151: Chapter 151 Goal: The Stars and the Sea!

After this incident, the atmosphere in the Heavenly Court quietly changed.

It was no longer the relaxed state of resting in a corner and developing peacefully as before.

A tense yet high-spirited atmosphere began to permeate the hearts of every Immortal in the Heavenly Court.

They all understood that the heavenly emperor using such a resolute, and even insulting, method to respond to the "interrogation" from the Central Immortal Realm was tantamount to a direct declaration of war!

And war requires sharp blades.

Thus, the heavenly emperor personally issued the highest decree, which spread throughout the Heavenly Court—the Heavenly Court Fleet plan!

This massive war machine, which had only just established a foothold in the Immortal Realm wasteland, began to operate at full capacity with astonishing efficiency.

The Heavenly Court's Heavenly Crafts Department became the busiest and most eye-catching place.

Countless loyal craftsmen from the Lower Realm, led by the Formation Masters and Artifact Refiners who had defected from the Yuhua Immortal Dynasty, worked day and night without rest.

The rare Immortal Gold, Divine Iron, and Star Cores transported from the Heavenly Court treasury were piled into continuous mountain ranges, and the treasure light they emitted almost dyed the sky colorful.

The accountant of the Heavenly Court Bank, the God of Wealth Li Yuanbao, who was only a few years old, had the most important job every day: sitting on mountains of ledgers, swinging his little feet, chewing on a thousand-year Zhu Fruit, and saying one word in a milky voice to the officials from the Heavenly Crafts Department requesting fund approval: "Approved!"

Every time the word "Approved" was spoken, it represented a massive amount of resources sufficient to hollow out a Golden Immortal force, pouring out like a river.

Above the Artifact Refining grounds, another prince, Li Daoyan, who possessed the "Hongmeng Array Body," was suspended in mid-air by Li Xuan using a floating Formation Plate.

The little guy hadn't even learned to speak, but he just opened those eyes that seemed capable of perceiving the array patterns of heaven and earth, curiously watching the countless Formation Masters below carving array patterns.

Whenever a Formation Master's circuit became sluggish or erroneous, Li Daoyan would pout uncomfortably.

Even this tiny movement was enough for the Taishang Dao Body, who was presiding over the overall situation, to understand immediately and speak out to correct it.

With this invisible "supervisor" who was the "Ancestor of the Dao of Formations," the efficiency of the fleet's Formation construction was improved by more than a hundred times!

Countless profound and complex ancient offensive and defensive Formations were perfectly replicated onto the star warships that were beginning to take shape, making those Formation Masters from the Yuhua Immortal Dynasty so excited that they exclaimed they were seeing "living Dao Laws of Formations."

The entire Heavenly Court was like a precise industrial machine running at full throttle.

Immortals no longer discussed the Dao or chatted, but injected their Immortal Qi into the Artifact Refining furnaces to act as an inexhaustible source of energy.

The Heavenly Soldiers and Generals frantically practiced battle Formations on the parade ground, and their roars intertwined with the earth-shaking hammering sounds from the Artifact Refining grounds to form an impassioned prelude to war!

Everyone was burning themselves for the same grand goal.

They wanted to build an invincible fleet capable of crossing the starry sea and launching an expedition to the Central Immortal Realm!

And at the most critical moment of this massive project, Li Xuan, the heavenly emperor who had pushed all of this forward with his own hands, finally took action himself.

What he wanted to refine was the absolute core of this invincible fleet, the exclusive vehicle of the heavenly emperor, the ultimate flagship that would bear the will of the Heavenly Court and suppress all enemies in the future!

On this day, Li Xuan stood in the depths of the Void Realm outside the Heavenly Court's territory.

In front of him floated a "Divine Mountain of Materials," piled up from Chaos Stones, Star Cores, and all the Immortal King-level divine Materials looted from the treasuries of destroyed forces like the Corpse Immortal Sect.

Beside him, several older children stood with solemn expressions, positioned on all four sides.

Li Xuan spoke calmly: "Qingyue." "I am here, Father!" Li Qingyue, who had grown into a graceful young woman, stepped forward.

"Draw the Nine Nether Lunar True Water to shape the bones of the divine mountain." "As you command!"

