Chapter 1241: Ten-Thousand-Mile Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon

"Yuan, why the hurry?"

"The divine soul is of grave importance; even if it must be severed, you ought to leave this old man some days to prepare…"

The great power of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace said with a forced smile.

"Ha ha."

Yuan was also laughing.

"Fire."

His smile abruptly vanished.

For an instant, the starry cosmos spanning hundreds of thousands of miles froze.

Boundless starlight and spiritual energy, like a flood, surged in through the Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong, then were drawn into the Ten-Thousand-Mile Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon through the omnipresent Primomagnetic Heavenly Dao Law-Net, where they instantly converged into something terrifying enough to make even a Dao-Merging Divine Lord shudder.

Boom!

Between heaven and earth, light blazed resplendent; the cosmos burned white as a star exploding.

In that instant, the entire starry cosmos trembled; the laws of heaven and earth fell into chaos; every cultivator below Dao-Merging had their divine hearts shaken; great powers such as the Tianji Immortal Palace turned deathly pale, able only to guard their inner selves, keeping their divine souls firmly pressed against the Heavenly Dao to maintain the ability to trigger a Dao-Merging heavenly tribulation.

Beyond that, they could do nothing.

Of the Jiudaxian Sect, seven of the Qidaxian Sect have temporarily lost the ability to dominate the trends of the realm, able only to drift with the current, reduced to the weak, no longer the stirring forces of former days.

Dimly, the great powers of the Qiweixian Sect could only see a beam of destruction wrapped in the Primomagnetic Heavenly Dao Law-Net flash past, shatter the laws of heaven and earth, and vanish.

Boom!

Another thunderous roar; the light of destruction illuminated the world.

When the light faded, a white-haired old man stood raging in the river of stars, a Brother Xuanwu Golden Body blocking before him, having shielded him from that beam of destruction.

The Brother Xuanwu Golden Body had paid a price as well.

Upon the resplendent golden tortoise shell, a deep pit of azure glass appeared, as if melted; the net of immortal laws upon it was destroyed, unable to block, and fine black fissures spread in all directions, only to be checked by the surrounding immortal-law Heavenly Dao law-net.

The Heavenly Dao within the cosmic starstream sent wave after wave of power, becoming the Brother Xuanwu's support, and then dispersed the incoming orbital destruction cannon bombardment for him, diffusing at least fifty percent or more of its might.

Only thus was he not obliterated in a single strike!

"Such an attack…"

The great power of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace drew a deep breath.

If it were Horndark Emperor, facing the Ten-Thousand-Mile Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon head-on, he would be reduced to ash in a single strike, his mortal body utterly ground to dust, no longer possessing any ability to interfere with the mortal world.

As for himself, it might be even more wretched.

Because he had not yet fully branded his divine soul into the Heavenly Dao, and did not yet possess the ability of immortality!

And this was only the external wound.

Within the divine soul, the curse brand formed by the Heavenly Dao covenant had clearly already been suppressed,

but now, under the influence of external force, it began to stir again, seeming to spread into the divine soul; even Dao-Merging divine sense and magic power could not suppress it, because it was targeted precisely at a Dao-Merging divine soul.

After advancing to Dao-Merging, he had already gained the ability to wear away the curse.

However, it required time!

And now, there was simply no time—not even time to stabilize his cultivation, to fully brand the divine soul into the Heavenly Dao, to fully master the power of Dao-Merging; everything was so rushed.

"However! You are nothing but a swarm of ants!"

"So what if it is rushed?"

The great power of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace sneered.

He rose to his feet, his body manifesting a Dharma-form as vast as heaven and earth, becoming a hundred-thousand-zhang giant; every muscle was knotted and clearly defined, as if forged from divine metal of heaven and earth; the Heavenly Dao of the entire starry sky encircled him, and billions of immortal-law nets transformed into a star chart rotating unceasingly above his head.

"Kill!"

Divine Lord Gucong strode through the heavens.

His hundred-thousand-zhang divine body stood between heaven and earth; with one hand he lifted a massive Brother Xuanwu statue and hurled it ferociously at those billions of warships that swarmed like pesky mosquitoes.

