Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

After months of cultivation, Jiang Ding opened his eyes.

In front of him, thirty-six Starry Sky World-Locking Columns burst forth from the ground, towering into the heavens, resonating with other Boundary Formations from the three directions, finally forming a vast column over a hundred kilometers wide that shot into the starry sky.

Geomagnetic Realm, control established.

The function of the Starry Sky World-Locking Array was not merely to provide army formation enhancement for external military formations, it could also regulate changes in the earth vein’s spiritual energy of a domain, seasons’ cycle, while also clearing up the residual mana of foreign cultivators and guiding the partial shifting and tilting of the domain’s pan-Heavenly Dao consciousness.

In simple terms, if a high-level cultivator from the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace entered the Geomagnetic Realm now, they would also be subjected to the suppression of the pan-Heavenly Dao consciousness!

If the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace wanted to take back the Geomagnetic Realm, they would have to engage in honest starry sky warfare again, conducting land battles, destroying the Xiandu Starry Sky Columns, and establishing their own Xuanwu Columns.

Jiang Ding then looked up at the sky.

Forty-eight Air-Space Group Armies floated in the sky, fully armed, morale high, with tight military formations, casting large shadows on the ground.

”Reporting to the Commander!”

Ouyang Hui saluted and said, ”The Air-Space Northern Army has been refitted and replenished, and now the defensive positions in the Geomagnetic Realm have been handed over to second-line troops, and we’re ready to depart immediately, awaiting your orders.”

On the ground, the Air-Space Fleet also saluted, comprising twelve Air-Space Group Armies.

Compared to the main force, their warships were old and outdated, and the number of Golden Pill Monks among their crew was only one-fifteenth of that of the main force, with the Foundation-building cultivators piloting the Air-Space Warplanes being of average quality.

The overall strength of the military formation was only at the early stage of Nascent Soul, and sometimes it was unstable.

However, it had its advantages.

Numbers.

Xiandu could easily muster second and third-line fleets that were a hundred times the number of the main force, filling the lines in various lesser realms. If pressed, they could even conscript cultivators from the lesser realms under their command, further swelling the numbers of the fleet.

Of course, the repercussions were severe.

Service in the army was an integral part of civic rights and duties. If cultivators from lesser realms were to serve, even just as lower-ranking soldiers and mid-lower tier officers, without granting them the corresponding political rights, major problems would inevitably arise, the kind that could overturn Xiandu.

Beyond that, unmanned warships and warplanes were also an option.

In terms of troop deployment, Xiandu feared no one.

”The Geomagnetic Realm is in your hands.”

Jiang Ding first saluted the fleet within the Starry Sky World-Locking Array in response, and then said, ”Set off, our destination is the Sky Ocean Realm.”

”Yes!”

Ouyang Hui, An Siyan, and other generals, along with all the officers and soldiers stationed in the Geomagnetic Realm, saluted together.

Millions of voices were loud and unified, harmonious in their resolve, the frequency of their voices forming a powerful sound wave that shook the clouds in the sky.

The sky was cloudless, clear and bright.

Boom!

In the starry sky, the Boundary Wall dissolved, projecting a bright guiding column of light that enveloped the northern area Air-Space Fleet, carrying them up into the sky, up to the Boundary Wall, and disappearing from everyone’s sight.

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The immense starry sky fleet of Xiandu traversed the starry sky, facing the Netherworld Gang Wind, encountering massive meteorites of hundreds or thousands of kilometers, and the full moon hanging high, constantly radiating Taiyin Divine Light that could even make Nascent Soul Monks tremble, yet none of these could affect the speed of the fleet.

Implacable, never retreating.

At this moment, on the flagship Iron Fortress, Divine Machine, a military meeting was being held, with many generals’ Divine Sense attending via the fleet’s internal network.

”The Sky Ocean Realm appears to be in our pocket,”

the Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch indicated, pointing at a Domain Starry Sky Map in front of him.

Above, not far from the Geomagnetic Realm, is the Sky Ocean Realm.

The Minor Thousand World of Life, overall, appears in a clustered state of existence, with some star domains densely populated, while vast areas of star domains lack even a single Minor Thousand World, barren and desolate.

