Above the Great Dao-Chapter 1404 - 655: Alarming the Supreme One

"Was the Great Heavenly Venerate summoned to fight the Demon Clan?"

King Li's head buzzed, momentarily unable to react.

He commanded the Heavenly Soldier Camp, overseeing three hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, mastering all types of troops, from setting up camp and forming military arrays to leading soldiers in battle and charging into the fray, excelling in every aspect.

Within the Heavenly Soldier Camp, there were Heavenly Soldiers and Generals specifically responsible for arranging the Star Control Platform, crafting altars to summon the Star Lords and setting up the Circulation Star Formation. This task was done expertly by the Heavenly Soldier Camp, with every stronghold and every fortified pass designed and arranged in this way.

Once the formation was activated, Circulation Star Power could be drawn in from outside the pass, forming countless stars and establishing a grand formation. Additionally, Star Lord Avatars would descend to guard the stronghold, proving to be overwhelmingly effective.

However, summoning the Four Imperial Lords, Five Elders, Nine Celestials, Three Officials, and Six Ministries was something King Li had never done.

Firstly, it was impossible. Secondly, it was unwise.

Above him were fifty influential figures from the Heavenly Court, but to summon twenty-seven of them at once, even if they were avatars, was no small matter!

These twenty-seven Divine beings all commanded the Heavenly Palaces, akin to governing a small Heavenly Court!

Their Heavenly Palaces had countless Divine beings under their command!

Their avatars spanned across the Yin Yang Two Realms, with their presence seen in countless worlds within the Xuanhuang Sea.

Offending any one of them would inevitably lead to dire consequences!

Who dared to be so audacious, to clandestinely harness the Divine Power of these twenty-seven Divine Lords?

"What's more outrageous is, they dared to summon the avatar of the Great Heavenly Venerate too!"

King Li shivered. If those twenty-seven Divine beings were principal deities, then the Jade Emperor, the Great Heavenly Venerate, was the God Lord, the master of all deities. Summoning his avatar to battle the Demon Clan was an inconceivable audacity!

"Who undertook such an audacious act?"

He hesitated, pondering how, as a subject, he could sit idly as his lord was used as disposable fodder to fight the Demon Clan?

If the Jade Emperor's avatar were captured or slain and the news spread, wouldn't it bring disgrace to the Heavenly Court?

Yet intervening directly was also inappropriate.

If King Li sent troops to rescue, bringing Chen Shi and others here, how could he eliminate them and complete the Heavenly Dao Divine People's plan?

Personally take action to kill them?

Or assign them other perilous tasks, sending them to their deaths?

Personally executing them was not feasible either. Among those six people was a troublemaker named Chen Shi, whose background was too significant. If King Li dared to act, while it wouldn't be a death sentence, he couldn't justify himself to Emperor Houtu and the East King.

"And rumors say that this kid has joined Golden Turtle Island. If he dies at my hands, then Thunder Sound Universal Transformation Venerable and Doumu Primordial Monarch might fight fiercely with me. Their lineage numbers many within the Heavenly Court, should they target me…"

Assigning them dangerous tasks also seemed unlikely to succeed.

Defending Si Yuan Mountain Pass was already extremely perilous, yet these fellows could summon the Great Heavenly Venerate and others at Si Yuan Mountain Pass, and they could likely do so elsewhere too. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"How many troops remain at Si Yuan Mountain Pass?"

King Li summoned a scout and ordered, "Tell them to withdraw immediately!"

"Reporting to the King, the soldiers defending the pass have already withdrawn and are currently resting within the army."

King Li was slightly startled: "At Si Yuan Mountain Pass, are there truly only six people?"

He pondered for a moment, summoning a Divine General and instructed, "Have the soldiers who withdrew return to the Heavenly Court by ship to rest. They have defended Si Yuan Mountain Pass with considerable casualties; let them go back and recuperate."

The Divine General hesitated and said, "King, our remaining troops are limited. Should we deploy more soldiers from the Heavenly Soldier Camp?"

King Li shook his head: "If those six cannot become Heavenly Dao Divine People, this will be the final group of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals. The Heavenly Court will face a shortage of available troops. We must be economical now, to not squander resources as before."

Previously, with many Immortals ascending, he never considered Heavenly Soldiers and Generals as valuable, but now, with the Heavenly Dao Treasure destroyed and no ascensions, they had become precious.

The Divine General accepted the command and departed.

King Li gazed distantly towards Si Yuan Mountain Pass, his voice firm: "Send the Jia Character Guard's five troops: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen to mobilize their forces, infiltrate from the eastern side of Si Yuan Pass, and seize the opportunity to cut off the Demon Clan's retreat while they are preoccupied."

With his command, five armies mobilized swiftly, launching an attack against the enemy's rear.

King Li hesitated slightly, then quietly left the central army tent and hurried towards Si Yuan Mountain Pass, murmuring, "I just want to see how long you six can hold out..."

He stopped over a hundred miles outside the pass, observing from afar.

At Si Yuan Mountain Pass, Chen Shi maintained the Small Circulation Tribulation Array's Divine Skills, continuously channeling Star Power from the Ancient Star Realm, with starlight surging like a tide, pouring into the pass, activating the twenty-eight forms of the Star Control Platform.

One by one, Divine Avatars, under the dominion of the principal deities of each Heavenly Palace, guarded this small pass as they fought against the attacking Demon Clan soldiers.

Divine Avatars continually fell at the hands of Demon Clan soldiers, only to quickly be replaced by new talismans, which, under the infusion of Star Power, rapidly grew into new Divine Avatars, replenishing the formation.

The most captivating were the twenty-eight masters of the Heavenly Palaces, their Divine Power surging powerfully. Each possessed extraordinary skills. Lady Houtu's Reincarnation Technique and Xuanhuang Two Swords inverted Yin Yang and reversed life and death. Doumu Primordial Monarch, with three heads and eight arms, wielding the Sun, Moon, bow and arrows, golden spear, golden bell, arrow card, and Treasure Sword, donned in the Heavenly Cyan Robe, was unparalleled in combat!

Moreover, Thunder Sound Universal Transformation Venerable, commanding thunder, safeguarded the skies, and wherever he passed, thunder light erupted, shattering physical bodies, with thunder sound penetrating brains, fracturing Primordial Spirits.

The Divine beings from the Four Imperial Lords, Five Elders, and Nine Celestials, either Great Emperors or Heavenly Venerates, showcasing their might truly left Niu Jingjing, Long Yuanling and others dazzled.