# Chapter 1725: Xuan Du Great Victory
The Butcher and the Divine Blade Camp had just charged into the Heavenly Court camp when they were met by an endless tide of Heavenly Fortress City's army blocking their path.
The Heavenly Fortress City army was renowned for its formation tactics, known as the Heavenly Court's iron wall. The commander guarding Heavenly Fortress City was the Upper Platform Star Lord, Xie Jin'an, and his subordinates included no shortage of Emperor Seat realm experts!
Heavenly Fortress City was responsible for defense. Because Yan Kang's offensive was too fierce, Granny Si had led the army to crush the city walls, but when the Butcher led the Divine Blade Camp charging into the city, they were immediately surrounded and blocked by Heavenly Fortress City's forces.
"History shines upon loyal hearts!"
The Butcher roared, his blade intent connecting with Luo Wushuang, Zhe Huali, and Ba Shan. The dao realm of the blade path instantly merged and became one. However, this formation of unified blade realms required those who executed it to have undergone the tempering of the Divine Execution Platform before they could merge their blade intent and blade paths together, elevating their dao realm cultivation.
Back in the Xuan Du battle, it was the five ancestors of the blade path—Qin Mu, the Butcher, Luo Wushuang, Zhe Huali, and Tian Shu—who had joined forces to execute this technique, elevating the dao realm of the blade path to the thirty-first heaven, barely reaching the level of a Heavenly Sovereign.
Now, the five ancestors of the blade path were missing Qin Mu and Tian Shu. Although Ba Shan's blade technique cultivation was not weak, he was still far inferior to Qin Mu and Tian Shu.
Fortunately, in the decades after the Xuan Du battle ended, the blade path progress of the Butcher, Zhe Huali, and Luo Wushuang had been extremely rapid, making up for Ba Shan's shortcomings.
The four moved with shifting steps, the thirty heavens of the blade path erupting. They broke through the Heavenly Fortress City army like splitting bamboo, charging straight toward Xie Jin'an.
Xie Jin'an showed no fear, charging directly toward the four. His body shook and transformed into a Xiezhi beast. Aside from Luo Wushuang, these four were all unknown nobodies. Yet as their forms crossed paths, Xie Jin'an's head fell to the ground. His primordial spirit immediately tried to escape from his body, but a flash of blade light passed by, and his primordial spirit was also slain!
The four gave their all, leading the Divine Blade Camp as they charged toward the battlefield where the Woodcutter and others were fighting. The Divine Blade Camp advanced unstoppably, but the Heavenly Fortress City soldiers ahead were simply too numerous, making their advance difficult.
Granny Si rode a giant beast, leading the army as they charged forward, protecting them on both flanks, helping them fend off the Heavenly Court troops surging in from the sides.
Behind Granny Si, a primeval tree slowly rose. Gongsun Yan walked forward, the primeval tree growing ever more lush. Gongsun Yan raised her hand, and the divine power of geomagnetism roared, pressing down the soldiers from various Heavenly Court armies and divisions that surged from all around, forcing them to lie flat on the ground, unable to move.
Gongsun Yan raised her hand and swept the sky clean, clearing a large space in the air.
"Release your primordial spirits!"
The soldiers pressed to the ground roared, and their primordial spirits flew out one after another, charging toward Gongsun Yan. Against primordial spirits, the power of geomagnetism was helpless.
Suddenly, dragon roars shook the sky. Yan Feng Emperor stood on the tower ship, channeling his profound arts. Floating ancestral dragon celestial palaces appeared, ten thousand dragons dancing as they charged toward the primordial spirits of those Heavenly Court soldiers.
Instantly, countless soul black sands howled through the air as primordial spirits were continuously shattered, turning into rolling black sand.
At that moment, the Left and Right Divine Might Armies arrived, charging toward Yan Feng Emperor. The hundred or so Yan Kang divine cities following behind the tower ship erupted with cannon light, and a barrage of cannon fire blasted out, blocking the Left and Right Divine Might Armies.
Yue Heavenly Sovereign sat on the city wall, bowing her head to play a zither. As the music sounded, suddenly the one hundred thousand soldiers of the Divine Might Second Guard found themselves spinning dizzily and rapidly disappearing—they had been exiled by her space techniques to who knows where!
The Divine Might Second Guard immediately formed formations, transforming into the Fire Saint Demon-Breaking Formation. Within the two formations, two phantom figures of Fire Heavenly Sovereign slowly rose, with dao fire layered like wheels behind their heads. The Divine Might Second Guard was using their own magical power to recreate Fire Heavenly Sovereign's dao techniques and divine powers!
This Fire Saint Demon-Breaking Formation was also designed by Heavenly Master Meng Yungui, mastered by the Divine Might Second Guard, specifically to break Yue Heavenly Sovereign's Ultimate Void Space!
Yue Heavenly Sovereign raised her brows, flying up from the divine city's tower. The next moment, she entered the formation of the Divine Might Second Guard. At the same time, Heavenly Yin Niangniang raised her hand and threw out the hourglass. The hourglass flew into the two formations and suddenly exploded, rolling soul black sand surging out, darkness spreading.
