Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

On the horizon, the first Air-Space Warplane appeared.

Then came the second, the third... a swarm covered a patch of the sky.

In groups of ten battalions, 360 Air-Space Warplanes encircled a visibly black-painted Air-Space Battleship, spreading an Array Pattern across a ten-kilometer radius and linking up every single warplane from this center.

With the battleship as the core, thick beams of light crisscrossed and connected with the combat cores of eleven other Air-Space Battleships within a thirty-kilometer range.

Thousands of warplanes, along with twelve battleships, formed a massive,

near Fourth-Stage Formation!

The overwhelming pressure spread far and wide, precisely combing through the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi within a radius of several tens of kilometers, as the legion roared past at speeds far exceeding those of Golden Core Peak Monks.

”Silencing or something else?”

Jiang Ding’s expression changed.

Facing such a terrifying army formation, he had no thoughts of confronting it, instinctively reaching for the rusty sword tip.

”A division of the Canghai military is conducting a military mission, please remain calm.”

The voice of the Array Spirit rang in his ear.

”Within the Xianmen Sect, the mobilization of any battalion-level or higher troops must be approved by the Military Commission. Private Air-Space battle groups are not allowed, must not assemble, and must not fly in the airspace of the Xianmen Sect.”

”Privately assembled and gathered armies will face the descent of God-transforming Level forces, which will destroy them.”

”Currently, there has been no phenomenon of personal will eroding and corrupting the Xianmen Sect’s military forces.”

Jiang Ding relaxed a bit but still didn’t dare to be careless.

At first glance, the battle group was still on the horizon.

At the second glance, it had already arrived at the crash site of Xu Qiwu’s Air-Space Battleship. Each of the twelve Air-Space Battleships cast out a thick black iron chain, flickering with cold light and densely covered in runes.

At first, the twelve rune chains existed separately, but in an instant, they became pervasive, filling the space above and below, covering several tens of kilometers.

Occasionally, one rune chain would stretch across space, spanning dozens or hundreds of kilometers.

Moments later, the net of rune chains began to contract, and chunks of battleship wreckage appeared within the net, varying in size from as small as a palm or grain of rice to as large as several dozens or even hundreds of meters in length and width, weighing thousands of tons.

At the center, bound by layers of iron chains, was a pale-faced middle-aged man, at the Late Golden Core stage.

Xu Qiwu!

”This is an army Artifact, a Third-Order high-grade special Artifact called the Bug Catching Net, used against highly mobile and thick-skinned cultivators,” explained Jin Lingfeng for everyone.

After confirming from the Array Spirit that this was a regular Xianmen Sect force, he relaxed.

”It’s also often used to capture powerful criminals.”

”Hmm.”

Jiang Ding nodded.

In the Cultivation World, capturing strong opponents required deploying the army, otherwise, it would be like delivering food to them.

Whoosh!

A rune chain flew from afar, stopping in front of him, with its head bobbing up and down like a snake’s.

”Ding!”

”The commander of a division of the Canghai military in front of you requests the handover of the military suspect Xu Jianian,” echoed the voice of the Array Spirit.

”Received.”

Jiang Ding nodded, tossing the gloomy-faced Xu Jianian out of a jade pendant capable of holding living things, allowing him to be bound by the rune chain, transforming into a black dot that flew towards the direction of the battle group and vanished from sight.

”May I ask what legal consequences this Xu’s Late Golden Core stage cultivator who attacked me will face?” Jiang Ding asked.

”The intention to assassinate military personnel on a mission, suspected of colluding with the Xuanwu tiangong, execution,” replied the Array Spirit without any hesitation.

”Moreover, his Divine Soul will be examined, all Xianmen cultivators involved in this matter will be dealt with sternly, execution without reprieve will be pursued whenever possible, even if it involves Immortal Tianfang, the strongest under Xu’s Transmutation God.”

”What if the Xu’s Transmutation God himself is involved?”

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Jiang Ding asked curiously.

”Patience.”

