Star Lord vs. Imperial Apex
Qi Yun's eyes suddenly narrowed, and the last trace of color in the depths of his pupils faded away, turning into a pure, almost ethereal, silvery-white.
His dark blue Daoist robe fluttered wildly even without wind, making a rustling sound.
As the hem of her clothes fluttered, tiny specks of stardust seemed to burst forth.
Behind him, a vast, boundless, ever-changing, chaotic halo of light suddenly appeared!
It is his Supreme Dao Foundation— [Great Luo Heaven]!
Inside the Great Luo Heaven at this moment, countless "star" points of light, which were originally dim or naturally flowing, burst forth with dazzling silver light!
In an instant, it transformed into a [Star River Firmament] stretching behind Qi Yun, slowly rotating, containing boundless Daoist principles of the birth and death of stars.
In the vast expanse of the sky, one can vaguely see a large star guarding the constellation, smaller stars scattered about, the Milky Way flowing, and the celestial bodies arrayed.
An ancient, majestic, and vast will that governs the movement of the stars emanated from the depths of the heavens.
[Wield Myriad Laws]
Rise!
Qi Yun let out a low shout in his heart, and fiercely pushed his innate Divine Ability to its limit.
That vast will, which transcends all laws, no longer suppressed outwards, but precisely pried open the [Heavenly Star Fixed Celestial Body Dao Foundation] that had not yet been fully refined and absorbed!
Buzz--!
The Star River Firmament within [Great Luo Heaven] suddenly shone brightly, and countless illusory stars expanded and solidified wildly.
A powerful and unstoppable, pure and supremely stellar Dao intent erupted from Qi Yun's body!
A straight, silver vertical line, about an inch long, silently appeared on the skin between his eyebrows.
[Heavenly Star Fixed Celestial Body Dao Foundation] Divine Ability - [Great Star Lord]
Qi Yun felt a slight tremor in his Divine Soul, and an unprecedented feeling swept over his entire body.
It resonated clearly and closely with the endlessly rotating stars in the Unseen vast, high heavens!
With every gesture, it seemed as if he could summon the power of the vast galaxy at any moment and use it for his own purposes.
[Great Star Lord: Amplifies all star Law Technique in all aspects and can briefly draw upon the power of the true celestial sphere, elevating the level of Law Technique!]
"Now is the time!"
Feeling the immense magical Law Power surging within his body like a galaxy, and the subtle yet profound connection with the stars in the heavens, Qi Yun's eyes blazed with an intense silver light, and he no longer hesitated.
He suddenly raised both hands, his ten fingers blooming like lotus flowers, forming an ancient seal that seemed to be reaching for the stars.
The vast Law Power within his body, amplified by the [Great Star Lord] state, was now unleashed without reservation, pouring into the dark silver [Ominous Star] like a cascading Milky Way!
"The Star Lord descends to the mortal realm, causing all stars to scatter—suppress!"
The single word of truth, like the decree of an ancient star lord, resounded with unquestionable majesty throughout this world shrouded in gray mist and deathly silence.
Rumble!!!
Above Lifeless Valley, the perpetually hazy gray "sky" suddenly trembled violently, as if it could no longer bear the weight!
That dark, silvery [Ominous Star] that had always hung coldly was now clearly visible to the world for the first time!
It is no longer a vague, conceptual point of light.
It was a solid star with a diameter of over several hundred feet, formed entirely from the purest annihilation starlight!
On the surface of the star, countless enormous, deep silver lines emerged. With each pulsation, the space within a radius of a thousand miles trembled, the gray mist dissipated, and the deathly aura vanished.
Immediately there, at the core of that [Ominous Star].
A figure materialized from the ethereal and slowly rose to its feet!
The figure was thousands of feet tall, its face indistinct, with only a pair of empty and indifferent eyes that looked down upon all living beings.
He wore a crown of stars made up of nine constantly appearing and disappearing miniature stars.
He wore a wide, starry Daoist robe, on which billions of stars flickered and flowed, outlining a vast landscape of constellations and the four cardinal directions.
He simply existed here, and the starlight emanating from his body completely swept away the gray fog in a large area below, revealing the cracked gray-white earth below.
The phantom of this star deity, born from the [Ominous Star], slowly raised its right hand as soon as it appeared.
With fingers spread wide and palm facing upward, it seems as if it is supporting the weight of a world.
The next moment, centered on the palm, endless starlight frantically converged, collapsed, and evolved!
The illusory shadows of the sun and moon Lunzhuan, the celestial bodies trace their paths, star rivers flow, and nebulae expand and perish.
A small yet perfectly structured and solemnly imbued [Starry World] took shape in his palm!
