The team led by Shi Qian charged out and caught the Grand Unity Sect completely off guard.

Spectators had gathered around both battlefields, and the experts of the Nine Dragon Palace had torn through space to arrive on True Martial Star. They had originally intended to help the Liu Clan, but by the time they got there, the battle had already begun.

"What a powerful team! Their attacks are ferocious!"

Within the team under Mu Tianli's command, Xu Lingxue, Elder Long, Zhuge Ming, and the others began their slaughter, dyeing the skies above the Liu Clan with blood. The battle had only just started, yet the Grand Unity Sect had already lost most of its experts.

The entire team moved as one in both offense and defense, leaving the Grand Unity Sect with no opening.

"What's going on? Where did this team come from? Why do they all have such terrifying cultivation?!" More cultivators gathered around the battlefield and stared down in shock.

Liu Wuxie had already arrived and was quietly observing the changes below without the slightest shift in expression.

As the massacre grew more brutal, Elder Jin charged left and right in a desperate attempt to break through, only to be flung back each time by the formation's rebound force.

"Quick, fall back! We've fallen for Liu Wuxie's trap!" Elder Jin roared, trying to retreat with the remaining elders of the Grand Unity Sect.

"Don't you think it's too late to leave now?" Mu Tianli sneered, licking his lips as he swung the longsword in his hand. That strike carried a faint shadow of an immortal art. These people had come at the perfect time to help further temper the team.

Although the two teams clashed with each other every day, those had never been true battles to the death. After their last experience with Jiang Wenxuan, both teams had been itching for a real slaughter.

Their formations were airtight, and no matter how wildly the Grand Unity Sect's experts struggled, the defenders beat them back with ease.

"This is too terrifying! That team doesn't even have a single quasi-immortal, yet a quasi-immortal is helpless before them!" The cultivators who had rushed over watched in utter shock.

"It has to be Liu Wuxie again. Only he can nurture so many experts." Everyone had long witnessed Liu Wuxie's heaven-defying methods and knew that he had forged an immortal artifact.

The explosion of soul tablets instantly shook the entire Grand Unity Sect. The elders they had sent to True Martial Star were pillars of the sect, and if they died there, the Grand Unity Sect's foundation would be shaken. Even if they recovered later, the damage would still be severe.

In the mountain range, the battle was even more intense. Shi Qian's team had to face two quasi-immortals.

Though they might have struggled against Jiang Wenxuan a few days ago, things had completely changed now that their overall strength had risen so sharply.

Blood dyed the heavens and soaked the earth below.

Everyone watched with twitching eyelids as experts at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm were butchered mercilessly by Liu Wuxie's teams.

"He's too terrifying! Who can stop him now?" At first, many people still coveted Liu Wuxie's immortal arts. But after witnessing this battle, a chill ran down their spines, and no one dared to show him the slightest disrespect any longer.

The fifteen-minute limit was almost up, and a vast number of experts had already died. Only Elder Jin continued resisting stubbornly.

"Activate the formation!" Mu Tianli shouted, and the hundred-man team immediately contracted, trapping Elder Jin at the center.

"Half-Moon Slash!" This was not a true immortal art, as the real immortal art was the Half-Moon Thunder Slash. What they had condensed was only its shadow. Even so, that shadow alone was enough to slay a quasi-immortal.

"Don't kill me!" Elder Jin was so frightened that his soul nearly flew out of his body. At that moment, he wanted nothing more than to flee True Martial Star as quickly as possible.

After this battle, no expert would dare to set foot on True Martial Star again.

When the unrivaled sword ray descended from the heavens, Elder Jin exploded into blood and vanished into heaven and earth. With that, the battle at the Liu Clan came to an end, and more than sixty elders of the Grand Unity Sect had perished.

Meanwhile, the battle in the mountain range still raged on, and Shi Qian's team remained under enormous pressure against two quasi-immortals.

"Blood God Sword!"

The immortal art Liu Wuxie had taught Shi Qian's team was called the Myriad Desolation Blood God Sword, and they had also managed to condense a faint shadow of it.

The blood-colored sword blanketed the sky as it descended from above and locked onto one quasi-immortal. The violent aura it released suppressed even those at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm, leaving them helpless and fit only to be slaughtered.

The quasi-immortal exploded outright, his blood scattering through the air before being devoured by a mysterious force.

"This is strange. Is the Grand Unity Sect really going to let these people die?" The sect had to be aware of the great casualties on their side, yet no reinforcements had come.

Immortals could strike from afar, and everyone began to wonder whether the Grand Unity Sect had failed to inform their ancestor.

Only one quasi-immortal remained, and though he struggled bitterly, death was already only a matter of time.

The formation shifted once more, turning into a moving millstone descending from the heavens. At that moment, heaven and earth began to tremble as a terrifying power started brewing, instantly silencing every beast and insect on True Martial Star. They all hid in their nests and no longer dared to emerge.

Even the sun itself seemed to retreat behind the clouds as a suffocating force descended from above. Then a blinding ray of light tore through the sky and appeared over True Martial Star.

