Chapter 786: Within the Star-Settling Boundary Formation

Amidst the thunder of naval cannons and billions of electromagnetic phantom lines, Jiang Ding was somewhat reluctant.

Under the relentless bombardment of the super-battleship Great Sun, the battle formation of the seven Dao Children lay in tatters; every Dao Child had accumulating injuries, and even counting their trump cards, they could be worn down within at most ten years.

At that time, the true opportunity to kill would finally appear.

However, looking around, the military formation of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace was breaking through the boundary from afar, desperately manipulating the heavy weapons of their formation to accelerate and complete the encirclement.

Once they succeeded, the Immortal Gate fleet would face certain death, and sixty Air-Space Group Armies would be utterly annihilated here.

"I am not as good as Chong Chong Guang Zi..."

Jiang Ding took a deep breath.

Chong Chong Guang Zi, fighting alone against the eight Great Dao Children plus the Immortal Gate's Dao Children—that was nine Dao Children in total—still managed to gain a decisive upper hand, and in his final moments, burned everything to achieve mutual destruction with the nine Dao Children.

His final lingering soul died at the hands of Soul Transformation cultivators from the Immortal Sects and the Immortal Gate, being ground into ashes.

One had to admit that the Great Sun Sword Pavilion of those years was an undisputed dominant-level power.

Merely a single flying sword, needing nothing else, could slaughter the entire world.

Undoubtedly, this was the effect of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's complete inheritance; the exploration of Immortal Dao knowledge stood on a higher level, a difference in civilization tiers.

"Retreat."

Jiang Ding sighed and issued the order.

"Yes!"

Teacher Ouyang Hui and other deputy commanders of the Air-Space Front Armies breathed a sigh of relief, arranging their troops to fight while retreating and withdraw backward.

"Kill!"

"Kill quickly!"

Instantly, the morale of the nine million cultivator army of the Badaxian Sect surged; although their magic power was nearly depleted, they still mustered their remaining strength, their eyes burning with fanaticism as they chased the Immortal Gate fleet, biting down and refusing to let go.

The Immortal Sects had offered a huge reward to annihilate the Dongji Demon Gate.

If they could establish merit in this battle, advancing from Foundation Establishment to Jin Dan, or from Jin Dan to Nascent Soul, all of this would be smooth sailing; there would be no more insurmountable mountains, just step over them.

Now, seeing piles of spirit stones and heavenly treasures, with the opportunity of the Dao about to run away on its own legs before their eyes, the disciples of the Immortal Sects' eyes turned red; without needing anyone's command, they burned their vital blood to chase after it, regardless of the consequences.

Regarding all this, the Immortal Gate's main battle fleet remained calm, fighting while retreating, withdrawing with composure.

The naval cannons roared continuously, forming columns of destruction that crushed any Immortal Sect cultivators who slightly protruded from their formation, isolated and without support; countless died, and palace pavilions and giant trees shattered.

In an instant, this actually caused casualties far exceeding the previous stalemate, with tens of thousands of Immortal Sect cultivators vanishing into ash.

Many Immortal Sect cultivators felt fear in their hearts and stopped their steps.

At the same time, there were places the main battle fleet could not cover; the citizen fleet mobilized by the Immortal Gate, chaotic and panicked during their retreat, was pursued and slaughtered by the Immortal Sect cultivators from behind. Many warships were shattered by the power of the military formations, and air-space fighters had their wings broken, falling to the earth mixed with blood.

"Hahaha..."

"The head of the demonic thieves is ours!"

From a falling warship and air-space fighter, a member of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect with a tiger pattern on his forehead laughed loudly: "This immense merit of the heavens shall be claimed by me, Li Dengtian!"

His voice shook dozens of kilometers, drawing countless envious and longing gazes.

He was a core disciple.

Jiang Ding watched coldly, doing nothing.

He used the naval cannons of the super-battleship Great Sun to roar continuously, suppressing the Dao Children of the Qidaxian Sect so they could not obstruct the retreat of the Immortal Gate fleet.

Occasionally, when he had spare strength, he fired a shot that landed in the direction of the Immortal Gate fleet's retreat, where the combined army of the Immortal Sects had already begun to form an encirclement.

