Chapter 2985: Hell Divine Tidal Surge
Since the establishment of the Heavenly Court, fourteen cultivators had broken through the Tenth Layer of the Truth Sea, ascended Truth Mountain, and become Truth Envoys.
Of course, adding Zhang Ruochen made fifteen.
However, Zhang Ruochen had not become a Truth Envoy on Truth Mountain; instead, he had obtained the Heart of Truth.
Without a doubt, these fifteen individuals represented the strongest sequence of the younger generation across the Heavenly Court Myriad Realms and the Ancient Civilization Factions in the past hundred thousand years. Even if there were other outstanding talents who had not cultivated the Way of Truth or had no interest in Truth Esoterica, their numbers were likely not many.
Every Truth Envoy was a candidate for the next Hall Master of the Truth Divine Temple.
The reason Qiu Yu Divine Lord, at the Great Perfection of Upper-Rank God, dared to claim the title "Divine Lord" was precisely because of this foundation.
At this moment, two astonishingly brilliant Truth Envoys faced off in the void, their domains colliding, forming two vast, world-shaking clouds of divine Qi.
Qiu Yu Divine Lord had treated Feng Xi and Zhang Ruochen with supreme arrogance, once sitting in his hall waiting for them to come pay respects. But when Yu Taizhen arrived, he became extremely cautious, rushing out of the hall immediately.
Only true experts could earn his attention.
"Yu Taizhen, if you want to settle victory or defeat, I am ready to oblige at any time. The Truth Esoterica on you is precisely what I must seize in the future to impact the position of Truth Master God."
Yu Taizhen said, "Spare me the nonsense, just tell me—are we going to the Starry Sky Battlefield or not?"
Qiu Yu Divine Lord had an important mission on Heavenly Beginning Civilization, and he said in a deep voice, "No one knows when a large-scale divine war will erupt. Going to the Starry Sky Battlefield now, even if we encounter Hell Realm gods, we won't be able to kill them. It's better to first enter Doulu City and finish the real business..."
Qiu Yu Divine Lord's words abruptly stopped, a look of shock appearing on his face as he stared toward the direction of Shura Star Pillar Realm.
Not only him, but all the other gods present—Yu Taizhen, Zhang Ruochen, Feng Qi, and Nine-Tailed Heart Fox—simultaneously turned their gazes in that direction.
They all sensed an aura of terrifying extremity.
It was not divine might, nor killing intent, but rather...
Countless waves of divine fluctuations, along with an overwhelming tide of murderous aura.
Standing within the great world of Heavenly Beginning Civilization, one could not see the full scope of Shura Star Pillar Realm. All that was visible were massive, sky-covering dark light clouds surging forward.
Blood Qi, ghost Qi, death evil Qi, Shura fiendish Qi...
If one stood at the position of the Starry Sky Gate, they would see the entire Shura Star Pillar Realm blazing with brilliance. Countless tens of thousands of light points, accompanying those dark light clouds, rushed straight toward the great world of Heavenly Beginning Civilization.
Some light points were brighter than stars—these were the radiance emitted by gods as they activated their divine Qi.
Yan Wen exclaimed in shock, "It's the Hell Divine Tidal Surge! The tidal surge has erupted again!"
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
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A celestial bell manifested from the void.
The bell's body was as massive as a planet, ringing out with each strike.
The speed of the bell's sound propagation eerily approached the speed of light, rapidly spreading across the entire great world of Heavenly Beginning Civilization, then extending into the starry sky, reaching Giant Spirit Civilization, Blazing Sun Civilization...
In less than a quarter of an hour, all the formations of the Starry Sky Defense Line were fully activated.
Formation inscription runes, like billions of spider threads, wrapped around the nine great civilizations and countless thousands of planets. Dense divine patterns also manifested in space, the power they emitted coalescing into a Heaven-Earth Barrier a hundred million miles thick.
This Heaven-Earth Barrier had been inscribed by the Heavenly Court gods over a hundred years, with the participation of All Heavens, Tai Shang, and Boundless-level beings.
From the vast lands of Heavenly Beginning Civilization, pillars of light shot up, connecting heaven and earth, forming the World-Protecting Grand Formation.
