Chapter 2729

The judgments of the various emperors in the forbidden zone were extremely accurate.

In just 150,000 years, the battlefield of the time-space cavity had undergone great changes; the cultivators of the Fifth Golden Great Age, who had always been on the offensive, gradually slowed their frenzied assault and began to retreat step by step.

Among the retreating army, many Heavenly Human cultivators showed unwilling expressions.

The Mist Forest Heavenly Human, who had defeated the Yang Heavenly Humans many times and was a top-tier prodigy of the Seventh Golden Great Age with a lifespan far exceeding ordinary Heavenly Humans, sat calmly at the center, commanding the ultra-large army of nearly trillions as it retreated step by step; one after another, massive divine peak treasures bearing cultivators formed the Myriad Dao Slaughter Immortal Array, retreating in an orderly manner with no sign of chaos.

Even though the time-space cavity meat-grinder battle had already lasted 350,000 years, with countless strong warriors dead and bones piled high, both armies had always maintained their strength at the trillions—the maximum force the time-space cavity could deploy—replenishing losses immediately, never decreasing.

Even the Defiant Heaven cultivators, far from decreasing in number, had actually increased.

From a hundred billion Defiant Heaven cultivators, their numbers had grown to three hundred billion; in the past, there had been several sudden reinforcements, aiming to crush in one fell swoop those cultivators who called themselves the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty, to completely occupy the time-space cavity and fulfill the fervent hopes of many Golden Immortals.

Yet all of this ultimately proved to be a failure.

That camp array was stubborn as a turtle shell; no matter how it was attacked, it could only be breached, never annihilated. Though the Immortal Dynasty cultivators' top strength was not strong, their numbers were too vast, and many mortal-root cultivators could not withstand them in the slightest, requiring

immortal-root cultivators to support.

Initially, it was almost entirely due to a hundred billion immortal-root cultivators that the trillion cultivators were driven back!

Such combat power could be said to be one against a hundred.

"Mist Forest Senior Sister, are we really retreating?"

"Perhaps if we attack once or twice more, we could completely break this great array?"

A direct disciple of the Bai Hu Autumn Killing Yang Golden Immortal lineage nearby spoke somewhat unwillingly.

Several people around also expressed similar hesitation.

At this moment, there were fourteen Golden Immortal direct disciples present who could discuss matters here, all extremely powerful top-tier Defiant Heaven prodigies, who had repeatedly defeated and even slain top-tier prodigies of the Seventh Golden Great Age.

"Attack once or twice more?"

The Mist Forest Heavenly Human's gaze was dark and silent.

"You Spring!"

"No more self-deception!"

"Such words have appeared many times before; each time we barely broke the enemy's great array, each time we were only one step away!

You idiot!"

A direct disciple of the Life Yang Golden Immortal lineage nearby shouted coldly: "You brute, don't you yet understand that the enemy's main array personnel are trying to lure us into attacking this array, constantly wearing down our flesh and blood, constantly wearing down our immortal-root cultivators, until we exhaust all our immortal-root cultivators!"

"Now, we are at our peak military strength, but if we continue, the number of immortal-root cultivators will only keep decreasing until completely exhausted!"

"The enemy's main array personnel, their Golden Immortal direct disciples are extremely skilled in military formations."

"Perhaps in that cosmic era of the enemy, it is an era where military formation slaughter is extremely frequent, and in this aspect, their development surpasses ours by far."

At this moment, this direct disciple of the Life Yang Golden Immortal lineage belatedly felt a chill in his heart.

Immortal-root cultivators are not irrecoverable, but their recovery process is extremely long, requiring at least hundreds of millions of years, with a recovery speed far lower than that of mortal-root cultivators, making it highly disadvantageous in a war of attrition.

"Those sword cultivators, their strength is increasing!"

"Especially that Golden Immortal direct disciple named Congyang!"

Mist Forest Heavenly Human said coldly: "In the past, he had no power to resist in my hands, could only flee like a dog, but now he can fight me with exchanges, and moreover—among those sword cultivator groups, another ten or more have emerged who can barely escape from our hands!"

