Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

”Indeed.”

Nan Yunqi said out of curiosity, ”Are you planning to visit Dharma-Ending City? With your authority, you should be able to make it, and the environment there is well-suited for your Sword Dao.”

”Immortal Yun Gong, I currently have no such plans,” Jiang Ding shook his head.

Dharma-Ending City was too distant from the Lanying Planet, and even with various natural wormholes, it would take a Golden Pill Monk at least a hundred years to travel back and forth.

For someone with a lifespan of only six hundred years, it was far too extravagant.

Moreover, this Immortal Yun Gong seemed extremely unreliable—nothing like the steady and deeply scheming demeanors of Immortal Dinghai or Immortal Luling. He came up with ideas on the fly without considering the actual situation.

It was likely due to his focus on warship construction and academia, sparing little time for social interactions.

”Well, alright then.”

Nan Yunqi seemed somewhat disappointed, though it was unclear what about, and she quickly forgot about it: ”Let’s continue familiarizing ourselves with this fourth-order Magnetic Cloud Splitting Star Cannon.”

She pointed to the colossal cannon mounted on the Super Sun Vessel, over a thousand meters long, with a caliber exceeding a hundred meters and a weight of 120,000 tons.

”This cannon is entirely made from fourth-order Electromagnetic Magical Gold, refined over the course of twenty-eight years and nine months by myself and thirty-seven Nascent Soul Stage peers, with assistance from the fifth-order Artifact Refining furnace of the Xianmen Sect.”

”Engraved on the barrel is the Ten Thousand Magnetic Thunder Cloud acceleration formation. The barrel, stretching to 1,100 meters, houses seventy-two Electromagnetic Accelerators. After accelerating through all seventy-two, the electromagnetic shells possess the power to obliterate a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator.”

”Do you have any thoughts?” Nan Yunqi asked.

These were the Taoist disciples of Xianmen Sect.

Not soldiers who pick up weapons to go into battle.

Elders mostly put effort into teaching them, explaining the reasons behind things so they can understand the principles, at a minimum, and know what leads to what.

Yu Qianzi watched this scene with a hint of envy.

In the Eastern Devil School, wherever a Dari Swordsman went, it seemed they could always consult with any of their high-ranking seniors, who were invariably eager to help and deeply trusting of one another.

Such a scenario was unimaginable among the Immortal Sects.

Clan Factions, Master-Disciple Factions, Moon Vein, Formation... all these different factions divided people and set barriers between them. Unless they were from the same vein or even the same master, they had to be cautious of one another. Even if a senior luminary was giving pointers, while outwardly respectful and grateful, they still needed to guard against ulterior motives internally.

Without such vigilance, a person’s bones might have long since become dust somewhere unknown, and no amount of talent would matter.

”It’s somewhat similar to the refining method of treasures involving the Heavenly Gang Ban and the Earth Evil Prohibition.”

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Ding said, ”Before twelve Earth Evil Prohibitions, you have a low-grade magic treasure, up to thirty-six for a medium-grade treasure. From there to seventy-two Earth Evil Prohibitions, you have a top-grade treasure. The difficulty of refining Earth Evil Prohibitions increases exponentially the further you go.”

”Many Golden Pill-level forces have inherited a top-grade magic treasure for thousands of years in their sects, and only managed to refine up to sixty-one or sixty-two Earth Evil Prohibitions, with each step forward being incredibly arduous.”

”Upon refining a top-grade treasure to seventy-two Earth Evil Prohibitions, it faces the treasure tribulation. After passing that, the seventy-two Earth Evil Prohibitions will transform into a single Heavenly Gang Ban...”

Jiang Ding paused in his speech.

The main cannon of the Magneto-Cloud Star-Splitting Cannon, with its seventy-two Electromagnetic Accelerators, also had a full complement of seventy-two Earth Evil Prohibitions.

This could hardly be a coincidence.

”You are correct,” Nan Yunqi nodded in approval. ”At present, the Magnetic Cloud Splitting Star Cannon cannot yet be called a Nascent Treasure. It needs to be refined by you, nurtured, and then it must survive the treasure tribulation. Only then will the seventy-two Electromagnetic Accelerators merge into one entity, becoming a true fourth-order heavy cannon.”

