Above the Nine Heavens Domain, the Great Sun Sword Sect's Vajra Heavenly Patrol Warship, with the aid of cloud cover as well as its onboard optical invisibility, was flying rapidly high in the sky.
However, even as a kiloter-class Patrol Heaven Warship flying in the atmosphere at ten tis the speed of sound, no matter how well it concealed itself, the disturbance it caused could not be completely eliminated.
Under these circumstances, before the warship had even entered the Nine Heavens Domain, it had already been detected and locked on by Alkaid.
Moreover, he had been using himself as a decoy, guiding the flight trajectory of the Patrol Heaven Warship. Following this trend, although he could et up with the imposter "Chu Guang" within the domain of the Nine Heavens, it was inevitable they would pass by Dragon Majestic City.
However, Dragon Majestic City was, after all, not the capital of the Nine Heavens Domain. Although its defense had been significantly strengthened due to the Purple Cloud Courtyard, in the minds of the people from the Great Sun Sword Sect, they instinctively considered it as a non-key city. Naturally, they did not anticipate what kind of dangers waited for them there.
...
At this mont, Wu Xinxuan, the captain of this Patrol Heaven Warship, was in close contact with Chi Songzi, the Vice Hall Master of the Campaign Hall, and Bai Shi, the Hall Master of the Heavenly Palace Hall.
"Based on our deductions, this primordial treasure in the Yuan Realm must be personally controlled by Li Qingshan, the Sect Master of the Nine Cauldrons Sect. According to the intelligence we received, he is currently leading the Sword Execution Courtyard and rushing toward our location at full speed to intercept us, but... according to distance calculations, he won't make it in ti."
Bai Shi spoke with confidence, "We will et with our target and withdraw from the Nine Heavens Domain in half an hour, returning to the Eastern Sea. By the ti Li Qingshan and his Sword Execution Courtyard catch up, we would have already crossed a large part of the East Sea Archipelago and will be close to our Sect's holand. If Li Qingshan dares to pursue us then, we can mobilize reinforcents from our holand, gathering several tis their warti strength. Even if he has a powerful Spiritual Treasure like the Yuan Realm, he cannot turn the tide."
"Exactly, killing Li Qingshan might be tricky, but taking that Spiritual Treasure from him, and severely damaging, or even completely destroying the Sword Execution Courtyard, is by no ans a pipe dream."
Chi Songzi said with a smile.
After a mont, he added, "Of course, this is just the best-case scenario. Once they realize we are about to retreat to our territory, Li Qingshan's Sword Execution Courtyard might not even co after us."
"That's not necessarily true."
Wu Xinxuan said, "A talent like the Chief of the Purple Cloud Courtyard is soone any sect would do their utmost to protect. It's possible that Li Qingshan might risk the entire Sword Execution Courtyard to snatch him back from us, so everyone should still make the necessary preparations."
Chi Songzi nodded, "Rest assured, as long as you can successfully make the rendezvous, our lightning operation will essentially be perfectly completed. The rest would be considered extra gains."
"Understood!"
Wu Xinxuan nodded slightly.
He already knew that the Divine Might Academy, Qingfeng Courtyard currently stationed in the Nine Heavens Domain had been drawn away by the Shenfeng Academy, Shenmu Academy, and Shenshan Academy appearing at the border. What he truly needed to confront was actually just the guard force beside Alkaid.
Led by individuals such as Tang Fenghua and Bai Lu, there were just under twenty Great Cultivators.
Of course, the Sea Fortification Courtyard also needed attention.
But he believed that with the efficiency of their surprise attack, the Nine Cauldrons Sect wouldn't be able to respond so quickly.
With this thought in mind, the speed of the Heavenly Patrol Warship seed to quicken even further.
But just at this mont, Wu Xinxuan felt sothing and suddenly said, "Sothing's not right. Our undercover agents haven't sent any covert verification signals for a while now... yet their signals are clearly still..."
He suddenly turned to Bai Shi, with a trace of abnormality in his eyes, "Hall Master Bai, I need your help. Can you suppress the Heavenly Palace Cultivators from the Nine Cauldrons Sect for ?"
