Chapter 1436: The Annihilation of Path-Unification

"If you lot want to die, then come!"

Killing intent surfaced in the eyes of Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord.

He lowered his head; the heavy, star-like solitary horn atop his head drooped, aimed at every enemy.

Moo...

The roar that shook the universe and star rivers came rolling in. Within the entire realm passage, a seventh-grade superior-grade grand formation rose up, layer upon layer of rule-law nets spreading in all directions, countless rule runes flickering between life and death.

Amid these formation patterns, there even appeared one after another Star-Light Rhinoceros, treading upon starlight, treating the cosmic void as waves, rising and falling.

They were clad in heavy armor of starlight runes, each gripping weapons. Between the military formations, baleful aura ran rampant, endless savage and fierce qi spreading in all directions, illusory shadows of mountains of corpses and seas of blood surfacing one after another. Every Star-Light Rhinoceros cultivator was a battle-hardened, iron-blooded veteran.

The Star-Light Rhinoceros Dao Soldiers!

This was a Path-Unification Dao Soldier force in the Ancient God Domain that could not be overlooked. It had long been active on the battlefield, dealing with the slaughter and strife of the Yao God Sect, the Jiudaxian Sect of the Ancient God Domain, and the internal conflicts of the Ten Thousand Races Alliance, establishing the Star-Light Rhinoceros Dao Soldiers' clan's position as a realm-level chess player, rather than serving as oxen and horses for other races.

Boom!

Boom-boom-boom!

Amid the war-drum-like summoning of bloodlines, the bloodlines of all Star-Light Rhinoceros cultivators began to boil. One thick solitary horn after another drooped, taut as the strings of a formation-pattern bow. World-shattering power was brewing within, emanating a powerful, intimidating aura, aimed at every enemy.

"Kill!"

Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord's solitary horn blazed with starlight.

Boundless starlight and star-gravity rules swirled around him. The power of countless races' Dao Soldiers and the realm passage's grand formation augmented him, multiplying his strength several times over. Like a star deity, he roared and took the initiative to launch a charge against the several-billion-strong fleet.

He took the initiative to attack the enemy!

For the Star-Light Rhinoceros clan, the best form of defense was to charge—charge, and charge again!

To shatter, to smash the enemy's bodies with endless charges, turning them into pulped flesh and blood and fragments of divine soul—achieving the optimal defense.

"The Star-Light Rhinoceros clan truly is fierce and valiant..."

A trace of surprise flickered in Yuan's eyes.

Then, he returned to his ancient-well-without-ripples calm, and said coldly: "Unfortunately, you are obstinately stubborn, insisting on committing the great sin of massacring the human race."

Hum!

Under Yuan's will, the several-billion-strong fleet of the Immortal Gate's Central Army Group bared its fangs at this moment.

The formation patterns of several billion warships and warplanes spread in all directions, shrouding an area of several hundred thousand kilometers. Layer upon layer of fine, dense primordial-magnetic rule Heavenly Dao law nets manifested between heaven and earth, obscuring everything.

Boom!

In an instant, several billion ship cannons fired in unison!

In that instant, the cosmic starry sky churned without cease. Countless brilliant lights flashed. Countless primordial-magnetic rays converged along the primordial-magnetic rule Heavenly Dao law nets, forming three hundred and sixty terrifying primordial-magnetic rule rune stars. The three hundred and sixty primordial-magnetic rule

stars then cast down beam after beam of light, which finally fused into a primordial-magnetic destructive thunderbolt beam several hundred kilometers wide.

Whoosh!

This beam—utterly condensed, utterly compressed, fusing the power of several billion Immortal Gate cultivators and warships—bloomed forth. Bearing an aura that made every Path-Unification Divine Lord's hair stand on end, it flashed and vanished along the primordial-magnetic rule Heavenly Dao law nets that existed everywhere in the universe.

In that instant, boundless cold descended, enveloping Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord.

"This, this is..."

"Impossible!"

Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord instantly realized that he had made a grave mistake.

A colossal mistake that would bring about the annihilation of both himself and the Star-Light Rhinoceros clan!

He should have—at the very instant he saw this terrifying fleet—abandoned the grand formation, abandoned the Dao Soldiers, abandoned everything, burned all his essence blood and divine soul origin to flee, rather than staying in place.

