If you won't let me go, then I'll send you all away

【“Heavenly Treasure Glazed Ring!”】

【A winged commander hurled a ring-shaped spiritual treasure from the sky. It looked like a glass bracelet.】

【The moment it caught the wind, it expanded, its diameter spanning several thousand meters, enclosing the area centered on the seven-colored pillar of light.】

【When you unleashed another barrage of Lightspeed Fists, blasting apart a swath of enemies,】

【you were astonished to discover that the beams of light had been absorbed when they struck the spiritual treasure.】

【The Heavenly Treasure Glazed Ring actively opened numerous circular apertures, allowing more enemy troops outside to enter and attack you from within.】

【It continued rotating, making it difficult for you to aim your Lightspeed Fists through those apertures.】

【In this way, the enemy restricted the destructive range of your Lightspeed Fists to the area covered by the spiritual treasure, preventing you from wiping out their forces with a few punches.】

【The Ten Thousand Souls Banner exclaimed,】

【“This thing is at least an epic-grade spiritual treasure!”】

【Whether it was the Ten Thousand Souls Banner or the Demon Refining Pot, after being nurtured by Granny Duobao, their current quality was only that of ordinary spiritual treasures.】

【At most, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was closer to the rare-spiritual-treasure level than the other immortal artifacts of the Human Realm.】

【You paid no attention to the Heavenly Treasure Glazed Ring.】

【Your current goal was not to kill as many enemies as possible, but to board a starship and leave Blazestar.】

【A moment later, after some mental calculations, you locked onto a starship high in the sky.】

【It was currently at an altitude you could jump to. Once you boarded it, its speed would make it difficult for the enemy to catch up.】

【“Brothers, get ready. We’re hitching a ride!”】

【With that, you leaped from among the enemy forces!】

【The Thunder-Chasing Lightning Boots roared with electric light beneath your feet. Lightning blasted into the ground, turning a swath of aliens into charred corpses. The tremendous recoil sent you shooting straight upward like a rocket.】

【“Seven Divine Steps of the Starry Sky!”】

【At the same time, you performed the Seven Divine Steps of the Starry Sky, whose mastery had reached the highest realm—the state of returning to simplicity and perfection.】

【“Boom! Boom! Boom…”】

【With seven consecutive steps, you created seven rings of shockwaves in midair. Each ring was at a different altitude, with the distance between them growing progressively larger, resembling a series of Mach rings.】

【Arcs of electricity from the Thunder-Chasing Lightning Boots crackled through every ring.】

【These seven steps further increased your ascent speed, allowing you to chase directly after the starship you had selected as your ride.】

【Some of the eighteen commanders at the Ultimate Realm on the battlefield realized what you were trying to do.】

【“He’s trying to escape on someone else’s starship!”】

【“Stop him!”】

【“He’s too fast!”】

【“I’ll do it! My divine art is faster! Damn… I missed!”】

【“Brother Hahaji, don’t let us down at a time like this!”】

【“Hahaki! You couldn’t be a spy, could you?”】

【“Bullshit! At least I managed to fire off an attack. That’s better than you lot standing there gawking!”】

【High in the sky, the wind howled.】

【“Smack!”】

【One of your hands seized the edge of the starship.】

【“Made it!”】

【You saw the insignia of the Azureflame Merchant Guild on the starship. It was probably one of the guild’s merchant vessels, traveling to other planets to conduct business.】

【Just as you were preparing to climb inside,】

【you suddenly discovered that the starship, which should have been accelerating upward, was actually beginning to slow down.】

【The seven-colored pillars of light around you were fading.】

【The Ten Thousand Souls Banner was baffled.】

【“What’s going on?”】

【You saw through it at a glance.】

【“They shut down the Starport Formation!”】

【“What? Have they gone insane?”】

【They had indeed gone insane.】

【There were countless starships in the air at that moment!】

【Once the formation was shut down, every one of them would come crashing down!】

【The people aboard those starships were not necessarily high-level cultivators.】

【Even a cultivator at the Qi Transformation Realm would be crippled, if not killed, by falling from atmospheric altitude in the Material Realm.】

【Besides, starships were not cheap.】

【Some of them were carrying cargo that had not yet been placed in storage treasures.】

【With this single crash, the accusations and compensation claims facing the three great sects would be staggering!】

【If all the starships belonged to forces on Blazestar, the three great sects could still suppress them through their hegemony over the planet.】

【But some of the vessels belonged to forces from other planets.】

【There were no interstellar powers native to Blazestar.】

【The three great sects could throw their weight around only on this planet. If they caused a major foreign power’s starship to crash, that power could use the incident as an excuse to send an army and wipe out the three great sects!】

【So this move was absolutely insane!】

【As the starships fell from the sky, they burst into flames, like fireballs plunging vertically toward the ground. They slammed into the earth amid thunderous explosions.】

【This time, even some high-level cultivators might not survive.】

【After barely withstanding the impact of their own starship, they had not even gotten to their feet to flee before another starship crashed down on their heads.】

【One after another—who could possibly survive that?】

【“Rumble!!!”】

【The Starport became a graveyard of starships. Ruins piled dozens of meters high, forming a burning mound of tombs right where they stood.】

【Hahaki of the Dragonborn race swallowed hard as he watched the scene.】

【“This time, things have truly gotten out of hand…”】

【Yang Chenglin of the Three-Eyed race let out a scornful laugh.】

【“There’s no need to worry, Brother Hahaji. This was an order jointly issued by the three sect masters. If the sky falls, the three of them will hold it up.”】

【“Brother, if the sky really does fall, I’m afraid our three sect masters won’t be able to hold it up. We’ll still get crushed to death, won’t we?”】

【“Don’t you understand? As long as we capture that human child, any loss can be forgiven. Even an advanced foreign power won’t have anything to say about it!”】

【As he spoke, Yang Chenglin and several other commanders at the Ultimate Realm walked toward the wreckage.】

【“All right. That boy should have been crushed to death. But the child should be fine. He wrapped the child in the relic of the Heavenfire Mystic Maiden, so there’s no way it could have died.”】

【At that moment, a small number of survivors were still scattered throughout the wreckage.】

【Dragging their gravely injured bodies and supporting one another, they struggled out from the blazing fire behind them.】

【These survivors cursed the armies of the three great sects.】

【“Look at what you’ve done! The Falling Dawn Sect will never let you get away with this!”】

【“My family is dead! They all fell to their deaths! I’ll fight you to the end!”】

【“It’s over… All the cargo is ruined! What the hell are you doing?!”】

【Some lost control and attacked the approaching commanders. They were immediately subdued and killed.】

【Those who did not attack were killed as well.】

【After all, the three great sects had already made enemies of everyone.】

【Just then, a world-shaking explosion rang out from the burning wreckage.】

【A figure shot out of it!】

【His entire body was covered in flames, and a burning trail followed him from the ground all the way into the sky.】

【At the highest point of his ascent, you shook your body, scattering the ash and flames covering you and revealing your true form.】

【At the same time, a fresh ring of flame gathered around you.】

【Rage!】

【“If you won’t let me leave, then I’ll send you all on your way!!”】

【You know you’re not getting out of here today. For now, your only option is to break through and live to fight another day.】

【Target locked: westward—Tiansha Sect stronghold!】