In this world, there are meteor showers, comet tails, new star explosions, and black holes swallowing everything in their path.
The terrifying scenes of the birth, death, and evolution of stars unfold simultaneously within it.
"Fall."
His eyes gleamed with divine light, his aura surged, Qi Yun energy to the top of the cliff, pointing directly to the northeast where World-Suppressing Army was located.
The thousand-foot-tall phantom of the Star Lord, holding the breathtaking [Starry World] in its palm, took a step towards the target area!
Boom-!!!
The world lost its color, and the void wailed!
The [Starry World] detached from the Star Lord's palm, expanded rapidly in the wind, and in an instant transformed into a terrifying phenomenon covering hundreds of miles of sky.
Carrying immense stellar power, it crashed down relentlessly towards the territory where the World-Suppressing Army was entrenched!
The location of the World-Suppressing Army.
Li Xuanqing, who was sitting upright in the central command tent and working with Celestial Master Chen to deduce the diagrams, suddenly stood up the moment the Star Lord's illusory figure appeared!
His crimson robes fluttered even without wind, and for the first time, an extremely solemn and murderous expression appeared on the face of this Grand Protector of Southern Yin.
He clearly felt that the star power pressing down from the sky had already surpassed the limits that ordinary Foundation Establishment True Person could reach!
This is a force powerful enough to severely damage or even destroy the entire army's main camp in one blow.
"Celestial Master Chen!" Li Xuanqing's voice was icy cold, his gaze sharp as lightning, as he looked at the Daoist priest beside him who still had a calm expression.
The jade-handled whisk in Celestial Master Chen's hand had fallen limply at some point. He looked up at the sky outside the tent, which was rapidly darkening and being replaced by starlight.
A clear glimmer of surprise finally flashed in his usually calm and collected eyes.
"The image of the Star Lord—though only a phantom, it already contains three-tenths of the True Intention."
Xuanhengzi's methods—but even he probably couldn't achieve that level.
Hmm... it must be that supreme being... this boy... what great ambition, what ruthless methods."
His tone remained calm, but carried a hint of something indescribable.
Li Xuanqing had no time to ponder the deeper meaning of his words, and shouted sharply, "Army formation! Rise!"
"Yes, sir!!!"
Outside the tent, the generals, who had already been alerted, shouted in unison to obey the order!
At this moment, the 500,000 elite World-Suppressing Army displayed the iron-blooded discipline and terrifying efficiency worthy of their name "Zhenshi".
There was no panic, no noise.
Only a solemn and orderly atmosphere, like the precise operation of a well-oiled machine.
"The Imperial Apex Pagoda fueled by the life force of Qi and Blood and qi!"
"Battle will ignite my divine body!"
Deep, powerful battle mantras, seemingly the combined voices of millions, resounded simultaneously from the mouths of every soldier!
Boom!
The boundless Qi and Blood and fighting spirit of 500,000 people, their unwavering fighting will honed through countless battles, and their absolute faith in the Southern Yin Dynasty were all drawn upon and forged by some ancient and mysterious Formation Art at this moment!
Centered on the military camp, within a radius of hundreds of miles, the air suddenly became thick and scorching, as if it had transformed into an invisible...
The cosmic furnace is spinning wildly!
Visible to the naked eye, crimson-gold Qi and Blood smoke, like billions of angry dragons, soared into the sky from above the heads of every soldier, frantically intertwining, entwining, and compressing in mid-air!
The next moment -
Roar! Roar! Roar! ----
Ten consecutive, earth-shattering roars, seemingly from the ancient Savage Wilderness, shook the surrounding area!
Ten colossal figures, towering into the sky, burst forth from the core of the crimson-gold Qi and Blood and wolf smoke!
Each one is over three hundred feet tall, its entire body formed from condensed, tangible crimson-gold Qi and Blood and iron-blooded battle intent, clad in ancient and heavy bronze armor phantoms, with the ancient Southern Yin Dynasty totem engraved on the armor plates.
Their faces were blurred, but their eyes burned with a fierce fighting spirit, cold, resolute, and fearless in the face of death.
It is the war dharma form condensed from the World-Suppressing Army's trump card combined attack formation - [Imperial Apex Pagoda Army Formation]: the War Gods of the Ten Directions!
The ten war gods are connected by their energy, forming a unified whole, each guarding a region, thus creating a mysterious and integrated battle formation that combines offense and defense.
Facing the overwhelming [Starry World] that loomed down and covered the sky, the ten war gods showed no fear. At the same time, they let out a thunderous battle roar and raised their divine weapons!
