Devouring Evolution: I Reborn as an Arctic Wolf Chapter 1972 - 1097: Refining the Red Sun Star
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Traversing the path to renew the Heavenly Boundary is a route even scarcer than self-proving the Taboo.
This route, across endless ages in the Blazing Nebula, has rarely been trodden.
Yet every being who has dared it emerges as a genuine supreme demon.
Indeed, the slaughter demanded by this path weighs far too heavily!
Refining blood from countless planets and souls, amassing boundless stellar energy and the might of myriad lives to forge altars challenging fate and fortune.
Hence, atomic-level self-proving might prove possible within the Blazing Nebula,
yet pursuing the renewal of the Heavenly Boundary path invites enmity and pursuit from every power in the nebula.
It stands as a genuine path without retreat.
Those who refine blood planets to empower their supreme heroes hear majestic echoes from the starry remnants during the process.
Still, the vast majority abandon it.
For the prerequisites to renew the Heavenly Boundary path prove excruciatingly severe.
"Hehe, State Preceptor, do you believe I am unaware this is a path of no return? I too yearn for a righteous dimensional path, even glimpsing the dawn of self-proving dimension. Had the Red Sun Empire gained one more era to gather strength, I could have fully constructed the Fate Altar, but time spares no one! Time waits for none! If I delay further, the valiant soldiers and generals of my Red Sun Empire, the loyal veterans who rose with me from nothing, will all perish in combat!
I have never been excessively merciful, yet I cannot turn utterly heartless. With the Emperor Slayer slain, I refuse to witness Phoenix Emperor, Giant Spirit King, and the rest fall in battle! Besides, this may not lead to utter doom! Once we triumph and unify the Wangshu Zone, my Red Sun Empire will rise among the quasi-top Nebula Clans! Then let us see who dares annihilate my Red Sun Empire!"
The Red Sun Emperor’s spiritual will shifted from sorrow to resolve, ultimately firming into ironclad determination!
For beyond this path, he discovered no other way to conquer and raze the Bright Day System!
Furthermore, he had long prepared dual contingencies,
The nine Stellar Systems’ legions may have perished, yet their souls endure!
Should the renewal of the Heavenly Boundary path succeed, the Red Sun Emperor could reshape his sea of consciousness into a true galactic sea, bestowing upon the refined souls and beings the power to wage true stellar warfare!
This defies the Heavenly Boundary renewal path!
This path bows to none but itself, defies all rules, and knows no bounds.
They embody heaven and earth, ultimate overlords!
Cosmic lifeforms birthed within their forms can genuinely join the stars in combat!
Furthermore, the grand formation woven from all beings’ power and stellar energy rivals fortune and destiny!
This forms the Red Sun Emperor’s supreme gambit!
As well as his mightiest force to dominate the Wangshu Zone.
Having resolved thus, the Red Sun Emperor ignored the State Preceptor’s advice and all counsel, unleashing a resounding roar as his immense spiritual will surged across the entire Red Sun Star System!
"I, the Red Sun Emperor, hereby command all ancestor-level forces to forsake defenses and depart the Red Sun Star System. All quasi-ancestor-level entities of the Red Sun Empire, evacuate the Red Sun Star System as well. Those below quasi-ancestor cannot endure the starry sky, so unite with me in facing life and death!
Since this war dooms the Red Sun Star System to ruin, let it blaze with unparalleled splendor!"
This colossal spiritual will, amplified by surging fortune, thundered across the whole Red Sun Star System.
It stunned all denizens, troops, and even the Sunshine System Military Force into stunned silence.
For none grasped the intent behind the Red Sun Emperor’s spiritual will?
Why command every quasi-ancestor-level being to abandon the Red Sun Star System?
"Red Sun Emperor, what scheme do you pursue? Another desperate ploy? No matter—unleash it! My Bright Day System fears nothing!"
The Sun Empress stood perplexed too, yet her bewitching eyes brimmed with unshakeable faith in the Bright Day System’s might.
The Bright Day System’s accumulations over myriad eras outstrip upstarts like the Red Sun Empire and Wolf Pack Civilization.
In truth, the exposed strength barely scratches the Bright Day System’s full arsenal!
But the Red Sun Emperor offered no reply to the Sun Empress, instead gradually fusing the Red Sun Star’s origin into his very being.
This prompted the Sun Empress to rage, urging the Bright Day System to seize lands with greater haste.
For she had foreseen such a moment long ago.
Nevertheless, even merging his body with the star’s origin barred the Red Sun Emperor from Taboo ascension!
Yet as the Red Sun Emperor integrated with the star origin, eyes brimming with bloodied tears and unyielding resolve, he initiated the implosion and contraction of the vast starry domain enveloping the Red Sun Star System!
He issued repeated directives to every Red Sun Empire force to withdraw.
"Ah!!! Emperor, why retreat? Why must we flee? We’d fight until our final breath!"
Red Sun Empire troops roared in defiance.
Yet covert edicts materialized before assorted marquises and generals of the Red Sun Empire.
