Chapter 507 – Surprise Attack on the Foreign Race’s Fourth Legion, Target: First on the Heaven Ranking!
by spirapiraChapter 507 – Surprise Attack on the Foreign Race’s Fourth Legion, Target: First on the Heaven Ranking!
As Su Xing’s words fell, familiar text flashed before his eyes.
【In the spirit field grotto-heaven, you realized you were in a simulation.】
【You continued onward toward the Celestial Demon Domain.】
【Half a month later, you arrived at the Heavenly Secrets Domain. Another month and a half after that, you traversed the entire Heavenly Secrets Domain and reached another stretch of Endless Sea.】
【Beyond this Endless Sea lay the Celestial Demon Prison.】
【You spent one month crossing this Endless Sea.】
【Upon arriving at the Celestial Demon Domain, you immediately used the Celestial Demon General’s token and met with the Celestial Demon General.】
【You explained your identity and purpose to the Celestial Demon General, and as hoped, obtained the Luotian Black Pearl.】
【Next, you planned to remain in the Celestial Demon Domain and help the Celestial Demon General sweep clean the foreign races in this great domain!】
【Within the Celestial Demon Domain, the foreign races primarily originated from two sources.】
【First, occasional breaches in the seal of the extra-domain passage would allow some powerful foreign race beings to slip through.】
【These foreign race beings were typically at the deity level or above, posing enormous threats to ordinary cultivators in the Celestial Demon Domain. This was also why the Celestial Demon General frequently needed to reinforce the seal.】
【Second was the core region of the Celestial Demon Domain.】
【Within this area was the entirety of the foreign race’s Fourth Legion!】
【This included two foreign race chief gods, hundreds of first-tier deities, and countless God-level foreign race beings…】
【In ages past, before the Luotian Ancestor died, he had laid down two seals. The first sealed the extra-domain passage, and the second sealed the countless foreign race armies of the Fourth Legion.】
【Now, after tens of millions of years, the Fourth Grand Legion had successively broken through the seals and begun threatening the Celestial Demon Domain.】
【The Celestial Demon General led the powerful cultivators of the Celestial Demon Prison to stand guard here, keeping the Fourth Legion’s foreign races from acting recklessly.】
【But should a full-scale war break out, the Celestial Demon General could only hold down the two chief gods. The other foreign race deities would pose an enormous threat to the safety of the Celestial Demon Domain.】
【Thus, for tens of millions of years, both sides had held their positions without launching any massive battles.】
【But if the human race gained an additional Great Firmament Golden Immortal stationed here long-term, it would break the balance!】
【And so, you informed the Celestial Demon General that you would stand guard here for over a hundred years, helping him eliminate the foreign race’s Fourth Legion.】
【The Celestial Demon General was naturally delighted to hear this. He assembled the high-ranking powerhouses of the Celestial Demon Prison and launched a small-scale counteroffensive.】
【In the first surprise attack, your group of several dozen Supreme Unity Golden Immortal-level and above powerhouses penetrated deep into the Celestial Demon Domain’s core, achieving tremendous results.】
【This battle lasted several months. Nearly ten first-tier deities were slain, close to a hundred second-tier deities… and thousands of God-level and above foreign race powerhouses!】
【On the Celestial Demon Prison’s side, only one cultivator sustained minor injuries and one was seriously wounded.】
【This great victory was naturally due to your participation!】
【The tactics you employed were extraordinarily simple and brutal.】
【The Celestial Demon General would strike first, forcibly pinning down the two chief gods.】
【Then you, along with the other Supreme Unity Golden Immortals, would hunt foreign race deities and God-level beings…】
【For you now, killing a first-tier deity was no different from slaughtering chickens and sheep.】
【Had the foreign races not noticed things going wrong and retreated early, your kill count would have been even greater!】
【But you also knew that such a surprise attack would only work this effectively the first time.】
【After this, a long war of attrition would follow…】
【But you were not worried. Your mind was set, and you had ample time to annihilate the entire Fourth Grand Legion!】
Su Xing looked at the text before him and nodded slightly.
