Chapter 2638 - 2603: The Greatest Taoist Soldiers under Heaven

At this moment, twenty-six battlefields erupted simultaneously into brutal bloodshed!

The Forbidden Zone Immortal Dynasty’s Taoist Soldiers were far too arrogant. They had always been invincible, had never known defeat; all past battles had been sweeping crushes. Everyone had accumulated far too much confidence—when they encountered an enemy of equal numbers, they charged without even thinking, purely by instinct, with not the slightest thought of evasion in their hearts.

On the Cloud Sword Venerable’s battlefield, the Nine-leaf Immortal Dynasty and the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty’s Star Domain Armies were locked in a savage melee.

There was none of the past battles’ sweeping crush; the generational gap in Immortal Dao Technology between Forbidden Zone Dao Soldiers and ordinary Ancient Emperor Daoist Soldiers simply did not exist here.

Neither side employed any stratagem or treachery; their tactics were nothing but a face-to-face, drum-to-drum frontal charge!

The two sides waged a life-and-death blood battle on every height—battle will, Army Formation, Treasure equipment, Army Formation structure, training level, officers’ and soldiers’ quality—utterly ignoring as one comrade after another fell around them. Their fighting will boiled like flame as they repeatedly charged and countercharged across this stretch of starry sky: charge, charge, sector and encircle, annihilate, then charge again.

Countless corpses fell; countless Warships shattered; Flying Swords snapped; armor fragments exploded outward; one after another stalk of emerald grass withered...

This was total frontal clash!

No one on either side retreated—fighting to the death!

This battle raged on for a full month and more. When all the shattered Spiritual Light finally dissipated, the sight of the battlefield was revealed.

Amid the innumerable mountains of corpses and seas of blood floating in the starry sky, the Cloud Sword Venerable, his face twisted in a savage grin and marked by a single wound so deep the bone was visible, beheaded the Sharp Blade Sword Venerable: "Fellow Daoist, you’ve grown a bit weak!"

"You only managed to kill forty percent of our comrades before you were wiped out—truly, it is disappointing to the extreme."

"Disappointing to the extreme, disappointing to the extreme!"

"Hahaha..."

All around, numerous Cultivators of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty converged, rapidly clearing the battlefield. The casualty rate was terrifying—forty percent of the Cultivators had died.

Yet no one paid it any mind.

Around them, the Nine-leaf Immortal Dynasty’s Taoist Soldiers had all been slain!

The Sharp Blade Sword Venerable was the last man alive; all remaining Taoist Soldiers had died, fighting until the very last. This was the Nine-leaf Sword Emperor’s Army Formation Immortal Technique—his Taoist Soldiers were destined to fight with fanatical yet precise battle will until the last man fell.

"Heh...heh..."

"You...were originally inferior to me..."

Blood spurted like a fountain from the Sharp Blade Sword Venerable’s severed neck, flowing out as he left his final, unwilling words in the mortal world.

"Nonsense."

"Weakling."

The Cloud Sword Venerable laughed and cursed at the severed head.

Then he stowed the head away, and together with his many comrades, swiftly cleared the battlefield, fleeing at high speed toward the Small World Grand Array, hiding beneath the Great Array’s protection.

...

In one regard, the Cloud Sword Venerable had not guessed wrong.

The Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor and the Nine Great Forbidden Area Ancient Emperors were indeed watching the many battlefields of this moment, gazing upon the Star Domain Armies’ savage melees, upon the countless lives perishing.

The results among them gradually came into focus, making hearts shudder.

"Your Majesty,"

"Our Star Domain Armies have engaged the enemy in twenty-six battles."

"Fourteen victories, five draws, seven defeats."

Fusang submitted the battle report, speaking swiftly: "The causes of victory and defeat are extremely complex, relating to terrain, to commanders, to fortune, and so on. Of the six Star Domain Armies that were wiped out, one Army was annihilated after encountering the Huang Yan Immortal Dynasty’s Elite Dao Soldiers; four Armies were shattered head-on on the battlefield."

"Two Armies...two Armies..."

Fusang’s tone grew hesitant, as though finding it hard to speak.

"Two Armies suffered a collapse of morale; the Armies broke apart and fled in all directions, then were harvested and annihilated like wheat, with the enemy suffering near-zero battle losses."

"This is relatively rare."

Jiang Ding inclined his head slightly; he had long since known.

