Immortal Father
Chapter 1081 - 1081 377 The Key to Breaking the Game!

1081: Chapter 377: The Key to Breaking the Game!

1081: Chapter 377: The Key to Breaking the Game!

They fought.

But they couldn’t win.

To overpower Inner Heavenly Dao within its Illusionary Realm, sheer numbers are far from sufficient.

Either an extraordinary treasure capable of altering the tide of battle is needed, or the fatal flaw in Inner Heavenly Dao’s mechanisms must be discovered.

Li Ping’an’s group had yet to meet these criteria.

As a result, the intense battle between the slaves of Outer Heavenly Dao and the divine spirits of Inner Heavenly Dao became a grueling war of attrition, with minimal casualties on both sides.

It was still a direct confrontation between the power of Inner and Outer Heavenly Dao, fueled by living beings and the remnants of souls.

The battle itself was incredibly fervent.

This place was the core domain of Inner Heavenly Dao, where Outer Heavenly Dao’s recognized Heavenly Emperor and its slaves were completely suppressed by Inner Heavenly Dao’s power.

They were unable to wield Divine Skills, project Immortal Consciousness, or Spiritual Awareness, and could only rely on their physical Dao Bodies to engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat with the divine spirits.

The strongest Great General on their side was undoubtedly Lady Ba.

Lady Ba was naturally skilled in close combat, and now, with the augmentation of divine weapons and armor blessed by Inner Heavenly Dao’s power, she was enveloped by the Calamity Dao and the strength of Outer Heavenly Dao, holding her ground against ‘Xihe’ without faltering in the short term.

But that was all she could do.

She could not break through the situation either.

After a short while of fierce fighting, Lady Ba grabbed Li Ping’an and swiftly retreated from the central hall, while the raid squad of ten slaves dragged Li Dazhi away in a disheveled retreat.

Fortunately, Li Ping’an had called for reinforcements beforehand, and hundreds of slaves swarmed forward, temporarily fending off the attacks from the dozens of divine spirits.

The two sides pulled back and launched a battle away from the halls.

Li Ping’an positioned himself at the rear of the battle array.

Unable to use Immortal Consciousness, he relied on the primitive tactic of ‘shouting loudly’ to direct troops and fulfill his role as the commander-in-chief.

Magical Combat was impossible.

He could only shelter in the rear and attempt to direct the battle array to the best of his ability.

His Dao Body was fundamentally weaker than his Primordial Spirit, whereas most of these slaves—mainly from the Demon Race—had remarkably robust Dao Bodies.

On Inner Heavenly Dao’s ‘Qing Lake,’ another intense battle erupted swiftly.

The power of Inner and Outer Heavenly Dao clashed ceaselessly.

Although the slaves of Outer Heavenly Dao were abundant, they could only fight and retreat at this moment.

…

Above the skies of the Northern Continent in the primary world.

The increasingly relaxed Xuan Du Da Fa Shi continued to brood over the previous conundrum.

The massive crow had already shrunk to sixty percent of its original size.

Yet the Inner Heavenly Dao power enveloping it still possessed the ability to assimilate living beings.

Its mere proximity to areas brimming with life forms would spread waves of black dust that ordinary Daluo Golden Immortals could hardly withstand.

Only the Tai Chi Diagram could keep it confined to this location.

This left the Great Mage unable to extricate himself.

Despite cultivating in the art of tranquility and non-interference, Xuan Du Da Fa Shi ultimately remembered his origins as a member of the Human Race.

Borrowing the Tai Chi Diagram to observe the Eastern and Western Continents’ battle scenarios, he found himself somewhat moved.

On the Western Continent.

The Calamity Venerable secretly commanded the armies of Chiyou’s coalition, teaming up with the vicious demons of the Western Sect and the first wave of millions of Dao Soldiers who had arrived at the primary world, to launch a suicidal charge on the Three Western Cities.

This desperate charge left the Human Race’s side teetering on the edge of despair.

The remaining forces of the Human Race, along with newly dispatched reinforcements, amounted to merely sixty percent of their original number.

Under Fenghou’s command, they opted for fortified defense within the cities.

The good news was that due to Li Ping’an’s earlier duping of Daoist Luya, Luya and his trusted elite had withdrawn from the battlefield, eliminating several significant threats for Chiyou’s coalition.

The bad news was that the grand formations defending the Three Western Cities, worn out from prolonged battles, could barely withstand further assaults.

Thus, some experts on the Human Race’s side were forced to exit the cities for mortal combat.

With Xuanyuan Huangdi absent from the Western Continent, it fell upon Fenghou the Divine Strategist and Cangjie the Forebear Teacher to rise to the occasion.

Cangjie ventured out of the cities for battle, drawing enemies’ elites toward him, while Fenghou stationed herself atop the city walls to inspire the morale of the Human Race’s celestial soldiers.

Misfortunes never come singly.

What marked a time of dire straits for the Human Race presented an unparalleled opportunity for the Demon Race coalition army.

During his observations with Tai Chi Diagram, even the Artifact Spirit of the diagram issued warnings, revealing additional traces of Inner Heavenly Dao power attempting to assimilate new slaves in the region.

To this, Xuan Du Da Fa Shi could only sigh helplessly.

He even felt a twinge of nostalgia for the Heavenly Emperor.

While the Heavenly Emperor still wasn’t particularly adept in combat, his resourcefulness could always prove valuable…

Yet, compared to the Western Continent, the bloodiest toll lay in the midlands of the Eastern Continent.

The efforts of the immortals from the Three Teachings of the Taoist Sect in the underground realm were far from fruitless, but the cunning Inner Heavenly Dao employed another strategy—sending its army of Asura to wreak havoc amongst the mortal population in the midlands of the Eastern Continent.

First, chaos erupted within major cities;

A butcher, an elderly woman, or even a child suddenly went berserk, attacking those around them with knives, fists, and kicks;

This led to localized unrest, causing injuries, deaths, and bloodshed.

Stimulated by spilled blood, more mortals began turning on each other, quickly escalating into widespread turmoil that engulfed entire cities.

In merely an hour, over a hundred major cities descended into chaos.

Once the casualties in any given city exceeded ten thousand, tiny rivers of blood emerged underground, summoning torrents of blood;

These torrents, as they spread across the city surface, rapidly engulfed all life forms;

When the number of engulfed souls reached a critical point, blood rivers spontaneously emerged from the underground, linking to the Sea of Blood.

The Asura race protected by Inner Heavenly Dao’s power appeared like gods of slaughter descending onto the earth.

The blood-stained waters that had earlier surfaced across the Eastern Continent were merely precursors to this grand catastrophe.

At this moment, nearly a hundred major cities within the Eastern Continent had witnessed the emergence of blood waters, and over thirty cities had been invaded by the Asura race, including the deadly ‘Eight-Armed Asura’ capable of destroying cities within moments.

Xuanyuan Huangdi led celestial generals and troops to launch counterattacks everywhere.

One squadron after another of celestial soldiers, along with clouds carrying Taoist immortals from the Human Race, zipped across the midlands of the Eastern Continent.

The death toll of mortals reached tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions…

the numbers continued to climb rapidly.