“Annihilating the Fourth Grand Legion is indeed an excellent strategy!”
“After all, the foreign races in other great domains are scattered and not easy to eliminate… But the foreign races in the Fourth Grand Legion are sealed together in one place. The Celestial Demon Prison has numerous powerhouses, and with someone as strong as the Celestial Demon General leading the charge, there’s a real opportunity…”
“Even if it’s not enough to completely annihilate the entire Fourth Legion, we can still reduce their strength and delay the foreign race invasion!”
Su Xing murmured.
As things stood, his Great Shaman Body Forging Art had reached the eighth layer, giving him combat power comparable to a Great Firmament Golden Immortal.
He had both the qualification and the necessity to start planning for the future!
Even if each attempt ultimately ended in failure, Su Xing had to map out the optimal route for exterminating the foreign races through repeated tries.
“After I arrive at the Celestial Demon Domain in reality, I can employ this same approach… As long as I simulate in advance and proceed with caution, I’ll definitely be able to reap a massive harvest of foreign race kills!”
“With just a small amount of risk, I can obtain enormous amounts of origin energy!”
Su Xing’s heart raced with excitement.
At the same time, he wanted to see whether, with his current strength combined with the Celestial Demon General’s, they could crush the Fourth Legion!
His gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【After the first surprise attack achieved tremendous success, the Fourth Legion became noticeably more cautious, aware that a Great Firmament-level powerhouse had appeared in the Celestial Demon Domain.】
【Therefore, the Fourth Legion fortified themselves within the Celestial Demon Domain’s core region, only occasionally sending out foreign race units to harass you.】
【This made your encirclement and annihilation plan much more difficult.】
【You had to penetrate deep into the Celestial Demon Domain’s core region to achieve any results, but the cost was far greater than before!】
【Before you knew it, you had been standing guard in the Celestial Demon Domain for ten years!】
【Over these ten years, at least several hundred foreign race deities had died at your hands, and more than ten first-tier deities among them.】
【But you deeply felt that annihilating the entire Fourth Legion remained difficult.】
【Because in those ten years, three powerhouses from the Celestial Demon Prison had also fallen in battle.】
【At this rate of trading lives for lives, the human race was not coming out ahead… because the foreign race had far more powerhouses than the human race.】
【Fortunately, the Fourth Grand Legion’s strength had been significantly weakened.】
【You resolved to stand guard in the Celestial Demon Domain for another sixty years, slaying the foreign races.】
【Until the seventieth year of the simulation!】
【Over seventy years, the Fourth Grand Legion’s strength had been reduced by roughly a third.】
【Meanwhile, fewer than seven human race powerhouses from the Celestial Demon Prison had fallen.】
【This was already an enormous success… With the Fourth Grand Legion’s strength diminished, the pressure on the Celestial Demon Domain would ease considerably in the short term.】
【And so, you prepared to leave the Celestial Demon Domain and visit the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】
【Before you left, the Celestial Demon General informed you that you could reach the Heavenly Secrets Domain quickly through the Nine Heavens Domain, cutting the travel time by nearly half…】
【Following the route the Celestial Demon General provided, you traveled from the Celestial Demon Domain to the Seventh Heaven, sprinted to a certain set of coordinates, and then began descending toward the lower realm.】
【Returning from the upper three Heavens to the lower realm was not difficult for someone who had mastered the spatial Dao.】
【The entire journey took only about a month and a half, indeed saving nearly half the time compared to before.】
【In the seventieth year, you arrived at the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】
【At this point, the key event—the Celestial Vessel Defense Battle—had not yet triggered.】
【You therefore prepared to travel to the Eighth Heaven to comprehend the Great Dao…】
【Several months later, you arrived at the Eighth Heaven, found a safe location, and began comprehending the Celestial Star Observation Method.】
Seeing this, Su Xing nodded slightly. Time within the simulation could not be wasted. He silently intoned:
“Activate immersive simulation… duration 274 years!”
