This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder - Chapter 537

Grand Elder Zhang Cuiying, also known as Empress Voidink, stared at the demons. Her eyes took on an ink-like hue while her snow-white hair fluttered from the qi radiating from her body. A scroll longer than her arm and thicker than a tree trunk appeared in her hands.

This was her signature artifact, one she forged herself. She spent years and many resources to refine it, including realm essence. She also made many failures. The Mountains and Seas Pendant owned by Tianyi and gifted to Daoyi was her creation.

Her Voidink Scroll contained a pseudo realm within, but that was not its main purpose. She unfurled the scroll, extending it beyond a kilometer. Painted onto the scroll were countless soldiers and generals in silver armor.

The scroll rippled, and the painted soldiers moved. They flew out of the painting and appeared in the void. There were nine hundred and ninety silver soldiers at the true immortal level and one hundred generals at the immortal monarch level.

Voidink Scroll - Heavenly Immortal Army

The only thing shocking about them were their sheer numbers. A powerful earth immortal or saint could fight or even defeat a true immortal heavenly soldier, and an immortal lord could defeat an immortal monarch heavenly general.

A few thousand years ago, the number of soldiers Grand Elder Zhang could summon was ten thousand. Despite the decrease in number, the Heavenly Immortal Army had increased in strength, not decreased. Because of the ten thousand strong army, there was only one heavenly general. The rest were true immortal soldiers.

Grand Elder Zhang Cuiying didn’t summon the Heavenly Immortal Army for human wave tactics. Using them that way would only make them cannon fodder and nuisances at best. No, she gathered all of them around her.

Her immortal qi resonated with the qi of the Heavenly Immortal Army. With her as the core, they formed a war formation, the Immortal Arms Sovereign War Formation, the famed war formation of the Immortal Court from the primordial era.

The Immortal Arms Sovereign War Formation resembled a titan nine kilometers tall. Because of Grand Elder Zhang, the giant was obviously female and had the same face as her. The Immortal Arms Sovereign War Formation raised its right arm, and a giant brush five hundred meters long appeared in its hand. The war formation held the brush in a reverse grip and slashed forward. Ink spilled from the brush and formed a blade.

The Qilin Patriarch snorted and rushed forward. He reared back and raised his front hooves. He stamped down. Wherever his hooves passed, space trembled. If it was in a realm, even an immortal-rank realm, the dimension boundary would crack. Even if it was at the most stable location.

The ink blade and qilin hooves crashed into each other. The stalemate only lasted a single second before the blade of ink splattered and returned to its original form. However, the scattered drops of ink connected again and formed hundreds of strings that bound the Qilin Patriarch like chains.

The ink strings that touched the Qilian Patriarch’s scales flattened and covered them in tiny letters. The more words they engraved, the weaker the qilin leader’s scales became. In addition, they also spurred the demon qi to escape out into the void.

“A paltry trick!” the Qilin Patriarch said with a snort. A powerful film covered his body. No matter how hard the ink attempted to penetrate the film, there would always be a thin space between it and the scales.

The Qilian Patriarch roared. Wherever the roar passed, all objects would gravitate toward him. Or rather, toward his hooves.

The Immortal Arms Sovereign War Formation was naturally not an exception. In fact, it was the target.

Two hooves stamped down. They were pitch black and absorbed all light, making them seem like holes in reality. They struck with the force of a planetary collision, instantly shattering the Immortal Arms Sovereign War Formation into thousands of pieces.

The destroyed Immortal Arms Sovereign War Formation transformed into ink and dissipated in the void. Above the Qilian Patriarch, the Immortal Arms Sovereign War Formation appeared out of nowhere and slashed down with its brush.

Minister Everpast sighed. He had already expected to fail. Since that was the case, he clenched the causality strings in his hands even harder. From within his grasp, they started disintegrating. With his actions done, the immortal minister retreated.

“Everpast!” the Black Tortoise roared. Although he no longer felt unwilling, he could feel his memories of certain people become faint. They might not completely disappear, but they would turn dim, literally lost in his memories. It wasn’t just erasing his memories, but a type of soul attack that injured the foundation of the soul.

The tree on the Black Tortoise’s back rustled. It had grown immense, just like his body. Each leaf was a continent and housed many nascent lives, but the battle had eliminated ninety-nine percent of them. Dew drops appeared on each leaf, and with a flick, they all shot toward the immortal minister.

Minister Everpast dodged all of them. Although the drops seemed tiny in comparison to the tree on the Black Tortoise’s back, they were still ginormous compared to the human body. If that wasn’t enough, the dew drops deployed a life-draining field, sucking away the immortal minister’s vitality.

Of course, he wasn’t helpless. He was an immortal sovereign, after all. Strictly speaking, the Black Tortoise was a former divinity, and his realm reached the Demon Emperor Realm. He should have an advantage, but because of his rushed breakthrough, his cultivation base wasn’t as solid or as stable as it should be.

An ethereal silver light covered Minister Everpast’s body. The vitality that flowed out of him returned, as if someone had pressed the rewind button. As an immortal sovereign, he had merged three worldly laws into his main Law of Causality. One of them was the Law of Time, and he used it to revert the changes.

However, to revert changes, he would continuously need to use his essence qi. If he ran out, he would have to flee back to the mobile fortress Shangri-La to restore his essence qi before returning to the battlefield. And the Black Tortoise had a hundred times more energy than him. The amount of energy an individual had was related to their size. Quality was important, but size was more important.

Aside from Tianyi, no one had more qi than the Black Tortoise.

Minister Everpast reached out again and grabbed several strands from the Black Tortoise and pulled. It was not a contest of laws, but a duel of willpower. In the end, the immortal minister only grabbed fifteen percent of the strings.

Those strings bound together to form an invisible javelin, which Minister Everpast threw at the Black Tortoise. The spear struck true, but it hardly caused a dent in the Black Tortoise’s body or soul.

Still, Minister Everpast never thought of killing the Black Tortoise alone. As his name suggested, the Black Tortoise had the highest defense. Rather, the immortal minister wanted to occupy the Black Tortoise’s attention and allow his comrades to kill more demons.

Minister Brightwing, leader of the Ministry of Rites, formed the White Crane Emperor War Formation with ten monarchs and a hundred true immortals. As the name suggested, the war formation resembled a white crane, and it was especially suited, since Minister Brightwing possessed a pair of crane wings.

The White Crane Emperor Formation raised its wings and flapped them. Thousands of feathers formed from the combined qi of a thousand immortals and imbued with the Law of Light shot forward like bullets. The demons wanted to dodge, but the feathers were nearly light speed in velocity.

Most of them missed, but the demon lords that were hit suffered grievous injuries. The demon kings were better, but they still found the feathers annoying. Several demon kings rushed toward the White Crane Emperor Formation, but it simply dodged them and continued to unleash the wide-scaled bombardment.

Minister Brightwing’s goal was harassment and killing the weaker demon lords.

Still, he couldn’t compare to that one.

Minister Brightwing glanced toward the center of the battle where it was most chaotic. He could see novas constantly exploding and injuring demon lords and demon kings. It was hard to believe that the mortal from thousands of years ago reached such heights so quickly.