Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Armor Piercing Bullets roared through the sky, covering the earth.

Without a target, they circled for a long time, raining down on the numerous Demon Beasts within a seventy-kilometer range, once again stirring up a flurry of blood and gore, staining the seawater faintly red.

”Continue the attack.”

Jiang Ding said somewhat disinterestedly, ”I’m starting to miss home... Forget it, I shouldn’t say that.”

”Yes!”

Jin Lingfeng, Jin Chengkong, and other Group Army commanders were emotionally agitated.

This is the Great Sun Swordsman.

An invincible existence within the Domain, where the enemy’s death rate even exceeded the speed of Armor Piercing Bullets from launch to reaching their target.

The tank armies rumbled across, crisscrossing tens of thousands of kilometers of sea area.

Along the way, ancient deep-sea overlords fled in panic, and those too slow to escape the reach of the army within seventy kilometers perished instantly, whether in shallow waters or hidden in the ocean depths, Golden Core great demons included, with no exceptions.

The temples and fanatical followers of the Maitreya Sect’s Treasure Tripod collapsed one by one, dying off without anyone coming to stop them.

The sacred contracts between gods and humans, made through Incense Fire and protection, were continually violated.

Standing above the East Sea sky,

The Incense Fire Buddha country, bright as stars, trembled time and again.

Eighteen outer Xuanwu Four-polar Boundary Array pillars appeared on the horizon, glittering and adorned with Runes, connected to the celestial Xuanwu Army Formation, equipped with offensive and defensive Formation Methods, unbreakable even by Golden Pill Monks.

”Fire!”

”...”

It took merely three salvoes for the eighteen Xuanwu Four-polar Boundary Array columns to collapse and break, along with the death of the faithful and Foundation-building cultivators from the Xuanwu tiangong, leaving no room for suspense.

”Continue.”

Jiang Ding said calmly.

”Yes!”

The rumble of steel continued to advance through the sea.

After cleansing the Maitreya Sect’s Treasure Tripod temples and fanatical followers for several days, they reached the central Xuanwu Four-polar Boundary Array, where eighteen columns shone with dazzling gold light and an even more fearsome aura.

Boom!

Under the bombardment of millions of cannons, they collapsed and broke apart, unable to withstand the assault.

”It seems the Treasure Tripod Maitreya has regained some sense and didn’t make another appearance, falling short of the name ’Indestructible Vajra, Unassailable’.”

Jiang Ding mused.

”I wonder if your core of Incense Fire belief is still intact?”

As the tank armies thundered through the sea, sweeping across thousands of kilometers,

There were no more enemies, the Xuanwu tiangong’s last tendrils in this world, the most central pillar of the Xuanwu Four-polar Boundary Array, were all stopped in their tracks.

”The final battle...”

Jin Lingfeng and the others held their breath, gazing at the sky.

The first thing that caught their gaze were the thirty-six enormous columns reaching into the clouds, extending to the army formation beyond the sky, radiating splendor and immense oppressive might, with faint traces of Chaos Qi spreading through the air.

This was one of the core controls of the entire world’s formation systems!

If not suppressed by the Xianmen Sect’s Army Formation, not even Nascent Soul Cultivators could break through in a short amount of time.

But such towering columns had long been a common sight, and Divine Soul warnings were beginning to feel fatigued.

Everyone took only a brief glance at them before moving on, their gazes all drawn to a Buddha Light star that shone with a light slightly dimmer than the others.

Here and now, at this place,

Its brillance rivalled that of the Great Sun itself, heavy with majesty, emitting a Vajra, indestructible aura that illuminated the heavens and earth within fifty kilometers, with Sanskrit chants carrying tones of mercy and exhortations, even imbuing the grass and trees with a glint of Buddha light.

”Almost at the Nascent Soul Stage...”

Jiang Ding’s breath caught.

His Divine Soul experienced a chill, as the Taiqing Flying Sword trembled slightly, brimming with murderous intent.

”We cannot initiate an attack now.”

Chief of Staff An Siyan’s expression was solemn as he conveyed the opinions of the General Staff and the various levels of officers to the highest commanders of the ground forces.

”The near Nascent Soul Stage power of the Treasure Tripod Maitreya’s Buddha country comes from three sources.”

”First, there are the core Formation Methods of the Xuanwu tiangong’s Xuanwu Four-polar Boundary Array in the East Sea and its subsidiary formations. We have finished clearing the northern subsidiary formations, and the remaining directions require separate forces to continue cleansing.”

”Second, there’s the belief in the Maitreya Sect across the East Sea, West Desert, Northern Sea, and Southern battle zone, particularly the uncleaned fanatical followers.”