【Ding… remaining origin energy: 1,624,590,000…】
As the Chime faded, Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world.
……
The Eighth Heaven. Within a safe Secret Realm.
Su Xing sensed the abundant Great Dao energy and spiritual qi surrounding him, feeling quite satisfied.
“Not bad. The spiritual qi here approaches that of a Grand Grotto-Heaven… and the bonus to Great Dao comprehension is more than double that of the lower realm. Cultivation here yields twice the results with half the effort!”
Su Xing wasted no time. He consumed Dao-Enlightenment Tea and began comprehending the Celestial Star Observation Method.
Cultivation knows no seasons. In the blink of an eye, two hundred and twenty years passed.
Su Xing had used up essentially all of his Dao-Enlightenment Tea.
His Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny had drawn one step closer to sixth realm Major Mastery.
“By my calculations, the Celestial Vessel should be nearing the White Cloud Realm soon. It’s time to head to the White Cloud Realm and set things up in advance…”
A thought stirred in Su Xing’s mind. He unleashed the Great Dao of Space and sped toward the lower realm.
Several days later, Su Xing arrived at the White Cloud Realm.
Just as planned, Su Xing laid his preparations within the White Cloud Realm and waited for the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s Celestial Vessel to arrive.
Five years quickly passed.
In the 295th year of the simulation, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s Celestial Vessel arrived at the White Cloud Realm.
Su Xing boarded the Celestial Vessel as planned.
At this point, twenty years remained before the Celestial Vessel Defense Battle would erupt.
As real-world time continued to flow and various butterfly effects caused by Su Xing accumulated, the Celestial Vessel had arrived at the White Cloud Realm ahead of schedule.
During the time aboard the Celestial Vessel, Su Xing did not waste a moment.
Entering the Luotian Realm, Su Xing maintained the time flow differential opposite to reality, accelerating the growth of the Celestial Primordial Tree.
Until the 315th year of the simulation.
The Celestial Vessel Defense Battle erupted…
Su Xing had been resting with his eyes closed in his cabin aboard the Celestial Vessel when he felt the fluctuations of battle outside. His eyes snapped open.
“At last, the time to strike has come…”
“Find a way to kill Blood Two, and first place on the Heaven Ranking should be mine!”
With that thought, Su Xing took a single step and appeared in the void.
Outside, hundreds of thousands of foreign race soldiers had gathered, launching a full assault on the Celestial Vessel.
“Protective Sword Aura!”
With a thought from Su Xing, nearly ten thousand streaks of sword light flashed, effortlessly claiming the lives of over ten thousand foreign race soldiers.
Before long, Su Xing’s battle fluctuations drew the attention of several foreign race deities.
But Su Xing did not linger. He merely swung his sword a few times, and his seventh realm sword intent instantly killed those foreign race deities.
Su Xing appeared beside Xiao Zhanlong.
“Brother Zhanlong, leave this first-tier deity to me!”
Su Xing said calmly.
Xiao Zhanlong wore an expression as if he had seen a ghost. He had just witnessed Su Xing in action.
That terrifying sword aura, that immense magical power… it made Xiao Zhanlong think he was looking at a Great Firmament Golden Immortal!
Su Xing offered no explanation. Once Xiao Zhanlong retreated to the side, he sent out a Void Slash.
A silver sword radiance pierced through the void, striking the first-tier deity’s vital point with pinpoint precision.
Without the slightest surprise, the first-tier deity fell!
At this moment, the strongest combat force remaining on the foreign race’s side was Blood Two alone!
Seeing Su Xing instantly kill foreign race deities one after another and even slay a first-tier deity, Blood Two’s expression turned grim.
“There was actually a second Great Firmament Golden Immortal hidden aboard!”
“Hmph… Celestial Secrets Pavilion, what clever scheming!”
“We’ll settle this another day…”
With those words, Blood Two desperately unleashed supernatural arts, sacrificing his lifespan to transform into a streak of blood-colored light and flee into the distance.
But Su Xing would never let Blood Two succeed!
