Translator: CinderTL
Deep within a pitch-black mountain range, a hundred-mile-wide area pulsed with radiant light.
Hundreds of Divine Spirits and tens of thousands of Servitors relentlessly attacked this luminous region from several hundred miles away.
Arcane Arts and Mystical Powers of every variety rained down upon the area, as if they wished to carve ten miles into the earth.
Occasionally, Mystical Powers and Arcane Arts would erupt from the luminous region.
However, due to the vast disparity in numbers, these projectiles were usually intercepted and shattered by Divine Spirits patrolling the skies before they could even reach the Servitor ranks.
The few spells and powers that managed to slip through and strike the Servitors caused only limited casualties, a mere drop in the bucket compared to the tens of thousands of Servitors arrayed against them.
Meanwhile, a thousand miles from the battlefield, a golden Palace floated in the air.
Inside, figures moved in and out, compiling reports on the situation across Continent 6 and relaying them to the Palace, which served as the central control hub.
Afterward, the Divine Spirit relayed the orders to each Divine Spirit, ensuring that Continent 6 remained firmly under their control.
At that moment, an Apex Divine Spirit riding a crimson Escaping Light swiftly pierced through the air.
As he passed, numerous Divine Spirits and Servitors cleared the path.
Upon reaching the Palace, he was neither questioned nor stopped, proceeding directly to its depths.
There, a figure was casting a Communication Spell, conversing with another Divine Spirit in a Water Mirror.
Despite this, the Apex Divine Spirit handed over a message without hesitation: "Winterfrost Envoy, Red Intelligence."
"Oh?"
Winterfrost, the Divine Spirit Envoy seemingly targeting Chu Ci, took the intelligence and scanned it. His eyes immediately lit up. "It's finally arrived!"
"Arrived?"
The Divine Spirit in the Water Mirror's heart skipped a beat. "You mean..."
"Li Chunjun!" Winterfrost declared. "We trapped a Dao Prodigy of the Human Race, using his influence to lure Human Race experts to his rescue. And just as planned, we've finally drawn out our true target—the one we've been waiting to eliminate!"
He waved his hand at the Apex Divine Spirit. "Immediately summon all reserve Divine Spirits to rendezvous with me."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The Apex Divine Spirit swiftly retreated to carry out the order.
He turned his gaze back to the Water Mirror. "Hei Xue, you contact Han Bing. I'll contact Ming Feng. Gather your forces and move out immediately."
As he spoke, a thought seemed to strike him. "He's heading to the ambush point on Continent 101. Ming Feng is nearby. I'll have him take his troops there first. No matter what, they must entangle that Human Race Heavenly Prodigy, Li Chunjun, and utterly destroy him here!"
In the Water Mirror, the Divine Spirit Envoy known as Hei Xue nodded slightly.
But a strange expression flickered across his face. "Winterfrost, do you truly believe... that Li Chunjun possesses such talent?"
"This is a Divine Edict personally issued by His Majesty the Divine King. We must eliminate this Human Race threat at all costs. How dare you question it?" Winterfrost's expression turned icy.
"My devotion to His Majesty the Divine King is known to all. I would gladly sacrifice my life for His Majesty's glory!"
Hei Xue spoke quickly: "But this information comes from the Pure World Divine Sect... And don't you find it absurd? Li Chunjun, who killed more than one of our Apex Divine Spirits, is only at the Golden Core Realm!?"
"That's irrelevant."
Winterfrost replied calmly, "Whether this Human is at the Golden Core Realm or the Nascent Soul Realm, all I know is that this is Your Majesty's Divine Edict. As long as it is a Divine Edict, we will do everything in our power, at any cost, to carry it out! Moreover, this particular edict is especially urgent."
Hearing this, Hei Xue wasted no more time.
