Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

A message transmission flew in, landing amidst the many Golden Pill Army Formations.

”Li Han has fallen.”

A handsome young man with a bronze complexion was meditating with closed eyes, restoring the mana depleted from directly countering the Great Sun Boundary Formation, when he abruptly opened his eyes.

Divine Sense surged into the message transmission.

It was sent by several Foundation-building disciples who had escaped the ten-kilometer radius of the Sword Intent blockade. Even though it was merely a simple visual within their Divine Souls, one could feel their fear and despair at that moment.

In the image, a young man dressed in green appeared handsome and indifferent.

Not far away, the terrifying Sword Intent of Destruction spread wide. A Blue-dressed Fairy was pierced through her brow by an Azure Flying Sword, spilling brain matter all around.

Then, the Azure Sword Qi erupted, annihilating every inch of flesh that might have contained even a spark of life.

”It’s him!”

Xia Houding’s body shook, and the Six-legged Golden Cauldron in front of him buzzed, shining with dazzling gold light.

”Who would have thought, in just over forty years, it would have come to this...”

He recognized the person in an instant, without a hint of unfamiliarity.

How could he forget?

More than forty years ago, a mere mortal at the Peak of Xiantian, under the cover of hundreds of thousands of mortals and Qi Practitioners, managed to injure one of his fingers.

”Great Sun Swordsman!”

”Good, very good.”

Xia Houding’s eyes revealed a cold murderous intent, ”You must be one of the ultimate foundations that the Eastern Devil School has crafted with countless efforts. As long as I kill you, I will be the Xuanwu Daoist!”

”Within the Heavenly Palace, there are those with shortsightedness and those who feed off their status but do nothing. One day, I will slaughter them all myself to glorify the legacy passed down by our Ancestor Master.”

His eyes showed hatred.

After a further breakthrough in the Vajra Dharma Intention, he had the qualifications of a Daoist disciple. He should have returned to the sect for further inheritance, to refine a new Magic Tool Embryo, and then righteously challenge the Foundation Building Stage’s Xuanwu Daoist.

Among the two, the one who survives,

Will be the true Xuanwu Daoist, receiving an audience with the Heavenly Palace Great Expert’s avatar, and granted the sect’s thousand-year accumulation of the highest heritage suitable for Foundation Building Stage.

The loser, dead, with no regrets.

But!

All this was interrupted; many high-ranking members within the sect used the urgency of the Desolate Bronze war as an excuse, denying his request to return to the sect, postponing it until after winning the realm.

”But by that time!”

”The chance to be received by the Great Expert’s avatar within this thousand years will be gone!”

Xia Houding’s voice was low, ”Great Sun Swordsman, your arrival is an opportunity. Slaying the Great Sun Swordsman remains one of the greatest honours within the Heavenly Palace, which would directly alert the Great Expert’s avatar. Those deadweights can no longer obstruct my path.”

”Orders!”

Heavy fluctuations of Divine Sense spread outward; all the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace Foundation-building cultivators tensed, listening intently.

”Immediately retreat from this place, follow me.”

No matter what, the location of the Star Boundary Formation gave the opponent too much advantage. Without external threats, it’s fine, but once there are external threats, there would be the danger of being attacked from both sides.

However, the Star Boundary Formation also has the same massive flaw of all formations.

It cannot move!

”...Yes!”

After a moment of hesitation, the numerous Xuanwu Heavenly Palace Foundation-building cultivators obeyed the command with resolution, abandoning the situation that seemed very favorable, enduring the bombardment of tens of thousands of Armor Piercing Bullets and falling stars, and orderly retreated.

Their speed was extremely fast, far surpassing that of the tank troops!

”We’ve won!”

The millions of defense troops within the Star Boundary Formation cheered, the immense pressure of being besieged for over a decade swept away in an instant.

”No good!”

Jin Chengkong, commander of the First Group Army, paled dramatically, realizing something.

”Attack.”

”Attack at all costs, hold them back!”

Jiang Ding’s stern voice came through.

In personal combat prowess, he had absolute confidence, but with forty-six Golden Pill strengths, coupled with an anomalous candidate Daoist disciple, Xia Houding,

he truly couldn’t withstand it!

