Chapter 2727

After the initial battle went poorly, the vast armies of the Celestial Dynasty retreated to their pre-established stable formations in the spacetime cavity, accelerating the gathering of enemy intelligence.

The cultivators of the Fifth Golden Great Era launched a fiercely offensive campaign, reaching the Celestial Dynasty's formations within decades to initiate attacks.

This space constantly trembled and fractured, yet despite being commanded by numerous Heaven-Human Unity Dao cultivators, the army revealed glimpses of the Dao within its grand formations—the Celestial Dynasty's Dao manifestation appearing as a dim yellow cosmic phantom, while the Reverse Heaven Principle cultivators' manifested as twelve Golden Immortal Sun phantoms rising within the formation, commanding the four directions and intermittently unleashing terrifying attacks of metal, wood, water, earth, space, and time that bombarded the Celestial Dynasty's formations, causing widespread turmoil.

Notably, the Fifth Golden Great Era also deployed vast numbers of cultivators, though the Reverse Heaven Principle cultivators among them were few—estimated at around a hundred billion.

A hundred billion represents the current limit of troop deployment in the spacetime cavity.

Within the Celestial Dynasty's military formations, a war council was convened.

Presiding over the meeting was Yun Suantianren of the Immortal Sect, the most outstanding of the sect's younger generation—though "young" is relative among beings whose lifespans routinely span hundreds of millions of years.

In the Celestial Dynasty, the true designation of the strongest Dao army cannot be confirmed, as no one has actually fought a decisive battle.

However, in military tactics and command, the Immortal Sect is universally acknowledged as first; other powerful Dao armies compensate for their tactical shortcomings through individual strength.

Furthermore, due to the special status of the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang's founding sect, in large-scale Celestial Dynasty battles, cultivators often serve as commanders, harmonizing the troops from all directions.

"Their regular cultivators are very weak."

"Morale is ordinary, lacking exalted spirit and vigor, devoid of the confidence and heroic bearing of cosmic sovereign Dao orthodoxy—instead, they show some timidity, and their equipment is poor; such troops we can defeat at a ratio of one to a hundred without issue."

Yun Suantianren gave a brief introduction.

During the war council, cultivators appeared one by one—representing various clans, with uneven proportions, their treasures, talismans, and techniques seeming proper, but in the eyes of Celestial Dynasty officers, they appeared as beggar's garb, since any equivalent Celestial Dynasty cultivator's equipment was worth dozens of times more.

"From these regular cultivators, the Fifth Golden Great Era's Daoist industrial development level appears inferior, at least not having permeated down to the lower servant-soldier cultivators."

A servant girl from Tushan, a Dao cultivator, remarked.

Know that this is not some regional skirmish or minor theater where token second-line forces would suffice—this is the first formal contact between the two Golden Eras, certain to produce profound consequences, yet the Fifth Golden Great Era still dispatched these regular cultivators despised by Celestial Dynasty cultivators.

Does this indicate that the Fifth Golden Great Era's Daoist industrial development level is indeed inferior?

Yes, it is.

Before the war, many Daoist sociologists and ancient emperors who had studied various Daoist civilizational organizational forms had speculated that the Fifth Golden Great Era's Reverse Heaven Principle path was unlikely to develop a large-scale Daoist industrial system, with the era's primary energy and material overly concentrated in the Celestial Sovereign alone.

Aside from the Celestial Sovereign, all beings—whether heavenly immortals, earthly immortals, human immortals, or any titled entities—were mere adornments, incapable of establishing a large-scale effective collaborative Daoist system like the Tai Shang Da Ri Celestial Dynasty.

Therefore, the Fifth Golden Great Era's Daoist industrial development level should be considered low.

The current extensive observations corroborate this from a side angle.

The only regret is that these cultivators deployed into the spacetime cavity, like the Celestial Dynasty cultivators, had their memories of the Supreme and above erased, backed up in their respective universes, making deep understanding of the opposing civilization's form difficult.

"But their Reverse Heaven Principle cultivators are very strong!"

"A hundred billion Reverse Heaven Principle cultivators, nearly everyone a cosmic pride-level existence—truly astonishing, with the proportion of cosmic pride far exceeding ours."

A Dharma cultivator exclaimed in astonishment.

Below the Supreme, such overwhelming individual combat power is utterly bizarre, completely unreasonable.

As discussions continued, gazes gradually turned toward the Tai Shang Da Ri Sword Cultivators.

In individual combat power, mobility, and battlelust, the Tai Shang Da Ri Sword Cultivators are the strongest in the Celestial Dynasty—these sword cultivators are likely to go mad.

Coincidentally, many Reverse Heaven Principle cultivators of the Fifth Golden Great Era also seem to favor single combat.

In the lives of these Reverse Heaven Principle cultivators, they likely did not spend time in military camps, but rather grew through relentless individual duels.

"Our hundred billion Tai Shang Da Ri Sword Cultivators are now advancing in scattered vanguard formation."

"The Tai Shang Da Ri Sword Cultivators will seek out isolated few enemies and slay them; although the Fifth Golden Great Era's Reverse Heaven Principle cultivators are nearly all cosmic pride-level, they are still no match for sword cultivators—this is certain. Please await and witness our sword glory."

Yang Tianren said lightly.

He is not the strongest sword cultivator of this endless starry era, merely one among them, more adept at commanding elite sword cultivators in a pig-rush decapitation tactic, while another dozen or so sword cultivators are pure single-combat powerhouses, capable of slaying Supremes across realms as routine, now having long since departed the main force to wander the starry void.

After Yang Tianren finished speaking, he likewise turned and left.

In the war council, Yun Suantianren and others' eyes flickered, without interference.

In the Celestial Dynasty military system, aside from when the Tai Shang Da Ri Sword Cultivators serve as supreme commanders, the Great Sun Sword Cultivators in the legions possess partial vanguard autonomy—a conclusion drawn from long years of warfare as the optimal method, because these Great Sun Sword Cultivators

Although named for guerrilla solo operations, their terrifying individual strength often allows them to directly shatter or even annihilate enemy forces; though few in number, their combat power exceeds that of frontal battlefields.

The Tai Shang Da Ri Sword Cultivators have already marched out!

The sword cultivators scattered like shooting stars across the four directions, or in small groups of three to five, numbering hundreds or thousands, but most are solitary wanderers in the starry void, seeking individual Fifth Golden Great Era logistical nodes, isolated armies, and single-handedly rushing in to slaughter utterly.

This swiftly reversed some situations, with vast numbers of Fifth Golden Great Era regular cultivators slain, causing turmoil in the rear.

The Fifth Golden Great Era's Reverse Heaven Principle cultivators took no offense, being highly familiar with such combat, likewise dispatching large numbers of their own to engage the Tai Shang Da Ri Sword Cultivators in single combat.

On the frontal battlefield, the Immortal Sect and numerous Dharma cultivators held firm, while the Fifth Golden Great Era cultivators bombarded, and the armies clashed.

In the rear battlefield, the Tai Shang Da Ri and Reverse Heaven Principle cultivators generally engaged in single combat, both sides producing massive casualties yet neither retreating a step.

The Fifth Golden Great Era's fierce offensive and defensive battle began, with vast numbers of cultivators dying at every moment, blood flowing like rivers.

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