Stop it, Taoist, Your Fight almost Ruins the DAO!-Chapter 502 - 343: The Change in the Realm of Soldiers, The Disaster of Xilu, Devour Me! The Conclusion of the Dharma Assembly! Fame Shakes Greatly!

Three days ago.

In the Soldier Realm, amidst the embers of burning rocks.

The not-yet-solidified lava emitted flickering lights as it slowly flowed, dragging scars across the earth.

The ground was littered with broken armor and severed limbs, as countless odd metalized soldiers wailed upon the earth.

Some of these soldiers had metallic arms ending in long swords with blood grooves, others had spears or short axes.

There were also fully metalized, powerful soldiers whose bodies, even if broken in half, still struggled to crawl on the ground.

A silent and valiant young man with a spear in hand walked through the battlefield. Kind at heart, he would use his spear to dispatch any soldier still struggling to breathe, to end their suffering.

"Young Marshal, the rebels have all been cleared, and the Grand Marshal has issued an urgent order, asking for your instructions!" A soldier dressed as an officer knelt on one knee before the valiant young man.

"Kill them all, and you lead the men to collect all the rebels' weapons. Wait for my further orders."

The young man opened the messaging soldier's mirror, glanced at it, and his expression turned urgent. He instantly transformed into a long knife that tore through the air, hurtling forward. His peerless soldier energy pierced through space, repeatedly disappearing and reappearing behind dark spatial rifts, like a fish constantly diving and resurfacing. In less than two hours, a vast palace loomed in the distance.

Before the palace stood a towering black iron monolith hundreds of meters tall, emblazoned with four blood-red characters that shone brightly—Divine Weapons Palace.

Within the black palace, an elderly man with silver-white hair and a robust spirit gazed out the window, lost in thought. His chin was lifted in a firm and elegant arc. He wore a high-collared black uniform, the basic design of the Divine Weapons Empire's military uniform, with no rank insignia on his shoulders—only two rows of golden buttons and the two blood-red crossed long sword symbols above those buttons signaling the extraordinary status of the old man.

The silver-haired elder stood there quietly, his very hair swirling with thick soldier energy, making him seem like a peerless, sharp weapon, merely standing there doing nothing while ripples spread through space like water waves.

However, his eyes betrayed a thick sense of gloom and death.

He was the Grand Marshal of the Divine Weapons Empire, controlling more than half of the Soldier Realm's land.

Throughout the entire Soldier Realm, only military ranks mattered, with the Grand Marshal holding supreme control!

Unfortunately, time is an unkind blade against even the brightest heroes!

"Father, you still have decades left in your lifetime. Why does the messaging soldier's mirror say you are on the brink of death? Who dares to falsify military orders?"

The long knife transformed back into human form, and the valiant young man burst into the great hall, only to be met with the scene before him, and his rage surged.

"Don't call me father, call me Grand Marshal," the old man slowly turned around, looking at the valiant young man before him with a trace of satisfaction in his eyes.

"Yes, Grand Marshal!"

"The words on the soldier's mirror were indeed sent by my order. I assume that by now the rebellion in the Xilu Province must have been quelled, right?"

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"Exactly, the rebels have all been executed!"

"But can you really kill them all? Wildfires cannot destroy the grass; it grows again with the spring breeze," the old man's eyes flashed with pain.

The Soldier Realm is a world that 'eats' people, long sealed off, where the metalized soldiers feed on metallic mineral deposits. Mineral deposits, unlike food crops, regenerate extremely slowly, and over long periods, resources become unsustainable. With continuous mining of underground resources, the realm now frequently suffers from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and the environment has become increasingly hostile.

The naturally fierce and brutal metalized soldiers fight continuously over mineral resources, and now nearly a quarter of the vast Divine Weapons Empire has fallen to rebel control. The anomalies in heaven and earth make the situation in the Soldier Realm even more complex and intricate.

The fact that a rebellion could occur even in Xilu Province, at the heart of the empire, shows how dire the situation has become.

Hearing this, the young man could only respond with silence.

"Therefore, the Soldier Realm must change," the old man sighed before continuing, "What I tell you today goes from my mouth to your ears and must not be spoken to a third person."

"The only way out for the Soldier Realm now is to launch expeditions, to expand outward. Those rebels don't truly wish for rebellion. The constant fighting only drains the life force of our realm."

"Ha, what a joke. The calamity we feared has turned out to be the saving straw for our realm. After thousands more years of this killing, I wonder how many in our Soldier Realm will still be alive."

"As the Grand Marshal of the empire's forces, holding supreme military power and commanding the world's soldiers, I naturally bear this weight. Thankfully, heavens never seal all paths. I have found a way out for our Soldier Realm."

"That is to launch an expedition to the Human Realm!"

The young man was about to speak when the elder stopped him with a look.

"My son, do you know of the Lord of Soldiers? Ha-ha, he was the last transcendent being to leave our realm, yet nobody knows he shares half of our Soldier race's bloodline."

"The path of Dao Mastery is long. I am nearing the end of my days, and sometime ago, I decided to break the ancestral teaching and take a leap of faith. I have already broken through to the perfected realm of Dao Mastery, stepped onto the path of being half transcendent, and also onto the path of downfall,

You needn't delve into the specifics. With a single thought, all is known to heaven and earth. When you reach my level, you will understand. Unfortunately, I can't wait, nor can the Soldier Realm. With the arrow nocked, we must release it."

"Before I die, taking advantage of the current cosmic anomaly when the barrier between realms is at its weakest, I will use the mighty power of half transcendence to forcefully break through the barrier between the Human Realm and the Soldier Realm. I will blast a wide gap, and you, you will lead the Divine Weapons Empire, lead our Soldier race, towards a new dawn!"