If a Divinity Transformation Heavenly Monarch, unfortunately, got lost in it, they would exhaust their mana and divine sense in decades and perish, unable to resist the natural forces of heaven and earth.

The Geomagnetic Realm, the Sky Ocean Realm, and a large number of Minor Thousand Worlds are all distributed in this starry sky.

”The Cultivator Army Formation in the direction of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace has been annihilated, numerous cultivators have died, heavy war machines are lost, and it is impossible to replenish them shortly; even if replenished, they will not be our match,”

”The ground troops, their Taoist disciples are already dead. It will take at least decades for new disciples to emerge, and they will certainly be weaker than the original ones, posing no threat to us.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch glanced at the seating below.

The young general sat quietly, his hand on the hilt of his sword, neither excited nor arrogant, as ordinary as if he had just picked up a pretty stone from the ground.

The death of a Taoist disciple was but a breeze brushing against the face.

Surrounding Nascent Soul Cultivators, including Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch, unconsciously looked over.

Great Sun, Great Sun Swordsmen!

Many elderly cultivators had a distant look in their eyes.

They vaguely remembered encountering Great Sun Sword Pavilion Swordsmen on the battlefield years ago, at that time Zhong Guangzi, invincible, with the Eight Great Immortal Sects’ disciples and the Immortal Sect Fleet attacking together, took many years and still, they could not defeat him; instead, their comrades kept dying around them.

The Great Sun Sword Intent shook the starry sky, growing gradually more soaring and sharp, striving for a further breakthrough.

At that time, they and their comrades lived each day in despair and fear, helplessly watching the situation slide into the abyss, yet powerless to stop it.

It was not until a higher-tier battlefield was won, under the gaze of a Master of Refining Nothingness, and numerous Divinity Transformation Heavenly Monarchs intervened, that they were able to kill him, grinding his divine soul to ashes.

’Zhong Guangzi, this lad had bad luck,’

thought Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch and many other old cultivators with schadenfreude.

The burden that could only be borne by the Nine Great Daoists was enjoyed by you alone, could your fortune be little?

”Based on these two points,”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch pointed at the star river, his spirit soaring.

”If the three hundred and sixty Protector Deity Generals of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace do not intervene, Xuanwu Heavenly Palace will have no resistance against us, and no matter how many lesser realms, all are ours for the taking!”

Jiang Ding’s expression was grave.

The thirty-six Protector Deity Generals of the Heavenly Palace.

These are Refinement Void Level Dao Soldiers of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace!

From their appearance in this domain, they have been continuously collecting Belief in Incense, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, enshrining the mountain rivers, wind, rain, and ocean spirits, refining Incense Fire Dao Soldiers, for tens of thousands of years, the belief has accumulated to an incredible level.

Even if the great experts of Refinement Void Level from Heavenly Palace do not appear, the Protector Deity Generals alone can safeguard the sect’s immortality!

”These are good news.”

”There’s also bad news,”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch’s face turned serious, he said solemnly, ”According to the report from Canghai Heavenly Monarch, the commander of the Western Face Star Sky Army Group, Taiyi Greenwood Dao Soldiers of Qingmu Immortal Sect have already begun to mobilize, moving out of the boundaries of Qingmu Immortal Sect towards the Immortal Sect boundary, with the excuse of conducting military exercises.”

”Eastern Face Star Sky Army Group commander, Heavenly Monarch Wan Ji reports that Wild Blood Dao Soldiers of Wanshou Immortal Sect have already mobilized, fiercely pointing their swords at the Immortal Sect.

In Xiandu, the Wanshou Immortal Sect’s envoy to the Immortal Sect, a mere Early Stage Nascent Soul Monk, actually rebuked us from a high place, demanding an immediate withdrawal of our troops and compensation without any excuse, directly presenting a posture ready for war.”

”Other Immortal Sects, Shangqing Lingbao Sect, Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Palace, Shadow Demon Abyss, including our allies from Five Elements Heavenly Sect with their Refining Void Dao Soldiers, all have shown movements.”

”The common point is their slow movement speed, occasionally turning back, as if they are actually conducting military exercises.”