Wushang remained calm as ever and analyzed.
“The Immortal Domain must already have received the plea for aid, but judging from their response, internal strife continues unabated. Their reinforcements will inevitably be slow and limited. This is a heaven-sent opportunity! Though our realm has suffered a great loss of vitality, if we gather our remaining strength and strike like thunder, it will be enough to deal the Ancient Realm a fatal blow before the Immortal Domain’s main forces can react!”
The five giants quickly reached a consensus—to take advantage of the chaos!
This time, they were determined to seize the Origin Ancient Artifact and obtain the secret of breaking from king to emperor!
They would tear open another bloody wound in the Primordial Ancient Realm atop the injury left by the dark invasion!
“Immediately gather all forces capable of battle!”
The Red King issued the order, his voice firm and decisive.
“This king and Wushang will personally lead the force. Xuesha and Soul Lord will accompany us! Fellow Daoist Kundi will remain in the rear and coordinate resources!”
“Our target is the southern region of the Primordial Ancient Realm, in the direction of Myriad Ravines Abyss! That is where the Ancient Realm’s defenses are relatively weak, and it is also close to several of their important sources of life!”
“We must act fast! We must be ruthless! Strike once and withdraw, and absolutely do not get entangled! Our primary goals are destruction, slaughter, and the creation of panic. If we can find clues to where that Golden Crow brat is in seclusion, or locate his allies in the Ancient Realm, they are to be struck first!”
One order after another, filled with the intent of destruction, spread out from the Dark Divine Hall.
The war machine that was the Foreign Realm, though severely damaged in the last great battle, still possessed its foundations.
The surviving and replenished immortals and dark legions were mobilized once more. Under the leadership of the Red King and Wushang, they silently bypassed the frontal battlefield and, following hidden paths through the chaos, charged straight toward the most hollowly defended southern region of the Primordial Ancient Realm—Myriad Ravines Abyss!
The timing they chose was exceedingly cunning.
At this moment, the Ancient Realm’s main forces were being firmly held down by the dark beings from the Realm Sea on the major battlefields—the Fallen Star Sea in the north, the Immortal Lands in the west, the ancient forests in the east, and elsewhere. Immortal King Wuzhong and the others were exhausted from coping with them and had no strength to spare.
The Immortal Domain’s reinforcements were still on the road, gathering their forces.
As for the Foreign Realm, it had precisely seized this once-in-a-thousand-years opening!
Just as the Immortal Domain’s vanguard reinforcements led by King Pan and Immortal King Hunyuan had only just left the borders of the Immortal Domain, this surprise force from the Foreign Realm had already approached, like phantoms, the already battered southern realm wall of the Primordial Ancient Realm!
The Primordial Ancient Realm, this ancient world that had only just managed to catch its breath from the trauma of the Foreign Realm’s invasion, had yet to receive the powerful aid it longed for—yet first, it welcomed a fatal blade from behind!
Before them was the dark tiger of the Realm Sea; behind them, the vicious wolves of the Foreign Realm!
A true desperate situation had already descended!
Immortal King Wuzhong, who was holding the Space-Time Divine Hall, sensed it almost the instant the Foreign Realm army triggered the restrictions on the southern realm wall. His expression instantly turned incomparably ugly, and a deep sense of powerlessness and fury flashed through his eyes.
“Foreign Realm… you people… do you truly intend to carry out such an act of extermination?!”
He knew that the worst possible situation had occurred.
The Ancient Realm had already fallen into a fatal encirclement, attacked from front and rear by two mortal enemies!
And at this moment, Lu Xuan, who was in secluded cultivation deep within the Golden Crow ancestral land of the distant Immortal Domain, felt his mind, immersed in the deduction of the Great Dao, suddenly throb.
Outside the independent space-time that sealed him, the towering Fusang divine tree stirred without wind. Its branches and leaves rustled loudly, scattering uneasy golden radiance across the sky.
Just as the southern realm wall of the Primordial Ancient Realm was triggered by the Foreign Realm army, and despair arose in Immortal King Wuzhong’s heart—
“Buzz!”
In the northern region of the Ancient Realm, above the Fallen Star Sea battlefield that was being eroded by the main dark forces, the void was suddenly torn open by a vast surge of Immortal Domain Dao resonance!
A white jade tower ship, forged entirely from Nine Heavens white jade, branded with the totems of the Immortal Domain’s myriad races and radiating brilliant immortal light, descended above the battlefield like a sharp sword cleaving through the darkness, violently smashing through the dark matter!
