Chapter 434: Heavenly Court Expedition

"Impossible! This is impossible!"

"Why does this already‑obsolete thing possess such overwhelming power!"

The fleet's commander roared madly; they didn't understand why the opponent's primitive bows and spears could destroy their technological crystal that was countless generations ahead.

It was a thousand‑year‑old technological crystal, yet it was destroyed so easily.

"Got you!" A voice like a phantom swept across the entire ship.

In the next instant, countless illusory figures rampaged out from within the ship.

"Warning: Ship under invasion!"

"Warning: Ship energy dropping rapidly, currently 71%… 53%… 29%!"

"Warning: Ship energy about to be exhausted!"

"Boom!"

Just before the ship's energy ran out, a thrown spear pierced the distant space and struck the vessel where the commander was.

"Boom—boom—boom!"

The warship's exploding flames flickered continuously.

Every second, countless warship wreckage fell into the sea of blood!

The battle raged on, time passing uncounted.

Day and night are indistinguishable within the Divine Kingdom.

The once‑ubiquitous, dense fleets that spanned the universe are now utterly scattered and unrecognizable.

"That's enough!"

Mu Yi clasped his hands together, reaching the deity; the strength of the Six Paths, each path capable of annihilating a divine saint's avatar.

Correspondingly, he could also manifest five divine saint avatars, each bearing a portion of the Celestial Dao's divinity.

Like those divine saint avatars, death brings heavy loss.

The incense‑fire saint avatar, though its power is limited by heaven, earth, and incense, suffers far lighter loss upon death.

"It's over!"

Xun Fei extended his hand and clenched his fist at the ship still playing hide‑and‑seek with the mortal army.

Space and time froze at that moment.

In the next instant, the space surrounding all ships began to warp.

"Boom—boom—boom!"

The warship's exploding flames lit up in unison.

All enemies were utterly annihilated, falling into the sea of blood to become nourishment for the Divine Kingdom.

"This is the Divine Kingdom!"

Mu Yi found limitless utility; within this Divine Kingdom he could effortlessly achieve the same feats as the outside world, easily mastering space and manipulating reality.

When Mu Yi withdrew the Divine Kingdom, he noticed a data stream crossing cosmic space, looping toward an unknown direction.

"【Explorer First Fleet】; We have encountered the enemy, engaged in battle..."

"【……】; Headquarters received, please report the relevant data after the battle ends..."

"【Explorer First Fleet】; Message received, data uploading..."

"【Explorer First Fleet】; Current area signal lost, unable to continue transmitting data, storing data..."

"【……】; Headquarters calling Explorer First Fleet, Headquarters calling Explorer First Fleet..."

"【Explorer First Fleet】; The fleet has been completely annihilated, data returning..."

Mu Yi's divine thought touched the data stream; with Zongwang's assistance he easily decoded the messages and attached a strand of his own divine thought to the stream.

Jiuzhou tradition: to cut the grass, one must uproot the root.

Since the feud is sealed, I'll just kill your entire family.

I originally intended to use Zongwang's power to bounty‑hunt Plane coordinates, but for some reason the opponent seemed already prepared, leaving no identifiable information.

As for those fleet souls, being too weak and already within the reincarnation Divine Kingdom, they were instantly consumed by the cycle and all reborn.

Mu Yi managed to retain the last batch of destroyed souls.

The problem is, those crew members have no knowledge of any Plane coordinates.

Everything is stored in the machine; Mu Yi felt a headache—he couldn't extract it.

In the end, Mu Yi simply couldn't pull any useful info from the souls and could only casually send them back to reincarnation.

He waited for good news from his own strand of will, but judging by the data stream's speed, he might have to wait a year or two.

But he will keep waiting.

Can a ten‑generation feud still be avenged? Even a hundred generations could.

The primary world, because of him, has stepped onto the boundless Plane stage of the Multiverse, and test‑version Zongwang Players will gradually make the primary world known to other Planes.

Under Jiuzhou's conscious protection, overly powerful foes won't appear, yet greedy, covetous eyes remain plentiful.

When they set their sights on this yet‑ungrown material realm, letting them feel pain early and broadcasting the primary world's reputation can avert many unnecessary troubles.

It will also cause the primary world's Plane to incur as little of the higher cost as possible.