Boom!

In the earth-shattering explosion, countless scorching electromagnetic sword qi scattered in all directions; controlled by the ship spirit Yunri, every sword qi had precise navigation, each shooting toward a different direction, smashing the shields and obstacles of the Immortal Sect military formation.

The sword qi landed on the heads of every Immortal Sect cultivator, piercing them through.

With a single shot, the great formation of Immortal Sect cultivators, equivalent to one Air-Space Group Army of the Immortal Gate, was shattered, and the cultivators inside were almost entirely killed or wounded!

The retreat path of the Immortal Gate fleet was completely unobstructed!

The Immortal Gate fleet fought while retreating, constantly pulling back, occasionally unleashing a hundred million cannons in a volley to push back the pursuing army of the Immortal Sects and break their pursuit rhythm.

Soon, the fleet completely broke through the encirclement of the Immortal Sect cultivators, shaking off the enemy before the encirclement could close, flying toward the distance, and quickly disappearing from the sight of all Immortal Sect cultivators.

The gap between the military formation of the Immortal Sect cultivators and that of the Immortal Gate was not just a gap in combat power, but a gap in mobility.

Many inherited disciples of the Immortal Sects serving as formation generals glanced at the seven Dao Children with their peripheral vision; seeing that they had no intention of desperately rushing forward to obstruct the Dongji Demon Gate's military formation, they also turned their gaze away, constantly gathering the army of Immortal Sect cultivators breaking through the boundary from the Gao Feng layer to form one military formation after another.

Without the obstruction and interference of the Immortal Gate, the path for the Immortal Sect cultivators to break through the boundary was extremely fast, and their numbers surged continuously.

After a short time, the military formations were like clouds, and the cultivators were like rain!

Merely in the direction of the Linghuo Realm, the number of the Immortal Sect cultivator army had already reached a staggering nine million; the weakest cultivators were all at the Foundation Establishment stage, and all were long-trained, being the regular armies of the Immortal Sects, skilled in military formations with orderly attacks and defenses; any single formation could easily annihilate a Nascent Soul sect.

And there were hundreds of such formations here!

Filling the entire sky, beneath a green divine tree at the center of the ever-growing military formations, points of Taiyi Taiyi Qingmu spiritual light scattered in all directions; the seven Dao Children sat cross-legged, their wounds healing, their auras gradually returning to their peak, without spending too much time.

"This generation of the Great Sun Sword Child is not much weaker than the previous generation."

"We cannot allow him to grow any further,"

Tian Tian Xuanzi opened his eyes and said in a heavy voice: "We must crush and kill him as soon as possible; otherwise, in the future, he may become a great calamity, just like the Dongji Demon Gate, becoming a great disaster on our Immortal Dao path, and we will never have peace again."

"Indeed."

Tianji Dao Child nodded.

"Let us attack; we have an army ten times larger, the power of hundreds of Minor Thousand Worlds; what is there to fear from a mere Xing Chen Ding Gao Jie formation?"

One by one, the Dao Children rose, flying into the cultivator armies of their respective Immortal Sects; with a single command, the nine million cultivator army rode giant trees, five-colored mountain peaks, bronze pills, shadowy black clouds, and other heavy weapons of the formation, killing toward the distance in a sky-covering tide.

The combined army of the Immortal Sects was dense, covering every inch of the sky; wherever they passed, a vast shadow would fall upon the earth, remaining for a long time without disappearing.

All living things on the earth thought night had fallen; under the terrifying pressure of the military formation, they trembled, prostrated themselves on the ground, and dared not move a fraction.

The terrifying momentum of the Immortal Sect military formation soared straight up to the nine heavens and clouds.

The army flew for several days.

In the distance,

thirty-six Star Boundary Heaven Pillars shot up into the sky. Within the pillars, a million warplanes circled and soared, faintly harmonizing with the surrounding grand star formation, draping a thin veil of starlight over every warship and every warplane.

The Eastern Extreme Demon Sect's Boundary-Setting Grand Formation had arrived!

(End of this chapter)