Chapter 2769

He Lingchuan's reason for launching the God-Slaying Plan at this stage is actually clear: to crush the attacking resolve of the Bekaja army!

In terms of troop numbers, weaponry, and logistical support, the current Panlong army cannot even be compared to the Bekaja army, let alone the fact that the Bekaja side also has a large number of immortals and demons assisting them.

If only comparing data, Panlong would surely lose; but in He Lingchuan's view, the strongest is also the weakest.

The power of immortals and demons is an advantage for the Bekaja army, but it can also become its weakness.

Unlike the Panlong army, which trusts in itself, the main belief of this vast Bekaja army before us is basically "heavenly gods." As long as Panlong kills their objects of faith one by one, the will of the Bekaja people and the morale of the Bekaja army will naturally waver along with their faith in the gods.

Even the Bekaja soldiers, including Huaiyuan Gao, believe that the key to breaking the deadlock lies with the gods.

So, He Lingchuan and Panlong also believe that the key to breaking the deadlock in this battle likewise lies with the gods.

And the target He Lingchuan has chosen for himself is of higher difficulty:

Tongming Zhenjun!

This is also an old-timer among the Lingxu crowd, an ancient heavenly demon who made a name for himself in antiquity and has actively operated in the human world for the past three thousand years. Like the Lingxu Holy Venerable, he is among the earliest batch of heavenly demons who gathered incense in the human world, and he imitated immortals by changing his title to "Tongming Zhenjun" to better absorb faith.

According to the materials in He Lingchuan's hands, this is a deeply scheming individual who is extremely cunning in battle and always manages to hide himself.

Fortunately, Tongming Zhenjun's divine nature also has distinctive features, with multiple battlefields across various war zones repeatedly reporting battlefield conditions. The Training and Strategy Camp, Wendao Lun, and Xu Shichu still managed to find Tongming Zhenjun's whereabouts from the massively redundant information.

As He Lingchuan expected, due to insufficient numbers of true immortal bodies, he is only partially descended into a single immortal's skin.

Tongming Zhenjun's cultivation is formidable, and his rank among the proper gods of Lingxu is not poor either. Why then did the Lingxu Holy Venerable only assign him an immortal's skin and not a true immortal's body? He Lingchuan can also understand: this is because Tongming Zhenjun's renowned divine technique can be used without hindrance in an immortal's body, so it makes more sense to give the true immortal's body to other great heavenly demons.

His divine technique is "Domain Control."

Tongming Zhenjun can control the gravitational influence around him.

He Lingchuan does not know how powerful his full descent would be, but now he is only a descended avatar, so he can only control the gravitational domain within fifteen zhang around him.

But this is sufficient even on a small-scale battlefield.

Right now, Tongming Zhenjun, under the escort of the Bekaja army, is fiercely attacking the Ninth War Zone, which is the left wing position of Mingsha Forest, where the terrain is deeply furrowed and extremely difficult to traverse. The Bekaja army has finally managed to break through a gap, and Huaiyuan Gao has arranged for him to rush over to expand the gains.

Tongming Zhenjun's gravitational domain could easily press everyone nearby to the ground, not only making it impossible to stand, but even crushing bones and tendons to powder, achieving the effect of subduing the enemy without battle—let alone ordinary mortals, he has previously killed his own kind this way.

But under the influence of Panlong's primordial energy, when he uses this move on Panlong warriors, it inevitably suffers a significant reduction in effectiveness.

However, the slowing effect of the gravitational domain cannot be exempted; Panlong warriors entering the domain's range still feel as if a huge stone has suddenly been pressed onto their bodies, making even lifting a hand or foot extremely laborious, let alone fighting with full strength.

A drastic change in gravity inevitably requires the human body time to adapt.

But of course, the enemy will not give them this opportunity.

On the contrary, Bekaja soldiers will feel as light as swallows and extremely swift within the gravitational domain. The soldiers clustered around Tongming Zhenjun's avatar are those Huaiyuan Gao arranged long ago, and they have long since fully adapted to the changes in the gravitational domain.

Even the arrows shot at them will, under the domain's influence, become heavy and slow, and may even be pressed directly to the ground.

Thus, Bekaja soldiers thrive beside Tongming Zhenjun, continuously pushing the front line forward.

Moreover, as a great heavenly demon, Tongming Zhenjun possesses complex and variable divine abilities, and the gravitational domain, as a manifestation of his divine nature, is merely one of his most skilled techniques.

He has brought immense pressure to the Panlong army's defense on the flank of Mingsha Forest. If viewed from above, the attack zone led by Tongming Zhenjun is already much closer to Mingsha Forest's stockade than other Bekaja army units.

If one waits until the stockade also enters his domain range, whether this wall, no matter how sturdy, can withstand the test of tenfold or even hundredfold gravity?

Of course, many defensive formations are laid on the stockade, but none are specifically targeted against this obscure divine technique.

It is the strongest defensive measure of Mingsha Forest, and once it collapses, the consequences are unimaginable.

Tongming Zhenjun also feels a bit regretful. If the Goddess of Abundance were still here, when he attacked the city's base, she could use her spatial folding divine technique to send a Mountain-Sealing Stamp to smash Mingsha Forest's stockade—knowing that the Mountain-Sealing Stamp is originally as heavy as a small mountain peak, and under the influence of Tongming Zhenjun's gravitational domain, its weight would increase far beyond mere doubling?

Even with primordial energy and battle arrays holding it up, how many times the weight of the Mountain-Sealing Stamp could Mingsha Forest's stockade bear? Ten times? Twenty times? Or thirty times?

There must be a limit, just as Tongming Zhenjun's gravitational enhancement also has an upper limit.

That foolish Goddess of Abundance. Tongming Zhenjun couldn't help but silently curse her again.

These new gods recently promoted by the Lingxu Holy Venerable, although their divine techniques and natures have outstanding aspects, truly lack combat experience and cannot compare to these ancient old gods. Tongming Zhenjun originally opposed them taking the vanguard in the lower realm, but the Lingxu Holy Venerable would not listen, emphasizing battlefield overall functionality and priority.

Look, the Goddess of Abundance is a bloody example—she made a mistake on first contact, lost her life, and wasted a precious lower realm quota for nothing.

As they advance further, the pressure from the opposing Panlong army also increases. However, arrows and weapons shot at this unit are affected the moment they enter the gravitational domain. Even the lightest feather-arrow, once shot in, finds it difficult to maintain its original flight trajectory, as if struck by an invisible giant hand and slammed to the ground with a dull thud.

It does not sound like a light feather-arrow landing, but rather like a large lump of copper and iron falling to the ground.

The Yingqing God follows closely beside him, quickly reminding him: "Heavenly Venerable, we will reach the stockade after advancing another three hundred zhang."

This is Tongming Zhenjun's attendant deity, with a small lamp floating above his shoulder, emitting dim light, barely noticeable on this battlefield where divine powers clash chaotically and firelight scatters everywhere.

This group of theirs is closer to Mingsha Forest's stockade than other heavenly demons.

Huaiyuan Gao has given remote commands three or four times, repeatedly reminding Tongming Zhenjun that he has advanced deep into enemy territory alone and must be extra cautious. Tongming Zhenjun does not care, demanding the unit rush as quickly as possible to beneath Mingsha Forest's stockade.

As long as this hard wall is toppled, tonight's battle can end earlier. The Lingxu Holy Venerable has repeatedly instructed: do not let the night grow long and dreams many!