When true close combat began, true terror surfaced in the hearts of cultivators across the domains of Six Paths Imperial Heaven.
Their opponents were simply not human!
They were evil ghosts, creatures from the nine heavens, not living beings of the same mortal world as them!
They were clearly the same kind of legions, the same kind of cultivators; at most, the other side merely had somewhat more powerful experts. Yet when the legions clashed, the situation became a one-sided crushing that no one could understand.
Defeat.
Defeat.
Defeat, defeat, defeat...
It had been this way since the war began, always this way. When Six Paths Imperial Heaven cultivators encountered cultivators of the Supreme Great Sun Dao Court, it was like how Six Paths Imperial Heaven cultivators had once crushed native peoples in planar wars.
The gap between their systems was simply too vast, something individual cultivators could not overturn.
No—in this world of the Immortal Path, if a cultivator's talent and brilliance were dazzling enough, they could reverse the overall situation.
For instance, if a Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heavenly Layer cultivator were born.
Or a true Ninth Tribulation Supreme. Such an existence could even draw wary gazes from True Immortal Sons.
Even a newly advanced Ninth Tribulation Supreme could make True Immortal Sons wary.
A Ninth Tribulation Supreme in their final form could even remain unkillable for a time under the attacks of a Human Emperor. They were terrifying indeed.
However, Six Paths Imperial Heaven had not yet revealed such an existence.
Among the stars, that was the situation.
The Star Domain Armies of the Supreme Great Sun Dao Court swept through all directions, devouring Great Thousand Worlds one after another. They built Super Teleportation Arrays within them, restored production, constructed worlds, and pushed forward in full swing.
In merely