Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Chapter 1328: Chapter 1296: Banyan Tree Railway Destruction Cannon

“Yuan, why hurry?”

“The matter of the Divine Soul is of utmost importance. Even in splitting, you should allow this old man some time…”

The Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace said with a strained smile.

“Haha.”

Yuan laughed as well.

“Fire the cannon.”

His smile abruptly vanished.

In the vast cosmic starry sky, tens of thousands of miles across, there was a fleeting stillness.

Countless starlight and torrents of Spiritual Energy surged forth from the Heaven-Covering Banyan Divine Tree, merging through the omnipresent Primordial Magnetic Heavenly Dao Law Net into the Banyan Tree Orbital Destruction Cannon. At this moment, it condensed into an object so terrifying that even Harmonization Divine Monarchs were filled with dread.

Boom!

Between heaven and earth, dazzling light burst forth, the cosmos blazed white as though a star had exploded.

In that instant, the entire cosmic starry sky trembled. The rules of heaven and earth fell into chaos, and below the Harmonization stage, all cultivators’ thoughts wavered. Even Great Experts such as those from the Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Palace turned pale, only barely able to maintain their inner focus, keeping their Divine Souls connected to the Heavenly Dao to preserve their ability to summon the Harmonization Heavenly Tribulation.

Beyond that, they were powerless.

Of the Nine Great Immortal Sects, seven had temporarily lost their ability to dominate the domains and currents of fate, reduced to mere peasants, no longer capable of stirring up storms like before.

Dimly, the seven Immortal Sect Great Experts could only glimpse a destructive beam, enveloped in the Primordial Magnetic Heavenly Dao Law Net, flashing past like lightning, shattering the rules of heaven and earth before vanishing.

Boom!

Another massive rumble resounded, destruction’s light illuminating the world.

As the radiance dispersed, a disheveled elder stood furiously in the star river, a Xuanwu Golden Body defending in front of him, blocking the destructive force of the beam.

The Xuanwu Golden Body paid a toll as well.

On its resplendent turtle shell, a deep cerulean pit resembling melted glass appeared, its Immortal Rules Net shattered and incapable of resisting the force. Threads of pitch-black cracks spread out in all directions before being contained by the surrounding Immortal Rules Heavenly Dao Law Net.

The Heavenly Dao within the cosmic star river surged forth endlessly, transforming into support for the Xuanwu, while simultaneously dispersing the incoming bombardments from the Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon, neutralizing no less than fifty percent of its power.

Thus, he avoided annihilation in a single strike!

“Such an assault…”

The Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace drew a deep breath.

If it were Jiaoming Emperor standing before the Banyan Orbital Destruction Cannon, he would disintegrate with a single shot. His mortal body would turn to ashes; his capacity to interfere with the human world forever stripped away.

As for himself, his fate might be even bleaker.

He had yet to completely imprint his Divine Soul into the Heavenly Dao and thus had not attained immortality!

And these were merely external injuries.

Within his Divine Soul, the curse imprint from the Heavenly Dao pact, although suppressed earlier, now began to stir under external forces, threatening to spread through his soul. The Harmonization stage’s Divine Sense and Mana could not fully suppress it, for this curse was tailor-made to target Harmonization Divine Souls.

Upon ascending to the Harmonization stage, he possessed the ability to wear away the curse.

But that required time!

And now, there was no time. Not even time to stabilize his cultivation base, to fully imprint his Divine Soul into the Heavenly Dao and harness the full power of Harmonization. Everything was so hurried.

“Yet, what of it? You are all merely ants!”

“Even in haste—so what?”

The Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace sneered coldly.

He rose, his form expanded until it embodied heaven and earth, transforming into a colossal giant. His muscles bulged and veins coursed through his frame like the contours of Divine Gold forged by the cosmos itself. The Heavenly Dao of the entire starry sky revolved around him, billions of Immortal Rule threads converging to form a star map that spun incessantly above his head.

“Kill!”

Gui Cong Divine Monarch strode across the heavens.

