Chapter 536: [The Two Scourges Join Forces, Primordial Takes a Beating]

Chapter 536: Chapter 465: [The Two Scourges Join Forces, Primordial Takes a Beating]

Seven Days Pass.

“Kill them!”

“Survive…”

“Crush them!”

The Celestial Gate shuddered, and the domain collapsed and exploded!

The ‘Great Wall Dam’ sealing off Seven Days Pass was continuously battered by the iron-blooded torrent of Mountain and Sea’s boundless army.

Every single moment.

Countless Hongyuan soldiers and Mountain and Sea Wilderness Gods were dying. Broken Divine Weapons, shattered, colossal skeletons, and the smoke of Chaos kicked up a terrifying gale.

The reserve army in Seven Days Pass.

The Commander’s Law Enforcement Team.

All stood in dead silence, gripping the weapons in their hands, their crimson eyes locked on the blood-red Chaos outside the pass—a maelstrom that blotted out everything and roared, shaking the vast domain.

Even though they had not yet joined the battle,

they could imagine the sheer ferocity of the fighting on the front lines.

Because…

Within the many Garrison Cities of the domain,

Sealed Marquis, King, Celestial King, Military Lord.

even the names of Great Emperor Domain Masters,

were being extinguished before their horrified eyes, vanishing at a bone-chilling speed like stars obscured by dark clouds!

The extinguishment of a title on the Celestial Stele.

Everyone knew what that meant.

But since the war began,

in less than half a day,

so many of the names on the Celestial Stele had already died, disappearing in entire swathes!

As for the soldiers and generals below the rank of Sealed Marquis,

the number of casualties was simply unimaginable!

“The Domain Master of the Immortal Realm has fallen! The defensive line is in jeopardy! We need Great Emperor support, urgently!”

“The Quasi-Emperor defense line in the Mo Ya Domain is about to break…”

“The Celestial Spirit Domain…”

…

Inside the War Tokens,

urgent military orders from the Great Wall’s front lines rang out ceaselessly. With each command, someone from the reserve army would silently lead their troops out of the Celestial Gate to join the battlefield and fill the breach.

This offensive battle,

Mountain and Sea had gathered countless troops and powerhouses.

They seemed determined not to rest until they had broken through the All Heavens Pass. There would be no clear victor in a short time; it was destined to be a prolonged war of attrition.

Therefore,

both sides had prepared a large number of reserves.

They were ready to be deployed to the front lines as replacements at any moment.

Everyone understood the principle of ‘striking while the iron is hot before morale wanes.’ Until a victor was decided, this war would have no halftime break.

The only brief victories or defeats

would occur when the two sides rotated their troops.

If Mountain and Sea didn’t need replacements, they would naturally conquer more territory. Conversely, Hongyuan could push forward and reclaim their domains.

However, this was difficult.

The key to advancing or retreating lay with the Peak Great Emperors and Peak Ancestor Kings on the very first line of battle, those who wielded the All Heavens Emperor’s Soldiers.

The battle lines behind the first,

generally speaking,

were temporarily evenly matched.

Although the individual combat power of the Desolate Gods was far superior to Hongyuan’s forces, Hongyuan’s advantage was their superior numbers. Their human-wave tactics could barely hold the line.

The monstrous talents from the Emperor’s List and the Great Emperor’s List

were stationed at various defensive lines,

tasked with intercepting the Emperor’s Sons, Little Ancestors, and other monstrous powerhouses among the Ancestral Kings from Mountain and Sea. For the moment, no major problems had arisen.

But…

the weakness of human-wave tactics was rapid attrition. To put it bluntly, they were filling the gaps with lives. It often took two or three Hongyuan experts to trade for a single Emperor’s Son from Mountain and Sea.

If they encountered an expert from the Four Great Primordial Races—

those freaks for whom fighting above their level was as simple as eating and drinking—two or three wouldn’t be nearly enough. Only a Celestial Pride from the top of the Emperor’s List could stop them.

And when it came to top-tier Celestial Prides of the same realm,

below the Great Emperor level,

Hongyuan was inferior to Mountain and Sea. The monstrous talents like the Little Martial Ancestor were a minority, whereas the Emperor’s Sons and Little Ancestors from the Four Great Ancestors were numerous.

