297: Chapter 297 The Crimson Commander and the Heavy Artillery Barrage!

In the void beyond the heavens, that massive dark-red passage resembled a single eye oozing pus and blood, staring fixedly at the Three Thousand Upper Realms.

“Roar—!”

Accompanied by hair-raising shrieks, Realm Demons surged out of the rift like a frantic black tide.

They came in various forms—some with four arms, others with bone spikes on their backs—but without exception, they all emitted a corrosive aura that was completely incompatible with the Laws of the Immortal Dao.

These millions of demons all possessed the strength of the Immortal Realm and Heavenly Immortal Realm!

“Form arrays! Resist the enemy!”

The Valkyrie Wu Qin, who held supreme command over the Three Thousand Upper Realms, was clad in dark-gold battle armor, her gaze as cold and sharp as a blade.

Facing this overwhelming black tide, the allied forces from various Star Domains on the defensive line all gasped in cold air.

“Commander Wu! The enemy numbers are too high! Why haven't we activated the Composite Rune Cannons for fire coverage?!”

A Golden Immortal general of the Titan Race asked, unable to restrain himself as he watched the demons pouncing like a swarm of locusts.

They had witnessed the power of the rune cannons built with the full resources of the Great Qin Chamber of Commerce; they were powerful enough to clear a vast stretch of starry sky in an instant.

“Hold your defensive line!”

Wu Qin did not look back, her tone carrying an unquestionable iron-blooded coldness:

“Hear my command! Frontline Titan Heavy Shield Battalion, withstand the impact! Sword Cultivator arrays on both flanks, intersperse and cut! Rune Mages, pick off targets from a distance! Do not break formation; let them get close before we strike!”

“Yes!”

With Wu Qin’s methodical deployment, the massive war machine of the Three Thousand Upper Realms roared into motion!

The Titan Race built a wall of flesh and blood with their massive Physical Bodies, while the Human Race and various other Cultivators transformed into countless meat-grinding blades, shredding the rushing demons into pieces.

There was no probing; as soon as the armies clashed, the war immediately entered the most brutal meat-grinder mode!

Severed limbs flew across the void as various brilliant Immortal techniques and pitch-black Devilish Qi collided frantically.

Under Wu Qin’s textbook-perfect command of positional warfare, the demons' frantic offensive was forcibly halted a hundred miles from the defensive line.

Half a day later.

As the final Heavenly Immortal Realm demon was decapitated by a single strike from Sword Immortal Chang He, a brief, deadly silence finally descended upon the starry sky.

“We won? We held them back!”

Many Cultivators participating in a domain war for the first time panted heavily as they looked at the demon corpses floating throughout the sky, unable to stop themselves from cheering after surviving the disaster.

However, the faces of the several powerhouses standing guard in the starry sky behind them showed no joy.

“Don't be happy too early. These were nothing more than bait sent to die.”

The Shadow Emperor watched the battlefield below and slowly shook his head, a deep gravity reflected on his face:

“True Realm Demons do not fear death at all. In fact, one could say they are even more cunning than we imagined.”

The Empress beside him also nodded.

She had once been an Extreme Dao Great Emperor and knew the behavior of these monsters all too well.

“The characteristics of the Realm Demons were all explained to Wu Qin beforehand. As the commander, she knows what she's doing.” Jiu You looked at Wu Qin, who stood unfazed at the very front of the defensive line, a flash of admiration in her eyes.

This kind of calm, composed female general was exactly what this campaign needed most.

As if to prove the words of the Shadow Emperor and Jiu You...

At that moment, a scalp-numbing scene unfolded on the battlefield!

The tens of millions of demon corpses floating in the void did not dissipate; instead, they began to melt rapidly, turning into pools of corrosive black pus!

These pools of pus fused together like maggots on a bone, and actually began to frantically corrode the surrounding starry sky barriers!

“Crack... crack...”

Accompanied by the ear-grating sound of space fracturing, the dark-red space-time passage—originally only tens of thousands of miles in diameter—was forcibly expanded several times over after absorbing the corrosive power of these cannon fodder corpses!

The passage had been forcibly widened!

