“Swoosh!”
In the Independent Battlefield, a streak of light suddenly rose up, as if piercing heaven and earth.
Inside the Imperial Sky Realm stronghold, the experts who had failed to catch Jun Changxiao and were returning dejectedly saw this and their eyes immediately blazed with fervent brilliance.
“A mine vein is emerging!”
“Assemble, everyone assemble!”
In an instant, the stronghold became lively and restless, and then tens of thousands of warriors flew out in neat formation, heading toward the light that pierced heaven and earth.
Light piercing the sky, mine vein emerging.
This was experience the Imperial Sky Realm experts had summarized, and it had never been wrong.
So this time going over, everyone had already prepared pills, sharpened their weapons, and made preparations early on for battle with the Imperial Soul Race!
“Elder Lin!”
An expert said: “This streaming light has tremendous momentum. The mine vein’s scale is probably not small.”
“Correct.”
The old man called Elder Lin nodded: “At least a large-scale mine vein!”
Everyone hearing this, their eyes blazed.
A large-scale mine vein would contain at least billions of spirit stones at minimum. If our Imperial Sky Realm occupied and mined it, it would absolutely be unimaginably enormous wealth!
“Everyone.”
Elder Lin said while flying: “The streaming light is relatively close to our Imperial Sky Realm stronghold. After arriving, establish defensive lines and absolutely don’t allow the Imperial Soul Realm’s forces to charge in!”
“Alright!”
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Very quickly, the tens of thousands of warriors led by Elder Lin arrived at the streaming light’s perimeter, then rapidly deployed defensive lines. Hundreds of formation masters even searched for positions, joining hands to arrange various defensive formations.
The appearance of streaming light indicated a mine vein emerging, but they had to wait for a period of time, so what the Imperial Sky Realm could do was deploy troops and arrange formations, prohibiting the Imperial Soul Realm from seizing it.
“Due east, deployment complete!”
“Due west, deployment complete!”
“…”
People continuously reported on defensive line deployment situations. From the extremely efficient actions, they had obviously experienced this many times.
“Strange.”
A warrior deploying formations in the true north stood before a charred deep pit, puzzled: “Why is there a pit? Why is there a hole?”
“Senior Sun, not finished deploying yet?”
“Almost, almost!”
That person didn’t dwell on the pit and hole, but instead chose to go around them, skillfully inserting formation flags and drawing formation lines, until they linked with nearby formation masters’ deployments, forming a formation system with an extremely wide coverage.
That took about fifteen minutes.
The originally very ordinary desolate land, shrouded by various formations, transformed into an impregnable military fortress.
The Imperial Sky Realm side didn’t relax their vigilance, beginning to successively arrange personnel, standing at necessary positions.
The Imperial Soul Realm’s forces hadn’t arrived yet, but the atmosphere was already murderous.
“Swoosh!”
“Swoosh!”
Suddenly, streaks of light flew from the distance, their numbers so many they were like locusts passing through.
“They’re here!”
Elder Lin’s face became serious.
The tens of thousands of Imperial Sky Realm warriors were the same, but no one was timid, no one retreated.
Those who dared enter the Independent Battlefield all hoped to obtain spirit stones. Now that a large-scale mine vein was about to emerge, even if they died in battle, they wouldn’t yield it up.
“Swoosh! Swoosh!”
Dense masses of streaming light stopped outside the defensive formation. After the radiance scattered, they revealed warriors one by one with burly builds. From their appearance, they were extremely similar to the Soul Clan, especially their eyes which flashed with eerie brilliance.
That’s right.
This was the Imperial Soul Clan.
Among those who came this time were many females. Although their looks weren’t necessarily beautiful, their auras were very much like Hua Meigui’s.
To summarize, the Imperial Soul Clan was related to the Soul Clan.
Jun Changxiao had just described himself as an Imperial Soul Clan son-in-law, so these people were either his older or younger brothers-in-law, or older or younger sisters-in-law.
The rough middle-aged man at the front sneered: “Your Imperial Sky Realm came quite quickly.”
“Heh.”
Elder Lin laughed without really smiling: “Still a bit slower compared to you all two years ago.”
Two years ago, a medium-scale mine vein appeared in a region close to the Imperial Soul Realm stronghold. By the time the Imperial Sky Realm people rushed over, the defensive lines had already been deployed eight hundred li away.
“In my view.”
