High Martial Arts: Starting with a Martial Saint Peak Cultivation

He Qing's fingers tapped slower and slower on the armrest of the soft couch, his brows furrowing into a knot.

He quickly calculated in his mind.

Their Heavenly Crane Alliance is a vassal state of the Azure Sky Empire, and every year they have to pay a large amount of resources to the Azure Sky Empire as protection fees.

The Azure Empire accepted the money.

The promise was to provide military support in the event of an invasion.

This contract is public knowledge in the Purple Mystic Starfield.

Several surrounding forces knew that the Sky Crane Alliance was backed by the Azure Lan Empire.

Therefore, even if there are frictions between them, no one has ever dared to openly and blatantly take action.

"Who's being so blind this time?"

He Qing muttered to himself, his gaze dark and gloomy.

"Dare to provoke our Heavenly Crane Alliance? Aren't you afraid of retaliation from the Azure Sky Empire?"

The more he thought about it, the more suspicious it seemed.

Multiple patrol teams and planets lost contact simultaneously, unable to send messages back; this is definitely not a minor incident.

The opponent's attack was clean and efficient; their strength is definitely not weak!

He Qing suddenly stood up and shouted towards the door.

"Someone come here!"

The guards strode into the room and bowed to receive their orders.

He Qing spoke in a cold tone, giving his orders word by word.

"Order the entire war fortress and all fleets patrolling outside to immediately enter a state of first alert."

"Activate all defensive formations, disarm heavy weapons such as the railgun, and prepare for battle at any time."

He paused.

"Issue my order again: dispatch the Third, Fifth, and Seventh Fleets immediately to the location where the patrol's signal last disappeared and to the lost planet to conduct a full investigation."

"At the same time, send a message to all the surrounding military fortresses to find out if this situation only occurs within my jurisdiction."

The guards' expressions hardened, and they clasped their hands in a deep fist salute.

"yes!"

He turned and quickly left the room, his footsteps echoing hurriedly in the corridor.

Zhang Heng then left as well.

After the door closed, the room became quiet.

Zhao Qingyu stood up from beside the soft couch and walked gracefully behind He Qing.

She reached out and wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, pressing her face against his back, her voice soft and sweet with a hint of coquettishness.

"Commander, the orders have been given. Let's continue."

Her fingers gently caressed his waist.

He Qing grabbed her hand and shook his head.

The laziness and lust on his face had vanished completely, replaced by a heavy, somber expression.

"You can go now."

His tone was calm, but brooked no argument.

"Let's talk about it another day."

Zhao Qingyu pouted upon hearing this, but dared not disobey.

She stepped away from He Qing, straightened her thin gauze dress, and walked towards the door.

As she reached the door, she turned back, blew He Qing a kiss, and smiled alluringly.

"Then I'll come back when you're finished with your work, sir."

He Qing glanced at her, shook his head helplessly, and muttered something under his breath.

"That little slut."

He withdrew his gaze and sat back down on the soft couch.

"If it weren't for the seriousness of the matter, I'd definitely show you what happens when you provoke me..."

He stopped thinking about it, raised his wrist, tapped a few times on his communication bracelet, personally edited this anomaly into a message, and sent it to the domain lord in charge of his star system.

After sending the message, he leaned back on the soft couch, waiting for his superior's reply.

suddenly.

The entire war fortress emitted a piercing buzzing sound.

The sound was sharp and rapid, like a steel knife scraping against everyone's eardrums.

The red warning lights flashed wildly on the ceiling, making the whole room flicker between light and darkness.

He Qing suddenly sprang up from the soft couch.

"Level One Alert?"

His expression changed drastically, and his pupils contracted.

Level 1 alert is the highest level of alert, meaning that the entire fortress is under threat that could destroy all its forces!

"What's going on?!"

He hadn't finished speaking.

Suddenly, a violent tremor came from beneath my feet.

The entire fortress looked like it had been kicked from the outside, with the metal floor making a creaking and twisting sound.

The teacup on the table slipped and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.

He Qing staggered a step and grabbed the wall for support.

An extremely terrifying power surged in from outside, its aura so thick that it made his scalp tingle and even his breathing difficult.

"This power..."

His face was deathly pale, and his heart was pounding like a drum.

"Could it be those guys who attacked the patrol?!"

Without thinking twice, he turned and rushed out the door.

I've only run two steps.

boom--!

A deafening roar erupted overhead.

