Three Thousand Dragon Soldiers-All Who Enter the Formation Kneel

The moment three thousand Blackwater Dragon Army soldiers stepped into the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Formation.

The entire outskirts of Guixu trembled.

Blackwater surged, and dragon aura shot into the heavens.

The Dragon Clan's military formation connected as one, like an enormous true dragon of Blackwater crashing viciously toward Dragon-Suppressing Pass.

Upon Dragon-Suppressing Pass, the minds of Guixu's myriad clans were taut with tension.

The hands of cultivators from many weaker clans were trembling.

They had once been hunted by the Dragon Clan.

Conscripted by the Dragon Clan.

Driven by the Dragon Clan until their homes and clans were destroyed.

Even now that they were in Guixu, facing a true Dragon Clan army, the fear ingrained in their bones was still difficult to erase completely.

Lan Shuang saw this.

She took a deep breath, holding the Book of Cause and Effect as her voice spread throughout Dragon-Suppressing Pass.

"Everyone."

"Why did you come to Guixu?"

"Because there was no path left for you in the outside world."

"Because the three clans fought for supremacy and gave the weak clans no way to survive."

"Because you wanted to live."

"Now, the Dragon Clan wants to break through Dragon-Suppressing Pass and drag you back into the past."

"Will you still kneel?"

Those words fell.

The gazes of many cultivators atop Dragon-Suppressing Pass changed.

They recalled the clansmen who had been conscripted.

They recalled their homeland being trampled to ruins.

They recalled the relatives who had died during their flight.

That was right.

Would they still kneel?

They had already escaped to Guixu.

The Emperor had given them a way to live.

The Book of Cause and Effect had given them rules.

Guixu Academy had given them methods of cultivation.

Dragon-Suppressing Pass had given them a place to settle down.

If they still knelt here.

Then what was the point of fleeing to Guixu?

Han Jue suddenly raised his spear.

"Realm Guard!"

"Form up!"

Boom!

Eight hundred Realm Guard cultivators stepped forward together.

Their cultivation levels varied greatly.

The strong ones had already reached Golden Immortal.

The weak ones were only Celestial Immortals.

Yet they cultivated the same Guixu Stillness Art and had trained together for years at Guixu Academy and the Martial Practice Arena.

Now, as they formed their formation, their auras unexpectedly joined together in a steady whole.

Han Jue stood at the very front, his Ice Scale armor gleaming with cold light.

"Today is the Guixu Guardian Team's first battle."

"The Emperor does not need us to die."

"The Emperor only told us to uphold the rules and protect Guixu."

"So stand your ground!"

"Anyone who takes one step back can go tend Spirit Fields for a thousand years!"

The originally nervous cultivators in the Realm Guard immediately laughed.

That crude remark scattered much of their fear.

Ao Lie coiled outside the pass, watching the charging Blackwater Dragon Army with a complicated expression.

Those were his clansmen.

But behind Dragon-Suppressing Pass were also the myriad Guixu clans he had watched grow over these past years.

For the first time, he stood against the Dragon Clan.

It did not feel good.

But he also understood that if the Blackwater Dragon Army broke through Dragon-Suppressing Pass, Guixu would inevitably become a river of blood.

There was no retreat from this battle.

Ao Lie let out a low roar, his dragon body coiling around Dragon-Suppressing Pass's outer gate.

Blackwater dragon aura surged. "I'll guard the outer gate."

Han Jue glanced at him. "Don't die."

Ao Lie sneered. "Even if you die, I won't."

The instant their words ended.

The three thousand Blackwater Dragon Army soldiers had already charged into the formation's first layer.

Return Ruins Heavy Water.

Boom!

The once-surging seawater instantly became incomparably heavy.

Every drop of water was like a mountain.

The Blackwater Dragon Army's charge abruptly stalled.

Several hundred Celestial Immortal Dragon Clan elites at the front were directly pressed downward.

Their dragon armor creaked, and even circulating their magical power became exceedingly difficult.

"Form up!"

A Dragon Clan Golden Immortal roared.

The dragon army swiftly changed formation.