Qingyue raised her hand and pointed, and the lunar mirror soared into the sky. A torrent of Lunar True Water, extremely cold and seemingly from the deepest part of the Universe, poured down, precisely washing over the divine mountain, bit by bit removing the Impurities, leaving only the purest Origin of the Materials, slowly shaping it into the prototype of a massive, incomparable warship with rigid yet graceful lines.

"Li Lei." "I am here, Father!" The teenager Li Lei, who had a lightning mark on his forehead, replied excitedly.

"Summon the Chaos Divine Thunder of the Myriad Realms to temper the body of the divine warship." "As you command!"

Li Lei roared at the sky, fully activating his innate Chaos Thunder God Body.

Above the sky, billions of thunderbolts of various colors and forms were summoned out of thin air, and among them were even the legendary "Heavenly Punishment Purple Thunder" capable of striking down Grand Unity Golden Immortals!

They gathered into an ocean of thunder, completely submerging the prototype of the massive warship.

Amidst the crackling lightning, every corner of the ship's hull was tempered by the extremely rigid and yang-aligned power of the thunder, and the hull quickly became solid!

"Li Guang." "I am here, Father." Li Guang, with his double pupils, spoke in a steady voice.

"Use your double pupils to see through falsehoods and inspect for flaws." "Yes!"

Li Guang opened and closed his eyes, and Chaos Qi permeated the air. Two divine beams of light shot out, like a high-precision scanner, scanning the ship's hull floating in the thunder ocean over and over again.

Any subtle flaw in the structure, any obstruction in the energy nodes of the runes, could not escape his observation; they were immediately pointed out and wiped away by Li Xuan with a casual wave.

The entire process was like the highest level of artistic creation.

After the tempering was completed, the main body of the warship presented a pure profound black color, as if it could absorb all light, full of a deep and domineering texture.

Li Xuan finally moved. He opened his mouth and spat out a ball of Origin Essence Fire burning with Chaos flames, which landed beneath the divine warship. "Great Dao Furnace, rise!" Boom!

Using his own Divine Ability, the Great Dao Furnace, as the fire, and the endless Void Realm as the furnace, he began the final refinement!

The raging Chaos flames were even burning space itself.

That massive warship, capable of moving an Immortal King, began to slowly shrink and condense under the burning of these flames!

Countless Great Dao runes were automatically branded onto the ship's hull under Li Xuan's will.

Some of those runes transformed into Ancestral Dragons coiling around the bow, others transformed into Immortal Phoenixes guarding the stern, and finally, they evolved into a map of the celestial stars, covering the entire deck of the warship!

For a moment, the roars of Dragons and cries of Phoenixes, along with the sounds of the Great Dao, resounded throughout heaven and earth!

The entire eastern wasteland of the Immortal Realm could see the spectacular scene in the direction of the Heavenly Court, shrouded by Chaos flames and endless thunder.

"Rumble!" At the moment the divine warship was about to be successfully refined, a blood-colored tribulation cloud, far more terrifying than any previous Lightning Tribulation, rapidly gathered above the Nine Heavens!

This was the "Dao-Destroying Artifact Tribulation" born specifically for Heaven-Defying Immortal Artifacts!

Its power was so strong that even Zhao Wuji and dozens of newly promoted Grand Unity Golden Immortals who had just come out of seclusion to watch were shaken to their cores!

Li Xuan couldn't even be bothered to look at it, only saying disdainfully: "A mere artifact tribulation, and you dare to act presumptuously in front of this Emperor?"

The fully refined divine warship seemed to sense its master's will. The eyes of the ferocious Ancestral Dragon statue on the bow lit up, emitting a dragon roar that resounded through the Nine Heavens, and it took the initiative to charge towards that blood-colored tribulation cloud!

"Roar—!" It opened its giant mouth and sucked fiercely at that artifact tribulation capable of destroying everything!

That terrifying tribulation cloud, which would have made an Immortal King frown, didn't even have a trace of resistance before it was swallowed and devoured by the giant dragon's mouth, turning into the nourishment for the final step of the divine warship's growth!