The rough middle-aged man said: “Our two clans constantly fighting and killing over mine veins truly hurts our vitality too much. Better to discuss this peacefully.”
“Bah!”
An expert coldly said: “Our Imperial Sky Realm occupied the excellent position first, and you Imperial Soul Realm start talking about discussion—do you have no shame? Besides, two years ago when a mine vein emerged, how come we didn’t see you discuss anything!”
“Alright then.”
The rough middle-aged man shrugged his shoulders, saying: “Since your Imperial Sky Realm isn’t planning to discuss, our Imperial Soul Realm can only use forceful measures.”
Honestly speaking, he really didn’t want to lead people to charge over, because after all, the other side occupied the excellent position and had deployed layer upon layer of defensive lines. Fighting would definitely result in heavy losses.
“Come on!”
The Imperial Sky Realm expert said: “Who’s afraid of who!”
“Hmph.”
The rough middle-aged man snorted coldly.
He didn’t immediately lead his subordinates to assault the formation, instead standing quietly outside the defensive line. The Imperial Sky Realm warriors likewise had no intention of attacking.
Fighting had to be done, but they had to wait until the streaming light disappeared, because only then would the mine vein be completely unearthed. Otherwise, if there was any accident affecting the ground, they might very likely end up with a wasted effort.
The total number of warriors from both major planes had already broken a hundred thousand, maintaining an opposing standoff, the murderous aura becoming increasingly intense.
Barring accidents.
After the mine vein emerged, this place would become a cruel slaughterhouse.
Killing for resources, dying for resources—this was the most common scene in the martial dao world, and also what most embodied the natural law of the strong preying on the weak, survival of the fittest.
Time slowly passed, gone never to return.
“Swoosh!”
Two days later, the streaming light piercing heaven and earth came to an abrupt stop.
This region first restored its former tranquility, then was shrouded by intense killing aura and violent energy!
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
The Imperial Soul Realm’s tens of thousands of warriors roared furiously, charging toward the defensive formation like savage beasts.
The streaming light had disappeared, the mine vein emerged.
They had to break through the layers of defensive lines in the first instance!
“Engage in battle!”
Elder Lin shouted.
“Buzz! Buzz!”
The four linked formations in the east, west, south, and north operated, layers of barriers rapidly condensing, defensive strength increasing several times over!
Brutal slaughter was about to begin!
“Rumble!”
However, before the Imperial Soul Realm experts could charge over, the true north region’s defensive system suddenly suffered violent impact from within, then a huge breach shattered open.
“What’s going on!” Elder Lin roared.
The Imperial Soul Clan was about to attack. If a defensive line suddenly shattered, it would absolutely implicate the other systems, thereby turning into a tofu-dreg project!
“Elder Lin!”
An expert exclaimed: “Someone rushed out!”
Needless to say, Elder Lin also saw it.
It was an extremely fast streak of light. After breaking through the true north formation defensive line, it rapidly disappeared into the firmament.
Elder Lin’s spiritual sense barely kept up with the vehicle speed, seeing inside was the man and woman who had previously barged into the stronghold, so he was stunned: “How were they inside?”
“Rumble rumble rumble!”
Suddenly, the ground began to shake, rapidly cracking and collapsing.
The formations established on all four sides, as the structures supporting them twisted and shifted, rapidly suffered destruction, then stopped operating, the barriers extinguishing like candles.
“Rumble!”
“Rumble rumble rumble!”
The earth’s trembling continued for a long time, the kicked-up dust blotting out the sky.
“This…”
The Imperial Soul Realm experts were all dumbfounded.
We haven’t even started breaking the formations yet—how did they somehow get destroyed from the inside?
“Heaven is helping us!”
That rough middle-aged man shouted loudly: “Charge in with full momentum!”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
…
The ground’s trembling stopped.
The dust filling the sky completely dispersed.
The murderous aura gathering in the air vanished without trace.
This was because the Imperial Sky Realm experts and Imperial Soul Realm experts didn’t engage in slaughter. They very amicably hung in midair, one by one in states of dumbfounded shock.
Below.
Everything was clearly visible.
There was a very large, very large deep pit, looking just like a mine pit, but inside there was nothing at all, and there wasn’t even a trace of the kind of explosively dense Heavenly and Earthly properties that should exist after a mine vein emerged.
Over a hundred thousand warriors from two planes, all currently covered in question marks.
Where’s the mine?
Where are the spirit stones?
Did a dog run off with them?
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