Blackwater dragon aura gathered, barely holding back the Return Ruins Heavy Water.

However, just as they withstood the first layer, the second layer, Black Tortoise Soul Suppression, descended.

A deep Black Tortoise roar exploded directly within the depths of every Dragon Clan member's Primordial Spirit.

Many Dragon Clan elites' vision went dark.

Their Primordial Spirits felt as if they had been struck by massive hammers.

The military formation swayed once more.

The third layer: Cause-and-Effect Book of Illumination and Sin.

Before the Northern Darkness Dao Palace, the Book of Cause and Effect automatically opened.

Black-and-white radiance descended into the formation.

The karmic sins of slaughter upon those Dragon Clan elites were immediately exposed one by one.

The Dragon Clan had waged war across the Four Seas and committed countless acts of slaughter.

The Blackwater Dragon Army in particular had spent years suppressing the Northern Sea's various clans for the Blackwater Dragon King.

Many among them had exterminated weak clans, seized spirit mines, and escorted aquatic beings into slavery.

After the Book of Cause and Effect's radiance descended, the heavier one's sins of slaughter, the stronger the formation's suppression became.

Bang!

A Golden Immortal dragon general's knees buckled, and he nearly knelt on the spot.

He was both shocked and enraged.

"What the hell is this?"

Lan Shuang stood atop Dragon-Suppressing Pass, holding the Book of Cause and Effect, her voice cold.

"You slaughtered three branch lines of the Cold Sand Clan and killed more than eight hundred children."

"Today, cause and effect shine upon you."

The dragon general's expression changed abruptly.

"Nonsense!"

The Book of Cause and Effect's radiance flared brilliantly.

Within the water mirror, scenes from the Cold Sand Clan's slaughter all those years ago directly appeared.

Atop Dragon-Suppressing Pass, the newly arrived Cold Sand Clan members instantly had red-rimmed eyes.

Han Cang trembled all over.

"It's him!"

"It's that sinful dragon!"

The Cold Sand Clan cultivators roared together.

Seeing this, Han Jue swept his spear.

"Realm Guard, press forward!"

Borrowing the formation's power, the eight hundred Realm Guard members charged directly at the dragon general suppressed by the Book of Cause and Effect.

Though that dragon general was a Golden Immortal, his combat strength had plummeted under the triple suppression of Return Ruins Heavy Water, Black Tortoise Soul Suppression, and Cause-and-Effect Illumination of Sin.

Han Jue blocked his dragon claw head-on.

The other Realm Guard members formed a formation and locked down his dragon tail.

The Cold Sand Clan cultivators condensed Cold Sand into chains and wrapped them around his limbs.

"Get on your knees!"

Han Jue roared.

The Ice-Scale Spear smashed down upon the dragon general's head.

Boom!

The dragon general was forcibly smashed into the seabed.

The Cold Sand Clan members rushed forward madly and suppressed him firmly.

That scene instantly ignited the morale atop Dragon-Suppressing Pass.

They saw hope.

The Dragon Clan could be hurt too.

The Dragon Clan could bleed too.

The Dragon Clan could be suppressed by them too.

Especially beneath the Emperor's formation, those once-lofty Dragon Clan elites were not invincible.

Lan Shuang seized the opportunity and unfolded the Book of Cause and Effect.

One act of slaughter after another was exposed.

"This dragon once exterminated a branch of the Jade Reed Tribe."

"This dragon once escorted Mystic Clam Tribe members into slavery."

"This dragon once refined pills from the flesh and blood of the Cold Whale Tribe."

"This dragon once killed three hundred clansmen fleeing to Guixu."

With every sentence, a beam of black-and-white radiance locked onto its target.

The various Guixu clans attacked one after another.

They did not charge recklessly.

Instead, led by the Realm Guard and borrowing the formation's power, they besieged the Dragon Clan experts suppressed by the Book of Cause and Effect.

The Blackwater Dragon Army's formation began to fall into disorder.

The expressions of three Dragon Clan elders at the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal level darkened.

