Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The war outside the starry sky had raged on for three years.

During this time, the Star River reversed, the Spirit Fire Realm within turned upside down, lightning flashed, thunder roared, and disasters struck continuously. All beings endured one catastrophe after another, and the number of dead and injured was countless.

Not until three years later did the chaotic boundary walls, and the constantly occurring natural disasters, begin to subside.

The inherent recovery abilities of the Minor Thousand World were revealed as the torn earth healed, the lava that flowed everywhere slowly solidified, no longer running amok and destroying living beings. The various frequent disasters gradually disappeared, allowing the creatures within the realm to catch a much-needed breath.

Jiang Ding opened his eyes and ceased his cultivation.

”Jiang Ding, we have won.”

Beside him, after a long silence, Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch spoke with a somewhat sorrowful voice, ”That old thing from Xuanwu Heavenly Palace has been injured and fled. Three hundred and sixty Protector Deity Generals of the Heavenly Palace have perished, and it will take at least a thousand years to recover. Essentially, they have lost the combat capabilities of Refinement Void Level and no longer pose a threat.”

”It’s a pity that the old thing saw the way things were going and escaped.”

”If he had fought to the death, after we paid a heavy price, it might have been possible to kill him and completely eliminate a great scourge of the Xianmen Sect.”

”But the current situation is still good. If that old thing had died, the remaining seven experts might have become frenzied. Many of their concerns might have disappeared, making them extremely dangerous.”

”This is wonderful.”

Jiang Ding said softly.

To make an ancient Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch so sorrowful and emotional, it was evident something had happened. Many people had fallen, possibly including his old friends, students, and junior disciples of thousands of years of camaraderie.

”Commander-in-chief, shall we continue to attack?”

Jiang Ding asked.

”Yes!”

”We must not stop now!”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch said decisively, ”We have to attack, and we must do it faster and more fiercely, occupying more minor worlds for the Xianmen Sect. Even if the Eight Great Immortal Sects press on us together, even if they all besiege us, it cannot change our strategy!”

”If they want to fight, then fight we shall!”

”Although Xianmen might be weak and cannot suppress the heavens alone like the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, if we fight to the last man, to the last warship, unleashing all the Forbidden Nuclear Weapons, we still have the confidence to completely exterminate two to three Immortal Sects.

Those eight old things are not close-knit comrades. They are deeply wary of each other and would even take pleasure in seeing the destruction of another sect. They will actively create opportunities for us, and it’s not as difficult as imagined.”

”You’re not aware of this, are you?”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch’s words carried a hint of killing intent, ”Just now, the Wild Blood Ancient Beast Dao Soldiers of Wanshou Immortal Sect have reached the border of Xianmen and are already engaging with Heavenly Monarch Wan Ji of the Star Sky Army Group from the western front, with no standoff, immediately engaging in a fierce battle. The beasts of Wanshou dominate the sky, their roars shaking the Star Domain as they clash with the western front army of Xianmen in a frenzied battle.”

”The Wild Blood Ancient Beast Dao Soldiers are no match for the western front army, even though it is just a branch of Xianmen’s forces.”

”But because of the fear of the Refinement Void Level master of Wanshou Immortal Sect, Heavenly Monarch Wan Ji is being very cautious. Relying on the geographical advantages of the Star Domain, he is merely entangling the enemy, using over seventy percent of his forces to guard against a sudden assault, and thus, the battle isn’t yielding much result, only a deadlock.”

”On the eastern front, near the position of the Canghai Starry Sky Army Group, the Taiyi Greenwood Daoist Soldiers of Green Wood Immortal Sect have also arrived, merely stationed at the border of Xianmen, doing nothing more.”

”The Taiyi Greenwood Daoist Soldiers are not much of an issue, even though Canghai is but a junior.”

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Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch spoke with a hint of faint pride, much like the Great Sun Sword Pavilion looking down upon others in the realm of the sword, sure of its unrivaled excellence.

