Chapter 2132: Great Rout of the Dao Court Army

Boom!

Boom, boom…

Countless orbital Law-Destroying Warships roared their cannons, the Sword Cultivator Legion's sword Qi fell like rain, prying open the authority branches of the world's Great Dao rules, while the Law Cultivator Legion pushed forward head-on, smashing into the enemy like a heavy hammer.

Three different Dao Soldier Legions merged into one at this moment, their great army formation blotting out the sky, mutually amplifying each other, their rule authorities resonating together.

At this moment, the legion-combat achievements developed over hundreds of thousands of years by the Supreme Solar Immortal Dao system were displayed to the fullest—cultivators using immortal Dao wisdom to pry open the power of Heaven and Earth!

Even though the enemies before them were several times their number—several times the Star Cockroach Clan's Sovereigns and the various Monster Race Sovereigns who had come to reinforce—under the assault of this composite-system army they gradually collapsed and were reduced to ashes.

The Black Sky Great Thousand World grand formation slowly crumbled.

Countless cockroaches perished; these cockroach warriors, who had survived countless bloody wars, died one after another, along with the descendants they had amassed over countless years. One by one, Star Cockroach Sovereigns and Monster Race Sovereigns were surrounded and slain by sword qi, warship cannons, and Law Cultivator formations—unable to withstand such overwhelming might.

Several years later, the battle to reclaim the Black Sky Great Thousand World drew to a close.

Apart from one or two Star Cockroach Sovereigns who fled heavily wounded into the dead-still starry sky, all the Star Cockroaches were either dead or captured, and the Black Sky Great Thousand World was once again recovered.

The Human Race army, however, paid a price of over three billion casualties.

Almost completely annihilating a Star Cockroach army of over a hundred billion at the cost of three billion casualties—this race had always been known for its numbers, yet now even numbers could not play a decisive role on the battlefield.

"Three billion casualties…"

"Without realizing it, even for me, a mere commander of a Great Thousand World cluster garrison force, it's become ordinary, hardly worth minding anymore…"

Extinction Day Sovereign and a group of Immortal Sect cultivators strolled through the smoke-filled battlefield, sighing softly.

He recalled many years ago, in the Nine Spirit Domain, many years ago, when he was only a Nascent Soul cultivator, following his comrades as they charged and shouted again and again, together surrounding and slaying the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's Great Sun Sword Heir, with comrades around him falling in droves yet still charging with absolute resolve, to the death.

The intensity of the battlefield back then could not compare to now.

But thinking back now, those battles were the most vivid, the brightest memories of his life, and to this day still feel like the most important part of his existence.

No matter how ancient a cultivator becomes, they will be trapped for life by the years of their youth.

Many Immortal Sect cultivators were cleaning up the battlefield.

Finishing off the wounded, sealing the captives, then sending them to the rear research institutes—the Star Cockroach Clan was currently very dangerous to the front lines, and the race's innate talent for attacking Immortal Sects needed to be resolved as quickly as possible.

For current research, the more Star Cockroach research material the better.

"These egg cases also need to be dealt with."

Extinction Day Sovereign lightly stamped the ground, and the mountains and earth before him split open, exposing the deep soil beneath, among which clusters of pale, glowing cockroach egg cases were revealed.

"It will take at least several hundred years, maybe even a thousand, for the Black Sky Great Thousand World to recover its production."

"The Star Cockroach Clan really does have its tricks—an extraordinarily brilliant race of Immortal Dao biological science, who knows how many mutations it took to produce them…"

Extinction Day Sovereign murmured to himself.

Such leisure time was not long; after the fleet had only rested for a few years, orders from the Great Dream Sword Realm war system came again.

This time, however, it was no longer to reinforce some place.

It was to retreat.

Completely abandon this stretch of Great Thousand World clusters and withdraw to Great Thousand Worlds with more sturdy star-domain grand formations.

"Retreat?"

"Has a great rout occurred on the distant battlefield?"

Extinction Day Sovereign's face changed.