One of the Dragon Clan elders, wielding a Blackwater Long Halberd, shouted angrily, "A bunch of ants dare resist the Dragon Clan!"

He took a step forward.

The pressure of a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal erupted.

Han Jue bore the brunt of it and was sent flying, blood spraying from his mouth.

Yet he forcibly stabilized himself in midair and charged forward once more.

"Realm Guard, form the Black Tortoise Formation!"

The eight hundred Realm Guard members swiftly changed formation.

A small phantom of a Black Tortoise condensed.

The Dragon Clan elder sneered and smashed down with his halberd.

Boom!

The Black Tortoise phantom shook violently.

Han Jue's arms went numb, and blood continuously spilled from the corners of his mouth.

But he did not retreat.

The entire Realm Guard did not retreat.

They had forcibly withstood a strike from a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.

At Dragon-Suppressing Pass, the various clans watched with trembling hearts.

A Realm Guard force mixed with Celestial Immortals, True Immortals, Mysterious Immortals, and Golden Immortals had actually relied on their combined formation to withstand the assault of a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.

In the past, they would never have dared imagine such a thing.

Ao Lie's gaze changed when he saw this.

He suddenly understood that the Guixu Stillness Art passed down by the Emperor, the Guixu Academy established by Lan Shuang, and the Realm Guard's repeated formation drills had all revealed their value at this moment.

Taken individually, Guixu's various clans were indeed no match for the Dragon Clan.

But together, they could truly withstand the Dragon Clan's edge.

This was Guixu's strength.

The Blackwater Dragon King sat upon his dragon carriage, his expression growing colder by the moment.

Originally, he had believed that once the three thousand Blackwater Dragon Army entered the formation, they would be enough to crush Dragon-Suppressing Pass.

Yet now, the Blackwater Dragon Army had actually been suppressed.

And what suppressed them was not the Black Tortoise's true body.

It was a group of small clans that the Dragon Clan had once regarded as ants.

For the first time, true wariness arose in the Blackwater Dragon King's heart.

If Guixu continued to grow, would the Northern Sea aquatic clans still obey the Dragon Clan's commands?

If all weak clans learned that Guixu could shelter them, how could the Dragon Clan's summons still be enforced?

"Good."

"What a Guixu."

The Blackwater Dragon King slowly rose to his feet.

The aura of a Daluo Golden Immortal erupted from within him.

The entire battlefield instantly sank.

Even the Return Ruins Heavy Water was forcibly pushed apart by his dragon might.

Everyone atop Dragon-Suppressing Pass changed expression.

Ao Lie said quietly, "Father is going to act personally."

Han Jue wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and forced himself to stand. "Then let's see whether a Daluo Golden Immortal can breach Dragon-Suppressing Pass."

Ao Lie glanced at him. "You can't stop him."

Han Jue smiled. "If I can't stop him, the Emperor still can."

The Blackwater Dragon King took a step forward.

Blackwater surged behind him.

His body began to transform.

Dragon horns pierced through the sky-high curtain of black water.

His scales glimmered with a dark, chilling light.

His true body, a black dragon tens of thousands of zhang long, coiled around Guixu's outskirts.

That Great Principle pressure made every living being at Dragon-Suppressing Pass feel a weight rising from the depths of their souls.

The Blackwater Dragon King looked down upon Dragon-Suppressing Pass.

"Black Tortoise."

"If you still refuse to reveal your true body."

"This king will personally overturn your Dragon-Suppressing Pass."

The Guixu dharma body slowly raised its head.

Lu Chen looked at the black dragon tens of thousands of zhang long and felt somewhat shaken.

The Blackwater Dragon King was far stronger than Ao Lie.

This was a true Daluo Golden Immortal.

But things had come this far. He could not retreat.

If he gave even one step, there would only be more trouble behind him.

The Black Tortoise Dharma Body stirred lightly.

The Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Formation rumbled once more.

Lu Chen's voice spread across the battlefield.

"Then try it."

The Blackwater Dragon King's dragon pupils suddenly contracted.

The next moment.

The Blackwater Dragon Pearl flew from his mouth.

The battle of the Great Principle was about to begin.