Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Immortal Sect practitioners flew into the intersection of the Gangwind Layer and the cloud layer.

They moved at extreme speeds, surpassing ordinary Immortals of Nascent Soul. The Big Tree, palaces, and other heavy military instruments, along with the spatial friction at the intersection of the two layers, produced brilliant sparks.

Seen from the ground, they resembled falling meteors, with the indifferent faces of Cultivators faintly visible within them, like gods descending to earth, striking terror and awe into the hearts of mortals.

The Xuanwu tiangong Army Formation practitioners took the lead!

Palace after palace of Golden Light broke through the intersection of the two layers, unleashing suffocating might that spread in all directions, causing an uncontrollable fear to arise, compelling submission.

This initial force alone was enough to annihilate the native forces within a Minor Thousand World!

Yet, these Xuanwu tiangong practitioners showed no signs of arrogance. As soon as they entered the realm, they frantically pulled out shields, mountains, water droplets, and other defensive Formation instruments from their Storage Bags and set them up in arrays.

They themselves fought as if their lives depended on it, taking out Treasures and positioning them in front, their Mana surging out of their bodies recklessly, pouring into the defensive treasures and Protective Shields.

Even more so, no, the majority of practitioners showed a determined look as they burned their Essence Blood without any cause, transforming it into a continuous stream of power to strengthen the defenses surrounding them.

The defense of the Army Formation was bolstered to its limit, with ripples washing through each palace and pavilion, forming layer upon layer of golden Protective Shields that boosted each other.

This defense would drive Immortals of Nascent Soul to despair, as they could never break through it, no matter what.

Following these Xuanwu tiangong practitioners, everyone looked on. The second batch from the Green Wood Immortal Sect and Wanshou Immortal Sect Army Formations had already set off. If the front line could secure their footing, they could rush in in an instant, securing this breach and thus keeping the passage unobstructed.

”Can they hold on?”

Seven Daoist disciples watched the Xuanwu tiangong Army Formation practitioners who had started to secure their footing.

It was proven,

that the madness of the many Xuanwu tiangong Army Formation practitioners who were the first to kill into the realm was justified.

”Fire!”

”Fire!”

Ouyang Hui shouted loudly.

Boom!

Sixty Group Armies of the Air-Space Group, of which one-fifth were the main warships of the Immortal Sect Fleet, with the rest being conscripted citizen soldiers.

At the command, except for ten Air-Space Group Armies on defense, the muzzles of the remaining fifty Air-Space Group Army fleets were ready.

At the same moment, on the same frequency,

Countless brilliant Destruction Light Columns descended like cities of Killing Arrays, landing on the Xuanwu tiangong Army Formation practitioners who had just steadied their feet.

Brilliant destruction and explosions.

”No...”

The eyes of countless Xuanwu tiangong practitioners widened in horror and despair, coupled with piercing screams and roars.

Boom!

In just the blink of an eye, the first batch of Xuanwu tiangong practitioners who had landed in the realm were annihilated to ashes under the intense bombardment of the Immortal Sect Fleet’s heavy artillery, leaving not even a trace behind.

All the palaces, pavilions, and other heavy Immortal Path Military Formation equipment melted, and even less so the flesh and blood within them.

A deep spatial rift appeared at the original location, taking a long time to disappear.

”Hiss...”

Within the Gangwind Layer, Ji Liuyue and other Daoist disciples narrowed their eyes slightly.

Only by witnessing the scene of countless warship artillery bombardments concentrated like this can one truly feel the terror. There was absolutely no power to resist, and everything turned to ash.

Compared to the scenes recorded in the Jade Slips of intelligence reports, the sight before them provided a vivid and brutal reality of the battlefield.

At this rate, no matter how many Army Formation practitioners there were, if the gap got blocked, any clever strategies would be useless, simply crushed and annihilated. The death of any number of people would not be enough.

”In the past, how did you manage this?”

Ji Liuyue asked.

