Chapter 261: Ba Xia Demon Lord

This was a global communication.

Its contents had long since spread across all four realms of Earth and Moon!

October 10, 3229.

The Ba Xia Demon Lord, stationed on Mercury, used unimaginable means to shatter the Moon’s barrier from millions of miles away!

The estimated time of “Heaven’s Tilt” has been moved up by half a year!

The “Solar System Planetary Accord” has truly become worthless paper!

What truly tightened Jiang Jian’s heart was this:

Ba Xia Demon Lord’s strike, using a special method, carried the might of Mercury.

Not only did it shatter the Moon’s barrier.

It even caused massive tremors in Earth’s star ring!

Guangling City, as the foundational coordinate for the star ring’s reconstruction,

suffered extreme spatial compression, resulting in horrific fractures!

The entire Anhezhou and Linjiang Prefecture were flooded with chaotic spatial currents.

Many people had no time to react and were directly swept in, dying without warning!

Linjiang Prefecture now

has become the most dangerous zone under star ring compression!

Although the surface realm quickly responded, relocating the seventeen states’ inhabitants of Linjiang Prefecture to neighboring prefectures to distance them from unstable space,

and the Earth Alliance also deployed Lingtai cultivators to temporarily stabilize the star ring’s quakes,

still, over a thousand people in Linjiang Prefecture died on the spot!

What Jiang Jian feared most was his younger sister, Jiang Zhao.

“Linjiang Prefecture: one billion lives.”

“Over a thousand dead.”

Jiang Jian’s expression grew slightly grim.

Since he began cultivation,

his will had been unshakable, focused solely on practice, rarely disturbed by external matters.

But Jiang Zhao—she was his own flesh and blood, his truest kin.

According to timing estimates,

at this very moment,

Jiang Zhao, a third-year student at Linjiang Academy, must be within Linjiang Prefecture.

At the moment of Heaven’s Tilt,

whether she was inside the academy or on an external learning mission, she could be swept into the void currents.

Jiang Jian steadied himself, swiped his finger, and turned to the next communication.

October 11, 3229: The Earth Alliance and Mars Federation officially formed a mutual defense alliance, establishing the Yu Xing Palace!

Each planet appointed three Lingtai cultivators to jointly serve as co-rulers of the Yu Xing Palace, coordinating and defending the star ring.

Confirmed by treaty between the two planets,

the Yu Xing Palace held extraordinary wartime authority.

It surpassed even the Earth Alliance and Mars Federation!

All Shen Gong cultivators from both planets were considered direct members of the Yu Xing Palace.

Their wartime duties were entirely assigned by the Yu Xing Palace—no disobedience permitted!

With the Moon barrier shattered,

Earth’s surface defense now relied solely on the planetary barrier.

But the planetary barrier and the star ring mutually reinforced each other.

At this moment,

affected by the Moon barrier’s collapse,

not only did the star ring tremble,

but a massive crack also opened in Earth’s planetary barrier!

The Yu Xing Palace mobilized fragments of the Moon barrier and vast resources to urgently repair the breach.

Yet the Moon beyond the barrier became the first and fiercest battleground!

Mercury, as a Saturn colony planet,

saw some of its native life forms dragged into battle as cannon fodder, launching suicidal assaults on the Moon!

This tactic

remained Saturn's probe.

More than three hundred years had passed since the last Solar System war.

Each planet had quietly advanced.

Saturn, though powerful, eyed the other Solar System planets with hunger.

Yet it still feared Earth.

Another reason:

Saturn wished to observe Neptune’s response alongside Jupiter.

If this time,

using colony planets as vanguards, Neptune still remained silent,

then it meant Neptune had sealed itself completely and would not interfere in Solar System affairs.

A Neptune native had once said plainly:

As descendants of the gods,

once they fell asleep,

they could slumber for tens of thousands of years, rarely awakening.

To this day,

Neptune has been sealed off for a hundred years.

Many believed the god-descendants on Neptune had likely fallen into slumber and would not awaken anytime soon.

Jiang Jian himself had read a top-secret file in the Facing-the-Wall Hall.

Saturn and Jupiter were so obsessed with expanding the star ring

because some of their life forms had cultivated to an unimaginable level.

As long as their planet’s star ring reached a certain size, it could continue nourishing them.

Over time,

life forms surpassing Lingtai might emerge on such planets.

Lingtai was already beyond comprehension.

What form a life beyond Lingtai might take—

no one in the Solar System knew.

The god-descendants of Neptune might know something.

But they remained utterly silent toward Solar System life, never revealing a word.

Even originally,

when forcing the Solar System planets to sign the “Solar System Planetary Accord,”

only one god-descendant from Neptune had appeared in person to act.

According to records,

though his power was invincible,

his life level had not surpassed Lingtai.

“Though Ba Xia Demon Lord struck from Mercury and caught Earth and Moon off guard,”

“Earth was already prepared for this scenario—it should have reacted by now.”

Jiang Jian had read through all the global communications.

He swiped his finger and shut off his spirit-beast identity device.

The current Earth-Moon situation had stabilized—for now.

Though native Mercury life, under Saturn’s coercion, launched constant assaults on the Moon,

these colonists were merely cannon fodder, their cultivation severely limited.

The Yu Xing Palace moved troops and resources methodically: repairing the planetary barrier while establishing defenses on the Moon.

Handling it was not difficult.

“First, retrieve the identity device and check on my sister.”

Jiang Jian made up his mind.

He rode Long Que toward Shengshan.

(End of Chapter)