Upon hearing this, many cultivators around felt a chill in their hearts.

Over the past hundreds of thousands of years, these sword cultivators have been the ones we dueled most often in single combat; they often died in batches, like ants falling before these Golden Immortal direct disciples, each of whom had slaughtered at least millions of sword cultivators, yet these sword cultivators are endless!

The more we slaughter, the more appear!

Moreover, not only has their overall strength not weakened, but it has grown stronger and stronger, as if there were an endless supply of troops.

Decades ago, two Golden Immortal direct disciples died at the hands of these sword cultivators, and not in a siege, but in individual combat, slain by sword cultivator formations!

Thus, now, like Mist Forest Heavenly Human and other Golden Immortal direct disciples who dare not act as before, recklessly going out alone to hunt and slaughter the Seventh Golden Great Age sword cultivators causing chaos everywhere, they remain stationed within the army's flanks.

But this has simultaneously led to serious consequences!

Namely, the army's supply lines have suffered severe impact; countless troops, armor,

military heavy equipment, elixirs, spirit stones, and so on, coming from the mother universe, have been intercepted again and again by these sword cultivators, seized or burned, and even transmissions via teleportation arrays have been forcibly blocked in space by these sword cultivators.

Now, the frontline army has gone years without receiving any logistical support.

Therefore, aside from the Bai Hu Autumn Killing Yang lineage, the other Golden Immortal direct disciples have already reached the decision to abandon the offensive and retreat to the rear,

sensing a strong danger.

Among the dense fleets and formations.

"Finally retreated————"

Yun Suan Heavenly Human and many cosmic-level prodigies gazed at the distant Myriad Dao Slaughter Immortal Array, slowly withdrawing like a star system, and showed faint smiles.

"This statement is not entirely accurate."

"They appear to be retreating, but in fact they have always been waiting for us to attack; this is to lure us away from fixed formations and engage them in open battle."

Several staff officers nearby corrected.

The Defiant Heaven cultivators are indeed strong, but in the eyes of many Immortal Dynasty cultivators, their military formation skills are also rather ordinary, not worthy of cosmic prodigy level, seeming somewhat amateurish, clearly not cultivators who have spent their lives in armies and collectives, with military command being merely a temporary appointment.

"Hahaha!"

"Open battle?"

"This is exactly what we want! Do these people really think we lack the ability to fight them in open battle?"

Congyang Heavenly Human said with a gloomy, sinister laugh.

After hundreds of thousands of years of slaughter, at least ten cosmic-level sword dao prodigies have died; even the death rate among top-tier prodigies is astonishing, with no exemptions, but this is irrelevant; in the midst of bloody and fiery carnage, new sword dao prodigies have successfully been born, stronger, and more knowledgeable about the methods of Defiant Heaven cultivators.

Now, the aura of the undefeated Congyang Heavenly Human is far more terrifying than before, his individual strength vastly surpassing that of many Immortal Dynasty cultivators present.

Regarding Congyang Heavenly Human's proposal to take the initiative and engage in open battle, many Immortal Dynasty prodigies did not object.

"Let us fully re-equip the Fifth Golden Great Age series of immortal arts, military formations, and military heavy equipment; best to completely annihilate the enemy's entire army in this open battle, and greatly weaken their cosmic mid-to-low level manpower and material war potential, no need to endure any longer."

"This battle, we shall surely win!"

Yun Suantianren said coldly.

The strongest means of the Celestial Dynasty is a super-large-scale immortal Dao research complex!

After fighting for so many years in the time-space cavity, they have long since developed a complete set of equipment and army formation tactics specifically targeting the enemy, but have not changed their equipment, only because the Celestial Dynasty judged that the enemy's war potential recovery speed is extremely slow, far inferior to their own, and that attrition is highly beneficial, so they have lured the enemy to keep investing.

Now that they want to retreat, then annihilate them all.

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