Splitting the Heavens
Chapter 1782: Beginning of Conflict

Chapter 1782: Beginning of Conflict

In the southern continents of the Essence Ping World...

When the Essence Ping World’s Will was jointly drawn into the Spirit Abundance World by several high-level cultivators, the starry night sky that originally covered nearly 30 continents in the north of the world started to expand and spread down to the last few southern continents.

Clearly, after losing resistance from the native World’s Will, the Star Origin Lord sought to immediately take over the remaining continents and place them under the control of his soul.

It had always been the real reason the Star Origin Lord tolerated the activities of the Spirit Abundance World despite their obvious intentions to steal the Essence Ping World’s land.

However, after decades or even centuries of planning, how could Spirit Abundance World not have prepared for his actions?

Just as the Star Origin Lord’s soul descended with crushing force, several grand formations that drew on the power of the World Origin Source of those continents were activated. They were interlinked to form a unified system. They didn’t just resist the pressure from the Star Origin Lord’s soul. It also created an enclosed system among the 6 southern continents, severing their connection with the rest.

Naturally, the people of Spirit Abundance World understood that relying on the grand formations alone would not be enough to withstand the Star Origin Lord’s suppression, nor could they maintain the isolation for long.

But if they dared to make a move under the Star Origin Lord’s nose, it meant they had a real trump card.

As the cultivators of the Spirit Abundance World held on with great difficulty, the starry skies had already enveloped nearly half of the continents they controlled. The next second, the starry skies that covered 3 continents was suddenly turn open by a golden sword light that pierced through the skies. A rift that was tens of thousands of kilometers long was left in it.

Following that, surging primal energy erupted at the rupture, and 2 massive invisible hands grabbed the edges of the tear and violently tugged, forcing it wider and allowing more daylight from beyond the starry shroud to spill over the continents below.

Thanks to the sudden intervention, the 6 southern continents managed to endure the assault of the Star Origin Lord’s soul even without the support of the Essence Ping World’s Will.

At the same time, the experts of the Spirit Abundance World stationed there began using the power of their formation to sever all remaining connections with the other continents and forcibly tore the land apart. Those continents were quickly split and forced away from the main landmass of the Essence Ping World.

The process, naturally, came with catastrophic-level destruction.

The ground cracked and split apart. Mountain ranges spanning entire provinces collapsed. Hills caved in, plains bulged, and lakes turned into giant funnels. The ocean surged with monstrous tsunamis; rivers were cut off and turned into magnificent waterfalls over cliffs formed by the torn earth. Tornadoes rampaged across the land, thunderstorms swept through as if they were cleansing the world, and yet the dust in the air remained thick and unrelenting, even under torrential rain...

Above the severed starry sky, 3 Sages faced off in a triangular standoff across the void.

The first was the Star Origin Lord’s Starlight Clone. This version was far more condensed, with radiant starlight that made him indistinguishable from a real person. Most crucially, the aura he emitted was already beyond the second star. It even faintly surpassed the third star.

Facing him were 2 Sages who had severed the starry skies. The first was the familiar Zhuo Gudao, who was a second star Sage. The other was no stranger as well. He caused great trouble for Shang Xia during the battle for the Essence Luxuriant World ascension, Sage Jin. Now, he descended personally. Just standing there, his aura was so terrifyingly powerful that the void shattered all around him.

Sage Jin was a supreme expert who had reached the fourth star of the Martial Emptiness Realm. He had amazing sword technique and even his combat strength was fearsome among those of the same level.

Years ago, with just a single sword strike, he had obliterated a continent in the Spirit Abundance World’s northern region and cut off a piece of their heavenly screen, leaving it incomplete for centuries and eventually reducing them to a mere pawn he could control.

"Just a former servant and a nobody lurking in the shadows... Do you really think you can stop me?" The Star Origin Lord's Starlight Clone said, his gaze dripping with contempt and condescension.

Zhuo Gudao only gave a cold sneer in response, refusing to make eye contact.

Sage Jin, however, chuckled in response, "Star Origin Lord, when you once commanded the heavens, we were mere nobodies. We were naturally beneath your notice. But millennia have passed. Your Heaven Observation Sect has vanished, and you are no longer what you were. You don’t even have a physical body left. What’s the point of putting on airs here?”

The starlight avatar snorted. "Even with a clone, slaying you both today will be effortless!"

"Watch out!" Sage Jin suddenly shouted and slashed through the air.

A thread-like sword light appeared before him. Then, as if fracturing the very fabric of space, the Five Elements Sword Light split. 1 thread became 2, 2 became 4, 4 became 8, and then, 16...

In the blink of an eye, the invisible sword qi before Sage Jin multiplied into a seemingly infinite web, crisscrossing the surrounding thousands of kilometers.

But just then, from the countless streams of torn void, starry radiance began to seep out through the cracks. The next moment, the vast area of sky that had been sliced apart was completely filled with starlight.

Though overwhelming in appearance, the radiance felt powerless. There was a feeling it could no longer harm anyone.

Meanwhile, Zhuo Gudao, having received Sage Jin’s timely warning, might not have perceived the real source of danger, but reacted instinctively. He invoked the Spirit Observation World’s Will and drew on its strength. At the same time, another wave of energy from the Star Origin Dao Field descended on him, pushing his aura to a state where it matched a third star Sage.

In the very next moment, torrents of starlight poured out from the void like a flood, engulfing Zhuo Gudao. The immense pressure even penetrated the protective forces drawn from his connection to his world and Dao Field, suffocating him with overwhelming force.

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