However, the current Black Sovereign was looking very much worse-for-wear.

She was missing half of her left arm, but it could be seen that the cross-section of the wound on her left arm was squirming incessantly, as if there were countless tiny grey insects there, and the arm was slowly regenerating itself.

This was an injury that had been inflicted upon her by Eternal Heaven. The Black Sovereign hadn’t been as fortunate as the Spirit Sovereign; she had virtually been situated right at the epicenter of the explosion following the blast. However, she was still relatively lucky as four of the abyssal emperors with her had been erased from existence by the explosion.

Through her immense power, the Black Sovereign was able to survive, but half of her body had been blown away, and even with the Holy Lord’s help, she still hadn’t managed to completely recover after so many days.

Even all of the abyssal creatures were extremely wary of Eternal Heaven. Thankfully, there was only one Eternal Heaven, or so they thought.

As such, the Black Sovereign was filled with vengeful fury at the sight of the humans.

Her long hair fanned out behind her, forming a black circle, and a giant purplish-black vortex also emerged, releasing tremendous suction force that instantly enveloped Guan Yue.

“Go to the mountain; I’ll take care of everything here,” Guan Yue instructed.

He swept his Sky Crossing Divine Spear through the air, and all of a sudden, countless spear projections appeared in the surrounding area, each of which seemed to be held by a large hand. The entire area within a diameter of a kilometer seemed to have been encompassed by these spear projections.

Upon coming into even the slightest contact with the spear projections, the Abyssal Bomber Hornets would instantly be reduced to abyssal energy that flowed back toward the abyssal passageway. Those countless spear projections seemed to have become the ruler of this domain, and even the Black Sovereign’s expression changed slightly upon seeing this, but the vortex behind her only grew darker and more forbidding.

The tremendous suction force being released by the vortex devoured close to half of the spear projections, and at the same time, she sped toward Guan Yue as she thrust a palm forward, while the vortex behind her devoured everything in her wake.

Guan Yue took a step to the side, then swept his Sky Crossing Divine Spear upward, and a streak of silver light slashed through the very air, causing the suction force to pass by on either side of him.

Spear projections erupted forth before combining as one to pierce directly toward the Black Sovereign.

In response, the Black Sovereign transformed into an illusory figure that continued to speed toward Guan Yue, quickly reaching a position above him before thrusting her palm downward.

The entire weight of the sky seemed to be imbued within her palm, and even with Guan Yue’s powers, he couldn’t help but sink downward slightly. However, he didn’t withdraw his spear. Instead, he continued to thrust it forward before violently stirring it through the air.

A giant vortex immediately swept over a massive section of the Abyssal Bomber Hornets in the distance, causing them to explode violently, thereby alleviating the pressure on the Battle Gods that were reinforcing the mountain.

In the face of the oncoming palm, Guan Yue suddenly performed a front somersault before whipping his right leg through the air to engage the Black Sovereign in a head-on clash.

He descended while the Black Sovereign rose to a higher altitude, but in that instant, Guan Yue donned his suit of four-word battle armor to nullify the power of that palm strike.

He had calculated everything to perfection, and this was not just a reflection of his power, but also of his high battle IQ.

Meanwhile, more powerful beings of the abyssal plane and the Holy Spirit Cult were rushing out of the passageway, but the powerful beings of the Spirit Pagoda had also arrived, and a fierce battle instantly broke out.

One branch of the abyssal army had already rushed to the second defensive line, and they were being led by a massive Guardian Longhorned Beetle. The beetle had its wings spread open, providing an umbrella of protection that spanned close to 100 meters in diameter.

A huge number of abyssal creatures of all species were under its protection, and all of them were high-tier abyssal creatures such as Demonic Enchantresses, while low-tier abyssal creatures like four-clawed bats and six-clawed bats weren’t entitled to this honor.

