Chapter 4377 - Chase or Be Chased

As this was a barrier-type formation, it was only meant for keeping people out with no means of counteroffense, making it purely for defensive purposes. The Sky Palace Formation was one such example.

Astralguard formations, on the other hand, weren't barrier-type formations. Instead, they served as a pseudo battlefield where allied troops were enhanced while enemy troops were hampered. Rather than keep people out, they were meant to ensure that anyone that attempted entry would be softened up sufficiently for defending troops to take out. They weren't simple barriers to keep enemies out as once those were breached at any single point, there would be no more resistance against potential invaders.

Barrier-type formations were typically used as secondary defenses or to hide treasures and mausoleums. They didn't need to damage unauthorized people, only stop them!

This was Tianming's first time seeing a maniverse-class formation. Even with his Daosteal-capable Sky Plundering Hand, he knew that it would take quite some time for him to infiltrate the barrier. "It would take at least a couple of hours."

After making an estimation, he changed his plan. He was in no rush and fully expected to be disturbed. If he had started cracking away at the barrier, he would be vulnerable to attack. Instead, he flew into the air and had his lifebound beasts launch some abilities to cause a commotion. All he needed to do was disturb the proverbial rest of the ancestors. The cosmic gods nearby watched as Tianming messed around at their sacred resting place, utterly fuming.

"They are... almost here," Yin Chen said, keeping track of the key figures in this world. Among them was Tianming's target: the imperial son!

Higher up in the sky, more than twenty cosmic gods beyond fifty thousand meters in height were huddled together, including the Ninefirm imperial son and Uncle Tian. Many other elite heavencosmic-god troops also began to surround the area.

"He's down there and attempting to destroy the mausoleum. The formation is keeping him out for now."

"This asshole truly is shameless beyond comparison!"

"What are we waiting for? Let's go down and kill him! He came here alone, so that's as good as committing suicide!"

The cosmic gods couldn't bear the sight of smoke and flames rising near their precious mausoleum.

"Let me go down to meet him. The rest of you should observe from afar, lest he has other tricks up his sleeves," Uncle Tian said.

"Okay." The Ninefirm imperial son remained a careful distance away, observing Tianming from afar.

"Spread out and be vigilant!" Uncle Tian turned to the Ninefirm imperial son once more. "You have the worldcore with you, so make sure to stay far out of harm's way. Even if we have to accept humiliation, we cannot afford to lose the Ninefirm Divine Wheel."

"Yes, Uncle Tian." He didn't dare to approach precisely because he knew how serious this was. The fact that he was able to suppress his seething desire to personally kill Tianming was a mark of stellar discipline for the young scion.

What the primocosmic gods didn't expect, however, was that they would be surrounded even when they were so far away. "They're all around us!"

How could they end up being surrounded in their own territory?! The Ninefirm imperial son and Uncle Tian heard the news and scanned the surroundings with their cosmic sense and felt extremely threatening presences nearby!

"He didn't come alone!"

"The insects that showed up at the Flameyellow Imperial Star are in here too! All forty-nine of them!"

The massive insect-head people had been hiding nearby before they closed in rapidly. By then, the Ninefirm imperial son could already see the undying aeternals with his own eyes. His attention earlier had been distracted by the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb. Coupled with his inexperience in controlling the astralguard formation, he didn't notice that so many elite fighters had slipped through it!

It was mainly thanks to Yin Chen that they were able to enter unnoticed by adjusting their path just enough to avoid detection. The undying aeternals' powerful aura surrounded the twenty-seven primocosmic gods of the Starfall Pantheon. They were double their number.

"You're his real target! Let's ignore the mausoleum for now. We have to escort you back up to the Ninefirm Guard Formation immediately!" Uncle Tian reacted quickly and knew how serious of a predicament they were in. He didn't dare to dally in the slightest. It wasn't too difficult to return to the formation above, and once they did so, the Ninefirm imperial son would be safe and untouchable.

"Troops, come and escort us! Hold back the invaders!" The Ninefirm imperial son's orders rang out through the astralguard formation.

The tens of thousands of cosmic gods nearby were the first to reach the battlefield, most of them totemancers of the Heavencosmic stage. They knew how terrifying the undying aeternals were, but they had no choice but to risk their lives to buy time for their imperial son to escape. They focused entirely on that and didn't even take the risk to engage the enemy!

"Where are you running off to? You've already come all this way," Tianming said in a tempting tone all the way from Ninefirm Mausoleum. His body flashed rapidly as he used Thousandway Blitzrun, moving much faster than the huge primocosmic gods!

The twenty-seven primocosmic gods of the Starfall Pantheon were basically on the level of the imperial-star elders of the former flameyellow voidkin. However, Tianming was already on the level of handling elites like those!

His aura was far stronger than the enemy side's. As he came charging alone, the Starfall Pantheon's cosmic gods didn't seem too bothered. But when they saw the black smoke spreading from Tianming's chest as he approached, they knew that countless ghouls were about to appear and swallow everything in sight!

The primocosmic gods, however, wouldn't be kept there by the ghouls alone. That was a job for the undying aeternals instead. There were roughly two of them for every primocosmic god, and they weren't hassled by the ghouls either!

Tianming had far more forces than they did. Even the reinforcements that were on their way could only watch as the hundreds of billions of ghouls in the sky blur into a massive sphere of darkness that was about the size of an infinitum-class world. How in the world could they even enter that mass of ghouls? Everything within the sphere was dominated by Tianming.

Eventually, the undying aeternals began to fight the primocosmic gods. Blinding starlight flashed within the dark sphere. Nobody was able to escape it for the time being.

"Go this way!" Uncle Tian was surrounded by the four strongest undying aeternals. It didn't take long before he was separated from his ward. He could barely defend himself, let alone his ward!

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