His towering divine form pierced the heavens, single-handedly wielding an immense Xuanwu Giant Statue, which he hurled ferociously at the swarm of tens of thousands of warships that were as irritating as buzzing mosquitoes.

The immortal rules of the entire starry sky coalesced into a net, their energies joining as one and merging into the Xuanwu Giant Statue.

The tens of thousands of miles of starry sky, at that moment, was enveloped by the Immortal Rules, frozen in place and left motionless.

Here, even the Mana of Refining Nothingness cultivators was shackled; death seemed inevitable.

“Fire the cannon.”

“Fire the cannon.”

“Fire the cannon…”

Facing such a formidable foe, one whose prowess among Harmonization Divine Monarchs was terrifyingly unmatched, Yuan remained unflinchingly composed, as he always had.

Just as many years ago, when Xianmen’s cultivators ventured into the Harmonization Battlefield of the Nine Spirits Realm armed with Divinity Transformation bodies, buoyed by camaraderie and unshaken courage.

Boom!

The Banyan Tree Orbital Destruction Cannon roared to life once more. Infinite starlight and torrents of Spiritual Energy from spiritual veins converged, refined by the Primordial Magnetic Heavenly Dao Law Net, harnessed into beams of destruction that followed the curse’s nodes to obliterate their target.

This was the Xianmen fleet’s weaponry.

Infused within the Banyan Tree Orbital Destruction Cannon was the full grandeur of Xianmen’s immortal wisdom.

If this fleet’s artillery failed to shatter the foe’s defenses head-on, then the entire battle core would unravel, and victory would remain unattainable.

Could the Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace truly obliterate Xianmen’s fleet artillery?

All Xianmen cultivators stared coldly, unwavering.

Boom!

The first cannon blast struck.

With the form of a colossus, the Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace wielded the Xuanwu Giant Statue in ferocious counterattack, encircled by billions of Immortal Rule threads. He resembled Pangu, the legendary giant who split the heavens, the essence of the cosmos, a preeminent divine being.

Yet, when the destructive cannon struck, this heaven-splitting giant bore the concussion as though lightning had struck him, retreating thousands of miles. The Xuanwu Giant Statue in his hand lost its Spiritual Light and crumbled into dimness.

Boom!

Boom!

The second blast, the third blast of the destruction cannon descended!

The colossal gold-light divine form stumbled backward repeatedly. In the end, it vomited a mouthful of glowing blood so effulgent that the Immortal Rules it contained crushed tens of miles of void, melting out gaping voids that refused to heal. His aura plummeted dramatically.

Despite the ascension to Harmonization, the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace Great Expert proved utterly inferior in direct confrontation against Xianmen’s Banyan Tree Orbital Destruction Cannon!

“Hahaha!”

“That’s all you amount to!”

Wan Ji Heavenly Monarch laughed wildly.

Nearby, Xianmen Refining Void True Venerables and Divinity Transformation cultivators simultaneously let out the breaths they had been holding, the predicated objective successfully achieved.

Yet, a chilling realization struck.

He had only ascended to Harmonization recently; his strength had yet to peak. And even now, the Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace could withstand multiple direct strikes from the Destruction Cannon. How much stronger would he grow if given time to settle?

And if multiple Harmonization-stage Immortal Sect Great Experts emerged, what then?

Xianmen would face extinction!

Thus, the Central Array Spirit Computer’s ascension to Harmonization must occur!

At this moment, among Xianmen cultivators, there was no doubt about the importance of this objective. Eyes reddened with resolve, hearts brimming with determination—this battle became a fight for survival.

“Direct confrontation is impossible!”

“Abort.”

The Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, his killing intent freezing the star river.

Historically, the Eastern Devil School was renowned for its powerful offensive and weak defense. A barrage of fleet artillery strikes was nearly impossible to fend off head-on, and even the Eight Great Immortal Sects working in concert dared not challenge it lightly.

As for the methods employed in such situations…

“Disperse!”

The Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace uttered softly.

In a fleeting moment, his colossal divine form disintegrated into tens of thousands of golden rays, scattered and vanished.

