like a torrent, it poured down the mountain.

The enormous impact even caused countless fragments of broken ice to form a moving ice river.

It surged from mid-slope, crashing into the army of the dead.

Crushing hundreds of dead corpse puppets.

Forcing the army to constantly retreat and causing considerable chaos.

But the people on Boundary Mountain couldn't smile even a bit.

Because.

The ice layer below the mid-slope of Boundary Mountain was all gone.

Revealing the extremely hard permafrost and rough stone surface.

The demon beasts climbed as if walking on level ground!

In the army of the dead.

The demon priestess furrowed her willow-leaf eyebrows.

"Could there be a formidable person among the human defenders?"

If no one had timely commanded the clearing of the rat demon corpses.

The slope of Boundary Mountain, covered with snow and ice, would have been completely cleared by now.

Her army of the dead would have easily advanced.

"Even half a slope is enough!"

"Even if we have to fill it with bodies, we can level the remaining half!"

She pulled out her butterfly hairpin and lightly played it.

The deep horn sound.

Like a war hammer, driving the torrent-like army of the dead to charge at Boundary Mountain!

The first to charge up were giant beasts, second only in size to barbaric elephants.

Their huge bodies easily stepped on the hard rocks and permafrost, quickly charging upward.

Every step they took shook the ground.

Everyone who had just achieved minor victories looked extremely solemn.

Lei Zhenhai was the first to initiate an attack, saying, "Kill!"

"Don't let them climb up!"

"The last half of the slope is our only natural barrier!"

If the army of the dead crossed it.

They would have to engage in direct combat!

Then, the casualties would increase dramatically!

The elders and disciples of various sects immediately threw all kinds of torches and talismans and used fire techniques.

Trying their best to cut down the army of the dead at the foot of Boundary Mountain.

But their numbers were simply too great.

Moreover, the front-line demon beast corpses were huge and filled with death energy.

Ordinary torches took a long time to completely burn away the death energy.

As soon as they died, the following army of the dead stepped on their bodies and continued to charge upward.

The battle was exceedingly fierce.

The elders and disciples of the Nine-Sect desperately threw torches, talismans, and performed fire attribute skills downward.

While the army of the dead, unafraid of pain or death.

Surged up endlessly.

This lasted for a full two-hour period.

The half-slope of less than a few hundred meters was already covered with more than two thousand dead corpse puppets of all sizes.

But looking up.

What brought a sense of despair was.

The army of the dead still had no end in sight!

They seemed like an endless torrent, impossible to kill completely!

Even worse.

The remaining half of the smooth ice surface.

Started accumulating the corpses of dead corpse puppets.

The following army of the dead stepped on their bodies and continued to climb up.

When they died, they became the stepping stones for those behind.

The situation was critically dangerous!

At this urgent juncture.

Lei Zhenhai shouted, "Rolling logs!"

The elders and disciples of various sects immediately brought out complete logs.

After lighting them, they rolled them down the smooth slope.

The burning logs, carrying intense flames, instantly rolled downward.

Setting the army of the dead on the slope ablaze.

And similar logs, one after another.

Endless.

The army of the dead that painstakingly reached mid-slope.

Either burned to death or were smashed and sent flying by the falling dead corpse puppets.

The demon priestess furrowed her brows.

"Where are they getting so much wood?"

"This place is a vast snowfield!"

At first, when humans threw some torches, she didn't think much of it.

Perhaps there were a small number of stored items on Boundary Mountain.

But as the battle continued until now.

Not only did the wood not run out.

It seemed to only increase in quantity.

Even if Boundary Mountain was stacked with wood, it should have been used up by now, right?

"Who exactly is commanding them?"

The demon priestess's eyes flickered with battle intent.

"I must see who can outlast the other!"

"As soon as we charge up Boundary Mountain, all of you await death!"

"Keep charging!"

Under her command.

The army of the dead resumed their thunderous assault on Boundary Mountain.

Countless rolling logs, accompanied by thick black smoke, ignited one dead corpse puppet after another charging forward.

The dead corpse puppets, undeterred by death.

Stepping on their comrades' corpses, pressed on upwards.

The battle resembled a tug-of-war.

Both sides wearing each other out.

By midnight.

Most of the elders wore looks of fatigue.

The disciples' faces were pale, and many had cramps in their hands and feet.

Mechanically throwing rolling logs for half the night took a severe toll on their stamina.

Xia Chaoge wiped the sweat off her face.

Her beautiful face was smeared with smoke, making her look like a spotted cat.

She took a deep breath and lit another rolling log, pushing it down.

Liang Feiyan, with disheveled hair, had sleeves burned off, exposing her armpits.

He kicked a burning rolling log down.

Not caring that his boots were melting from the heat.

He continued lighting the next rolling log.

...

Everyone was exhausted.

But they couldn't afford to stop.

The snow slope, hundreds of meters long.

Was now piled high with corpses.

No ice or snow was visible.

The army of the dead had already reached fifty meters.

Some of the larger dead corpse puppets could almost reach the people on Boundary Mountain.

Fortunately.

They had an endless supply of rolling logs.

Continuously holding the fifty-meter line.

It was somewhat relieving to see.

The seemingly endless army of the dead, after half a night of relentless assault.

Finally showed signs of thinning.

Even though... they still appeared countless and dense.

If this stalemate continued.

There's still a chance they could win!

The demon priestess calmly observed the battlefield.

Glaring at the heavily damaged army of the dead, she was quite enraged.

"Where do they get so much wood?"

"Just the siege phase has cost me forty percent of my army of the dead!"

"This is outrageous!"

Watching the humans holding the final fifty meters of the snow slope.

Still intent on outlasting her.

She coldly snorted, "Do you think I'll let you succeed?"

"It's time to end this!"