Descending Without End

The deaths of four fifth-rank soldiers made Liu Junyi's eyelids twitch.

He made a mistake.

Originally, he shouldn't have made such a mistake, and this mistake even directly resulted in the loss of five fifth-rank soldiers...

Through the Nexus of All Realms, he was able to understand the entire war situation, and naturally he also knew what was happening on the side of the Unreturning Disciples.

However... he couldn't spare the energy to deal with it, so he could only give orders hastily.

He not only had to face the Unreturning Disciples, but also the entire main battlefield controlled by Li Qi!

Liu Junyi was forced to devote a great deal of energy to dealing with Li Qi, because Li Qi was pushing forward relentlessly without regard for gains or losses.

Human Path forces are inherently inferior to those of the Shaman Path, since the Shaman Path's detached attitude makes many worlds willing to serve the Shaman Path rather than Human Path.

When manpower is insufficient, it is necessary to implement tactics and strategies, and give full play to the advantages of Human Path information speed, personnel quality and mobility.

This requires micro-management.

Li Qi is now going all out, disregarding any casualties, and is directly using F2A to force a breakthrough. However, Liu Junyi cannot use F2A with him, so he has to use micro-management, and can only use micro-management.

Trading Human Path's life for those worlds of Shaman Path is unthinkable; the Human Path realm is far too valuable.

Therefore, at this moment, on the main battlefield, with millions of worlds launching a fierce attack, Liu Junyi had to micromanage the entire battlefield. Even someone as outstanding as Liu Junyi felt his mind was tense and he could hardly continue.

If there were enough reserve forces at this moment, these reserve forces could be easily deployed into the battlefield as elite troops to restrain Li Qi's main army, making it difficult for the main army to move, and they would be attacked if they tried to move.

However, these reserve forces must be used to stop Shen Shuibi's probe, and some must be left behind for support.

Originally, Shen Shuibi's side could have been dealt with by Plague Lord alone, but now they have been forced to invest more resources.

Unfortunately, the Plague Lord had already been transferred away. Because of his oath with Li Qi, he was unwilling to become Li Qi's enemy and preferred to accept punishment. He was then transferred to the battlefield on the True Dragon's side.

... Really, is this also Heaven's Will?

There aren't many fifth-rank officials left as a reserve force.

However, as long as we quickly deal with Shen Shuibi's situation and bring those forces back to the main battlefield, although this level of teleportation will temporarily halt Golden Platform, it should be able to alleviate this pressure.

It's not that he lacks the ability to handle the crisis brought about by Li Qi, it's just... he's a bit too busy.

But he remained calm and unhurried.

The loss of five top-tier fifth-grade cultivators is heartbreaking, but the opponent has probably already revealed all their Trump Card. Shen Shuibi has even sacrificed her physical body, and the Outer Elixir she refined earlier has exploded. Now she can only rely on her Yang Spirit to survive.

Shen Shuibi gained five Rank 5 cultivators, seemingly a huge victory, but in reality, Li Qi's losses far exceeded five Rank 5 cultivators. Numerous worlds suffered unnecessary casualties under this offensive, and tens of thousands of worlds were destroyed in just a quarter of an hour.

The two sides are still evenly matched. If Shen Shuibi's actions are stopped, Li Qi will suffer a complete defeat on the main battlefield.

Let's deal with that detector first. Although the general is dead, the 100,000 generals are still on their way to destroy the detector, and they need a fifth-rank escort.

The detector must be destroyed, otherwise... the Shaman Path's reinforcements, who have been intercepted with great effort, will break free.

Yes, Liu Junyi really did stop the Shaman Path's reinforcements, because he knew that only in this way could he defeat Li Qi without any ability to resist, leaving Li Qi with no way to fight back.

However, it seems that Li Qi and Shen Shuibi both understood the reason and took appropriate measures.

Next... it's Liu Junyi's turn to deal with Li Qi's moves.

Meanwhile, in the center of the battlefield.

Shen Shuibi floated in the void, panting heavily.

Her physical body had dissipated. In order to make the Cavalry General's Sha Qi backfire, she directly used her physical body as a sacrifice. Her physical body was truly gone.

However, at first glance, she looked no different from usual, except that she seemed a little tired.

The body she is using at this moment is her Yang Spirit.

Under normal circumstances, Daoist practitioners can "go into a state of spiritual transcendence" after reaching the seventh rank.

In other words, the Yang Spirit can enter and exit through the Heavenly Gate on the top of the head, travel hundreds of millions of miles in an instant, wander beyond the heavens, and interfere with reality, just like True Person. It can even fight and eat, completely freeing itself from the constraints of the physical body, existing eternally apart from the physical body. It is roughly equivalent to obtaining an external body, transcending life and death, and attaining immortality.

The Daoist classic "Bai Zhen Pian" claims. "After all the yin energy is stripped away and the elixir is ripe, one can leap out of the small cage and live for ten thousand years."

As for why it's said to be ten thousand years, that's a figurative expression, meaning it's already immortal.

