Jiang Ding turned and looked at the army before him.
To the left, banners stood thick as a forest, Blood Qi filled the heavens, and a dim yellow halo of the end of Dharma spread outward.
Supremes, Heavenly Beings, Dao Integration Cultivators, and others stood ramrod straight like spears. Each wore standardized helmets and masks, standardized magical treasure weapons, standardized gloves, standardized boots, standardized talismans, standardized formation artifacts... From head to toe, they resembled armed iron men.
They were armed to the teeth, without a single inch of flesh exposed.
These complete sets of magical treasures had not been assembled haphazardly. When combined, the formation patterns on every treasure—helmets, armor, boots, jade pendants, and more—connected to form a miniature Supreme Great Sun Annihilation Formation, integrating offense and defense... chiefly offense, with only the slightest bit of defense included. Its sharpness was peerless, worthy of being called the pinnacle of slaughter.
The attached Supreme Great Sun Annihilation Formations varied in grade. The lowest were second-rank Supreme Great Sun Annihilation Formations for Foundation Establishment Cultivators, while the highest were ninth-rank upper-grade Supreme Great Sun Annihilation Formations comparable to the power of an Eight Calamity Supreme. They also naturally possessed formation-coupling functions: lower-grade formations would spontaneously merge into higher-grade formations, causing their power to surge layer upon layer.
This was the Dao soldier force of the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal, a Dao soldier force composed of every prodigy and powerhouse from the Seven Great Star Domains.
It had been forged from nearly a million years of Immortal Path Wisdom.
This equipment, these complete formations, and the Supremes, Heavenly Beings, Dao Integration, Void Refinement, Spirit Transformation, and other cultivators forming those formations contained the Seven Great Star Domains' achievements in every field—refining, formations, talismans, military formations, education, and more. If even one aspect