Beastmaster of the Ages

tack, so the Blueblood Starocean was caught by surprise.
Their swords cleared a path, lifebound beasts charging into battle.
By the time the Blueblood Starocean cultivators finally reacted, chaos had already erupted. 

Since Li Wushuang hadn’t given a word of warning before taking action, the Blueblood Starocean was actually caught unprepared; one miscalculation had resulted in thousands of casualties.
Almost every totemancer had immediately been besieged by two or three swordpupils alongside their lifebound beasts. 

“Kill them!” 

Blood dyed their vision red.
When they saw their companions, relatives, and friends being slaughtered, bitten into pieces by lifebound beasts, and otherwise tragically dying, the people of the Blueblood Starocean went crazy.
War stimulated them, and their hearts bled from watching dead bodies pile up around them. 

“Kill them!” 

“For revenge!” 

“How dare the Empyrean Sword Sect make the first attack? Their entire sect will surely perish!” 

Every time swords descended, heads would roll.
Lifebound beasts and totems fought and crashed into the lake, causing water to splash everywhere.
In a short period of time, the Empyrean Sword Sect had lost at least a thousand people.
However, the Blueblood Starocean was faring no better; close to three thousand of their people had been slaughtered.
There were only a thousand people left and they struggled to survive the siege.
If the battle were to continue, they would be wiped out.
This wasn’t an offensive and defensive war, but an unexpected encounter where the Empyrean Sword Sect had managed to crush their opponents due to sheer numbers and initiative. 

“Don’t spare any of them!” 

“Avenge Shi Yan’s lifebound beasts!” 

“Lan Sha, you must die!” 

Although the Rain Swordlord was stubborn and argumentative, she wasn’t at all vague or hesitant when it came to her actions.
Together with her lifebound beasts, the ninesky celestial cranes, she led eight thousand swordpupils in a slaughter of their enemies.
The flesh and blood of the Blueblood Starocean cultivators was splattered everywhere. 

On the other side was Lan Sha with his shark-like countenance and totems, the cretaceous sharks.
They were rather ferocious totems—tall and sturdy, with a human body and a shark head.
Their enormous jaws could snap a lifebound beast in half.
Since the start of the battle, Lan Sha, who was known for his brutality, had slain dozens of swordpupils. 

“Die!” 

The Rain Swordlord swooped down with her four cranes, their sharp beaks pierced down like spears and the flap of their snow-white wings setting off stormy waves across Aix Lake. 

“She’s mad!” 

A pale Lan Sha gnashed his sharp teeth.
Shi Yan was dead? He was still dumbfounded.
Li Wushuang should have told him about her plans in advance.
If he was prepared, they wouldn’t have lost more than three thousand people.
Right now, there were people of the Blueblood Starocean dying every second.
These people were elites with extremely high status, their deaths were definitely a great loss.
Never in his entire life had they lost that many people. 

“We must leave now!” 

“We can't hold on anymore.
If we don't leave, we’ll all die here.
There’s so many on their side!” 

“Forget about the saplings, there’s no point guarding them now.
We’re already fighting.
We need to gather our people, catch them off guard, and slay every last one of them!” 

The people around Lan Sha struggled to survive as they urged him to retreat.

“Retreat!” Despite the unwillingness he felt, Lan Sha gave the order, accepting the fact that this was a crushing defeat.
However, it was an order given a little too late.