Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 718 - 309: Commanding Yin and Yang

The Vast Realm Will, until it has fully seized control of this territory, lacks the power to truly hold back the invading forces right here.

Its greatest capability lies in drawing upon the Heavenly Star overhead to ease the restrictive force on Vast Realm cultivators in this location, while simultaneously exerting a counter-force against the enemy's might.

Through this shifting balance between the realms, cultivators of matching levels from the Vast Realm would hold a sixty percent edge over those from the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Naturally, this advantage stems purely from cultivation levels.

Should the foes wield superior techniques or harbor prodigies capable of fighting above their realms, the Vast Realm Will's suppressive might falls short of fully curbing their power!

The assaulting forces from the Profound Truth Realm had already blanketed the White Crane Immortal Sect's cultivators like a barrage of Celestial Fire streaking across the heavens.

Neither Su Haoran nor Wu Feiyu had foreseen that, even with their utmost vigilance and the Heavenly Star's overhead pressure, the enemy troops would creep undetected to within ten thousand meters.

This revealed that the adversaries commanded a profoundly alarming concealment formation!

What plunged them deeper into hopelessness was the enemy's overwhelming superiority in both numbers and collective power.

This held true even under the Vast Realm Will's suppression!

Catching sight of the horde, an irresistible impulse to swear aloud surged within them once more.

Hadn't the Heaven’s Secrets Pavilion of the Vast Immortal Sect warned of facing cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm’s terminal Spirit Domain?

How could the forces arrayed before them possibly seem like those from the fringes?

In terms of array and potency, they plainly outmatched even the sects of the Vast Realm's mid-level Spirit Domains.

Su Haoran and Wu Feiyu even sensed that the enemy's prowess rivaled that of a slightly inferior upper-tier Spirit Domain.

In the present circumstances, absent any Unity Realm experts, numerous figures in the foe's ranks displayed traits fully akin to those of a sect nearing the pinnacle of an upper-tier Spirit Domain.

By now, doubts crept in about whether the Vast Immortal Sect had erred in its divinations.

Instead of clashing with terminal Spirit Domain foes, they had evidently crossed paths with elites from the Mountain and Sea Realm's upper domains!

Regardless, the pair at last grasped why the other two White Crane Immortal Sect squads had been wiped out without transmitting even a single alert.

Against such a formidable host, even uniting their two groups with Vast Realm Will's backing offered no path to victory.

Furthermore, the Profound Truth Realm forces scorned any sense of honor, striking with a sudden ambush!

Despair alone filled the hearts of Su Haoran and Wu Feiyu.

The cultivators beneath their leadership grappled with a grave quandary.

They persisted in bolstering the Vast Realm Will to ignite the Earth Star, aiming to quash the energies of both the Sea of Realms and the Mountain and Sea Realm, striving to transform this area entirely under Vast Realm Will's dominion.

But now the enemy's onslaught crashed down—should they fight back or press on with the Earth Star's activation?

Facing such a juggernaut, could any defense truly hold?

In the end, resolve hardened in every cultivator's gaze; only by forging ahead with the Earth Star's activation and inviting the Vast Realm Will's complete arrival could they ensure that, even in death, the enemies would suffer dearly.

The host of cultivators under Su Haoran's guidance now bore the marks of blood.

They had stormed out from the group in fury, yet none held it against them.

Su Haoran had first planned to seize the sword-wielding cultivator from before, but with the rear lines in chaos—especially after spotting Ning Qi—he dove back into the melee.

Ning Qi's feat of slipping undetected to the altar's core struck terror into all hearts.

After all, the nearer to the heart, the fiercer the Vast Realm Will's energy surged, and yet the intruder went unnoticed—utterly chilling.

Su Haoran rallied a handful of cultivators, igniting their Essence Blood Spirit Rules to unleash the Xuanyuan Blood Sword technique.

With Ning Qi ensnared by the Vast Realm Will, they were certain of ending him.

Yet the invincible Xuanyuan Blood Sword technique failed to graze Ning Qi at all, stranding Su Haoran in mid-air, reduced to a helpless bellow.

In the end, Su Haoran cast a glance at the nearing barrage from the Profound Truth Realm forces and urgently sent a voice transmission to his followers who had broken from the array:

"We've abandoned the formation and unleashed the Xuanyuan Blood Sword technique; we can't turn back now, so let's aid in warding off their assault and let the others finish the final rite!"

"Yes!"

The throng of cultivators surrounding him, shrouded in a thick veil of bloody energy, chorused their agreement.

Immediately after, Su Haoran charged ahead, orchestrating a battle formation in the skies alongside them.

Blood cloaked them all, subtly merging into a unified entity.

At that instant, Su Haoran bellowed: "Blood Shadow Immortal Crane!"

In a flash, they all dissolved from the emptiness, supplanted by a gigantic Immortal Crane.

This Immortal Crane carried no trace of ethereal grace, exuding instead a savage malice, as if birthed from an ocean of gore.

Every plume shimmered with a malevolent crimson tint, its vast wings unfurling like storm clouds blotting the firmament.

As the Profound Truth Realm army's onslaught plummeted, the Immortal Crane let out a piercing cry and rocketed skyward.

Its mighty wings extended to shield the White Crane Immortal Sect's cultivators underneath.

Thump, thump, thump!

The Profound Truth Realm army's strikes hammered down.

A torrent of assaults, laced with myriad glowing hues, crashed onto the Blood Crane's form, resounding with horrific rending noises.

Yet the Blood Crane proved wondrous in its own right, each feather ablaze with radiance, resembling a crimson sun from a distance.

The deluge of blows assailed its avian frame, only to be deflected by its plumage, slipping away like droplets on oiled feathers!

Roughly half the incoming strikes were thwarted by the Blood Crane, though it remained merely a manifestation forged by a few cultivators, rendering the stand against the Profound Truth Realm army's fury an immense ordeal.

Through the heavens, the anguished cries of the crane echoed ceaselessly.