One after another, powerful divine auras surged up from various locations across the land, piercing through the World-Protecting Grand Formation and charging toward the direction of Shura Star Pillar Realm to meet the enemy.
These gods, whether in the midst of cultivation or still recovering from injuries, all set aside what they were doing and, without hesitation, charged into the void to fight.
Each aura was more powerful than the last.
Zhang Ruochen was moved, saying, "So many Great God-level existences are stationed on Heavenly Beginning Civilization?"
Feng Qi was also filled with shock, saying, "No matter how powerful Shura Star Pillar Realm is, Hell Realm cannot possibly break through the entire Starry Sky Defense Line in one go. They must proceed step by step—first destroying Hanhai Civilization to open a breach, then eliminating the other ancient civilizations one by one to dismantle the defense line."
"And their next target is precisely Heavenly Beginning Civilization."
"To defend Heavenly Beginning Civilization, who knows how many gods from the entire Heavenly Court Universe have rushed here. The gathering of Great Gods is hardly surprising."
Yan Wen said, "This is the second Hell Divine Tidal Surge this year! And by the looks of it, the scale is unprecedented. Could they be trying to breach Heavenly Beginning Civilization in one fell swoop?"
The so-called "Hell Divine Tidal Surge" was an offensive launched under the leadership of a large number of Hell Realm gods.
To be called a divine tidal surge, the number of true gods had to be at least three hundred. Adding false gods, the total number of deities would reach over a thousand.
Since the outbreak of war between the Heavenly Court and Hell, over the past hundred years, only five such Hell Divine Tidal Surges had occurred.
A second tidal surge within a single year completely caught the Heavenly Court gods off guard.
The purpose of Hell Realm launching a divine tidal surge was to destroy the formations deployed by the Heavenly Court in the starry sky, along with the divine patterns inscribed by the gods, clearing a smoother path for Shura Star Pillar Realm to advance.
In the distance, within a mass of blood-colored divine clouds, over ten million sacred artifacts flew out, like a torrential flood, striking the formation node of a divine formation.
Among the sacred artifact torrent were several Supreme Sacred Artifacts.
From the perspective of the great world of Heavenly Beginning Civilization, that formation node was merely a thumb-sized, blazing hot point of light. But when that formation node was destroyed and flew backward, it transformed into burning planet fragments, each only a thousand miles long.
That was a planet!
A moment earlier, hundreds of thousands of Saint Realm troops were stationed on it, responsible for activating the formation and guarding the Starry Sky Defense Line.
But in that single instant, those Saint Realm cultivators, along with the planet itself, were utterly annihilated, leaving no bones behind. Even a false god stationed on the planet fell directly.
Such formation nodes numbered in the hundreds in the starry sky outside Heavenly Beginning Civilization, some large, some small.
In less than a quarter of an hour, over twenty formation nodes had been destroyed. The battle was unprecedentedly fierce, blood staining the starry sky, and large fragments of corpses, carried by cosmic gales, flew past the sky of Heavenly Beginning Civilization.
Yan Wen's throat went dry, his eyes filled with shock, and he said, "Something's wrong! Even if Hell Realm caught us off guard, the divine formations in the starry sky are incredibly powerful—how could they be destroyed so easily? Could this tidal surge be even more terrifying than the last one?"
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
...
The planet-sized celestial bell rang again, unceasingly.
The Hall Master of the Truth Divine Temple walked out of the black temple, gazing toward the direction of Shura Star Pillar Realm. His expression was grave, and he muttered to himself, "So soon they can't wait anymore, launching a general offensive against Heavenly Beginning Civilization?"
Doulu City was located on the shore of Yunlai Sea. Within the city, a beam of extremely bright light shot into the sky, piercing the clouds.
A mirror rose into the air, drawing in the divine clouds from all directions, emitting a cyan light that illuminated heaven and earth.
After the mirror flew into the starry sky, it expanded to tens of thousands of miles in size, like a cyan sun, crashing into a vast, murderous yin cloud within the Hell Divine Tidal Surge.
The entire Starry Sky Battlefield trembled violently.
