Chapter 2512

One million years after the Mother Star War ended.

Layer upon layer of fleets unfolded in the Thunder Star Domain, obscuring the sky and blotting out the sun, exerting overwhelming pressure in all directions, as the Great Dao's essence spread between every warship, influencing all things in heaven and earth.

This is the Sovereign of the Boundless Starry Void flaunting his might!

The Boundless Starry Void, the Boundless World, the Boundless Star Sea—anywhere touched by Immortal Dao Civilization is the Immortal Sect's territory, except for the Thunder Star Domain; beyond what the Sovereign reaches in the starry void, there is no place not belonging to the Immortal Sect, and the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child has already been completely surrounded by the entire Boundless Starry Void.

After an interval of over two billion years, the Immortal Sect once again dominates the Boundless Starry Void!

As a power, the collective will of Immortal Dao Civilization, the Immortal Sect has always sought stability, steady and solid progress; since the Mother Star War, it has spent a full million years nurturing its essence and sharpening its edge, expanding its territory, nibbling away bit by bit, until it has reached this point, gradually cornering the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child.

Boom—

A tremendous roar that shook the Boundless Starry Void.

The Immortal Sect's extermination-law fleet, numbering in the trillions of warships, linked together as one, forming array after array, which in turn connected to three hundred and sixty-five surrounding sub-arrays to form a higher-level array—such layered connections caused the Great Dao's variables and financial fortune's operational frequency to reach an extreme complexity.

Ultimately, a terrifyingly immense, boundlessly vast Innate Fortune Great Dao enveloped this place.

Countless Immortal Sect cannons, with the Immortal Sect's issued spirit currency as their core, formed a financial spear piercing the universe, which instantly slammed into the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child's Innate Thunder Slaying Demon Immortal Array, built over countless years, blasting a gap in the entire grand array.

"I am the Innate Holy Spirit!"

"I am the Innate Sovereign!"

"A swarm of ants! Who dares to kill me? Who can kill me?"

In the destruction of the Thunder Tribulation Great Array, the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child, his body covered in Thunder Tribulation Great Dao patterns, roared as he burst forth, wielding an ancient thunder long spear, charging toward the countless Immortal Sect warships, raising his hand to unleash a hundred million thunderbolts, shaking the Immortal Sect's grand array, shattering wave after wave of Immortal Sect fleets, causing countless citizens to fall in battle, his ferocious might blazing.

Yet this number of Immortal Sect military deaths is not even a grain of sand in the vast sea!

This number of Immortal Sect citizen deaths is not even comparable to the endless reinforcements flowing from the rear—like striking a terrifying giant and making it shed a few flakes of skin.

"Hahaha!"

"Kill! Just a beast, dare to go mad!"

Countless citizens laughed heartily, they maneuvered their fleets, coordinating with formations to continuously bombard, continuously using the grand array to influence the spatial Dao, folding and compressing space, binding, stretching, and altering the distance between themselves and the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child, so that though he clearly stood on the battlefield, surrounded by trillions of Immortal Sect citizens, all he could see in every direction was the vast star sea, with not a single human figure in sight.

He was like trapped in an endless spatial labyrinth, roaring and howling, tearing apart billions of light-years of space, yet unable to destroy those mosquito-like Immortal Sect fleet swarms; instead, he was incessantly bombarded by volleys from the cannons, his skin split and flesh torn.

Now, a million years have passed, and the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child has gained some refinement, some scholarly air, differing somewhat from before.

In the Thunder Star Domain, Immortal Sect fleets occasionally spot shadows of universities, research institutions, and the like, with all myriad races and beings participating.

It is clearly evident that over these million years, the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child has been attempting to walk the path of acquired spirit, from nothing to something, seeking the Dao; the best object for his imitation and learning is undoubtedly this opponent, the Immortal Sect, as he has established many institutions and systems similar to those of the Immortal Sect, in an attempt to achieve a breakthrough in the Great Dao.

In the end, is it useful?

Trifling.

Almost no effect at all.

Speaking of innate talent, in this era, in this Boundless Starry Void, no living being can match the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child's innate talent—he is the first in a broken lineage.

Speaking of research, speaking of acquired cultivation, exploring the Immortal Dao—what is the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child?

He is nothing!

Completely having opened eight apertures, yet one remains blocked!

He has seen the myriad aspects of the Boundless Starry Void's dominant race, he has imitated and learned, he has copied nearly all their systems, but he lacks one thing: the civilizational foundation accumulated over countless eons by the dominant race of the Boundless Starry Void!

The True Phoenix Immortal Clan and the True Dragon Immortal Clan possess such a foundation;

The Weaver of Heaven's Daughter, the God of Fortune, the God of Wind, Clouds, Thunder, and Lightning, and the gods of ancient heavenly inheritance possess such a foundation;

The Golden Crow Immortal Clan possesses such a foundation, having once ruled the Boundless Starry Void multiple times in history, hailed as the Ten Eternal Suns of the Boundless Starry Void, never extinguished, a powerful challenger to the Phoenix Immortal Clan, once immensely glorious, and possibly even more glorious in the future.

And what does the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child have?

He has nothing!

His entire race is just himself; his civilizational foundation is so shallow it's laughable—he cannot gather even ten Immortal Scriptures, cannot find records of twenty Immortal Arts, and the transmission of Imperial-level military formations is completely absent, not even a trace!

Let alone numerous spells, techniques, and astronomical, geographical, and historical records—these seemingly ordinary yet foundational pillars of the Immortal Dao, extremely important things—his reserve foundation is zero.

Under these circumstances, Immortal Dao scientific research? Exploration and seeking the Dao?

Completely like the moon in a mirror, a flower in a dream!

Like eating in a dream.

After attempting for a million years, the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child's sole certainty is that he is unsuited to this path.

Perhaps he realized this problem from the beginning, and during his growth intentionally grafted onto an ancient civilization's foundation, like the Nine-Leaf Sword Emperor perhaps could change, offering a slim chance, but now everything is too late—youthful life always makes mistakes, some mistakes can be redeemed, some mistakes are irredeemable for myriad kalpas, and he is precisely such a case.

Boom!

Boom—boom—

The Thunder Star Domain's star sea churns uncontrollably; hundreds of millions of light-years of space shatter, a thunderous living being roars and howls, currently engaged in slaughter, every movement capable of destroying star rivers, terrifying beyond bound.

Yet this is not an invincible being proclaiming his might, nor an Innate Sovereign displaying his divinity.

Rather, it is a beast fallen into a hunter's trap, wailing and howling, desperately displaying his strength and ferocity, attempting to frighten off opponents in this way.

But in the eyes of the true hunter, this is nothing but laughable struggling.

All this howling is futile, instead accelerating the prey's bloodlust, driving him further toward death; the hunter is like weaving a net, exceedingly patient, exceedingly tolerant, not uttering mockery toward this beast, merely silently encircling it, with incomparable patience, the war's goal shifting from initial defeat to something else entirely.

Such combat has persisted for a full hundred thousand years, and this thunder beast's howling has gradually weakened.

Boom—

The Boundless Starry Void's Innate Fortune Great Dao suddenly blazed with radiant brilliance, descending upon the Immortal Sect's trillion-strong fleet, blasting forth a spear formed from countless spirit coins, its terrifying edge capable of destroying billions of stars, shattering layer upon layer of calamitous destruction thunder, and piercing into the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child's chest, straight to his core!

"I, the Innate Sovereign—"

The Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal Child's body suddenly stiffened, his entire aura plummeting cliff-like.