The entire war fortress shook violently, and the metal panels on the ceiling were blown off by a tremendous force, revealing the broken outer layer of defensive formations.

The high-intensity energy shield that covered the entire fortress shattered completely after only a few breaths under the intense and suffocating bombardment, turning into countless specks of light and dissipating.

then.

The terrifying attack of the Fairy Cannon penetrated every layer of the fortress's defenses and landed directly inside.

Explosions occurred simultaneously throughout the fortress.

Metal walls were melted through, corridors were blown up, and rooms were reduced to ruins in the beams of light.

The soldiers didn't even have time to react.

Some were directly vaporized by the beam of light, while others were blown away by the blast wave and smashed into the wall, their bodies shattered.

Screams, screams, and alarms mingled together, and the entire fortress was transformed into a burning hell in the blink of an eye.

Thousands of flying ships from Nine Nether Valley had already completely surrounded the entire war fortress.

The deep blue giant ships were arranged in a tight spherical formation, with each ship's celestial cannons aimed at the fortress's vital points.

Before the smoke from the cannon had dissipated, the second round of recharging had already begun.

Inside the main ship.

Immortal Lord Youxuan stood in front of the control panel, watching the images displayed on the light screen.

The once-mighty war fortress in the scene has become a desolate ruin, with its remains slowly drifting through the starry sky and flames burning silently in the vacuum...

His gaze remained completely unwavering.

"Get out of here."

He gestured with his chin toward the several celestial elders beside him, speaking in a calm tone as if he were instructing them on a trivial matter.

"Clean up the surviving ants."

He paused, then added a sentence.

"While you're at it, see if there's anything of value or any news. If so, bring it back."

The celestial elders nodded slightly, their faces showing knowing smiles.

One of the elders, who had a thin face, bowed in response.

"Yes, Sect Master."

Before the words were finished, several figures simultaneously activated the laws of space and instantly disappeared from the flying boat.

In the ruins of the war fortress.

He Qing struggled to climb out from among the rubble.

His brocade robe was mostly torn to shreds.

His body was covered in blood and wounds, and his left arm hung down unnaturally, clearly with several broken bones.

Furthermore, the eternal divine body was also severely damaged.

However, the foundation of the Eternal True God from its early stages was still intact, and although it suffered severe damage, it did not perish.

He stood up, leaning on the broken metal pillar, and stared incredulously at the ruins around him.

The once majestic and imposing war fortress is now nothing but a burning ruin, littered with the corpses of soldiers and fragments of broken weapons.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of burning and blood, and thick smoke rose from the wreckage everywhere.

"Enemy... Enemy attack..."

His lips trembled, and his voice was hoarse.

"Who exactly is it...?"

A single attack consumed four-fifths of his Eternal Divine Body!

He frantically searched his mind to figure out who the Heavenly Crane Alliance had offended.

But after thinking it over and over...

No enemy has this kind of power.

This level of attack and this crushing destruction was something that no force he knew could accomplish!

"No matter who it is, they definitely won't let me go."

He gritted his teeth and raised the communication bracelet on his wrist.

"We must get this message back!"

His fingers had just touched the bracelet.

Several terrifying pressures suddenly descended from the sky.

The oppressive aura was as heavy as a mountain and as vast as the sea, carrying a sense of pressure that made one's soul tremble.

He Qing felt as if mountains were pressing down on him at the same time. His knees buckled, and he was forced to the ground, his face pressed against the scorching hot metal debris.

His pupils contracted sharply, and every hair on his body stood on end.

"To...the Supreme Realm!"

His voice changed, filled with disbelief.

"So many Supreme Realm experts!"

His mind raced, reviewing all the forces within the Purple Profound Star Region that possessed Supreme Realm experts.

But none of them matched the current situation. That aura...

That kind of oppressive aura.

It was more profound than any Supreme Realm expert he knew.

"Which faction is this?!"

He screamed wildly in his heart.

"Our Heavenly Crane Alliance has never offended such a terrifying force!"

A figure appeared in front of him.

It was an elderly man with a thin face, wearing a dark blue robe with a hydra pattern embroidered on the hem.

It was none other than Xuanqing, the Celestial Elder of Nine Nether Valley.

He looked down at He Qing, who was lying on the ground, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"It has a pretty strong vitality."

His voice was cold and devoid of any emotion.

"I was lucky enough to survive the Immortal Crystal Cannon."

