Regardless of whether it’s a floating island or a sea nest, in most situations, cultivators from the Outer Building Realm and Commander-level Sea Clan are sufficient to guard one place.

Only in areas of fierce confrontation will there be cultivators at the God Arrival Realm and Sea Clan dukes in command.

Now, with Yu Guangyuan not present, Bat Mountain King dead, and the Sea Clan’s main force defeated, the Xinxi area can be said to be at the mercy of the human race.

However, a sea nest, a war fortress that has been operational for a long time, can still provide a great sense of security to the Sea Clan warriors. Most of the scattered Sea Clan warriors gather towards the sea nests.

Just like Mo Shiyi, relying on the defense system of the first floating island, he stubbornly resisted several sieges by Sea Clan armies many times his own strength, holding out until Wu Duqiu broke out and until Jiang Wang came to his aid.

Under normal circumstances, even without Sea Clan dukes in command and without the main force, relying solely on the existing Sea Clan warriors to defend the nest would more or less hold out for a period of time.

It’s a pity they encountered Jiang Wang.

With all five residences open, divine powers fully displayed, and the absolute peak of sword momentum unleashed with the devastating Pouring Mountain Sword repeatedly bombarding, this level of intensity had already exceeded the understanding of many Sea Clan.

The replenishment of Yuan stones simply couldn’t keep up with the consumption of the great array.

Sea Clan warriors are known for their physique, their vigorous qi and blood, but under such bombardment, rows of Sea Clan warriors were directly sucked into dry corpses by the great array!

Even among the Sea Clan warriors, there were no lack of desperate brave individuals, but still, that was the case – they simply couldn’t keep up.

Previously, when attacking cities on the Qi Xia battlefield, it involved changing equipment, deceiving gates, and sneak attacks, exhausting all means and repeatedly taking risks.

Now, it was a direct forced charge through the gates, face-to-face bombardment, even flattening the protective nest’s great array! Ordinary cultivators at the God Arrival Realm couldn’t do this.

Even a generally strong God Arrival couldn’t!

The steel-colored light curtain shattered into flowing light. Jiang Wang, ablaze with boundless light and flame, sword in hand, stepped into it!

Human race floating islands are hollow floating islands, with all buildings essentially no different from those on land. Only the specific style of buildings on each floating island differs.

The Sea Clan’s sea nests are three-dimensional, spherical structures. From the midline, they can be divided into upper and lower halves.

The lower half is like an inverted hanging mountain – it’s a seabed mountain, not a land mountain. It’s covered in dense cracks, deep and lightless, and also attached with water plants several *zhang* long swaying, like the sea nest’s tentacles.

In the mountain range cracks, occasionally thin, knife-like small fish can be seen passing through.

There are several strange eyes that periodically show traces. They should all be small sea beasts raised by the Sea Clan, assisting with detection and attack abilities.

The upper half of the sea nest has sharp thorns on the outermost part curving inward, gathering towards the center, like flower petals.

The inner ‘flower stamen’ part is like a huge black iron cover, airtight, nothing can be seen. Only when entering a state of war do dense square passages appear one by one, making it look like a steel-barred beehive.

Those bone spears, flame arrows, flying stones, as well as various great array attacks, are all launched outwards through these tunnels.

All four sides of the tunnels are inscribed with complex array patterns, which can amplify attack speed and increase attack power.

The moment the protective nest’s great array is broken, a great many Sea Clan warriors also rush out from these channels.

“Brothers, follow me and charge!”

“Fight for the Sea Clan, now is the time!”

What race that has long existed in this world has never lacked heroes, never lacked bravery and blood? Although they saw Jiang Wang’s might, the warriors garrisoning the sea nest still launched a desperate charge.

Jiang Wang strode forward, directly facing a charge of a thousand soldiers, and simply swung his sword horizontally—

Ten thousand sword silks flew like snow, one sword turned all heads white!

Infinite star power, vast dao yuan, all invested in one sword. Even if Zhang Xun were reborn, he couldn’t regain the edge of this sword.

Terrifying threads of sword qi poured back like a heavenly river, savagely rushing into these channels, twisting out piles of minced meat and broken bones, blurring all the array patterns engraved on the four walls.

Jiang Wang stepped on flowing sword qi, like riding a semi-transparent flying beast, chopping open more than ten tunnels, as if opening a skylight for this sea nest! Then he leaped down from this skylight, falling into the crisscrossing bridges inside the sea nest.

His reddish-gold eyes patrolled everywhere, and wherever his eyes reached, true fire scorched the plain!

He flicked his long sword, and the sword cry made a thunderous sound.

Blazing thunder light turned into knives, spears, swords, and halberds, slaughtering at will among the Sea Clan warriors. One by one, Sea Clan warriors flew in to attack, and he casually swung his sword horizontally, unstoppable!

Not a shred of opportunity, not half a possibility of resistance, on this strong human body, the Sea Clan warriors of Xin You’s second floating island felt only despair.

No matter what kind of courage they had, what kind of tactics they displayed, what kind of surrounding joint attacks… ultimately, they could only be annihilated in the roaring sword qi.

