Baby with Daoist Monarch System

Chapter 1183: Chapter 539: Divine Court_2

Amidst the enormous shadow of the Broken Army Hall, one by one, spectral figures slowly emerged.

They were clad in tattered armor, wielding broken weapons, their forms straddling the line between reality and illusion. They had no flesh and blood, just husks formed by obsessions and Evil Qi. In their eye sockets burned crimson Soul Fires, filled with hatred and a desire to destroy all living creatures.

“They are war spirits!” Cang Shi’s expression changed. “The indomitable will of the soldiers who died in the Divine Court’s service, combined with the Slaughter Qi here, corrupted by the Power of Deathly Silence of the dark cosmos, have transformed into monsters driven solely by massacre!”

These war spirits were almost impervious to regular physical attacks, yet their assaults could directly strike at the Divine Soul, making it difficult to defend against.

“Roar!”

The leading war spirit, taller than the others, bore the armor of a captain. It silently roared, raising the broken spear in its hand, pointing directly at the Pioneer.

In an instant, thousands of war spirits became streams of light, swarming forward like locusts, fearless of death.

“Form the array! Gui Xu: Reincarnation!” Zhen Shan commanded with unyielding calm.

Almost instinctively, the Hundred Kings and the three thousand Dao Soldiers behind him sprang into action. With the Kings as the core and the Dao Soldiers as the base, gray phantom millstones appeared above their heads.

This was a Battle Array deduced by Xu Ran from the “Great Beginning Gui Xu Canon,” specifically designed to counter enemies of the Divine Soul and Will type. The Gui Xu signifies both the end and the beginning of all things, best at obliterating all obsessions and marks.

Swish, swish, swish!

The dozens of war spirits at the forefront rushed into the range of the Reincarnation Battle Array. The gray phantom millstones slowly rotated, emitting an invisible suction, gradually erasing, dismantling the Evil Qi, and obsessions of the war spirits, transforming it into the most primordial Soul Power, feeding it back to the Dao Soldiers conducting the battle array.

“Ah—”

A piercing wail echoed in everyone’s hearts as the figures of the war spirits melted under the gray millstones, like snow under the blazing sun, finally dissipating into a wisp of blue smoke.

“Effective!” a King exulted.

“Kill!” Seeing this, Zhen Shan’s fighting spirit soared. He didn’t use his Bone King’s Power but, like his subordinates, led a massive Reincarnation Millstone, actively confronting the war spirit army.

Before the Pioneer, a gray millstone purgatory formed. The Returning Ruins Dao Soldiers’ Battle Array advanced and retreated methodically, combining offense and defense, functioning like a precise war machine, efficiently reaping these ferocious war spirits.

Xu Ran quietly observed everything, nodding slightly.

Over the past ten years, he had not only enhanced the overall strength of the Gui Xu Domain but had also forged them into a truly battle-hardened force. In the face of such bizarre enemies, there was no panic, no fear, only absolute discipline and effective execution. This was his greatest confidence in daring to venture into the star sea.

The battle lasted about an hour.

The thousand war spirits were all obliterated. Although the Returning Ruins Dao Soldiers consumed much, under the blessing of the battle array, none were harmed. They absorbed the pure Soul Power left by the obliterated war spirits, each more refined in aura, their eyes glinting with excitement.

“Nurturing battle with battle! This is the fastest way to grow!”

“Well done,” Xu Ran praised.

Zhen Shan put away the war axe, but his face showed no joy. He said solemnly, “My lord, these are merely wandering souls on the outskirts, within that great hall, there’s an aura at least ten times more powerful than all these war spirits combined!”

His gaze fixated on the deepest darkness within the Broken Army Hall.

As his words faded, heavy footsteps echoed from within the darkness.

Thud!

Thud!

Thud!

Each step seemed to tread upon everyone’s heart, causing their Divine Souls to tremble. A much more terrifying, solid oppression, even tinged with a hint of “divinity,” slowly pervaded the air.

It was a pure militaristic will, even when tainted, still carrying the daunting aura of ‘sweeping across thousands of troops, invincible existence!’

Amidst the grave eyes of all, a tall figure stepped out of the darkness.

