Beastmaster of the Ages - Chapter 6889

Chapter 6798 Cleared

The onslaught of over ten thousand city guards!

Each guard wielded two long swords, their bodies primarily grayish-white, their size similar to the Stardust Guards, all approaching four meters.

Boom!!

The purest clash between the Imperial Puppets resounded throughout the entire Corona Barrier.

One Imperial Puppets after another was shattered, one core after another destroyed.

This was a battle without shouts of battle, without curses, without any words, only the sounds of clashing swords and spears.

The mindless Imperial Puppets, devoid of any emotion, under Li Tianming’s command, formed an invincible defensive line with the Stardust Guards!

Like a large, elastic net, they caught the surging city guards, gently deflecting their force, causing the center of the defensive line to slightly indent, then shifting their posture to propel them outwards. The Stardust Guards then changed formation, transforming into a sharp sword, fiercely piercing through the city guard army’s formation.

In the chaos of the battlefield, the Star Destroyer’s massive cannons were prone to friendly fire, so Li Tianming simply ordered them to discard them and instead carry the wounded Stardust Guardians away to the rear for treatment by the Starry Sky Physicians.

Thus, a scene unfolded where the Stardust Guardians and the City Guards fought relentlessly, and if a Stardust Guardian fell, a mountain-like Shieldbreaker would appear, carrying their equally wounded body and dragging them away.

Through this coordinated healing, the City Guards were decimated, while the Stardust Guardians suffered extremely low casualties.

In this battle, Li Tianming and his forces won without even lifting a finger—it was truly a war between Imperial Puppets!

“The soldiers’ morale is important, but it’s not about relentlessly attacking and wearing them down. To win a protracted war, besides formations and tactics, you also need to pay attention to the rhythm of rotation and to help the wounded who have retreated from the battlefield.”

“In this war between Imperial Puppets, each type of Imperial Puppets performed its duties and played its maximum role. This is a typical example. To be a cosmic emperor, one cannot rely solely on the Hunyuan Formation of the same race to fight the enemy, like Taiyu’s Hunyuan Clan.”

“My Heavenly Mandate Cosmic Dynasty is inclusive of all races, and the races are certainly diverse. Therefore, assigning them their respective areas of expertise and cooperating with each other is especially important.”

In this battle, Li Tianming hardly participated in the fighting, but he gained a lot of insights, which also had some effect on repairing the cracks in his Imperial Primordial Dao, although the effect was not as good as that of the Tower Heart.

Time slowly passed, and all the city guards had been annihilated. Among Li Tianming’s Imperial Puppets army, a few were pierced in the core by the city guards’ longswords and could not be repaired completely. Therefore, in the end, the total number of Imperial Puppets was seven thousand, with five hundred lost.

This casualty rate is already quite considerable. If there were a dozen or so examinees to protect, the overall loss would probably be more than half.

“Enter the Corona Barrier!”

Having blasted open the Gate of Prominences, and with the city guards no longer blocking their way, Li Tianming led the Imperial Puppet Army into the Corona Barrier in a grand procession.

Entering the Corona Barrier, the scene before them opened up dramatically. It wasn’t empty; there were various houses, palaces, buildings, and various places for entertainment.

“This looks somewhat similar to the interior of Flying Star Fortress…” An Ning said to Li Tianming.

“Flying Star Fortress? It does look similar in structure, but this place seems abandoned, and it’s much larger than Flying Star Fortress,” Li Tianming replied.

Aurora chimed in, “Breaking through the Prominence Gate was the first test, and the internal strife afterward was another. Now that we’ve passed both, there’s almost no danger within the Corona Barrier. We can just focus on finding the Tower Core.”

Li Tianming sighed, “The resistance is gone, but the Corona Barrier is just too huge. I’m afraid we won’t be able to finish searching it all in a short time.”

…

Time passed, and several months went by.

After searching half of the Corona Barrier, Li Tianming finally found the core reactor in a corner.

Although it was a dying super cosmic ray source, the power it contained was still considerable!

This enormous cyan reactor, containing the entire dying super cosmic ray source, continuously spewed out dissipating Dao clouds and cosmic rays. Countless Dao patterns were inscribed on its surface, reinforcing it and forming a special Dao array that converted cosmic rays.

The planet-destroying turrets on the Corona Barrier walls used this pre-charged destructive power.

Inside the colossal, boundless core reactor, the deafening roar of the dying super cosmic ray source threatened to annihilate the entire reactor. Its interior, riddled with holes from years of evolution by the super cosmic ray source, was riddled with spatial layers.

Beneath the core reactor lay a massive, pure white tower, its surface occasionally shimmering with light and shadow.

Amidst the raging roar of the super cosmic ray source, the aura emanating from the tower seemed to isolate it from all the noise, creating an atmosphere of extraordinary tranquility.

The group arrived beneath the core reactor. Li Tianming, standing beside the tower, said to the three women, “I’ll go in first. Wait for me outside.”

He effortlessly reached out and touched the tower, his Heavenly Soul instantly detaching from his body and entering its core.

In the pure white world filled with flowers, trees, rabbits, deer, and various other small animals, countless ancestral figures seemed to have been waiting for him.

As he approached, waves of imperial pressure prevented Li Tianming from advancing, but his Emperor’s Path was no longer what it once was.

As if ignoring the oppressive aura of the Emperors, Li Tianming strode directly to the ancestral figures, his expression calm as he said, “Junior Li Tianming humbly requests the guidance of all the ancestral Emperors!”

The millions of figures were all astonished.

“Although we had already heard of Li Tianming’s terrifying talent from the previous two layers of inheritance figures, seeing it in person is still incredibly surprising.” “

This round of imperial pressure is the ultimate test ever given to a disciple under the Emperor’s rule since the existence of the Young Emperor Tower, yet he passed it with such composure?”

“This child… possesses heaven-defying talent!”

The ancestral figures whispered amongst themselves, seemingly discussing something, and finally pushed forward dozens of figures.

An elderly man with white hair and beard, one of the older ones, said, “Li Tianming, we already know your talent and abilities, and we also know when you entered the Young Emperor Tower. Therefore, based on the Emperor’s Path you learned in the first two trials, we have selected the most suitable Great Path for you to complement and contrast.”

Li Tianming’s eyes lit up upon hearing this. The complementarity between the Path of Hegemony and the Path of Benevolence had benefited him greatly before, but he hadn’t expected that the ancestors of the Heavenly Emperor Sect would take the initiative to help him find a complementary Emperor’s Path.

“Thank you, ancestors,” Li Tianming immediately said.

These dozens of specially selected ancestors introduced themselves to Li Tianming one by one, and each preached to him.