Spirit Micro Star Great Brawl

【Year Seventeen, age forty-three.】

【Relying on the Wing Ancestor’s teachings and the overbearing power of the mother-and-child Soul-Locking Seal, Sotuofeiren and the Xuanlan Four Heroes led the Wing Army in steadily expanding across Lingwei Star.】

【The Winged God Sect was now leaderless. On top of that, the Winged God’s previous appearance—practically that of a stray dog—had been so shocking that...】

【Everyone on Lingwei Star was now suffering from a collapse of faith.】

【As luck would have it, the Wing Ancestor Sect had arrived at precisely this moment. The five people responsible for spreading its teachings were all Ascenders from the legendary Void Realm, beings of infinite potential. They had inadvertently filled Lingwei Star’s people with the sense of divinity they had been craving.】

【Moreover, little by little, they began to realize something.】

【Compared to the Winged God—a being of the so-called divine nature and godhood, which was ethereal and, one might even say, all smoke and mirrors...】

【The Wing Ancestor was a real existence, descended from their own ancestors. That seemed far more worthy of worship.】

【A debate between the worship of a god and the worship of one’s ancestors had begun to play out across Lingwei Star due to the arrival of Sotuofeiren and the Wing Army.】

【Both sides called the other heretics and insisted they had to be burned alive.】

【The Wing Army took advantage of the chaos to expand, acquiring enough strength to stand against the Winged God Sect.】

【That same year, several million members of the rebel army officially arrived.】

【Without wasting a word, you immediately gave the order to split the army into two forces.】

【One force, made up of elite troops, would strike directly at the Winged God Sect’s major cities, crushing the sect’s remaining primary resistance.】

【The other would sweep through the second- and third-tier cities, as well as the local villages and towns, rescuing the humans who were being oppressed and enslaved. Along the way, they would recruit more people and strengthen their control over the local regions.】

【This way...】

【One force would conquer cities and seize strongholds, while the other would encircle the cities from the countryside.】

【You had both bases covered, and you handled both of them with an iron fist!】

【Year Eighteen, age forty-four.】

【Lingwei Star had fallen into complete chaos.】

【The Winged God Sect was leaderless and in total disarray.】

【The Wing Ancestor Sect, which had seemingly sprung from nowhere, was gradually replacing the Winged God in the hearts of Lingwei Star’s people and becoming the orthodox faith. The two sects attacked each other from time to time—both physically and verbally.】

【Then there was the most serious problem of all: the human rebel army. It was rapidly devouring the Winged God Sect’s territory, driving out the various nonhuman races, and restoring the order of human rule.】

【Ordinary mortals still made up the majority of the rebel army.】

【When faced with an army of cultivators from a second-tier star, even with superior equipment, they sometimes found themselves powerless.】

【But under your careful direction, you had Sotuofeiren lead the Wing Army in gnawing away at the cultivator battles where the casualties were heaviest.】

【For the most part, the rebel army’s enemies were still low-level cultivators and mortal soldiers.】

【Even so, the rebel army’s casualty rate remained far from low.】

【For humanity to rise again in this star system, such sacrifices were unavoidable—and necessary.】

【Actually, you had not followed your original plan of completely ignoring the rebel army’s war and letting them temper themselves through bloodshed.】

【In the early stages of the war, you had helped many times, preventing a great number of casualties.】

【But later, that became impossible.】

【As the war spread, the battle lines grew longer and the number of battlefields increased. You were stretched too thin—your few clones were of little help as well.】

【Furthermore, the Winged God Sect had realized that it was impossible for them to resolve their three major problems through their own strength: the Winged God’s disappearance, the Wing Ancestor’s missionaries, and the human uprising.】

【They needed a powerful outside force to suppress whoever was responsible for creating these problems.】

【So the Winged God Sect called for reinforcements.】

【There were powerful factions in nearby star systems that had dealings with the Winged God Sect in normal times.】

【In exchange for ceding part of their planets and resources, the Winged God Sect summoned quite a few high-level cultivators at the Earth-Shattering and Heaven-Reaching realms when it was on the verge of collapse.】

【Unfortunately, none of these reinforcements managed to land on Lingwei Star.】

【Because you had blocked the way in.】

【A spaceport was like a lighthouse. As long as its lights remained on, people traveling along the space routes would naturally approach it, regardless of whether the starships they were riding actually needed the spaceport in order to land.】

【You simply squatted above the spaceport’s pillar of light, blocking the only route from outer space into Lingwei Star.】

【Of course, you still lacked the strength to cross the universe in the flesh. But Black Wind could.】

【Back in the human world, Black Wind had eaten a pile of dragon pearls that you brought him. He had evolved to the point he had reached during your sixth simulation—nearly the same state he had been in when you encountered him on Firelight Star.】

【While Lingwei Star was engulfed in the flames of war, you rode Black Wind through outer space every day, patrolling the top of the spaceport’s pillar of light and waiting for the Winged God Sect’s reinforcements to throw themselves into your trap.】

【To prevent yourself from accidentally killing innocent people, you took on the appearance of a winged race member.】

【Whenever a starship approached, the conversation usually went something like this.】

【You: “Halt! Who are you people? The Winged God Sect is facing internal and external troubles, and Lingwei Star is engulfed in war. Suspicious personnel are forbidden from landing!”】

【The other party: “We’re merchants just passing through...”】

【You: “Pay the toll and take another route!”】

【The other party: “But—I haven’t even landed yet! Why do I have to pay?”】

【You: “Lightspeed Punch...”】

【The other party: “Here.”】

【After leaving behind a large pile of origin stones, these passersby were allowed to leave.】

【The other situation was different.】

【You: “Halt! Who are you people? The Winged God Sect is facing internal and external troubles, and Lingwei Star is engulfed in war. Suspicious personnel are forbidden from landing!”】

【The other party: “We aren’t suspicious personnel! I received a message from your First Army Commander. I’ve brought several of my aides to support the fighting on Lingwei Star!”】

【You: “So you’re reinforcements! Wonderful!”】

【The other party: “Your situation seems quite grim. Hurry up and show us the way so we can wipe out those damn human rebels!”】

【You: “Lightspeed Punch!!!”】

【There were two Heaven-Reaching cultivators and six Earth-Shattering cultivators aboard the other ship. With a single punch, you blasted their starship into pieces.】

【After that, you did not need to do anything else.】

【They could not survive in outer space. Before long, they had become nothing more than space debris.】

【And so...】

【The Winged God Sect lost its last hope.】

【Year Nineteen, age forty-five.】

【You had basically confirmed one thing.】

【That fellow Dalabeng had either already fled Lingwei Star or was hiding so thoroughly that he refused to show himself—even with the Winged God Sect on the verge of destruction.】

【The Winged God Sect seemed to think the same.】

【They had now elevated a new Winged God: a powerful late-stage Core Formation cultivator!】

【You could hardly blame them. There was no one left in the Winged God Sect at the Earth-Shattering realm.】

【And even if there were, they would not dare show their faces.】

【The moment they did, you would kill them instantly.】

【The Winged God Sect’s defeat was now unstoppable.】

【Part of its territory had been taken over by the Wing Ancestor Sect, while another part had been occupied by the rebel army.】

【Lingwei Star was now divided among three powers.】

【Two of those three powers belonged to you.】

【The outcome was obvious.】