The terrifying power left the Ancient Profound Turtle in a difficult position, unable to advance or retreat.

The previously unrivaled aura was forcefully pushed back to the end.

Suddenly, it let out a roar, and mysterious symbols emerged from its shell. The surrounding seawater rose with a roar, forming a dark green vortex, and seventy-two metal puppets burst forth from the water.

From their heads, the coral crowns emitted a dim light as countless poisonous thorns shot towards the fleet like a torrential rain.

This was to force Jiang Shu to retreat!

At the level of the Ancient Profound Turtle, its intelligence was no less than some Daoist Monarchs. Within just a few breaths, it had already thought of a countermeasure.

"Daoist Monarch Taixuan, go ahead and take action; I am here."

A Daoist Monarch from the Douxing Sect proclaimed with mighty voice.

Although there were prejudices among the Eight Great Sects usually, since the beginning of the battle, they have been constantly coordinating, unifying the battlefront.

Moreover, as Jiang Shu’s fame grew, the Douxing Sect increasingly aligned with the True Martial Sect.

The flagship of the Douxing Sect shone with the Xuanwu Totem, and the shield resembling a turtle shell deflected all the poisonous thorns. However, the counterforce caused twelve disciples who maintained the formation to bleed from their mouths and noses.

And this Douxing Sect Daoist Monarch took direct action as well.

"Set up the Heavenly Gang Beidou Formation!"

Suddenly, seven battleships shifted positions, and the array-breaking cone embedded in their bows lit up with celestial patterns. The beams of light intertwined in space into a ladle-shaped star map.

As the fourth auxiliary star lit up, the meteor falling in the center of the star map smashed three metal puppets into dust.

On the demon race’s city wall, nine ancient war drums suddenly emerged, the drumheads vividly painted with Kui Ox Totems in the lightning.

Each beat of the drum triggered thunderstorm over thousands of miles, and each lightning bolt rivaled the Nirvana Thunder Tribulation, causing ordinary Nirvana Realm True Monarchs to fall within the lightning storm.

Among the sounds of the thunderstorm, a hurricane also howled, sweeping with arcs of electricity tearing two flank warships into pieces.

"Roar!"

On the other side of Panhai City, among the clouds emerged a dragon claw covered in cyan scales, summoned by a powerful demon monarch of the Dragon Clan, burning essence blood and summoning the Cyan Dragon Dharma Aspect, occupying the sky, charging at Jiang Shu at the front.

It discerned that the Profound Turtle was no match for Jiang Shu and directly spat out its Lifebound Dragon Pearl through its Dharma Aspect.

The Dragon Pearl expanded rapidly in the storm, and the entire star river sealed within transformed into a rain of millions of starlight scales.

Jiang Shu’s pupils contracted, and the Desolate Star Halberd in his hand flew out, fiercely piercing towards the retreating Profound Turtle!

As if intending to pierce through everything!

In front of him, a multitude of treasure seals overlapped, thirteen black hole vortexes collapsed into one, the Devouring Dao and the Protective Dao condensed into a twisted gray shield before him.

At the instant the starlight sword rain touched the shield, the Taichu patterns suddenly reversed. The devoured starlight in Jiang Shu’s palm recomposed into the Taichu Spear, the thrown trajectory plowing a trench through space.

The Cyan Dragon Dharma Aspect resisted with its claw, yet its scales peeled away one layer after another under the erosion of Taichu Dao Rhyme, revealing the pulsing scarlet heart inside.

"Break!"

The world-shattering fist light erupted from the black hole.

Like the primordial point at the dawn of creation, the fist descended like a meteor, causing the Cyan Dragon Dharma Aspect to explode into a sky full of light rain in a mournful cry, the dissipating demonic power evaporating a vacuum zone with a diameter of a thousand miles in the sea region.

...

The entire battlefield was divided into thousands upon thousands of smaller territories.

Within each of these territories, the Great Dao encompassed them, enveloping the world in darkness.

Every elder and disciple of each sect was engaged in a bloody battle.

Beneath Panhai City, the ancient chants of the sacrificial ritual slowly began, as numerous Great Dao illusions manifested in space, sketching complex formation patterns across the sea’s surface.

Tens of thousands of demon beast remnants suddenly became animated and pieced together into nine towering skeletal giant demons.

In the eye sockets of each giant demon danced a ghostly blue soul fire, swinging their claws and raising a foul, corrosive black mist.

"Sword Pavilion disciples, heed the command!"

The shadow sword on the back of an elder Daoist Venerable from the Hidden Sword Sect finally unsheathed, and the sound of the sword’s cry resonated across the heavens and the earth.

Tens of thousands of sword lights soared from the ships, gathering in the sky into an immense sword illusion that penetrated the clouds.

Upon the moment the giant sword descended, the spine of the skeletal giant demon suddenly revealed Dragon Clan secret patterns, while demon race illusions in the chest cavity lit up a bloody formation map.

