Chapter 1009 - Start Of The Battle
Chapter 1009: Start Of The Battle
Nothing happened for 10 days and it passed in a blink of an eye.
On this morning, Zong Shou woke up from meditation.
From afar, he could hear the sound of war drums.
It had began!
The moment such a thought flashed across his mind, he stood up. He pulled up Chuxue who was hugging onto his tail and was in deep sleep and they ran out of the room.
In that instant, the seals in his body were broken layer by layer.
Under the surging energy all over his body, Chuxue who was originally still a little blur had woke up, and a solemn killing intent rose up on her face.
That day Zong Shou didn’t swallow Chuxue because the time wasn’t right.
To do such things when the sect was on the verge of life and death just felt inappropriate.
He could only leave this cute little girl for the future.
The two of them flew in the air towards the center.
Common People’s Path’s Source Ocean Bottomless Nine Palace Sword Formation was located all around the Vast Habitat.
Who knew if it was taken care of for other reasons, but Zong Shou’s formation was within the learning palace.
He had the least pressure but was also the final defense line for the Common People’s Path.
When he arrived and stepped onto the central sword platform that was prepared long ago, Shui Lingbo was already there. She was really serious, her face seemed like it had a layer of frost on it.
At the center of the five formations, there was a mirror that was connected to the Vast Habitat’s protective formation. One could use this mirror to see the scenes outside, such that the people in charge of the formations were able to understand the situation outside of the Vast Habitat and adapt logically.
When Zong Shou stood still in the center of the platform, this formation still wasn’t completed.
When the drums rang out, numerous cultivators were flying about in the skies of the Vast Habitat.
Even this formation within the palace was still lacking half the people.
However it was okay, he activated the Sword Formation, threads of energy spread outward, stretching for dozens of miles, covering the entire Common People’s Learning Palace. He took control of the entire formation.
After completing all this, Zong Shou finally had time to look at the mirror. His pupils constricted and he took in a deep cold breath.
What appeared in the mirror was the Cloud World, where the Vast Habitat was connected to the Cloud World. There were close to 500,000 troops gathered there!
…Daoling Vast Habitat’s 35,000 Purple Flame Spear Cavalry, Tailing Sect’s 28,000 Purple Cloud Sword Cavalry, Heaven Demon Vast Habitat’s 32,000 Tianmo War Cavalry, and Primordial Demon Sect’s 24,000 Primordial Demon Spirit Cavalry were all gathered here.
Apart from that, there were other sects from the Taoist Faction and Demon Sect which made up 70,000.
Just in Xuan Grade Dao Soldiers alone, there were close to 200,000.
The rest were Great Shang troops who Zong Shou also recognized.
150,000 Iron Flame Formation Soldiers, 80,000 Extreme Arrow God Archers, and 50,000 Yuanchen Blood Cavalry.
There were around 40,000 soldiers below Xiantian too.
“It seems like they really went all out, how generous…”
Apart from Dao Soldiers, there were an uncountable amount of other factions.
One Heavenly Place, two Vast Habitats, hundreds of sects, close to two million people.
At this moment, when he used the mirror to look out, it was just a dense patch. Before the battle even began, energy flames surged into the sky.
Thousands of pure Yang cultivators were gathered here. It also caused the skies to flash brightly.
Zong Shou only felt his head go numb. The power gathered was enough to wipe out the newly born Great Gan.
The strength difference was close to a tenth.
He could only hope that the protective formation that Xi Zi left was strong enough.
“It is not enough for us to worry!”
Although Shui Lingbo was solemn, she didn’t really care about the hundreds of thousands of troops and millions of cultivators. She didn’t even hold them in any regard.
“That year when we were attacked by the various Cloud World sects the scale was slightly weaker than this. However, after the few thousand years Senior Brother Wei Xu ran us well and our strength has recovered, becoming much stronger than before. Common People’s Vast Habitat along with the Three Sects and Six Schools, we have 70,000 Common People Xuan Dragon Warriors. The Ten Thousand Celestial Illusionary Sky Thirty Three Sky Formation is also something that Xi Zi spent much effort to make, so how could it be weak?”
Ten Thousand Celestial Illusionary Sky Thirty Three Sky Formation, that was the Vast Habitat protection formation.
Of course, Zong Shou had heard about this formation before. Legend had it that the more Celestial Realm cultivators there were the stronger this formation would get.
If there were 10,000 Celestials gathered, it was said that it was unbreakable.
To date, Common People’s Path was naturally unable to gather 10,000 of them. If they called back all the disciples, they had around 1,800.
That was enough to use up to 70% of the strength of this formation.
However, those were just rumors and there weren’t any large walls in thousands of years. As such, Zong Shou was still really nervous about the strength of this formation.
At that moment, Zong Shou suddenly felt something and looked at the core of the learning palace at the central hall.
Only to see that numerous Spiritual Lights gathered there, a majestic golden pagoda appeared from the ground.
