Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

West Desert Star Formation.

The light of the Teleportation Array flickered constantly, and tanks, driven by Qi Practitioners, filed out in neat rows, an endless stream without an end in sight.

Around them, across hundreds of kilometers, tanks were stationed with their barrels slightly raised, glittering in the sunlight, becoming an ocean of steel and war.

”Your Excellency, the Supreme Commander.”

”The reinforcements from the Xianmen Sect have arrived.”

In front of An Siyan, a screen of light unfolded as she spoke efficiently, ”Learning from the last war, where mortal heavy machine gun soldiers failed to perform on Golden Pill-level battlefields, the military headquarters of the Desolate Bronze side has removed the heavy machine gun soldiers’ formation. In the territory of the Xianmen Sect, a large-scale recruitment of Qi Practitioners was once again carried out to join the Qi Tank troops.”

”The reorganized formation is as follows: the First Group Army, commanded by Jin Lingfeng, consists of one million Qi Practitioners and tanks, divided into one hundred tank divisions, and under the condition that they are not assaulted by Foundation-building cultivators within a few kilometers range, theoretically, they can launch an attack against thirty Golden Pill-level combatants.”

”Commander of the Second Group Army, Jin Chengkong… Commander of the Third Group Army, Xue Xi… Commander of the Fourth Group Army...”

”Additionally, the Fifth and Sixth Group Armies stationed at the West Desert Boundary Formation and the Northern Sea Boundary Formation will not participate in this attack.”

”Do you have any other arrangements for this reorganization?”

”No, let’s set off immediately and take back the southern Boundary Formation of the Xianmen Sect.”

Jiang Ding flew towards the center of the West Desert Boundary Array’s teleportation Formation, accompanied by Jin Lingfeng’s First Group Army, with other troops arriving one after another.

Meditating at the center of the Formation, three days later.

”Your Excellency, the Supreme Commander, the First Group Army and the second, third, and fourth Group Armies are all in place, reorganization is complete, shall we begin the teleportation?”

The voice of the Array Spirit resounded.

”Begin.”

Hum!

An immense humming vibration filled the air, Runes of space emerged, covering the lands in a thirty-kilometer radius around the West Desert Boundary Array, and within a few breaths, everything disappeared from sight.

”Teleportation complete, the Second Group Army led by Jin Chengkong, please proceed to the teleportation Formation immediately, prepare for teleportation...”

...

Huangtong Small World, southern region.

Unlike the yellow sand and Gobi of the West Desert, at a glance, this place was lush with greenery, mountains undulating high and low, with cliffs and precipices traversing the ranges, flatlands a rare sight.

Suddenly, a violent wind arose, and a terrifying pressure emerged; trees thick enough for several people to embrace were forcefully snapped, and boulders the size of houses shattered.

After some time, it quieted down, and Runes of space emerged, spreading out hundreds of kilometers.

The Space Formation Patterns gradually faded away, and a sky-filled army of tanks appeared in the sky, opening their parachutes, descending toward the ground.

Remaining in the sky was only a young man clad in blue, his figure slowly vanishing into thin air.

Boom, boom boom!

Heavy objects fell one after another, breaking large trees, revealing their ghastly pale cores as the rumbling of tank engines echoed through the long-silent forest, stirring it into a frenzy, as birds and beasts fled in all directions.

”Roar...”

A Demon Beast Ape at the peak of Foundation Building roared angrily.

The dignity of a territorial overlord for hundreds of years must not be violated. It leapt dozens of meters, its sharp claws tearing apart a tank along with the Qi Practitioner inside it, blood and oil mixing together.

”Roar!”

The Ape beat its chest with its fists, its roars unceasing, the sound vibrating lands a few kilometers away, its pressure spreading, trying to intimidate these strange steel creatures to retreat from the territory belonging to the ancient Ape clan.

”Roar! Roar!”

Its roars brought responses from nearby overlords; an Azure Armored Big Serpent, over a dozen zhang long and thick as a man’s waist, smashed several tanks with its tail, climbed up an ancient tree, and hissed out its challenge.

