#868 - Difficulty of Emperor Star
Jun Wuxie looked at it for a while but didn't see anything unusual, and finally had to give up.
He knew that the sea in front of him would definitely not be as calm as it appeared on the surface, but since he couldn't see any problems at the moment, he couldn't keep wasting time like this.
He leaped up and came to the sky above the sea, but felt his body suddenly sink downwards.
There was a mysterious restriction in the air here, limiting flight.
His body fell directly onto the sea surface, and he had no choice but to walk on the water.
The seawater was still calm and waveless, as black as ink.
He walked forward on the sea, heading towards the island at the end of the horizon.
When he arrived in the middle of the sea, the calm sea suddenly stirred up monstrous waves.
Behind him, to his left and right, and in front of him, the sea water surged, and huge waves rolled, rising hundreds of feet high.
The black seawater, like black walls, crushed towards him, obscuring the light, causing the area he was in to instantly fall into darkness.
Jun Wuxie was prepared and not flustered. His body bloomed with golden light, the "Defense" Word Secret was activated, and the River of Mortal Dust swept out from under his feet, surging forward and impacting the black waves. At the same time, he unleashed his fists, striking horizontally to the left and right.
The Primordial Sword Embryo flew out from his body. Driven by his Battle Intent, it slashed out a brilliant sword light behind him, resisting the impacting wave walls, and blocking the black giant waves from all sides halfway, preventing them from continuing to approach.
"Roar!"
In the area surrounded by waves, a deafening roar came from the sea.
A black Flood Dragon poked its head out, its copper bell-like giant eyes cold and stern, and roared as it charged over.
The thousand-meter-long dragon body shuttled around him, causing the space to constantly shatter. The entangled space rapidly shrank, and the violent power formed a tornado, frantically crushing Jun Wuxie's body.
Jun Wuxie felt the pressure. The tornado energy formed by the Flood Dragon's shuttle was astonishing, crushing in from all directions, causing his muscles to ache, and giving him a feeling of being bound.
Moreover, this feeling became stronger and stronger, causing a great impact on his movements.
Seeing that the Flood Dragon continued to shrink the space, and its body was about to wrap around him, the tornado energy was also shrinking, and the crushing force was even more terrifying.
Jun Wuxie's eyes narrowed slightly, the golden blood energy in his body boiling, washing against the blood vessel walls between its flow, bursting out with earth-shattering momentum.
The Sword Intent of Mortal Dust diffused out, stirring in this limited space.
He fused the Battle Intent into the Sword Intent, condensing sword energy with blazing sharpness within his body, and then violently shook it out.
At that moment, his body was like a sword mound, and countless sword energies burst out, wrapped in the power of ten thousand feet of mortal dust, piercing through the tornado energy.
He took the opportunity to rush out, and the Primordial Sword Embryo instantly flew into his hand. He held the sword embryo high, and an invincible sword intent burst out, fiercely slashing towards the entangled Flood Dragon.
"I am invincible in the world!"
The vast and majestic sword sound resounded throughout the sea in the blazing sword energy.
Clang!
Under the sword energy, the Flood Dragon's body burst out with a harsh metallic tremor, sparks splashed, scales flew off, and with a *poof*, a stream of black thick blood spurted out. It was instantly cut into two pieces, and with a miserable cry, the two sections of its body convulsed a few times in the air before crashing into the sea with a *boom*, submerged by the black seawater.
"Break for me!"
Jun Wuxie sheathed his sword, turned around, and waved his fist, charging forward.
The fist imprint bloomed, rushing towards the black wave wall in front, presenting a terrifying phenomenon of the collapse of the universe, the destruction of order, and the reversal of yin and yang, colliding with the wave wall and pushing it back.
The fist imprint was extremely fierce, breaking open a long and wide passage from the middle of the wave wall.
Jun Wuxie walked on the waves, followed forward, and rushed out of the enclosed area of the wave wall from the broken passage.
The moment he left that area, what he saw was not a normal world, but a dazzling blood-colored world.
The sea under his feet disappeared, and the sky disappeared, leaving only endless blood.
Everything in sight was blood, constantly impacting towards him, with blood-colored giant waves surging towards him.