Everything was calm and tranquil. Bathing in the lingering rhythm of the tribulation thunder, the divine warship floated quietly in the Void Realm.

Its entire body was profound black, yet it flowed with dark golden Dao patterns.

The hull was slender and domineering, full of a sense of power.

Just by stopping there, it emitted an Imperial Might sufficient to make Grand Unity Golden Immortals submit!

Li Xuan pointed a finger, and three golden characters containing his supreme will were branded onto the bow: "From this day forth, your name... is heavenly emperor!"

After doing all this, Li Xuan turned back, his gaze sweeping over the massive fleet outside the Southern Heaven Gate that stretched as far as the eye could see!

Thousands of star warships, with various shapes but uniformly painted with the Heavenly Court's Black Bird emblem, were like silent steel beasts, quietly arranged into a massive, incomparable cone-shaped battle Formation.

On the deck of every warship stood Heavenly Court elites wearing profound black Immortal armor and holding Heavenly Halberds and spears.

Their auras connected, gathering into an Evil Qi of iron and blood that soared to the sky!

At the very front of the fleet, Zhao Wuji, the Yuhua Immortal Lord, and dozens of other Grand Unity Golden Immortals stood solemnly. They looked at the "heavenly emperor" that had just been born and was reigning over all the warships like an emperor, their eyes filled with fanaticism!

Li Xuan took a step and his figure landed on the exceptionally wide bow of the heavenly emperor.

Standing at the bow, his gaze swept over the entire fleet, over the faces of every soldier filled with fanaticism and anticipation.

His voice, amplified by the heavenly emperor's Formation, clearly spread to every corner of this Void Realm, reaching the ears of every Heavenly Court soldier.

"Soldiers!" "I know what you are waiting for!"

"Not long ago, a group of visitors from the Central Immortal Realm who considered themselves noble stepped onto our land. They regarded us as ants, insulted the dignity of our Heavenly Court, and even dared to harbor inappropriate thoughts about my wife and children!"

"They even ridiculously thought that with an Immortal King backing them, they could do whatever they wanted in the Heavenly Court!"

Boom! Li Xuan's words ignited the anger and humiliation in the hearts of all the soldiers!

Li Xuan sneered: "You must already know my response." "An Immortal King's decree is only fit to wipe my shoes!"

After a moment of dead silence, there was an overwhelming burst of laughter and shouts: "Hahahaha!" "The heavenly emperor is mighty!" "Your Majesty is invincible!"

This extremely domineering statement had long spread throughout the Heavenly Court, becoming the greatest pride of all the people of the Heavenly Court!

Li Xuan raised his hand and pressed down on the void. All sounds stopped immediately. His gaze was like a knife!

"But! This is not enough!" "Verbal insults are far less satisfying than the judgment of blades and swords!"

"Today, our Heavenly Court Fleet is complete!" "I stand here to tell you, and to tell these Myriad Realms!"

"The dignity of the Heavenly Court is not spoken into existence, but fought for with the blades in our hands, the cannons on our ships, inch by inch of territory, and the corpses of our enemies!"

His voice grew higher and more impassioned!

"In the past, they were high and mighty, regarding us as mere grass!"

"Today, I will lead you to trample on their arrogance and tear apart their dignity!"

"I want to let that so-called Central Immortal Realm know, who is the true master of this world!"

He stretched out his hand and pointed far into the deep, endless starry sea that represented the direction of the Central Immortal Realm!

"Pass on my decree!" "All troops, set sail!"

"Target—" "Central Immortal Realm! organization!"

"Set sail!"

The last two words exploded in the Void Realm like thunder!

"Set sail!!" "Set sail!!" "Kill! Kill! Kill!!"

Millions of Heavenly Court soldiers raised their weapons in unison, letting out a roar that shook the starry galaxy!

Their eyes were burning with fanatic Battle Intent!

Rumble—the heavenly emperor's engines were the first to emit a low roar, and the massive hull began to accelerate!

Immediately after, thousands of warships, like awakened giant beasts, lit up their hull Formations and propulsion Formations one after another!

Thick beams of light spewed out from the sterns of the ships!

The entire massive fleet turned into a torrent of steel and divine light, resolutely charging into that unknown starry sea!