Chapter 1317: Chapter 1316: The Arrival of the Heavenly Emperor

As Shi Wumian approached and beheld the Cultivation World, a sense of foreboding emerged within him.

It was too large, the celestial body before his eyes was simply too immense—a perfect hexahedron, with stars like specks of dust next to the Cultivation World.

Such celestial bodies shouldn’t naturally exist in the universe; the Cultivation World completely defied his understanding.

When one after another, the calls for help began coming from the command ships, Shi Wumian didn’t hesitate any longer and ordered the remaining fleet to quickly flee the area.

This place was not the beautiful world littered with Spirit Stones but a Demon World teeming with monstrous demons and ghosts!

But how could the Integration Period Cultivators at the first line of defense possibly give Shi Wumian the chance to escape?

"Thinking of leaving after coming to our Cultivation World?!"

"Everyone stay behind!"

Seeing Shi Wumian’s fleet, the Integration Period Cultivators flew into a rage.

From an official standpoint, they had been stationed here for more than half a year, waiting for Shi Wumian’s attack. And when he did, he sent people directly into the heart of the Cultivation World through similar space spells. What was the point of their vigil then?!

On a personal level, their friends were showing off the prisoners and spoils of war they captured using Quantum Communication Devices, yet they who stood at the front line got nothing—not to mention that some among them were promoted to Integration Period during the wartime, all for the purpose of combating the Candle Sky Civilization and achieving great merit!

"Shrinking Ground Into Inches!"

"Heaven and Earth in an Inch!"

"Divine Foot!"

"Boat, come!"

"Senior Brother Lu, let me hitch a ride on your boat!"

The Great Cultivator of the Integration Period employed various techniques, with magic skills and magic artifacts entering the fray in unison. If Shi Wumian’s fleet escaped, they wouldn’t be able to show their faces again!

The Transcendance Tribulation Stage Cultivators at the second defense line chuckled when they saw this. Recalling their own youth, they were beyond the age for seeking fame. They’d let the younger generation handle these affairs.

"Open the wormhole, quick!" Shi Wumian was screaming in urgency.

The technicians, sweating profusely, replied: "Commander Shi, our ships haven’t locked their positions; we can’t open a wormhole."

"Then stop quickly and set up the wormhole right now!"

The fleet ceased moving; upon receiving the orders, five hundred warships resonated with subsonic waves, and a partially visible wormhole manifested.

"Faster, move it!" Shi Wumian noticed the Cultivators advancing almost as if they were teleporting, the distance shrinking rapidly.

"Reporting, the wormhole is fully constructed!"

"You won’t escape! Sky Flipping Seal!"

The radiant golden Sky Flipping Seal broke through the darkened universe, resplendent and full of Buddha Nature’s brilliance.

Just a second before the Integration Period Cultivators arrived, the battleships swarmed into the wormhole. The Sky Flipping Seal missed its target, and the mouth of the wormhole vanished into the vastness of the universe.

"We finally escaped." Shi Wumian had survived by the skin of his teeth, feeling bonelessly limp as if all his bones had been removed.

An alarm went off, startling Shi Wumian: "What’s going on?"

There was no need for his subordinates to answer—the alarm said it all: "Alert, alert, unknown spatial fluctuations detected."

The wormhole that had just closed reopened, and one after another, terrifying Cultivators traversing the stars with primitive weapons emerged in succession, rubbing their hands together with ferocious and excited expressions.

Shi Wumian’s eyes widened in shock—how could they have followed him?

Those versed in space technology among his crew were even more horrified than Shi Wumian. The more they knew about space technology, the more they understood the terrifying nature of these beings.

It was not a big deal that they could cross the stars with their physical bodies, but the problem was these people could damn well tear through wormholes!

Just what were these humanoid lifeforms, anyway?!

Their weapons were more primitive than the next: hammers, axes, swords—all present, with the techniques they could perform being even more defiant of nature.

"Fighting it out!" Enraged, Shi Wumian had never been in such dire straits before. They say don’t pursue a cornered enemy out of fear they might turn and bite.