His Spirit Domain instantly activated to full power. Terrifying spatial fluctuations swept outward, sealing off the void within a radius of a million li (500,000 km) in an instant!
With the spatial Dao at the seventh realm Minor Mastery, even Blood Two could not escape!
White Emperor was also caught off guard by Su Xing’s sudden appearance.
He had originally expected Blood Two to escape.
Yet out of nowhere, this unknown powerhouse had appeared.
Seventh realm Great Dao of the Sword, seventh realm spatial Dao… plus that immense magical power and terrifying physical body.
Had White Emperor not been certain that Su Xing had not yet achieved the Great Firmament rank, he would have nearly believed the world had gained another Great Firmament Golden Immortal!
“Senior White Emperor, please seize the opportunity… join me in slaying this traitor to the human race!”
Su Xing transmitted his voice to the stunned White Emperor, who quickly came to his senses.
Together, one from the left and one from the right, they surrounded Blood Two.
White Emperor alone could have killed Blood Two, but it would not have been easy.
After all, White Emperor also needed to ensure the Celestial Vessel’s safety.
But with the addition of a helper with Great Firmament-level strength, there was nothing to worry about!
Su Xing and White Emperor advanced step by step toward Blood Two.
Feeling White Emperor’s terrifying sword intent, Blood Two was instantly consumed by despair.
He had originally believed this was a perfect coordinated ambush between the Advent Cult and the foreign races.
He never expected… that this mysterious powerhouse who had appeared out of nowhere would ruin everything!
With White Emperor before him and the void sealed, Blood Two knew he had no chance of escape.
At this moment, Blood Two had only one thought in his mind—before he died, he would drag someone down with him!
His ferocious gaze locked onto Su Xing.
In Blood Two’s perception, although Su Xing’s strength was formidable, he seemed to still be at the Supreme Unity Celestial Venerable level!
Therefore, he resolved to trade his life for Su Xing’s at any cost!
A blood-red river materialized in the void. Its vast expanse was like a small world, enveloping everything within a million li (500,000 km)!
Countless corpses and bleached bones, the aura of slaughter and blood, relentlessly assaulted Su Xing’s negative emotions.
In a single instant, Su Xing seemed to fall into a daze, lost in illusion…
This was the power of the Blood River supernatural art—it could induce hallucinations and manipulate emotions. Even a Great Firmament Golden Immortal would be affected!
In the instant Su Xing appeared to be “stunned,” Blood Two launched what seemed like a lethal strike at him.
However, at that very moment…
Su Xing’s pupils suddenly shifted—Double Pupils appeared!
Yin-yang light shot forth in an instant, and clarity returned to Su Xing’s eyes.
Or rather, Su Xing had never fallen into the illusion at all.
At the critical moment, Su Xing had deliberately shown an opening, luring Blood Two into the trap!
In the next instant, Su Xing let out a thunderous roar. A faint golden light flickered across his body as he hurled a devastating punch at the charging Blood Two!
In battles between cultivators—especially between top-tier powerhouses—most relied on techniques and supernatural arts. Someone like Su Xing who fought with pure physical combat was exceedingly rare.
And yet, the effect was spectacular!
This single punch consumed at least a tenth of Su Xing’s primordial energy!
This single punch—One Force Breaks Ten Thousand Laws!
The fist slammed into Blood Two’s body, instantly obliterating half of it.
The terrifying shockwave from the punch sent currents rippling through the void for hundreds of thousands of li.
One punch had critically wounded Blood Two!
Blood Two stared blankly at the scene, then gritted his teeth and plunged into the blood-red river.
White Emperor’s eyes flashed with surprise—had that punch struck him unguarded, even he would have been seriously injured!
But White Emperor quickly recovered, sending a streak of sword radiance slashing toward Blood Two once more.
Blood Two’s entire body shattered in an instant, leaving only his soul to flee into the Blood River.
For a clash between Great Firmament Golden Immortals to yield such results in so short a time was nothing short of miraculous!
But the battle was not over!
Blood Two, having fled into the Blood River, launched his final frenzy…