He stepped on the "Line" Word Secret to dodge, while waving his fists to bombard, but the fist imprint hit the blood-colored waves, as if a stone had sunk into the sea, without any effect.
Boom!
The blood-colored waves engulfed him.
He only felt his vision blur instantly. Apart from blood red, there was nothing else.
He was submerged in it, the pungent fishy smell drilled into his nose, and he even felt blood constantly pouring into his mouth.
He quickly floated upwards, rushing upwards, but no matter how he floated, he couldn't escape this endless sea of blood.
In the submersion of this blood, there was a feeling that his body was decaying, and a violent, bloodthirsty impulse grew involuntarily in his heart.
"That's not right..."
He stopped struggling and carefully felt it. Although this feeling was extremely real, it couldn't stand scrutiny.
If it was really a blood wave, it was impossible for his Seven Kill Fist to lose its effect.
If it was really strong to this level, it could instantly kill him. Why use such a method to erode his mind?
"Illusion, this is using some means to make me enter an illusion. It's not real, so my attacks will lose their effect."
Jun Wuxie closed his eyes, guarded his mind, and the scene of the blood-colored ocean gradually faded from his mind, and then was completely erased by him from his sea of consciousness, replaced by the black ocean and the gloomy sky.
He constructed a real scene in his mind and firmly believed that the illusion did not exist.
The moment he opened his eyes, he took a step forward.
Boom!
The blood-colored world collapsed and dissipated like smoke.
What appeared in front of him was still the black sea, and he could clearly see the island at the end.
He had returned to the real world, but countless palms stretched out from the sea, pale and decayed hands, with sharp and long nails, flickering with black light, and a rolling air of gloom, launching fierce attacks on him from all directions.
Those claws were extremely sharp, the claw light was森寒, tearing the void. Even before they approached, they made people feel a chill in their muscles.
"Hmph!"
Jun Wuxie raised his foot and slammed it on the sea. The golden blood energy exploded, and golden waves swept in all directions, shaking away those sharp claws.
"Sun True Lotus, Great Sun Illumination!"
His crown bloomed with dazzling golden light, and a golden-red holy lotus rushed out, swaying above his head. The four great suns in the lotus plate bloomed together, illuminating all directions, causing the temperature here to rise to an extremely terrifying level in an instant.
The sun's essence fire rolled, burning on the sea, covering those decayed ghost claws, causing them to emit bursts of green smoke and fester under the essence fire.
Countless ghost claws instantly retracted into the sea.
Wherever the sun's essence fire shone, all the ghost claws disappeared.
Jun Wuxie walked with the Sun True Lotus hanging over his head, the sun's essence fire illuminating all directions. He continued forward and encountered no more obstacles.
Before long, he landed on that island.
The island was very large, with ancient trees and forests, and countless strange peaks and ridges.
It was filled with a kind of wild aura, and a sense of the weight of time.
He landed on the black beach and quietly looked at the front.
About ten miles away, there began to be dense trees.
According to the map given by Qing Yue, those trees might be the boundary of the formation on the edge of the core area. Once he stepped into the forest, he would enter the formation range.
Back then, the powerhouses of the Tower of Wonders did not encounter attacks within the formation. Analyzing from this point, the formation seemed to be just a maze, preventing people from contacting the core area.
However, the powerhouses of the Tower of Wonders did not encounter what he had on the way, so whether entering the formation would be attacked was still up for debate.
"This place is too dangerous. The obstacles I encountered on the way were already so strong, let alone the core area. I must prepare well..."
Jun Wuxie pondered for a moment and opened the Chaos Domain World to envelop himself.
He took out a lot of top-grade semi-saint materials, sat down, calmed his mind, and began to inscribe Rune Dao formations.
The first thing he made was a formation with interference effects that could isolate his aura.
After making these formations, he placed them in the Strange Phenomenon World to prevent creatures from secretly spying on his every move through the formations in the Secret Land.
Next, he began to make other formations, spending a full two days.
He took these formations into his body and placed them in the Universe Cave Heaven in the depths of his sea of consciousness, arranged according to special rules.
Then, he didn't rush to leave and began to practice the Lesser Void Technique.
