Chapter 2730: The Price of Independence in the Immortal Dao Zone!

In the temporal void, the defiant-heaven cultivators were retreating slowly.

And as expected, the cultivators of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty indeed walked out of the Eternal Consolidation Array as they had thought—one side withdrawing, the other pursuing, both maintaining formation, even the vast arrays spanning the star domains made no mistakes, and there was no talk of fear or chaos.

The immortal sect fleet and numerous Dharma cultivator troops pursued, while the Supreme Great Sun sword cultivators harassed nearby, delayed their speed, and laid various traps along the retreat route of the Fifth Golden Great Era's great army, causing numerous casualties.

Until the two great armies retreated one after another into the center of the temporal void, far from either side's arrays.

The great army of the Fifth Golden Great Era suddenly halted, a chilling killing intent spreading everywhere.

"Hahaha!"

"Do you really think our retreat means we are weak?"

The Mist Forest Celestial and a host of Golden Immortal lineage disciples laughed coldly, their smiles utterly cruel.

"Kill!"

"Kill kill kill!"

"Charge forward and kill!"

Around them, a vast expanse of defiant-heaven cultivators' brutal killing intent had nowhere to vent.

Though the enemy's strength was inferior to theirs, they had hidden within the arrays, causing them massive casualties; over time, this accumulated brutal killing intent awaited release.

The immortal array of the Fifth Golden Great Era suddenly reversed!

One head collided with the pursuing Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty's Supreme Great Sun Slaughter Demon Sword Array, the Myriad Dao Slaughter Immortal Great Array and the Supreme Great Sun Slaughter Demon Sword Array—these two strongest military formations of the Golden Great Eras—clashed head-on for the first time, amidst booming sounds shattering vast stretches of space and star rivers, annihilating them, where even spatial rules vanished.

In an instant, extreme casualties appeared on both sides.

At the moment the battle results emerged, numerous Golden Immortal lineage disciples' pupils contracted.

At the instant of collision, the Supreme Great Sun Slaughter Demon Sword Array did not scatter as it had in the past, then barely withstand the impact with heavy casualties; instead, it stood firm like a reef by the sea, unmoving, allowing vast waves of troops to crash against it without suffering the slightest damage.

By contrast, it was the numerous defiant-heaven cultivators who suffered massive casualties!

"This is impossible!"

Numerous Twelve Golden Immortals Dao Tong cultivators exclaimed in loss.

In the past, although battles were often stalemated, it had always been the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty cultivators who suffered heavy casualties; often it took five or six of their cultivators to kill one Golden Immortal Dao Tong cultivator, and they could easily slaughter vast numbers of mortal-root cultivators—this had always been the case, and Golden Immortal Dao Tong cultivators had always maintained a sense of superiority.

But this time, it was the Golden Immortal Dao Tong cultivators who suffered massive casualties!

Boom!

Boom boom boom...

The two star-domain arrays meshed like gears, bursting forth vast amounts of collision sparks, with cultivators dying constantly every moment.

But at this moment, the exchange ratio reversed, becoming ten to one in favor of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty: one of their cultivators died, while ten died on the opposing side!

This immense disparity caused numerous Golden Immortal Dao Tong lineage cultivators to feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

"How could this be?"

"In the past, it was clearly not like this..."

The Mist Forest Celestial and others were thrown into great turmoil in their hearts.

They focused their gaze and realized that although the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty's military formation appeared the same as before, its essence had already undergone a transformation—from magical artifacts, formations, immortal arts, to sword intent and law intent—everything had been completely overturned, enabling them to easily break through the Golden Immortal Dao Tong military formation's nodes; nothing was the same anymore.

Such changes had occurred in the past between both sides.

Every few thousand years, whether in the Fifth or Seventh Golden Great Era, both sides would make one or two improvements, evolving in tandem—one side upgrading, the other responding in kind, parrying thrusts, already long established as past convention.

But this time was completely different!

The Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty suddenly appeared with a leap-like surge!

"Kill!"

"Hahaha... do you really think I, your father, am afraid of you?"

Countless Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty cultivators laughed loudly.

The immortal sect fleet's super-long-range artillery bombarded, disrupting the foothold of the Myriad Dao Slaughter Immortal Great Array; the Dharma cultivator troops pressed forward, while the Supreme Great Sun sword cultivator troops, like cavalry, charged at superluminal speed, slashing across, seeking loopholes in the Slaughter Immortal Great Array, constantly infiltrating, cutting and tearing the military formation.

The offensive of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty suddenly strengthened severalfold!