The immortal laws of the entire starry sky formed a net, their power merged into one, all falling upon the massive Brother Xuanwu statue.

Hundreds of thousands of kilometers of starry sky were now covered by immortal laws, all frozen solid, unable to move.

Within that domain, even a Void Refinement cultivator's magic power would be shackled, able only to await the arrival of death.

"Fire."

"Fire."

"Fire…"

Faced with such a powerful enemy—a fearsome foe even among Dao-Merging Divine Lords, a powerhouse inherited from the upper realm's Near-Immortal-level factions—Yuan remained utterly calm, as he had been from beginning to end.

Just as, many years ago, the Immortal Sect had stepped into the Nine Spirit Domain's Void Refinement battlefield at the Soul Transformation stage, fearless because of the many comrades at his side, united as one.

Boom!

The Ten-Thousand-Mile Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon thundered into operation; endless starlight and the flood of spiritual energy from the spirit veins converged, refined beneath the Primomagnetic Heavenly Dao Law-Net into light of destruction, which, following the nodes within the curse, smashed down.

This was the Immortal Sect's warship cannon cluster.

Within this Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon lay all the Immortal Sect's pinnacle immortal-path wisdom and achievements.

If the warship cannon cluster could not shatter the opponent's defenses head-on, then the entire battle's core would be broken, and victory would be out of the question.

Did the great power of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace possess the ability to completely shatter the Immortal Sect's warship cannon cluster?

All Immortal Sect cultivators watched with cold eyes.

Boom!

The first Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon shell crashed down.

The great power of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace transformed his body into a hundred-thousand-zhang divine spirit, wielding the massive Brother Xuanwu statue to smash down ferociously; billions of immortal-law Heavenly Dao nets encircled him, making him seem like the Pangu Giant who split open heaven—the center of the cosmos, a

primordial divine spirit.

Yet, when that destruction cannon descended, this Pangu Giant who split heaven was struck as by lightning, retreating violently several thousand miles, the spiritual light of the massive Brother Xuanwu statue in his hand shattering and dimming.

Boom!

Rumble!

The second Destruction Cannon, the third Destruction Cannon descended!

The ten-thousand-zhang golden light deity retreated explosively, again and again retreating explosively, until finally spitting out a large mouthful of fresh blood; the immortal rules contained within the blood suppressed and collapsed dozens of kilometers of void, melting out large holes that could not heal, and the aura on his body suddenly dropped by a large margin.

The great cultivator of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace, even after advancing to Dao Merging, was still far from a match for the Immortal Gate Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon in frontal assault!

"Hahaha!"

"Nothing more than this!"

Senior Wanji True Venerable laughed wildly.

The surrounding Immortal Gate Void Refinement True Venerables and Soul Transformation cultivators likewise felt a weight lift in their hearts; the anticipated objective had been genuinely accomplished.

At the same time, a chill ran through everyone's hearts.

Having only just advanced to Dao Merging, his strength had not yet reached its peak, yet the great cultivator of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace had already been able to withstand the bombardment of multiple Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannons head-on; if given time to settle and consolidate, what then?

If multiple Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Merging cultivators appeared, what then?

The Immortal Gate would perish!

Therefore, the Central Array Spirit Computer must advance to Dao Merging!

At this moment, not a single Immortal Gate cultivator harbored any doubt about the importance of this objective; one by one, their gazes turned blood-red, becoming frenzied, treating this battle as a life-and-death struggle.

"Cannot break through head-on!"

"Abandon."

The great cultivator of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace's killing intent was icy, freezing the star river.

In past history, the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect had always been renowned for strong offense and weak defense; their broadside cannon salvos were extremely terrifying, difficult to withstand head-on, and even the combined forces of the Badaxian Sect did not dare to casually block them.

And the method they employed back then…

"Disperse!"

The great cultivator of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace growled lowly.

The ten-thousand-zhang divine body instantly collapsed into ten thousand streaks of golden light, scattering bit by bit, vanishing without a trace.

