"Charge!!!" With a roar from the third beta test players, they launched a powerful counterattack, instantly suppressing the Five-Colored Patterned Faceless Ones!
"Boom boom boom!" The Five-Colored Patterned Faceless One threw three consecutive punches, striking the Demon player. The Demon player's demonic core was damaged, and their demonic body suffered severe injuries—under normal circumstances, this should have meant instant crippling!
But...
"Life Unending!"
With a low shout from the third beta test Human player on his back, a burst of healing landed—
the demonic core recovered, and the demonic body regenerated!
After clawing his way back from the brink of death, the Demon player's strength instead rose to an even higher level, becoming even more powerful!
"Boom!" The Demon player countered with a backhand punch—an average of thirty-five demonic marks worth of terrifying combat power—one punch nearly smashed the face of the Five-Colored Patterned Faceless One to pieces!
"Boom boom boom!" After being suppressed, the Five-Colored Patterned Faceless One quickly became covered in green flame armor, perfectly countering the Demon player's demonic-energy attacks!
"Damn it, are my Intent Cards all used up?" Quite a few Demon players drew cards, only to find nothing left, immediately growing flustered.
But at that very moment...
"Use mine!" A large hand reached out, delivering an incomparably thick stack of Intent Cards.
"Sorry, my Intent Card stock isn't very big—just eighty thousand cards or so."
The third beta test Human players spoke lazily.
What casual flex!
Eight thousand Intent Cards appeared at once, and behind them, the void transformed into a Ten-Thousand-Card Guanyin projection!
"Come on, Heavenly Dao Five Calamities—are you evolving faster, or do I have more combos?"
The third beta test Human players were arrogantly extreme, every word dripping with swagger!
No help for it—having too many Intent Cards really does let you do whatever you want!
"Four consecutive random draws! Intent Fusion!
Extreme Cold · Five Fireballs · Divine Wood · Ghost Cleaver!!!"
In the next instant, the Demon players transformed, directly doubling their card draws. All of them performed four-color random Intent fusions, once again brutally overpowering the Five-Colored Patterned Faceless Ones!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Quite a few Five-Colored Patterned Faceless Ones wised up, raising their hands to fire beams of light, trying to instantly kill the Human players riding on the Demon players' backs first.
However...
"Too slow!" The Demon players effortlessly activated Observation Haki, protecting the Human players on their backs and dodging the attack!
"Back in the Myriad Demon Realm, I started each day baiting two million demonic beasts—
even fifth-tier demonic beasts got pulled together and AOE-farmed!
Without at least master-level Observation Haki, you still dare call yourself a professional grinder?
Die for me!!!"
The Demon players fully unleashed their exquisitely practiced Observation Haki, easily shielding the Human players on their backs, then counterattacked with another violent beating of the Five-Colored Patterned Faceless Ones!
The Five-Colored Patterned Faceless Ones were indeed strong—
half-step Nascent Soul was more than enough to demonstrate their power!
However...
Once the third beta test players entered their strongest form, they only grew stronger the more they fought—freely adapting, endlessly healing—practically unsolvable!
Groups upon groups of Five-Colored Patterned Faceless Ones were bulldozed and smashed back by the third beta test players!
"Holy crap, am I seeing ghosts?!"
"These scum-among-scum and wage slaves actually fused together?!"
"Damn, these two groups actually managed to put aside their hatred and fight together?!"
...
The big shots from the first and second beta tests were completely stunned.
Am I dreaming?
These two groups had been fighting internal wars since launch—
they fought for an entire third beta test era!
And now...
They actually joined forces!
And not just superficially, but with naked sincerity and selfless cooperation?!
"Brothers! The third beta test newbies are already counterattacking—
we absolutely can't fall behind!!! Charge!!!"
Although Star was stunned for a moment, he quickly reacted and began commanding everyone to counterattack!
"Didn't expect this..."
Although He Yiming was sealed and unable to leave, his divine sense could still scan the battlefield. At this moment, he couldn't help but nod.
This truly was the strongest form of the third beta test players!
Human and Demon as one!
The most scummy plus even more scummy combination—
abbreviated as: When Utterly Despicable Becomes Invincible!
Reasonable. Far too reasonable!
Since the battle situation had stabilized once more, He Yiming could now focus on dealing with the enemy before him.
"You are the Sixth Calamity of the Heavenly Dao?"
He Yiming looked at the figure identical to himself and asked.
"That's right. I am the Calamity Decreed by Destiny!
The incarnation of the Heavenly Dao upon this Ancient Land!
And the existence fated to slaughter all of you!"
The Sixth Calamity seemed completely unconcerned with the battle situation.
