Chapter 1976: Chapter 1976
Both Sages, Chen Ji and Yu Tang, fought desperately to delay Yuan Ling and Yan Yu by sacrificing their Dao Fields and depleting their World Origin Source. Their goal was to buy time for the Chen Dynasty Emperor to lead the core territories of the Chen and Yu Dynasties in escaping the Essence Xing World.
Or rather, it was to buy time for the Chen Dynasty Emperor to forcibly embed these core regions into two specially modified Spirit Arks.
Ordinary Spirit Arks lacked the capacity to bear entire continents of Essence Worlds. Yet despite the strain, these modified vessels, though barely holding together, ultimately did not collapse from the immense landmass crammed inside them.
However, the cost was clear. In the air, both arks could only travel at what could best be described as a turtle’s pace.
But how could the two great dynasties not have made preparations for such a scenario?
The moment the two core territories were secured inside the Arks, 70 to 80 Star Ships from across the dynasties' territories rose into the sky, converging on the two overloaded vessels.
These hundred or so starships represented the full might of both dynasties, some even part of the legacy of the defunct Qi Dynasty. There were three super Star Ships, nine large Star Ships, 50 to 60 medium Star Ships, and two other Spirit Arks and five Azure Arks.
Together, they formed a massive formation in mid-air, dragging the two overburdened Arks toward the void at increasing speed.
Simultaneously, elite cultivators who had been defending the northwest frontiers of the Essence Xing World against the allied invasion, along with True Immortals fighting beyond the heavenly screen, all abandoned their posts and converged toward the fleet.
With their arrival, the fleet surged ahead.
And because they had planned for their escape, the allied forces of the two invading Heavenly Fields, which were unprepared for their maneuver, were unable to mount a comparable response in time. Though superior in both number and strength, they could only watch helplessly as the well-organized fleet broke away.
Just as the Chen Dynasty Emperor prepared to cleave out a spatial tunnel and escape with the fleet, a plan that had taken decades of scheming and sacrifice, Yuan Ling, who had invested so much, was never going to let the juiciest piece of his prey slip away.
Despite the desperate resistance of Yu Tang and Chen Ji, both prepared to die and already having sacrificed their Dao Fields, Yuan Ling seized a moment of opportunity. With a sweep of his sleeve, a grayish-black ripple surged toward the fleeing fleet. In an instant, it caught up.
While the fleet’s formation might resist the blow, the barely-opened void passage they were escaping through could never withstand such force. Even the aftermath of the attack would be enough to collapse the fragile spatial tunnel.
At that critical moment, a soft sigh echoed through the void. Suddenly, the once-dim sky flared with starlight, as if the heavens themselves had drawn close. A mighty swathe of starlight descended, dissolving the grayish-black ripple just inches from the fleet, and shrouding the void around them in celestial radiance.
"ESSENCE LUXURIANT WORLD? SHANG XIA!” Yuan Ling’s furious roar thundered across the skies outside the Essence Xing World.
But Shang Xia gave no reply. He didn’t care that his attack revealed his identity and location. His presence had already been sensed by several other Sages watching the battle.
Under Shang Xia’s protection, the Essence Xing World fleet quickly stabilized and expanded their void tunnel. The Chen Dynasty Emperor didn’t even have time to thank Shang Xia. He seized the moment to urge the fleet into the void tunnel.
Elsewhere in that starlit void, another void channel was forcibly opened. Two large Star Ships from the Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field, piloted by Huang Jinghan and the Ying Brothers, entered the scene.
When many observers assumed the Essence Luxuriant World was intervening in the conflict, even the two invading Heavenly Fields slowed their assault. But soon, the world shook again.
From within a dense fog of clouds, a colossal landmass began to rise. It was pulled by a super Star Ship, a large Star Ship, a Spirit Ark, and over ten medium Star Ships. It quickly broke through the heavenly screen.
It was the Wanyun Continent!
Did the Wanyun Association also plan to flee?!
At that moment, a flurry of premeditated attacks, prepared since the moment the Essence Xing World’s Will was weakened and its World Origin Source fragmented, erupted all at once.
These strikes came not only from Yuan Ling and Yan Yu, but also from three other Sages hidden in the void. Even though two were merely clones, they were joined by four high-level True Immortals whose attacks were capable of devastating the Wanyun Continent.
The next second, the True Immortals who had moved to intercept Wanyun realized something shocking.
The starlight domain that had shielded the Essence Xing World’s fleet had, as they departed and the field shrank, silently extended its coverage to the Wanyun Continent. The latest_epɪ_sodes are on_the novel⦿fire.net
As the deadly attacks approached, swirling vortexes of starlight erupted from the heavenly screen, shattering, devouring, and dispersing them entirely.
In the eyes of those present, Shang Xia was shamelessly greedy. It wasn’t enough to extract the elite of two dynasties. He even dared to take an entire Elysium and a 20,000 mile wide continent!
After all, the alliance led by the Essence Ling Heavenly Field had spent decades, countless manpower, and vast resources just to conquer the Essence Xing World. In the end, they only seized a shattered husk of an Essence World. Even the original alliance that consisted of three Heavenly Fields was reduced to two... Right, that was also related to the little asshole.
Mother fucker! Your Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field didn’t do shit! To crave the core essence of the Essence Xing World... On what grounds?!
At that point, not only Yuan Ling and Yan Yu, but many other experts watching the conflict were seething in shared resentment against Shang Xia and the Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field.
With that, Shang Xia had drawn the anger of everyone present. There was no doubt about it. He was definitely going to be the next target.