The Lesser Void Technique came from the treasure book of the Myriad Dharma Holy Land. It was a very profound secret technique. Back then, it played a huge role in the Extraterritorial Ruins.
A long time had passed, and he had not continued to comprehend and study it. Now was the time to study it, hoping to cultivate this secret technique to be more profound and have stronger effects.
During these days when he was comprehending the Lesser Void Technique, the Emperor Beginning Star, far away on the other side of the starry sky, was facing an unprecedented catastrophe in addition to the Doomsday Torrent.
Starry sky battleships broke through the dense atmosphere and descended on the Emperor Beginning Star.
Those battleships were very large, each one ten thousand meters long, and filled with armies wearing armor, holding spears, and fully armed.
The armies on some of the battleships held long spears in one hand and shields in the other. A very conspicuous cross was forged in the middle of the silver-white shields, making their identities obvious.
The Xiluo Starfield, the Crusader Legion of the Xiluo Empire!
Xiluo had a total of ten battleships, each with a million armored soldiers, for a total of ten million troops!
In addition to Xiluo, the battleships of other forces added up to more than a hundred, and they were also filled with armies wearing armor.
Adding these forces together, the number of troops exceeded 100 million!
They did not appear in the sky above the Immortal Execution Dynasty at the same time, but sailed separately to the Southern Border, Northern Plains, Central Province, and Western Desert.
Countless armies descended from the battleships and launched a war of aggression, conquering cities and territories.
These armies came from the supreme master forces of the universe, and were not comparable to the Xilin army of that year.
Among them, even the lowest-ranking legion soldiers were at the Star Sea Realm, with the vast majority at the Grandmaster Realm. They wore rune-inscribed armor and practiced special cultivation techniques that allowed true qi resonance and interconnected power.
In terms of realm alone, these soldiers weren't particularly strong; a Saint Realm powerhouse could easily wipe out a whole group of them with a single slap.
However, due to the special nature of their techniques, their large numbers meant that their strength wasn't a simple case of one plus one. Even a peak Saint Realm powerhouse would have to meet a bitter end if surrounded by a thousand of them.
The army's generals included a large number of Quasi-Saints overseeing operations.
They descended upon the major cities of Emperor Beginning Star in batches, throwing those cities into chaos. Due to the lack of organization and the absence of a unified empire or dynasty, the cities were divided and ruled by various cultivation forces, big and small, leaving everyone feeling insecure.
Sensing the aura of the Extreme Celestial Quasi-Saints within the invading army, many of the major powers quickly packed up their treasure vaults and resources, hastily retreating into the deep mountains, leaving behind those small and medium-sized forces, rogue cultivators, and ordinary mortals who couldn't escape.
As a result, the major cities fell at an unbelievable rate. In a single day, hundreds of major cities in the Southern Border, Northern Plains, Central Province, and Western Desert were lost.
In every fallen city, anyone who dared to resist was slaughtered, and the rest were all escorted to hastily constructed concentration camps, reduced to the most lowly slaves. The next day, they were sent to certain mountains to mine spirit crystal stones or to certain forests to gather spirit herbs.
Many of these areas had only appeared after the world's revitalization, and they were fraught with danger for cultivators with low realms and ordinary people, resulting in a large number of deaths in the process.
Among these cities, the only property that remained intact was the Heavenly Purity Tower, which belonged to the Heavenly Purity Sect. Even the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and the Gathering Treasure Hall were razed to the ground.
The powerhouses of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and the Gathering Treasure Hall had tried to resist, but they were powerless and suffered heavy losses, forcing them to use miniature emergency teleportation platforms to escape.
"What do we do now? We originally thought they were only targeting our dynasty, but we never imagined that they would be so ambitious as to directly and completely occupy the entire ancient star!"
In a certain area of the Dragon Ridge Mountains, people from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and the Gathering Treasure Hall who had evacuated from the various cities gathered.
They had used emergency teleportation platforms to leave the cities they managed, intending to return to the imperial capital of the dynasty, but they discovered that the entire dynasty was completely surrounded. They couldn't get in at all, and they would be discovered as soon as they showed themselves.
