Blue Star.
"Move, move, move! Everyone board the warships!"
"Great Qin will defend the third star chain."
"Song, the Great Sui, and Tang will defend the second star chain."
"Eastern Han, Western Han, and the Great Ming Dynasty will defend the first star chain."
"Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism will defend the second star chain."
"The Mount Shu Sword Sect and the Tang Clan will defend the first star chain."
"The Underworld will commit its full strength to guarding Blue Star and annihilate any enemy forces that invade it."
As the Heavenly Dao issued its deployments, the various factions swiftly headed to their assigned positions.
The Eight Formation Diagram.
This was a planetary formation Laozi had developed after studying the universe's principles of yin and yang and creating the Taiji Diagram.
Simply put, it consisted of three defensive lines that formed three circular formations, with Blue Star stationed at their very center as the core.
Of the first, second, and third defensive lines, the one closest to their home base on Blue Star was the third star chain, defended by Qin.
The first star chain consisted of the outermost planets, with three planets to a line and twenty-nine lines in total, forming the Eight Formation Diagram.
The Eight Formation Diagram combined offense and defense: advance to attack, retreat to defend.
The planets swiftly moved into position, and the formation took shape. The Human Race's armies took off from Blue Star and headed toward their assigned areas.
This time, their entire military had mobilized. The vast armies blotted out the sky and sun as Blue Star brought its full strength to bear.
Facing nearly twice as many enemies, they could not afford carelessness.
One wrong move, and the whole board would be lost.
As the enemy drew closer, everyone grew somewhat nervous,