”Third, there is the home-field advantage of the Incense Fire Buddha country. Within the Buddha country’s range of influence, the power of the Incense Fire Gods is significantly augmented.”

”The latter two are especially important to the Treasure Tripod Maitreya.”

”The divine-human contract has an extremely high priority level. Not to mention that the deity is only equivalent to a Golden Core Period deity, even those who are of a higher level, comparable to Nascent Soul Cultivators, cannot stop such divine-human contracts.”

”This is one of the foundational rules of the Divine Dao.”

An Siyan quickly explained with some fear of the Sword Cultivator’s uncontrollable desire for battle, ”Believers and deities are inseparable; they must coexist.

Even those emperors and star lords in the myths and legends are the same. Without Incense Fire and faith, they fall into a dormant state, desperately clinging to the power of faith amassed over countless years.”

”In severe cases, they might even fall in an instant.”

”Places like the Northern Sea and the West Desert are vigorously campaigning against temples, using military force to change customs, cursing and rejecting the Buddha Gods among the people, severing the Belief in Incense, executing fanatical Buddha believers, and transforming belief into a curse, and the Xianmen Sect has mature experience in this area.”

”In no more than two months, changes will occur in the Incense Fire Buddha country of the Treasure Tripod Maitreya. Please don’t be anxious.”

An Siyan said, somewhat nervously.

Everyone’s gaze turned towards their supreme commander, with countless earnest advisories brewing in their hearts.

”Don’t be so prejudiced.”

Jiang Ding huffed lightly, somewhat dissatisfied.

”Except for a very few special cases, the vast majority of Sword Cultivators can absolutely control their Sword Intent and Flying Sword. With a person controlling the sword, the sword is the person; there is never the opposite.”

”That’s good.”

An Siyan let out a long sigh of relief but still seemed somewhat worried.

The engines of the tank units roared, cutting through the water, splitting into two Group Armies of two million Qi Practitioners, commanded by Xue Xi and Jin Chengkong, targeting the other three directions.

In the future, to clean sweep more efficiently, they will further divide their forces.

Jiang Ding concealed his form, roaming outside the range of the Incense Fire Buddha country and the Xuanwu Four-polar Boundary Array’s attack.

If Xuanwu Tiangong and the likes of Treasure Tripod Maitreya thought that dividing their forces would make a difference, they were sorely mistaken.

Even if the Xuanwu Daoist personally descended, he might not dare to leave the Formation Method to do anything, as he could easily be intercepted halfway and be besieged to death by troops converging from various places.

The other three war zones were doing similar things.

And because there were no external enemies, they could act unrestrainedly, and the efficiency was far faster than here.

The common people, no, humans are extremely pragmatic.

They all possess a strong survival capability and can adapt to various environments, thereby achieving dominion over the heavens.

In the Demon Country, becoming a Beast Person allows survival;

In Buddha countries, becoming devout believers also allows survival, and the Belief in Incense is sincere and genuine, verified personally by the deities and Buddha Gods, and thus they climb to higher positions.

But when the environment changes,

and faith is no longer needed; moreover, life can be better than before,

Humans can rapidly change themselves and adapt to the new environment.

Two months hurried by.

Jiang Ding concealed his form, flying in the sky, his Divine Sense sweeping across the land.

In these two months, he had slowly witnessed the change in the people under the propaganda of the Xianmen Sect.

In the midst of the East Sea,

the atmosphere of belief was dense; the faithless were extremely rare, almost non-existent.

All around, there was a universal devout Belief in Incense with few nominal believers and certainly not the majority, a true Divine Dao Buddha country.

Yet now, in just two short months,

they had astonishingly disappeared!

The devout were almost gone, replaced mostly by nominal believers and faithless individuals, with the number of the faithless rising rapidly.

It was indeed genuine,

verified by his Divine Sense Scanning equivalent to that of a Golden Core, with no possibility of falsehood.

”Humans,”

”without the various talents of the Demon Race, are incredibly weak in the flesh, with mediocre cultivation aptitude.”

”But they are truly strong.”

Jiang Ding was shocked inwardly.

”The Xianmen Sect, due to limited resources, because of internal conservative forces, and considering the maintenance of internal unity and purity,

thus ruthlessly rejected nearly all elites from the Small Worlds, symbolically admitting only a few immigrants who had ascended with extreme talent, creativity, moral thinking, and military accomplishments.”

”In terms of conservatism, they are even more closed and conservative than Xuanwu Tiangong.”

”Is this a mistake, I wonder?”