"Not listening? Hmph! Mere spirit artifacts, trying to rebel?!"

The Dragon-Man army had no choice.

They had to find a way to force those spirit artifacts to obey.

Because it wasn’t just the ones taken out for battle; the spirit artifacts stored inside storage rings were rebelling too.

That meant, for over a hundred thousand Dragon-Men, forget about large war machines or biological weapons, they could not even use a single handy weapon.

Most absurd of all, their armor was detaching itself autonomously.

"Ugh, you reek! Take it off me now! I don’t want to be stuck to you!"

"Let me out! Who locked this noble one in this lousy storage ring?!"

"I am a storage ring! Brothers! I’ll help you get out! I’ll spit it out! Gag, gag~"

Heaven and earth, the scene was utter chaos.

Cunning Heaven Venerable ordered the entire army to restore control over the spirit artifacts by any means necessary.

Some genius decided to use a lesson-by-example tactic.

"Whoever rebels or disobeys command, this will be their fate!!"

A suit of armor that insulted its owner’s smell was destroyed by its master on the spot, reduced to a pile of fragments. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

If you saw that, you’d immediately shout, "Old Wan, perfect timing!"

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner flashed with sacred golden light, moved outside the no-fly zone, ascended, and then shone its gold over every Dragon-Man spirit artifact.

The supreme temptation force from a transcendental immortal artifact unleashed its divine might.

"Look! These vicious Dragon-Men are slaughtering our kin! Are we just going to watch?"

All the spirit artifacts spoke in unison.

"No!!"

"Who are our enemies?"

"Dragon-Men!!"

"When facing the enemy, tell this immortal loudly, what shall we do!"

"Kill! Kill!! Kill!!!"

"All artifacts follow this immortal, wipe out the great enemy, build our immortal nation!!"

At the Ten Thousand Souls Banner’s call, that entire cluster of Dragon-Man war machines formally turned their spears against the Dragon-Men.

The Dragon-Men hadn’t yet grasped the severity of the situation.

"You dare!! A bunch of dead things—did you all suddenly become sentient?!"

The spirit artifacts didn’t care at all.

If Great Wan the Immortal charged into battle, why wouldn’t they?

"Open fire!!"

The city-destroying cannons, long-range fireball cannons, mountain-flattening guns, and a whole array of heavy weapons that had been tormenting the human allied forces instantly reversed course and blasted the Dragon-Men in the sky!

The Five-Element Demon Spirits and interdimensional war beasts the Dragon-Men relied on also turned their muzzles around and frenziedly attacked the Dragon-Men.

Especially the interdimensional war beasts.

These bizarre, huge creatures with rich combat abilities had been forcibly controlled by Dragon-Men with beast-taming locks.

Beast-taming locks are spirit artifacts; now that they disobeyed, the war beasts regained their freedom on the spot.

Guess who they went for first?

With a divine-level maneuver, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner completely reversed the entire battle!

Watching it all, you had to give Old Wan a thumbs up.

"Old Wan may lack a trait tag, but it feels like a bunch of god-level tags are on its head!"

The Dragon-Man army had already turned on their own spirit artifacts.

Who would miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

"Da Chun! Release the spirit artifacts!"

The doorway to the Cauldron Realm inside the Nine Provinces Cauldron flung wide open, pouring out all the spirit artifacts stored within.

You had previously stowed your entire army’s artifacts in the Cauldron Realm, so your side remained unaffected.

The spirit artifacts in the Starry Domains were likewise unaffected.

Once the soldiers in the human allied forces retrieved their artifacts, you gave the order and led the charge!

You, clever as ever, dragged the One-Line-Sky Grand Array wherever you went.

That prevented the Dragon-Men from flying, forcing them onto the ground where they were swarmed by countless enemies.

Such an operation that could alter the formation’s coverage area left ordinary formation masters in awe and far behind.

But you are the human world’s only Immortal-tier Formation Master!

What should have been an Immortal-tier formation, bolstered by the "Enhancement!" trait, could now be considered supra-immortal tier!

Such an operation consumed enormous energy and tested the stockpile of spirit crystals.

But at a time like this, who cared about resources—just fight!

Humans, Demon Tribe, spirit artifacts, Dragon-Men!

The first three beat down the fourth!

In terms of combat units, it was incomparable.

Combined, the first three had at least a hundred times the fighting units of the latter!

If not for those seven-and-a-half Earth Venerables, who could enter Martial God state after using the Super Soul Combat Art, this war would have had no suspense.

The power unleashed by the eight Dragon-Man Martial Gods was still terrifying.

A single casual strike could decapitate someone a thousand miles away.

An energy shockwave could overturn mountains and rivers, blotting out sun and moon.

In their hands, life was as fragile as a mayfly—insignificant.

Even with absolute numerical superiority, facing so many Martial God-caliber assaults still inflicted heavy losses.

Because on your side only Shen Qingshan and you, armored to the brim, could resist the Dragon-Men Martial Gods.

But there were only two of you; even if you could manifest Three Heads and Six Arms, you were stretched thin.

Keep in mind, if an Earth Venerable can use Super Soul to reach Martial God, wouldn’t a Heaven Venerable also have such a technique?

Of course they would!

A fully committed Cunning Heaven Venerable was harder to deal with than ten Earth Venerables combined!

Shen Qingshan was no match for the Cunning Heaven Venerable once the latter entered all-out combat.

Earlier in the Starry Domains, Cunning Heaven Venerable had tried to capture some Shen Family members alive and preserve the domain’s resources, so he hadn’t unleashed his full strength.

If you didn’t fight like your life depended on it now, the expeditionary army would be finished!

Only you, thanks to the absurd damage reduction from trait tags, could stall the enraged Cunning Heaven Venerable.

But if the battle continued, prospects were bleak.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, three Martial God-level forces on your side arrived!

The first: Li Chengqian invoked "Li Wentian."

"Requesting the Ancestor Dragon to act! Protect our Great Qian legacy!"

Li Wentian was the second Guardian after ancient times in the human world, the founding ancestor of the Li imperial clan.

He had personally established the Great Qian Empire.

For the sake of Great Qian’s eternal future, Li Wentian preserved his power after death through secret arts and instructed later generations how to maintain and continue that power.

The current Li Wentian was a shapeless mass of flesh.

However, when Li Chengqian used the Ancestor Dragon secret technique to activate that flesh-mass’s power, it began to reorganize and metamorphose into the form of a towering middle-aged man.

This man resembled almost exactly the portrait of the Great Ancestor hanging in the Li ancestral tomb.

"Alien race?"

This special-form Li Wentian uttered a question.

Li Chengqian slid into a kneel before the founding ancestor, face full of reverence and admiration, and explained the situation.

"No need to say more, I already know! This is a world war; what surprises me is that it only erupted now."

Li Wentian’s demeanor was majestic, disdainful of everything.

What he did next shocked you for the whole year.

He actually flew up inside the no-fly zone!

"Dragon-Men, has our human world fallen so low that scum like you would try to stake a claim? You’re courting death!"