Chapter 904: Chapter 552: Drastic Turn of Events, Martial Intent
In a short span of time, the entire Great Universe underwent a nearly transformative upheaval.
The consecutive demise of the Yun Ancestor and Feng Wenzhong, two ancient ancestors, had an impact far beyond the power shifts of two supreme forces; their deaths meant that the Heavenly Fate they bore had changed hands.
This violent fluctuation in Heavenly Fate invisibly stirred the entire universe’s fate pattern, causing many previously stable orders to loosen, and many hidden opportunities and calamities to be triggered prematurely.
For a time, various abnormal celestial phenomena occurred frequently throughout the Great Universe; Secret Realms opened up, and even some long-extinct Ancient Times relics moved by fate, revealing traces.
And Chu Zheng and Yun Tianji, positioned at the center of this storm, were inevitably thrust into the spotlight, becoming the focus of the Myriad Realms.
One stormed the Ancestral Tomb, severed ancestors, and seized fate; the other rose against elders, betrayed his clan, and slew ancestors. Such figures were rare within an epoch of the Great Universe, yet now two appeared simultaneously, triggering unprecedented violent turbulence.
After Yun Tianji seized fate, the Star Moon Ancient Clan and the Immortal Court, two long-standing adversaries, finally tore their faces completely and officially entered a state of all-out war.
Among the star rivers, vast armies formed by millions of cultivators surged like roaring star river torrents, intertwining fiercely, raising giant waves in the Star Sea, and star domains were bombarded daily, with numerous Great Realms wailing amid the flames of war.
The Yun Clan, leaderless and plunged into unprecedented chaos, left behind a massive legacy of countless resource stars, affiliated forces, ancient Secret Realms, which didn’t last long and were quickly annexed and assimilated by the nearby Immortal Court.
A clan with an ancestral realm presence, though not among the Ten Great Ancient Clans, its foundation was not far off.
A vast majority of these enviable resources did not fall into the Immortal Court but were seized by Yun Tianji, who had long prepared and gathered them into his own grasp, causing his Ascension Alliance to rapidly expand.
Their influence and strength quickly rivaled the Feng Family and Xu Family, these two major factions of the Immortal Court, becoming a highly unique presence.
The overall power of the Immortal Court surged again due to this annexation, but its internal structure became more complex, with undercurrents surging.
However, just when the outside world thought Yun Tianji would take advantage of the momentum to expand and vie for greater authority within the Immortal Court, he made a decision that surprised many living creatures.
He announced a retreat.
He handed all affairs to trusted aides, intending to assimilate the gains and begin impacting the ancestral realm.
The war continued.
On the other side of the human race, the Martial Pavilion displayed an astonishing level of aggression and warfare efficiency after Jun Huang assumed the role of chief coordinator.
Jun Huang seemed born for the path of competition, rational to the point of being nearly ruthless, issuing precise commands from the main strategy hall, causing the long-dormant war machine of the Martial Pavilion to start full-speed operations.
The Martial Pavilion did not explicitly declare its stance on the Immortal Court nor establish a formal alliance of offense and defense with it, its strategy was extremely clear and domineering.
Jun Huang on one hand targeted the Star Moon Ancient Clan waging a death battle with the Immortal Court, continuously harassing its flanks, seizing Great Realm resources amidst chaos, and on the other hand, actively initiated conflicts with the Heavenly Feather Clan, which had longstanding grievances with the Martial Pavilion, pressing the army towards them.
In the chaotic situation, Jun Huang’s actions were aimed at maximizing benefits for the Martial Pavilion, expanding their territory, and seizing resources, with the majority of Martial Monarchs, Martial Emperors, and countless Great Saints of Martial Path from the pavilion leaving with no reservations.
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Having grasped Heavenly Fate, Chu Zheng did not hesitate and immediately began seeking a retreat location.
He did not return to the relatively safe Martial Pavilion Ancestral Land, as at this moment, time was of the essence, and Feng Qingyi would surely scour the entire universe to find him; returning to the Martial Pavilion could cause massive trouble for Xue Qing and the pavilion.
In a desolate, lifeless star domain near the Cosmic Edge, far from the core areas of various forces, he laid down a formation encompassing the entire star domain.
This formation could to some extent gather the Power of the Stars and conceal his aura.
Entering the core of the ancient array, Chu Zheng waved his hand and laid down layers of exceedingly complex space-time restrictions and concealment formations. He intended to use this place as a temporary cave, directly retreating and impacting the ancestral realm.
Finally, he took out a well-refined grand hall, covered with space-time laws’ patterns inside, able to accelerate the passage of time more than tenfold.
He meant to strike while the iron was hot, leveraging the newly acquired half of Heaven’s Fortune and his previous accumulation over tens of thousands of years, to break through barriers and step into the supreme ancestral realm.
He could not afford to waste any time; every minute he gained was an extra gain.
After obtaining the ancestral status, he had more and greater tasks to undertake, facing the incoming, even more turbulent tide of the era.
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In the blink of an eye, eons of time quietly passed amidst endless war and strife.
Ten thousand years, though to the mortal world meant drastic changes, to the cosmic pattern, it also signified tremendous transformations.
The flames of war not only did not die down but started further upgrading and expanding.
Among the Ten Great Ancient Clans, except for a few extremely remote or neutral ones, almost all were drawn in, splitting the universe into several major camps, attacking each other, caught in a chaotic conflict.
The Star Moon Ancient Clan, originally the core of the war, was bearing the double pressure from the Immortal Court and Martial Pavilion, enduring heavy losses. They secretly extended intentions of alliance to the powerful Giant God Clan, hoping to join forces against the human race.