I fabricated myths to guide the revival of spiritual energy.

The Siberian permafrost defense line, the Third War Zone.

This place, once a steel fortress of human pride, has now been reduced to a colossal grinding mill of flesh and blood. Dark purple void rifts hang in the sky, like the festering eye of a demon.

"Fire! Fire! Don't let those bastards get near the shield generator!"

The highest-ranking commander of the defense line, a Russian general with bloodshot eyes, screamed desperately into the communications channel.

However, all that answered him was the continuous explosions at the front lines and the screams of human soldiers being torn apart.

Amidst the swirling blizzard, a tidal wave of void mutants relentlessly assaulted the last line of defense. These were a swarm of "Void Mantises," each over four meters tall with forelimbs resembling the Grim Reaper's scythes. Conventional armor-piercing rounds struck their greyish-white carapaces, only sending up a trail of sparks; only heavy laser weapons and the flying swords of cultivators could barely penetrate their defenses.

But humanity's spiritual energy and resources have already run out.

On the left flank of the position, dozens of low-level cultivators from China and Europe were struggling to hold on. Their standard Daoist robes were already soaked in blood, and several Qi Refining stage sword cultivators had even collapsed in the snow, bleeding from all seven orifices, due to the forced exertion of their dantian.

"Captain... I can't go on, my spiritual energy is completely depleted." A young female cultivator looked ahead in despair. The three enormous Void Mantises had already leaped over the trench, their sharp scythe-like forelegs raised high, bringing down a deadly gust of wind.

Everyone closed their eyes, awaiting their fate of being torn apart.

At this critical moment.

Om-!

Above the sky, the thick, perpetually radiating clouds were suddenly torn apart by an indescribable, immense force.

Immediately afterwards, a dazzling beam of cyan-gold light, like a legendary divine punishment, crashed down on the very front of the position!

Rumble!

The violent shockwave, mixed with pure Kunlun righteous energy, violently sent the three Void Mantises leaping in mid-air flying.

The mortal army and the cultivators opened their eyes in shock. Through the swirling snow and golden light, they witnessed a sacred scene they would never forget.

At the center where the pillar of light dissipated, hundreds of tall figures stood silently, their origins unknown.

They stood nearly three meters tall, their entire bodies covered in full-body heavy armor in shades of lapis lazuli and gold. The armor's surface was adorned with extremely mysterious Taoist cloud patterns and golden runes, radiating a terrifying, sacred, awe-inspiring, and inviolable aura. Their faces were concealed by cold, metallic visors, their eyes glowing with narrow, eerie blue light.

On the battlefield of darkness and despair, the golden light emanating from them was like a beacon in the night.

"Heavens...Heavenly soldiers..."

The young female cultivator stared blankly at the tall figures, tears of overwhelming joy instantly welling up in her eyes: "It's Kunlun! Kunlun didn't abandon us! The heavenly soldiers have descended!!"

The entire defensive line erupted in a triumphant cheer of relief and relief.

In the human subconscious, these "celestial soldiers" clad in sacred rune armor must be heroes who come with compassion and justice to save them from suffering.

However, the next second, the actions of these "heavenly soldiers" made all the cheering humans feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave, their spines turning cold.

There were no pre-battle declarations, no magical effects, and not even any emotional fluctuations.

The moment the pillar of light dissipated, the thousand [Mysterious Armor Dao Soldiers] were like machines that had been simultaneously activated, transforming into a thousand cyan-gold afterimages that crashed straight into the void beast tide!

puff!

Before the Void Mantis at the forefront could react, a Dao soldier pressed its head down with one hand. From the Dao soldier's wrist, which was originally covered in armor, a half-foot-long dark golden bone blade, made of high-density werewolf bones and Void Beast carapace, suddenly shot out.

Knife up and down.

There were no fancy sword techniques, only the most extreme physical cutting. The monster, which even armor-piercing bullets couldn't penetrate, was instantly cleaved in two from head to toe, its foul-smelling bodily fluids spraying onto the Dao Soldier's sacred lapis lazuli armor.

Without even glancing at the monster's corpse, Dao Bing pounced on his next target.

A one-sided massacre, devoid of any visual appeal but extremely efficient, unfolded on the snow-covered plains.

The human cultivators originally wanted to cooperate with the "heavenly soldiers" in the battle, but they soon found that they could not get involved at all, and did not even dare to approach the battlefield.

Because the way these heavenly soldiers fight is too terrifying, and too...inhuman.

A Void Burrowing Beast emerged from the ground and bit half of a Dao Soldier's body. Sharp fangs pierced through the armor on his abdomen, producing a teeth-grinding metallic scraping sound.

If it were a human cultivator, they would surely be wailing in pain or struggling desperately at this moment.

But the soldier didn't even lower his head. His expressionless metal mask showed no emotion whatsoever. He let the monster bite off half of his abdomen, freeing his hands. The bone blades on his ten fingers shot out and pierced deep into the earth-burrowing beast's eye sockets, then forcefully churned the monster's brains into a lump of mush.

The monster collapsed to the ground with a thud.

A chilling scene unfolded: the soldier whose abdomen had been half-bitten didn't bleed bright red blood from the wound; instead, dark red flesh buds oozed from it. Thanks to the combined effects of "vampire super-regeneration" and "spiritual energy," in just three seconds, his flesh and armor had completely healed!

Then, he stood up again, like a tireless bulldozer, and continued to charge into the enemy lines.

There was no pain, no fear, no defense, only cold calculations that would stop at nothing to achieve their killing goals. These were not celestial soldiers punishing evil and promoting good; they were a group of ferocious beasts cloaked in divine robes!

In just fifteen minutes.

The thousands of Void Mutants that had once filled the front lines with despair were completely slaughtered. The ground was littered with severed limbs, and the stench of blood had stained the snowfield a dark purple.

The wind and snow howled, and the entire battlefield fell into a deathly silence.

The hands of the human survivors gripping their weapons trembled slightly. They gazed at the "heavenly soldiers" standing amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, their bodies soaked in blood yet remaining utterly silent.

"Thank you... Kunlun for your kindness..."

The commander swallowed hard, then stepped forward with great courage, wanting to pay tribute to the heavenly soldiers who had saved the defense line.

However, not a single Taoist soldier turned to look at him.

The eerie blue light slit beneath the visor coldly scanned the horizon, awaiting the system's next instruction. They needed no thanks, for within their locked-down underlying code, these fragile humans behind them were merely "resource nodes" required by the system to be protected.

Thousands of miles away, atop Kunlun Mountain.

Gu Qing sat cross-legged above the sea of ​​clouds, taking in everything about the Siberian defense line through feedback from thousands of data nodes.

Looking at those humans trembling in fear and utter awe before the Dao soldiers, a faint smile appeared on his lips.

"very good."

"Heavenly soldiers don't need to be approachable. Only absolute force and the fear of the unknown can bring about the purest faith."

He looked at the high purity of his faith power on the system panel, which had surged instantly due to this "divine intervention," and slowly closed his eyes.

"First batch of tests completed, global rollout begins."