He nodded. "I estimate this youth has likely broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm, which explains his audacity on the Two Worlds Mountain Battlefield. However, judging by his current achievements, his strength already rivals that of the Human Prodigies. Furthermore, in terms of potential, he surpasses even the Dao Prodigy Chu Ci, whom you've been surrounding. Concentrating our forces to deal with him first is indeed a wise move."
"This is precisely why the Four Great Holy Spirit Envoys have gathered here!"
Winterfrost said, "The target has already taken his people ahead. We're passively gathering information, putting us a step behind. We need to hurry!"
"Speed is of the essence in warfare."
Hei Xue nodded slightly in understanding.
The Water Mirror Technique ended.
Winterfrost exited the palace.
Considering the presence of a Human Sword Prodigy here, he didn't take the Spirit Treasure-grade palace with him. Instead, he and over a hundred Divine Spirits who had quickly arrived soared into the sky.
He wasn't alone!
At this moment, in three other directions on Continent 6, Divine Spirit Envoys, each accompanied by dozens of Divine Spirits, were also streaking through the Void, heading straight for the Space Overlap Zone on Continent 101.
Human Race intelligence indicated that the Divine Race had mobilized a total of six Divine Spirit Envoys to ensure victory in their war against humanity.
Despite the death of one envoy, five remained, scattered across the tens of thousands of continents and islands of the Two Realms Mountain.
True Lord Zhi Yuan had even speculated that one of the Divine Spirit Envoys would be dispatched to Continent 6 to deal with Chu Ci, the Human Dao Prodigy.
However, the truth was that three months earlier, the Divine Spirit Envoys had already received some kind of intel and begun gathering forces and selecting suitable battlefields.
After three months of meticulous selection and careful preparation, the Divine Race chose Continent 6 as the execution site for their plan.
To this end, they mobilized a massive force of a thousand Divine Spirits: eight hundred openly and two hundred secretly.
Of course, the Human Race wasn't blind.
The mobilization of over a thousand Divine Spirits was simply too conspicuous.
The Humans had gathered some intelligence on these movements.
But the Divine Spirit Envoy, whose combat prowess rivaled the Human Race's "Prodigies"...
Their small size made them easy to conceal, and the Humans remained completely unaware of their presence.
So while everyone assumed Winterfrost was the only Divine Spirit Envoy on Continent 6, in reality, the Divine Race had essentially deployed their entire force.
The Four Great Holy Spirit Envoys, leading dozens of "hidden" Divine Spirits, charged directly toward the Space Overlap Zone on Continent 101.
The decisive battle had begun nearly six months ahead of schedule!
At this moment, in a vast cliff region that seemed to stretch to the end of the world, lay the point where Continent 6 and Continent 101 were about to undergo Spatial Overlap.
With only an hour remaining, people could even see with the naked eye the faint, illusory outline of the hidden continent shimmering beneath the spatial ripples at the horizon.
Not far from the cliffs, the Human Race's Nascent Soul and Core Formation cultivators, along with the Divine Race's Divine Spirits and Servitors, had already gathered.
Over forty Nascent Soul cultivators, more than eighty Divine Spirits, and a roughly equal number of Servitors and Core Formation cultivators filled a battlefield spanning thousands of miles.
Even before the Spatial Overlap had begun, Core Formation cultivators, Servitors, Nascent Soul cultivators, and Divine Spirits from both sides occasionally clashed, resulting in casualties.
However, because a full-scale conflict hadn't erupted, the losses remained relatively light.
Yet it was clear that as the two continents drew closer, the clashes would intensify, culminating in an all-out war like the one Li Chunjun had witnessed when he recently arrived from Continent 84.
Compared to the predicament faced by Wu Gang and his group, the situation for these forty-odd Nascent Soul cultivators was undoubtedly far more favorable.
The disparity in numbers was not the only factor; the intensity of the battle had yet to escalate when True Monarch Dong Xuan, the leader of the Nascent Soul cultivators, received advance notice from Li Chunjun's side.
This news immediately lifted more than half of the psychological pressure.