The form of the giant was his strongest state—maximized power, defense, Mana regeneration, and his ability to control the Heavenly Dao Law Net.

However, this form’s power proved insufficient to crush the enemy fleet directly while bringing peril upon himself.

Now, concealment, mobility, and assassination became the utmost priorities.

As the Great Expert’s giant form collapsed, the Immortal Rules Heavenly Dao Law Net suddenly illuminated the cosmos, but his presence was absent, replaced everywhere by frigid killing intent—ubiquitous, pervasive, omnipresent.

It was as if an invisible, torrential storm of violent attacks was materializing!

“Locking in… locking in…”

“Warning, blurry lock-on!”

“Battlefield latency detected! Curse coordinates interfered with, precise targeting lost!”

The Central Array Spirit Computer fired off frantic alarms.

It could detect the movements of the Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace; however, delays made it impossible to achieve pinpoint precision—an inevitable flaw in the nascent Harmonization-stage locking formation, which lacked robust data and completeness.

Newly birthed creations are imperfect!

This scenario was, historically, almost inevitable.

And what of Xianmen’s response?

They gambled their lives.

Endless fleet cannon fire fueled by desperate resolve, staking everything on luck, life for life, creating moments to pinpoint the enemy and strike decisively.

Every time Xianmen cultivators perished was upon such a battlefield.

There was no alternative.

Those who come later must always endure this process—opening their own paths, facing the bitter consequences of imperfection no matter how dire, with no prefabricated, complete inheritance to follow.

In modern times, however, some change had occurred.

“Beep beep!”

“Seventh-rank combat-assist system activating, locking on…”

Clang!

Within the All Heavens Beidou Taibai Netherworld Curse Killing Array’s Sun Star Formation node, Jiang Ding drew his sword, allowing the Taiqing Flying Sword to transform into a blazing sun rising into the starry sky. Surrounding him, countless runes of the Primordial Magnetic Rules Heavenly Dao Law Net burst forth, converging toward the Taiqing Flying Sword. A massive computation power surge from the seventh-rank Harmonization Array created a galaxy-level detection mechanism.

In the Nine Spirits Realm, who among all wielded the deepest understanding in perceiving and locating the Eight Great Immortal Sects’ Great Experts and Taoist disciples?

The answer was unequivocal: the Great Sun Sword Pavilion and its Great Sun Flying Sword!

This ability bordered on supernatural intuition.

Even from his Foundation Building Period, Jiang Ding relied on innate perception to identify disciples of the Eight Great Immortal Sects within the same realm—a phenomenon that felt akin to Cause and Effect, natural instincts, or inexplicable premonition.

Such was the consequence of tens of thousands of years of enmity and deeply entangled karmic ties between the Great Sun Sword Pavilion and the Eight Great Immortal Sects—it could not be severed or escaped.

The Sun Star Formation node’s purpose was precisely this!

To magnify to extremes the Great Sun Flying Sword’s ability to sense and detect the Eight Great Immortal Sects’ bloodline strongholds, then deliver precise targeting for Xianmen’s Banyan Tree Orbital Destruction Cannon volleys, ensuring their strikes would never miss or be misled.

Under the seventh-rank formation’s computational prowess with the All Heavens Beidou Taibai Netherworld Curse Killing Array’s support, results emerged swiftly.

“Coordinates…”

Jiang Ding’s eyes gleamed brightly for an instant as he delivered the results.

Boom!

Yuan and the others trusted him completely.

The Banyan Tree Orbital Destruction Cannon thundered anew, primed for action. Within the Primordial Magnetic Rules Heavenly Dao Law Net’s blazing light, its destructive energy surged forth, piercing the unseen void, aimed at a speck of dust-sized Xuanwu within the Mingxu.

Though tens of thousands of miles across the starry cosmos held at least a million similar dust-sized Xuanwu manifestations, identical in aura, Cause and Effect, Mana fluctuations, and vitality signals, the Banyan Tree Orbital Destruction Cannon honed in on this singular speck—and annihilated it with relentless precision!