Chapter 838: Encountering the Eight Great Dao Sons Again

Jiang Ding flew out of Silver Sky Island, passed through trunk after trunk of Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong trees as massive as Shanfeng, and arrived at the super teleportation array.

"Jiang Ding!"

Teacher Gu Lin waved her hand.

Gathered around her, An Siyan, Jin Jin Lingfeng, Liu Xiong, and other Jin Dan cultivators formed a single group—one hundred and twenty-seven people in total, all of them peak Jin Dan cultivators. No one knew how they had decided the quota.

These Jin Dan cultivators centered themselves on Teacher Gu Lin. Even without manifesting warships, every movement of theirs gave rise to lines of array patterns, as natural as breathing.

Among the group of Jin Dan cultivators, faint auras at the Nascent Soul tier flickered into being—and they were certainly not weak ones at that.

The Immortal Gate's mastery of military formations was on full display among these people. They maintained their battle array almost by instinct; no matter when, where, or under what conditions, the formation always came first.

Although their individual strength was far inferior to the top-tier cultivators of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong, once their numbers swelled, they feared nothing. Add a few more, and crushing the enemy was only natural.

"Let's depart."

Jiang Ding gave a slight nod.

Standing within the super teleportation array, the light of the formation rose, spatial array patterns enveloped an area of several hundred kilometers, a rumble sounded, and the pinnacle spatial techniques of the realm were contained within.

After an unknown length of time, Jiang Ding opened his eyes.

Before him lay Dun De Shi Gao Jie, filling his entire field of vision. There were none of the things a normal world should have—no realm wall, no lightning layer, no gale layer, no cloud layer; no land, no sky, no ocean; and no sign of any living thing at all.

The entire world was a chaos of fragments floating like meteorites. From time to time, terrifying things—Lei Ting, flames, magma—appeared in various places entirely at random, radiating a dreadful aura that would make even Nascent Soul cultivators flinch.

It looked exactly like the moment when heaven and earth first opened, when the world was still a single chaos.

Without hesitation, the group entered this Dun De Shi Gao Jie.

His vision blurred. The entire heaven and earth was a single chaos—no sky, no great sun, no up or down or left or right—as if everything could shift at any moment. One careless moment and one would be utterly lost here.

"Beep beep…"

The moment Teacher Gu Lin and a few others entered, they took out an instrument as massive as Shanfeng, its surface covered with blinking signal lights of every color and instrument dials. Taking advantage of the protection of the Great Sun Sword Son, safety was assured. Over a hundred Jin Dan cultivators set to work at once, bustling about on it, adjusting the instrument, inputting codes from time to time, programming on the spot.

"What is this?"

Jiang Ding watched with curiosity.

"A Yin-Yang Creation Qi Search Instrument."

Teacher Gu Lin explained: "We don't know how the cultivators of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong search for Yin-Yang Creation Qi. This is the Immortal Gate's method of searching.

This instrument was specially commissioned by me through my father, Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, and Uncle Senior Wanji, built specifically for the Yin-Yang Void Realm. It took over three hundred years."

She was Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun's daughter—born to him late in life, at that.

"In internal Immortal Gate tests, it can detect Yin-Yang Creation Qi within a range of ten thousand li. Inside the Yin-Yang Void Realm, the range is unknown—we'll have to test it."

"If it doesn't work, I've also prepared a Number Two instrument, using an entirely different principle…"

Teacher Gu Lin explained in great detail. She had multiple plans, for which she had prepared for several hundred years, pre-supposing every possible situation.

"Beep beep! Beep beep beep…"

At that moment, the instrument suddenly let out an urgent sound.

"Vice Commander, at nine o'clock, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven kilometers out, something resembling Yin-Yang Creation Qi has been detected."

Teacher Ouyang Hui saluted and reported.

Whenever a group undertook an operation, unified command was necessary—otherwise, with neither head nor tail, it would be a disaster and nothing could be accomplished. So the people naturally formed a group and, drawing on past wars, established a hierarchy of order.

Moreover, this was no civilian group—it was a military operation registered with and approved by the Immortal Gate, complete with Void Refinement-tier information-shielding protection.

In a group like this, if anyone violated military law, being executed on the spot was normal—military law was enforced.

"Good news!"

"A flying start!"

Teacher Gu Lin was invigorated: "Let's go take a look. If it really is Yin-Yang Creation Qi, then based on the characteristics of the Yin-Yang Creation Qi here, we'll modify the instrument and further expand the search range and precision."

"Yes!"

The group summoned their warships. One hundred and twenty-seven spatial warships, along with Teacher Gu Lin's super warship and a large number of unmanned ships and drones, swiftly formed a massive battle array.

Steel upon steel, array patterns spread everywhere.

Their aura rapidly surged from mid-to-late Nascent Soul, reaching peak Nascent Soul and even exceeding it somewhat.

On closer inspection, one would find that every peak Jin Dan cultivator controlled at least one regiment of unmanned ships and drone swarms. One hundred and twenty-seven aerospace regiments, their dark metallic gleam flickering, their might pressing in all directions, their aura incomparably heavy.

"You were being modest before, brothers and sisters."

Jiang Ding watched, tongue-tied: "Paired with massive numbers of unmanned ships and drones, this completely surpasses the strength of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's inherited disciples. The Dao Sons don't look all that fearsome either."

He had thought before that their small numbers meant they were weak. Now it was clear he had completely failed to account for unmanned-ship technology.

"It's not like that."

"You don't understand."

Teacher Gu Lin shook her head: "Unmanned ships and drone swarms differ quite a lot from Immortal Gate cultivators. They may look not weak, but in reality they lack a military soul, so their actual strength has dropped significantly.

During battle-array transitions, their agility and power both decline a great deal, making it very easy for Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Sons to find openings."

"This is also why unmanned-ship technology has always remained merely an auxiliary, and why Immortal Gate legions are the fundamental force the Immortal Gate relies on to keep the realms in line."

The difference between Immortal Gate special group armies and titled group armies lay in whether they possessed a military soul.

"Is that so?"

Jiang Ding felt he still had much to learn about battle arrays.

Boom!

Rumble rumble…

At that moment, from the horizon came a series of tremendous crashes. The fragile embryonic realm wall of the chaotic world was smashed open, and eight enormous auras burst in from across the sky, like eight meteors descending upon the mortal world. Upon them, one could faintly make out immortal scenic wonders—palaces, pavilions, brooks, rivers.

Their auras were variously domineering and cruel, brimming with boundless vitality, dark and gloomy, or ethereal and inscrutable…

The Badaxian Sect had arrived!

Teacher Gu Lin and the peak Jin Dan cultivators felt every hair on their bodies stand on end. They instinctively sensed a terrifying crisis descending—one that could not be overcome even by burning essence-blood or paying with their lives—especially with the main army not at their side.

Whoosh!

Teacher Gu Lin, Teacher Ouyang Hui, An Siyan, and the others, who had been piloting their warships for several kilometers and were excitedly heading off to search for cultivators of Yin-Yang Creation Qi, instantly shrank back to Jiang Ding's side without the slightest trace of embarrassment.

"Help!"

"Jiang Ding, help!"

Many people shouted at the top of their lungs, not the least bit afraid.

So what if they're the Eight Great Dao Children?

Our Great Sun Sword Child is right here!

"Alright, hold on a moment."

Jiang Ding nodded.

Whoosh!

He merged man and sword into one, transforming into a brilliant streak of sword-light that flew off into the distance, vanishing beyond the horizon in the blink of an eye.

Protection was not his forte.

(End of chapter)

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