Chapter 1059: Divine Spirits Inspire No Fear (III)

The queen of Divine Nation smashed through Li Hao’s nine stars with a single blow! She closed the gap between the two and appeared in front of the young man.

“Is this your trump card and source of confidence?” She looked frostily at Li Hao. Was that it?

The young man had many powerhouses on his side and there were divine spirits constantly retreating in defeat, but there were more awakening in the divine hall. If this was the full strength of Li Hao’s side, then although Divine Nation would occur losses from this ambush, Li Hao wouldn’t be leaving with anything gained for his efforts.

If she could kill Li Hao in this skirmish, it would be worth it even if a few divine spirits died from the ambush. Once the young man was dead, Divine Nation would be able to cut straight in and crush Skystar!

The young man didn’t say a word, instead summoning the power of the five elements with a wave of his hand. A cage appeared in the world.

In response, the moon plummeted to the ground when the queen waved her scepter. A bright moon appeared in the Hao Cosmos.

“This queen hadn’t known where the coordinates of the great dao were,” she smiled. “But thanks to your... demonstration, perhaps I’ll be able to explore the dao universe at will after this battle. You are quite charitable, Li Hao!”

This was both a taunt and the truth. The divine spirits didn’t know where the dao universe was, but they were formidable nonetheless due to connate dao meridians. Today, Li Hao accessed the Hao Cosmos in front of them. If they could lock onto the dao universe because of his actions, that might result in a tremendous boost in strength for Divine Nation.

The scepter swung again—Li Hao took a step back. When the scepter missed, it shattered the void again.

“If you surrender now, this queen will spare your life as well!” The queen’s voice rang through the air as she took a step forward.

Li Hao had been domineering without question before, but now, he plainly couldn’t stand up to his opponent. Morale swelled on Divine Nation’s side!

Divine spirits threw their heads back with laughter while blood from Skystar powerhouses sprayed through the air!

Sky Sword and Earthturner Sword were jointly facing a divine spirit. Their opponent suddenly howled and transformed into a towering giant. The world split from a gigantic punch, as did Earthturner Sword’s immense defenses shatter!

Sky Sword shouted with anger and stabbed through the firmament with his sword, but they were still hard pressed to defend themselves from the giant!

Boom!

One massive collision later saw the sword obliterated by the punch. Sky Sword paled and spat out a mouthful of blood, then looked around in a daze. Hong Yitang roared with fury and slashed with his sword. The heavens and earth turn!

But the divine spirit in front of them brayed with laughter. “So this is all there is to you guys!”

He stomped down with his foot!

BAM!

Earthturner Sword’s sword formation crumbled away. Another divine spirit howled with laughter in the distance, “Giant Divine, kill them!”

The towering divine spirit was called Giant Divine and known for his strength. He could fend off ten opponents by himself!

His domineering battle strength was peerless; the divine spirit outright defeated Sky Sword and Earthturner Sword who were both of ninth level Mountain and Sea. He even threatened to kill them where they stood! The divine spirit truly possessed the strength of the Sun and Moon level.

A ring of ripples appeared and forcefully stopped the giant’s second blow. A shield hovered over the two martial masters.

“So it’s you!” laughed the giant. “If this god remembers correctly, someone in Battle Heaven used you back in the day.”

“To think that you guys really would be able to revitalize!” exclaimed the old turtle as it manifested.

“Hahaha, this world belongs to us to begin with! Divine spirits are eternal and undying!”

“You’re wrong!” the old turtle laughed softly. “This world belongs to New Martial, to the Sword Sovereign! It was just that the Human King was unwilling to reabsorb it. Silver Moon was born of the New Martial world. When did it ever become yours?”

Boom!

The giant didn’t waste further effort in talking. He punched with a thunderous collision and sent the floating shield flying backward. His overwhelming battle strength was on full display. Even the old turtle’s replica was hard pressed to stop the giant.

Further in the distance, heavyweights such as Director General Wang and Li Daozong were locked in fierce combat against Divine Nation counterparts. They were unable to claim the upper hand. Meanwhile, the plant spirit replicas were constrained by the goddess of life!

Not only them, but with gods of the elements in the battlefield, supernatural abilities were highly restricted. Several premier Silver Moon martial masters were enormously curtailed by what they could do.

Even Yuan Shuo found his formidable fists of the five elements having limited effect. Or rather, they were forcefully interrupted. He was missing an element from his technique—he only had four to call upon!

His opponent was the fire god, and the divine dismissed Yuan Shuo’s fire abilities as soon as they appeared. Soon enough, they couldn't even be summoned. While Yuan Shuo was strong enough, losing one element meant that he was instantly suppressed to the point of being unable to lift his head!

The fifty thousand armored soldiers on the ground were holding their own, but as more Divine Nation troops entered the battlefield, their positions grew precarious as well. Huang Yu and the other commanders looked around anxiously.

Director General Zhao and others were battling further away. The director general had stopped a divine spirit and was winning the fight, but that wasn’t of much help to the overall battle. It mostly hinged on Li Hao and the Divine Nation queen. They were the heart of the battlefield.

