Special wartime status!
Once the Guanxuan Universe entered special wartime status, it meant the Guanxuan Universe had reached its most dangerous moment. The entire universe was placed on full alert.
At this time, all branch academies within the Guanxuan Universe had to immediately dispatch their strongest members to the main Guanxuan Academy. All teleportation arrays across the entire Guanxuan Universe had to remain in full operation for twenty-four hours a day. Every branch of the Immortal Treasure Pavilion had to immediately gather all available resources and swiftly transport them to the main Guanxuan Academy.
In addition, all noble families and sects had to send their top experts to the main Guanxuan Academy within twenty-four hours. Those who were weaker had to stand ready for battle at all times, serving as the second line of defence.
All mercenary groups also had to head to the main Guanxuan Academy without delay.
In short, no matter whether you were a disciple of a noble family or sect, or an independent cultivator, you had to proceed immediately to the main Guanxuan Academy.
If the Guanxuan Universe could not hold, the entire universe would perish!
Since the unification of the Guanxuan Universe, special wartime status had only been declared twice before.
The first time was thirty million years ago.
The second time was today!
At this moment, Li Ban Zhi’s expression was more solemn than ever before.
She had known there was someone behind Lu Tian, so she had made preparations early. But she had never guessed that the person behind Lu Tian was actually a god. Even more unexpected was that the gods had bypassed the True Void Battlefield and come directly to the main Guanxuan Academy!
She knew something had gone wrong at the True Void Battlefield!
Moreover, the problem likely came from within. Otherwise, these gods could not have arrived at the Guanxuan Academy without any warning.
Of course, right now she had no time to investigate who had betrayed them!
The most urgent priority was to protect Ye Guan!
Ye Guan suddenly spoke. “Auntie Zhi, can we not summon the Human World Sword Master?”
Li Ban Zhi’s face was extremely grim. “If there were no gods, we could. But with gods present, we cannot!”
Ye Guan was puzzled. “Why not?”
Li Ban Zhi said softly, “I do not know the exact details. I only know that after your father fought his way into the True World, he seemed to have made some kind of agreement with that True God of the True World!”
True God!
Ye Guan asked in his mind, “Tower Elder, how strong is this True God?”
Little Tower replied quietly, “Strong beyond your imagination!”
Beyond imagination!
Ye Guan fell silent.
Li Ban Zhi looked towards the horizon. At this moment, there were nearly eight hundred divine generals and twelve divine lords in the field.
The gods were few in number, yet their strength completely crushed the Guanxuan Universe’s side.
Even those battle-hardened ancient Guanxuan Guards were now fully suppressed by the divine generals!
And in the heavens and earth, nearly half of the ancestors summoned by the noble families and sects had already fallen!
Yet what opposed them were merely a few divine lords!
A handful of divine lords had blocked more than a hundred thousand ancestors from the noble families and sects.
This was absolute domination in strength!
There was no other way. The ones who came from the True World were all top-tier powerhouses. Meanwhile, the strongest experts of the Guanxuan Academy were all at the True Void Battlefield. Therefore, very few people here could contend with these top powerhouses.
This was already thanks to Li Ban Zhi having recalled a group of ancient Guanxuan Guards in advance. Otherwise, the Guanxuan Universe side might have been slaughtered outright!
Li Ban Zhi’s face was extremely dark. Her gaze remained fixed on the distant Lu Tian. From beginning to end, Lu Tian had not moved at all. And right now, this Lu Tian was the most dangerous person!
At that moment, An You beside her suddenly spoke in a deep voice. “Young Master, Prime Minister Li, all spacetime tunnels in the Small Guan Star Domain have been sealed. Moreover, my people have detected extremely powerful auras traversing spacetime and heading straight towards us!”
Li Ban Zhi remained expressionless. “Have we managed to contact the True Void Battlefield?”