Even the dao fire of the two formations could not melt the soul black sand, and the two formations were plunged into darkness. Gongsun Yan's form flew up, transforming into the primeval tree and plunging into the two dark formations.
The formations activated, and the primeval tree immediately burned fiercely, but it managed to hold back the two Fire Saint Demon-Breaking Formations for a moment.
In that moment, zither music came from the darkness, and the next moment, the two formations split apart, breaking into hundreds of pieces.
The zither music grew increasingly urgent. Yue Heavenly Sovereign plucked the strings, suddenly channeling her magical power. Space rotated, and tens of thousands of Divine Might Second Guard soldiers had their bodies stretched and flattened by the music. Suddenly, a spatial crack appeared, revealing chaotic space.
Yue Heavenly Sovereign swept her sleeve and plucked the zither, the music swelling. The tens of thousands of soldiers were swept away, exiled to the depths of chaotic space!
However, the strength of those tens of thousands of Divine Might Second Guard soldiers was truly formidable. Individual Divine Might Guards were no match for Yue Heavenly Sovereign, but the leaders controlling the formation diagrams were top-tier Emperor Seat realm experts of the Heavenly Court. They activated the formation diagrams, drawing each Divine Might Guard into the diagrams. The diagrams activated again, actually twisting layer after layer of space, trying to escape from Yue Heavenly Sovereign's divine powers!
Yue Heavenly Sovereign's ten fingers flew like she had grown countless arms, her finger shadows like illusions, struggling with all her might against the Fire Saint Demon-Breaking Formation, gradually pushing those Divine Might Second Guards deeper into chaotic space.
However, the Divine Might Second Guard's magical power was too strong. Even with all her effort, she could not completely exile them.
At that moment, suddenly a dao title came, extremely clear and melodious: "Dao sword breaks the heavenly guidelines!"
Sword light broke through the air, following Yue Heavenly Sovereign's zither music, charging into chaotic space. An old Daoist walked forward, followed by tens of thousands of Daoists from Yan Kang's Dao Sect. Their dao swords flew together, stabbing into chaotic space along with the zither music!
In chaotic space, blood light appeared, and bodies and flesh exploded one after another.
Yue Heavenly Sovereign's divine powers immediately flowed unimpeded, exiling the Divine Might Second Guard to the deepest part of chaotic space.
"Daoists, enter the city!" The old Daoist sheathed his sword, leading tens of thousands of Daoists as they charged into the Heavenly Court camp.
Yue Heavenly Sovereign had exiled two of the Heavenly Court's Ten Guards, consuming enormous cultivation. She hurriedly channeled her remaining magical power to extinguish the dao fire on Gongsun Yan's body. The girl had been burned black as charcoal, barely breathing.
Yue Heavenly Sovereign waved her hand, sending Gongsun Yan back to Yan Kang's divine city. In the city, Medicine Master immediately stepped forward to treat Gongsun Yan.
Yue Heavenly Sovereign had very little magical power left. She had been reduced by three realms in succession. Although her dao realm was profound, having already cultivated to the thirty-fifth heaven of the dao realm, her magical power could not keep up.
"Open!"
She gritted her teeth, plucking the zither strings, channeling all her remaining magical power. With several loud cracking sounds, the Heavenly Court camp stretching for hundreds of thousands of miles suddenly split into seven or eight parts, each drifting in different directions!
Yue Heavenly Sovereign spat blood, her ten fingers dripping with blood. The zither strings all snapped at once, and she fell from the sky.
Heavenly Yin Niangniang quickly caught her, about to send her back to the rear divine city. Yue Heavenly Sovereign shook her head and said, "I just need to rest a moment. Don't worry about me. Enter the city as quickly as possible!"
Heavenly Yin Niangniang placed her on her shoulder and walked toward the city. The divine powers of the Heavenly Yin Realm activated, and before Heavenly Court gods and demons could even reach her side, their primordial spirits exploded, soul black sand rolling violently from their eyes, ears, noses, and mouths—a horrifying sight.
The various armies charged with all their might toward the Heavenly Court camp, bloody battles stretching to the heavens. On the Heavenly River, violent fluctuations continued. The Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Emperors sometimes revealed their true forms, sometimes split into two, becoming the Black Emperor and Vermilion Bird Emperor, leading the soldiers of the North Pole Heaven in battle.
Wei Suifeng set up formations, the Great Heavenly Court activating, cutting into the Heavenly River Navy, unstoppable wherever they went.
The Heavenly River had long been dyed into a blood-red river.
In the Netherworld, suddenly Qin Fengqing heavily stomped his foot. The dark Netherworld demonic qi rumbled as it broke through the boundary between the Netherworld and the mortal world. The enormous Gate of Bearing Heaven appeared in the Heavenly Court camp!