Ten immense and terrifying forces, imbued with the fighting spirit and blood of 500,000 elite Qi and Blood, surged upwards like ten crimson torrents tearing through the heavens and earth, crashing relentlessly into the crushing star world!
One aspect is the supreme Daoist method that draws upon the power of the stars in the heavens, imitates the authority of the star lords, and evolves a Starry World.
On one side is an iron-blooded military formation that gathers the spirit and energy of 500,000 troops, possesses the power of Foundation Establishment, and embodies the spirit of war.
Two completely different and terrifying forces collided violently in the sky above the northeast of Lifeless Valley!
Time seemed to stretch out and freeze at this moment.
There was no sound.
Only in the field of vision, the Starry World that occupies half of the sky, constantly being born and dying, with stars falling and being reborn, is locked in a fierce standoff with the other half, where ten crimson-gold military god torrents rise into the sky, filled with Sha Qi, and with divine weapons tearing through the air!
At the heart of the collision, space is like a crumpled piece of paper.
Two forces of madness intertwined, unleashing a burst of light powerful enough to blind mortals.
The surrounding area, spanning hundreds of miles, was bathed in a blinding white light, as if daylight had descended upon this desolate and barren land.
The terrifying shockwave transformed into visible rings of air mixed with stardust and Blood Qi, sweeping outwards in all directions with devastating force!
Wherever it passed, the gray-white rock walls silently turned to dust, and the earth seemed to have been repeatedly plowed by a giant plow.
The world lost its color, and all things withered.
At the top of the cliff, Qi Yun's figure swayed slightly.
The silver vertical mark between his brows flashed with light, and faint traces of blood seeped out.
At the same time, [Wield Myriad Laws] was activated to shake the Dao Foundation, maintain the state of [Great Star Lord], and inject all the Law Power into [Ominous Star] to evolve this earth-shattering attack.
For him, the burden was greater than he could have imagined.
Even with the continuous addition of the [Twenty-Four Qi Penetrating Illumination Diagram], it still falls short in some aspects.
But his silvery-white eyes held a hint of a smile.
Because at the very instant the two forces clashed violently—
Deep within his [Great Luo Heaven], the bluish-gray [Origin of Beginnings] light cluster, which had been nurtured there all along, seemed to have received the strongest stimulus and suddenly trembled violently!
Buzz!
The ball of light began to spin at an unprecedented speed, its color deepening and solidifying at a visible rate, and its volume nearly doubling!
Strands of even purer and more profound "beginning" Dao intent were being forcibly extracted and stripped from the vast and unimaginable vortex of cause and effect caused by this earth-shattering collision, and were frantically surging into the ball of light!
"Indeed—only such a massive cause and effect, a collision that shakes a region and affects the fate of hundreds of thousands of lives, can provide the best nourishment for the [Four Seasons]!"
Qi Yun understood the situation clearly, and despite the immense burden, he did his best to maintain control over the [Ominous Star] and the illusory image of the star lord.
What delighted him even more was that deep within the [Origin of Beginnings].
A brand new, faint yet incredibly clear "bud" has quietly emerged!
That tiny sprout was neither quite yellow nor quite green.
Although extremely faint, the Daoist essence it emanates shares the same origin as the [Origin of Beginnings], yet is entirely different from it.
The prototype of the second item in the [Four Seasons] [The Origin of Flourishing]!
"Spring gives way to summer; this is the second stage of the Four Seasons."
A glint of light flashed in Qi Yun's eyes, and a smile appeared on his face.
He had only hoped that this earth-shattering attack would greatly advance the condensation of the [Origin of Beginnings].
Unexpectedly, the resulting causal disturbance directly affected the next stage of the [Four Seasons].
It was worth it!
Regardless of the outcome of this attack, the significant increase in [Origin of Beginnings] and the manifestation of [Origin of Flourishing] alone have already justified all the costs and risks.
At this moment, the terrifying struggle between the Starry World and the War Gods of the Ten Directions in the sky has reached its most critical juncture.
Qi Yun's silvery-white pupils contracted slightly as he felt the increasingly heavy pressure emanating from the [Ominous Star] and the rapidly depleting Law Power within his body.
The combined strength of 500,000 troops, combined with the feigned Foundation Establishment power, far exceeded the limits of individual cultivation.
Even with the power of the Great Star Lord and the influence of the stars in the heavens, it was still not enough.
"However—I never imagined that I could achieve complete success with just one strike."
The next moment!
Within his sleeve, the previously silent, jet-black [Human Emperor Banner] suddenly shone with a deep, eerie light.
The three phantom images of the Main Soul slowly opened their eyes within the space of the banner.