Chapter 222: Everyone is a Loser!

Just as expected.

Under the angry gaze of Guangchengzi.

Countless soldiers of the Dazhou Dynasty on the defensive line of the Dayu Dynasty in the Lower Realm, as well as the Kunlun Immortals and Longbo giants who came to support, were caught off guard by the sudden change.

In an instant.

In just a few dozen breaths of time, one or two percent of the entire army's soldiers were annihilated by these alienated creatures.

Among them.

Most of them were caught by surprise attacks from their former colleagues who had stood back up, which was what caused losses of such scale.

One or two percent of the entire army is one percent of a trillion-level number! Furthermore.

Within the entire front line, whether they were on the side of the Dayu Dynasty or the Dazhou Dynasty, as long as they were newly deceased soldiers, they would all be influenced and controlled by the gray-black divine power, standing back up to fight for the Dayu Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this.

These alienated creatures grew more numerous the more they fought, as if there were no end to them, making the people of the Dazhou Dynasty on the battlefield feel endless terror.

However.

There were still many capable people within the Dazhou Dynasty, and they soon noticed the problem.

"Quick! All those at the Golden Immortal Realm or above, rise into the sky for me and destroy that Divine Radiance Cloud in the firmament!!"

Many generals or leaders at the Golden Immortal Realm scattered across the battlefield immediately unleashed their spells and divine abilities, striking toward the gray Divine Radiance Cloud in the sky.

Just as the fighting in the Lower Realm was heating up.

In the void countless miles away, the two sides of Immortals and Gods were once again intertwined.

An enraged Guangchengzi collided with the Star Lord of Ziwei hundreds of times, venting the fire in his heart.

A situation that should have been a sure win had suddenly taken a turn for the worse; no one could accept that.

Although the loss of those few troops would not have a core impact on the Dazhou Dynasty, their mission was supposed to be to quickly take down the Dayu Dynasty and then open up the route to the Yellow River Basin and the East Sea Coast.

Now.

Let alone opening it up, perhaps even the soldiers of the Dazhou Dynasty, who should have been in high spirits, would be weakened significantly by this.

Therefore.

The plan set by their Mysterious Gate had ultimately been obstructed.

Such a situation made it impossible for Guangchengzi not to feel stifled and angry.

"Ziwei!!"

After a collision between a spiritual treasure and a Divine Artifact, the two sides separated in the void again and stood in a standoff.

It was seen.

Guangchengzi looked at the Star Lord of Ziwei with eyes spitting fire.

"You God Race actually broke the rules first; this seat will definitely report this to the leader of my sect and let you..."

Before he could finish, the Star Lord of Ziwei laughed loudly and interrupted him.

"Haha~!"

"Guangchengzi, I don't believe you can't see the reason; is it that you are allowed to have reinforcements descend, but my God Race is not allowed to have secret arts support?"

"Moreover..."

"Since this blessing could be cast, it must have received the approval of your Saints and our God Race's Great Emperor. After all, our side has not once had a shred of divine power actively descend to help the Dayu Dynasty!"

Hearing this, Guangchengzi was stunned for a moment, his expression becoming incomparably gloomy.

Indeed.

As he investigated carefully, he did not detect any Creation God's divine power descending in this mutation.

And.

Under his perception, he could sense it completely.

That gray-black Divine Radiance Cloud was a gray-black Divine Radiance Cloud that had formed spontaneously, contributed by the divine power of countless Dayu Dynasty soldiers, aided by prayers and faith, and through the secret arts of Reincarnation and Darkness.

And this alienation secret art.

Was taken entirely from the prayers and incense faith of all living beings toward the Earth Deity Great Emperor Huangtian and the Dark God King Samuyi.

That is, it was formed without the two Creation Gods using even a shred of power.

Therefore.

This war could be said to have been turned around entirely by the strength of the Dayu Dynasty itself.

And this secret art.

Was called: God's Blessing! It was just that this blessing was a passive blessing.

As long as one was a subject of the God Race side, one only needed to offer prayers and faith to the target deity in their heart to passively receive that deity's blessing.

Great Emperor Huangtian and the Dark God King Samuyi were the reason for this.