"Of course."
Bai Shi nodded slightly, "Leave it to ."
Yet this completely normal response caused Wu Xinxuan's face to change drastically.
It was not the response signal they had agreed upon beforehand.
Their communications had been interfered with!
The sacred treasure of the Primordial Realm was not in the hands of Li Qingshan, the Sect Master, but was controlled by Alkaid.
"Nine Cauldrons Sect values Alkaid to such an extent that they even entrusted him with the control of such a superior grade spiritual treasure, and moreover, the Eternal Brightness Hall did not warn ? Has the information from the Eternal Brightness Hall also been blocked..."
His heart quickly sank.
At this mont, he faced only two choices.
The first was to imdiately retreat and flee from the range of the Nine Cauldrons Sect.
The second...
Was to believe the information previously transmitted by undercover agents, to take a risky move and complete the mission at all costs, even at the risk of death.
This hesitation lasted only for a mont before the captain of the Vajra Warship was forced to make a decision.
Because he realized that if Alkaid had control of the superior grade spiritual treasure, the Primordial Realm...
Their plan could not possibly succeed.
Moreover, the enemy possibly interfered with the Eternal Brightness Hall...
For all he knew, ahead lay a trendous trap!
With this thought, he made a resolute decision, "Retreat! Turn the warship around, retreat to the Eastern Sea! Also, release the sword light, piercing through the clouds, and show Signal No. 3 to our Heavenly Palace Cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Sect so they can make the appropriate preparations!"
Though the executive officers and others did not entirely understand, they carried out the captain's orders resolutely.
"Yes."
Amidst a chorus of affirmations, the entire warship quickly buzzed into action.
Just at this ti, a burst of splendid flowing light shone from below, followed by the activation of a formation in a city below. Dozens, nearly a hundred, sword cultivators concentrated their power, forming a sword array which, enhanced by the array, unleashed sword lights tearing through the heavens, aid at...
The very Vajra-class Patrol Heaven Warship they were on!
"The worst has happened..."
Wu Xinxuan sighed in his heart, but his powerful divine sense imdiately spread throughout the entire warship, "Prepare for defense!"
Luminous brilliance flowed across the massive celestial warship, and many defensive arrays were fully activated.
At the sa ti, nurous sword cultivators, boosted by the formations, led by Primordial Spirit Cultivators, intercepted the incoming sword lights.
But...
There were too many sword lights.
Even as the sword cultivators aboard the Vajra Heavenly Patrol Warship went all out, they could only watch helplessly as hundreds of sword lights bombarded the body of the celestial warship, forcing each defensive array to operate to its limit.
After an array of radiant lights, all the defensive arrays remained intact.
But Wu Xinxuan's heart sank.
He realized that the opponent's round of attack was not ant to break through the warship's defensive arrays but to force the warship's arrays to operate at full power.
What did this an!?
It ant that the enemy was observing and analyzing the operation of the Patrol Heaven Warship's formation, planning to deliver a lethal strike to this Patrol Heaven Warship at the critical mont and destroy all of its defensive formations.
They...
had beco the prey.
"Captain, it's the formation! They are leveraging the formation of the city below to exert such offensive power..."
At this mont, the executive officer cried out in alarm.
The gloom in Wu Xinxuan's heart was quickly replaced by resolve.
He did not believe that anyone could really destroy the nurous defensive formations of the Vajra Patrol Heaven Warship in such a short period of ti.
"Full speed retreat! Escape the range of the city's formation's influence!"
Wu Xinxuan's Divine Sense spread throughout the warship.
The massive body of the Patrol Heaven Warship completed its turn and accelerated away.
Behind them, another dense cluster of sword lights pierced through the void, hamring the warship's formation with the force of thunder and lightning.
Wu Xinxuan sharply noticed that the impact points of these sword lights were completely different from the previous wave's.
Moreover, under the onslaught of these sword lights, the operation of each defensive formation nearly presented itself without any blind spots.
