The Shen Family fought alone, and without their Founding Ancestor holding the fort, defeat was a foregone conclusion.

The reason the battle lasted five years was because the Dragon-Man tribe didn't want to kill the Shen Family members, preferring to capture them alive whenever possible.

After conquering the Starry Domains, the Dragon-Man tribe placed special shackles on all Shen Family members, rendering them unable to use their martial arts power.

Then, they began to enslave them, using the resources within the Starry Domains to refine all sorts of strange things.

"Some were forced to refine some kind of pearls, while others seemed to be constructing massive altars. I don't know what these things were..."

You surmise that the so-called pearls are likely the Spirit Pearls that generate the Five-Element Demon Spirits.

That's why you saw the Demon Spirit army descending from the sky—they were being released from the Starry Domains.

"How did you manage to escape?"

"It was the Demon Tribe! They broke through the Sky-Earth Barrier's blockade and charged into the Starry Domains! We took advantage of the chaos to flee, but every star in the domains is controlled by the Dragon-Man tribe. With nowhere to run, we could only risk our lives and jump down through the gap in the Sky-Earth Barrier that the Demon Tribe had opened..."

"The Demon Tribe truly are good allies!"

Outside the simulation, Chen Yi solidified his belief to prevent the two races from going to war in future simulations.

The Demon Tribe is not only powerful, but the key point is their genuine hatred for the Dragon-Man tribe.

There's absolutely no need to worry about them pulling any shady moves if they go to war with the Dragon-Man tribe; they'll go all out, one hundred percent!

With eyes filled with hatred and unwillingness, Shen Yufeng departed from this world.

You gently closed her unseeing eyes.

Currently, the Five Regions are struggling to deal with even the Demon Spirit army.

How should they handle the Dragon-Man tribe, who wield those bizarre cannon-like weapons?

Even though, based on previous clues, various parties had already speculated that a world war was coming.

But no one expected it to come so quickly, before the Five Regions had even recovered from the war with the Demon Tribe.

Even less did they expect the Starry Domains to fall first.

In essence, the current human world simply doesn't have the conditions to wage a world war.

The Five Regions, the Shen Family, the Holy Lands, the Demon Tribe—they're a scattered mess, lacking a core backbone or a leader.

You look up at the sky, your heart already knowing.

In this lifetime, the human world will be defeated!

You alone cannot stop the relentless wheel of history.

Hope remains for the next simulation.

"Seven Luminaries Immortal Array..."

The blood-stained paper the Female Emperor left you before her death depicted an array.

An array that requires seven Martial Gods to activate!

Your understanding of arrays is limited; you cannot fully comprehend how this array should be deployed.

But you memorized it.

Just then, some black dots appeared in the sky.

The black dots rapidly grew larger and clearer in your vision.

Pointed horns, fleshy wings, fangs, scales of various colors—Dragon-Men!

Over a dozen Dragon-Men, black cannon barrels resting on their shoulders, hovered in mid-air, wings beating.

"Hey! Look what I found! A Class-A target, Chen Yi!"

You heard one of the Dragon-Men mention you.

They were speaking the human language.

Although the pronunciation wasn't very standard, understanding them wasn't a problem.

This also reflected just how thorough their preparations were.

"A mere Sixth Realm, worthy of being called a Class-A target? Did headquarters make a mistake?"

"Who cares! Don't any of you try to steal this from me! This credit is mine! Anyone who tries, I'll definitely give them a blast while they're sleeping!"

"Oh, brother, I'd rather what you shoot at my back is a 'Magic Bullet Cannon'..."

The commoners on the ground were terrified at the sight of the Dragon-Men, scattering in a panic, fleeing in all directions.

The soldiers of the Demon-Breaking Army tightened their grip on their weapons, riding their Northern Frontier steeds as they spread out in formation, drawing their bows with arrows nocked, awaiting your single command.

A short, stout Dragon-Man dove down, raised the Magic Bullet Cannon in his hands, and fired a shot at you.

You saw it clearly—what flew out was distinctly a physical shell.

"Not a pure energy projectile?"

You activated the Stellar River Divine Art, raising your hand slightly to manipulate gravity.

The shell's flight trajectory shifted slightly, grazing past your shoulder and striking a low hill behind you.

"BOOM!!!" 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

The earth shook. The low hill vanished, transformed into a charred, black crater!

The power was indeed immense.

But if it was a physical shell, logically speaking, the Stellar River Divine Art, as the Shen Family's signature Heaven-Grade Martial Art, even if not everyone could learn it, their top experts should have known it. It shouldn't have been that they couldn't...

Oh, damn it all, there's no gravity in the Starry Domains!

The Dragon-Men are truly too cunning.

They've calculated every detail!

The Dragon-Man attacking you recognized your technique.

"This kid knows the Shen Family's martial arts too. Could he be from the Shen Family?"

The stout Dragon-Man put away his Magic Bullet Cannon, flapped his fleshy wings, achieving incredible speed. Aiming the pair of pointed horns on his head at you, he transformed into a living projectile, wanting to smash you to death.

You stood unwavering. On your aged face, there was three parts composure, three parts calmness, and ninety-four parts utter contempt.

"Hahaha! Look! He's so scared he can't even move! So-called strongest race of the Void Realm, a completely undeserved reputation! Just a bunch of cowards!!"

Leaving afterimages in the air, the stout Dragon-Man slammed hard into... your fist!

"THUD!!"

Your punch was too fast for anyone to see clearly.

One fist smashed into the back of this guy's neck, hammering him directly into the dirt beneath your feet, burying most of his body, leaving only his tail and feet sticking out.

The Dragon-Men in the air were collectively shocked.

"What?! Maham is also Sixth Realm, how could he lose to an unarmed human!"

"No wonder he's a Class-A target. Headquarters' judgment is never wrong."

"Maham, get back here! You're no match for him!"

Maham wasn't coming back.

You grabbed his two feet, hauling him out of the dirt. With a slight exertion of your fingers, no matter how desperately he struggled, he couldn't break free.

"Bastard! Hiding your true cultivation level, pretending to be weak to eat the tiger, huh?! I spit on you! Before us Dragon-Men, you..."

"RRRIP!!"

Holding his feet, you tore him in half from the middle.

Entrails and intestines spilled out with a sickening wet sound, covering the ground.

The scene was so impactful that both the Demon-Breaking Army soldiers and the Dragon-Men were stunned into silence.

"Ah!! You actually destroyed my body!! Damn you!!"

The Dragon-Men could continue living even without their physical bodies.

Soul-form Maham, thinking he had caught you by surprise, burst forth from his corpse. His claws slashed out with bloody, cold gleams aimed at your neck.

"WHOOSH!"

Only a gust of wind brushed past. You were completely unharmed.

Maham was dumbfounded.

Others couldn't see the soul form, but the Dragon-Men could.

The Dragon-Men in the sky, witnessing soul-form Maham's full-power strike fail to even ruffle the hem of your clothing, momentarily suspected Maham was putting on an act and hadn't really attacked.

"What's going on?"

"Maham, what are you doing!"

"This Chen Yi is weird..."

What happened next shocked them even more.

You suddenly moved, grabbing Maham by the head and smashing it viciously against a large rock nearby.

"THUD! THUD! THUD!"

The symphony of fate!

If it sounds good, it's a good head!