An You shook her head. “As soon as my people left the Small Guan Star Domain, all contact was lost. They have probably already…”
Li Ban Zhi slowly closed her eyes. “The Small Guan Universe has been sealed off!”
An You nodded. “Yes!”
Ye Guan suddenly said, “Since contact with the True Void Battlefield has been lost, I believe the people there must have noticed something wrong. When they also cannot initiate contact with us, they will surely send someone back!”
As he spoke, he looked at Li Ban Zhi. “Auntie Zhi, I need someone to hold back the mysterious powerhouse inside Lu Tian!”
He did not want to stand here and be protected!
Li Ban Zhi glanced at the distant Lu Tian. “Abbot Seng Wu, I will have to trouble you!”
Boom!
As her voice fell, spacetime beside Ye Guan suddenly tore open. Then Seng Wu stepped out.
In fact, he had been here all along!
His main purpose was to protect Ye Guan!
Seng Wu looked towards the distant Lu Tian and gave a slight smile. “Come. Let me see who you really are!”
With those words, he suddenly took a step forward. As he stepped out, a beam of Buddhist light burst forth and shot straight towards Lu Tian!
Seeing Seng Wu act, Lu Tian’s expression remained calm. When that beam of Buddhist light reached him, a single finger suddenly extended from between his brows and lightly tapped.
Boom!
The beam of Buddhist light shattered instantly. At the same time, that finger appeared right in front of Seng Wu.
Seng Wu’s pupils shrank sharply. He pressed his palms together fiercely. “Buddhist Light Universal Illumination!”
Boom!
A grand Buddhist light suddenly surged out from within him. But the next moment—
Boom!
Under everyone’s gaze, that Buddhist light shattered completely. Seng Wu was blasted thousands of zhang away!
The moment he stopped, his physical body shattered, leaving only his soul. Most terrifying of all, the ten thousand zhang of spacetime behind him collapsed directly into pitch-black void.
Instant defeat?
Even Seng Wu himself was stunned.
What the hell?
This was his first time acting in thirty million years, and this was the result?
Unacceptable!
Beside Ye Guan, Li Ban Zhi’s expression now became more solemn than ever.
Lu Tian stared at Ye Guan and gave a sinister smile. “Son of the Human World Sword Master. I must say, this truly is a heaven-shaking surprise!”
Li Ban Zhi said in a deep voice, “That mysterious person has taken control of Lu Tian’s body!”
“Brother Ye Guan!”
At that moment, Ye Qing suddenly roared from afar.
Ye Guan looked towards Ye Qing. Ye Qing said, “My master is willing to help. He will forcibly open a spacetime tunnel to the True Void World. You must go to the True Void World. The people here cannot hold!”
As his voice fell—
Boom!
From within Ye Qing’s body, a powerful aura soared into the sky. A middle-aged man slowly rose into the air. After the middle-aged man appeared, he flicked his sleeve. A beam of ten-thousand-zhang Dao light shot upwards, instantly tearing open a spacetime avenue in the heavens and earth.
The middle-aged man looked at Ye Guan. “Young Master Ye, please leave quickly!”
But at that moment, a long spear tore through the air.
Sizzle!
With a tearing sound that echoed across the sky, the newly opened spacetime avenue was directly shattered by this single spear!
The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes slightly and turned his head. On the right horizon, at some unknown moment, a man clad in flaming golden armour had appeared. The man’s long hair draped over his shoulders, and his eyes blazed with raging flames.
The middle-aged man stared at the golden-armoured man and narrowed his eyes. “Divine Emperor!”
Divine Emperor!
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of many powerhouses from the Guanxuan Universe instantly turned extremely ugly!
Even the Divine Emperor had come!
In the True World, the Divine Emperor was a terrifying existence second only to the Divine Sovereign!
That Divine Emperor stared at the middle-aged man without any wasted words. He suddenly stepped forward and thrust his spear!
The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes. With a flick of his sleeve, beams of light suddenly poured out from within it.
Boom!