They passively blessed the entire line of soldiers of the Dayu Dynasty.

This was the main force causing the alienated creatures to stand back up this time.

As numerous spells and spiritual artifacts swept toward the eerie Divine Radiance Cloud, the Divine Radiance Cloud did indeed become significantly thinner.

But it quickly recovered under the low chanting of the many Dayu Dynasty soldiers.

Clearly.

This eerie Divine Radiance Cloud was not so easy to disperse.

Seeing that the Lower Realm could not break the Divine Radiance Cloud for a long time, Guangchengzi knew that this operation was a failure.

The Dazhou Dynasty had dispatched trillions of elite troops for this march, and with the support of the Kunlun Immortal Clan and the Longbo giants, they had thought they could remove the Dayu Dynasty, this thorn of the God Race in the Shouyang Mountain territory, in one fell swoop, but they never expected it to end in failure.

Not only was most of the army lost, but they had also wasted a favor owed by the Kunlun Immortal Clan and the Longbo Kingdom.

He forcibly suppressed the displeasure in his heart.

The gaze Guangchengzi cast toward the Star Lord of Ziwei revealed boundless coldness.

One must know.

For this operation, he had given his word and boasted to his master, Yuanshi Tianzun.

Who could have known that it would actually fail! What face would this leave him, Guangchengzi, before his many junior brothers? And what would his master think? However.

To continue fighting now would only increase casualties in vain and excessively consume the national strength of the Dazhou Dynasty.

Furthermore.

It was not as if he had gained nothing; at the very least, he had forced the God Race to expose one of the trump cards they had deployed within the Human Race.

This could serve as a warning to the Mysterious Gate Immortal Rice side, and could also be used to deduce a countermeasure.

So as to avoid repeating the mistake.

Thinking of this, Guangchengzi then coldly snorted.

"Hmph! As for this battle, this seat has engraved the God Race's methods in his heart; next time, you lot will not be so lucky!" "Haha, whatever methods you of the Mysterious Gate have, feel free to use them; Our Star Royal Court will certainly accompany you to the end!"

The Star Lord of Ziwei laughed loudly.

Having successfully resisted an offensive from the Mysterious Gate, he felt quite pleased.

Moreover.

Their Star Royal Court's layout of dynasties in the Shouyang Mountain territory was intended from the start to use the Dayu Dynasty as a nail to restrict the footsteps of the Dazhou Dynasty within the Shouyang Mountain territory.

The longer the time was dragged out, the more advantageous it would be for the Dashang Dynasty, which the God Race primarily supported.

While the Star Lord of Ziwei was feeling triumphant, Guangchengzi no longer had any intention of remaining.

He immediately moved his divine sense to transmit the order to retreat to the several junior brothers and junior nephews who were fighting in the void.

Afterward, he casually made a slash, and his figure passed through a void rift.

When he appeared again, he had already returned to the sky above the Honghuang Shouyang Mountain territory.

After conveying the order to withdraw to the immortal general leading the Dazhou Dynasty's forces this time, he waited calmly in the sky by himself.

Very quickly.

The void fluctuated, and over a thousand void ripples were transmitted from the horizon.

In the blink of an eye.

The Great Luo Gods belonging to the Mysterious Gate Immortal Rice side stepped out from the void rifts one by one.

"Eldest Senior Brother!"

"Eldest Senior Uncle!"

"Old Ancestor!"

"Greetings to Kunlun Superior/Sage Teacher!"

Kunlun Superior was his honorific title in the Mysterious Gate, while Sage Teacher was the teacher of the Human Emperor of the Human Race.

Originally, his honorific title had been Kongtong Superior.

But because the Human Race Luck Treasure, the Kongtong Seal, was not in his hands, he had been forced to move to East Kunlun, where his master resided, and became Kunlun Superior.

Guangchengzi nodded indifferently and looked around; his brows furrowed slightly, but in the end, he did not say much.

He waved his hand, then transformed into a streak of immortal light invisible to the naked eye, disappearing between heaven and earth in the blink of an eye.

The other immortals, seeing this, also followed closely behind.