The ten-thousand-zhang divine body state was the state in which he could exert his strongest power; this state possessed the strongest strength, the strongest defense, the strongest magic power recovery, and the ability to manipulate the Heavenly Dao Law Web.

However, facts proved that the power brought by this state was insufficient to directly destroy the enemy's fleet, and would instead plunge himself into danger.

At this moment, concealment, mobility, and assassination became especially important.

In the instant the great cultivator of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace's ten-thousand-zhang divine body collapsed, the immortal-rule Heavenly Dao Law Web between heaven and earth suddenly brightened, yet no main body could be seen; killing intent filled every direction, omnipresent, all-pervading.

Only a sense of some storm-like dangerous attack about to emerge!

"Lock

ing… locking…"

"Warning, lock is blurred!"

"Battlefield latency exists! Curse positioning has been affected, unable to precisely locate!"

The Central Array Spirit Computer issued frantic alerts.

It could detect the traces of the great cultivator of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace; invisibility did not exist, but latency did, insufficient precision — this was because the Dao Merging-tier locking spell had just been created, Dao Merging-tier data was insufficient, and it was not yet perfected.

Newly born things are not perfect enough!

This is an event with high probability of occurring.

In history, similar situations had appeared many times.

The Immortal Gate's method of response was to gamble with lives.

Relying on continuous broadside cannon salvos, gambling on luck, trading life for life, thereby clearly locking onto the enemy in battle and creating opportunities to blast them down.

Every time numerous Immortal Gate cultivators fell, it was on battlefields like this.

There was no way around it.

Those who rise later must always go through such a process; there is no inherently perfect inheritance that one can follow step by step — every step must be pioneered by oneself, accepting the bitter fruits of newly born things being imperfect.

In the present era, this situation had undergone some changes.

"Beep beep!"

"Seventh-tier combat assistance system activating, locking…"

Clang!

Within the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Taibai Youming Curse-Kill Grand Formation's Sun Star formation node, Jiang Ding drew his sword, causing the Taiqing Flying Sword to transform into a sun and rise into the starry sky; the surrounding endless magnetic-rule Heavenly Dao Law Web runes blossomed, and at this moment suddenly tilted toward the Taiqing Flying Sword — the seventh-tier Dao Merging grand formation poured massive computational power here, forming a star-river-tier detection formation.

Within the Nine Spirit Domain, who was most capable of detecting the great cultivators and Dao Sons of the Badaxian Sect, possessing extremely profound research and exploration in this area?

Without a doubt, it was the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, the Great Sun Flying Sword!

This ability had even terrifyingly formed into intuition.

When Jiang Ding was at Foundation Establishment, he could already rely on instinct to detect Dao Sons of the Badaxian Sect within the same world — akin to cause and effect, instinct, a sudden premonition, utterly unreasonable.

This was the intense karma formed by the entanglement between the Great Sun Sword Pavilion and the Badaxian Sect over hundreds of thousands of years, impossible to escape.

The function of the Sun Star formation node was precisely this!

Maximizing the sensing and detection ability of the Great Sun Flying Sword toward the Badaxian Sect's lineage of powerful cultivators, thereby providing precise positioning for the Immortal Gate's Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannons, ensuring the Immortal Gate's broadside cannon salvos would not miss or be deceived.

Under the computational power blessing of the seventh-tier Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Taibai Youming Curse-Kill Grand Formation, the result quickly emerged.

"Coordinates…"

A scorching light flashed and vanished in Jiang Ding's eyes as he gave the result.

Boom!

Yuan and the others immediately trusted it.

The Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon once again

Roaring, it gathered momentum for a long time, then bloomed within the net of laws of the Yuan Magnet Heavenly Dao, reflected into the dim void, reflected into the gaze of a single mote of dust-sized Brother Brother Xuanwu.

Clearly, among the hundreds of thousands of starry skies there were at least a million similar dust-sized Brother Xuanwus, their auras, karmic ties, and fluctuations of magic power and qi-blood completely identical, yet the banyan-tree orbital annihilation cannon locked onto this single mote of dust and blasted down!