The Eastern Devil School’s Army Formation had developed too quickly! In just a few thousand years, everything had changed. They doubted whether the methods recorded within their Sect thousands of years ago were still effective today.

”Army Formation, the weakness of the Immortal Sects.”

”It’s nothing more than playing to our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses,”

Tianxuan Zi said, ”Previously, the strategy employed by the Heavenly Palace involved taking Taoist disciples, a large number of core disciples, and forming small-scale troops to move away from the Eastern Devil School’s army at a faster pace and seek another place to break through the realm.”

”Once inside the realm, things will be much easier.”

”But now...”

He fell silent.

A Dari Swordsman was within the realm.

”Now,”

Tianxuan Zi continued, ”If we continue to choose this path, it’s very likely that the Dari Swordsman will engage us in guerrilla warfare, holding us back just long enough for the Eastern Devil School’s army to quickly surround and attack us. By then, we might be facing a Dari Swordsman and the encirclement of a million Eastern Devil School warships.”

”That person...contaminated with the shamelessness of the Eastern Devil School, is not a pure Dari Swordsman, and may not choose to fight us, the seven, alone.”

”That, I cannot be certain of.”

The six Immortal Sect Disciples also fell into contemplation.

However, in truth, there wasn’t much to hesitate about.

Before the breakthrough battle, the Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Palace good at deducing had devised various contingency plans under the guidance of senior Heavenly Monarchs. Now it was merely a matter of deciding which to enact.”

”Then let us break through right here, face-to-face,”

Daoist Wanshou, Liu Kuang, said coldly, ”Our Immortal Path Military Formation practitioners outnumber the Eastern Devil School by ten to one. As long as we hold on for a short while, delaying a bit of time, and open up two layers of the boundary passages, we will instantly gain an overwhelming advantage on the military formation. We might even be able to turn the tables and surround the Dari Swordsman with our army formation.”

”Some risk is to be expected.”

”We are not Great Experts with the privilege of acting on a whim.”

”We have no choice but to fight to the death!”

The other Immortal Sect Disciples’ expressions turned stern.

On the Refinement Void Battlefield, regarding the setbacks in the attack, though many Heavenly Monarchs are loath to mention it, they still have amiable seniors and ancestors, those who share their interests and destinies, and thus are not completely ignorant.

A Master of Refining Nothingness may retreat when facing life-and-death danger.

No one can judge them, not to speak of daring to criticize, let alone uttering complaints.

In the Cultivation World, the strong are revered. This is natural.

But that doesn’t mean they, as Taoist disciples, can do the same!

Taoist disciples, Taoist disciples.

Though seemingly of distinguished status, in reality, they do not possess the power to dictate the fate of their Immortal Sect. Usually, it’s fine; the sect has a high tolerance, and it’s no problem even if some core or inheritance disciples are killed.

But if it involves a matter of life and death for the sect, thinking they can retreat without a fight,

there’s only one outcome,

death!

The esteemed status of a Taoist disciple is due to their value, the future they can carry for the sect.

Once a Taoist disciple chooses to retreat without fighting, they lose all their value. No sect would need a weak Taoist disciple incapable of shouldering the entire sect’s burden, without any necessity to exist in this world.

The sect would not hesitate to activate a new Taoist disciple, cultivate them anew, and would not tolerate any shortcomings, for a Taoist disciple is not that indispensable.

A Crown Prince,

after all, is just a Crown Prince.

Not the Emperor wielding the power.

”Select the sect’s inheritance disciples, core disciples, and the most elite Inner Sect Disciples to lead the vanguard, and join with us to enter the realm,”

Ji Liuyue’s voice was ethereal as she tenderly suggested.

”We, as Immortal Sect Disciples, ought to serve as the vanguard of the grand army, standing at the forefront, advancing unwaveringly. This is the price we pay for the sect’s all-out cultivation of us; it cannot be evaded.”

”Well said!”

”So be it.”

The other disciples nodded in agreement.