Even in the era when the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty was first founded, such a high proportion of Army morale collapse had never occurred.

After all, these Armies had been converted from Cultivators of the Desolate Ancient Immortal Dynasty, and carried many flaws.

However, the corresponding political work not having been done properly was likewise a crucial factor. The Cultivators responsible must be held accountable and the causes found.

Within today’s vast Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty Armies, there must still be Armies whose morale is this fragile.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"The Political Department and the General Staff have already begun investigating the causes of these two Armies’ morale collapse."

Fusang noted it down.

"Your Majesty,"

"Excluding factors of morale collapse, of encountering higher-tier units, and of outstanding enemy commanders, our units on the frontal battlefield are, as a rule, annihilating the enemy Forbidden Zone Immortal Dynasty Taoist Soldiers at a casualty ratio of forty to sixty percent, displaying the Taoist Soldier arm’s hegemonic combat power!"

"It can be stated clearly: in this Golden Era, the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty is indisputably number one within the Taoist Soldier system!"

"Number one by a vast margin over second place!"

Fusang spoke in high spirits.

More detailed reports swept past before the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor like flying snow—these were post-battle summaries, recommendations, and so forth drafted by the General Staff and frontline officers, of immense value.

"Our army possesses multiple advantages."

"In the quality of officers and soldiers, we surpass many Forbidden Zone Immortal Dynasties;

"In Treasure equipment, our systems are more complete—artillery, infantry, attacking Sword Cultivator arms and their equipment are all matched sets, with an extremely high degree of integration with our Army Formations, far exceeding the enemy;

"In Army Formation Immortal Technology, we surpass the enemy..."

"With so many advantages compounded, this is the Golden Era’s number one Taoist Soldier force! At least at the Star Domain Army level, this is so!"

...

Time flowed on.

In the blink of an eye, more than a thousand years passed.

The Forbidden Zone Immortal Dynasties’ Taoist Soldiers surged into the Supreme Great Sun Star Domain like a tide that moved mountains and upended seas, storming into one Star Domain after another, one world after another, bringing Destruction to the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty’s Cultivators in each world, destroying each Formation Method in turn, slaughtering vast numbers of Cultivators, winning great battle gains.

Yet these gains were one by one lost in the battles that followed.

One Forbidden Zone Immortal Dynasty Daoist Soldier Army after another was annihilated and driven out by the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty, which gradually recovered its lost ground, rebuilt the Immortal Array sub-arrays, restoring the integrity of the Great Array.

The Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty displayed terrifying Taoist Soldier quality, far surpassing the many Forbidden Zone Immortal Dynasties!

"So troublesome?"

"Indeed, the Supreme Great Sun excels at nurturing people; his Taoist Soldiers are bound not to be weak."

The Huang Yan Dragon Emperor frowned slightly, sighing: "For a Sword Cultivator to be so adept at governance—he is truly an Anomaly, utterly different from Nine-leaf Friend."

"Yet if this continues, the notion of breaching the Immortal Array is pure fantasy."

The surrounding Forbidden Zone Emperors fell silent.

The Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor had fortified his lair until it was like an iron barrel; it was enough to give one a headache.

"Then dispatch Forbidden Zone Dao Soldiers."

"Forbidden Zone Dao Soldiers contain our own power, are intimately bound to our Power of Dao; this cannot be compensated for by subordinates. With the Nine Great Forbidden Area Dao Soldiers enclosing and slaying, the breach should be achievable."

The Three Flames Ancient Emperor spoke coldly.

"Good."

The Emperors all inclined their heads.

Boom!

With the Nine Great Forbidden Area Ancient Emperors’ command, the Nine Great Forbidden Area Dao Soldiers, who had long been poised to strike, stepped onto the battlefield beneath the oppressive radiance of the Nine Great Daos and abruptly surged forth. Innumerable Destructive Immortal Techniques blossomed, and in an instant they tore nine enormous breaches in the Supreme Great Sun Domain’s defenses, defenses that had been unbreakable for a thousand years. Like the Nine Heavens Milky Way, colossal Taoist Soldier Troops poured through the gaps in single file.

The Supreme Great Sun Domain’s homeland was plunged into vicious flames of war.

Unit after unit of the Nine Forbidden Zone Immortal Dynasties’ Taoist Soldiers randomly executed airborne assaults via teleportation Formation, destroying one Immortal Tao Industry Zone of the Supreme Great Sun Domain after another.