Bai Qi, standing between heaven and earth, surveyed the surroundings and said lightly, "It's too troublesome to fight one by one. Let's finish it all at once."
The numerous external creatures around seemed to understand Bai Qi's words, or perhaps sensed the dangerous aura emanating from him. They abandoned their opponents and crazily focused their attacks on Bai Qi.
"Holy Lord!"
Seeing Bai Qi being besieged by so many external creatures simultaneously, Wu panicked and wanted to rush forward to assist. However, the rhinoceros monster fighting him seized the opportunity and violently threw him nearly a hundred meters. By the time he recovered, it was already too late to go to Bai Qi's aid.
Facing these fierce external creatures, who wished to see him dead, Bai Qi showed no sign of panic.
With a wave of his hand, an invisible telekinetic wave spread out from him in all directions.
The external creatures that were closer to Bai Qi and weaker in strength instantly exploded, turning into clouds of blood mist, unable to withstand the telekinetic wave. Stronger creatures further away were also sent flying by the wave.
Even from a distance, Wu could feel the power of Bai Qi's attack.
"So... so strong. As expected of the Holy Lord..."
Wu, watching from afar, was stunned. To kill millions of beings in the blink of an eye, was this the power of the Holy Lord?
While Wu and the others might have seen Bai Qi's move as incredibly powerful, for Bai Qi, it was merely the beginning.
Bai Qi pointed a finger at the sky. The clear sky instantly became overcast, and bolts of thunder descended from above, accurately striking every manta ray.
The original Holy Lord was a fire demon, corresponding to the Li trigram in divination. His power should have had no relation to lightning. Perhaps he could use dark magic to alter the weather and summon lightning, but he shouldn't have been this strong.
However, one shouldn't forget that when releasing Zhong Su, Bai Qi had taken advantage of Zhong Su's incomplete fiery energy and extorted a small portion of the origin of lightning power from him.
Furthermore, each of the eight demons controlled their own domain, and Zhong Su corresponded to the domain of lightning.
When Zhong Su was released by Bai Qi last time, being weakened, he impatiently used the power of his domain to recover. However, time was too short, and he was targeted by two World Children, who soon after sent him back to hell.
Although Zhong Su had failed, his actions had caused the dormant lightning domain to become active again.
However, the activated lightning domain, finding it could not communicate with Zhong Su, did not become dormant again. Instead, it wandered the world unconsciously, searching for new hosts that could contain it.
It had found many potential hosts, but humans with affinity for it had physiques too weak to bear the ferocity of the lightning origin. Ninety-nine percent of them exploded, and the last one narrowly survived by expelling it through special means just before exploding.
Later, Bai Qi discovered the matter of the lightning domain. At that time, Bai Qi had also finished processing the lightning power given by Zhong Su and absorbed it into his body, thus gaining the favor of the lightning domain.
However, Bai Qi was not foolish. Unlike previous hosts who greedily accepted the entire lightning domain, he used dark magic, coupled with his fire energy and dark energy, to establish a form of cooperation with the lightning domain.
Yet, over time, it became less of a cooperation and more of Bai Qi unilaterally benefiting.
Although the possibility of Zhong Su returning was extremely slim, Bai Qi couldn't be too careful, especially considering the example of Bo Gang. Thus, Bai Qi did not fully accept the lightning domain but accepted a portion of it, letting it reside in his right arm.
Even if Zhong Su returned and the lightning domain found a new partner, Bai Qi could afford to lose an arm.
However, before that, Bai Qi could use the convenience of the lightning domain to continuously absorb lightning power to enhance his strength, strengthen his physique, and control lightning.
Just like now.
The sky-obscuring dark clouds and the continuous thunder gave a sense of an apocalypse.
After using lightning to turn all the manta rays in the sky into blood mist, Bai Qi slowly landed, his legs slightly apart. Then, scorching dragon's breath erupted.
With Bai Qi regaining the three portions of fire energy and the various strengthening methods he had undergone during this time, the temperature of his dragon's breath had risen even further, far beyond what Wu could compare to.
Wherever the dragon's breath passed, the air was completely burned, creating a brief vacuum. As for the external creatures, they were even less fortunate. Merely getting close to the dragon's breath caused their bodies to carbonize under the scorching heat, and those hit directly were reduced to nothing, not even ash.
As Bai Qi turned his head, more external creatures were engulfed by the dragon's breath.
The scorching dragon's breath lasted for fifteen minutes. After fifteen minutes, when Bai Qi closed his mouth, the view was still a scorched earth. Nothing could be seen except the dark ground.
If Bai Qi wished, with his current strength, he could have continuously spewed dragon's breath for two hours. But Bai Qi did not do so, ending the dragon's breath after only fifteen minutes.
After all, the external creatures needed to be killed, but if he relied solely on dragon's breath, the land would likely be destroyed before the external creatures were all cleared.
Next, Bai Qi used his relatively weaker laser eyes and controlled lightning to kill the external creatures while moving towards the Gate of Annihilation, clearing out the surrounding enemies as he went.
The external creatures tried to stop him, but even with their lives, they charged forward relentlessly, yet they couldn't slow Bai Qi down by even a second.
Soon, Bai Qi arrived before the Gate of Annihilation.
He hadn't felt anything before, but now, standing before the Gate of Annihilation again, Bai Qi sensed a massive energy circulation within it.
Bai Qi originally wanted to study the Gate of Annihilation in its active state, but the constant stream of external creatures emerging from it began to annoy him.
Impatient, Bai Qi took a step back and spewed a stream of dragon's breath towards the Gate of Annihilation.
The scorching dragon's breath shot directly into the Gate of Annihilation.
Incidentally, Bai Qi's dragon's breath, which could instantly carbonize objects, directly struck the Gate of Annihilation. The seemingly ancient Gate of Annihilation, however, remained completely unharmed. When the dragon's breath hit the apparently thin light wall, it was all teleported away.
Fortunately, Bai Qi's dragon's breath had an effect. After the spray, the Gate of Annihilation indeed became much calmer.
Bai Qi nodded with satisfaction and began to study the Gate of Annihilation before him.
However, Bai Qi was not a particularly intelligent person, and the Holy Lord was not a scientist. After studying for a while, he couldn't figure out anything. Moreover, before long, more external creatures began to emerge from the Gate of Annihilation. Helpless, Bai Qi had to unleash another stream of dragon's breath.