"Is that the demon race’s Symbiotic Array? Not bad, they managed to reverse the formation. But that’s all it is."

A Daoist Monarch skilled in formations from the Dan Fu Sect deciphered the formation’s changes within just a few breaths, and his voice was constantly passed down, explaining the dangers of the formation to each fighting disciple.

One after another, disciples burned their essence blood and charged forward.

The Divine Skills transformed, morphing into countless beams of light.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

In Panhai City, Bai Lie, clad in snow patterned heavy armor, stepped into the sky. The fury of thousand-foot angry waves froze beneath his war boots, as three thousand Tiger Soul Xuan Armor Guards formed the Hexagonal Ice Flower Battle Formation, the edges of the petals sharp as knives slicing through the spiritual energy.

"Kan Position Ice Seal!"

Three White Tiger Priests held cold jade array plates and shouted fiercely, the Ice Soul Spirit Monsters swimming in the formation patterns grew backwards amidst the Vermilion Bird Fire Sea unleashed by the Dan Fu Sect elder.

The Ice Crystal Vines coiled around the Fire Phoenix’s neck, and the Extreme Cold Dao Patterns spread along the feather veins, forcibly freezing the Nanming Li Fire into an ice sculpture dropping down.

"The White Tiger Clan has shown itself too."

The Supreme Sect Leader of the Douxing Sect, dressed in the Star River Robe, hovered in the void, looking down.

Like the True Dragon and True Phoenix, the White Tiger Clan is one of the strongest races within the demon race, born close to the Golden Dao and Ice Dao, coupled with a powerful physique, not weaker than True Dragons and True Phoenixes of the same realm, and deeply skilled in the art of formations.

"A small city like Panhai not only holds a True Dragon but also thousands of White Tiger Guards; it seems they are determined not to let us inside."

The Supreme Sect Leader of the Heavenly Puppet Sect, with hair and beard all white, yet eyes bright.

The Supreme Sect Leader of the True Martial Sect snorted, speaking coldly: "Then let’s break in!"

Jiang Shu soared into the sky, immediately spotting Bai Lie clad in snowy white heavy armor on the towering city wall and instantly became intrigued.

Bai Lie’s face appeared weather-beaten, carrying a long mace, looking straight at Jiang Shu not far away, his voice filled with endless killing intent, saying: "I’ve heard you have a reputation as the first person under the mixed cave, not even Ao Jin can challenge you; today, seeing indeed you are extraordinary."

"But after consecutive battles, do you still have any strength left?"

Jiang Shu stepped above the waves, and before him, the corpses of an Ancient Profound Turtle and a True Dragon were already captured by him using his large hand, divine fire refining the demon bodies, augmenting the Great Dao.

This Ancient Profound Turtle and True Dragon were middle-stage Demon Monarchs, their powerful bloodline allowed them to rival ordinary Vientiane Realm late-stage Daoist Monarchs.

He appeared to have slain them, yet in truth, his strength was already exhausted.

The body, comparable to a Dao Artifact, had already cracked inch by inch, within the three hundred and sixty-five acupoints constantly shaken by demonic power.

Still, he did not retreat.

With the Supreme Sect Leaders of the Eight Great Sects stationed here.

He can still fight!

With one step forward, the blood-soaked Desolate Star Halberd stirred chaotic thunder fire, striking towards Bai Lie.

After ongoing battles, the demon nature within the Desolate Star Halberd grew stronger, yet always remained under Jiang Shu’s control.

This demon nature was all amplified into the Slaughter Dao, condensing into a beam in the void nearly cutting through everything.

"Enough with the talk, come fight!"

With mace and halberd colliding, an ice-fire storm surged, Bai Lie’s heavy armor revealed the Tiger Head Swallowing Heaven pattern, reverberating force turned into three thousand ice spikes hurdling like a torrential rain.

Jiang Shu spun around, shaking off the ice crystals on his shoulders, the frost patterns appearing on his left arm instantly dissolved by Taichu Dao Rhyme.

Bai Lie’s tiger eyes sparked with battle spirit, the sky-cleaving mace conjuring nine layers of ice peaks from the seabed’s mystical ice.

He directly charged out of Panhai City, engaging in melee combat with Jiang Shu.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Twelve White Tiger Dharma Aspects condensed around him, and over a dozen Great Dao illusions danced wildly, linking the heavens and the earth.

The number of Great Daos he comprehended was no less than Jiang Shu!

He entered the Demon Monarch Realm earlier than Jiang Shu, with profound accumulation.

The chosen battlefield was strategically arranged beforehand.

Within the hundred thousand miles around, countless treasure seals flew in from all directions.

These treasure seals were either fallen to the seabed during the battle or had always been caught in space turbulence.

Yet now, all were summoned by Bai Lie using great technique, condensing into the purest point, this point nearly reaching the extreme of the Slaughter Dao, charging fiercely towards Jiang Shu!