"Your aura is very strange—there isn't even the slightest trace of this Ancient Land's aura upon you.
You—where exactly did you come from?"
The Sixth Calamity slowly spoke, instead staring at He Yiming as it asked.
"Why didn't Mu Xueying tell me about the Sixth Calamity?
Or is it that she didn't know either?"
A thought flashed through He Yiming's mind, but he quickly calmed down.
"I truly didn't expect a Sixth Calamity to appear—
and one that even possesses intelligence! However..."
"From the moment you appeared, I seem to have sensed that within these Five Calamities of the Heavenly Dao, there is the stench of some kind of conspiracy!"
"Or perhaps..."
"Are the Heavenly Dao Five Calamities—and you as well—really what is called the Heavenly Dao?"
...
He Yiming questioned word by word.
In He Yiming's understanding, the true Heavenly Dao should be the aggregate of this world's rules, or perhaps a kind of collective consciousness.
Yet the Heavenly Dao Five Calamities of this Ancient Era were filled with an utterly incomprehensible malice!
This malice was not aimed at powerful existences such as True Dragons or Black Tortoises.
Instead, it was directed at living beings filled with intelligence, filled with potential, and destined to rise in the future!
For example...
The Human Race!
The power of the Heavenly Dao Five Calamities was indeed not strong; in fact, in He Yiming's era, it might not even be able to kill a single Divine-Transformation powerhouse!
But...
The power of the Heavenly Dao Five Calamities perfectly countered all weak intelligent life!
The Primordial Flood Water Calamity, the Hunger Drought Calamity, the Cambrian Ice Calamity, the Plague Disease Calamity, and finally this last extinction-level Death Demon Calamity!
It was simply a thorough and complete targeting of the Human Race!
The powerful Ancient People might be able to endure the Primordial Flood Water Calamity, but they would certainly starve to death under the Hunger Drought Calamity!
Even if food reserves were sufficient, they would still freeze to death under the Cambrian Ice Calamity!
Even if they managed to survive the first three calamities, they would personally witness the deaths of countless companions—at which point, the fourth calamity, the Plague Disease Calamity, with its assault on the heart and mind, would completely crush them.
In the one-in-ten-thousand chance that some survived, the final Death Demon Calamity—with infinite monster spawning and infinite evolution—would inevitably slaughter everything!
However...
The appearance of this Sixth Calamity, the Calamity Decreed by Destiny, made He Yiming sense that something was subtly wrong!
Because this Sixth Calamity, rather than being an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao...
Was more like...
It's more like an avatar of an incredibly powerful being! Descending upon the land of this Ancient Era with a malevolent will!
Its purpose was to strangle all intelligent life that might pose a threat to it in the future!
"You are very clever. Unfortunately, you are destined to die here!"
"Your Human Race must die, must be exterminated! The root reason you were able to survive the first four great calamities is your existence!"
"But unfortunately, you no longer have a chance! The purpose of my appearance as the Sixth Calamity is to seal you away!"
"Kill you, and your disciples outside will be completely wiped out! Immediately after that, those weak Humans will also be entirely exterminated!"
"In this cycle of reincarnation, your Human Race is destined to perish!"
...
The Sixth Calamity spoke slowly using He Yiming's appearance. In the next instant, a massive aura erupted violently!
Peak Heavenly Pill!
"Is that so? Who will have the last laugh is still far from decided!"
He Yiming sneered, saying nothing more as the peak Heavenly Pill cultivation likewise erupted from his body!
"Four-Direction Sword!"
"Four-Direction Sword!"
...
In the next moment, the Sixth Calamity and He Yiming simultaneously unleashed the fusion of four fully mastered sword intents, slamming fiercely into one another!
"Boom!" A tremendous explosion erupted, yet it still could not shake this sealed space!
With both sides possessing identical strength, the clash naturally ended in a stalemate!
"So it really did perfectly copy my power..." He Yiming frowned.
"!"
But at this moment, He Yiming's expression suddenly sank.
Because on the battlefield, another sudden change occurred!
Just as all the players had forced back the Five-Colored Patterned Faceless Ones created by the Heavenly Dao Five Calamities, the five vortices suddenly shifted positions and appeared directly above the Ancient People who were slowly retreating!
In the next instant...
"Boom!"
Along with an eruption of terrifying pressure!
The five vortices rapidly condensed into five figures!!!
Five existences radiating power so vast it rivaled true Nascent Soul Realm cultivators!
"They've appeared! The Five Calamity Evil Demons!!!"
Mu Xueying suddenly spoke, her voice crisp and pleasant, yet resounding throughout the entire battlefield!