"Abandoning the physical body and relying entirely on the Yang Spirit, the prepared Golden Core has also exploded." Shen Shuibi glanced at her hand, then at the 100,000-strong army not far away.

It wasn't the group entangled by the Unreturning Disciples, but rather the five armies brought by that Confucian General. There were still five fifth-rank soldiers there, just not as strong.

They are almost at the probe; if they are allowed to go, the probe will be destroyed in a quarter of an hour at most.

Shen Shuibi silently calculated that less than a quarter of an hour had passed since the start of the battle.

For the detector to function at its full potential, it needs to operate for at least one Chen.

One Chen is eight quarters of an hour.

Not even a quarter of an hour has passed yet.

Shen Shuibi took a deep breath and glanced at the mummified corpse beside her.

That was the corpse of the Human Path Cavalry General. All his Essence, Qi, and Spirit, cultivation, and even his inner world were completely exhausted by that one strike, turning him into this desiccated corpse.

It was precisely because of this strike that a fifth-rank cultivator was nearly killed, forcing the Human Path to quickly descend and allow three fifth-rank cultivators to withstand the strike together. In the end, Liu Junyi was momentarily careless, and all four of them were killed by Shen Shuibi's self-destruction of her Outer Elixir, resulting in a huge loss.

Then, she looked at the area where the Golden Core had exploded. Four fifth-grade inner worlds had been blasted apart, and the dense primordial Primal Qi mixed together, almost forming chaos. The violent waves of energy surged and boiled continuously, seemingly about to destroy everything around them.

Such riots will last for a very long time, after all, anger doesn't just disappear into thin air, but it can be soothed by time.

If left unattended for hundreds of thousands of years, after these explosions subside, the Primal Qi of heaven and earth may very well coalesce into a new fifth-grade world, from which life may be born.

However, if one were to enter and meddle with this chaotic Primal Qi at this moment, it would be equivalent to fighting five fifth-rank cultivators simultaneously. Ordinary fifth-rank cultivators would die just by getting close, and even a top-tier fifth-rank cultivator like Shen Shuibi wouldn't be able to hold out for long.

That's right, there are five. Shen Shuibi's Outer Elixir is among them, so it can be counted as one.

Having assessed the surrounding situation, Shen Shuibi's Yang Spirit instantly traversed millions of miles to block the path of that elite army.

The movement speed of the Yang Spirit is much faster than that of the physical body.

The five fifth-rank officers leading the group exchanged glances, then simultaneously drew their weapons.

"Send the order: we hold this person back, the main force advances and destroys the phased array!" The five people spoke in unison, and then each used their own methods to rush towards Shen Shuibi.

The opponent is already seriously injured!

The five were all at the fifth rank of the Human Path. Although they were not top-tier individually, they were far stronger than the likes of Shadow Moon Cold Teeth in the outer realms, let alone when they attacked together.

As we all know, the more Human Path people there are, the stronger we are.

The five people formed a small team, working together as one! Among them, a Human Path Medical School cultivator served as the core, leading the other four to form the five bodies of a person!

The five men formed five bodies, merging into one, and stood in front of Shen Shuibi. This way, they could stop Shen Shuibi and buy time for their soldiers to destroy the phased array.

Shen Shuibi must defeat all of them before she can deal with their large army.

In other words, she must successively defeat these five lieutenants and destroy them along with 100,000 Human Path cultivators.

If those 100,000 cultivators were gathered together, they wouldn't be much weaker than five fifth-rank cultivators.

No one can come to her aid in a short time. The Unreturning Disciples are already struggling to handle one side, and even if they win, it won't be over in a quarter of an hour.

They've already taken most of the advantages that strategy could offer, and all that's left is to compete in strength. Besides, there's no time for them to calculate anymore. The two sides are only a hundred miles apart, which is practically face-to-face for a fifth-rank official.

All that's left is close-quarters combat; setting up a trap is no longer a realistic option.

Shen Shuibi, now only Yang Spirit, faced a combined attack from five fifth-rank warriors.

The first move involved two opponents working together, one wielding a weapon and the other controlling the energy of the people to form yang fire, attacking from both sides.

Crimson is the color of fire, which is inauspicious in the direction of metal; black is the color of water, which is detrimental to the Fire Virtue.

Shen Shuibi shifted slightly, and concentric circles of Yin-Yang trigrams appeared around her, beginning to rotate.

This isn't a special effect; it's just her calculation method.

As expected of a married couple, in this close combat, although her fighting style was different from Li Qi's, they had a subtle similarity: both required calculation.

Judging from the opponent's Technique Method... Renzi, Kunshen, Yichen are the water gods, Yinwu, Xu are the yang fire gods, and Genbing, Xin are the yin fire gods.

Metal and fire separate, and thus counteract each other; the Technique Method used to neutralize them are needed.

After breaking the first move, the second move followed almost simultaneously, with a delay that was virtually imperceptible.

