The space between heaven and earth was a hazy purple.
The sky here was purple-black.
The land was purple-black.
It was as if the very air was purple-black.
Upon this desolate expanse, a super protective shield, shimmering with a thousand colors, slowly descended.
After the brilliant light of the massive protective formation dimmed, a colossal fortress was revealed within.
This fortress resembled half a planet.
It was like a large bowl inverted and placed there.
The area it occupied was immense.
A full five million kilometers.
Its height also reached two million kilometers.
One could only imagine its sheer enormity.
As it settled, the super protective shield, even larger than this half-planet, extended to completely envelop the area.
Outside the scope of this protective shield.
The land was riddled with holes.
Countless massive craters, and countless corpses.
There were even some individuals dragging these corpses back to the location of the half-planet.
Inside the fortress formed by this half-planet.
A vast conference room.
Three people stood within.
They stared at the myriad of display screens adorning the walls of the conference room.
From here, they could directly see all the sights within the entire fortress.
The man standing at the forefront, if Chu Tian were present, would recognize him instantly.
It was his missing, good brother, Gao Kai.
However, the Gao Kai of this moment was vastly different from when they had set out together.
For Gao Kai’s left arm was entirely gone.
Even the left half of his face was covered in hideous scars.
As if it had been burned by something.
To his left and right stood Zhao Lei and Jing Kaiyu.
These three former elite soldiers were also the ones who had been with Chu Tian the longest.
At this moment, all three men wore grim expressions.
Because they had just endured a fierce battle.
The corpses outside were all of purple-black armored soldiers.
Their current position was the very center of this battlefield.
“Lei Zi, what’s the loss this time?”
Gao Kai asked, his voice hoarse and changed.
Zhao Lei looked at the displayed screens.
“Lost over 300 million. Shield energy consumption at 7.8%.”
He stated these figures, and Gao Kai couldn’t help but frown.
“Lost so many? Can we replace them?”
Zhao Lei shook his head.
“The personnel can be replaced. Those damned Void God Realm soldiers, their corpses become raw materials, more than enough to replace over 300 million mechs. But the shield energy consumption, we’ll be lucky to recover 3%!”
Gao Kai’s brow relaxed slightly upon hearing this.
“That’s acceptable. Shield energy is still over 80%, enough to hold out for a while.
I hope Xiao Hei and Lin Ran can return before the energy is depleted.
This time, I fear our brothers from the Demon Realm will suffer heavy losses!”
Gao Kai sighed.
“What’s there to fear? The beings from the Demon Realm are like they’re free, one batch dies, another comes, one batch dies, another arrives!
I truly don’t know how many beings there are in the Demon Realm!
For 16 years, I feel… if not for that guy from the Demon Ring providing an endless supply of beings, we wouldn’t have been able to hold on from the start.
It was their countless lives that bought us this fortress. Otherwise, we’d still be engaged in guerrilla warfare!
I don’t know where the boss has gone, no news at all. If he were here, at least our high-end combat power wouldn’t be completely lost to the enemy.
Now, we’re no match for those monsters from the Void God Realm.”
Jing Kaiyu said from the side.
“Stop talking. At least those monsters can’t go too far from the Divine Palace. Otherwise, we’d have been wiped out long ago!”
Zhao Lei added.
Gao Kai nodded as well.
“The best course of action now is to stall. I believe Xiao Tian must be held back by something.
What we need to do is stabilize the current situation and establish a foothold in this Void God Realm.
When Xiao Tian arrives, he will surely bring us great surprises.
As long as we can resist those monsters, we gather all our troops, kill all those soldiers, charge into the Divine Palace, and disrupt everything. Then, we can end this war!”
Zhao Lei and the others understood Gao Kai’s words.
Having been here for 16 years, they had figured out the enemy’s combat patterns and weaknesses.
When they first arrived, they relied on killing enemy soldiers to seize resources, fighting to sustain themselves, and constantly eroding the enemy’s strength.
But back then, black-armored soldiers were almost everywhere on the battlefield.
The total number of people from Blue Star was only 7 billion.
Their rate of death and resource plundering was insufficient to replenish their mechs.
Just as everyone thought they would be completely wiped out.
Countless beings from the Demon Realm, demon races, and various strange species… appeared one after another.
These were reinforcements from the Pi Universe.
They had previously engaged in battles lasting three years.
With the addition of these beings,
The Blue Star side finally managed to gain a stable footing.
