Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

The sky seemed to have been splashed with an extremely thick layer of ink, and the space of 100,000 miles was completely sealed off in an instant by a power that surpassed the Heavenly Dao of the Canglan Realm.

The Protoss army descended, blotting out the sky. Those massive, densely packed starships resembled steel fortresses floating in the void, preventing even a sliver of starlight from penetrating the waters of Abandoned Star Island. A suffocating, chilling aura pressed down as if it were tangible, causing many of the island's low-level outlaws to collapse, their legs going weak.

"boom--!"

Amidst this oppressive atmosphere of despair, the highest-level defense mechanism of Abandoned Star Island was suddenly activated!

Accompanied by a terrifying roar from underground, an extremely dazzling purple-gold light shield instantly shot into the sky from the center of the island, like an overturned bowl, protecting the entire Abandoned Star Island within it.

Deep within Abandoned Star Island, the ley line array resembled an ancient behemoth awakened, its greedy maw gaping open. A full thousand top-grade star essence veins were ruthlessly ignited simultaneously! A torrent of pure energy, like a raging river, surged into the ley line array, and the purple-gold light shield erupted with blinding divine light, illuminating the surrounding dark sea as bright as day.

"My God! A thousand top-grade mineral veins burning at the same time! What an incredible feat!" A scarred guard stared intently at the incredibly thick, purple-gold light barrier in the sky, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets in shock.

"Even the top super sects in the Canglan Realm couldn't set up such a formation even if they emptied their coffers! The Mistress has poured all the resources of the Dragon Palace into this!" The people next to her felt their scalps tingle, and the fear in their hearts was instantly shaken away by this extreme wealth.

Inside the main control room of the Xuan Yin Palace.

Moye's emotionless, mechanical voice coldly broadcast in every corner: "Alarm. Level 1 combat readiness complete. All five thousand star-energy heavy cannons have risen to the surface through the underground folding space. Charging complete."

Accompanied by extremely regular tremors in the earth, five thousand huge underground steel hatches slid open simultaneously on the coastline, cliff edges, and even abandoned mines of Abandoned Star Island.

One after another, star-energy cannons, gleaming with a cold metallic luster, sprang up like mushrooms after rain. A ghostly blue light of destruction rapidly converged at the muzzles, and five thousand black cannons rose up in unison, their eyes fixed on the starship fleet that blotted out the sky.

Jiang Yining sat regally on the white jade throne in the main hall. She wore a purple-gold soft robe, and her exquisite face showed no sign of panic. Looking at the fortress on the light screen, which she had personally transformed into a "steel hedgehog," an undisguised arrogance appeared in her eyes.

"The Mistress is mighty!"

"With this kind of firepower, what are we afraid of, you Protoss?! Crush them!"

The guards outside looked at the five thousand heavy cannons that resembled the scythe of death, and then at Jiang Yining high above them. They were all trembling with excitement, their eyes filled with fanatical worship.

At the same time, Gu Qinghan, dressed in spotless white, strode across the front lines of Abandoned Star Island.

With a casual wave of his hand, tens of thousands of top-grade blood-restoring pills, exuding a rich medicinal fragrance, fell precisely into the hands of the entire army's elite soldiers like a torrential rain.

"We swear to serve our mistress to the death!" The assassins, clutching this top-grade life-saving elixir that could cause bloodshed in the outside world, roared in unison, their eyes red.

Gu Qinghan remained silent, his peak Dao Inquiry Realm cultivation erupting forth. The Haotian Pure Yang Sword was drawn, its pure Yang sword intent, powerful enough to sever cause and effect, transforming into a sky full of frost that directly enveloped the core of the island-protecting formation. Anyone who dared approach even half a step would be slashed into ice shards.

At the other two important nodes of the formation, Yu Luofeng and Su Chenzhou each guarded one side.

Yu Luofeng's long hair danced wildly, her pale face filled with a morbid killing intent. The extremely Yin ghost energy at the semi-saint level surged beneath her feet like a black, raging sea. Su Chenzhou, on the other hand, remained expressionless, his ten fingers dancing like phantoms. Thousands upon thousands of extremely intricate starfire array patterns intertwined in the void, forming a second line of defense, ready to fill any gaps in the array at any moment.

Just as the three male leads were each performing their duties.

"roar--!"

A deafening dragon's roar, filled with endless sorrow and determination, suddenly echoed from the sky.

Ao Lin's mangled body, which had long been drained of its essence and fallen to the True Monarch realm, erupted with terrifying blood light at this moment. Without hesitation, he burned the last trace of True Monarch bloodline within him, and his body swelled in the wind, transforming into a dazzling golden dragon ten thousand feet long!

The enormous dragon body coiled tightly above Jiang Yining's white jade throne. Its golden scales, like the hardest shield, completely protected the entire hall and Jiang Yining beneath its soft belly. In this most tragic way, it vowed to serve as the first line of human defense above Jiang Yining's head.

The island's defenders looked at the suffocatingly powerful enemy on the horizon, then turned back to look at the throne.

The composed and breathtakingly beautiful matriarch, along with four top-tier powerhouses willing to risk their lives for her—the morale of Abandoned Star Island erupted like a volcano, reaching its peak!

Not a single person retreated; an extremely frenzied fighting spirit ignited in everyone's eyes.

Jiang Yining leaned lazily against the throne, her gaze passing over the swirling dragon and calmly fixed on the sky. One hand gently stroked her slightly protruding belly, feeling the throbbing of the powerful little life inside, while the fingertips of her other hand quietly grasped the eighth-tier divine artifact she had smuggled from the depths of the Dragon Palace's treasury—the Primordial Sea-Stabilizing Pearl.

An extremely subtle water-based spatial law overflowed from the bead, silently merging into the island's protective array, stabilizing the tiny spatial cracks around the island that had been torn apart by the enemy's pressure.

Just now.

The thick, inky clouds in the sky were suddenly torn apart by an invisible giant hand!

The Protoss High Priest's massive mechanical god projection, towering 100,000 feet tall, descended upon the battlefield with an aura of annihilation!

It was an oppressive feeling that was simply indescribable. The terrifying pressure of a peak-level Half-Saint was like countless ancient divine mountains crashing down at the same time. Under this pressure, the deep sea water around Abandoned Star Island instantly boiled, billowing white smoke!

"what!"

Countless low-level cultivators on the island could not withstand such a direct gaze and immediately bled from all seven orifices, clutching their heads in pain as they collapsed to the ground.

The high priest's electronic eyes, like two dark blue suns, pierced through the array and the dragon's body, locking onto Jiang Yining on the throne.

A cold, mechanical voice, devoid of any life force, resounded throughout the heavens and earth, indifferently pronouncing the death sentence for Abandoned Star Island.

"Inferior civilization, resistance is futile. Eradicate."

The moment the words fell, the high priest raised his massive mechanical arm, which was as large as a mountain, and swung it down heavily.

Above the sky, the main cannons of tens of thousands of Protoss warships simultaneously lit up with blinding destructive light!

Ten thousand cannons fired simultaneously.