The military order was ice-cold, offering him no explanation.

Only after returning to the rear did Extinction Day Sovereign learn that his guess was indeed reality.

On the distant frontal battlefield, the Supreme Solar Dao Court army had been besieged by an enemy force at least ten times stronger with ten times the numbers; after a prolonged battle their formations were broken and each fled. Several dozen Supreme Solar Dao Court Sovereigns died in battle, hundreds of billions of Human Race cultivators perished, their flesh and blood becoming food for the enemy.

After this defeat, several dozen Great Thousand World clusters fell; incalculable low-level cultivators and mortals died in an extinction-level catastrophe, and even the word "tragedy" could not describe a ten-thousandth of it.

……

Supreme Solar Heavenly Palace.

Many Sovereigns gathered together, with the Fusang Holy Maiden presiding over the military meeting.

On the star chart before them, dozens of star domains were covered in red dots—the locations of the Ten Thousand Races army. In some star domains, the red dots had already begun to spread, forming patches of territory.

"Chief of Staff,"

"What is the reason for our defeat?"

The Fusang Holy Maiden's words were somewhat icy.

The Supreme Solar Sword Immortal's victory or defeat, the Supreme Solar Sword Immortal's life or death, was equal to her own life or death. Once defeated at the hands of the True Dragon Son, she and all the Human Race Sovereigns would be buried along with her!

Under such pressure, a hint of killing intent began to arise in her heart.

Even the Sword Immortal's own sect, under such circumstances, must be held accountable; no one could remain detached and aloof in such a situation.

"…This is my responsibility."

Yuan was silent for a while, then said.

This time, in the Sirius Star Domain battle, it was precisely because of his poor deployment that the Human Race army in that region fell into encirclement by an enemy force at least ten times its size, leading to defeat.

That Gouchen Upper Palace Heavenly King of the True Dragon Qi Fortune Immortal Dynasty truly possessed terrifying war art—he was an opponent no less than, perhaps even surpassing, Yuan himself.

Yuan had never in the past encountered an opponent whose mastery of army formations exceeded his own.

This might be related to the fact that Human Race Immortal Sects mostly followed an Immortal Dao system that exalted individual greatness; army-formation cultivators found it hard to receive the highest level of training and had always existed merely as adjuncts to the sect's powerful individuals.

And now, Yuan had encountered such a terrifying existence who specialized in army formations.

This Gouchen Upper Palace Heavenly King of the True Dragon Qi Fortune Immortal Dynasty was precisely such a heaven-defying heroic talent of army formations—an unrivaled prodigy of army warfare, a top-tier existence of the endless starry sky.

A single mistake by Yuan was seized upon with precision by him, resulting in a brilliant great victory for the True Dragon Qi Fortune Immortal Dynasty, and the loss of more than half of the Sirius Star Domain.

This defeat might serve as a trigger, causing the collapse of battle situations across even more star domains.

"Chief of Staff!"

"This Palace is not asking you about culpability, but asking you—what is the reason for our defeat?"

The voice of the Holy Maiden of Fusang grew even colder.

The Sovereigns present all lowered their heads.

Everyone felt the fury of this Empress; within it there was surely a portion of the True Immortal Maiden's will — the True Immortal Maiden was dissatisfied with the battle situation.

"The reasons are as follows,"

Yuan Shen took a deep breath and said: "First, the Gouchen Upper Palace Heavenly King — that true dragon Yazi's army formation strategy, which wields a Heavenly King–rank Immortal Dynasty official title, cannot be underestimated; it is no weaker than mine, or even surpasses me."

"Second, the enemy's forces are simply too many!"

"Their total troop strength is four times ours, or even more! Four times — or more — the number of our Sovereigns. You must understand that these great armies are not some rabble, but the regular forces of a True Dragon Destiny Immortal Dynasty!"

"Even if we rely on the terrain advantage of the star domain and our defensive formations to hold our ground, it is still far too difficult!"

(End of this chapter)