In an instant, the Dao light covered the sky and blocked out the sun, shrouding the entire sky above Guanxuan Academy.
But at that moment, a tearing sound suddenly rang out from the horizon. Then that endless Dao light was torn apart layer by layer by a long spear wreathed in flames. In the blink of an eye, the spear reached the middle-aged man!
The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes and punched out!
Boom!
With this punch, the long spear was forcibly halted in place. Heaven and earth shattered!
At that moment, the Divine Emperor suddenly vanished from his spot.
A fierce glint flashed in the middle-aged man’s eyes. His right hand suddenly spun forward. Powerful force surged violently from his fist!
Boom!
The horizon turned pitch black. Both men were simultaneously blasted back nearly a thousand zhang!
Below, ‘Lu Tian’ raised his head to glance at the sky and gave a light chuckle.
Beside Li Ban Zhi, Ye Guan stared at ‘Lu Tian’. “Why isn’t he making a move?”
Li Ban Zhi did not answer. She turned to An You. “How is it?”
An You said in a deep voice, “The Immortal Treasure Pavilion has already opened a passage to the Zhou Realm. We can leave at any time.”
Li Ban Zhi immediately looked at Ye Guan and said seriously, “On the path to the True Void Battlefield, there will surely be countless god-level powerhouses lying in wait. With the academy’s current strength, it is impossible to send you to the True Void Battlefield. Moreover, there must be a major problem within the True Void Battlefield itself. Therefore, for now, you can only go to the Zhou Realm. That is the domain of the Cosmic Spirit. After that great battle back then, your mother established the Martial Pavilion there. Right now, over a hundred Martial God Guards she trained back then are already rushing to receive you!”
Ye Guan looked at Li Ban Zhi. “I leave, and you all stay here?”
Li Ban Zhi was about to speak when Ye Guan suddenly shook his head. “Auntie Zhi, do not talk to me about the greater picture. I do not want to hear it!”
As he spoke, he looked towards the distant powerhouses of the Guanxuan Universe who were fighting to the death for him and said softly, “If I leave, all of you will die here!”
Li Ban Zhi stared at Ye Guan. “If you do not leave, you will die here just like us! But if you leave, even if all of us die here, that would still be…”
Ye Guan said softly, “Is the life of the son of the Human World Sword Master the only life that matters? Are your lives not lives too?”
Li Ban Zhi froze.
Ye Guan gave a faint smile. “What I hate most is the idea that some lives are more noble than others! I will not consider my life more precious just because I am the son of the Human World Sword Master. If I leave today, I will never forgive myself for the rest of my life.”
As he spoke, he looked towards the distant disciples of the Sword Sect who were fighting desperately for him and said softly, “If survival requires sacrificing brothers and loved ones, then I would rather not have such a life.”
At that moment, in the distant horizon, a spacetime avenue suddenly spread out. Then, over a thousand black-armoured god-level powerhouses stepped out together!
Divine generals!
Seeing this scene, all the powerhouses on the Guanxuan Universe side instantly turned pale.
Yet it was not over. Behind those thousand divine generals, ten towering giants slowly walked out. The moment they appeared, the entire Small Guan Continent began to turn illusory!
These giants held shields in their left hands and spears in their right. Their eyes were filled with fierce killing intent and malice.
“The Divine Giant Clan!”
Seeing these ten giants, Chen Guanzi, who was currently in bloody battle in the distance, instantly turned pale.
Only those who had fought against the Divine Giant Clan knew just how terrifying they were!
And the powerhouses of the Guanxuan Universe who were currently fighting desperately now felt a wave of despair.
But at that moment, spacetime to the right of Ye Guan and the others suddenly tore open. The next moment, a woman slowly stepped out.
The woman wore a simple cloth skirt and was barefoot.
Then, she suddenly opened her palm. A token shot into the sky.
Boom!
Within the Nether Palace in the starry sky, the eyes of eight female statues suddenly opened at the same time.
In an instant, the starry river boiled!
