Chapter 1184: Circulation of Stars

Chapter 1184: Chapter 540: Circulation of Stars

Chapter 540

However, the spear technique of the golden armor battle soul was like the Heavenly Dao itself, precise and efficient. No matter how fierce the attack from the two was, he could always resolve them with the simplest technique at the lowest cost. Each of his moves contained the true essence of battlefield slaughter honed over time, without a single extraneous action.

The battle fell into a deadlock.

Cang Shi and Zhen Shan combined efforts could barely stall him, unable to inflict any real damage. On the contrary, as time went on, their consumption of divine power grew greater, while that golden armor battle soul seemed tireless, with his battle intent remaining at its peak.

“No way, if this keeps up, we’ll be exhausted to death by him!” Cang Shi communicated through divine thought, his expression serious.

“This guy seems to be guarding something…” Zhen Shan, amidst the fierce attacks, acutely observed that the golden armor battle soul, though powerful, never left the range of a hundred feet from the entrance of the Po Jun Hall.

His words awakened Xu Ran.

Xu Ran’s gaze moved beyond the three engaged in fierce battle and settled on the deep hall. In the eyes of others, there was endless darkness there. But under his “Gui Xu Eye,” he saw a faint yet eternal light.

It was an altar, upon which offered a flame, fist-sized, yet seemed to be able to burn the heavens!

“I see,” Xu Ran understood, “He is guarding the ‘Immortal Fire’ of the divine court.”

As long as the flames are undying, civilization remains unceasing. This golden armor battle soul, even in death or transformation into a fierce ghost, continued to execute the last mission.

Thinking of this, Xu Ran felt a trace of respect for this battle soul.

He no longer stood by, stepping forward, instantly arriving at the center of the battlefield.

“Stand down.”

He spoke calmly, his voice not loud but emanating a kind of undeniable authority.

Upon hearing the words, Cang Shi and Zhen Shan retreated immediately, as if receiving a great reprieve, standing respectfully behind him, panting heavily. Just moments of combat, their consumption far greater than before, fighting against thousands of battle souls.

In the arena, only Xu Ran and that golden armor battle soul remained confronting each other from afar.

“Outsider… Die!” The golden armor battle soul’s golden soul fire flickered violently, sensing from Xu Ran a far more terrifying threat than Cang Shi and Zhen Shan combined.

The broken spear in his hand emitted a hum yearning for blood.

However, Xu Ran did not make a move.

He simply looked quietly at the opponent, slowly raising his right hand.

Buzz!

The ancient bronze fragment reappeared.

Unlike before, this time, Xu Ran did not attempt to channel its power; instead, he inserted a strand of divine thought into it, resonating with the inscription of the core “Divine Court Battle Seal.”

A desolate, ancient, supreme aura slowly radiated from Xu Ran’s body.

This was not an aura belonging to Xu Ran himself, but to… the divine court! It was the authority aura of the long-gone supreme divine court, ruling the cosmos and conquering myriad realms!

“You… are…”

The golden armor battle soul’s frantic golden soul fire suddenly froze. The broken spear in his hand ceased its humming. In his consciousness filled with eternal solitude and slaughter will, a thunderbolt seemed to explode.

This aura… he knew it too well!

It was the aura that only the supreme commander of the divine court, holding the Emperor’s Seal, possessed!

Xu Ran did not answer; he merely gently pushed the bronze fragment forward.

The fragment floated between them, its intricate star map intersecting with the coordinates of this seventh outpost’s ruins.

“Divine… Court… Battle… Seal…”

The golden armor battle soul slowly uttered these four words. His eyes, formerly filled with frenzy and fury, retreated like the tide, replaced by a complex emotion of excitement, sorrow, bewilderment, and liberation.

He seemed to see an ancient figure, cloaked in the emperor’s robe, engulfing the cosmos, holding the Emperor’s Seal, issuing the last command to them.

“Hold… this place… awaiting… return…”

Fragments of memories churned within the soul fire.

He remembered now. He was the master of the Po Jun Hall at the seventh outpost, Divine General ‘Chifeng.’ Their final order was to hold this place, safeguard the fire of the divine court, and await the return of the Great Emperor.

But they had waited too long, far too long.

Waiting until the stars shattered, waiting until epochs ended, waiting until the souls of comrades transformed into cosmic dust, yet still no sign of the returning figure.

Eventually, even he himself, in the endless waiting and erosion by darkness, forgot who he was, leaving only an obsession of guarding.

And today, he finally awaited… one bearing the divine court’s imprint.

“Final General… Chifeng…”

The golden armor battle soul, slowly, withdrew the broken spear.

With the last sliver of conscious will, he saluted Xu Ran, and the bronze fragment, with the standard military salute of the divine court.

“…Salute… Emperor Seal!”

Boom!

With this bow, his eternal obsession finally achieved liberation.

His towering figure, along with the golden divine armor, began to crumble inch by inch, turning into a golden rain of light, dissipating into the cold cosmos.

No earth-shattering battle ensued, no heaven-destroying divine techniques employed.

Xu Ran, merely by wielding the authority of the divine court battle seal, allowed an ancient battle soul, capable of rivaling the Divine Furnace Realm, to liberate itself and vanish into smoke.

This scene brought Cang Shi, Zhen Shan, and all the Returning Ruins Dao Soldiers a shock far deeper than Xu Ran breaking the Master of Star Remnants with a single seal.