Blue Star, North County.

The battlefield, divided into four areas, is filled with solemnity and cruelty.

This is not the first time the Great Xia People have experienced war.

Unlike the first unprepared encounter, this time, they have become more tenacious and stronger!

The Imperial’s Four Great Knight Orders did not unfold their hundreds of thousands of Knight’s Auras as expected; the invincible scene did not appear.

Because the entire North County sky was covered by a new grand array!

Countless red, cyan, black, and white runes flickered like stars in the night sky, emitting different lights.

At the center of the array stands a giant tower reaching the sky, and the entire array seems to revolve around this giant tower. Even from a distance, one can feel the majestic aura of this array.

At the four corners of the array, stone pillars carved with Cyan Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise are vivid and spirited, containing boundless spiritual power.

In addition, endless spiritual power surged from underground, channeling through these four stone pillars toward the central giant tower.

Above, millions of golden Profound Texts float in the air, occasionally shimmering with light.

Its grandeur is awe-inspiring.

"Yin Yang Four Symbols Array."

The heavy Knight’s Code opened a page, where new dark characters twisted and condensed.

"You actually recognize it."

Lin Jingxuan, sitting cross-legged opposite, showed surprise.

He regretted not being able to naturally say, "Do you recognize this array," to Lin Jingxuan.

"I know more than you imagine, young man."

"So what, even the oldest things have a day of extinction; the era will always belong to the young."

Lin Jingxuan’s indifferent voice echoed.

Upon hearing his words, the pages of the Knight’s Code turned slightly faster.

"Maybe so, but not now."

"We can wait and see."

Lin Jingxuan and the Knight’s Code fell silent simultaneously.

The Knight’s Code emitted a faint black aura of corruption, and under its call, fallen pillars throughout North County resonated in echoes.

Beneath Lin Jingxuan, the Original Daoist River Map and Luo Book slowly rotated, emitting a sacred halo.

With it and Lin Jingxuan personally defending, they prevented the descent of fallen darkness upon North County.

A delicate balance formed between them.

The standoff between the two parties had lasted for more than half a month.

Louis XVII, on whom the Knight’s Code pins high hopes, and his Four Great Imperial Knight Orders have not been able to breach the North County Mountains.

This is precisely because of the Yin Yang Four Symbols Array mentioned earlier by the Knight’s Code!

Lin Jingxuan spent more than a year in North County, laying aside his efforts to set up a second grand array other than the Heaven and Earth Array, to prevent tragedies from reoccurring.

Comprehended from the River Map and Luo Book, the Yin Yang Four Symbols Array covered all of North County, with four fortresses in total.

In each fortress, a stone pillar transforms into the eye of the array, guarded by specially appointed personnel from Great Xia North County.

Others clashed and fought with the Imperial Iron Riders within the array.

Under the protection of the Yin Yang Four Symbols Array, not only was the battlefield divided into four sections, but Great Xia Warriors also received various enhanced effects within the array, equaling the Imperial Knight Order.

...

In the Vermilion Bird Array,

Bob commanded his Intelligent Mechanic Army.

As a Level 5 Civilization technological force, Great Xia’s Intelligent Mechanic Army had become quite considerable.

More than ten Destruction Titans lined up, equivalent to top Tier Eight combat power, the supreme force held in reserve by North County, and the painstaking efforts of Bob and Shang Siteng.

Their special metal shells were coated black.

Equipped with powerful high-energy weapons on the head, shoulders, arms, waist, and legs, they constantly threatened ground and air targets.

Despite their massive size, they moved with incredible agility and swiftness, could fly at low altitudes, suppress fire, pinpoint targets, and were nearly all-powerful.

Behind each Titan was a large-scale nano logistics unit, responsible for urgent repairs and firepower supplies for the Titans.

Additionally, there was a vast number of low-tier war intelligent mechanical cannon fodder, centrally controlled by the Celestial Net.

This was the ground force.

The air force was even more luxurious than the ground force.

As mentioned earlier, after Level 5 Civilization, technology development leaned toward interstellar space.

Therefore, Great Xia developed an aircraft carrier battle group composed of various starships, including escort ships, Star Destroyers, interstellar mother ships, and more.

This high-tech intelligent mechanic army, with coordinated ground-air operations, exerted considerable pressure on the Imperial forces.

Facing them in battle was the Imperial First Knight Order.

The Four Great Imperial Knight Orders are the Templar, Red Lotus, Gray Haze, and Storm.

Among them, the Templar Order is the Imperial First Knight Order.

The leader of the Templar Order is the new Imperial Sword, a Tier Nine Imperial Knight, Antonio.

Under him, there are ten deputy commanders, all of whom are Tier Eight Judgment Knights.

Among the Templar Order, nearly a thousand are Tier Seven Punishment Knights; the minimum is a Tier Six Justice Knight. Such an order could sweep and flatten any small force.

They previously defended the southern part of the Imperial, repelling various alien race attacks.

The Templar Order, which was undefeated in battles with alien races, was now in a bitter struggle within the Vermilion Bird Array.

The Vermilion Bird is associated with fire.

Fire can burn everything. Any allied unit using flames receives at least a 100% damage enhancement, which is the beneficial effect of the Vermilion Bird Array.

And Bob and his Intelligent Mechanic Army happen to use heat weapons in combat!

On the Templar Order’s side, although there are knights using Flame Aura, they are still the minority.

Most of them have auras recorded for combating alien races, and when facing these tireless and pain-free intelligent mechanic armies, their effectiveness is greatly reduced.

With this ebb and flow, neither side could gain the upper hand for the time being.

Antonio held the knight’s longsword, its blade a dull gray, plain and unremarkable, just like his appearance.

A figure dressed in a gray-white robe, with a loose hood half-covering his face, having forgone the heavy armor that symbolizes status, he appeared like an ordinary old man one might encounter anywhere.

But when a Destruction Titan initiated War Trample mode, unleashing firepower and rampant strides amidst the knight order, dozens of Tier Seven Punishment Knights lost their lives under its assault.

Antonio casually swung his sword.

A gray-white sword light flashed and vanished, and the next moment, a sword mark appeared abruptly on the core power furnace of the Destruction Titan!

The massive inertia sent the giant body of the Destruction Titan toppling backward.

Behind the Destruction Titan, a reverse slow-fall device, black as a rocket launch well, opened wide, spewing out dark blue flames.

The nano logistics troop, which had been standing by, scattered, and the vacant ground was scorched into blackness by the flames.

The Destruction Titan’s form stabilized again under the recoil.

But just as Antonio intended to deliver another sword, air support had already arrived.

He calmly gripped the knight’s longsword, held it straight up before his chest, with his right hand gripping the hilt and his left hand’s three fingers pressed against the blade.

"Shield!"