"A divine artifact, the Cyan Heaven Mirror!"
Feng Qi's eyes widened, and he said, "The Cyan Heaven Mirror is the foremost divine artifact of Heavenly Beginning Civilization, held by the Old Heavenly Lord. Even the Old Heavenly Lord can no longer remain seated within the great world and has been forced to act—has the situation become so dire?"
The Old Heavenly Lord of Heavenly Beginning Civilization was one of the oldest gods among the Ancient Civilization Factions, having lived for ten eons.
His cultivation was second only to the All Heavens.
From the direction of Blazing Sun Civilization, four light seals crossed the void, flying toward Heavenly Beginning Civilization.
Each of those four light seals was tens of thousands of times brighter than a star, their heat astonishing, instantly raising the freezing temperature of the entire Starry Sky Battlefield to something hotter than magma.
Even Qiu Yu Divine Lord felt his scalp tingle at this moment, all arrogance gone from his eyes, and he said, "Heavenly-level figures have made their move! It's Four Yang Heavenly Lord..."
The Heavenly Court had enfeoffed Twenty Heavens, and the Ancient Civilization Factions had four among them. Four Yang Heavenly Lord of Blazing Sun Civilization was one.
Just as Qiu Yu Divine Lord spoke, the four light seals in the sky rushed past several formation nodes and collided with the Hell Divine Tidal Surge.
A suffocating power suddenly weighed on everyone's hearts.
Zhang Ruochen looked up and saw the sky filled with burning clouds, radiant colors stretching for billions of miles. The entire starry sky was ablaze, burning all the way toward Shura Star Pillar Realm.
The aura emanating from the burning clouds was no weaker than that of Four Yang Heavenly Lord.
Nine-Tailed Heart Fox's eyes were filled with reverence, and she said, "It's Tianhuang Yunxia—Shang Tian has made his move!"
A middle-aged man, clad in golden armor, draped in a dragon robe, and wearing a purple-gold imperial crown, stomped through space. Ten thousand dragons surged beneath his feet as he charged out of the Starry Sky Divine Formation with overwhelming momentum, rushing into the battlefield.
Yu Taizhen exclaimed in admiration, "It's Divine Ancestor Divine Lord—now that is a true Divine Lord."
Divine Ancestor Divine Lord was the foremost of the three Divine Lords of the Imperial Dao Great World, ranked third in the Northern Universe. He was a Boundless-level divine overlord with countless legends surrounding him.
A Heavenly-level figure had once said that in the future, he would surely have a seat among the Twenty Heavens of the Heavenly Court.
One after another, divine overlords who had only existed in legends now appeared!
The Clan Leader of the Golden-Winged Roc Clan spread his wings, spanning ninety million miles. Even the stars in the sky seemed tiny before him.
A Buddhist Venerable unleashed a great divine ability, his two eyebrows flying out like two white heavenly rivers.
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Not only these Boundless-level overlords, but also gods stationed in the other eight great civilizations, after leaving behind defensive forces, rushed to Heavenly Beginning Civilization one after another, plunging into the Starry Sky Battlefield to fight the Hell Realm gods in a world-shaking battle.
Feng Qi let out a long sigh: "What a pity! Once the divine formation is fully activated, only Great Gods can pass through. Otherwise, even knowing my cultivation is low, I would charge into the battlefield to fight alongside the Old Heavenly Lord. Even if I die... it would be worth it!"
"Never has such a terrifying divine tidal surge erupted. How many experts has Hell Realm sent this time?" Yan Wen's face was pale, his voice trembling.
"Boom!"
The battle on the Starry Sky Battlefield was too breathtaking; space was shattered.
A space rift rushed into the Starry Sky Divine Formation, destroying dozens of formation nodes in a row.
With the formation damaged and impacted by divine force, the spatial structure within the great world of Heavenly Beginning Civilization cracked. Great chasms appeared on the land, and the sky split open. Wisps of dark Qi seeped in from the Void World through the spatial cracks.
Faintly, one could hear the howling of vengeful spirits, the killing cries of Shura, and the long roars of Rakshasa, all emanating from the cracks.
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