There had been over a thousand of them when they came, but now, upon returning, there were fewer than a thousand left.

Moreover, everyone wore a depressed and aggrieved expression.

It was evident that in the battle against the gods of the God Race, their Mysterious Gate had not gained any advantage.

On this point, Guangchengzi was helpless.

After all, the gods of the God Race were famous for their immense divine power (primarily due to the support of their natal worlds) and their many Divine Artifacts.

However.

This time, the Mysterious Gate disciples had lost dozens of Great Luo Gods after all! On the God Race side.

In this battle between immortals and gods, and the war between the Dazhou and Dayu dynasties, both sides suffered losses.

Although the God Race and the Dayu Dynasty claimed victory in this battle.

But as the weaker defending side, this victory was nothing more than a pyrrhic victory.

The God Race did not lose many Great Luo Gods, sacrificing only three deities.

One was a star god from among the three thousand secondary stars, and two were from the subsidiary god races of the Star God Lineage.

Among them.

One of the Great Luo Gods from the two subsidiary god races even had their natal Great World and natal Divine Artifact snatched away.

Furthermore, regarding the Dayu Dynasty.

To defend this time, the Dayu Dynasty deployed an army of 800 billion, setting up twelve main defensive lines and over three hundred secondary lines.

With the assistance of numerous divine arrays.

They were still broken through five lines by the Longbo Giants starting from the fourth line, and only managed to defend at the tenth line, which showed how heavy the losses were.

Of the 800 billion elite defensive troops, fewer than 100 billion remained.

If not for the appearance of the Divine Radiance Cloud and the bizarre army.

The Dayu Dynasty would have lost even more! A pyrrhic victory! From the overall strategic situation, it was a victory, but for both the Dazhou and Dayu dynasties, they were both losers! Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, no one knew how much time had passed.

Taixuan Imperial Dynasty.

As the dynasty located on the East Sea Coast, bordering the Yellow River Basin and the Shouyang Mountain territory.

News of the battle between the Star Royal Court and the Mysterious Gate Chan Sect, as well as between Dazhou and Dayu, soon reached the ears of the high-level officials of the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty.

Upon learning that the Mysterious Gate and the Dazhou Dynasty had stumbled in the Dayu Dynasty, they immediately revealed expressions of shock.

The current Imperial Lord Yin He shouted in disbelief.

"Impossible!!"

"At the last Immortal Assembly, I heard with my own ears that the Longbo Kingdom and the West Kunlun Immortal Clan would provide their full support; why then, did the Dazhou Dynasty still lose!!?"

The Immortal Assembly is an assembly of immortals presided over by the Great Master Xuandu, the first disciple under the Saint Taiqing.

Those who can attend are all Immortal Rice powerhouses above the Daluo Golden Immortal realm and rulers of imperial dynasties.

The immortal envoy delivering the order wore a bitter expression.

Unfortunately.

Among the dozens of Daluo Golden Immortals who sacrificed themselves in the great immortal-god war at Shouyang Mountain, one happened to be his ancestor.

With the sacrifice of his family's ancestor, his family's influence within the Dazhou Dynasty would inevitably decline significantly.

Therefore.

This mission to the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty on the East Sea Coast was intended both to announce the orders of the Mysterious Gate and for his family to invest in Taixuan.

Although Taixuan cannot compare to Dazhou, the political situation in Dazhou is complex, and he certainly does not believe.

That the ministers in the court would pass up the cultivation resources and collections of a Daluo family that has lost its teeth.

Therefore.

Following the strategy of a cunning rabbit having three burrows.

Regarding the family's diplomatic missions, in addition to his mission to the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty, they also sent envoys to three dynasties within the Twelve Dynasties Alliance in the Yellow River Basin that are friendly to the Mysterious Gate.

Shaking his head, the envoy said respectfully.

"Your Majesty of Taixuan, there is no need for alarm. Although Dazhou failed to eradicate the Dayu Dynasty in this great war, the Mysterious Gate has also allocated many resources to the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty, intending to give tit for tat and let the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty take deep root on the East Sea Coast, becoming a thorn in the side of the Dashang Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)