This was a massacre!

Jiang Wang killed from the upper layer to the lower layer, piercing through more than ten military formations back and forth, without even scratching his skin. One step killed ten, and in a snap, they turned to dust and smoke.

Wu Duqiu blocked outside for a while, only seeing brilliant firelight, only hearing roaring thunder, and for a long time not seeing any fugitives. Then he also flew down from that ‘skylight’. But he only saw limbs everywhere, blood surging like a river… and some residual flames, swaying and falling in the air.

His line of sight reached, and there was actually no living thing.

Quite a few powerful Sea Clan who had revealed their true sea lord forms also fundamentally left no traces of a fight, only making the corpses inside the sea nest more bloated.

He flew through the bridges connecting the inner buildings of the sea nest, pursuing the not-yet-dispersed sword qi, and in the Sea Clan’s exceptionally high and wide warehouse, he saw that figure in a cyan robe holding a sword.

Having experienced such an intense fight, that person’s body was actually unstained by dust, still walking leisurely.

He didn’t know why, but Wu Duqiu suddenly remembered the way Zhong Xuanzun had once given him to defeat Jiang Wang during his questioning—

“He is truly a strong individual who has killed his way from the Wandering Pulse Realm all the way to the God Arrival Realm, truly possessing absolute top fighting talent, fundamentally without flaw or leak. To want to defeat him, the only way is to be stronger than him.”

At that time, he felt this was nonsense. If you want to defeat someone, don’t you have to be stronger than that person?

So at that time, he sneered: “If I want to defeat Wu An Hou, do I still have to prove a true one?” But at that time, Zhong Xuanzun just smiled and didn’t say more.

Today, in such a scene, he only vaguely understood Zhong Xuanzun’s expression. If it were him, Wu Duqiu, perhaps it was indeed so.

“What are you thinking?” Wu An Hou suddenly asked.

Of course, Wu Duqiu couldn’t say, “I’m thinking about how to defeat you,” so he only asked: “Are you still going to other sea nests?” The “warehouse” mentioned here was actually more like a beast pen.

One by one, sac beasts lay on the ground, not moving.

The Canghai environment is harsh, and resources are extremely scarce. There are fundamentally not too many materials for making storage boxes, which are already stretched thin for those powerful Sea Clan. Precious storage boxes are extremely important strategic supplies, indispensable everywhere.

In this situation, the Sea Clan created ‘sac beasts’.

Sac beasts have double wings and four feet, they can fly and run. But their lifespan is less than ten years, and their life revolves around one sac. The sac they carry on their back is like a huge water bag, swaying slightly with their breathing, storing an extremely large amount inside.

Forcibly grafting storage ability onto the body of sea beasts is the main reason why this kind of sea beast doesn’t live long. This ‘sac’ is a storage sac for the Sea Clan, but for the sac beast, it’s actually a deadly thing, constantly plundering the host’s essence blood. So sac beasts need frequent feeding. The reason why they often lie motionless is because of pain and not docility.

But no matter what, being able to cultivate various new types of war sea beasts according to the needs of the clan group is a very remarkable talent, enjoying high status in the Sea Clan.

They are usually called ‘Wise Masters’.

It’s worth mentioning that Yu Guangyuan is the most excellent Wise Master among the current Sea Clan young generation. Only his deranged violent temperament and powerful force often cover this point.

Jiang Wang casually peeled open a sac bag, took out the maze crystals stored inside, and said lightly: “The remaining sea nests are handed over to you all to handle yourselves. This marquis has other important matters. Drive these sac beasts back and use the Sea Clan’s resources to consolidate the island’s defense as soon as possible.”

Capturing a sea nest undamaged, the harvest cannot be said to be not rich.

Wu Duqiu looked at the more than a hundred sac beasts in the warehouse, for a moment not knowing what mood he was in, but yet instinctively replied: “This general receives orders.”

“General Wu.” Jiang Wang saw the posture of this true soldier and asked again: “You say, does a general of this marquis’s level, in a situation bearing military orders, have the right to adapt to changes?”

“Of course!” Wu Duqiu answered without hesitation, from the heart: “Battlefield changes in an instant, opportunities are fleeting. If you cannot adapt to changes, how can you have an invincible army? As the saying goes, a general in the field may not receive the monarch’s orders. Not to mention Lord Hou, even this general on the battlefield has to decide on the spot. You came to aid Xin You floating island, in emotion, in reason, and in law, it is all justifiable. I think Commander Qi will not blame you either.”

“General Wu is a military veteran, and this marquis definitely approves of your words. General Wu and Champion Hou are friends, and I think if he were here, he would feel the same as I do.” Jiang Wang said, then directly changed the subject: “After you return to the island, tell my personal guard commander Fang Yuanyou a word, let him execute the military orders himself and quickly go to the Ding Mao domain to complete the allied defense. I will rendezvous with him as soon as possible.”

Wu Duqiu’s face was full of exasperation.

The “other important matters” you mentioned were not to execute the original military orders?

Wait, my Wu Duqiu’s personal opinion, how could it just represent Champion Hou? Hey! Where are you going?!

