Chapter 1772: ESCORT MISSION, BEGIN! Pt.7

The 8 Star Ships towing the Azure Qing World had already been struggling to hold off the joint assault from the Spirit Abundance World and Star Origin Dao Field. Meanwhile, the 7 Star Ships in Kou Chongxue’s strike fleet were simultaneously fending off an attack by the Spirit Mammoth World and 2 other fleets. During the process, they lost a ship of their own and Kou Chongxue’s External Avatar, who had been commanding the whole battle.

Under such dire circumstances, no one was confident in what Huang Jinghan, who had just taken over command, could possibly accomplish.

The Essence Luxuriant World’s fleet had only barely managed to hold off 4 of the 7 enemy fleets. Though the remaining 3 were comparatively weaker, they seized the opportunity, descending like vultures to finish off their wounded prey. They surged forward with the clear intention of breaking apart the formation of the Essence Luxuriant World’s main fleet.

In their greed to secure greater spoils after destroying the Essence Luxuriant World’s fleet, the 3 fleets pushed forward faster than all others. They were the first to arrive, and they unleashed dozens, if not hundreds, of coordinated strikes. The protection screens of a few ships had already been torn apart, and the rest were on the verge of collapse.

As their attacks arrived, 6 bursts of unique energy suddenly erupted from the large-scale Star Ship and the Spirit Ark. Each surge was powerful enough to rival a high-level True Immortal.

Did the Essence Luxuriant World hide 6 True Immortals the entire time?! Moreover, all of them were high-level True Immortals...

The incoming fleets which were already hundreds of miles away, slowed down in hesitation.

However, they too had high-level True Immortals in command. It didn’t take long for them to realize that the power fluctuations resembled the activation of high-level talismans rather than the aura of true cultivators.

In other words, someone aboard those ships had likely activated 6 rank six talismans rather than actually deploying 6 high-level True Immortals.

Given what they had learned from years of covert intelligence gathering inside the Heaven Observation Field, it made sense. After all, Shang Xia of Essence Luxuriant World was known to be a Talisman Grandmaster. It wasn’t a surprise that they had talismans forged by him.

Of course... Rank six talismans couldn’t compare to high-level True Immortals.

Even if they contained power to threaten high-level True Immortals, they could not fully deter the 3 fleet plowing their way through the void. In fact, it even served to prove that the Essence Luxuriant World had exhausted their fighting strength and had to resort to using their life-saving trump cards.

With that, the fleets resumed their advance at full speed.

Soon... The True Immortals of those fleet realized something was wrong... Things were going south too quickly.

The 6 bursts of energy, which supposedly came from the activation of talismans, didn’t explode in the usual manner. Instead, they gathered between the 2 massive ships. It was as if they were under deliberate control as they merged into a single entity.

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

A strange object began to take shape in the void, like a seed made entirely of interwoven talisman runes. The next moment, the converging runes sublimated and transformed. A terrifying and yet familiar Seventh Order energy erupted from the seed.

Unlike Seventh Order energy created through formations, talismans, or coordinated battle formations, the Seventh Order energy that came from the seed was pure. It was pretty much the same as the energy originating from a Sage. In that instant, the might it unleashed surpassed that of even newly advanced Sages.

The ultimate technique that was suddenly unveiled by the Essence Luxuriant World, was none other than the Talisman Seed Shang Xia had been nurturing in the You Continent’s World Origin Source and had mutated with the world ascension.

Originally, the Talisman Seed was the core legacy of Essence Xing World’s Secret Talisman Gate. It was supposed to be used to condense a martial intent, enhance their combat strength, or to ease their advancement.

After the mutation, the talismans that made up the Talisman Seed remained to be of the sixth rank, but the Talisman Seed itself in a sense had undergone a breakthrough like that of a cultivator.

Though it couldn’t be compared to a rank seven martial intent, the power it could unleash far surpassed any rank six martial intent.

Even though his clone, Shang Xia felt threatened by the energy contained in the Talisman Seed.

More frightening still, unlike conventional talismans that were single-use, the Talisman Seed was not a one-time-use treasure.

Although it would fall dormant after activation, it could be recharged and reused once recovered.

High above the Essence Luxuriant World fleet, Shang Xia watched through his clone as the Talisman Seed was deployed in battle for the first time. By the time the energy converged to form the Talisman Seed, the 3 fleets had already closed in to less than 30 miles. The first shockwave of the Talisman Seed’s awakening swept through their ranks, causing hundreds of cultivators to fall into a state of panic.

“What kind of joke is this? How could Essence Luxuriant World possibly possess a method to generate such powerful Seventh Order energy?!”

“No, this isn’t some artificially assembled Seventh Order energy!”

“This... This energy... This is basically a Sage personally making a move!”

The realization hit like a thunderclap. A Sage from the Essence Luxuriant World had actually broken the unspoken truce and intervened...

How dare he?

Wouldn’t it provoke all the Sages watching the battle to retaliate against him once the Star Curtain fell?

Fueled by dread and outrage, the 3 fleets were forced to face the devastating might of the Talisman Seed.

3 fireballs, like falling meteors, tore through the void and crashed into the fleets from different angles. Several ships were instantly vaporized in the inferno. Their crews, Martial Extermination Realm and Martial Dipper Realm cultivators alike, were reduced to ash before they could even scream.

On the mid-scale Star Ships, the more perceptive had already abandoned ship the moment the Talisman Seed appeared, fleeing across the void. Among them were True Immortals and many Martial Dipper Realm cultivators.

But as the meteor-like fireballs slammed into the ships, a massive sea of flame that stretched for hundreds of miles in all directions filled the void.

The mid-scale ships weren’t entirely annihilated, but they were shattered and reduced to kindling for the firestorm.

The cultivators who had remained aboard, True Immortals or otherwise, were almost entirely wiped out.

Even those who had escaped early were consumed by the expanding sea of flames, leaving very few survivors.

Between the 3 fleets, where there were 9 True Immortals, hundreds of cultivators beneath the Martial Void Realm... Under the might of the Talisman Seed, almost everyone was annihilated.