Guiding the primary world's humanity's destiny and future is too grand and heavy, not easily exemplified or guided.

Therefore Mu Yi must secure ample time for Plane consciousness to develop better and to better integrate the entire world's human destiny and future.

For this purpose, Mu Yi, unprecedentedly, lingered on the primary world's material Plane for a while.

On one hand to solidify his cultivation, on the other to give those ill‑intented guys a deterrent.

Facts have proven his choice wise.

During his stay, countless forces and deities covertly extended their tendrils into the material realm.

Some deities even plan to directly seize the native myths and occupy the magpie's nest, stealing the faith followers of the main world plane.

Not only the evil faction's forces and deities, even the good faction's deities are not honest.

Mu Yi crushed several of them, and the emissaries who intended to preach, possessing divine light power, sneaked over.

Regarding these extending tentacles, Mu Yi's attitude was very firm.

Without showing any mercy, he directly cut off all the tentacles.

Not only outside Jiuzhou, but even inside Jiuzhou there are many troubles; the Daoist deities and Buddhist arhats also want to enter this world.

Of course, they were mercilessly blocked by Mu Yi.

His decisive, even cold attitude successfully led many to give up; although some remained unwilling, as long as Mu Yi remained for a day, they could not possibly preach their way in.

Under the restriction of the plane's will, no one could defeat Mu Yi in home-field combat.

And those great supernatural beings would not specially come over just for one world; after a period of time, finally no more stowaways arrived at the main world plane.

After a period of tranquility, Mu Yi began to calculate his future.

His purpose was neither exploration and adventure nor spreading faith and saving the world, so his possible goals were greatly reduced.

He needed a world that could enhance divine power.

Those extensive public dungeons and open large worlds were cast aside by him, their help to him already negligible.

After much consideration, Mu Yi still planned to select a world from the Jiuzhou world group to gain experience.

After all, his identity had changed, so he also needed time to adapt.

He basically retraced in reverse the fleeting moments of Jiuzhou history, having almost gone through a complete Tang dynasty; what lay before him were basically the Sui, Jin, Han, and Qin worlds.

The best choice naturally was the Shen Han and Xian Qin worlds, but their upper limits were too high for Mu Yi.

Mu Yi hesitated for a long time, after all this was not an easy choice, and few worlds met his expectations.

However, just as Mu Yi remained undecided, a piece of information that had crossed a great distance was transmitted onto his divine seal.

"The Heavenly Court is about to launch a campaign against the outer realms; lacking immortal deities' assistance, if the Heavenly Sovereign has time, feel free to join; coordinates are ……."

"This operation is led by the Great Marshal of Subjugation Li Jing, who leads a million elite heavenly troops; the target is a vast plane teeming with dragons and serpents!"

"Enemy strength ranges from mortal to divine; the deadline is three natural days after receiving the message, after which it will be considered abandoned!"

"Appendix: War regulations, merit exchange list——Venus."

Looking at the information transmitted from his divine seal, Mu Yi raised his eyebrows, saying "Speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives"; originally he had been worrying where to go, but this message helped him escape his dilemma.

The Heavenly Court's expedition, and moreover the Great Marshal of Subjugation Li Jing taking command, leading a million elite troops forth, surely should not be a minor trouble.

For himself, perhaps it would be a good choice.

Mu Yi repeatedly examined the information on his divine seal, his eyes revealing a different emotion.

Venus, who had specially come in person last time to remind him, for him this expedition might also be an opportunity, certainly not to be abandoned.

Moreover, the shock from his previous participation in a plane war has not dissipated to this day.

This war will inevitably be a grand war.

Although he had previously experienced such a large-scale war, at that time he was merely a minor lackey doing odd jobs; if not for the special nature of relying on reincarnation, he probably would not have obtained any reward for a divine position.

This time he will definitely be able to truly participate.

War, without a doubt, is the best catalyst for his growth.

Speaking of which, the background of the Great Marshal of Subjugation Li Jing is somewhat complex.

Nowadays, the Heavenly Court's Great Marshal of Subjugation Li Jing and the Great Deity Nezha of the Third Altar Sea Assembly did not transcend from a plane.

The two have no relation; if one must say there is, it is a superior-subordinate relationship.

Worth mentioning is that the Great Marshal of Subjugation Li Jing is also a Military Strategist martial god, sharing the same name as the Tang Dynasty's Duke of State Defense Li Jing, but is completely a different entity.