These secret orders swiftly widened the eyes of the Red Sun Empire’s marquises and generals.
For none anticipated the Emperor’s true bid for Taboo self-proving?
The Heavenly Boundary renewal path eluded their grasp!
But they knew only that the Emperor sought the Forbidden Body!
Thus, they commanded their legions to hasten from the Red Sun Star System,
Still, such enormous armies couldn’t escape the Red Sun Star System swiftly.
Moreover, numerous generals and marquises, upon reading the edict, ignited with狂热 fervor.
Besides, they fought on the bleeding frontlines, unable to pull back,
Hence, amid frantic cries, countless Sunshine System soldiers fell as tributes to the Emperor!
This plunged the Red Sun Star System’s battlefield into utter turmoil.
Yet within the mayhem, the Red Sun Star System’s starry fringes began crumbling and shattering.
Boom!
The immense starry void appeared to melt into oblivion.
Vast chaos realms stood revealed.
Dozens of allied support armies suffered the fallout.
"What’s occurring? The Red Sun Star System’s radiated starry sky collapses. Empress, is this the Red Sun Emperor’s trap? Does he plot betrayal?"
Marquises bellowed in panic, clueless to the chaos.
Why did the Red Sun Star System’s radiated starry sky disintegrate, as though torn from the cosmos?
"Ignore it—evacuate the Red Sun Star System’s radiation zone! Conspiracy afoot!"
Certain marquises issued the sharpest calls decisively.
However, vanguard forces entrenched in satellites and the Red Sun Star’s core, plus over two quadrillion elites loyal to the Sun Empress, found retreat impossible.
Not merely because Red Sun Empire forces raged madly, clinging fiercely,
but the starry collapse rushed inward, sparing only a southern breach near the Red Sun Star.
And Red Sun Empire troops fled through that very gap.
"What transpires?"
Hours on, as starry collapse raged, frontline warriors in brutal clashes felt the shockwaves.
Recall, this starry domain stemmed from a Level 5 Peak Star; even Heavenly Venerates barely dent it.
Now, it crumbled with doomsday fury!
Several light-years of starry expanse fractured, stars, meteors, and life worlds silently disintegrating.
The colossal stellar energy here slammed like an unmatched barrier, surging from periphery to heart.
"Red Sun Emperor, what madness grips you? Do you sacrifice your prized Red Sun Star System to ensnare us? Know this: it dooms only your system, delaying us briefly! Bereft of home turf, once freed, we’ll butcher your Red Sun Empire’s dregs like livestock!"
The Sun Empress reeled in profound shock.
For the Red Sun Emperor’s scheme eluded her completely!
Collapsing the radiated starry sky stripped the stellar system of its grand barrier,
akin to self-sabotage, dooming future growth for system and stars.
Such brutal measures targeted more than mere entrapment for the Sun Empress!
Yet despite her vast lore, the Sun Empress couldn’t pierce the Red Sun Emperor’s true intent.
After all, no sovereign would demolish their hard-won empire!
Razing one’s realm pained worse than slaying kin.
"Stay calm, all. Rally to me—we advance steadily to the Red Sun Star’s core and uncover the Red Sun Emperor’s scheme!"
The Sun Empress swiftly devised the optimal plan for the Sunshine System forces.
No path back? Then storm their heartworld.
With four to five quadrillion Sunshine System troops converged, no taboo on the Fate Altar devours them entirely.
Even a taboo must weigh wielding Starry Sky Power and Three Thousand Origin Rules against karma from hundreds of quadrillions. Dare they?
"Rally to the Empress!"
"Converge on the Empress’s Phoenix Banner!"
Immense spiritual wills rippled through the stars.
With iron discipline, Wangshu Zone’s elite Sunshine System armies obeyed instantly, surging toward the Empress.
Even amid cataclysmic quakes, they advanced and withdrew with precision.
But the State Preceptor, beside the Emperor atop the palace spire, foresaw that even peak warriors would, as this boundless star realm refined into the Emperor’s Star River Sea of Consciousness, face the infinite Army of Lost Souls, adrift as frail vessels in the galactic torrent.
Whether Sunshine System held hidden reserves mattered little now.
For the Emperor’s fanatic pursuit sealed that no Sunshine reserves withstand a taboo at full throttle.
Let alone the Heavenly Boundary renewal path!
No mere atomic self-proving or Fate Altar summit!
It thrives on ceaseless bloodbath, a taboo unbound by limits!
"Retreat! Hasten away! Cease clashing with Sunshine System! The Emperor schemes anew!"
"Whatever the Emperor pursues, we obey blindly his Heavenly Order! Withdraw!"
As Sunshine System forces tightened into one phalanx, Red Sun Empire armies fled swifter.
This heralded that beyond the Red Sun Emperor—this Heavenly Boundary taboo walker—and his Star River Sea’s endless Army of Lost Souls, stood the Red Sun Iron Army, Wangshu Zone’s pinnacle force!
Thus, even Sun Emperor’s return likely fails to stem Sunshine System’s fall!
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