Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

”How many times has Jiang Ding jumped out of his war machine and just hacked with his sword?”

A newly advanced foundation-building-classmate asked on the class communication channel.

”No, you should ask how many times he hasn’t just drawn his sword and hacked away,”

Another person chimed in.

”Not even once.”

”Hahaha...”

The surrounding classmates laughed loudly.

Jiang Ding’s face darkened.

Eager to conceal his form, he thought about sneaking over and giving those who had laughed the hardest a beating.

He glanced at Immortal Luling.

Obediently, he piloted his J-645 to the vicinity of Jin Lingfeng and received a missile resupply from Immortal Luling, controlling the quasi-third-order Star Fighting Killing Yin Formation to fire missiles, combating the foundation-building-stage rune puppets that refreshed from time to time around him.

When encountering cultivators of the mid to late foundation-building stage, he could easily finish the battle.

Upon confronting those at the peak of foundation building, he honestly ran away or called for allies to help; often, three or four air-space warplanes would gang up and swiftly take down a foundation-building peak cultivator.

”It’s so awkward.”

Jiang Ding felt extremely uncomfortable.

Although his opponents weren’t that strong, the feeling of being forced to run was frustrating.

The Taiqing Flying Sword vibrated with a buzzing sound, equally displeased.

Beyond his training, Jiang Ding stole a glance at Jin Lingfeng.

She was very well-suited to this kind of battle.

The missiles whistled through the sky; sometimes, a group of seven out of the forty-nine Seven-colored Plume Feathers would be attached to a single missile, as if equipping the missile with a pair of wings.

When complemented with a second-order spell, the speed, agility, and concentration of missile power all significantly increased.

A single missile could obliterate a late-stage foundation-building cultivator.

Even for peak foundation-building cultivators, under an onslaught of forty-nine Seven-colored Plume Feathers and seven missiles filling the sky, one strike could annihilate them.

Even when facing two peak foundation-building cultivators, she could still fight and retreat, deploying guerrilla tactics to bomb and kill.

Only when three peak foundation-building rune puppets attacked her did she run into serious trouble.

”She’s strong,”

Jiang Ding had to admit.

Even though Jin Lingfeng was only operating an air-space warplane after the foundation establishment stage for the first time, she was already more adept than him, who had been training for two to three months; her magic, magic tools, and aerial combat system were in complete harmony.

Compared to him being chased off by a single peak foundation-building opponent, the difference was like heaven and earth!

”You see how formidable I am?”

Jin Lingfeng gave him a sideways glance, instantly regaining a lot of confidence.

After three days of continuous training,

”Form up,”

Immortal Luling’s new orders came down.

”Groups of thirty-six, practice the army formation, taking turns to act as the commander of the air combat battalion.”

”Golden Pill-level enemies will soon appear.”

”Yes!”

Everyone responded in unison.

The seventy-plus J-645s, spread out over hundreds of kilometers of airspace, started converging toward the center, until they formed two battle groups, each ten kilometers wide—just the lowest range of a Golden Pill Monk’s Divine Sense.

There was no other way.

Although the missile range of the air-space warplane was up to a hundred kilometers, to form an army formation, they had to get this close, so that the fighter’s army formation methods could be tightly interconnected.

”Randomly selecting an acting battalion commander, picking now...”

”Student Huang Tianxin has become the acting commander for the first round of battle.”

The voice of the Array Spirit came through.

A dark-skinned young man appeared in everyone’s air-space warplane communication visuals, stating calmly, ”Fellow classmates, expand the foundation-building-level Sky Celestial Army Formation centered on me.”

”Yes!”

Though it was a drill, everyone responded meticulously.

Jiang Ding did the same—his mana and Divine Sense surged into the warplane’s Xianmen quasi-third-order Sky Military Array.

Hum!

The J-645 shuddered, intricate rune patterns appeared, and a blazing white beam shot from the air-space fighter toward Huang Tianxin’s warplane.

At the same time, thirty-four other beams, only a tenth the size of the first, branched off toward the thirty-four warplanes of the same battalion, including Jin Lingfeng.

The other air-space warplanes underwent similar actions, with blazing white beams intertwining and shuttling across the ten-kilometer battlefield. From a distance, it resembled a dense lattice of laser fences.

”Adjust the Sky Celestial Army Formation,”

ordered Huang Tianxin.

The warplanes began to maneuver, with some flying in and others flying out at seemingly random, but it was all well-orchestrated chaos.

