Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

In the blink of an eye,

twenty years had passed.

The Domain wars were long-lasting, often the time spent traveling equaling a lifetime for ordinary mortals. Had it not been for contraceptive magic, many babies might have already been born within the fleet, grown up, and began going to school and preparing for college entrance exams.

The Steel Fleet burst into the red twilight of the Boundary Wall.

The temperature around them suddenly soared to several thousands of degrees Celsius; looking around, the sky and earth were a unified fiery red. Clusters of flames swayed with the wind, like trees in a breeze.

The Gangwind Layer had completely turned into a layer of fire-winds.

Only upon breaking through the Gangwind Layer and entering the clouds did the temperature start to decline. Colors other than fiery red began to appear, but it was still in the hundreds of degrees, enough to steam an ordinary person alive.

There was no ambush.

So far, the ground troops of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace had been exhausted. They could only conscript a large number of vassal forces. Native Foundation Establishment Golden Elixir, relying on the Boundary Stabilizing Formation to hold their ground, delayed time, no longer capable of field combat.

The Northern Air Space forces, having accomplished a successful landing, adjusted their Army Formation and flew toward the Black Tortoise Boundary Formation Base, a peak known as Fire Spirit Mountain.

”Commander, we have entered the Fire Spirit Realm and are executing our task,”

Ouyang Hui saluted and reported, ”The Fire Spirit Realm is a Minor Thousand World with an extremely abundant supply of fire-attribute Spiritual Energy. There’s an abundant variety of fire-attribute Demon Beasts, insects, and Spiritual Plants of diverse grades, but it’s not suitable for habitation.”

”According to intelligence, the entire Fire Spirit Realm has no more than ten million humans. Their bloodlines and genes have undergone fire-attribute mutations to adapt to the local environment, known as the Fire Spirit Clan by the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace—a number of disciples come from this race.”

”The ’Fire King’ you’ve met once before hails from here.”

”The Xuanwu Heavenly Palace has ruled here for over a hundred thousand years, you could say the history of the Fire Spirit Clan is the history of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace. Their resistance will be somewhat stronger than that of other Minor Thousand Worlds.”

”Besides, the work of unifying them here might not be so easy.”

”At this point, we can only woo and promote some of the lower-level cultivators from the Fire Spirit Clan, completely eliminating the hardliners who refuse to cooperate, but we can’t be too harsh... We need the Fire Spirit Clan, many of whom are born with divine strength and good affinity for fire, many are Body Refiners—a suitable workforce. Their wages are much lower than high-temperature tolerant engineering robots, yet their work efficiency is quite decent, ordinary workers can easily lift tens of thousands of pounds.”

”A bit like the Demon Race.”

Jiang Ding nodded in agreement.

The difference between the Demon Race and humanity, the dominant species, is that the Demon Race has a high lower limit with powerful physiques and one or two commendable exceptional talents right from birth.

It’s just that their upper limit might be a bit lower; their bloodlines bring limitations to cultivators while also bringing achievements.

Humans, on the other hand, have an extremely low lower limit but a very high upper limit.

”We hope to bring in some Immortal Gate citizens skilled in the Cultivation Methods of the fire attribute and fire-attribute-specific adaptive nanoscale liquid state robots to join in the supervision and management of the Fire Spirit Clan, and to prevent the rebellions that, for widely known reasons, are bound to happen frequently.”

Ouyang Hui extended a document that contained the information mentioned, requiring the signature of the Air Space forces Commander to take effect.

Well-known reasons.

During the era of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, a large number of the Fire Spirit Clan entered the Heavenly Palace as inner and outer disciples, and even produced a ’Ten Kings’ member; within the clan were one or two Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarchs, holding very esteemed statuses.

Even now, the Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch of the Fire Spirit Clan was still alive, watching over their homeland with eyes filled with hatred from within the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace.

Now, having come under the rule of the Immortal Sects, the Fire Spirit Clan faced a complete halt in progress, a significant gap from their past.