While clearing out the black-armored soldiers, they discovered that
These black-armored soldiers were also manufactured.
Although their souls wouldn’t be easily destroyed upon killing one,
They would return to the Divine Palace that Gao Kai and the others spoke of.
However, the speed at which the Divine Palace produced black-armored soldiers was not fast.
Just as they had cleared almost all the black-armored soldiers on the battlefield,
And their main forces were pressing towards the vicinity of the Divine Palace.
Suddenly, countless super-powerful beings appeared from the Divine Palace.
That battle saw the beings from the Demon Realm almost completely annihilated.
Other races were also severely beaten.
The mechs controlled by the 7 billion people from Blue Star were all shattered.
The beings from the Demon Realm were all killed.
Gao Kai’s arm and the burns on his body were also from this battle.
However, after they retreated,
Those monstrous experts pursued them for ten thousand li before all withdrawing.
Afterwards, they spent a considerable amount of time replenishing their troops.
Once again launching a siege on the Divine Palace, they repeated this several times.
Finally, they discovered that those monstrous experts would not pursue beyond ten thousand li from the Divine Palace.
At first, they thought the enemy was playing a trick.
But by chance, the old City Lord Wei Du and Xiao Hei were pursued to the edge.
However, the enemy’s speed was too fast, and they were still a distance away from the edge of disengagement.
Moreover, they were unsure if they could break through that edge and continue their pursuit.
Xiao Hei directly stopped, preparing to intercept the enemy, allowing Wei Du to escape.
It had known Wei Du for longer than it had met Chu Tian, dating back over a century.
At that time, it had hidden its Mo Qilin form and served as a mount for the old City Lord.
However, that pursuing expert struck Xiao Hei with a single punch, sending it crashing into the earth.
The entire ground cracked, and Xiao Hei’s fate was unknown.
Old City Lord Wei Du was heartbroken upon seeing this, but he always had the bigger picture in mind.
Seeing the expert punch Xiao Hei, he also rushed towards the cracked ground, immediately realizing that Xiao Hei should still have a life force.
Otherwise, that guy would definitely have pursued him.
Thus, he used his strongest sealing technique, Sealing the Heavens and Earth, with all his might, intending to attract the enemy’s attention and buy Xiao Hei time to survive.
With Sealing the Heavens and Earth unleashed, the monstrous expert was immobilized, but Wei Du knew it could only hold him for three seconds at most.
However, it was precisely because of these three seconds.
The brainless Xiao Hei suddenly surged out from the ground.
And transforming into its true form, its ten-thousand-meter body directly rammed towards the enemy.
Whether it was disoriented or something else,
The direction of its charge was towards the outer edge.
With a deafening roar.
Wei Du was stunned. He was less than a hundred li from the disengagement zone, and could reach it in the blink of an eye.
However, this Xiao Hei.
Its body crackled with lightning, its speed was at its absolute limit.
It directly slammed into the crystal formed by his sealing technique, actually pushing the crystal and knocking Wei Du along with it.
Old City Lord Wei Du spat out a mouthful of blood, instantly losing consciousness, his body being flung out.
Then, one second passed, and the crystal was covered in cracks.
The next second, it exploded.
Coincidentally, the enemy’s body happened to pass through the edge of the disengagement zone.
Xiao Hei’s massive body, its huge Qilin horn, forcefully rammed into the enemy’s body.
Boom!
The enemy was immediately sent flying back hundreds of li before landing.
At this moment, Xiao Hei realized it had pushed in the wrong direction.
Originally, its intention was to push the enemy slightly inward, allowing Wei Du to escape.
Emerging from the ground, confused, it had misjudged the direction, doing more harm than good.
However, it was precisely because of this mistake.
And by bringing back the monstrous being’s body, that everyone learned.
These guys had a limited range of activity.
Once they left that range, they would immediately lose consciousness. Although the body was made of an unknown material and could not be destroyed,
The entire person entered a state of coma.
It was akin to a drone flying out of signal range and crashing.
Afterwards, they used this method to lure out several more experts, completely confirming the enemy’s activity range.
Just as they thought they had found a solution.
The enemy also became aware of their intentions.
These monsters began to adjust their activity times.
They would stop at a range of eight thousand li.
Between eight thousand li and ten thousand li, they couldn't set traps or anything to lure the enemy out.
Thus, a stalemate ensued.