Today, let these humanoid entities witness the terror of the Candle Sky Fleet!

The five thousand warships transferred to the Cultivation World were all standard warships, equipped with conventional firepower; his five hundred warships were the main force!

"Activate the plasma cutting warships!"

A red beam of light appeared between the two warships; this plasma cutting line is a brand new weapon developed after the Heavenly Emperor took over the Candle Sky Civilization.

The weapons of mass destruction previously controlled by Candle Sky Civilization were aimed at destroying Star Cores and the structure of planets, exploiting the gravitational collapse of planets. However, the plasma cutting line could directly split a planet in half.

The only downside is that energy consumption is too great, but at this point, there was no concern for energy consumption!

"What is that thing?" An Integration Period Cultivator took the initiative to attack, facing the assault of a plasma cutting line.

The incredibly thin red beam pierced through the cultivator, who felt nothing and was bewildered: "What kind of attack is this?"

Shi Wumian laughed loudly, seeing this, natives are natives, daring to face any attack with their strong bodies.

The person sliced by the plasma cutting line would have an exceptionally smooth surface, and initially, wouldn’t even realize their head had been separated from their body.

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The cultivator turned his head and noticed the gaze of his companions: "Why are you all looking at me like that?"

A companion pointed at the cultivator’s head.

"Your hair has been shaved off."

"What?"

The cultivator touched his head and indeed, it was true.

It was as if someone took a pair of large scissors and heedlessly snipped at the hair around the cultivator’s neck.

"Damnation, you group of people from the outer realm, so maliciously daring to humiliate me like this, Dark Ghost Fire!"

The dark green ghost fire appeared out of nowhere, like specks of starlight.

Shi Wumian was perplexed; this was a vacuum environment, where did the flames come from!

Dark Ghost Fire attached to the warships, which in essence were like meatballs; as soon as they touched the ghost fire, they ignited, resembling ghost ships.

"Sixteen-Foot Golden Body."

Shi Chan of Suspension Temple leaped down from Lu Yang’s Black Canopy Boat, invoked the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body, and like bowling, toppled several warships in one go.

"Sealing Mountain Handprint!"

"Qiankun Stick!"

"Immobilization Talisman!"

Shi Wumian initially thought his fleet, fighting desperately, would at least go down with these natives in mutual destruction.

But after the first engagement, he understood why the ships from number one to five were wailing, telling him to flee immediately; these natives were monsters in human skin, impervious to any form of attack!

Plasma cutting line, subsonic wave attacks, nanomechanical clouds, gravitational wave bombs... all useless!

It was a completely one-sided situation; the cultivators were initially excited, but as the fight went on, they started to find it boring. These warships could easily be penetrated with a single poke, posing little effort. They even had to be overly cautious during the fight to avoid damaging the spoils and prisoners.

They prepared for battle for half a year, and this was the caliber of their opponent?

Shi Chan forcefully tore open the flagship, intending to capture Shi Wumian alive.

Suddenly, a beam of golden light approached from afar, a golden divine being bathed in holy radiance appeared in the middle of the battlefield, and neither Shi Chan nor the others saw how this person came.

The battle atmosphere was eerie, and both sides tacitly ceased fire.

The golden divine being didn’t deliberately exude any aura, yet his every move showcased endless power, proclaiming his identity as the Master of the Universe to everyone.

When the Heavenly Emperor saw the situation on the battlefield, he shook his head privately; it was a step too late after all, the Biluo Sky Army had already started a war with the Cultivation World. But it wasn’t too late.

He was just about to speak and explain, when unexpectedly, Shi Wumian rejoiced, "His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor joins the battle personally, surrender quickly!"

The remaining warships prepared to surrender saw the Heavenly Emperor’s arrival and reignited their will to fight, launching a new round of attacks, while praising "His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor joins the battle personally" as they attacked.

Heavenly Emperor: "?"

Shi Wumian, I should have come earlier to put an end to you!