This was also why

the names on the Emperor’s List had been extinguished in swathes not long after the war began.

When one master from the Emperor’s List died,

it took multiple Lower-Rank Quasi-Emperors to replace them. This created a vicious cycle. If the war dragged on, the losses would be unimaginable.

“The defensive lines in these few domains, below the Thirty Layers of Heaven for Quasi-Emperors, don’t seem to have ever called for reinforcements…”

At the Seven Heavens Gate Heaven-Sinking Lord City Military Department,

Commander Shen Lian of the Law Enforcement Team and the Guan Lord of Seven Days Pass were monitoring the situation on all fronts along the Great Wall Dam.

They were surprised to discover that

a certain battle line in a few particular domains had been rock-solid since the beginning of the war, showing no signs of retreat, let alone calling for reinforcements.

“The Primordial Army Master…”

Shen Lian’s gaze fell upon the Kunpeng Race’s point of attack in the Great Wall’s projection, and much of his surprise immediately vanished.

“Oh, that monster. That makes sense.”

Hearing this, the Guan Lord of Seven Days Pass recalled Wu Dao’s many incredible feats and forced a smile. “I didn’t expect our Seven Days Pass to be hiding so many monstrous talents… A pity.”

‘A pity they are only Quasi-Emperors.’

Shen Lian sighed softly, naturally knowing what the Guan Lord wanted to say.

‘A pity they are only Quasi-Emperors,’

‘not Great Emperors or Peak Great Emperors.’

Otherwise,

with monsters like the Primordial Army Master present, defending Seven Days Pass would be no problem at all.

Looking further ahead,

the Eight Celestial Passes, the Nine Heavens Pass…

Even…

‘A pity, a pity.’

“The tree that stands tallest in the forest will be the first to be broken by the wind. Order the Primordial Heavenly King and his group of monsters not to be stubborn. They should retreat when necessary.”

The Guan Lord of Seven Days Pass watched the Quasi-Emperor battle line defending against the Kunpeng Race. One particular defensive line was gradually becoming a horn-like salient, pushing against the tide. He couldn’t help but issue an order to the deputy Guan Lord beside him.

The Primordial Heavenly King was indeed very strong.

As the surrounding Quasi-Emperor defense lines began to crumble and retreat, the line he held remained firm, standing like the sharp point of a horn.

But this was not a good thing.

Because he was too far from the main force, being surrounded and annihilated was inevitable!

…

The Guan Lord of Seven Days Pass was right.

At this moment, Wu Dao’s many Incarnations were indeed being targeted for encirclement and annihilation because they stood out too much!

The Kunpeng Race battlefield!

Deep within a shattered interlayer of space-time.

BOOM—

After the Primordial Magnetic Armor’s Divine Image Heaven was unleashed to its Limit, it was like a magnetic singularity had exploded. An intensely resplendent divine light, carrying countless high-energy magnetic pulses, rapidly radiated through the Ten Directions of space-time!

“ARGH!!”

“Dammit, this again!”

“Emperor’s Weapon, protect me!”

Throughout the Ten Directions of the battlefield where Wu Dao stood, the Emperor’s Sons of the Kunpeng Race cried out in alarm, hastily deploying their Emperor’s Weapons to defend themselves!

Those who couldn’t react in time,

couldn’t even escape. They were instantly de-dimensionalized layer by layer by the expanding Divine Image Heaven’s Magnetic Field, turning into invisible Dao Particles.

“ROAR—!!”

For those who were lucky enough not to be blasted to death,

but who had no Emperor’s Weapon to protect them, the outcome was no better.

The indescribable, multicolored Evil Lotus towering in the center of the battlefield let out a demonic roar that sounded like Gods and Ghosts. The lotus was like a black hole, devouring an Emperor’s Son Level Kunpeng in a single bite. The sight was utterly terrifying!

‘A bunch of goddamn trash!’

But Wu Dao felt no joy in his heart.

