Chapter 1487: You No Longer Have the Right to Surrender

A ten-thousand-li golden sun giant sword swept grandly across the starry sky.

Then the Ancient God Star Ten Thousand Hells God-Imprisoning Grand Formation shattered, and eight Path-Unification Divine Monarchs could not dodge in time, dying in an instant!

What death-substitution spells, death-substitution puppets, what wondrous escape arts—all were delusions beneath this terrifying quasi-Heavenly Man sword light, annihilated by the pursuing sun laws; Path-Unification Divine Monarchs fell in swathes like roadside weeds.

This scene deeply shocked every Path-Unification Divine Monarch in the Ancient God Domain, making their divine souls tremble.

The times have changed!

A brand-new era has arrived.

Path-Unification cultivators are no longer lofty beings perched above the clouds, gazing down on billions of living beings, existing for ten-thousand years undying—they have already stepped into a killing game, dying as easily as frontline soldiers; all the precedents of past history can no longer be taken as the norm.

In the torrent of this brand-new era, everyone must adapt, everyone must change, or they will inevitably be eliminated.

Boom!

The fixed star high above once again blazed with radiance, and the world blazed bright for an instant.

Then, at the center of the fleeting billions of sun Heavenly Dao law nets and dozens of Heavenly Dao law nets, a blazing red sun was sliced forth, amplified layer upon layer by eighteen Six Paths Reincarnation Destruction halos, transforming into a ten-thousand-li starry-sky sun giant sword that crashed down.

Once again, an identical sword strike!

Identical in composition of spiritual power and matter, with absolutely no change.

Yet this ten-thousand-li sun giant sword emanated an even more terrifying aura; its essential structure showed many subtle adjustments—adjustments targeting the current Ancient God Star Ten Thousand Hells God-Imprisoning Grand Formation—making it sharper, more targeted at this grand formation hastily developed by the various powers of the Ancient God Domain.

Sun Aberration Law!

This law allows a sword cultivator's flying sword, upon contact with an enemy's magic power, divine soul, spells, formations, or data, to take the Indestructible Sword Qi and Sword World Sword Spirit as its foundation, rapidly shifting and evolving the sword move into one specialized against the enemy; the same magic power and force exerts a stronger effect against a specific target.

Compared to the previous strike, this sword's might surged by over thirty percent!

The ten-thousand-li golden sun giant sword cleaved down once more, striking the Ancient God Star Ten Thousand Hells God-Imprisoning Grand Formation; this grand formation had already lost all offensive capability, retaining only defense, defense, and more defense.

"Block it!"

Weaving-Heaven Spider Divine Monarch roared.

In that instant, the burning speed of his body and divine soul suddenly accelerated; his massive star-sized Weaving-Heaven Demonic Spider body instantly became hollow, leaving only skeleton and carapace, all the flesh and blood within turning to ash, transforming into vast power that poured into the Ancient God Star Ten Thousand Hells God-Imprisoning Grand Formation.

"Intercept it!"

"This old man is willing to defect…"

The surrounding Path-Unification Divine Monarchs trembled.

The cold breath of death had never been so clear as in this moment

?? Some Path-Unification Divine Monarchs' bottom lines had already wavered, sending messages to the East Extreme Demon Sect expressing willingness to cooperate.

But no matter what, they had to survive first!

Only by surviving could they discuss anything else!

"Kill!"

Faced with life and death, all the Path-Unification Divine Monarchs went mad.

All manner of potential-stimulating secret arts comparable to Heavenly Demon Self-Destruction Great Art were employed, transforming into terrifying strikes that poured entirely into the Ancient God Star Ten Thousand Hells God-Imprisoning Grand Formation.

Under the infusion of this vast power, the Ancient God Star Ten Thousand Hells God-Imprisoning Grand Formation unfolded yet another wondrous layer.

Countless Netherworld Ten Thousand Hells crystals aggregated, forming layer upon layer of dark world-space Secret Realms—thirty-six layers of heaven in total; this dark canopy became the legendary Nine Heavens, with surging Netherworld river waters in the layered worlds, blocking the path of the ten-thousand-li sun giant sword.

Boom!

Rumble!

