Chapter 2966 - 2966: Heavenly Sect's Escape

Su Yang could only watch as the First God pushed the Heavenly Sect into the Chaos Rift, utterly powerless to stop it.

If he tried to intercept at this moment, the First God would immediately self-detonate.

In that case, if Su Yang went over, he would be heavily injured by that self-detonation power.

Su Yang was now the key to the Human Clan—if he suffered such a grievous blow, how would they deal with the Seven Great Heavenly Venerable afterward?

So in the end, Su Yang could only watch as the Heavenly Sect vanished into the Chaos.

Seeing the Heavenly Sect disappear, the First God finally let out a relieved breath.

He shot Su Yang a cold look and sneered, "So you're afraid of death too, huh!"

"I thought you'd come over and stop me!"

"Since you don't dare come, I'm leaving as well."

Su Yang's expression stayed calm. "Do as you please."

"I never said I was going to keep you here."

"However, in reversing your power like this and choosing self-detonation…"

"Although the power didn't ultimately erupt, your power will be ruined because of it."

"Even with your heaven-defying strength, able to cling to the Strongest realm, from now on you will never be able to recover your strength."

"Any random Strongest will be able to easily kill you."

Listening to Su Yang, the First God did not grow angry; he only chuckled coldly. "Keeping my life is good enough!"

"Besides, we'll go find the Seven Great Heavenly Venerable."

"The Seven Great Heavenly Venerable will definitely have a way to restore my strength."

"Su Yang, the next time we meet will be the day of your deaths!"

With that said, the First God directly leaped into the Chaos Rift and disappeared.

Seeing the First God escape, the Human Emperor and the others immediately wanted to give chase, but were stopped by Su Yang.

"No need to go to such trouble over a cripple," Su Yang said coldly. "From now on, the First God is no longer a cause for concern."

The Human Emperor asked anxiously, "Then what about the Heavenly Sect?"

"He may be heavily injured, but his foundation is intact. Give him some time, and he'll still be able to restore his strength."

Su Yang's expression remained even. "We've already lost track of the Heavenly Sect. With the Chaos Worm on him, who knows where he is now—he might not even be in this Great World anymore."

"And besides, the Heavenly Sect has only him left. A solitary man with nothing, he can't stir up any great storm."

The Human Emperor slowly nodded. The biggest problem was indeed that they couldn't catch up.

It had to be said, the First God really treated his son well.

He'd rather throw away his own cultivation than fail to save the Heavenly Sect.

Among the remaining Guardian God Strongest on the battlefield, several imitated the First God, choosing to self-detonate to force the Human Clan members back. Then they seized the chance to flee into the Chaos.

Su Yang had no intention of hunting down people like that.

By doing this, they had essentially abolished their own cultivation.

In the future, although they would still be Strongest, they would only be able to bully those below the Strongest realm, and could no longer compare to any other Strongest.

Any random Strongest could kill them.

In an era where Strongest walked rampant, cases like the First God were complete wastes; whether they were hunted or not made little difference.

In the end, more than fifty Guardian God Strongest escaped using this method.

Others took advantage of the chaos when people self-detonated to escape into the Chaos and vanish.

Su Yang did not send anyone in pursuit. After this battle, the Guardian Gods had essentially collapsed completely.

From here on out, the Guardian Gods would no longer be worth worrying about.

Su Yang's next task was to resolve the matter of the Seven Great Heavenly Venerable.

He had just learned of the Seven Great Heavenly Venerable's scheme from the Heavenly Sect; he had to stop them. Otherwise, once the Seven Great Heavenly Venerable truly seized control of the Source of Heaven and Earth, Su Yang and the others would have no way to stop them!

They cleared the battlefield and tallied the casualties among the Guardian Gods and the Human Clan.

The outcome of this war was exactly as Su Yang had expected.

The Human Clan's strength had originally suppressed the Guardian Gods, and on top of that Su Yang had turned their plan against them and pitted them, giving the Human Clan an even greater advantage.

It was precisely because of Su Yang's scheme that the Human Clan's casualties were reduced by at least twenty percent.

Coupled with Su Yang personally collecting the power of the fallen Human Clan Strongest, in the end the Human Clan's losses amounted to just over a hundred Strongest, well within an acceptable range.

Su Yang gathered up the power from those Strongest and went to find those earlier tens of millions of Human Clan members, recounting to them the situation in the great battle.

At the same time, Su Yang told them his purpose.

He needed volunteers to donate their lives, to contain the power of those fallen Strongest and let those Strongest be resurrected.

When he spoke of this, Su Yang felt quite heavy inside.

Doing this meant sending these innocent lives to their deaths, using their lives in exchange for the lives of those Strongest.

But he had no other choice; this was the only way.

He could in theory use the lives of the Guardian Gods, but he had no idea, after that war, how many of those Strongest still preserved their former memories.

If those Strongest lost their memories and were resurrected in the bodies of Guardian Gods, wouldn't that be equivalent to creating enemies for the Human Clan?

Thus, the best way was to seek volunteers from the Human Clan side.

Even if those Strongest lost their memories, it would still mean that a Human Clan Strongest had been cultivated; for the Human Clan, that was no detriment.

Su Yang laid out his thoughts and then quietly waited for everyone's response.

He did not hold out much hope in his heart, because people cherish their lives.

What Su Yang was doing was essentially sending these people to their deaths—how many would be truly willing?

Yet the outcome turned out beyond Su Yang's expectations.

A surprising number stepped forward, willing to give up their lives to resurrect those Strongest.

Some among them had had their family and friends all slaughtered during the previous Integration of Ten Thousand Realms.

Only they themselves were left, solitary and alone, living out these long years.

To be honest, these people had long since lost the drive to keep living.

Others had been severely wounded in the war, their strength grievously damaged, no longer able to continue cultivation or further improve, having lost the meaning of living; so they too were willing to give their lives.

In any case, regardless of the reason, the number who ultimately stepped forward even exceeded the number of Strongest who had died in battle, which truly exceeded Su Yang's expectations.

Even the other Human Clan Strongest were deeply moved by this scene.

Including those Strongest whom Su Yang had already resurrected, as well as Fei He and the others, all were shaken by what they saw.

Seeing so many Human Clan members stride toward death so generously, even these Strongest felt a deep respect for these ordinary Human Clan Cultivator.