All of the cannon fodder type abyssal creatures had already spread across the entire battlefield, charging onward to shield the Guardian Longhorned Beetle from attacks.

The concentrated artillery fire was able to destroy a large number of abyssal creatures, but they would simply return to the abyss as streams of energy.

Finally, the Guardian Longhorned Beetle reached the foot of the mountain, and at this point, its massive exoskeleton was already riddled with wounds.

Right at this moment, a huge Abyssal Spirit Dragon emerged from beneath its exoskeleton, and the Abyssal Spirit Dragon’s eyes instantly turned a dark blue color.

On this occasion, it hadn’t concealed itself. Instead, it opened its mouth and released a cloud of blue mist directly toward the human troops on the summit of the mountain.

The mist was very viscous and instantly encompassed the abyssal creatures at the foot of the mountain.

As the mist descended upon them, all of the abyssal creatures immediately began to transform. The four-clawed bats evolved into six-clawed bats, and their eyes turned a menacing crimson color as they charged onward without any regard for their own lives. A layer of faint blue light had also appeared over their bodies, acting as suits of armor to protect them.

The other abyssal creatures also began to quickly evolve under the blue mist, then began to launch an assault.

Surrounded by the abyssal creatures, the Abyssal Spirit Dragon sped onward, and with every few steps it took, it would release another mouthful of dense mist.

This was Invulnerability Mist, one of the Abyssal Spirit Dragons’ most powerful abilities.

Under the coverage of this mist, the energy of all abyssal creatures would begin to churn and boil, and in that state, the abyssal creatures would instantly ignite their own latent potential, thereby allowing them to evolve and grant them fearlessness, as well as significant boosts in offensive and defensive prowess. In particular, their defenses would be bolstered by at least threefold.

Of course, a price had to be paid for such drastic boosts. The effects would only last 30 minutes at most, following which all abyssal creatures that had benefited from the mist would suffer severe backlash.

For low-tier abyssal creatures, this backlash was lethal, and even high-tier abyssal creatures would be left completely feeble and unable to engage in further battle.

However, this wasn’t an issue for the abyssal army; 30 minutes of extremely heightened power was enough.

This wasn’t the main direction that the abyssal creatures were attacking so initially, the human army didn’t pay this branch of the abyssal army much attention.

However, they soon discovered an issue, which was that their reconnaissance was failing. Under the cover of the dense mist, all reconnaissance efforts were rendered ineffective, essentially leaving the defensive deaf and blind.

With the mist, the abyssal creatures that underwent the most drastic transformations were the Ba’ans.

Ba’ans were already like hulking meat mountains, and as the mist descended upon them, they grew from around 10 meters tall to roughly 15 meters in height.

Furthermore, chunks of grey enamel began to appear all over their bodies, forming what were essentially suits of armor.

What was most terrifying of all was that Ba’ans normally had a glaring weakness in the form of their lackluster speed, but under the influence of the Invulnerability Mist, their speed was tripled, and even while scaling mountains, they were moving just as quickly as if they were charging along flat ground. The Ba’ans led the abyssal creatures toward the mountaintops, and the same situation was unfolding in all directions.

The Battle Gods had only just reached the summit of the most important mountain when they were met by the mocking gaze of the three Abyssal Spirit Dragons that were leading the abyssal army.

The three Abyssal Spirit Dragons opened their mouths in unison to release Invulnerability Mist that encompassed the entire mountaintop, and all of the abyssal creatures that had just arrived immediately began to undergo all types of transformations.

A Guardian Longhorned Beetle was only able to protect an area with a diameter of around 100 meters in the past, but under the influence of the Invulnerability mist, their bodies swelled to over twice their original size. A Battle God’s large-scale attack landed on its body, but was only able to trigger some faint ripples.

Having just enjoyed a drastic boost in speed, the abyssal army reached the mountain summit in the blink of an eye, and before the Battle Gods even had a chance to unleash an assault, the troops on the mountaintop were already all dead.