The mighty figures of the Buddhist sects were no fools. All of them had lived for more than a million years. One look at the current situation and they knew that something was amiss.
The best solution was to abandon Dipankara Buddha and retreat. With the power of the pagodas, they should be able to kill their way out before the siege was complete.
But the problem was that Dipankara Buddha was the Guardian Vajra of Buddhism and the guru of these mighty Buddhists. If they abandoned their guru and escaped, they would be guilty of betraying their guru. Even if they returned to Buddhism, they would be severely punished. At the very least, they would have their mana taken back and they would be crippled.
The mighty Buddhists present had cultivated for countless years to reach this stage. They were not willing to give up just like that. So even though they knew it was dangerous, they had to bite the bullet and launch a fierce attack to save Dipankara Buddha.
At this critical moment, the Buddhists were all risking their lives. They even ordered their disciples to burn their blood essence to activate the pagodas to attack.
Under such a crazy attack, Shura Xue's fleet was struggling. The moment the battleships got close, they were smashed into pieces by the Buddhists. The sea of blood that connected them was evaporated by the Buddha's light!
But Shura Xue was not moved. Although she was young, she had seen a lot. Especially when she was with Song Zhong, she had broadened her horizons.
She knew that this battle would be extremely tragic. So she was mentally prepared. She ignored the huge number of casualties and urged the battleships under her to stop the thousands of pagodas from advancing.
Under Shura Xue's strict orders, in just four to six hours, more than ten thousand battleships rushed forward and were smashed into pieces. Thousands of other battleships were severely damaged. Although they were not smashed, they had lost the ability to fight and had to retreat from the battlefield.
After sacrificing nearly twenty thousand battleships, Shura Xue's side only managed to destroy a few dozen pagodas and destroy a few hundred pagodas. It was obvious that the difference in combat power between the two sides was huge!
If it were anyone else, they definitely wouldn't be willing to make such a huge sacrifice and would have retreated long ago. But Asura Xue's heart was like a boulder, and she remained unmoved. She continued to force the army forward, and she didn't even hesitate to have her flagship lead the charge.
Driven by Shura Xue's desperation, the warriors of the Asura Tribe were finally able to unleash their battle instincts. Every one of them seemed to have gone mad as they gritted their teeth and charged forward!
At this time, although the Buddhist pagoda wasn't damaged much, it had consumed an astronomical amount of Buddhist energy to destroy tens of thousands of battleships in one breath. It was obvious that it couldn't last for long. After that burst of energy, it was weak and could no longer be as fierce as before.
As a result, the Buddhist Faction's ferocious attacks were slowly suppressed by Shura Xue's fleet. Both sides finally reached a stalemate.
However, while this side was in a stalemate, the two sides of the battlefield were completely one-sided. The Buddhist Faction disciples who had lost the protection of their pagodas were beaten back repeatedly by the Heavenly Court army that outnumbered them by dozens of times. In the end, they completely collapsed and fled in panic.
During this process, countless Buddhist Faction disciples were killed or injured. The ground was littered with their corpses and fragments of Buddhist treasures. From time to time, wild beasts would appear and eat a corpse. The scene was incomparably tragic.
After the Heavenly Court army achieved a complete victory, they didn't dare to slack off in the slightest. This was because they knew that there was still the strongest pagoda army that they needed to deal with.
The celestial soldiers and generals under the North Star Emperor's command were all elites that had experienced countless battles. At this critical moment, they were extremely calm and collected.
Without needing Shura Xue's additional instructions, they automatically split into two groups. One group was smaller in number, but their mobility was extremely high. They continued to pursue the fleeing Buddhist Faction disciples.
As for the remaining people, under the command of the various generals, they began to surround the thousands of pagodas in an extremely orderly manner.
Just as the pagodas were still entangled with Shura Xue's fleet, they suddenly felt the Heaven Earth Yuan Qi in the surrounding tens of thousands of miles begin to violently vibrate. It was clear that an abnormally powerful Dharma spell was being activated.
Many Buddhist Faction mighty figures were so frightened that their faces turned green. They were fighting in someone else's territory. This terrifying Dharma spell that required countless manpower and resources to activate had to be activated by someone else.
Thinking of this, they hurriedly retracted their offensive Dharma spells and focused on defense. Unfortunately, all of this was too late.
Tens of thousands of massive yellow dragons flew out from the back of the Buddhist Faction army. These divine dragons were formed from endless Heaven Earth Yuan Qi. Their entire bodies were golden, as if they were real. Their golden scales shone in the air, making them appear extremely mighty.
As they flew, they bared their fangs and brandished their claws. They let out angry roars and then viciously slammed into the pagodas.