”According to the treaty signed two thousand years ago, for such crimes, Xu’s Transmutation God only needs to make compensation. Rest assured, their whereabouts are being strictly monitored, and they won’t pose a threat to your life.”

The Array Spirit answered without any hesitation as well.

”Understood.”

Jiang Ding sighed.

Survival is the prerequisite for everything, even for the Central Array Spirit Computer, which operates on logic and programs, to make compromises for the highest level of cultivators.

Of course, this was not a compromise for the Nascent Soul Cultivators.

It was a compromise with the connivance of the Xu and Wang families’ Divinity Transformation experts and Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, and even more Immortal Sects’ Masters of Refining Nothingness.

That was, of course, the correct decision.

All good things are predicated on survival first and foremost.

”By the way, there’s also this...”

Jiang Ding remembered something and quickly took out the box containing Elder Yingpao’s Divine Soul and Inner Core, opened it, and to his shock, found only a completely shattered grey-black Inner Core along with many fragments of the Divine Soul.

After a moment, the fragments of the Divine Soul turned into specks of Spiritual Light and dispersed into the air.

”He committed suicide, the cultivators from Xuanwu Heavenly Palace’s Yingsha Palace should know a lot of information needed by the Xianmen Sect.”

Jiang Ding said regretfully.

The massive Formation Method fluctuations of the Air-Space Combat Group at the master level moved further away and gradually disappeared on the horizon.

”Normal.”

Jin Lingfeng casually said, ”The Xianmen Sect has never captured a Yingsha Palace cultivator alive. The research level on Spirit Soul Restrictions magic by Xuanwu Heavenly Palace is very high. To break it, there’s no hope for at least three thousand years.”

”Everyone, our next target, Chenshui Sect!”

Her voice rose in the Travel Channel, ”Xu Jianian got captured; his seventeenth temporary Air-Space Camp has been disbanded on the spot. The task of suppressing Chenshui Sect’s rebellion has been assigned to us by the Array Spirit of the Canghai Steel Floating Island Base.”

”After the Chenshui Sect, there are military tasks for the Air-Space Camps of Beidou University, Mulan University, and others. Try to sweep clean within one month and purge the rebellion instigated by the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace this time.”

”Understood!”

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Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Three hundred and sixty Hunter missiles streaked across the sky, landing on the Cerulean Sect Protect Formation like waves, and in the fearful gaze of the Chenshui Sect cultivators, it completely shattered it.

”Run!”

”I’ve said before, we should not have been deceived by the ancestor...”

Countless Foundation-building cultivators frantically fled in all directions, their mana auras agitated and bloody. Their levels generally appeared to be one or two small stages higher than those recorded in the Canghai Steel Floating Island Base.

Many had innocent blood on their hands, aware that their chances of escape were slim.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The Hunter missiles came again, tearing through the air.

No longer forming a Formation Method, they precisely targeted every Foundation-building cultivator who refused to surrender. Occasionally, someone would block a missile, only to attract a barrage of seven or eight missiles.

Flames and explosions occurred incessantly while limbs and body parts were strewn everywhere.

After a dozen breaths, groups of six-legged spider-type robots, forming a silvery Iron Tide, descended to clear the remaining resistance of the Qi Practitioners within the Chenshui Sect, one by one retaking the Spiritual Veins and Formation Nodes of the sect.

Ten minutes later,

All resistance had vanished.

”Immortal Chenshui is not within a hundred miles.”

Jin Lingfeng and others carefully scanned the area with the Third-Order Spirit Sonar Electromagnetic Interaction Array without any discoveries, and looked towards Jiang Ding, ”Can you find him?”

Suppressing a rebellion is such a hassle.

It’s not about being unable to defeat them, but not knowing where the person is.

”I can, about seventeen hundred kilometers away.”

Jiang Ding nodded, ”After dealing with the aftermath here and repairing the Spiritual Veins and such, we’ll go take a look. My Sword Intent has seeped into his body, and he can’t get rid of it.”