The Galaxy River condensed into an axe-halberd, cleaving open mountains and passes for ten thousand miles.
As that majestic Galaxy River Axe-Halberd, a million miles long, swept aside the sea of clouds, scattered the astral winds, thunder, and fire, and came crashing down upon Tianyuan Sacred Sect's war Dharma Boats with the force of Mount Tai bearing down, a tumultuous uproar immediately erupted from the ships.
Spiritual light flickered as layer upon layer of spiritual barriers rose to shield the Dharma Boats. One war artifact after another was activated as well. Those war artifacts, each hundreds or thousands of zhang in size and built specifically to storm cities and uproot strongholds, lit up with rings of radiance. Then torrents of spells surged into the sky, striking straight at the heaven-cleaving axe.
For a time, pillars of flame soared into the heavens, ice spikes shot upward, metallic killing intent crisscrossed the air, and thunderbolts and lightning plasma churned without end.
All war artifacts were built for offense. Fire, water, metal, lightning, wind, and every manner of offensive spell were inscribed within them. Once powered by manpower or spirit stones, the spiritual restrictions inside the artifacts were activated, and the spells engraved within, bolstered by the spell restrictions, erupted with power far beyond that of an ordinary cultivator's casting.
Yet as the war artifacts aboard those dozens of Dharma Boats activated in unison, unleashing a heaven-shrouding, earth-covering flood of spells that seemed endless, they were extinguished by the astral winds, thunder, and fire stirred up by the Galaxy River Axe-Halberd before they could even reach it.
Before a Cave Profound Dao Fruit, war artifacts were far too feeble—like ants attempting to provoke a giant, incapable of stirring even the slightest ripple.
On the foremost war Dharma Boat, Zhengqing slowly said, "Stop them