The enemy experts couldn’t come out, and they could only watch as the enemy produced black-armored soldiers.
When the number reached a certain point, the enemy would launch an attack on them.
And just now, countless black-armored soldiers attacked their fortress.
Although they ultimately defended it, the losses were not small.
Fortunately, the production speed wasn’t particularly fast; battles of this scale occurred at least once every half a month.
They had now halted the production of black-armored soldiers here, and the attack of the Void God Realm on the Blue Star universe could be considered resolved.
Without sufficient troops, it could do nothing.
Everyone speculated that the Divine Palace was like a factory, and the resources required to produce these black-armored soldiers must be immense.
If they could maintain this stalemate, perhaps the Void God Realm would be worn down.
However, why did Chu Tian, before they departed, tell them to hide their identities and rescue those who could be rescued?
Before they came, they were contemplating how to hide.
But after going through the teleportation, they directly arrived at this battlefield.
To this day, they hadn’t explored the full extent of the battlefield.
And Chu Tian had disappeared.
All of this was completely different from their initial expectations.
…
Beep, beep, beep, beep…!
Suddenly, alarm sirens blared throughout the fortress on half a planet.
Gao Kai checked the screens; there were no enemy traces around the fortress.
But the soldiers cleaning up the battlefield were all running back towards the fortress.
Some even dropped the resources in their hands, looking in one direction with terror in their eyes.
He pressed the communicator and asked, “What happened?”
Someone replied tremblingly through the communicator.
“The Divine Palace, the Divine Palace is flying towards us!”
“What?” Gao Kai’s heart jolted.
He hung up the communicator and rushed outside. Zhao Lei and the other two clearly heard everything.
They followed behind him into an elevator.
The three of them quickly ascended to the top of the fortress.
When they arrived there and looked up.
A massive, pyramid-like Divine Palace floated in the distant sky.
It was slowly moving towards them.
“This…!”
They were dumbfounded, and then one by one, figures appeared.
Ma Deju and the others were all there.
In everyone’s eyes, despair was evident.
Although the Divine Palace was moving slowly, it was estimated to take at least three days to approach them.
In three days, their fortress would be covered by that ten-thousand-li range.
The monstrous experts there would be able to attack at will, even directly destroying the fortress they had painstakingly built.
They could retreat, but the fortress couldn’t move!
“What should we do?” Everyone looked at Gao Kai.
Over the years, Gao Kai had demonstrated his command abilities, and he had always been the one to decide their strategic deployments.
“Evacuate! Order everyone to take what they can, and destroy what they cannot!
Within three days, all must withdraw!” Gao Kai gritted his teeth.
His voice carried unwillingness.
This fortress held over a decade of his effort.
It held their hope for victory.
To abandon it and flee like this was difficult for everyone.
But there was no other way; everyone present knew that.
If they didn’t leave, they would simply be targets.
This also signaled that they would never be able to build such fortresses again.
This point was the most disheartening.
Because the over 7 billion people of Blue Star needed regular rest.
During their rest, when the mechs were not controlled, they needed to be docked.
Without fortresses, they would have to engage in guerrilla warfare from now on.
When the mechs were unoccupied, they would inevitably be destroyed by the enemy.
Also, without fortresses, they would lose the teleportation arrays, and it would be difficult to transport supplies back in the future.
Without resources, if the mechs of players in the Heavenly Dao World were damaged, they would not be able to get replacements.
Everything had happened too suddenly.
No one had expected that the Divine Palace, which hadn’t moved in over a decade, could fly!
“Do we really have to retreat? This is too much…”
“We must retreat. Everyone needs to be careful from now on. When fighting guerrilla warfare, avoid losses as much as possible.
Miao Zuo, go find Xiao Hei and Lin Ran now, and find a way to establish more small-scale resource teleportation arrays across the entire battlefield.
This is the foundation for our protracted war.
Without replenishment, nothing else matters.
Others, take your teams and disperse.
Currently, on this battlefield, except for a few specific areas, there aren’t many black-armored soldiers left, so it’s still relatively safe.
From now on, maintain communication, and depart! We must hold on until Xiao Tian… arrives!”
Gao Kai’s expression was blank; he knew this was all they could do now.
However, suddenly, Ma Deju’s face changed dramatically as he looked behind him.
The others were also the same.
Gao Kai was startled and quickly turned around.
At this moment, his heart sank to the abyss.