"Merely weak and timid rabble,"

"We can backhandedly suppress and slaughter them!"

The Mist Forest Celestial and other Golden Immortal Dao Tong lineage disciples likewise went somewhat mad.

This battle truly is of utmost importance; if we lose, what then of the Golden Immortal Dao Tong lineage? They will surely have body and spirit destroyed, never to transcend rebirth, with no retreat.

These heaven's pride of the Fifth Golden Great Era, universe-level, went mad, likewise leading the great army in a counter-charge.

This stretch of starry sky was instantly shrouded in countless blood and cries, as the finest young generation of the two Golden Great Eras fought here with blood and blade, advancing without retreat.

This battle continued for a very long time.

Both sides pursued, counter-charged, fighting on with military formations as their flesh and bone, their immortal Dao wisdom and combat will intertwining here.

Finally, when everything ended at last, this starry sky grew calm.

Amidst the corpses covering the ground, Yang Tianren, Yun Suan Tianren, and others coldly said: "Now it seems, the Fifth Golden Great Era is nothing more than this."

Beneath their feet, Mist Forest Tianren and numerous other Golden Immortal Dao Tong lineage disciples lay fallen, surrounded by vast expanses of Golden Immortal Dao Tong cultivators utterly exterminated, defeated and scattered, the entire Fifth Golden Great Era's great army completely annihilated, only hundreds of millions of cultivators fleeing, most of them still mortal-root cultivators.

While the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty still had over five billion cultivators remaining.

At the cost of losing over half their forces, they annihilated trillions of Fifth Golden Great Era cultivators.

The results of this battle were swiftly reported to the Heavenly Pivot.

"Little Dao friends, you did well."

"They must be richly rewarded."

Jiang Ding finished reading the battle report and laughed heartily.

"Exactly, exactly!"

The surrounding forbidden zone ancient emperors were all in high spirits.

The first formal war between the Seventh Golden Great Age and the Fifth Golden Great Age ended with the victory of the Tai Shang Da Ri Xian Chao, which was of great significance.

This means that the heights of the two sides' Xian Dao civilizations have some differences.

Drawing the marrow of heaven and earth, reversing the principles of heaven and earth—this path is indeed powerful, constituting an independent multiplier zone, but hematopoiesis is too difficult, making recovery hard.

And is this path of defying heaven truly invincibly powerful?

Through this war, many forbidden zone ancient emperors discovered that it is not!

Defying the principles of heaven and earth has a terrifying negative effect: it caused the desertification of the entire Wu Jin Kong Kong, greatly reducing heavenly and earthly resource output, drastically lowering the population, making heaven and earth extremely barren—this can be seen even from cosmic-level pride of heaven like the Mist Forest Celestial Beings.

They are indeed strong, possessing an independent multiplier zone of Xian Dao, and can actually press down on the top cultivators of the Tai Shang Da Ri Xian Chao.

But the Mist Forest Celestial Beings and other cosmic-level pride of heaven are very poor!

Yes, extremely poor!

In the eyes of the Tai Shang Da Ri Xian Chao's pride of heaven, they are truly extremely poor—their used magical treasure materials, armor and clothing, elixirs, talismans, etc., are of low quality, which the Tai Shang Da Ri Xian Chao's pride of heaven looks down upon; if comparing external wealth, the assets of the Yang Tianren are at least dozens of times those of the Mist Forest Celestial Beings.

A difference of dozens of times in assets!

Just how exaggerated!

As the cosmic-level pride of heaven of the Fifth Golden Great Age, the Mist Forest Celestial Beings are the direct lineage of Golden Immortals, the most outstanding younger generation—yet in the eyes of the Xian Chao's pride of heaven, they are still this poor, which can illustrate some things.

The Xian Dao productivity of the Fifth Golden Great Age is too low, and there are too few talents!

Because of poverty, many Xian Dao experiments cannot be conducted many times, limiting the development and research of cultivation methods;

Because of poverty, during cultivation and growth, they cannot use good elixirs, good blessed lands, or good magical treasures, nor can they receive guidance from more outstanding talents... and so on, these accumulated differences have caused the foundation of the top pride of heaven of the Fifth Golden Great Age to be inferior to that of the top pride of heaven of the Tai Shang Da Ri Xian Chao!

Therefore, even though the Fifth Golden Great Age's pride of heaven possesses an independent multiplier zone, because their original foundational numbers cannot match those of the Xian Chao cultivators, the final results differ little, and in the end, they were overwhelmed and crushed by the numerous Xian Chao cultivators, resulting in total annihilation.