"Damn it, when we return, we must enhance the Patrol Heaven Warship with so disruptive and confusing formations; otherwise, if the enemy truly has a comprehensive Grandmaster of formations, and this Grandmaster also holds a Dharma Phase Spiritual Treasure like the 'Primordial Realm'... our Patrol Heaven Warship will beco nothing but a live target."
Wu Xinxuan was secretly anxious, but there was nothing he could do.
He also knew very well that the formation layout of the Patrol Heaven Warship was interconnected, and any addition or removal of a formation could potentially lead to problems with the operation of the entire warship.
Before these issues are resolved, the Patrol Heaven Warships of the Great Sun Sword Sect would likely no longer pose a threat to the Nine Cauldrons Sect.
This was the terror of Dual Cultivation.
Any person, with just one more technical ability, their significance and importance would increase geotrically.
"Boom!"
A new round of sword rain attack descended once more.
With a somber expression, Wu Xinxuan asked his deputy, "How much longer until we escape the range of that city's formation?"
"Three minutes! In three minutes, even with the amplification of the city's formation, their attacks will greatly reduce the damage inflicted on us."
"Three minutes."
Wu Xinxuan did so quick calculations.
From the mont they realized they had been tricked until now, less than ten minutes had passed.
Even with those three additional minutes, it would only be a dozen minutes or so, such a rapid response capacity...
Even if the Great Technique Cultivators of the Nine Cauldrons Sect wanted to unleash the Yin Yang Disintegration Technique to dissolve the formations of their warship, there wouldn't be enough ti.
Thinking this, the Primordial Spirit Realm Cultivator, who held the post of captain and had endured the Purple Cloud Divine Thunder Tempering, let out a slight sigh of relief.
Unfortunately...
He did not know the extent of power that could be unleashed when the "Divine Master" trait integrated all the powers of Technique Cultivators.
Especially at this mont, with not only the support of Dragon Majestic City's formation but also with Alkaid having broken through to the true Dharma Phase Level.
Before they could escape the range of Dragon Majestic City's formation attacks, eighty-one Sword Cultivators from the Sea Fortification Courtyard appeared almost simultaneously around the periphery of the Vajra Patrol Heaven Warship.
Seeing these Sword Cultivators, Wu Xinxuan seed to realize sothing and roared, "Full defense! Overload operation of all defensive formations!"
At the sa mont that he issued the command, at the edge of the sky, the brilliance of the Yin Yang Disintegration Technique burst through the void, spanning the distance between Dragon Majestic City and their region, and struck the Vajra Patrol Heaven Warship with incredible precision.
In an instant...
All formations shook violently, flickered, and then...
faded, corroded, dissolved.
This scene imdiately filled Wu Xinxuan's eyes with disbelief and a touch of despair.
"How is this possible..."
The next mont, a powerful Divine Sense exploded above the warship.
"Abandon ship, break through!"
This Divine Sense allowed Wu Xinxuan, still in shock, to snap back to reality, and then he realized sothing.
No!
This wasn't an order he gave!
"Don't believe it, it's enemy Divine Sense interference... I order, initiate the warship's self-destruct sequence! At all costs, prevent the 'Vajra' from falling into their hands..."
As Wu Xinxuan's Divine Sense flared, it only got halfway before he realized it was futile.
His Divine Sense was completely suppressed and couldn't be released.
With no other choice, he could only shout aloud.
"Boom!"
His shouting was instantly drowned out by the sound of explosions.
Ultimately, he could only watch as the cultivators who "received the orders" rose into the air, then were hunted down one by one by the Sword Cultivators of the Sea Fortification Courtyard who were waiting outside in a Sword Array.
"No!"
Wu Xinxuan let out a mournful cry.
At that mont, he finally experienced the despair that Zuo Chuan, captain of the Spring Rain Patrol Heaven Warship, had felt.
"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"
Accompanied by the Sword Cultivators of the Sea Fortification Courtyard landing on the Vajra Patrol Heaven Warship, this unexpected battle swiftly ca to an end.
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