The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 1924: Chapters 1870-1871: The Great Battle Begins, Sub-branch Annihilated

“Your Highness, have you already mastered this battleship?” Liu Wenzhao asked.

The two tacitly did not bring up any further topics regarding the seventh-generation battleship, and instead began to discuss the current fourth-generation battleship.

During this time, Prince Jing, Zhu Zaizhen, has stayed here to continuously familiarize himself with this battleship, in order to truly maximize its potential.

This time their venture into the world of the Heterodox Alliance is not like causing a disturbance in a lower-level realm controlled by the Purple Mansion Sect, like the Dragon Saliva Realm, by sending in infiltrators. They aim to directly break the protective forces of the Heterodox Alliance.

Even though those Dragon Saliva-like C-rank worlds are strategic locations, the level of these worlds makes them inherently difficult to defend.

However, this time, the Heterodox Alliance’s world is a Second Rate world. If their defensive formations are fully activated, it will not be easy for even a True Immortal to break through, hence the need for this fourth-generation battleship.

Pushing hard and fast is the strategic core of this operation.

Even if they arrive smoothly, if they cannot open a breach quickly, they will lose the advantage of initiative.

The strategic objective of this mission is to weaken the Heterodox Alliance’s resource input so that in future wars, their potential is constantly diminished. This would effectively counterbalance the Heterodox Alliance’s development and even hold their lifeline in their hands.

“The battleship is under control, enabling a rapid breach of world defenses, reconstruction of defense lines, seizing resources, and when the Heterodox Alliance arrives, a full assault.” Zhu Zaizhen laid out the subsequent action plan.

“This time we have fully prepared ourselves to take this world. Even if it means sacrificing this fourth-generation battleship, it is not to be spared!”

The Jade Emperor’s faction is already well-prepared, ready to assume certain costs, even if it means losing a fourth-generation battleship, which is worth it.

Indeed, a fourth-generation battleship is a significant cost for a power like the Jade Emperor, but if it allows them to seize a world controlled by the Heterodox Alliance, then it is well worth it.

This is the fundamental advantage that powerful factions have over ordinary ones. Even when engaging in mutually destructive actions, their accumulated resources allow them to endure while severely harming the opponent.

Both sides suffer ongoing resource and foundation losses, and after a certain degree of consumption, for the Jade Emperor’s faction, it might just be a lack of resources, but for the Heterodox Alliance, it could trigger a collapse.

“Understood, Sir!” Liu Wenzhao replied solemnly upon hearing this.

From Zhu Zaizhen’s words, he understood the purpose of this expedition and the upper echelons’ attitudes, knowing how he should act.

The grand fleet sailed silently through the Chaos Void, arriving outside a Second Rate world controlled by the Heterodox Alliance, a world not of great strategic importance, lacking special resources, but even its ordinary resources are of significant utility to the Heterodox Alliance.

There are only about ten such Second Rate worlds truly in the Heterodox Alliance’s grasp. Losing control of one would be a massive loss.

When Zhu Zaizhen’s fleet descended upon this world, they were immediately discovered by the stationed forces of the Heterodox Alliance, who activated the Defense Formation without delay and rapidly reported back to the Alliance.

“Attack! Unknown fleet attacking World No. 9, request support.”

World No. 9 is the internal code name within the Heterodox Alliance, and upon this message’s transmission, the many powerhouses of the alliance went pale.

Indeed, Zhao Baiyang’s plan this time caused trouble for the Buddhism School, and he even used it to prove himself as a Taoist Monarch, but none of the powerhouses within the Heterodox Alliance dared to become complacent, instead becoming more vigilant.

After years of dealing with the Buddhism School, they knew well its vengeful nature. Understanding that after suffering a loss, the Buddhism School would not take it lying down and would surely retaliate.

Thus, while Zhao Baiyang was in seclusion for healing, the Heterodox Alliance appeared relaxed but was actually tense internally, with their warning levels raised to the highest, not just internally within the Divine Continent, but in the Realms of Heavenly Seas, where strongholds were also sent to garrison their forces.

To ensure nothing went wrong, they were ready for an all-out defense without any need for further instruction should anything happen.

Yet even with these preparations, Tie Qianshan and others thought that even if the Buddhism School were to retaliate, some time would be needed for response, as such a colossal entity like the Buddhism School would require time to mobilize.

However, they underestimated how the situation with Zhao Baiyang achieving the status of a Taoist Monarch spurred the Jade Emperor’s side into swift action, reaching an agreement and dispatching strong forces.

The most astonishing part is how the Daoist Monarch experts of the Jade Emperor and Buddhism School jointly concealed any hint of their movements, as if all the intelligence agencies had suddenly gone deaf.

They indeed misunderstood one point, assuming that after Zhao Baiyang attained the status of a Taoist Monarch, he would truly enter the inner circle of Top Immortal Sects and gain the corresponding status.