It was built up layer by layer, only stopping when it reached the 27th. A bright light spread out and lit up thousands of miles of land.
Shui Lingbo looked on quietly, a look of pity appeared in her eyes.
“What a waste! Just a bit more and it would have been able to reach the 28th layer…”
Zong Shou also felt a bit of regret. That golden pagoda was the show of the Ten Thousand Celestial Formation’s strength.
A total of 33, each layer up the strength of the formation would increase by dozens of percent.
The difference between 27 and 28 was like night and day.
Moments later, his eyes lit up.
A person stepped into the void and walked toward the tip of the tower. Looking out from afar, it was Xiuguan.
Then, the giant Purple Gold Pagoda rose up once more. This time, it reached 32 layers before it stopped.
When the 32 layers were formed, the barriers in the Vast Habitat were so strong that Zong Shou felt terrified.
He used strength to test it out, using 60% and he was actually unable to even rip through the outer layer.
This Ten Thousand Celestial Formation directly affected the area outside of the Vast Habitat, especially the area in the Cloud World.
The same giant golden pagoda appeared above the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Cloud World.
Under the suppression, the surrounding Spiritual Energy pretty much turned solid.
Those hundreds of thousands of Dao Soldiers were directly affected. The energy pattern connections between people were all cut off.
Around this area, thousands of miles of land was pretty much cut up into tens of millions of solitary pieces of space.
Those 500,000 Dao Soldiers and two million cultivators were all cut out, piece by piece.
Zong Shou heaved a sigh of relief. It was a lie if one said that they weren’t worried about such a large scale of Dao Soldiers.
In the past, Wulie Country used 43,000 Blood Cloud Cavalry, led by intelligent commanders, it was enough to easily kill peak Saint Realm Venerables.
At this moment, the Xuan and Huang Grade Dao Soldiers, as well as the two million cultivators gathered here, were enough to fight against 20 top Saint Realm Cultivators.
However, this Ten Thousand Celestial Formation directly suppressed them.
It suppressed the energy connection between the Dao Soldiers and then split up their strength.
Even the best general who was good at gathering strength wouldn’t be able to do anything here. A dragon diving into a shallow ocean wouldn’t be able to stretch out its body.
Unless they first broke the 32-layer Purple Gold Pagoda in the Common People’s Path.
He looked at the mirror. There were close to 70,000 Xuan Dragon Warriors protecting the connection point between the Cloud World and the Vast Habitat.
The formation was really strict and just 70,000 of them, their strength could fight against the 500 Dao Soldiers around.
Taoist Faction and Demon Sect each had different types of Dao Soldier systems.
Vast Habitats were wary, they didn’t want their Dao Soldiers to be controlled by the sects under them.
The various sects also wanted to be independent, even if they were slightly weaker they wanted to grow by their own strength.
Only Common People’s Path, the Three Sect, and Six Schools pretty much had the same Dao Soldier system.
Due to their situation being bad and not having many resources to use, naturally they knew about the importance of unity. As such, it could also reduce the unneeded consumption of resources.
If they faced another battle, all their Dao Soldiers would be able to come together without much effort.
“Speaking of which, the crucial part of this battle is still within the Vast Habitat…”
While speaking, Zong Shou raised his hand and the scenes of the mirror changed to the outer region void.
Within the World River, there were many Heaven and Earth Grade Dao Soldier formations.
Counting it, there were a total of 47 of them. The small ones had 35 people and the large ones had hundreds. There were also 4,000 Celestial Cultivators who gave off a huge aura.
Just as Zong Shou shone over, the Dao Soldier formations and Celestial Cultivators either used spells or Sword Light to strike toward the Vast Habitat.
Peng!
The entire Vast Habitat shook. The ground below slightly shook for a moment.
Zong Shou personally looked on as those restrictions and talismans the cultivators placed outside fell, bit by bit.
Just as Zong Shou thought that the outer region restrictions were about to be crushed in one strike, above the 32-layer Pagoda, Xiuguan’s lip curled. He waved his sleeves and a bright glow shot out.
Those restrictions all recovered. The repair speed even exceeded before it had collapsed.
In the blink of an eye, it recovered back to normal. The 47 Dao Soldier formations and thousands of Celestial Cultivators’ hard work was useless.
Zong Shou relaxed once more, thinking to himself that no wonder thousands of years ago when the factions worked together they were unable to take down Common People’s Vast Habitat and instead returned after suffering huge losses.
This formation was indeed strong, in comparison it was much stronger than the Mysterious Cloud Spirit Sect which fell to the Blood Cloud Cavalry.
Especially when there was an End Realm Peak Cultivator like Xiuguan in the formation, the formation became unbelievably firm.
Looking at the situation, even if all of them used up every bit of their Soul Power, they wouldn’t be able to shake this formation at all.
This was probably the reason why those three factions didn’t give up.
After the initial probe, it would be time for the true battle.
It was time for the Saint Realm and even End Realm Saint Venerables from the three factions to appear.