"It's the Grand Unity Sect's Great Divine Sun Bell!" someone cried out in shock. No one had expected the Grand Unity Sect to resort to its immortal artifact.

The Great Divine Sun Bell tore through space and arrived, causing the entire True Martial Star to tremble violently as countless buildings collapsed.

Countless people ran into the streets and looked up at the sky, wondering whether the apocalypse had arrived. In truth, they were not far off. If the immortal artifact's attack landed on True Martial Star, the entire planet would shatter, and everyone on it would die.

The Grand Unity Sect had finally cast aside all pretense, abandoning even the dignity of a superpower and resorting to whatever means were necessary to achieve its goal.

The Heavenly Dragon Sect's Radiant Mirror did not move, and even if it tried to now, it would be too late. No one had expected the Grand Unity Sect to use the Great Divine Sun Bell directly.

Everyone had expected the Grand Unity Sect to use an immortal's will to buy time for its experts to retreat. It had now become obvious that the Grand Unity Sect had already given up on those elders and planned to destroy everything, including the planet, with them.

"The Grand Unity Sect hasn't just gone mad. They're trying to ignite war across the entire astral domain," the palace lord of the Nine Dragon Palace said, flinging his sleeve in fury. He was enraged by the Grand Unity Sect's actions.

A war across the astral domain would bring ruin to the entire astral domain. Countless ordinary people would die, and even more would be displaced, with their homes reduced to rubble beneath the impact of an immortal artifact.

The other sects were equally furious because what the Grand Unity Sect had done no longer concerned only a single person but the entire astral domain. Yet there was nothing any of them could do, because even quasi-immortals did not dare to face the impact of an immortal artifact head-on.

A piercing howl tore across the sky, and the Great Divine Sun Bell was about to smash into True Martial Star.

"What a pity. True Martial Star has only just returned, and now it faces destruction." Many cultivators sighed in regret, while those living on the planet looked on in fury, raising both hands toward the heavens.

"Planet Lord, fight!"

One after another, countless cultivators raised their hands and sent their power into the sky.

Liu Wuxie's aura surged, yet he showed no urgency and merely watched. That was one of the great benefits of being acknowledged by a planet. The planet could gather everyone's strength and channel it directly into him.

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

"..." Roars echoed endlessly through the heavens. Everyone would rather die in battle than suffer such a humiliating end. They believed that if they pooled all their strength together, they could withstand a strike from an immortal artifact.

Strangely, Liu Wuxie showed no intention of acting immediately and allowed the Great Divine Sun Bell to continue crashing toward True Martial Star. A giant fireball had already appeared in the sky, blotting out the heavens and blocking everyone's view.

Space itself began to ignite, while trees across True Martial Star vanished and mountain ranges cracked apart.

Destruction precedes renewal.

Liu Wuxie wanted every cultivator on True Martial Star to remember this humiliation forever.

Shi Qian and the others were pinned in place, unable to move, and could only stare at the sky. Yet there was not a trace of fear in their eyes, only faint mockery.

The fact that they could remain so composed even before the attack of an immortal artifact was already worthy of praise.

The trembling of True Martial Star grew increasingly violent as the planet's core began releasing power.

"Look, True Martial Star is expanding! It's developing toward a super planet!" True Martial Star had originally been a fragment split from Indigo Bamboo Star, which meant that, in terms of geology and laws, it was already many times purer than an ordinary first-tier planet.

That was also the reason why so many people had rushed over and settled on True Martial Star. They hoped to become natives there and grow together with the planet. Once they became natives of the planet, they would gain great advantages in future battles.

If the planet advanced, it would unleash terrifying feedback power that would flow into every cultivator living on it, raising their strength as well. That was the main reason why True Martial Star had drawn so many people.

As True Martial Star expanded and contracted, the cultivation of every cultivator on it began to rise one after another.

Shi Qian and Xu Lingxue both broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Realm. Among everyone present, the newly born quasi-immortals reaped the greatest benefits, as they had earned the planet's acknowledgment by protecting it.

Watching Shi Qian and the others break through to the Quasi-Immortal Realm, everyone around them was left speechless.

"If they survive this, they will become a terrifying force that everyone must reckon with. They'll be capable of destroying any superpower in the astral domain," the manor lord of White Mist Manor sighed.

Even he could not help feeling envious at the birth of so many experts. Their own forces had taken more than a million years to reach their present level, but Liu Wuxie had used only a single year to raise the Heavenly Dao Society into a superpower.

With Liu Wuxie's recent feat of slaying an immortal, the Heavenly Dao Society's overall strength now rivaled that of the Grand Unity Sect.

More than a dozen mountains in the distance had already burnt to ashes, and the Great Divine Sun Bell was now only ten thousand meters away from True Martial Star. It could cross that distance in less than one-thousandth of an instant.

Many people chose to close their eyes, unable to bear the sight they were about to witness. They could already see True Martial Star turn to ashes in less than half a breath.

However, just as the Great Divine Sun Bell was about to crash into True Martial Star, an even stronger force suddenly appeared. A golden divine palace hovered in the sky, releasing golden brilliance that illuminated heaven and earth.