”The still-unengaged Master of Refining Nothingness from the Green Wood Immortal Sect is formidable.”

”Canghai is under tremendous pressure now, unable to even meditate in peace, scanning the domain around the clock with the super Spirit Particle Sonar composite matrix fixed in the satellite orbit of the Minor Thousand World by the Star Sky Army, to prevent any possible sudden attacks, not daring to rest even for a second.”

”But he is overly cautious, still just a youngster unable to stay calm,” Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch said coolly.

”The likelihood of the Green Wood Immortal Sect’s Master of Refining Nothingness launching a solo raid on the Star Sky Corps in the eastern front is very small because once she is entangled, left at the eastern front of the Star Sky Army, Yuan could lead the fleets based at the mother planet from the Xianmen Sect, equipped with a large number of Forbidden Nuclear Weapons to teleport over and slay her.”

”The mother planet, with the Refinement Void Level Great Formation in place, is not fearful of foreign enemies for the time being.”

”Aside from the Green Wood Immortal Sect and the Wanshou Immortal Sect, the Dao soldiers of the other five Great Immortal Sects are also on the move, converging in this direction under the pretense of Star Domain cruising and Formation Method exercises, without showing the aggressiveness of the Wanshou Immortal Sect, waiting for something.”

”Our ally, the Five Elements Heavenly Sect,” Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch continued indifferently, ”has also shown movements. The Five Elements Five Spirits Immortal Dao Soldiers have conducted multiple formation exercises within their sect territory near the boundary close to the Xianmen Sect.”

Amongst domains, amongst Immortal Sects, nothing is eternal. In the past, the Xianmen Sect and the Five Elements Heavenly Sect were interdependent, exerting shared efforts, each having gone through their difficult times.

Now, the situation might have already changed.

”The strategic division of the Xianmen Sect speculates,”

”The Five Elements Heavenly Sect may adopt an ally’s posture and remain temporarily neutral.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch clarified, ”But this does not mean that the Five Elements Heavenly Sect is still an ally. They are waiting, waiting for the Xianmen Sect to show signs of weakening or for the other seven Great Immortal Sects to diminish in strength, to then deliver a decisive blow and seize the greatest benefits. We must divide our forces to guard against their Dao soldiers, also explaining our actions to the Seven Great Immortal Sects.”

”That’s the current situation; the time for a strategic defensive stance is still far off.”

”Our objective is to attack, attack, and keep attacking until we reach the limits of the Xianmen Sect’s control.”

”Yes! Commander-in-Chief!”

Jiang Ding saluted.

In the following days, the fleets of the Northern Air Space Army conjoined over several days, ceding control of the Starry Sky World-Locking Array to the second and third-line troops, and then, with the guiding light column of the Starry Sky Troops, they departed into the space beyond the Boundary Wall.

Over the years, as more Small Worlds were continuously added, the Xianmen Sect had begun the second, third, fourth conscription rounds, where a large number of citizens were drafted into the military to replenish the second and third-line troops. The manpower was diminishing at a visibly rapid pace, causing many long-term scientific research and construction projects to be forced to halt and be sealed, pending future resumption.

Back in the Outer Realm, standing atop the Iron Fortress.

Jiang Ding held his breath, standing straight as a rod, saluting, presenting the formal military homage.

In the devastatingly scarred Starry Sky Battlefield, from the shattered Starry Sky Fortress, amidst the mix of broken warships and war machine debris with severed limbs and arms, the dead were placed into pitch-black coffins to be carried away.

Inside, very few contained whole or fractured bodies as they had mostly vaporized under the attacks at the Refinement Void Level, reduced to particle states.

The coffins were mostly filled with fragments of warships and Air-Space Warplanes, personal belongings of the citizens like clothes and Treasures, remnants that bore the spirit of the fallen heroes.

These coffins were to be returned to the Xianmen Sect with the logistics fleet and buried in the public cemetery of the Xianmen Sect.

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