The battle was so ferocious that the very star sky bled. When a Saint fell, sheets of meteorites would ignite around them, burning into cosmic dust.

Boom!

The Extreme Dao divine might erupted. As the Great Saint of the Huolin Cave’s eyes opened and closed, the cosmos was torn apart — two bolts of lightning fired out, stretching who knew how many li in length.

In his hand he held a brilliant weapon, its entire body crystalline blue and dazzlingly beautiful, the ancient imperial might boiling within it.

This was the Kirin Staff — its name had shaken the Primordial Age!

It was forged from eternal blue gold, shining brilliantly and magnificently. At the top of the staff was a kirin head, lifelike and vivid, emanating an all-encompassing imperial might — as though the unparalleled sovereign of former times had been resurrected.

The Great Saint of the Huolin Cave raised it forward and swung it toward the Eternal Prime Star ahead of him, aiming to split open this life source site with a single blow.

Brilliant blue light poured out like a river of stars — boundless and vast, sweeping forward — cosmic ships shattered in its wake by the thousands, unable to withstand even the edge of it.

A cold snort rang out. Blazing light flashed, cleaving through the blue radiance, advancing against the imperial might with blinding speed — and struck the Kirin Staff!

An Extreme Dao confrontation had begun. The immortal armor of the Eternal Prime Star had emerged — the war armor of the ancient god had been donned by someone — and they were now fighting the Great Saint of the Huolin Cave.

“That is Dao Yan the Divine’s immortal armor — sacred and transcendent, capable of sweeping through the nine heavens and ten earths!”

Cries of astonishment rose from every corner of the Eternal Prime Star. This battle armor had been lost for who knew how many tens of thousands of years — every person had searched for it — and none had imagined it would appear this day.

It was a fierce collision. The two of them fought until the sun and moon lost their light and the starriver grew dim. Every Ancient Saint fled for their lives, evacuating to avoid the shockwaves.

Had they failed to do so, any obstruction would have been swept aside. The aftershocks of the Extreme Dao divine might left nothing standing in their wake. Even wielding the Kirin Staff, the Great Saint of the Huolin Cave did not have the upper hand — the Dao Yan divine armor was both offense and defense in one, and the person wearing it was also a Great Saint, posing an enormous threat to him.

The two of them tore open the cosmos, channeling their Extreme Dao Immortal Might, killing their way into the star depths, and planet after planet was sliced open as they went — a combat situation so fierce it made the spirit go cold.

“Kill!”

The Ancestor Kings from the Big Dipper and the Saints of Eternal had also engaged in a world-shaking confrontation. The scenes of battle were magnificent and breathtaking.

“Slay every last holy beast — do not let a single one escape! Annihilate them all!”

The people of the Eternal Prime Star roared. They pushed deep into the star region. One after another, stars blazed to life — these were powerful instruments of war, deployed over many years and finally put to use.

Every planet encircling Eternal was a fortress of war. The defensive “island chains” laid down tens of thousands of years ago all possessed offensive capability.

These were the ultimate weapons born from the fusion of Dao runes and technology — and now they opened their savage eyes like ancient primordial beasts, emanating boundless killing intent.

“Ahh…”

An Ancestor King bled. Half his body was blasted through. Blood ran in rivulets as he suffered devastating wounds and was sent flying.

Great Dao weapons and technological warfare instruments swept forward together — a star region drenched in blood — a slaughter and collision of unprecedented scale.

Blood was flowing. The battle continued. Planets were burning!

Thud!

Another Ancestor King lost half his skull — a spray of crimson blood and white brain matter splattered through the void. The one remaining eye of the half-headed figure filled with the ash-grey of despair, brimming with unwillingness.

Ten thousand — hundreds of thousands — of stars were firing annihilating beams of light. This entire region had been twisted into a death zone of intersecting light beams!

Of course, Eternal’s losses were also immense. Though this was their home battlefield and they had deployed Dao formation after Dao formation as well as a multitude of technological weapons, they still could not claim an absolute advantage.

The Ancestor Kings of the Big Dipper were overwhelmingly powerful, and their numbers were not just a handful — this was a joint offensive by multiple clans, their combined combat strength a terror without precedent.

One after another, planets were cleaved open by Ancient Saints, the Dao formations inscribed on them destroyed, the weapons demolished, and many of the armored powerhouses were torn apart, their blood dyeing the void.

It was a devastating battle!