He Qing felt the terrifying pressure from the Supreme Realm expert emanating from the other party, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Before he could even see the newcomer's face clearly, Elder Xuanqing grabbed him from the ground in the blink of an eye and lifted him up like a chick.

He Qing got a clear look at the face opposite him.

do not know.

But when his gaze swept over Elder Xuanqing's robes and the hydra emblem, an even more terrifying thought surged into his mind.

"This attire... doesn't belong to someone from the Purple Profound Star Region!"

He exclaimed inwardly.

"Could it be a powerful space pirate organization from another star system?!"

He opened his mouth with difficulty, his voice hoarse and weak.

"Who...who are you?"

He took a breath and continued asking.

"Why attack us? We seem to have no grudge against you..."

Elder Xuanqing did not answer.

He just smiled, a smile that carried a condescending indifference.

Tell me what you know.

Before he finished speaking, he raised his hand and placed it on He Qing's head.

Soul Search.

An extremely tyrannical divine soul force violently poured into He Qing's sea of ​​consciousness.

It felt like someone was sticking a red-hot iron directly into my brain and then stirring it violently.

"ah--!"

He Qing let out a mournful wail, his limbs convulsing wildly, his eyes rolling back, and clumps of white foam streaked with blood coming from the corners of his mouth.

His soul was like a withered leaf in the wind under Elder Xuanqing's palm, being turned, torn, and read at will.

Elder Xuanqing remained expressionless as his divine sense rapidly scanned He Qing's memories.

The troop deployment of the Tianhe Alliance, the nodes of the defensive formation, the distribution of surrounding forces, the support contracts of the Canglan Empire... all this information was read in a matter of seconds.

The soul search is over.

He Qing's body was still convulsing, but his eyes had completely lost focus. His soul had been brutally crushed during the soul search, leaving only an empty shell.

A few breaths later, his last breath also dissipated.

Fallen.

Elder Xuanqing released his grip, and He Qing's body slid softly to the ground.

He glanced down, and in the blink of an eye, the corpse exploded into a cloud of blood mist, leaving not a single bone behind.

"Heavenly Crane Alliance".

Elder Xuanqing muttered something under his breath, a smile playing on his lips.

"Yes, it's almost exactly the same as the news Elder Xuan Ying brought back."

He turned around and looked at the other soldiers still struggling in the ruins.

Some of the soldiers were trapped under the rubble and were howling in pain.

Some crawled on the ground with broken legs, while others huddled in corners, shivering.

Most of them were at the seventh level to the True God realm, which was considered quite good in the eyes of ordinary cultivators, but in front of Elder Xuanqing, they were not even ants.

Elder Xuanqing was too lazy to even search the soul.

What valuable information could these low-ranking soldiers possibly have? It's just a waste of time.

He raised his hand and waved.

An invisible wave of energy emanated from his palm, sweeping across the ruins like a silent storm.

Wherever the shockwave passed, the struggling soldiers exploded one after another, turning into clouds of blood mist.

One.

two.

ten.

One hundred.

Blood mist spread through the ruins, staining the already murky air with a thick, dark red hue.

Severed limbs fell from the blood mist, striking the metal debris with dull thuds.

Some people tried to get up and run away, but as soon as their legs left the ground, they were caught up by the blast wave and exploded in the middle. Their upper bodies flew far away, while their lower bodies remained standing in the same place.

Someone knelt on the ground, desperately kowtowing and begging for mercy. Before they could even finish saying "Spare me," their head exploded like a watermelon.

Some people huddled behind the collapsed walls, trembling, but the shockwave seemed to have eyes, passing through the gaps and crushing them and the surrounding debris into dust.

In the blink of an eye.

All the surviving Sky Crane Alliance soldiers perished within the entire war fortress.

The blood mist drifted slowly across the starry sky, blown by the breeze in the vacuum into wisps of dark red ribbons that twisted and tumbled in the firelight of the ruins.

Elder Xuanqing withdrew his hand.

Standing with hands behind his back.

My gaze swept over the utterly desolate ruins.

Not a single drop of blood stained his robes; they were as clean as if he had just returned from a walk.

at the same time.

The other celestial elders also completed the cleansing from different directions.

The group met in the center of the ruins and nodded to each other slightly.

"Is it all cleaned up?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

"We found a few decent pieces of ore and a batch of spirit stones, which we have already stored away."

"We also obtained the defense map of the Tianhe Alliance, as well as the vassal contract they signed with the Canglan Empire, although it's not very useful."