Although the dragon's 100,000 foot long body wasn't as large as the pagoda, the vicious impact still caused the pagoda to shake. Then, the dragon's body exploded, creating a terrifying destructive force. Massive shockwaves formed mushroom clouds that swallowed up the several hundred thousand foot tall pagoda!
The weaker pagodas, after withstanding such terrifying attacks several times in a row, shattered on the spot and fell to the ground! Only the powerful beings who were in charge of the pagodas could barely escape.
On the other hand, those powerful pagodas could only deal with it, and they used all their abilities to resist the countless golden divine dragons!
However, even if they could block ten or a hundred of them, they couldn't block a thousand or ten thousand of them. Facing the wave after wave of self-destructing divine dragons, their destruction was right before their eyes.
Seeing this terrifying scene, Shura Xue was extremely excited. She hurriedly ordered her fleet to retreat so that they wouldn't be caught in the crossfire. Fortunately, those divine dragons were controlled and didn't cause trouble for the Asura fleet. Otherwise, Shura Xue's fleet would definitely be wiped out this time.
After retreating to a safe distance, Shura Xue couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief. Then, she sighed in admiration. "As expected of the North Star Emperor's elite army. This Myriad Dragons Greeting Formation was set up so quickly. It's really amazing!"
As it turned out, these countless divine dragons were created by the Heavenly Court's army. They had spent countless resources to set up the Myriad Dragons Greeting Formation on hundreds of dragon veins. They had mobilized thirty million heavenly soldiers and generals to create such a spectacle, and to annihilate the powerful pagoda army in one fell swoop.
It had to be said that in a war in the Immortal World, individual power was important, but a well-trained army was also indispensable. Things like ants biting an elephant to death were not rare in the Immortal World.
The reason for this was because of the formation's support. Formations were mysterious and unfathomable. Its greatest function was that it could gather the mana of many individuals together and then release it all at once after being strengthened. The more individuals there were, the stronger the formation's power.
The Immortal World's formations had been passed down for millions of years. Almost every faction had their own set of formations that they were proud of. Once the army used it, it would definitely have the power to destroy the world. This was also the reason why every faction placed great importance on developing their armies.
However, setting up a formation required the right time, the right place, and the right people. The conditions were more complicated. Therefore, under normal circumstances, if everyone's forces were similar, it would be difficult to set up a perfect and powerful formation.
For example, in this war, if the two wings of the Buddhist Sect hadn't collapsed, the Heavenly Court's army wouldn't have been able to find so many dragon veins and set up the terrifying Myriad Dragons Greeting Formation.
Although this kind of formation didn't rank very high, after gathering the magic power of tens of millions of soldiers and the spiritual energy of hundreds of dragon veins, it was incredible. It could even kill a Heavenly Emperor!
The mighty figures of the Buddhist Sect were all cunning old foxes. They shouldn't have allowed the Heavenly Court to set up the Myriad Dragons Greeting Formation so easily. But who asked them to meet the Dīpankara Buddha, this guy who loved to do big things? He fought in the other party's territory and was so arrogant that he was suppressed by a group of newly born flower demons.
This forced the Buddhist Sect's army to send reinforcements, causing them to be separated into two groups. This gave the Heavenly Court's army the chance to attack them one by one.
In short, rather than saying that the Buddhist Sect's defeat was because of the strength of Shura Xue and the North Star's army, it was more because of the Dīpankara Buddha's stupidity!
Dipankara Buddha's rash advance this time not only harmed his own disciples, but also put himself in danger.
Without any interference, the thirty-six flower demons spent several hours before finally suppressing the Dīpankara Buddha and capturing him alive. This made the Dīpankara Buddha the only Guardian Vajra in the history of the Buddhist Sect to be captured alive by a group of flower demons. This incident would definitely become the greatest humiliation of the Dīpankara Buddha's life.
The Dīpankara Buddha's ending was still considered good. At least, he managed to keep his old life. But his disciples weren't so lucky.
The North Star's army hated them to the bone. In the previous battle, these Buddhist Sect's disciples had killed countless North Star's disciples. Now that the Buddhist Sect was defeated, the North Star's army naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity to take revenge.
After they activated the Thousand Dragons Imperial Greeting Formation and destroyed all the pagodas, they surged forward like a tide and launched wave after wave of attacks on the broken pagodas. Then, he captured all the remaining Buddhists inside the temple.
What awaited these Buddhist Sect's disciples was endless torture. At that time, even death would be an extravagant hope for them!
Shura Xue naturally wouldn't interfere with the actions of the North Star's army. In fact, she was secretly indulging them. That was because she also suffered heavy losses this time. Out of the thirty thousand elite battleships, she lost twenty thousand in one go. Countless Asura warriors were also killed. This caused Shura Xue to hate the Buddhist Sect's people to the extreme. Naturally, she wouldn't care about their life and death. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please go to www.qidian.com, there are more chapters. Support the author, support the original reading!)
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