Both sides suffered severe losses. Any Ancestor King was a Saint-level powerhouse — the death of even one was a catastrophe for that clan, a loss they could not afford to sustain.

Eternal’s war fortifications were the crystallization of countless years of effort — tens of thousands of stars built into fortresses, spread throughout this star region in vast and sweeping arrangement.

A battle of this scale was the greatest in five ten-thousand-year periods — a collision between star regions!

“Roar!”

The elder Saint of the Great Ox-Demon Clan fought to the point of going berserk. He unleashed his divine law image, growing to tens of millions of zhang in an instant — transforming into a massive black ox that stomped the stars beneath its hooves, gored the sun and moon with its horns, and thundered through the cosmos!

Its divine might was world-shaking. Every charge shattered planet after planet, crushing the war fortifications to rubble.

Several times it plunged into larger planets, driving all the way down to the planetary core, then wrenched itself free with violent force — the entire planet cracking into four or five pieces. It was like a primordial god-beast hatching from a colossal egg, stunning beyond all description.

It was an earth-shaking and terrifying great battle!

The powerhouse of the Primordial Clan — whose combat strength was legendary, declared the greatest among the Ten Great Primordial Royal Clans — swept his gaze across the field and countless cosmic ships shattered in an instant. With a raise of his hand, he destroyed fortress after fortress. He opened his mouth and simply inhaled several small planets whole — enough to send the people of the Eternal Prime Star trembling in shock.

“These holy beasts are too savage! Activate all defenses — we must hold them back!”

The powerhouses of Eternal roared. This was a catastrophe. The combat strength of the outer-domain holy beasts was unprecedented, and with so many of them descending together, it was a disaster of the highest order.

In terms of individual combat strength, Eternal could not match the Primordial Royal Clans — and in terms of sheer numbers of Saint-level powerhouses, they were even further outmatched.

What Eternal could rely on was the ever-perfected war fortifications that had been built and refined over thousands and tens of thousands of years, transforming this entire star region into a terrifying killing ground.

Without those fortifications, each charged with destructive power, the gates of the Eternal Prime Star would have already been breached, and catastrophe would surely have descended.

“Ahh…”

An Ancestor King of the Shadow Clan — supremely confident in his body techniques, boasting the ability to ascend to the heavens, descend into the earth, and move in and out of the sun and moon — attempted to infiltrate in secret and breach Eternal’s gates. Instead, eighteen beams of divine light struck simultaneously, body and soul annihilated completely.

The Primordial Royal Clans felt a chill. It was not a matter of insufficient power — it was that this entire domain was too fearsome. Eternal’s defenses, laid down across generations, were now performing beyond all expectation, and even Ancient Saints had fallen.

The Ancient Clan finally understood why the people of the Eternal Prime Star had not struck earlier. They had been waiting for this day, holding back, not wanting to expose these war fortifications too soon to those who would come later — the cost of revealing them prematurely would have been too great.

“They were enduring, biding their time — waiting for today, when our great army descended, before truly baring their fangs, intending to inflict devastating losses on us!”

“But mere Dao script and Saint-level weapons alone cannot stop us. As for wiping us out entirely — that is a dream. Kill them clean! As long as we break through, this ancient star is finished!”

The Ancient Clan pressed their assault, eyes cold and merciless, ruthlessly cleaving toward those planets. Blood and annihilating light flew together.

The ferocity and brutality of this battle surpassed everyone’s imagination. Both sides seemed to have underestimated each other’s strength.

Boom!

A tremendous shock — a massive spray of blood-light — everything ahead exploded as the meteorite field was completely detonated, and the steel fortress fortifications were reduced to scrap metal.

A phoenix cry shook the heavens. Crimson radiance and divine patterns filled the sky. The Nine Phoenix King had appeared — born of fire like a divine phoenix, hair whipping in the wind, eyes crackling with cold electricity. With a raise of his hand he demolished defenses in his path, sweeping through fortification after fortification — as though there were nothing before him.

“He broke through — has the Nine Phoenix King ascended to the Great Saint realm?!” someone from the Ancient Clan cried out, unable to suppress their shock, turning to look at his incomparable combat power.

A phoenix cry rang out. The Nine Phoenix King emanated chains of blood-colored Order, like the tail feathers of an immortal phoenix — divine and martial beyond compare. Each step covered a hundred thousand zhang. Each punch was like a phoenix spreading its wings — behind him a colossal firebird appeared, driving into everything ahead.

