# 1452
Chapter 1453: Victory
Since sensing the existence of this ripple, the Queen Mother of the West had been looking for an opportunity to drag it out. At the time, she wasn't certain whether it was a god or a special divine artifact.
It wasn't until Zhou Ping forced her out while guarding the mother beast that the Queen Mother of the West seized her chance.
Under the illumination of the Kunlun Mirror, the jade hand about to withdraw into the ripple froze mid-air. Zhou Ping seized the moment to directly kill all the remaining mother beasts!
As the roars of giant beasts echoed through the air, all the mother beasts at the source of the beast tide were dead. Their swollen bellies deflated like punctured balls, and within seconds, they became desiccated corpses.
Meanwhile, the Queen Mother of the West flipped the Kunlun Mirror. A divine light burst forth, and the figure frozen within the ripple was forcibly dragged out by an invisible hand—a goddess entirely carved from white jade was exposed to the air.
The goddess raised her head to meet the Queen Mother of the West's gaze. Her jade face showed no emotion. She simply formed a strange hand seal with her ten fingers, and countless ripples bloomed beneath her feet like a lotus flower, rapidly swallowing her form as if to disappear once more.
The Queen Mother of the West's brow furrowed. Just as she was about to activate the Kunlun Mirror again, a divine shadow clad in an imperial robe walked slowly from her side.
The divine shadow gently waved his hand, and a pagoda descended below, growing against the wind into a massive golden mountain peak. It slowly rotated above the white jade goddess, and a terrifying gravitational force burst forth from the pagoda's base, forcibly pulling out the figure that had merged into the ripples!
As his palm pressed down, the pagoda crashed down with a thunderous roar, directly suppressing the white jade goddess within the pagoda's body. Beams of golden light bloomed from each level of the pagoda, like massive locks hanging outside the tower.
After suppressing the white jade goddess, the pagoda lightly soared into the sky, rapidly shrinking, and landed with a spinning motion back into the palm of the divine shadow clad in the imperial robe.
"This goddess possesses strange divine powers. Only the昊天塔can contain her. I shall entrust her to your care."
The Jade Emperor handed the pagoda in his hand to the Queen Mother of the West, who nodded slightly and softly replied, "Understood."
The Jade Emperor gazed down at the battlefield. At this moment, the Indian gods had lost the source of the Heavenly Temple, and their strength was beginning to decline. Under the siege of the Gods of Great Xia, it was a completely one-sided battle. Some Indian deities were already attempting to break through the blockade and flee beyond the borders of Great Xia.
The Gods of Great Xia who still had fighting power were fully engaged in encircling and annihilating the remaining Indian gods, while some had also accelerated to maximum speed, pursuing the Indian gods fleeing in all directions.
Just then, the Jade Emperor's low voice rang out from the sky:
"Do not pursue the defeated enemy. Protecting the people of Great Xia is the priority."
"Yes."
The numerous Gods of Great Xia who had been giving chase immediately changed direction, charging toward the rear of the surging beast tide, madly slaughtering these hybrid divine beasts from back to front. Some Gods of Great Xia also broke free from the encirclement battle, rushing toward the Chennan Pass front line.
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Clang——!
Zuo Qing barely parried a divine beast's claw strike with his straight blade, his body recoiling several steps. His tiger's mouth—the base of his palm—had already cracked from the sword's impact, and trickling blood dripped from his fingertips onto the ground.
The prolonged high-intensity combat had nearly drained him of all his spiritual power and physical strength. Now, not only was he unable to kill a divine beast, even dodging their attacks was extremely difficult.
The same situation played out among all the Human Apex on the front line and the Night Watch fighting in the rear. Several giant beasts had broken through the defense line, punching holes in the outer wall of Chennan Pass. Dense gunfire and roars erupted from behind the outer wall—that was the final line of ordinary volunteer militia, using their bodies to delay the giants' advance.
At that moment, as if sensing something, he suddenly looked up toward the sky.
In the distant divine battlefield, streams of light were streaking across the heavens at astonishing speed, flying toward the direction of Chennan Pass!
Dense magical artifacts and techniques swept across like a locust swarm, accurately piercing through every giant beast that had crossed the outer wall of Chennan Pass. As a figure cloaked in a black imperial robe descended from the heavens, the divine beast that had been grappling with Zuo Qing was instantly shattered into scattered blood rain.
The figure cradled the Six Paths of Reincarnation, gently flicked with his fingertip, and a silver ring instantly expanded, bisecting the bodies of all divine beasts within a three-kilometer radius!
Blood mist burst forth. Desperate beast roars echoed from the rear of the beast tide.
Zuo Qing's straight blade fell to the ground. His bloodied palms trembled weakly. He gazed at this rapidly approaching divine shadow, and a relieved smile finally appeared at the corner of his lips.
He knew that in this battle, they had ultimately emerged victorious.
Li Deyang, the King of Fengdu, slowly turned his head. His eyes fell upon the blood-soaked Zuo Qing, his gaze complex.
"Commander Zuo... we have kept you waiting."
Zuo Qing shook his head. He no longer had the strength to speak. The exhausted man sat down where he stood, bitterly looking back over his shoulder.
The riddled outer wall of Chennan Pass had been dyed red by blood. Across the earth before it, countless dark red corpses and dismembered beast limbs carpeted the wilderness. Only a small handful of figures still勉强 maintained their footing, but their bodies were already pushed to their limits.
At least seventy percent of the Night Watch had fallen in battle before this fortress.
The arrival of the Gods of Great Xia directly blocked nearly ninety percent of the beast tide. Without the mother beasts' infinite reproduction, exterminating these giant divine beasts was merely a matter of time. The only thing that needed handling was the group of giants still fighting the Night Watch before the outer wall.
A flash of night moved swiftly across the battlefield. Lin Qiye's sword light severed head after head from the giant beasts. Thunderbolts from the sky struck continuously, precisely reaping the life of every giant beast... Under the clearing operations of the three special squads and the Gods of Great Xia, these giant beasts were quickly swept clean.
"Finally... it's over."
As the final giant beast was pierced through by Hongying's spear, Wen Qimo finally relaxed. His entire body slumped onto the ground, his pale face devoid of any hint of color.
The vermillion flames around Hongying dissipated. She stabilized herself with her spear case, supporting the equally exhausted Molly beside her, and let out a long breath.
As the Taiji Bagua diagram beneath their feet gradually faded, a chubby figure in the distance braced his hands against his knees, breathing somewhat ragged.
During the just-concluded battle, Baili Pangpang had directly activated the national fortune within the Little Golden Dragon, extending his Taiji Bagua diagram over most of the battlefield. He continuously assisted in killing giant beasts and sharing the pressure for all the Night Watch within the diagram. With this terrifying consumption, even supported by national fortune, he was struggling to keep up.
But thanks to his presence, a considerable portion of the Night Watch in this battlefield had survived the beast tide. This made everyone remember that crimson figure standing at the center of the Eight Trigrams diagram.
The chaotic battlefield gradually returned to silence. Large numbers of medical personnel poured out from within Chennan Pass, stepping over blood and corpses, doing their utmost to save the lives of the survivors.