But the aura of the thirty-six war machines began to converge.

Slowly, an invisible yet terrifying pressure emerged on the battlefield.

Within a radius of ten kilometers, the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi shook and roared.

”This is the military formation method of the Eastern Devil School!”

Silently observing like invisible men, An Tuzi and his two companions felt their hearts shake.

Merely thirty-six foundation builders, utilizing thirty-six low-cost magic tools, could exhibit the combat power of Golden Pill monks, which was truly terrifying.

”Taoist disciples, there’s no need to worry too much. Our Xianmen Sect also possesses similar assets.”

A core disciple said reassuringly.

”The Golden Heavenly Dao soldiers, the Wood Spirit Dao soldiers, and other Daoist soldiers, a total of one hundred and eight foundation builders forming an array, also possess the combat power of Golden Pill monks, and they require only three magic tool cores.”

”And the number of foundation-building cultivators in our sect is definitely more than triple that of the Eastern Devil School.”

”Yes, that’s true.”

An Tuzi’s frown deepened.

”However, the sect’s Dao soldiers are scarce, and to exert such combat power, they must be assembled. This would attract overwhelming firepower, even enough for the Qi-cultivating tank troops to join in the bombardment.”

”If we gather even more, creating strategic value, the Air-Space Battleships and Air-Space Motherships’ giant cannons could spare the time to bombard from thousands, even tens of thousands of kilometers away, annihilating us in an instant.”

”The Golden Pill and Nascent Soul members of our sect do not have such long-range firepower projection.”

”Furthermore, even the Divinity Transformation and Nascent Soul monks of the Eastern Devil School are accustomed to legion combat. Using inner disciples and lower sect disciples to form Daoist soldiers to wage war against them is to court disgrace.”

He elaborated, hitting the nail on the head with each point, clearly demonstrating that his years of study abroad had not been in vain.

The two Five Elements Heavenly Sect true disciples fell silent.

Immortal Luling’s brows twitched imperceptibly.

As they spoke, the thirty-six Air-Space war machines gradually halted their movement. Beams of white-hot rays crisscrossed, linking every machine with Huang Tianxin’s at the center, forming a true third-rank military formation!

The dense web of lasers then disappeared from view.

”Nineteen seconds, still far from the one-second formation of the Xianmen Sect’s elite troops.”

Immortal Luling offered a brief critique.

”Golden Pill Realm, enemy trail!”

Huang Tianxin exclaimed loudly.

Sixty kilometers away,

a Golden Core Puppet appeared and vanished in a flash, killing its way toward the army formation.

”Can’t sense it!”

Huang Tianxin’s expression changed slightly as he quickly maneuvered the thirty-six Air-Space war machines to tilt into a third-rank Sky Military Array aligned with the Spirit Element Radar Electromagnetic Interaction Array.

He struggled.

Whether his own control level or the coordination of his classmates, both were lacking, with considerable delay.

Only when the Golden Core Realm Rune Puppet broke into the ten-kilometer range, brandishing a Golden Spear Magical Tool that stirred the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi, did they barely detect the enemy’s track.

”All troops, fire!”

Huang Tianxin shouted.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Thirty-six Hunter missiles launched simultaneously.

It wasn’t merely a blanket of firepower.

Relying on the Xianmen Sect’s third-rank military formation, the missiles were faintly connected by mystical runes, forming a unit that stirred the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi within tens of kilometers, converging with an aura of third-order spells.

Whoosh!

The Golden Core Puppet’s Rune Golden Spear pierced through the nodes of the third-rank military formation spell unleashed by the thirty-six Hunter missiles, causing the spell to instantly collapse and scatter, leaving thirty-six random foundation-building spells.

These posed no threat to a Golden Pill Monk.

The next instant,

the Rune Golden Spear passed over Huang Tianxin’s Air-Space war machine.

The Air-Space Army Formation froze, then shattered with a thunderous collapse.

A devastating force recoiled back.

”Backlash from the army formation!”

Jiang Ding’s face turned pale as he felt a Gold Pill Level backlash force transmitted from the closely connected army formation.

It was an attack that could severely injure him!

An invisible power smoothed it over, leaving him unharmed.

”The army formation composition is not up to standard.”

”The formation search spell is not up to standard.”

”The formation attack spell is not up to standard, and the soldiers’ coordination is also not up to standard.”

The hoarse voice of Immortal Luling came through, causing everyone’s face to redden.

”Continue.”