”Afterward, you’ll also need to use Elixir Fire to smelt it, continuously adding fourth-order Electromagnetic Magical Gold for refining, as well as some other Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures. Occasionally, it will require returning to the factory for upgrades to enable its continuous growth...”

”Mmm, quite time-consuming and costly in terms of Spirit Stones.”

She concluded at last.

”This ’Fourth-order Heavy Artillery Maintenance Manual’ contains my annotations. Go back and read it carefully. If there’s anything you don’t understand, send me an email, and I’ll reply when I have time.”

Fourth-order Nascent Treasure grade heavy cannons were not only powerful and required high-grade operators, but even their routine maintenance and upgrades were a huge expense, with various particularities that depended on the powerful industrial foundation of Immortal Path... it was not something that could be used with just a stroke of luck.

”Thank you, Yun Gong Immortal!”

Jiang Ding earnestly received the file that was sent over.

”The last one.”

”Dyson Mirror Surface Sword-shaped Drone.”

Nan Yunqi showed a hint of excitement: ”This is the main reason why I put off building a Divinity Transformation level fortress and appeared here.”

With a casual gesture, the deck at the bow of the Super Sun Vessel slowly retracted backwards, and one drone after another flew out of it, one after another, non-stop, revealing a huge space Formation Method inside.

Jiang Ding concentrated and looked at one of the drones.

He saw that the drone was over a hundred meters long and more than twenty meters wide, with no wings. It was big at one end and small at the other, tapering slowly from the big end to a sharp point at the very end.

The drone’s surface was smooth as a mirror, without a single wrinkle.

In the sunlight, the body’s mirror surface naturally gathered light, and each drone could easily collect all the sunlight within a kilometer radius, without missing a drop, and then reflect it all back out.

Overall it looked just like a sword-shaped mirror drone that was over a hundred meters long and more than twenty meters wide!

One after another, a total of eight hundred twenty-nine sword-shaped mirror drones spewed jets of air from their tails, flying in the sky, maneuvering up, down, left, and right with agility. Each sword-shaped drone emitted a clear aura of a third-order top-grade magic treasure.

There were still some missing from the final one thousand and twenty-four drones that were needed.

”We’re still short some.”

”Your idea with Zhang Junsheng is actually very good.”

Nan Yunqi rubbed her hands together excitedly: ”The Xianmen Sect’s three-dimensional defensive Great Array and the technological miniaturization of the Dyson Sun Mirror Fortress, if applied in regular legion combat and once successful, will definitely bring about a revolution in the Immortal Sect’s way of warfare, far surpassing the army formation innovations introduced by Xu’s Transmutation God back in the day.”

”It’s just a pity...”

”It’s too expensive.”

She sighed again: ”Not to mention the need for a large amount of Divinity Transformation level materials, there’s also the strategic rarity like Mercury Silver Magical Gold. Unless a world rich in Mercury Silver Magical Gold reserves is discovered, it can’t be promoted across the military.”

”The control aspect also presents a huge problem. Ordinary cultivators simply can’t handle the information from so many drones to maneuver them flexibly.”

One after another, sword-shaped drones flew into the sky, spaced exactly a kilometer apart from each other, covering tens of kilometers. They absorbed all the sunlight they could, each adjusting their positions slightly.

In an instant, the sky darkened, and nightfall descended.

Everyone was startled and looked up.

It was clearly noon in full daylight, yet the surroundings plunged into pure darkness, with not a sliver of light shining down, bringing a profound polar night.

They barely extended their Divine Sense, passing through the unobstructed formation of sword-shaped mirror drones.

They could see that within a radius of several tens of kilometers, the numerous sword-shaped mirror drones in the sky created a concave arc that seemed to have no border.

The sunlight streaming down was all reflected away by them!

The multiple rays converged to a single point, forming an intensely brilliant and dazzling orb of light that illuminated the heavens and the earth. The terrifying extreme heat arrived, instantly dissolving the surrounding formless Divine Sense, all manner of probing.

Everything went black before their eyes, their Divine Souls were in great pain, and they couldn’t see anything anymore.

After a long time, they opened their eyes again, and the light had dissipated.

Looking towards the horizon, there was a space black hole the size of a house in the sky, with edges that melted unevenly and healed extremely slowly.