“Ahh…”

Screams rang out. An incomparably massive planet was melted by him — reduced to magma, then to cosmic ash. Two powerful figures burst out, their entire bodies on fire, even the Primal Spirit within their brow-bones burning — screams splitting the sky, tearing at the soul. They were two Ancient Saints, writhing in anguish with no hope of survival. Their voices faded rapidly. They burned to cinders. Their divine consciousness extinguished.

Eternal’s Saints were too few in number compared to the Big Dipper’s. Every Ancient Saint was a founding ancestor — absolutely vital to any great clan.

Now two had died at once. The clans erupted in howling fury, their eyes going red.

“Has the Nine Phoenix King become a Great Saint?”

“Not yet, I think — still just short of breaking through the shackles.”

Even the Ancient Clan was astonished. A powerhouse of the Nine Phoenix King’s caliber was a decisive force on the battlefield — his combat strength heaven-defying, capable of sweeping a region — and this invincible momentum was absolutely lethal, making enemies’ courage crumble.

“Kill! In this battle we annihilate Eternal’s Saints, descend in full force, and seize this star!” the Nine Phoenix King cried out. He charged at the front — like an arrowhead drenched in crimson blood, carrying the force to sweep all beneath heaven, crushing through star after star.

“Kill! The fall of the Eternal Prime Star is imminent — give everything you have!” Countless Ancestor Kings responded, following behind him in a flood tide of annihilation, charging forward.

The Nine Phoenix King was the future lord of the Blood Phoenix Mountain — his methods heaven-defying, his killing such as to make the scalp crawl. No one could stand in his path.

Moreover, the Kirin Heaven King of the Huolin Cave had also arrived, equally famous — also going on a killing spree, sweeping forward as though there were no one before him at all.

Eternal’s defensive fortifications were being stripped away one by one, the losses devastating, blood staining the cosmos crimson.

The Eternal Prime Star had powerhouses of comparable caliber, but they were outnumbered — in terms of Ancient Saint numbers, they simply could not compare.

“These holy beasts are too savage — so many of them descending at once, we truly cannot hold them back. What are we to do?” The people of the Eternal Prime Star watched this battle’s unfolding on their massive screens, every single one of them trembling with fear. The sprays of blood, the fortress planets exploding one by one — their hearts had gone cold.

“The original plan was to wipe them out in one net — use an endless array of war fortifications to slaughter them all. But now several vanguard figures on the verge of becoming Great Saints have appeared, breaking through layer after layer of defenses. It falls short of the mark! Where are supreme powerhouses like Luanfeng and Miluo? Had they been here to hold back the Nine Phoenix King and Kirin Heaven King among the holy beasts, those two could never have charged through like this.”

“The Xutuo Clan… it must have been them who colluded with the outer-domain holy beasts, releasing the divine hide map at this moment, drawing away a portion of Eternal’s supreme powerhouses — leading to this result. I have heard it said that it was the Nine Phoenix King among those holy beasts who arranged it all.”

Fear spread through the Eternal Prime Star. The holy beast army had come — not in enormous numbers, but every single one of them was an Ancient Saint — and it was a catastrophe of annihilating force.

Beyond the domain, Eternal’s forces fell back continuously, completely unable to hold the line, retreating in rapid collapse.

“Can it be that heaven itself seeks to destroy our Eternal realm?” The ordinary people watching the battle through large screens from their homes were paralyzed with fear, every face bloodless, feeling as though the end of days had arrived.

“Cursed Tanmu Star Region — why did the Life Tree appear now of all times? Is Eternal finished?” Cries of despair rose on all sides.

Deep in the cosmos, Extreme Dao Immortal Might radiated outward. The Great Saint of the Huolin Cave, Kirin Staff in hand, fought the enemy with everything he had — ancient stars were destroyed in their wake, the starriver growing dark. Neither could gain the upper hand.

This was an Extreme Dao confrontation — a supreme duel between two Ancient Imperial Sovereigns, transcending time and space!

In the cosmos, Huo Qizi’s blue hair fell loose around him. He stood in the void, his expression utterly cold, eyes fixed on the Eternal Prime Star, watching it draw ever closer to annihilation — a cold smile surfacing at the corner of his lips.

At the same instant, in the distant Tanmu Star Region, Dao Yi turned to look back — as though he could pierce through the void of the cosmos, see past the starriver, and fix his gaze upon Eternal.