The leaderboard faded.
Not because Feng Hao dismissed it.
But because it had already served its purpose.
Target Locked
High above the Nine God Dynasty's capital, Feng Hao stood in silence, gaze piercing through layers of space and fate.
Tier 3 Spirit-Level Dynasty.
Region 200.
Eternal Heaven Vast Dynasty.
A true Spirit hegemon.
Too vast to confront directly.
Too entrenched to shake head-on.
But even mountains cast shadows.
And shadows have edges.
System Overlay — Strategic Analysis (Player Only)
Primary Target:
Subordinate Spirit-Level Forces
Affiliated Mortal & Lower Spirit Dynasties
Peripheral Resource Domains
Outer Military Bastions
Conclusion:
Direct confrontation: Suboptimal
Peripheral collapse: Inevitable
Feng Hao's lips curved slightly.
So the knife would go in from the outside.
First Command
He raised a single finger.
No roar.
No divine decree.
Just intent.
The Dragon Guard Commanders moved first.
Not marching—
Vanishing.
Spirit Border · Outer Vassal Zone
The Heavenly Stone Marquisate had existed for over 900,000 years.
A loyal subordinate force of the Eternal Heaven Vast Dynasty.
The Eternal Heaven Vast Dynasty did not rule chaos.
It ruled structure.
Fifty Spirit Tier 1–2 subordinate forces ringed its outer domains—
ancient, disciplined, interlocked through fate contracts and resource veins.
Six were already gone.
Not weakened.
Erased.
Which meant this was no longer probing.
This was layer stripping.
Feng Hao's Method
He did not rush.
He did not declare war.
He opened the system panel once.
Target Type:
Spirit Tier 1–2 Subordinate Forces
Objective:
Total removal
Constraints:
No engagement with Spirit Tier 3 core
Then he closed it.
"Proceed by sectors."
"No overextension."
"No noise."
Phase One — Peripheral Collapse (First 18 Forces)
These were the weakest ring.
Newly elevated Spirit Tier 1 domains
Incomplete Spirit Veins
Reliant on Eternal Heaven for reinforcement
Deployed:
Dragon Guard Commanders (rotational)
Divine Marshals (one per domain)
No Supreme Elders used
Outcome:
18 Spirit Tier 1 forces erased
Average time per domain: half a day
Resistance: minimal
Reinforcements: arrived too late or not at all
Spirit Veins were cut, not seized.
Feng Hao didn't want territory.
He wanted emptiness.
Phase Two — The Anchors Fall (Next 14 Forces)
These were real Spirit forces.
800k–2.5m years old
Multiple
Fully mature Regions
They fought.
Hard.
Feng Hao's Adjustment
Ancient elder Appeared.
He only did one set of motion.
A seal As a result.
All the Core bases Of Those forces were.
Flattened.
Result:
19 Spirit Tier 1–2 forces eliminated
Phase Three — The Resistant Ring (Remaining 12)
Now the Eternal Heaven Vast Dynasty reacted.
Not openly.
Quietly.
They issued non-interference orders.
"Hold your domains."
"Do not provoke escalation."
Which meant:
No reinforcements.
No rescue.
Only survival.
These twelve were the strongest subordinates:
Spirit Tier 2 Forces.
All of them were Over 3 Million years old.
Phase Three — The Resistant Ring (Final Twelve)
They did not flee.
They did not submit.
They fortified.
Twelve Spirit Tier 2 subordinate forces—
each older than three million years—
each with perfected Spirit Veins, sealed ancestral legacies, and Spirit Lords who had survived eras of calamity.
They obeyed the Eternal Heaven Vast Dynasty's final order.
"Hold."
"Endure."
"Do not provoke."
Which, in Other other words, meant one thing:
They would die alone.
Feng Hao's Decision
He did not deploy armies.
He did not send marshals.
He did not move personally.
Instead—
The Elder Hall opened.
Not fully.
Just enough.
Elder Deployment — Surgical Annihilation
Assigned Forces:
6 High-Level Elders
4 Supreme Elders
2 Core Elders
No Ancient Elders this time.
This was not deterrence.
This was execution.
Each elder was assigned two domains.
No overlap.
No coordination required.
The First Collapse
In the Black Sun Spirit Domain, the sky dimmed without clouds.
A Supreme Elder stepped forward.
No declaration.
No release of aura.
He simply sat down.
The Spirit Veins convulsed.
Domain laws misfired.
The Lords realized too late—
Their authority was no longer recognized.
Within three breaths:
Core formation shattered
Spirit Anchors collapsed
The entire domain imploded inward
Not destroyed.
Compressed into nothing.
The Second Wave — Law Severance
High-Level Elders moved differently.
They did not attack domains.
They cut history.
In the Azure Bone Region, an elder raised a finger and traced a line through space.
That line erased:
Ancestral inheritance
Spirit contracts
Fate recognition
The region lost its past.
Then its present.
Then its future.
The Lords screamed—
Not in pain.
In disbelief.
Resistance Attempt
Three domains attempted joint defense.