The Quasi-Emperor defense line around him had been pushed back by the Kunpeng Race’s army. This caused him to stick out too far, and now he was being besieged by a large number of Quasi-Ancestral Kings who had freed themselves up.

‘The Kunpeng Race is too damn rich!’

Among their many Emperor’s Sons, one in ten possessed an Emperor’s Weapon, as if they were free. Their heritage was terrifyingly deep.

And the standard for an Emperor’s Son,

was the Twenty-Fifth Heaven of a Quasi-Ancestral King!

With the Extreme Dao Bell unusable, Wu Dao could only continuously deplete his Primordial Magnetic Armor to close the gap between himself and the Kunpeng Race’s Emperor’s Sons.

The Holy Spirit Emperor’s Plate, the Asura Battle Banner.

He used them so furiously they were practically smoking!

He even brought out the Ancestral King’s Soldiers he had obtained a while ago, madly consuming the Chaos Mother Liquid.

But even so,

he was still being hammered by numerous Kunpeng Little Ancestors wielding Emperor’s Weapons, causing his Evil Lotus to shatter repeatedly. This was the most brutal battle he had ever fought!

If not for the fact that the Primordial Magnetism Path accepted all comers—

that any magnetic Energy could be used for replenishment—this Incarnation of his would have been worn down and killed right there on the battlefield by this flock of Kunpeng!

“Primordial Heavenly King, where are your All Heavens Emperor’s Soldiers? What’s wrong, not so tough now?”

“Don’t waste time talking to him!”

“That’s right! Hunting the Primordial Heavenly King is a huge merit. Even the Desolate Ancestors will give a reward!”

Throughout the Ten Directions of the battlefield,

Kun and Peng, so massive that those below the Quasi-Emperor Realm could not even perceive them, wielded Ancestral King’s Soldiers overflowing with boundless Emperor’s Might as they greedily launched another attack on Wu Dao.

At first,

when Wu Dao charged into the Emperor’s Son battlefield,

the Kunpeng Race’s Emperor’s Sons had held back, wary of the potential existence of All Heavens Soldiers. This had allowed Wu Dao to go on a rampage and devour many of their clansmen.

But after testing him,

they discovered that Wu Dao only had Emperor’s Weapons, not All Heavens Emperor’s Soldiers. Even after being repeatedly injured, he hadn’t brought any out!

This sent the Kunpeng Race’s Emperor’s Sons into an instant rage.

At the same time,

they also believed that the Kunpeng Race’s opportunity had arrived. As long as they captured Wu Dao, the two Desolate Ancestors had promised that the one who succeeded would have priority breeding rights.

If they continued to breed and propagate,

the Kunpeng Emperor Clan might even become the fifth Great Primordial Race of Mountain and Sea. The temptation was too great!

‘Sons of bitches…’

Wu Dao saw the feverish, greedy light in the massive eyes of the Kunpeng and felt an immense malice.

‘These savage beasts.’

‘Every one of them wants to capture me and use me as a breeding tool. If I really fall into the hands of Mountain and Sea, being used for breeding would be a small matter. Given the special nature of my Great Dao Physique, I would definitely be ‘dissected’ by those two Desolate Ancestors.’

‘To have a body like the Great Dao without having achieved Attainment Dao,’

‘and to have already passed through One Tribulation,’

‘while currently breaking through to the Second Tribulation…’

‘If I put myself in their shoes,’

‘if I were a Daoist, I would never let such a heaven-defying freak go. The benefits of analyzing and mastering him would be unimaginable.’

Therefore,

even if it was just an Incarnation,

it absolutely could not fall into the hands of Mountain and Sea!

BOOM!

The Asura Emperor Shadow raged!

Combined with a Mountain Sea Ancestor King’s Emperor Blade!

Wu Dao broke out of the encirclement just before it could fully form, rapidly moving to rendezvous with the main force of Quasi-Emperors retreating behind him.

There was no other choice.

He wanted to fight to the death,

but his teammates were just too pathetic.

Even if he was ferocious and his Primordial Magnetic Armor was heaven-defying, he couldn’t possibly withstand so many Peak Quasi-Emperor Kunpeng wielding Emperor’s Weapons all by himself.

