182: Battle of Youfeng Valley! Level 16 Arrives

Youfeng Valley.

When Su Jin's will permeated heaven and earth, using his Dharma Aspect to support a falling city,

the intensity of the war here also reached its peak.

Unlike the symbolic offensive and defensive battles of the past few days,

now, the Dark Star Empire had directly abandoned all pretense, completely exposing its most ferocious fangs.

The floating fortress clusters in the sky.

No longer just providing ordinary long-range fire suppression, they were now activating all their launch units, regardless of energy loss.

Destructive beams poured down like a torrential rain.

On the ground, legions of Obsidian Destroyers, like a breaching black flood, crashed into the Blue Star Alliance's defensive line.

Even more deadly was the situation in the sky.

"Report! Five new Legendary-tier energy signatures detected! Total confirmed enemy Legendaries...seven!"

"One of them...one target's energy level, Law intensity...Sixteenth Order! It's a Sixteenth Order Dark Star Monarch!"

General Wei stood before the tactical sand table.

Beneath his messy white hair, his bloodshot eyes showed no trace of panic, instead shining with astonishing brightness.

"Damn it, they're pulling out all the stops."

He cursed, his booming voice drowning out all other noise.

"Give the order! 'Flame Heaven Sword Master', 'Giant Rock Titan', execute according to the plan!"

He turned and looked at a middle-aged man beside him, also dressed in a general's uniform, with a calm expression.

"With a Monarch personally present, it seems they consider our Youfeng Valley the main course."

"Old Qin, it looks like we two old fellows need to stretch our muscles too."

The Lord Qin, grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

"I've been waiting for a long time."

Before his words faded, both of them simultaneously erupted with a majestic aura no less powerful than the two Legendaries on the front lines.

As Lords, the strength of their subordinate troops was also a part of their own power.

They might have been out of battle for a long time, but their ranks were genuinely at the Legendary realm.

At the same time, behind the battlefield, a pillar of light shot into the sky from a unit that had just arrived via emergency teleportation.

Another Legendary professional from the Blue Star Alliance had answered the call.

In the sky, the battle situation changed in an instant.

The Flame Heaven Sword Master's flames burned the sky, and the Giant Rock Titan shook heaven and earth.

Adding General Wei and Lord Qin, as well as the new reinforcement, five Legendary powerhouses confronted five Legendaries from the Dark Star Empire.

The clash of Laws tore the sky, and the energy ripples ravaged the earth.

But everyone knew that the true core of this Legendary battle was elsewhere.

There, a solitary, lofty figure stood.

Bai Xiao.

Opposite him was a Dark Star Monarch, clad in black-gold royal armor and wielding a great axe, one of the Dark Star Empire's deputy commanders in the Southern Border War Zone.

The Sixteenth Order's pressure was like a tangible entity, distorting light and suppressing all Laws around him, forming an absolute "Monarch's Domain."

In this domain, he was the sole god.

"Ant, state your name."

The Dark Star Monarch's voice was devoid of emotion, as if stating an established fact.

"This Monarch does not kill nameless nobodies."

Bai Xiao did not reply.

He merely slowly raised the long sword in his hand.

The space behind him began to collapse, not a physical destruction, but a conceptual annihilation.

Color, light, sound, and even the sensation of time passing, were all converging towards a state of "nothingness."

A cold, silent, and world-ending will rose from him.

All living beings in the Molten Heart World.

No matter where they were, no matter their cultivation level, heard a detached declaration deep within their souls.

A true name.

"Annihilation."

This was Bai Xiao's Dao, and also his name.

A pallor spread out.

With Bai Xiao at the center, the world was permeated by the Law of "Annihilation."

The Dark Star Monarch's overbearing "Monarch's Domain" was slowly eroded and ground away by this pallor.

For the first time, a solemn expression appeared in the Dark Star Monarch's crimson pupils.

"So that's it, a kindred spirit."

He raised his great axe, and the axe blade condensed a terrifying power capable of splitting continents.

...