As time passed, the three Apex Divine Spirits leading the eighty-odd Divine Spirits seemed to receive some message as well. They suddenly issued an order for all Divine Spirits to take flight and break through the encirclement.
The Servitors began a full-scale retreat as well.
In this situation, True Monarch Dong Xuan simultaneously rallied his forces to intercept and entangle the enemy while urgently requesting reinforcements from Li Chunjun.
Fortunately, Li Chunjun and his group were not far from the area.
Upon receiving the message, they made an immediate decision. They formed an elite unit and, using Sword Flight, raced directly toward the battlefield.
This team consisted of Zhao Yu Pan, True Lord Yuanhai, True Lord Liu Feng, Xuan Zhu and his six companions, and Wu Gang and his four companions—a total of fifteen people.
Remarkably, four of them were Great True Lords.
The remaining ten were the most outstanding cultivators in the Mid-Stage Nascent Soul realm, either skilled in flight or possessing unique abilities.
This proportion of Late-Stage Nascent Soul cultivators was exceptionally high.
After all, only one in thirty Nascent Soul True Lords typically reached the Late Stage.
Moreover, Perfected Great Lords of the Late Nascent Soul Stage held significant status and influence even outside the Two Worlds Mountain Battlefield, where they could thrive without risking their lives. This scarcity made the proportion of Late-Stage Nascent Soul cultivators even lower on the battlefield, with only one in every fifty or sixty Nascent Soul True Lords.
In this context, the sixty-odd True Lords who had rushed to the edge of this continent had managed to gather four Late-Stage Nascent Soul cultivators—a number that far exceeded expectations.
In contrast, the Divine Race consistently maintained a ratio of one Apex Divine Spirit among their thirty-odd Divine Spirits.
As for Li Chunjun?
He was merely a Golden Core cultivator.
The fifteen cultivators flew at full speed, soon arriving at the heart of the battle between over 120 Divine Spirits and Nascent Soul cultivators.
Having already exchanged information about their specialties during the journey...
Without Li Chunjun's command, Zhao Yu Pan was the first to unleash her lightning, its thunderous roar echoing through the Void.
Xuan Zhu, abandoning his internal struggle, decided against using Boundless Cold Moon to compete with Li Chunjun for "kills." With the assistance of a Late-Stage Nascent Soul cultivator and four Mid-Stage Nascent Soul teammates from his group, he reactivated his Great Mystic Power—the Heavenly Dark Moon Eclipse Art.
This Great Mystic Power could distort perceptions, disrupt Divine Sense, and suppress enemy strength, but its most crucial feature was its vast, area-of-effect nature...
It was a mass debility technique!
The remaining Wu Gang specialized in frontal combat.
He manifested a Divine Power nearly as substantial as his Dharma Aspect True Body, transforming into a hundred-meter-tall giant. Roaring, he charged into the ranks of the Divine Spirits.
The remaining Mid-Stage Nascent Soul cultivators either engaged in Sword Flight or unleashed their Mystical Powers.
Their attacks shared a striking similarity with Zhao Yu Pan's: they were all incredibly flashy.
Sword beams that pierced the heavens, fire dragons that spanned dozens sof miles, hurricanes that blotted out the sky...
They pulled out all the stops to intimidate!
While these Nascent Soul cultivators unleashed their full arsenal, forcing the Divine Spirits to strain every sinew to defend themselves, Li Chunjun's Scarlet Sky Sword silently reaped a swift harvest across the battlefield.
His first target was the Apex Divine Spirit most likely to detect the Scarlet Sky Sword and issue a warning.
This was a form of "capture the bandit leader first."
Once they lost their "leader," he could unleash his sword freely.
In this situation, despite the initial Human Race Nascent Soul reinforcements numbering only fifteen, and the addition of True Monarch Dong Xuan's forty-two Nascent Soul True Lords bringing the total to just fifty-eight, they managed to completely shatter the eighty-six-strong Divine Spirit formation in a matter of minutes.
(End of the Chapter)
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