The fervent atmosphere from the Alliance oath ceremony had not yet fully dissipated throughout heaven and earth, yet inside Tianshu City's core district, the Alliance War Headquarters, the atmosphere had already tightened like a drawn bowstring. All clamor and enthusiasm here transformed into cold data streams and efficient silent command transmissions.
The enormous three-dimensional star map occupied the command center's center. On the star map, countless light points representing the Three Realms Allied Fleets were orderly advancing toward the preset assembly coordinates, like converging rivers of stars. At the star map's edge,, a continuously blinking, faintly emitting purifying fluctuations light point became the focus of all attention.
Tang Xiaoqi stood quietly before the star map, eyes tightly closed, faint Green Lotus light aura surrounding his body. All his focus was immersed in perceiving that faint connection to the distant—that was the purifying mark he had struck into the Demon Nest's shell long ago.
In the command center, a pin drop could be heard. Senior Brother , Silicon Commander's projection, Dragon Palace and demon representatives and other core high officials all held their breath, awaiting the final result. Mu Xue, Liu Yun, Zhao Tiezhu, and Second Senior Brother's "iron coffin" were not in the command center—they should be inside the Void Piercing Shuttle, making final departure preparations.
Time passed slowly, each moment feeling especially long. That purifying mark's induction drifted uncertainly,, under the Demon Nest's abundant demonic energy and interference, extremely difficult to capture its precise spacetime coordinates.
Sweat beaded on Xiao Qi's forehead. This was not a contest of power, but an extreme test of willpower and perception. He needed to extract that one pure fluctuation belonging solely to the purifying mark from boundless darkness and chaos, and lock onto its continuously moving coordinates.
On the star map, the light point representing the purifying mark flickered bright and dim alternately, its position drifting within a certain range.
"Energy interference intensity increased seven percent; the Demon Nest seems to be performing some kind of cyclical energy intake and output..." A cultivator responsible for monitoring energy data reported quietly, voice tense.
"Hold steady." Senior Brother said deeply, gaze tightly fixed on Xiao Qi.
Xiao Qi's brow slightly furrowed. In his consciousness sea, the Green Lotus Origin trembled at unprecedented frequency, amplifying his perception to extremes. He seemed transformed into a wisp of wind, shuttling through violent demonic energy and chaotic spatial folds, carefully pursuing that speck of light.
Countless chaotic messages flooded his perception: demon screeches, demonic pattern energy flows, collisions, even the Demon Lord's malicious, vague willpower whispers... all attempting to interfere with and confuse him.
But his heart was like a clear mirror, reflecting only that one pure thread.
Suddenly, he caught it! During a Demon Nest energy intake/output pause, the purifying mark's fluctuation became clear for an instant!
"Now!"
Xiao Qi's eyes opened abruptly, pupils blazing with green light. He formed sword fingers, and a supremely condensed green divine ray instantly injected into the control formation before him!
Weng—!
On the three-dimensional star map, that previously drifting light point suddenly stabilized, its glow intensifying. Around it rapidly appeared precise spatial latitude and longitude data, along with a series of parameters including relative distance and azimuth angle! A clear, locked red coordinate point, like a malignant tumor nailed onto the star map,!
"Coordinates locked! Real-time positioning complete!" The cultivator at the control console reported almost shouting, voice trembling with excitement.
The command center instantly erupted with; everyone's faces surged with excitement and resolve.
Xiao Qi expelled a long breath, wiped the sweat from his temple. His eyes instantly turned sharp as blades, no longer bearing any previous calm. He turned to Senior Brother, and through light screens connected various representatives, his voice decisive with indisputable authority:
"Transmit my commands!"
"Weekdays Star Great Array—all main formation cultivators, take positions! Following the final plan, activate formations, lock target coordinates! Build up power!"
"Silicon Fleet, according to preset plans, advance to blocking positions, clear any scattered demons that might interfere with the Great Array!"
"All Alliance combat units, enter highest combat readiness, prepare to respond to any emergencies!"
A stream of commands like ice, clear, swift, resolute.
"Acknowledged!" Everyone in the command center thunderously responded, then fell into even more efficient, tense. Commands instantly transmitted across the Three Realms through the spiritual network.
Xiao Qi finally gazed toward outside the command room, at the Void Piercing Shuttle already started on its specific launch platform, its surface flowing with starlight and spatial ripples. His voice through spiritual sense clearly entered the four team members' ears inside the shuttle, arrayed for battle:
"Fellows, coordinates are locked."
"Void Piercing Shuttle—depart!"
No grand declarations, no superfluous emotions—only the simplest, most direct action order.
The long-prepared Void Piercing Shuttle emitted a low,. The runes on its surface instantly lit to extremes; silver light blazed!
The next moment, it shuddered violently, tearing the main world's spatial barrier, transforming into a silver spanning heaven and earth, plunging into that fantastical spatial channel, vanishing instantly!
Almost the exact moment the Void Piercing Shuttle disappeared, at secret formation key points throughout the Alliance, three hundred sixty-five cultivators at minimum Nascent Soul late-stage, simultaneously injected all their spiritual power without reservation into the formation plates beneath their feet.
Heng!!!
Invisible immense power rose from throughout the Three Realms, summoning the Weekday Stars! Countless massive stellar light pillars crossed endless space, beginning to converge and weave at a preset focal point in, forming an enormous, intricate, and magnificent light array whose coverage was comparable to a small star domain—the Weekdays Star Great Array had activated! Destructive stellar power was frantically accumulating within formation key points, locked onto that distant red coordinate!
The final battle, following spatial coordinate locking and the Void Piercing Shuttle's resolute departure, officially initiated!