A Golden Armored Iron Eagle released its pressure, its shrill cry piercing, and a rock giant as tall as a small mountain, covered in moss...

The entire hundred kilometers of the forest were stirred, the old overlords desperately spreading their pressure, deterring with the most brutal killings, driving away the invaders.

Boom!

Whizz, whizz whizz!

Answering them were the earth-shattering roars; amid the rising flames and light blue smoke, armor-piercing shells left their barrels, shooting in all directions under the lock of the Second-order Infantry Spirit Radar in the armored command vehicle.

”Roar——”

The oppressive might at the peak of Foundation Building spread, and the furious ape that had been continuously pounding its chest and bellowing came to a sudden halt, filled with boundless fear. Its azure light erupted outward as it frantically fled towards the depths of the jungle.

Boom!

At least a hundred inner armor-piercing shells howled towards it, shattering its azure light shield. The fur, which even supreme magic tools could hardly damage, broke apart, and its tough flesh and bones, comparable to metal, burst explosively, scattering everywhere.

Centered on it, ancient trees snapped, and rocks shattered, leaving a circle exposed to the soil layer where sunlight once again reached the ground.

In the distance, the Azure Armored Big Serpent, Golden Armored Iron Eagle, mountain-like Rock Giants...

These former apex predators were all engulfed by the armor-piercing shell group, with blood and flesh splattering everywhere.

Some had noble bloodlines and deep foundations, even comparable to Golden Pills, but their only use was to breathe once more, then attract even more armor-piercing shells before their bodies fragmented and died.

The forest quieted down.

No more roars could be heard.

Only the rumble of the tank brigade remained, carving roads through the forest.

Mountains, ancient trees, and obstacles blasted flat; cliffs and steep escarpments presented no issue as magics were cast in combination with machinery, constructing wide highways.

The mere mountains and forests were not an insurmountable obstacle for the tank brigade.

”Supreme Commander, you are currently in the southern war zone, 13,721 kilometers north of the Xuanwu Four-polar Boundary Array.”

The Array Spirit’s voice informed.

Jiang Ding concealed his form, sweeping the surroundings with Divine Sense.

Tank torrents paved their paths outwards, all encircling about a hundred kilometers around him without exceeding by an inch, to avoid losing the restraint and cleanup by the top combat forces.

”My attack range is ten kilometers, which is too small,” Jiang Ding mused to himself.

Boom!

Looking far into the distance, sporadic skirmishes had already started happening over a hundred kilometers away. The roar of tank armor-piercing bullets, supreme magic tools shattering clusters of armor-piercing bullets, and, occasionally, Foundation-building cultivators infiltrating the tank brigades caused dozens to hundreds of casualties in an instant, only to be annihilated by focused fire.

Clearly, as the location of the Xuanwu Four-polar Boundary Array, Xuanwu Heavenly Palace had advance knowledge of the army’s teleporting destination and had dispatched some nearby cultivators to lie in ambush.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes to meditate, stationed at the central military command.

It was merely sporadic harassment by Foundation-building cultivators. No matter how many casualties the Xianmen Sect suffered, in the next moment, they would be smashed to pieces by the concentrated fire of armor-piercing shell groups. Rushing over wouldn’t make much of a difference.

As long as the central army remained intact,

they just had to wait for a few days until the arrival of Jin Chengkong’s Second Army Group, Xue Xi’s Third Army Group, and the subsequent Third Army Group, and then they could advance and flatten everything.

The Space Formation Patterns continued to appear.

After more than ten days, four Group Armies arrived one after the other, spreading out within a four-hundred-kilometer radius. Cannons roared as they cleared all anomalies.

”Supreme Commander, the Second, Third, and Fourth Group Armies are ready.”

An Siyan saluted, speaking with a trace of excitement.

”Attack, destroy the southern Xuanwu Four-polar Boundary Formation,” Jiang Ding opened his eyes.

”Yes!”

The tank brigades, spreading over four hundred kilometers, roared as their engines took them far away.

Countless birds startled into flight as the uneven, precipitous terrain of the forest was plowed aside, creating wide, smooth roads; peaks and rivers were flattened, and groups of Foundation-building Demon Beasts scattered in panic.