Starbase Boarding Battle

"Yingzi, did the western route strategy succeed?"

To get on board smoothly and seize the Star Harbor, you assigned important tasks to all four rebel armies—east, south, west, and north.

The eastern and southern rebel forces deliberately spread rumors, making the Wing God Cult believe they were merging and about to launch an assault on the cult's main headquarters.

To the Wing God Cult, that place is the most sacred and inviolable, so they would definitely take it seriously.

Besides, the main headquarters is a major city—it doesn't just house the cult's cultivators, but also countless civilians of various races.

Although the rebels couldn't gain much against the cult's main forces, if they managed to break into the city and face those common folk who've barely trained, they could still play the role of stern fathers.

If something like that actually happened, the Wing God Cult's prestige would suffer a massive blow.

In the northern rebel army, Chen Five was placed in command.

Chen Five has a cultivation of the sixth-turn Qi Transformation realm, and ordinary church soldiers would be easily crushed beneath him—this made the Wing God Cult believe that the Grand Marshal of the Rebel Army, Chen Yi, was there.

Although the rebels are no match for the alien legions, you, as their Grand Marshal, have built a fearsome reputation over the years.

Add to that your ability to create doppelgangers, and the fact that every attempt to strike you down has failed, the Wing God Cult harbors a deep, burning hatred for you.

Letting them think your true body was in the northern rebel army was precisely to lure away their top combatants.

Like those White-Robed Priests at the Pill Manifestation realm.

Those bastards had probably been waiting ages for a chance to earn merit—the moment they caught wind of it, they rushed forward eagerly, terrified that if they lagged a step behind, a colleague would snatch your head first.

As for the higher-level Red Cardinals, you never saw them act personally.

They basically stay stationed at the major branch temples and never easily step out to handle specific problems.

As for the western rebel army, they too marched quietly to the Wolf Smoke Mountain area, with the task of luring away the Eagle Legion to create an opportunity for you to seize the Star Harbor.

Liu Ying reports to you.

"Lan Tieniu, leader of the western rebel army, has completed his task! Right now, the ten thousand men of the Eagle Legion are at Wolf Mane Mountain, two hundred li away, chasing down the brothers of the western rebel army!"

"He lured away the entire Eagle Legion?"

"Yes!"

"How did he manage that? Normally they'd leave some men behind to guard—even though the Star Harbor still has regular garrison soldiers..."

At that mention, Liu Ying couldn't help but laugh.

"What is it?"

"Leader Lan Tieniu and a bunch of generals from the western army kidnapped the Eagle Legion commander's wife..."

"cough cough... This, this isn't a good style of conduct, you know—we rebels have to act with integrity; we can't be like those aliens! Record a major demerit for him; when we see him again, I'll have to give him a proper scolding and education!"

These western route folks are something else.

They piled on the hatred so thick that the Eagle Legion would stop at nothing to hunt them down.

"Can Leader Lan and his men escape?"

"They followed the method you taught them, digging countless tunnels in advance inside Wolf Mane Mountain. Any winged men who chase them into the tunnels—their wings become their biggest handicap. With their preparations and ambushes inside the tunnels, even a Xiantian-level martial artist would not come back alive!"

In the Void Realm, once a cultivator reached the Golden Body Stage (equivalent to the early Innate Martial Artist stage in the Material Realm), ordinary blades and swords could hardly harm them. If they activated their Golden Body, they could truly be called impervious to blades and spears.

But not in the Material Realm.

Although the physical bodies of Innate Martial Artists in the Material Realm were greatly enhanced, even ordinary sharp weapons could still wound them if they weren't on guard—and could even prove fatal.

Cultivators in the Material Realm had to reach the Qi Transformation Stage and master true qi before they experienced a qualitative leap in power.

But even then, being impervious to ordinary blades and swords was a matter of using true qi. Their physical resilience relative to the surrounding environment was far inferior to that of cultivators of the same realm in the Void Realm.

There would be sacrifices on the western route, but not too many. Compared to all past battles, this well-prepared "tunnel warfare" might even yield a positive casualty ratio.

"Brothers on every route are giving their all—it's our turn to charge!"

Ten thousand cavalry, sixty thousand infantry!

Every single one was armed with weapons and armor, and a portion of those had even been enchanted by you.

The rebel army as a whole was still desperately poor, but whoever drew the lot to participate in the Starport Battle, the brothers from every rebel faction would hand over their finest weapons and armor to them.

They were hope!

Hope for whether the humans of this planet could truly stand up and wash away generations of humiliation!

You brought out a large quantity of white porridge prepared in advance.

Everyone raised their bowls together.

"Brothers! Drink this bowl of porridge! If we live, we fight with all our might to break out of this third-rate star! If we die, we die with full bellies, not as starving ghosts!"

Together with the crowd, you drained the porridge in one gulp.

Then—

"Crash!!!"

Together with the crowd, you smashed your ceramic bowls onto the ground.

Everyone picked up the sharpest shard from the broken pieces at their feet and hid it on their person, as a last-ditch weapon for the moment of final crisis.

The Starport was not a sea harbor, but a colossal formation, located on the plains east of Wolf Smoke Mountain.

The formation shimmered pale gold, shaped like a disc, with mysterious runes flowing across its surface, spanning vast stretches of farmland and roads.

At the very center of the formation, a rainbow-colored pillar of light shot skyward, dazzling to behold.

Tendrils of light streamed endlessly upward along the pillar, as if answering something beyond the heavens.

Because of the large number of soldiers guarding the Starport, towns and villages had naturally sprung up around it. In the distance, it looked lively—crowds coming and going, carts and horses flowing endlessly, bustling with prosperity.

Of course, none of the people living there were human.

Humans were strictly forbidden from approaching the Starport, and the identity checks were so rigorous that slipping in was nearly impossible.

The rebel army struck from the west of the Starport.

You led the charge, towering hundreds of meters tall.

By now, in the eyes of the alien races, seeing you was no different from seeing a monster.

"It's the Rebel Marshal! Run!!!"

"The Bandit Marshal is here! The Bandit Marshal is here! He kills without blinking, eats people without spitting out bones! Get out of here!"

"These lunatics are even attacking the Starport! They're insane!!"

The rebel forces crashed into the Starport's defenders.

Viewed from high above, the two sides were like two dense swarms of ants, and at the boundary where they collided, a vast bloom of crimson blood-light erupted.

You leap up, your colossal frame clearing the enemy line entirely, charging straight for the Star Harbor Grand Formation.

The defenders get trampled by the dozens beneath your feet.

These ordinary soldiers—their highest cultivation barely reaching a few Qi Transformation stages—are alien races who can’t survive even a single basic attack from you, since you’ve already stacked your defense to the max.

All they can do is watch helplessly as you sprint right over their heads.

One guardian formation after another blocks your path.

Fortunately, you already scouted the area beforehand, and as a celestial-rank formation master from the Void Realm, you’re more than qualified here.

The materials you’ve plundered from the Winged God Cult over the years are beyond counting—more than enough to break these arrays right now.

On top of that, “Reverse Engineering” lets you see the original schematics of each formation, making your work even more effortless.

“Open!”

“Open, I said!”

“Open again!”