Then the third Human Path, drew his bow and nocked an arrow, unfolding his Dharma form. With seven sections and three points, he shot tigers and leopards in three pairs, using clouds to mark the timing of the shots. The colors were all in their proper order, and the sound of the nine sections was accompanied by music to mark the timing of the shooting.

Shen Shuibi frowned, but her body suddenly transformed into a small white rabbit.

The opponent's shot is a grand archery ceremony.

In the ancient Grand Archery Ceremony, there were three lords: the bear, the tiger, and the leopard. This signified the act of shooting and killing fierce beasts. The five lords were responsible for distinguishing between the three lords and the black and yellow beasts. They understood the purpose of the ceremony and did not fail in their duties. In this way, they would achieve success and establish virtue.

Shen Shuibi, facing south, is the first character to be painted in red. The characters below are all painted in order of mutual restraint. She also transforms into a rabbit, which is a way of showing weakness in terms of concept. This makes the ritual of the Great Archery less complete and unable to achieve its full effect, thus greatly reducing its power.

Even so, the arrow still pierced through her body, causing considerable damage to her Yang Spirit.

At the same time, the moon's radiance burst forth, causing it to flicker.

Shen Shuibi was formed from the essence of the moon. She was injured, so the power she released could not be wasted. Instead, she transformed it into the radiance of the moon and exploded directly.

This did not cause direct harm, but instead created a Moonlight Domain nearby, suppressing all energies except for Yin Qi, thus preventing the opponent's Divine Ability abilities from taking hold at the source.

After Shen Shuibi is injured, her body will transform into moonlight. In other words, the more severe her injury, the stronger the moonlight domain will be, and the greater its suppressive power will be.

He deliberately took the injury, opened his domain, but the third move was already at his neck.

However, what arrived this time was a long spear, its shape like a silver python, containing the stars of greed, giant, wealth, literature, health, martial arts, destruction, and assistance, forming an aura of fleeing and utter defeat on all sides.

The rabbit focused its mind and unleashed the Divine Ability of the Polaris Golden Core Method.

My golden elixir is the celestial pole, and all movement revolves around me.

Then, the other party's method of star arrangement is also the same. It can be seen that the Rabbit combines with the four auspicious stars, Jupiter, Wu, and Fu, and combines with the official star of the Prosperity and Prosperity, in the positions of Shen, Wu, Xu, Xin, and Ren.

Using himself as the celestial pole, he arranged opposite constellations in the opposite direction. The two repelled each other, and suddenly a strange force arose out of nowhere, causing the spear to deflect a foot away and graze past Shen Shuibi's side.

She then took the opportunity to reach out, gathering a vicious Yin Qi in the center of her palm, intending to severely injure the Human Path general wielding a gun!

However, before she could even make a move, Shen Shuibi immediately stopped and retreated sharply.

The power from the fifth person, an invisible and intangible Technique Method, grazed her face. If it had hit the opponent, she would have been hit by the fifth move as well.

This entire duel lasted less than 0.001 seconds.

The battle resumed in the next 0.01 seconds.

In just one second, they could exchange thousands of blows, and each move they used surpassed the full-force strike of an ordinary fifth-rank warrior from beyond the realm. Such a battle was a bloody slaughter between orthodox fifth-rank warriors from all over the world.

Walking a tightrope is not enough to describe this level of intensity in a battle. This kind of precise game requires you to detect the source of the opponent's Technique Method in the shortest amount of time and then respond accordingly. If you don't respond in time or guess the source of the Technique Method, then be prepared to pay the price.

In the end, it all comes down to who gives up first.

Let's see whose mental capacity reaches its limit first, whose physical strength reaches its limit first, and whose cultivation reaches its limit first...

Whose life... reaches its limit first?

The battle on Shen Shuibi's side was in full swing.

But on the other side, the phantom of Golden Platform flickered again.

Human Path reserves have arrived once again, but this time they are not so large-scale. Only one Rank 5 fighter came, which suggests that there are not many Rank 5 fighters left in the reserves.

Upon his arrival, he joined the 100,000-strong army that was heading to the probe.

This fifth-rank Human Path was a Mohist cultivator with a stern face, a small mustache, and an iron ruler in his hand; he was also a Mohist Knight.

As soon as he arrived, he pointed out the weakness of the phased array. "Divide into thirteen teams, one of each of the four dimensions and eight directions, and leave one team here to find the array eye with me."

As Mohist cultivator, he was most skilled at making Law Treasure artifacts and formations, even more so than Shen Shuibi.

Shen Shuibi learned these skills on her own out of interest, and she has mastered them to an expert level.

He is a genuine expert; this is his Dao Path, his livelihood.

Shen Shuibi could no longer interfere with him; dismantling the entire detector would only take him a few minutes.

At this moment, Gou Lou and Cha Xike also noticed the arrival of another fifth-rank official.

However, like Shen Shuibi, they were also tied up and unable to free up their hands.

The control is over; the detector needs to be dismantled.

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