Beneath the ten-thousand-li sun giant sword, the dark world Secret Realms collapsed and shattered, countless law nets bursting apart; surging cold Netherworld waters poured over the sun giant sword, instantly sending up white mist; the Tianhe was boiled dry, revealing the parched earth of the Netherworld Secret Realm worlds, and finally the earth too was utterly cleaved apart by the sun giant sword.

Crack!

Crack~

Beneath the blade of the ten-thousand-li sun giant sword, the thirty-six layers of Netherworld Secret Realm worlds collapsed and shattered one by one.

The defense formed by these Path-Unification Divine Monarchs with all their might could be called solid and indestructible, impervious to ten thousand calamities; a single Path-Unification cultivator attacking for ten thousand years could not break even a fraction of it, yet now it shattered so easily.

However, even so, as the Netherworld river waters poured over the sun blade, the scorching Grand Clarity Sword Qi on the sword kept turning blue, dimming, flaking off as fragments, causing the sun sword body to shrink step by step.

Ding!

Finally, after cleaving through thirty-five layers of Netherworld Secret Realm worlds, the sun sword—now reduced to several hundred meters in size—struck the wall of a Netherworld Secret Realm world and emitted a crisp sound, no longer breaking through in a single strike.

It was blocked!

It was finally blocked!

Weaving-Heaven Spider Divine Monarch and other peak Path-Unification cultivators fought with all their might, burning everything, and finally blocked this strike, not dying instantly beneath it.

Many Path-Unification Divine Monarchs nearly wept with joy.

"Your formation has changed?"

"Specific changes targeting yang-attribute spells and flying swords… though still clumsy, with many rough spots."

Jiang Ding within the fixed star said calmly.

These Path-Unification Divine Monarchs were indeed lacking neither wisdom, courage, nor talent—overlords of their realms who, in the razor-thin gap of a ten-thousandth of an instant, had actually pushed their joint-strike formation to great progress.

Between life and death there is indeed great terror.

This is the survival instinct of all living beings; the sword cultivator's Sword Dao did not arise from nothing—it was created from this great terror between life and death.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Far too late.

In the long years of past history, history had given them thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years.

They had countless chances to improve this joint-strike formation, to deduce this Ancient God Domain domain-wide joint-strike formation toward a peak far beyond its current state.

But these immortal-path advancements that should have happened were all ground away and wasted in internal strife, producing not a single result of immortal-path wisdom.

Now was the time to pay the price for past waste.

"The Dao of Immortality is like sailing against the current—advance, or fall behind."

"This sovereign must exhort himself…"

Jiang Ding let out a long sigh.

Boom!

Within the Stellar Grand Array, eighteen layers of Six Paths worlds revolved. The sun at the very core underwent intense nuclear fusion once more. Terrifying solar power surged, converging into one, and underwent even swifter aberrant evolution, forming a greatsword a thousand li in size, its blade covered in dark-gold solar runes.

This sword strike had grown stronger once again!

Moreover, it was a strike that had aberrantly evolved in targeted response to the changes already undergone by the Ancient Gods' Stellar Myriad Hells God-Trapping Grand Array!

This strike would certainly land, and would certainly kill!

Boom!

The thousand-li dark-gold solar-rune greatsword came crashing down, its might far surpassing all before it.

"Farewell, fellow Daoists…"

Jiang Ding stared coldly at the twenty-four remaining Dao-Merging Divine Monarchs of the Ancient Gods Alliance.

Some were crippled, some were burning their essence blood; their strength was nearly one in ten remaining. What did they have to withstand this strike?

Moreover, when it came to the iteration of immortal Dao techniques, sword strikes, and formations—even though the Ancient Gods Alliance had dozens of Dao-Merging Divine Monarchs, what did they have to compare with the collective will of the citizen fleet under the unified command of the Central Array Spirit Computer?

"This old man is willing to surrender!"

"Immortal Gate, please…"

"Hold!"

Many human Dao-Merging Divine Monarchs roared.

But all of this was utterly ignored.

Surrender requires strength—strength that forces the victorious side to pay a tremendous price to slay them, strength that gives the victors pause. Only then, weighing their own interests, are the victors compelled to compromise.

Yet now, these human Dao-Merging Divine Monarchs had not displayed strength sufficient to make the Immortal Gate compromise—

They no longer had the right to surrender!