22 First defense

And as the hundreds of thousands of Demonic practitioner began to march the surrounding sect and factions related to the cult closed their gates out of fear of offending them.

And in the fore front of this march was the Vice Leader, wearing crimson robes matching his red hair and his youthly face he march forward mounted on a majestic breed of horse.

"Vice leader we are nearing the first obstacle"

The first obstacle, the Qaidam Basin stronghold the stronghold that was nearly destroyed by Ryu.

Upon arriving at the basin they were greeted by the thousands of disciples of the Kunlun sect lined up with their swords unsheathed.

Ryu raised his hands signalling his troops to stop before dismounting his horse and walking straight through.

The rumors of Ryu reaching the Divine Being Realm have already spread through every corner of the Murim Continent so it was not surprising for him to walk boldly unafraid in front of a thousand warriors.

"I'll only give you two options either all of you surrender right here right now or I'll burn your entire mountain"

"GAHHH!! You fucking bastard, because of you our sect leader lost half of his Qi!!"

"Our entire mountain was already ruined so we either die here today victorious or we die in vain in protecting those hypocrites!!"

Well it is not surprising that they are angry, after Ryu stole half of Kunlun's Pinnacle Swords Qi the entire Kunlun was targeted by the greedy people of both Orthodox and Unorthodox and if that wasn't enough since their leader lost to a new Demon their position as one of the Ten Great Sect was removed.

"Disciples of Kunlun Mountain ready your weapons for we either go home victorious or go home defeated!!"

"Hmmm well they do say that when a man has nothing more to lose they become fearless"

Ryu looked at the slowly marching troops of Kunlun with amusement.

"Vice leader should we also send our troops"

"Hmmm nah, I started this in the first place so It's only right for me to end it"

"I see, I'll command the troops to stay down"

But it seems that even though they were angry they were still able to use their heads, all of them climbed up the high terrain and slowly encircled Ryu instead of blindly charging in.

By utilizing the terrain advantage of the Basin all of them positioned themselves around Ryu creating a circular net.

"CRIMSON SKY DEMON TODAY WE WILL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THE SUFFERING WE HAVE SUFFERED BECAUSE OF YOU!!"

"COMMENSE THE FORMATION!!"

[Kunlun Dragon Sky Weaving Net]

And as the name suggested all the disciples created a net made up of Qi and threw it towards Ryu.

In all honesty the net was very formidable, it encircle a target and catch it by using replacable energy and due to the encirclement of the disciples any kind of loops were immediately covered if one were to be exposed.

A perfect net

But they forgot one thing, in front of absolute power all schemes are meaningless.

[War Fist Of The Desolated Land: Divine Flame Mode]

[Great Crimson Flame Apocalypse]

With a slight swing of his hand a sea of crimson flame shaped like a wheel devoured the seemingly perfect net.

Amazement and awe was visible around everyones faces, a net formation widely known to be inescable was simple swatted away with a single move.

This raised the morale of the Cult while simultaneously reducing the enemies morale.

[War Fist of The Desolated Land: Divine Flame Mode]

[Crimson Sea Dragon Flame]

Ryu raised his hands upwards and aimed it towards the sky moments then a flaming crimson dragon emerged from his palm and slithered around the clouds before diving downwards and burning everything.

"AAAAAARGHHHH!!"

"THIS IS HELL INCARNATE AGGHHHHH!!"

"HEEEELP!!"

The symphony of the pitiful scream blended around the sound of the crumbling fortress, the discusting smell of burning flesh permeated in the air.

And as of today the mighty wall protecting the borders of The Central Mainland collapsed.

"M-my people, my kids"

"Those fucking demonic bastards!!" In the secluded place just meters away from the battlefield the Old man of Kunlun grieved as his disciples burned in the crimson flames of despair.

"Master please don't move your injury is still severe" The Kunlun Divine Dragon looked at his master wallow in pain and despair, he felt his heart tighten the pain knowibg that your brothers died in a meaningless battle was painful.

"I can't take it anymore not only those bastards abandoned the wall that protected them now they even refused to stand up for what is right!!" Unable to keep his anger The Kunlun Pinnacle Sword used qigong and strided towards the smoke, the Divine Dragon on the other hand failed to stop his master didn't get any choice but to also follow.

Upon arriving what they saw was countless body burning on the ground alongside with the crumbling fortress, a Red head man with crimson robes then change it's gaze and look at them both as if they were expecting them. The old man's face became red from anger and his hands further tighten his grip on the sword, the Kunlun Divine Dragon on the other hand fell on his knees after seeing his brothers burnt bodies.

"I see you have not been quite well old man"