The Gate of Bearing Heaven's doors opened, and countless gods and demons who had died in the Battle of Carefree Village and the Battle of Maple Valley rode paper horses, whistling through the gate, charging into the Heavenly Court camp!
"Where is our Xuan Du army?"
In the Heavenly Court camp, a soldier cried out in despair: "The Xuan Du army specializes in countering Netherworld ghosts and gods! A single ray of sunlight will make them scatter and vanish! Where are Xuan Du's Sun Guard and Moon Guard? Why haven't they come to support?"
No one could answer him.
Logically speaking, even if Yan Kang occupied the Netherworld, giving them a tremendous geographical advantage, they couldn't turn the tables. As long as the Xuan Du army arrived, they could suppress the Netherworld ghosts and gods completely.
And Ancestral God King would certainly lead the Xuan Du army to reinforce them. But now, the Xuan Du army had yet to appear, making everyone truly anxious.
No one noticed that the stars in the sky were in chaos, running wild everywhere, the star patterns greatly changed.
This was clearly a sign that all was not peaceful in Xuan Du either, but no one had time to go to Xuan Du to check what was happening.
"Where my body stands, that is the Netherworld!"
In the Heavenly Court camp, a voice that was both deep and slightly childish rang out. The Heavenly Court camp was plunged into darkness. In the darkness, two pillars of fire rose, like enormous rivers of magma rising higher and higher.
Qin Fengqing was covered in blood, clearly having suffered severe injuries in the fierce battle with the Dragon and Martial Guards. Yet he channeled his remaining magical power, spinning the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel. Wherever the wheel's power passed, many Heavenly Court gods and demons were transformed into other races, causing great chaos.
As the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel spun, paper boats flew out from the Netherworld, charging into the Heavenly Court camp.
Although the Dragon and Martial Guards had suffered more than half casualties, they still followed closely behind, fighting without cease.
Suddenly, the sky brightened greatly. The stars moved rapidly, getting closer and closer to Yan Kang. Individual stars grew larger and brighter. Finally, stars broke through the world barrier of the Yuan Realm, appearing in the sky of the Yuan Realm as suns!
The Netherworld that Qin Fengqing had transformed melted like snow meeting the blazing sun, rapidly dissolving.
Cheers erupted from the Heavenly Court camp: "The Xuan Du army has arrived!"
In the sky, divine suns and bright moons surged, setting up formations. Rays of blazing light shot down, cutting into the Heavenly Court camp!
At the same time, an army of several hundred thousand gods and demons descended from the sky. From afar, formation flags could be seen fluttering, bearing the character "Jiang."
"Yan Kang National Teacher Jiang Baigui has pacified Xuan Du and comes to support!"
Thunder rolled through the sky—it was the army under Jiang Baigui shouting in unison: "Xuan Du has changed hands! It has fallen to Yan Kang!"
The cheers shook the heavens—they were the cheers of Yan Kang's soldiers still in the midst of bloody battle!
Amid the cheers, the morale of the various Heavenly Court armies collapsed at once, the atmosphere of despair spreading everywhere!
"Your Majesty, withdraw the army!"
Empress Dowager's hair was disheveled, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth. She broke free from Void Heavenly Sovereign and Lan Yutian, charging into the Heavenly Court camp, shouting sharply: "If we don't withdraw the army now, it will be too late!"
Hao Heavenly Emperor was disheveled, fighting Qin Mu in a bloody battle. He had already been fighting until his eyes were bloodshot, feeling that he only needed one final blow to make Qin Mu fall, but Qin Mu stubbornly refused to fall!
"Your Majesty, flee quickly!"
The retreating Heavenly Court army surged like a flood, engulfing Hao Heavenly Emperor and Qin Mu. An old minister wept loudly: "If we don't leave now, we won't be able to! All the soldiers will die here!"
Amid the chaotic army, Hao Heavenly Emperor gritted his teeth, still crazily attacking Qin Mu, shouting sharply: "Just a moment, just a moment and his injuries will erupt, and he'll have no strength left! I can still turn things around!"
Boom!
Their divine powers collided, more violently than ever before. Hao Heavenly Emperor spat blood from his mouth, tumbling backward, crashing into the chaotic army.
Immediately, ministers like Upper Supporter, Lesser Supporter, Right Upper Guard, and Right Lesser Guard flew over, supporting the severely wounded Hao Heavenly Emperor as they rushed into the army and rapidly retreated.
Hao Heavenly Emperor vomited blood from his mouth, but his gaze was fixed on Qin Mu, who was getting farther and farther away, as if watching for Qin Mu to fall.
However, Qin Mu stood there the entire time, unmoving and unwavering.
"Mu Heavenly Sovereign, Mu old dog, fall down!" Hao Heavenly Emperor spat out another mouthful of blood, his voice filled with despair, like a wounded old wolf letting out a long howl.
By the time his gaze left Qin Mu's body, blocked by the chaotic army, Qin Mu finally fell, his injuries fully erupting.
However, Hao Heavenly Emperor could not see this scene.