Seeing this, the Shadow Emperor’s expression changed instantly: “Oh no! They used cannon fodder to sacrifice their lives just to use the Devilish Qi from the corpses to melt the spatial restrictions of this world! The big fish are coming!”

“Thump! Thump! Thump!”

The moment the passage was widened, a dull heartbeat, like the impact of a divine mountain, suddenly boomed in the hearts of all the allied Cultivators!

This heartbeat was mixed with intense mental pollution, causing many low-cultivation Cultivators on the front line to turn pale on the spot!

Next...

From deep within the massive widened rift, a large foot wearing dark-red heavy armor covered in hideous spikes slowly stepped out.

With just this one step, the astral Laws in the surrounding void collapsed instantly, turning into a dead vacuum!

A terrifying demon, a hundred thousand feet tall and wreathed in thick, lava-like Devilish Qi, descended upon this starry sky!

“A Demon Commander!”

Seeing this monster, the Shadow Emperor gasped and immediately explained to those around him who had never fought them before:

“This is royalty among the demons! The hierarchy of Domain Demon commanders is strict; they can be distinguished by the color of their armor and Devilish Qi.”

“A Red Commander corresponds to the [Early Stage Great Emperor Realm] of our Star Domain! A Purple Commander corresponds to the [Middle Stage Great Emperor Realm]! And a Black Commander... is the [Late Stage Great Emperor Realm]!”

The Shadow Emperor’s voice became incredibly heavy: “Moreover, never be fooled by the equivalent Realms. In the clashes over the past century, we learned a bloody lesson: a demon's individual combat power is far stronger than a Cultivator of the same Rank in our Star Domain! For example, this Red Commander before us—with its insane recovery rate and corrosive Devilish Qi—would require at least two to three Early Stage Great Emperors working together to barely hold it back!”

Behind that Red Commander, dozens of demon generals—slightly smaller in size but also emitting the pressure of the [Saint Realm]—emerged in single file!

“I didn't expect that a mere spatial weak point in the Three Thousand Upper Realms could actually attract a Great Emperor-level commander.”

The Shadow Emperor smiled bitterly.

If he were the only one in the Great Emperor Realm holding the line today, he would definitely have ordered a retreat the moment he saw this lineup.

However, when his gaze swept toward the indifferent Su Feng beside him, and the nearly one hundred Su Family descendants below who had just broken through to the Saint Realm, the panic in his heart settled down again.

With this freakish family holding the line, what was there to panic about?

At that moment, the descended Red Commander slowly raised its head.

It split open its bloody maw filled with fangs, revealing an incredibly cruel, savage grin.

Then, its thick, sharp claw pointed toward the Human allied forces from afar.

“Roar, roar, roar—!!!”

Accompanied by a world-shaking roar from the Red Commander...

An overwhelming, seemingly infinite black flood surged frantically out of the rift behind it once again!

But this time, the expressions of the frontline Cultivators all changed!

These newly appeared Realm Demons were several times more robust than the previous cannon fodder, and their eyes were a bloodthirsty crimson.

Even more hair-raising was that between their fangs, they were even chewing on the severed limbs of Cultivators from unknown Star Domains!

“These... these are elite demons who have experienced slaughter on the main domain battlefields?!”

Watching the elite legion approach like rolling dark clouds carrying heaven-toppling Evil Qi, the morale that the defending Cultivators had just built up withered away at a visible rate.

Facing elite demons who had truly experienced the battlefield, even a battle-hardened veteran like Tai Yuan had cold sweat on his palms.

Just as the allied morale was plummeting...

Wu Qin, who had been watching the battlefield with cold eyes, finally had a terrifying light explode in her sharp phoenix eyes!

This was the moment she had been waiting for!

Wu Qin suddenly drew the commander's sword at her waist, pointing it directly at the elite army swarming together.

Her crisp yet slaughter-filled voice, amplified by Immortal power, exploded throughout the starry sky array like Nine Heavens thunder:

“This is the moment I've been waiting for!!”

“Divine Machinery Battalion, hear my command! All rune cannons, full matrix charge!”

“Give them—FIRE!!!”