Everyone had thought that Li Hao’s strength made him invincible in the world. He’d brought peak fifth level Sun and Moon to bear against the Great Li king, even sixth level. No one fathomed that the queen of Divine Nation would be this generation’s Moon God and be more favored by the heavens than Li Hao.

She promptly suppressed the young man!

When two armies clashed and one side’s generals proved invincible, morale was sure to swell as a result. However, the invincible Li Hao was firmly on the losing side and taking a beating. Hearts grew worried as they watched the scene.

“Have the plant spirit seniors sealing off the void join the battle!” He Yong shouted. How were they losing like this??

A divine spirit promptly punched through his chest. He Yong vomited blood and looked around blankly. They’d come with the faith of obtaining victory, but now they might fall in battle! How was this possible?!

The student puppets were strong and numerous, but with divine spirits pouring into the battlefield, there were more than fifty divines in the blink of an eye. Their numbers were so much more than anticipated and each divine spirit could fight multiple puppets.

The students cursed loudly.

“If my primary body was still present, I’d hack the shit out of you with one sword stroke!”

“Fucking hell, this sucks! What are these shitty divine spirits? New Martial powerhouses wiped the floor with you guys back in the day...”

“......” They were furious and humiliated. But without a physical body, blood qi, or core origin meant that they only possessed seventy percent of their battle strength in their sturdy puppet bodies. It took three to five students for each divine spirit, with ten for some of the stronger ones!

There were plenty of student puppets to go around since several hundred had come with the army, but there were also other powerhouses on Divine Nation’s side apart from the divine spirits. They were powerhouses of the divine temple. Although Skystar wasn’t losing in this part of the battlefield, it would be very hard to capture those powerhouses.

There was also no one who could go support Li Hao.

The young man had exceeded the limits of what was possible in the world at present, only Jiang Li could join the battlefield with the bones of Initial Martial. However, Li Hao had sent him against the god of war.

......

This was a hard battle, even a desperate battle!

The Silver Moon martial masters were still a little less than their opponents. Even the strongest among them were so constrained that they couldn’t lift their heads. If it wasn’t for the sheer amount of people that they’d brought, fatalities would’ve long appeared among the Skystar side.

Even so, they teetered on the verge of disaster.

𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

The queen once more extinguished some stars and even sent her scepter at Stellaris. She knew that so long as she broke Li Hao’s connection with the dao universe, his strength was destined to free fall.

Once Li Hao was out of the picture, there would be nothing to fear from these people!

“Li Hao, you are favored by the heavens and another proud son of this era. Why not serve Divine Nation? I will grant you a divine position...” The queen hit viciously while she voiced sweet words. The domineering scepter crashed into Stellaris again and again, nearly sending the weapon into a berserk rage.

It couldn’t strike back at the moment because it was stabilizing the passageway. It could only passively defend! Under these circumstances, it shook from the scepter’s continued blows and struggled to maintain the connection.

The next moment.

The queen suddenly struck Li Hao’s face. The young man didn’t dodge in time and stumbled from the blow. Faintly golden blood streamed down his face and dyed his cheeks.

“Commander!”

“Li Hao!” gasped his people. Someone wanted to dash to his rescue, but Li Hao waved them off.

“Ignore me!” He summoned another nine stars into being, as well as a divine body that threatened to shatter the earth when it slammed its palm down. An immense earthy presence roiled through the surroundings.

“I see!” the queen bit off. “So the first generation earth god’s body is in your hands! That is just as well. This generation’s earth mother can absorb this body. Her strength will surely take a leap forward then!”

The scepter in her hand transformed, becoming something similar to Li Hao’s ‘dao’ character in that a myriad of daos streamed toward it.

The divine replica that Li Hao had just summoned was petrified in the air. Divine radiance emanated from the queen’s scepter and she commanded in an aloof tone, “Obey!”

The divine replica trembled, wanting to break free of Li Hao’s control! It was a very strong replica, but it wasn’t fully taking the young man’s orders anymore.

“These are methods that I usually bring against others,” Li Hao laughed wryly. “I’m tasting all of them myself today thanks to you!”

Being bolstered by the heavens, pressure from the great auras, replica manipulation, gathering of great daos... These were all tricks that he utilized on others, but the queen brought all of them to bear against him.

“Cease your struggles, Li Hao, all is futile!” The queen constantly hammered at Li Hao’s confidence. She was also saying so much to destroy his side’s morale. Otherwise, it would be a pyrrhic victory if they managed to win. The young man had brought too many powerhouses, after all.

The queen forcefully exerted control over the divine replica and strode toward Li Hao again. She didn’t move that quickly, but instantly appeared in front of the young man. Her scepter contained dominating pressure that suppressed him so that the scepter could fly at his head!

Did Li Hao have any other aces up his sleeves? Not even his divine replica had been able to slow the queen one bit.

Li Hao’s people were incredibly anxious and General Pagoda’s replica wanted to give up the blockade to join the fighting. It was a distinct possibility that Li Hao would be killed instead if the situation continued.

That would be the greatest joke of all! They would’ve fashioned their own cages!