It would take hundreds to thousands of years, generation upon generation of education, erasing history, and eradicating harmful elements before the race would settle down and stop causing trouble.

”The Great Path belongs only to a small number of people from the Fire Spirit Clan.”

Jiang Ding signed his name on the document with an expressionless face.

”The vast majority of the Fire Spirit Clan cultivators are destined to live an average life. Our arrival provides them with a more generous and comfortable life, and liberates the middle and lower classes of the Fire Spirit Clan. We stand with the majority of the Fire Spirit Clan masses.”

”You need to correct your attitude. Most of the Fire Spirit Clan are our friends, who can be won over, and we can guide public opinion. A very small number of the Fire Spirit Clan should not be allowed to coerce the entire Fire Spirit Clan for their selfish interests. This would be foolish and unethical. We cannot afford to lose the battle of public opinion.”

Very few members of the Fire Spirit Clan with exceptional talents are Seekers of the Way.

The Xianmen Sect too are Seekers of the Way.

In the struggle for the Great Way, there is no right or wrong, merely the application of various methods.

”Yes!”

Ouyang Hui shivered.

Unbeknownst to her, she had developed a prejudice against the entire Fire Spirit Clan in her heart and even harbored the thought of eradicating them entirely if it became too troublesome.

This was not difficult to achieve.

Merely over ten million individuals, with difficult reproduction and requiring special environmental conditions for growth and development, they were far less robust than humans. To annihilate, to uproot, it would be all too easy.

”The transformation of the Fire Spirit Clan needs to be carried out simultaneously.”

Jiang Ding thought for a moment, then said, ”The name Fire Spirit Clan should be used as little as possible in the future. Eradication is permissible, they can be referred to as individuals from the Fire Spirit Realm.

They are merely humans with some fire affinity abilities, not some alien race. The sense of racial identity must be eradicated; human thought can be shaped.

If the professional educators among our peers do a good job, it will take at most a few hundred years.”

”That’s somewhat difficult.”

Ouyang Hui shook her head. ”There are many rebels in the liberal arts specialities of the Xianmen, coupled with a bureaucratic nature; when executing many things, deviations often occur.”

”Don’t worry, this is wartime.”

”Those people will toe the line if they don’t want to be executed.”

Jiang Ding’s gaze turned cold.

”The Small Worlds that the Xianmen won with their lives, if anyone destroys them for selfish reasons, they will also have to pay with their lives. That is only fair and reasonable.”

”I hope so.”

Ouyang Hui sighed.

Boom!

Boom boom!

As the two talked, the cannons roared continuously, lights flashed, and the earth shook. Over and over again, the firing never ceased. The Black Tortoise Boundary Heaven Pillars collapsed amidst the explosions, just like the stubborn individuals of the Fire Spirit Clan, turning to ash and vanishing.

After annihilation comes rebirth; the fleet landed groups of Xianmen cultivators, who each unleashed their magic, releasing engineering equipment as tall as buildings. The work of reconstructing the Boundary Formation was being carried out in full swing.

It was evident, compared to twenty years ago, everyone’s efficiency had greatly increased, familiar with the process. It would take at most a month and a half to complete the Array Base here.

”The Seventh Domain, the Fire Spirit Realm!”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

This Minor Thousand World was the seventh Small World occupied by the Xianmen.

Counting the original ones, the Xianmen has now possessed twenty Minor Thousand Worlds and is rapidly closing in on the average of twenty-six held by the Immortal Sects.

All this was flesh cut from the Xuanwu tiangong.

In the sky, one could occasionally see colorful patches within the Boundary Wall, emitting terrifying and unknown powers that made countless cultivators gasp for breath, their Divine Souls stiffening.

That was the Boundary Wall deforming, breaking!

Outside the Domain, a fearsome war at the Refinement Void Level was unfolding. The Great Experts of the Xuanwu tiangong were becoming increasingly intolerant and could no longer sit idly by as Sect Small Worlds were lost one by one.