However, now it was already too late to think of all this.

"This Divine Lord will not die!"

"How could this Divine Lord possibly die here..."

Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord's eyes turned blood-red, utterly mad.

Under the terrifying pressure that made his divine soul involuntarily tremble, he instantly burned his essence blood, burned his divine soul, desperately urged the clan Dao Soldiers to burn everything, and even recklessly stimulated the realm passage grand formation, erupting with power far exceeding his peak.

"Kill!"

"Roar..."

Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord bellowed.

A vast, desolate response came from primordial time.

Burning everything, Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord summoned the phantom of his primordial bloodline ancestor—a primordial Star-Light Rhinoceros as massive as a star. It merged with him as one; the phantom took on substance, truly becoming a colossal living being like a star. Its four hooves savagely trampled the void, shattering and distorting ten thousand laws.

He charged forward in berserk fury, unstoppable!

Boom!

At this moment, the utterly condensed, utterly compressed destructive primordial-magnetic thunderbolt light formed by several billion ship cannons of the Immortal Gate's Central Army Group descended, landing on the solitary horn of this primordial Star-Light Rhinoceros, and vanished into it in an instant.

Crackle-zip...

Thunderbolts flickered, electric light splashed in all directions.

The star-giant rhinoceros formed by Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord burning everything and summoning his primordial bloodline ancestor instantly went rigid.

He did not move at all.

He no longer possessed any trace of life, any trace of aura. The overwhelmingly powerful physical inertia capable of shattering stars vanished without a trace in an instant.

This stretch of starry sky battlefield fell silent for a time.

Several seconds later.

Bang!

The flesh and blood of the primordial star-giant rhinoceros that Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord had transformed into exploded with a sound, collapsing into a cloud of drifting ash. Only a massive skeleton remained, along with the starlight solitary horn—preserved like a crown jewel—which was towed into the logistics

reserve military supply warehouse by the Immortal Gate army's tractor beam.

Mad Rhinoceros Divine Lord, dead!

Boom!

At the instant of his death, the great defensive array established by the Myriad Races Alliance at immense cost within the Ancient God Domain of the Tian Yuan Domain's inter-realm passage instantly collapsed. Of the hundreds of millions of Starlight Tianxi war soldiers, three-quarters of the cultivators were backlashed by the military formation; like their Ancestor, they instantly turned to dust, their souls and spirits annihilated together.

"Flee!"

"We have lost! The Ancestor he..."

The remaining Starlight Tianxi cultivators were all peerless experts within the realm, capable of suppressing dozens or even ten scattered cultivators and slave-race peers single-handedly; all were elites. Yet now their morale collapsed. Burning everything they had, they fled madly in all directions, exhibiting chaotic Brownian motion as they escaped into the dark starry void of the universe on all sides.

The Central Group Army Fleet of the Immortal Gate paid them no heed, flying forward further to prevent the collapse of the Myriad Races Alliance's inter-realm passage defensive array. They exerted their utmost strength to recover usable heavenly materials and earthly treasures, while stabilizing the inter-realm passage to ensure this critical road connecting to the Mother Star remained unbroken.

"The battle is over."

"The objective of this battle has been achieved."

The Central Array Spirit Computer announced the result of this battle.

Cultivators flew out from the Immortal Gate fleet—those at the Void Refinement, Soul Transformation, and Nascent Soul realms included. Each carried massive quantities of array components, busily working at the inter-realm passage, surveying terrain, heavenly and earthly spiritual qi, and nodes of heavenly and earthly rules, preparing to quickly deploy a new defensive array far surpassing the Myriad Races Alliance's past defenses.

At the same time, numerous military orders were issued.

"Order: Great Sun Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun's Ninth Front Army."

Authorized by the Immortal Gate Military Committee, a new order was issued: "Your unit departs for campaign immediately. Henceforth, you shall garrison this location until new orders are issued."

"Before your unit departs the Tian Yuan Domain, you must first subdue the Badaxian Sect war soldiers. Officers of the middle tier and above must immediately enter the Immortal Gate's supervised intensive training class to begin indefinite-term study."

"Any who resist or object shall be executed on the spot."

"Yes!"

Jiang Ding took the military document and saluted.