He was clad in a set of golden Divine Armor, though severely damaged, covered in blade and sword marks, it couldn’t conceal its past majesty. In his hand, he wielded a golden spear eight feet long. Though the spearhead was half-broken, its piercing intent, capable of shattering stars and vanquishing all laws, seemed to stab into a person’s soul.

His face was hidden beneath a cold faceplate, revealing only eyes ablaze with golden flames. Inside those flames, half was frenzied slaughter, the other half, however, was a chilling… loneliness and persistence.

“Golden-armored war spirit!” Cang Shi inhaled sharply, “That’s at least at the peak of the Divine Fire Realm! Or perhaps… has touched the threshold of the Divine Furnace!”

This golden-armored war spirit was clearly the former master of the Broken Army Hall, a Divine General of the Divine Court! His posthumous obsession was powerful enough to retain some of his lifetime’s power, making him the most fearsome Guardian in this place.

“Trespassers of Broken Army Hall… will die!”

The golden-armored war spirit uttered in a dry yet authoritative tone. Unlike other war spirits, he did not charge directly but instead assumed a starting stance.

A simple, yet flawless starting stance.

In an instant, his energy connected subtly with the desolate Broken Army Hall, even the ruins of the entire seventh outpost. He seemed no longer an independent entity, but an embodiment of this Divine Court cemetery’s will!

“Such strong battle spirit!” Zhen Shan’s pupils contracted, feeling his prideful Punishment Battle Spirit akin to a small stream encountering the vast sea in front of this golden-armored war spirit.

“Let me face him!” Instead of retreating, Zhen Shan advanced, his battle spirit ignited to its peak. He entrusted his subordinate Battle Array to the Hundred Kings to command while he harnessed the Disaster Throne, transforming into a streak of bloody light, soaring into the sky.

“Bone King Guarding the Prison, Punishing Heaven and Earth!”

Zhen Shan roared, the just-ignited Divine Fire behind him transformed into a vision of Corpse Mountain Blood Sea. The Bone King War Axe in his hand, infused with endless Punishment Law, struck downward upon the golden-armored war spirit!

This axe was enough to cleave stars, to judge gods!

However, in response to this earth-shattering strike, the golden-armored war spirit merely raised his broken spear slowly.

“Break… array!”

He uttered two words, directing his spear with an ancient and mysterious trajectory upward.

Clang!

The axe blade and spear tip collided precisely.

No earth-shattering explosion, just a crisp metallic clang.

The next moment, Zhen Shan’s face changed drastically. He felt the Punishment Power in his axe, capable of suppressing everything, being shattered and unraveled by a single point of the opponent’s spear at its weakest node!

An unmatched immense power rebounded through the war axe.

Spurt!

Zhen Shan coughed up a gush of Divine Blood, his entire self along with the Disaster Throne, sent flying tens of thousands of feet, crashing hard against the protective shield of the Pioneer before coming to a halt.

One move!

The newly advanced Bone King of Guarding the Prison, unmatched in battle spirit, was actually repelled with a single strike!

“This…” Everyone was appalled.

“His Dao, complete and pure.” Xu Ran’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Zhen Shan’s Divine Fire is newborn, while his war spirit’s fire has burned for ages, long unified with the Heaven and Earth Laws here. Here, he is the unvanquished War God.”

“Together!” Cang Shi, seeing this, hesitated no longer.

He stepped forward, his Divine Fire transforming into a sky of azure, enveloping the golden-armored war spirit. Within the sky, boulders soared, star rivers flowed, embodying his ‘Celestial Stone Divine Dao,’ possessing both Suppression and Power of Guardian.

“Kill!” Steadying himself, Zhen Shan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, eyes blazing with even more rampant fighting spirit. Once again, he mounted the throne, along with Cang Shi, attacking from left and right.

The two newly advanced Divine Level experts joined forces to attack an ancient war spirit!

For a time, in front of the Broken Army Hall, Divine Light and battle spirit intermingled, Laws and Evil Qi clashed. Cang Shi’s Celestial Stone Divine Dao, incomparably heavy, continually weakened the connection between the golden-armored war spirit and the land. Zhen Shan’s Punishment War Axe grew ever more ferocious, with each strike aiming at the opponent’s vitals.