Fleet Guns Fired in Unison, Reducing Ten Thousand Miles to Ash

In the southern Magnetic Earth Realm.

A mountain stood there, dark as iron and hundreds of thousands of meters high, piercing the clouds. It was called Magnetic God Mountain. Wisps of cloud curled around it, and geomagnetic light rose from its slopes. It was a treasured place for cultivating magnetic energy.

Within ten thousand miles, thirty-six Boundary-Defining Heavenly Pillars pierced the sky. Each stood atop a famed immortal mountain, wreathed in golden formation patterns and guarded by an army of tens of thousands of cultivators. They symbolized the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace's rule over this realm.

At the mountain's summit, a man and a woman sat facing each other.

The man was handsome and imposing, with a burning flame mark between his brows. He was a disciple of the lineage and the Fire King, one of the Heavenly Palace's Ten Kings.

The woman was lovely and alluring, yet looked delicate and frail. A trace of sorrow often lingered in her eyes, stirring pity. She was the Rain King.

Both were among the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace's strongest cultivators beneath the Dao Child. Now they looked at each other in silence.

A heavy mood spread around them.

"Chong Yuanzi, the Dao Child... He still refuses to come?"

After a long while, the Fire King said slowly, "Jia is dead. He died like a dog at the Great Sun Sword Heir's hands. Even twelve hundred lesser gods guarding him were useless."

"Why does he think the two of us can hold him off?"

"He has a Water-Element Dao Body."

The Rain King sighed softly. "He will never leave the East Sea. No matter how confidently he speaks of being invincible and undefeated within the realm, this is the Great Sun Sword Heir."

"Terrain is crucial to him. He won't give it up