They linked Spirit Arrays.
Merged fate signatures.
Activated million-year emergency formations.
For a moment—
They held.
Then a Core Elder arrived.
He did not interfere.
He reassigned authority.
The formations recognized him as the rightful administrator.
They turned inward.
What remained fell in silence.
The Last Domain
Oldest of the twelve.
Over five million years old.
Its Lords knelt voluntarily.
"We will sever ties."
"We will swear isolation."
"Just let the domain remain."
The Supreme Elder paused.
Then shook his head.
"You were ordered to hold."
"That decision was made long ago."
The domain folded.
Neatly.
Respectfully.
Completely.
Region 200 — Eternal Heaven Vast Dynasty
For the first time in millions of years—
Their borders touched nothing.
No buffers.
No early-warning domains.
No expendable shields.
Only core territory.
Only direct exposure.
An Ancient Spirit Existence finally spoke.
Not in rage.
Not in fear.
But with certainty.
"He has finished the outside."
"Now… every move we make is visible."
Feng Hao
He stood above the void where fifty Spirit forces once existed.
Hands behind his back.
Expression unchanged.
"Good," he said quietly.
"Now they're honest."
He turned away.
The knife had gone all the way in.
Next would not be dismantling.
Next would be pressure.
And pressure, once applied to a Enemy dynasty—
Only ends one way.
The Eternal Heaven Vast Dynasty never received a declaration of war.
Because declarations are for equals.
Divine Ancestral Verdict
Above Region 200, space failed.
Not cracked.
Not distorted.
Failed.
Three Ancient Elders stood there, unmoving.
Early Divine Ancestral Lord Realm.
Their existence alone crushed the heavens into silence.
Below them lay the core territory of the Eternal Heaven Vast Dynasty—
a Spirit Tier-3 Super Force that had ruled for millions of years.
Palaces floated.
Ancestral arrays pulsed.
Tao Pagodas anchored reality.
All meaningless.
One Thought — Dynasty Collapse
The leading Ancient Elder spoke one word:
"End."
That was not a command.
That was a law.
What Followed
The Tao Pagoda anchoring the dynasty imploded inward, collapsing its entire law-field.
The ancestral fate network shattered, cutting every descendant off from protection.
Spirit veins reversed flow, draining cultivation instead of supplying it.
Supreme Lords screamed as their realms fell backward.
Heavenly Lords disintegrated mid-flight.
True Lords turned to ash before understanding why.
The Strongest Falls
The Half-Step Heavenly Ancestral Lord finally rose.
He released everything.
Blood essence.
Soul origin.
Lifelong accumulation.
He attempted one strike.
The second Ancient Elder glanced at him.
That glance carried Divine Ancestral authority.
The strike never finished forming.
The Half-Step Heavenly Ancestral Lord—
Collapsed into nothingness.
No corpse.
No soul.
No reincarnation.
Just erased.
Final Sweep
The third Ancient Elder took one step forward.
The dynasty's core Region.—
Folded.
Compressed.
Removed from reality.
Every city.
Every sect.
Every living being.
Gone.
System Confirmation (Player Only)
Target: Eternal Heaven Vast Dynasty
Tier: Spirit Level – Tier 3
Status: ❌ DESTROYED
Core Territory: Eliminated
Ancestral Line: Severed
Historical Imprint: Deleted
Successors: None
After Silence
Where a Spirit Level hegemon once ruled—
There was Just Empty Land.
Feng Hao did not celebrate.
He simply turned away.
"Next."
Within just a Moment
Across the Regions, shockwaves pulsed—not in destruction, but in comprehension.
Tier 3–4 Spirit-Level dynasties felt it first. They had centuries, even millions of years of institutional memory—but suddenly, 200 regions Controlled By The Vast Heaven Dynasty Just Dissappeared from their map.
The Jade Serpent Sovereign State froze, their Intelligence arrays pinging nothing but Land.
The Celestial Moon Tribunal immediately realized the gap in fate lines. Entire tributary channels were broken.
Lesser Tier 3 dynasties panicked, calculating—could their outer holdings vanish next?
No one had ever witnessed a vacuum like this. Not even the ancients had the concept of empty space being forcibly restructured without engagement.
Feng Hao's Move — Imperial Seeding
He didn't deploy an army. He didn't send Core Elders to negotiate. He simply activated the Mountain-and-Seas Map.
Divine Commanders inserted as Regional Governors
Divine Generals became Region Lords.
Low- and Mid-Level Elders assigned as Law and Administration Anchors
Spirit veins rerouted and stabilized under Nine God Dao Law
Infrastructure: ancient ruins, dao fields, and million-year formations—now aligned to Nine God Dynasty
Within weeks, new Spirit Tier 1–2 forces manifested organically under perfect loyalty, completely free of karmic baggage.
Outcome:
No rebellions, no lingering grudges
Total structural control immediately established
Resources, cultivation fields, and strategic points entirely optimized
Every region now Nine God Dynasty territory in essence, not just in name