Atop the tower ship, banners fluttered. Standing at the very front were two figures—none other than King Pan and Immortal King Hunyuan, who had come to provide aid by the resolution of the kings of the Immortal Domain!
Behind them were hundreds of elite experts from the various races of the Immortal Domain, each with a vigorous aura and all at least at the peak of the True Immortal realm!
“Fellow Daoists of the Ancient Realm! The Immortal Domain’s reinforcements have arrived! King Pan and Hunyuan are here!”
Two majestic Immortal King divine wills rang out like thunder, instantly spreading throughout the entire chaotic Fallen Star Sea battlefield!
The True Dragon King, who had been bitterly holding on, had his spirits greatly lifted and let out a dragon roar that shook the heavens. “Fellow Daoist King Pan! Fellow Daoist Hunyuan! You’ve come at just the right time!”
As for the World-Eroding Immortal King, who was entangled in battle with the True Dragon King and constantly eroding the star remains, he let out an irritable roar. Countless dark tentacles writhed madly, clearly extremely displeased by this sudden turn of events.
“Form the array! Purify the darkness!”
King Pan did not hesitate in the slightest and acted directly!
The immortal peach tree above his head manifested, its lotus leaves swaying as it scattered endless clear radiance!
This clear radiance was not an attack, but contained the Immortal Domain’s most fundamental power of order and purifying Dao laws. Like warm sunlight falling upon frozen earth, wherever it passed, the dark matter seemed to encounter its natural bane. With hissing sounds, it rapidly melted away and receded!
Though it could not instantly purify an existence like the World-Eroding Immortal King, against ordinary dark beings and the pervasive dark aura, it had an immediate and obvious suppressive effect!
At once, the dark legion’s offensive faltered. Many lower-level dark beings were directly reduced to flying ash within the clear radiance!
“Hahaha! Excellent! Watch me split apart that rotten star of yours!”
Immortal King Hunyuan let out a wild laugh.
He locked directly onto the World-Eroding Immortal King. The heaven-splitting giant axe in his hand erupted with a terrifying edge capable of tearing apart galaxies, and with one stroke, he chopped fiercely toward its body!
“Roar! Damn you—seeking death!”
The World-Eroding Immortal King roared in fury and had no choice but to divert more than half its attention, condensing dark tentacles and disintegration rays to meet Immortal King Hunyuan’s giant axe.
“Boom—!”
The giant axe collided with the power of darkness once more, and the shockwaves that erupted shattered countless surrounding star remains into dust!
With the addition of King Pan and Immortal King Hunyuan, two fresh fighting forces—especially King Pan’s purifying power, which suppressed the dark legion as a whole—
the originally precarious Fallen Star Sea battlefront finally stabilized for the time being!
The pressure on the True Dragon King was greatly reduced. His dragon breath became even more violent, and together with Immortal King Hunyuan, he began to suppress the World-Eroding Immortal King in return!
At the same time, the accompanying Immortal Domain elites also formed battle arrays and charged into the battlefield. Most of their divine abilities and magical treasures carried attributes of light, order, and purification, dealing extra damage to dark beings. They immediately gained the upper hand in several localized areas of the battlefield.
While maintaining control over the battlefield, King Pan swept his divine will across the other directions, and his expression grew increasingly grave.
He sensed the extreme deathly stillness in the west, the violent depletion of vitality in the eastern ancient forest.
And… from the southern realm wall, the familiar and detestable fluctuations that belonged to the Foreign Realm!
“The Foreign Realm has indeed come as well! Those despicable wretches!”
King Pan cursed inwardly and immediately sent a message to Immortal King Wuzhong.
“Fellow Daoist Wuzhong! We have arrived at the northern border and have temporarily stabilized the situation! We are already aware of the matter of the Foreign Realm in the south. We must find a way to deal with it as soon as possible!”
Within the Space-Time Divine Hall, Immortal King Wuzhong sensed the sudden reduction of pressure on the northern battlefront, and his heart settled slightly. But the Foreign Realm’s invasion in the south was like a thorn in his back.
He immediately replied, “Many thanks, Fellow Daoist King Pan! Fellow Daoist Reincarnation and I will find a way to hold back the Foreign Realm in the south. You must be sure to block the main dark forces in the north!”
The arrival of the Immortal Domain’s vanguard reinforcements had shared a tremendous amount of pressure for the Ancient Realm, bringing it a brief chance to breathe and further uplifting the already tottering morale of the Ancient Realm’s allied forces!
However, everyone understood that this was only the beginning.
The main forces of the Realm Sea’s darkness had not retreated. The venomous fangs of the Foreign Realm had already arrived. The true trial was still far from over.