[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ascending-to-divinity":3,"chapter-ascending-to-divinity-ascending-to-divinity-chapter-261":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Ascending to Divinity",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2280811,4461,"Chapter 261: Ba Xia Demon Lord","ascending-to-divinity-chapter-261",261,"\u003Cp>This was a global communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its contents had long since spread across all four realms of Earth and Moon!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>October 10, 3229.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ba Xia Demon Lord, stationed on Mercury, used unimaginable means to shatter the Moon’s barrier from millions of miles away!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The estimated time of “Heaven’s Tilt” has been moved up by half a year!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The “Solar System Planetary Accord” has truly become worthless paper!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What truly tightened Jiang Jian’s heart was this:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ba Xia Demon Lord’s strike, using a special method, carried the might of Mercury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only did it shatter the Moon’s barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It even caused massive tremors in Earth’s star ring!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guangling City, as the foundational coordinate for the star ring’s reconstruction,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>suffered extreme spatial compression, resulting in horrific fractures!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire Anhezhou and Linjiang Prefecture were flooded with chaotic spatial currents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people had no time to react and were directly swept in, dying without warning!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Linjiang Prefecture now\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>has become the most dangerous zone under star ring compression!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the surface realm quickly responded, relocating the seventeen states’ inhabitants of Linjiang Prefecture to neighboring prefectures to distance them from unstable space,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the Earth Alliance also deployed Lingtai cultivators to temporarily stabilize the star ring’s quakes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>still, over a thousand people in Linjiang Prefecture died on the spot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Jiang Jian feared most was his younger sister, Jiang Zhao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Linjiang Prefecture: one billion lives.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Over a thousand dead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Jian’s expression grew slightly grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since he began cultivation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his will had been unshakable, focused solely on practice, rarely disturbed by external matters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Jiang Zhao—she was his own flesh and blood, his truest kin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to timing estimates,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at this very moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Zhao, a third-year student at Linjiang Academy, must be within Linjiang Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment of Heaven’s Tilt,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>whether she was inside the academy or on an external learning mission, she could be swept into the void currents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Jian steadied himself, swiped his finger, and turned to the next communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>October 11, 3229: The Earth Alliance and Mars Federation officially formed a mutual defense alliance, establishing the Yu Xing Palace!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each planet appointed three Lingtai cultivators to jointly serve as co-rulers of the Yu Xing Palace, coordinating and defending the star ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Confirmed by treaty between the two planets,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Yu Xing Palace held extraordinary wartime authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It surpassed even the Earth Alliance and Mars Federation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All Shen Gong cultivators from both planets were considered direct members of the Yu Xing Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their wartime duties were entirely assigned by the Yu Xing Palace—no disobedience permitted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Moon barrier shattered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth’s surface defense now relied solely on the planetary barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the planetary barrier and the star ring mutually reinforced each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>affected by the Moon barrier’s collapse,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not only did the star ring tremble,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but a massive crack also opened in Earth’s planetary barrier!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yu Xing Palace mobilized fragments of the Moon barrier and vast resources to urgently repair the breach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the Moon beyond the barrier became the first and fiercest battleground!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mercury, as a Saturn colony planet,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>saw some of its native life forms dragged into battle as cannon fodder, launching suicidal assaults on the Moon!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This tactic\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>remained Saturn's probe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than three hundred years had passed since the last Solar System war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each planet had quietly advanced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saturn, though powerful, eyed the other Solar System planets with hunger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it still feared Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another reason:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saturn wished to observe Neptune’s response alongside Jupiter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>using colony planets as vanguards, Neptune still remained silent,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then it meant Neptune had sealed itself completely and would not interfere in Solar System affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Neptune native had once said plainly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As descendants of the gods,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>once they fell asleep,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they could slumber for tens of thousands of years, rarely awakening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To this day,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neptune has been sealed off for a hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many believed the god-descendants on Neptune had likely fallen into slumber and would not awaken anytime soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Jian himself had read a top-secret file in the Facing-the-Wall Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saturn and Jupiter were so obsessed with expanding the star ring\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>because some of their life forms had cultivated to an unimaginable level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as their planet’s star ring reached a certain size, it could continue nourishing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>life forms surpassing Lingtai might emerge on such planets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lingtai was already beyond comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What form a life beyond Lingtai might take—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no one in the Solar System knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The god-descendants of Neptune might know something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they remained utterly silent toward Solar System life, never revealing a word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even originally,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when forcing the Solar System planets to sign the “Solar System Planetary Accord,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>only one god-descendant from Neptune had appeared in person to act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to records,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>though his power was invincible,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his life level had not surpassed Lingtai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Though Ba Xia Demon Lord struck from Mercury and caught Earth and Moon off guard,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Earth was already prepared for this scenario—it should have reacted by now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Jian had read through all the global communications.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swiped his finger and shut off his spirit-beast identity device.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current Earth-Moon situation had stabilized—for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though native Mercury life, under Saturn’s coercion, launched constant assaults on the Moon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>these colonists were merely cannon fodder, their cultivation severely limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yu Xing Palace moved troops and resources methodically: repairing the planetary barrier while establishing defenses on the Moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Handling it was not difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“First, retrieve the identity device and check on my sister.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Jian made up his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rode Long Que toward Shengshan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",936,"2026-06-20T01:21:35.424Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 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