There exists great karmic entanglement between them.

The time between the planes of the multiverse has long been thrown into chaos by great supernatural beings and a large crowd of roles capable of interfering with spacetime.

The Zongwang side also often needs to conduct coordination acceleration; sometimes it even has to temporarily freeze the time of Zongwang players to achieve a balanced state.

Mu Yi estimated the time, found it still early, so he did not rush to gather but instead began seeking guardians within the world.

At least after he leaves, if any monsters or demons come, they can be promptly expelled and struck.

Lily was researching the matters of conferring divinity; Mu Yi did not want to disturb her, so he could only entrust the task to others.

After searching around, Mu Yi ultimately entrusted the task to the Four Sea Dragon Kings and the six named disciples who had reincarnated from the Asura path.

He opened the plane's authority to them, instructing them to guard the material realm well in his absence.

After making all arrangements, Mu Yi, without any hesitation, directly stepped into the war.

This time, marching out with the army, Mu Yi went directly with the intention of earning merit.

By then, whether selecting spoils from the subsidiary Jiuzhou's multiverse or directly picking regions of the outer world, both would be good choices for him.

He had not performed a sacrifice for a long time.

After all, the world has now recovered; the era when offering fragments of sacrificial artifacts could earn rewards has passed.

Now only by promoting world upgrades can one obtain such generous rewards.

Therefore he considered intercepting a vein of water and earth from the spoils, offering it to the main world to accelerate its upgrade.

"Transmitting!"

Accompanied by the hazy consciousness of Jiuzhou, a beam of light enveloped Mu Yi, and after a fluctuation of spacetime, it sent him to the gathering place of the Heavenly Court expeditionary force.

On a vast platform shrouded in misty clouds, with his back to a million heavenly troops clad in silver armor, Li Jing was whispering to Venus.

"Venus, this expedition lacks a vanguard general!" Li Jing said somewhat helplessly to Venus beside him.

"Your old self, why not personally……"

"I have even relinquished the position of the Nine Luminaries; I am old, what more could I be a vanguard!" Venus sighed while saying.

Li Jing's mouth twitched; this old man, whose strength is not inferior to the Pure Source Wonderful Dao True Lord and the Great Deity of the Third Altar Sea Assembly, stubbornly pretends to be powerless to truss a chicken.

I really don't know who opened the killing spree in the Plane wars years ago.

As the Great Marshal of Subduing Demons for external campaigns, his strength is only passable, half relying on the pagoda in his hand and half on his Dao cultivation.

But even if he could fight, as commander, he couldn't possibly go out personally as the vanguard.

True Lord of the Pure Source Wonderful Dao, Great God of the Three Altars Sea Assembly, Wang Lingguan, Four Heavenly Kings, Nine Luminaries Star Lords, Twenty-Eight Mansions, Literary Star and Martial Star…

But despite all those immortals and gods in the Heavenly Court, not a single one has time.

It's truly not an excuse; he has a record for nearly every movement of the immortals and gods, and many were even dispatched by him personally.

If it weren't truly that there's no one who can be dispatched.

How could the old angel, the Great White Golden Star who has withdrawn from the Nine Luminaries and serves as a messenger for the Great Heavenly Venerable, possibly be sent here to bail him out?

Li Jing looked at his forces; setting aside the Great White Golden Star, the strongest one under his command turns out to be that damn Great Spirit God.

The Great Spirit God is not weak, but it's absolutely not considered very strong.

For this expedition, the foreign world's various factions are deeply intertwined; if fighting really breaks out, he really has a headache.

"Don't worry, I've called in reinforcements; West Kunlun, Jade Void Palace, Azure Wanderer Palace, and Spirit Mountain should send people to help!"

The Great White Golden Star gave Li Jing a perfunctory comfort.

The speed of Jiuzhou's expansion is too fast, and with some rumors spreading, many want to test Jiuzhou's strength.

Thus the Heavenly Court is busy putting out fires everywhere; this expedition aims to use thunderous means to deter some troublemakers.

We can't let the war keep burning at our own doorstep, can we?

We must tell the outside people that they still have the capacity to deal with trouble.

But he's not sure how many people he can rally, after all the Heavenly Court normally assigns some tasks to these forces, and they might not be able to spare manpower.