”Yes, Your Excellency the Supreme Commander!”

Jin Chengkong’s expression was grave, and he too realized the dangerous situation at hand.

”Fire!”

He roared.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The Second-order Infantry Spirit Radars locked on, and more than three hundred thousand armor-piercing shells were rapidly fired. The sky was blanketed with them. The piercing sound of their flight was incessant, and the magic glyphs on the shells flickered.

One wave after another came.

Moreover, they did not spread out but rather targeted one or two Golden Pill battles formations specifically.

”Xiahou Daoist disciple, save us!”

A burly True Disciple within the Magma Giant Battle Formation held a simple and large shield, confident in the face of Golden Pill Monks without defeat. However, under such a barrage of armor-piercing shells, his Divine Soul trembled with terror, and he yelled in fear.

”What are you afraid of?”

Xia Houding rebuked sharply.

”Block it, and continue retreating!”

Tens of kilometers away, the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi was turbulent, rolling ceaselessly, as more than ten Golden Pill formations acted simultaneously.

Either a Magma Giant roared, wielding a fire staff to smash at the sky, or an Ice Lotus Rotation spun, spewing a river-like stream of deep blue icy mist, or a Golden Armored Giant phantom broke through space with a long sword...

Many Golden Pill-stage attacks bombarded the group of more than three hundred thousand armor-piercing shells all at once.

Boom!

Rumble!

Many armor-piercing shells were smashed by fiery giant clubs, sliced open by metallic blades, and frozen into smithereens by deep blue icy mist... Under all these attacks, tens of thousands of the armor-piercing shells, enhanced with attack magic, were instantly detonated.

The occasional thousand shells that slipped through, capable of annihilating a group of Foundation-building cultivators, merely drained some mana before a Third-rank Military Formation, without achieving any combat results.

”Stars!”

Jin Chengkong yelled, prompting the grand formation that connected worlds, which had been suppressed to the peak of the third degree by army formations of both sides in space.

In the daylight, three hundred and sixty-five great stars twinkled, then one by one, fell.

One, two, three... Eighteen stars, while maintaining the basic Boundary Formation, drastically reduced the star shield defense. A full eighteen stars, comparable to the attacks of Middle Jindan Stage cultivators, plummeted from the sky!

The great stars caused a terrible whistling as they rubbed against the air, shaking a hundred miles around. The continuous boom of cannon fire and third-degree magic glyphs were all obscured, and all that remained was this one kind of sound.

”Kill!”

The many True Disciples of Xuanwu tiangong were shaken, but did not lose their composure. The remaining thirty or so Golden Pill battle formations boomed and operated in unison, each targeting the eighteen great stars in the sky.

Even Xia Houding had to take action, his Six-legged Golden Cauldron shining with golden light, enlarging to the size of a mountain, laying out layers of golden light before the military formation.

Boom!

Eighteen stars shattered, with Spiritual Light splattering in all directions, Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi in utter chaos, the auras of the major army formations fluctuating intensely. But still, they managed to hold on without casualties.

”Good!”

”As expected of Xiahou Daoist disciple.”

Many True Disciples heaved a sigh of relief, about to say something.

Clang!

A sword cry

resonated between heaven and earth, clearly reaching everyone’s ears, the terrifying Sword Intent of Destruction spreading, causing souls to stagnate.

Then, a streak of Bluegold Sword Light filled everyone’s vision.

They watched it, with eyes wide open, as it pierced through the Magma Giant, Golden Armored Giant, Ice Lotus battle formations... through six Third-rank military formations, during the fleeting moment when they were bracing against the star-filled Boundary Formation and had gaps in their internal mana,

piercing through!

Boom!

It was a single sound, yet in reality, it was six. The heads of six True Disciples of Xuanwu tiangong, surrounded by layers of Third-rank Golden Pill battle formations, were penetrated, thirty-six subordinates were slain by Sword Qi, and the Third-rank Military Formation exploded with numerous flesh and blood fragments.

As the momentum was linked, on the horizon, the figure of a youth in green was deeply imprinted into the Sea of Consciousness of everyone present.