69: That's enough.

Lady Hua Yu, the newly ascended True Immortal, stepped forward to meet the challenge.

Behind her, Myriad Spirit Phantom roared, and her True Immortal Domain unfolded with brute force. Her delicate hand lifted slightly, channeling the Laws of heaven and earth to form a cage, incredibly imprisoning the leading golden dragon within a square inch.

The gap between immortal and mortal was starkly displayed here.

Chu Ye's side revealed all their hidden cards. Chu Tianxing led the Great Chu iron cavalry, using their battle Formation to manifest the killing intent of the military path, with a Blood Tiger Phantom roaring over the battlefield.

The Old Ancestor of the Chu family wielded the mountain river cauldron, using the Emperor Weapon's might to suppress the area, anchoring the ley lines and stabilizing the world. Abbess Miaoyin chanted true scriptures, her Sanskrit sounds providing salvation while disturbing the enemies' souls.

The Empress's sword light was like silk. Her Emperor Sword Art coordinated the local theater of war, and wherever her edge pointed, she briefly suppressed several enemies of the same realm.

The battlefield had become a crucible.

Dao techniques, mechanics, music, strength, poison miasma, illusions, military Formations, Emperors Might, Buddha light, Sword Intent... the unique methods of each faction collided violently, radiance shining brilliantly, Laws in chaos, as heaven and earth changed color.

Chu Ye observed the entire situation with a calm gaze.

Although the sides were currently at a stalemate, he knew well that the true pressure was only just beginning to gather.

Under the collision of multiple forces, the battle reached a fragile equilibrium. However, this balance did not last long.

The heritage of the Middle Region forces began to truly manifest.

Seeing that their Formation path could not achieve a quick victory, the Immortal Realm Elders of the Myriad Dao Alliance immediately changed their Formation.

The leading purple-robed Elder produced an ancient Dao banner, its surface depicted with the stars and myriad phenomena.

Several Elders simultaneously infused their majestic immortal power. The Dao banner unfurled in the wind, actually drawing down the power of the stars of the universe. Beams of star radiance, like chains, began to forcibly wash away and dismantle the blood-shale Foundation of the Bloodthirsty Berserk Formation. This was one of the Myriad Dao Alliance's suppressed Immortal Artifacts, the cosmic stars banner, which used the grand power of the Heavenly Dao to counter all sorts of wicked Formations.

The Bloodthirsty Berserk Formation shook violently, its blood light beginning to dim under the burning of the pure star radiance.

Seeing this, the Divine Craft Workshop intensified its offensive.

The decks of several core Floating Ships opened, revealing the complex and precise core Formations within.

Countless rare spirit crystals were fed into them, transforming into a brilliant white destruction light beam over a hundred feet in diameter, which roared toward the core area of the Great Chu Imperial Palace.

This strike gathered the pinnacle of the Divine Craft Workshop's 'Way of Tools,' seeking to break through at a single point. Its pure energy intensity was already approaching the threshold of a True Immortal.

“Hmph!” The Empress's phoenix eyes flashed with anger, and the Emperor Sword in her hand let out a clear dragon roar.

The Luck Golden Dragon phantom behind her merged into the sword blade, slashing out a brilliant, sun-like sword astral that met the destruction light beam head-on.

The sword astral and the light beam collided in mid-air, the terrifying shockwave instantly leveling several mountain peaks below.

The Empress's figure swayed slightly and her face turned pale, yet she did not retreat a single step.

The Palace Mistress of Guanghan, Li Yue, narrowed her eyes slightly. Her fingertips brushed across the zither strings, and the music suddenly turned murderous.

It was no longer the sound of silence for area purification, but condensed into countless visible Moon Blade Cold Radiances. Like a torrential storm, they specifically targeted the Fox Immortal Su Qingyue, who was maintaining the Illusory Dream Barrier and keeping her in check.

Every moon blade contained an extreme chill and sharpness capable of cutting the Divine Soul.

Su Qingyue's nine tails shook together, and her Fox Fire surged, manifesting layers of barriers woven from reality and illusion. Yet, she was still forced into a defensive position by the pervasive Moon Blade Cold Radiances, and the range of the Illusory Dream Barrier began to shrink.

The Middle Region Dragon Clan was even more enraged.

The golden dragon trapped by Lady Hua Yu roared to the sky, its dragon blood burning as it forcibly pushed back some of the True Immortal Domain's constraints. The other golden dragons no longer dispersed their attacks but connected head to tail, laying down the ancient Dragon Clan battle Formation, Myriad Dragon World-Refining Formation.