Countless questions were stuck in his throat, and finally stopped there. Because Wu An Hou had already left gracefully.

Looking at the increasingly blazing flames around him, he could only “huff huff huff”, and first drive all these sac beasts out of the warehouse and away from the sea nest.

The battle was won, and the captives were quite rich, but for Wu Duqiu, there was really no sense of experience. Whether he was a “guide” or a “herder”, it didn’t quite align with being a chief general of the Spring Death Army. Behind him were gradually brilliant firelights, and in front of him was a group of fat sac beasts.

Wu Duqiu kept a close watch and listened intently, driving these unwilling sac beasts and flying towards his own floating island.

In this process, he suddenly thought—the Emperor wanted Wu An Hou to learn military strategy, intending to let Wu An Hou enter the Military Affairs Hall, and expected the next Great Qi military god. Many people could see this clearly. But was Wu An Hou himself willing?

Oh, how bold.

He shook his head and smiled, how dared he compare Wu An Hou to sac beasts?

Wu An Hou was in the demon realm, Champion Hou was in the maze realm. Wu An Hou came to the maze realm when Champion Hou went to the demon realm.

As the reputation of these two absolute top talents became increasingly prosperous, and their martial arts increasingly profound, the possibility of them appearing on the same battlefield was becoming increasingly small.

Not only because it’s not wise to put all eggs in the same basket, even for a world hegemon like Great Qi, it’s difficult to bear the risk of simultaneously losing two absolute top talents. More importantly, whether it’s Champion Hou or Wu An Hou, they already possess the ability to influence the victory or defeat of a major war. Their appearance on the same battlefield is often a serious waste of resources.

People of the time called them the ‘Empire’s Double Walls’, and they indeed could bear this reputation. Looking around the world, among their peers, there are rarely those who can match them.

Jiang Wang’s appreciation and respect for Zhong Xuanzun have always been unconcealed. Of course, he also never evaded competition or struggle with Zhong Xuanzun.

When encountering some problems, he often asks himself, if it were Zhong Xuanzun placed in this situation, what choice would he make?

Of course, sometimes Zhong Xuanzun would be replaced by Zhong Xuansheng, by Wang Changji, by Yin Guan, even… Zhang Linchuan.

Relatively speaking, only Zhong Xuanzun’s playing style, which directly points to the essence, is easier for him to relate to. Leaving the second sea nest in Xinxi, Jiang Wang carried a full load of maze crystals and went to seek the next boundary river.

The value of maze crystals is immeasurable, one or two are approximately equal to a hundred Yuan stones. Of course, this is a deformed value produced based on the special situation of the maze realm, and it probably won’t be recognized by too many people outside the maze realm.

No matter what, Lord Jiang has temporarily made a fortune, although this wealth is destined to be squandered.

Boundary rivers are not constant. After shifting in the maze realm, some disappear, some are born, sometimes there are more, sometimes less.

He had come from the Gengwu area to the Xin You area, and after aiding one floating island, cleaning one floating island, and exterminating one sea nest, the finger map representing the highest level of Great Qi’s military had begun to sporadically receive some messages.

Like every change, the human race is building new bases and maps at the fastest speed to welcome the challenges that may happen at any time.

Jiang Wang himself, during his flight, also continuously supplemented information on the finger map.

After face-to-face ‘exchanges’ for such a long time, with pursuit and Nian Chen, he could originally precisely capture the target. But in the special environment of the maze realm, he could only vaguely perceive Yu Guangyuan’s traces—this was already enough.

Quickly finding another newly born boundary river in the Xinxi area, Jiang Wang invested maze crystals without hesitation, and in the short instant of stable rules, crossed the river.

Crossing bridges specially made with maze crystals as raw materials can use the least maze crystals and stabilize the rules for the longest time, making it convenient for large armies to pass. Ordinary cultivators crossing the river also cannot do without this treasure.

But reaching a level like Jiang Wang, even one breath is too long.

The reason why he was so urgently pursuing Yu Guangyuan, to the extent of planning how to report to Commander Qi beforehand, was of course not out of personal hatred or anger.

Yu Guangyuan’s ‘pet island’ left in the Xin You area made him feel danger in addition to anger. If this thief wasn’t dead, who knows how many more floating islands would suffer.

That extremely bloody scene, that ferocious strange totem, was absolutely not merely cultivating new war fierce beasts.

At least at that time, gazing at that pit of flesh and mud, he clearly felt Yu Guangyuan’s connection with those centipede poisonous beasts was very close to his own influence on believers when he once used the Faceless God statue.

Yu Guangyuan could clearly easily break more floating islands in the Xinxi area, but he hurried away only after making a ‘pet island’. He certainly had his reasons.

After a large number of ‘pet islands’ are formed, what level will Yu Guangyuan reach? Jiang Wang didn’t want to see the answer.

He also didn’t want to let the process continue.

Lian Que said that burning several sea nests with Sanwei True Fire can bloom, which is somewhat taken for granted! But burning to death several top talents of the Sea Clan, there might be an opportunity.

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