The ground battlefield had become a meat grinder.

An additional Thirteenth Order Legendary from the Dark Star Empire, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, was wantonly harvesting the lives of Alliance soldiers.

He transformed into a shadow; each flash was accompanied by the perishing of hundreds, even thousands, of lives.

Attacks from conventional troops landed on him, unable to even make him pause.

He reveled in the pleasure of this slaughter, his gaze quickly locking onto a position that was still stubbornly resisting.

The soldiers there were well-equipped, their formation solid, making them a tough nut to crack.

He sneered, his figure transforming into a streak of light, rushing straight towards them.

However, what awaited him was not the expected collapse and wailing.

A thousand swordsmen clad in silver-white armor simultaneously raised their heads.

They were the Ling Shu Sword Guards.

Hum—

A thousand souls produced high-frequency resonance, and a thousand mental worlds linked and overlapped in an instant.

"Guiyuan Sword Domain."

The Dark Star Legendary's figure suddenly froze.

He found that the surrounding scenery hadn't changed, but the entire world's "rules" had become strange and hostile.

Space became viscous, requiring immense effort to move even an inch.

Elemental energy no longer responded to his summons; instead, it transformed into invisible blades, slicing at his protective divine light from all directions.

Even more terrifying, in his mental world, it was as if a thousand whispers and the clang of a thousand swords resonated simultaneously.

He was trapped.

Trapped by a group of Gold-tier soldiers in a sword domain constructed from souls.

"Bastards!"

He roared, unleashing all his power.

Shadow energy transformed into a storm, impacting this invisible cage.

The Sword Domain shook violently, and many Ling Shu Sword Guards' faces paled, blood seeping from the corners of their mouths.

But their formation, their soul link, did not waver in the slightest.

Just as this Legendary was preparing to break through this bizarre domain at all costs,

a gentle and sacred light descended from the sky.

"Bullying the younger is not a good habit."

A soft female voice rang out.

As the radiance dispersed, a woman in a beautiful long dress, with golden hair draped over her shoulders and an exquisite face, floated quietly in mid-air.

In her hand, she held a small, sun-like orb of light.

It was Apolosi, the Guardian of Radiant City, who had been idle to the point of boredom recently and had come to Infinite City as a guest.

Thanks to Su Jin's help, she had not only successfully advanced to the Fourteenth Order.

Her combat power was even on par with other Legendaries of the same rank among the domain overlords.

The Dark Star Legendary's soul nearly fled his body the moment he saw her.

Fourteenth Order!

The level of condensation of this Law was far above his own!

"Go!"

Without the slightest hesitation, he burned his origin to tear space and flee.

"Did I say you could leave?"

Apolosi's tone remained gentle.

She gently squeezed, and the orb of light in her hand shattered in response.

In an instant, a brilliant light shone everywhere.

Countless chains made of pure light elements appeared out of thin air, piercing through the void and binding the fleeing Dark Star Legendary tightly.

No matter how he struggled, the shadow energy melted like ice and snow under the radiance of the holy light.

Apolosi flew over unhurriedly, extended a slender finger, and lightly flicked the Legendary's forehead.

With a dull "thud."

The Thirteenth Order Legendary powerhouse, like a naughty child whose head had been flicked, screamed and was directly bounced from mid-air to the ground, creating a large crater.

"If you move around again, I'll purify you, okay?"

Apolosi smiled, her tone indifferent.

Not far away, Li Mo, who had just killed an Obsidian Destroyer, stared dumbfounded at this scene.

First, he saw the group of silver-white swordsmen, with their mortal bodies, forcefully blocking a Legendary's attack.

Then, he saw a fairy-like powerhouse swatting that Legendary down like a fly.

Li Mo rubbed his eyes, pinched himself, and it hurt.

This was not a dream.

"Infinite...Infinite City..."

What kind of monstrous territory was this, after all?

He muttered to himself, his words unfinished.

Rumbling sounds echoed from the flank of the battlefield.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

That was...Infinite City's regular army.

They had entered the main battlefield...