Majestic Dragon Might condensed into substance, transforming into a golden dragon claw that blotted out the sky. With a terrifying power capable of crushing continents, it clawed down fiercely toward Lady Hua Yu and the battlefield below!

Pressure surged!

Chu Ye's gaze swept across the battlefield, making a quick judgment: the Myriad Dao Alliance was advancing steadily with their Immortal Artifact, the Divine Craft Workshop's full-power strike was barely blocked by the Empress at great cost, the Palace Mistress of Guanghan was suppressing Su Qingyue, and the Dragon Clan's battle Formation posed the greatest threat.

“It's time to add some spice.” With a thought, Chu Ye communicated with the hundred phoenix diagram.

The Witch Empress Jiuyou, who had not yet appeared, suddenly abandoned her entanglement with the Divine Craft Workshop and appeared like a ghost near the immortals of the Myriad Dao Alliance.

She did not attack directly. Instead, her hands formed seals as she produced a strange purple-black ceramic pot, the Western Region's most filthy vessel, the Plague Emperor Gu Pot.

As the mouth of the pot opened, no poison miasma poured out, but a wisp of invisible, intangible 'Decay Qi' diffused, quietly tainting the star Dao banner and the Elders casting the spells.

Almost simultaneously, Chu Ye injected a stream of pure World Origin power into the Bloodthirsty Berserk Formation from a distance. The Formation, which had been on the verge of collapsing, received strong support. Its blood light surged again, even eroding the star radiance chains in reverse.

The illusions within the Formation suddenly became even more bizarre and unpredictable, actually beginning to manifest the Dao Heart Tribulation that the immortals least wanted to face in the depths of their hearts.

The rhythm of the Myriad Dao Alliance was instantly thrown into chaos.

Facing that sky-reaching dragon claw, Lady Hua Yu's eyes turned sharp, and she no longer held back. She bit the tip of her tongue and spat out a drop of essence blood containing her True Immortal Origin, which merged into the Myriad Spirit Phantom behind her.

The phantoms instantly became mostly solid. The pressure of ancient Vicious Beasts fused and rose, transforming into a multicolored giant palm no less powerful than the dragon claw, meeting it head-on!

Boom—!!!

The two claws collided, and space shattered like a mirror, revealing the pitch-black void.

Terrifying sound waves and energy storms swept in all directions. Many with weaker cultivation were directly shaken until they spat blood and fell from the clouds.

In the very moment the golden dragon and the myriad spirit giant palm clashed and the heaven and earth trembled, a sudden change occurred!

An almost imperceptible gray shadow suddenly flashed out from a void rift. Its target was not any of the Immortal Realm experts, but pointed directly at the edge of the battlefield—the Old Ancestor of the Chu family!

Its speed was so fast and its aura so hidden that even a True Immortal's Divine Thought was slightly delayed.

“Shadow Pavilion!”

The Empress shouted sharply, but it was already too late for her sword light to sweep back.

The Middle Region's Shadow Pavilion, which had been lingering outside the main battlefield and was famous for hidden assassinations, finally bared its poisoned fangs at the most critical moment of the battle.

The short blade in the gray shadow's hand glowed with a ghostly blue death light. That was the Immortal-Slaying Soul Poison capable of even eroding an immortal body. Clearly, it had been planned for a long time, intending to sever a major supporting pillar of Chu Ye's side in one strike.

At the critical moment, the space beside the Old Ancestor rippled slightly, and a white-clothed figure appeared as if she had been waiting there all along.

Abbess Miaoyin's figure appeared, her hands fingering Buddhist beads. Her face was full of compassion, but her mouth uttered heavy, mountain-like golden Sanskrit characters: “Om, Mani, Padme, Hum!”

The Six-Syllable Mantra transformed into a substantial sonic barrier, crashing into that streak of ghostly blue death light.

The Buddha light and the death poison dissolved each other violently, making a piercing sizzling sound.

The gray shadow let out a muffled groan. He had clearly not expected this Buddhist expert, who seemed focused on support, to have such sharp anticipation and powerful defensive capabilities. Failing the strike, he instantly transformed into a shadow and fled, merging back into the void.

“Thank you, Buddhist Abbess.”

The Old Ancestor broke out in a cold sweat. He stabilized the mountain river cauldron and thanked her in a deep voice. Abbess Miaoyin nodded slightly, but her gaze scanned the surrounding void even more vigilantly.

The intervention of the Shadow Pavilion was like a signal.

“Enough!”