‘My combat power is still too low…’

During his retreat,

Wu Dao also summarized the reasons for his defeat.

‘The combat power boost from the Divine Image Heaven’

‘is too unstable.’

‘For me, it’s also a bit insubstantial.’

‘It’s self-destructive and irreversible,’

‘which creates a weakness in this area.’

‘If my Great Venerable Essence reached perfection, my Foundation combat power would be at the level of a Quasi-Emperor Perfection. If I unleashed my power boost on top of that,’

‘while holding a few Emperor’s Weapons,’

‘then killing those Kunpeng Race Emperor’s Sons of the same level would instantly become like a bully picking on the weak. It would be no different from squashing ants, regardless of whether they had Emperor’s Weapons or not!’

After retreating to the newly constructed defensive line,

many Quasi-Emperor reinforcements from Seven Days Pass arrived, holding back the Quasi-Ancestral Kings of the Kunpeng Emperor Clan.

‘When your strength is inferior, you must retreat when it’s time to retreat. One Tribulation Perfection is fast approaching, and this war won’t end anytime soon!’

Wu Dao also got a brief respite and began to quickly devour the weaker Quasi-Ancestral King Kunpeng, no longer looking for trouble with the Peak Emperor’s Sons who possessed Emperor’s Weapons.

This offensive and defensive battle

was destined to be a long war of attrition.

He could fight while devouring Desolate Gods to feed his Main Body. With this new path to power, coupled with the Primordial Dao Wheel and his Main Body’s arduous cultivation, achieving One Tribulation Perfection wouldn’t take long.

At the same time,

he could also accumulate massive amounts of military merit in this great war to exchange for the Five Tribulations Dao Source, preparing sufficient nourishment in advance for the Second Tribulation of his Primordial Magnetism Path.

The only trouble

was probably on the side of the Primordial Sect.

The Human World had become increasingly frenzied during this time, and the Primordial Sect was gradually losing the competition. Their efficiency in harvesting both Tao Realms and Divine Souls had slowed down.

For now, his strength was inferior.

Wu Dao could only endure it.

But what Wu Dao didn’t expect was that on the fifth day of the great war, the Primordial Sect brought him more bad news—

the Human World and the Dragon Hunting Tower had joined forces!

Wu Dao never would have imagined that the Dragon Hunting Tower would suddenly become so indiscriminate. The Human World had preemptively accomplished the ‘colluding villains’ plan he had once envisioned for himself.

These two cancerous blights,

one harvesting the Divine Souls of living creatures, the other harvesting their physical bodies, had launched one disturbance after another throughout the All Heavens.

They were completely unbridled!

Perhaps the impending Great Tribulation was driving them to complete madness, making them throw all caution to the wind.

In short,

of the three scourges of the All Heavens, two had joined forces.

The competitiveness of the remaining scourge, the Primordial Sect, instantly plummeted to its lowest point. It simply couldn’t compete with or out-snatch those two beasts, and its income had greatly diminished!

“Inform all Divine Envoys.”

Within the Miasma Abyss, Wu Dao was like a dormant volcano. He communicated with the Star Mother, his consciousness issuing an ice-cold command:

“The Tao Realm collection mission can be put on hold for now. Focus all efforts on collecting Divine Souls. Don’t worry too much about quality.”

The conflict between the Primordial Sect and the two cancerous groups

stemmed mainly from the fact that all three forces only dared to operate in the All Heavens Border Wilderness. When the Primordial Sect was collecting Tao Realms in the Border Wilderness, it would occasionally encounter the two blights.

For now,

he would avoid their spearhead.

‘First, I’ll collect the low-grade Divine Souls that those two blights look down on, using quantity to make up for quality, and push my One Tribulation Primordial Magnetism Path to perfection and break through.’

‘Once I break through to the Second Tribulation’

‘and achieve Emperor Level combat power,’

‘my many Peak Quasi-Emperor Incarnations can be temporarily sent out to hold the fort for the Primordial Sect.’

‘At that time…’

‘Trying to snatch food from me, Wu Dao?’

‘I’ll definitely break the fangs of those two cancerous blights!’