Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The first East Army Group unit to be completely annihilated.

”Aftermath and lessons learned from the annihilation of the 10th Division – Division Commander Luo Xian of the East Army Group.”

Within the army’s large group, the popularity of a video was rapidly rising.

Jiang Ding activated his Divine Soul and clicked on it, as his Sword Intent gently and meticulously swept through, sensing potential enemies and allies on the battlefield.

In the opening scene,

the 10th Division was marching normally, clearing out Exotic Beasts occasionally encountered along the way, as well as a few Xianmen cultivators from the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace faction.

Occasionally a company or more of tank troops would halt to bombard coordinates within a seventy-kilometer range.

First-order War Commander Luo Xian was a tall, handsome man with wheat-colored skin.

He issued orders from time to time, adjusting the positions of various units of the 10th Division, sometimes ordering the entire division of tank troops to fire a salvo at distant targets.

Everything was much the same as other units in different locations, and the commanding was by the book, with no significant issues.

Suddenly,

waves of transparency fluttered in the sky, revealing pitch-black holes, and one after another, green-faced zombies with fangs, reeking of decay, fell from them, with countless Evil Spirits floating in the sky, their numbers inexhaustible.

It was like streams of zombies and ghosts!

”Fire!”

”Shoot!”

Luo Xian’s expression drastically changed, and he quickly issued orders, while his troops responded swiftly.

In an instant, the sound of gunfire was intense, with streams of heavy machine gun bullets aimed at the sky, and tank grenades bombarding, obliterating many of the dark holes directly, turning the zombies into a stinking mush of flesh and blood which poured down in heaps, their intangible soul bodies shredded by Magic Arts-Breaking Steel bullets.

Even the few that landed near the soldiers caused no trouble, as concentrated fire from the heavy machine guns extinguished any that continued to move.

Jiang Ding noticed that throughout, Luo Xian maintained at least one-third of the reserve forces without engaging them in the battle, constantly scanning the vicinity with a Second Order Armored Command Vehicle equipped with the Second-order Infantry Spirit Radar.

”This is bad...”

Luo Xian’s face suddenly turned to fear as the directly subordinate tank company of thirty-six tanks slightly adjusted their muzzles and fired simultaneously at a certain area two kilometers away.

Boom!

In the brilliance and smoke, thirty-six artillery guns fired at once, the projectile shells with First-order Breaking Law magic of Magic Arts-Breaking Steel shot out.

Almost at the same moment the shells were fired, he and around a hundred martial artists in the Qi Practicing Realm had their heads inwardly crushed to the size of a fist before exploding in a cloud of blood.

Two kilometers away,

amidst the bombardment,

a space near the ground shimmered momentarily, revealing a young man in a robe with large ears who dodged most of the shells and vanished in an instant.

”Shoot! Fire!”

The other First-order War Commanders of the 10th Division roared in unison as over two thousand artillery guns covered the area where the large-eared young man had previously appeared with bombardment and firing.

At least six thousand heavy machine guns adjusted their muzzles to add a barrage of Magic Arts-Breaking Steel to the area.

The place was shaking like an earthquake, the ground filled with countless shot holes, almost boiling over.

It was somewhat effective,

and even though young man with large ears had strong concealment skills, enough to evade First-order War Commander-controlled Second-order Infantry Spirit Radar scans, his figure was exposed again under the saturation fire.

At least twenty Armor Piercing Bullets hit him directly, and among the ones hit by the Magic Arts-Breaking Steel fragments and bullets, at least several hundred were blocked by the six silver turtle shell Artifact embryos that appeared, dimming only slightly in their Spiritual Light.

”Continue...”

The remaining five First-order War Commanders of the 10th Division roared, wanting to do something more when spikes shot from the ground and struck them and dozens of other Qi Practitioners stationed every five hundred meters in the head, killing them instantly.

Other concealed Foundation-building cultivators had made their move.

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Moreover, there were at least thirty people.

After successfully breaching the two-kilometer range, bursts of magical light erupted continuously as flying swords and needles darted back and forth, piercing through one Qi Practicing Realm cultivator from Xianmen Sect after another, their bodies thudding to the ground.

No cultivator revealed their form from start to finish.

”Target spotted!”

Occasionally, a Foundation-building cultivator’s use of magic would be too vigorous, drawing a barrage of fire. Dozens, even hundreds of armor-piercing bullets and thousands of Magic Arts-Breaking Steel bullets from heavy machine guns would converge, reducing them to a mess of flesh.

This scenario occurred only six or seven times, claiming the lives of six Foundation-building cultivators.

Then, after seven breaths, all the Xianmen cultivators were dead.

The Foundation-building cultivators became even more reckless in using their magic, no longer worried about exposing themselves through magical fluctuations, and the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi became turbulent due to the spells cast by dozens of Foundation-building cultivators.

Tiny fireballs and fine needles condensed from magic flew in all directions, accurately targeting the gunners who were firing wildly.

A single Foundation-building cultivator could easily control an area with a radius of one to two kilometers, their divine senses sweeping and clearly discerning where mortals were.

The screams were incessant. After three breaths, all the soldiers and officers of the 10th Division were dead.

Then, maintaining the most basic Optical Camouflage Technique, they erupted into full speed and frantically fled for their lives!

Whiz! Whiz! Whiz!

The sky was filled with the rapid and dense sound of air being torn apart, as waves of shells flew in, seemingly endless.

Within a seventy-kilometer radius, at least five divisions, with over ten thousand cannons, had taken aim here!

Boom! Boom!

An earth-shattering quake happened right there, as densely packed fragments of Magic Arts-Breaking Steel from the shrapnel covered a radius of five kilometers in a bombardment. The ground was plowed over and over again, and large rocks were shattered time and time again.

The results of the battle were meager.

Only a few splatters of blood burst in the air, crushed by the relentless raining fragments of shrapnel.

The Foundation-building cultivators were too fast!

A few breaths of time were enough for them to run thousands of meters!

And they were originally spaced at least a kilometer apart from each other, also capable of burrowing into the ground more than a dozen meters deep at any moment. The fragments of Magic Arts-Breaking Steel without magical augmentation were simply no match for opponents at such depths.

Their defenses were also too strong.

Even an Early Stage Foundation-building cultivator could take eight or nine Armor Piercing Bullets upfront without dying immediately, and a cultivator at the Peak of Foundation Building could even withstand the impact of dozens of shells without perishing.

Precise tracking and targeting were necessary!

Artillery bombardment could kill countless Qi Practitioners, but it was far from enough for Foundation-building cultivators, who were highly mobile, highly defensive, and highly concealed units!

”That’s how the battle unfolds.”

Luo Xian said with immense frustration, concluding, ”That young man with big ears, I believe he must be a core true disciple of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, having cultivated the ’Classic’ Level Techniques, at the Peak of Foundation Building boundary.”

”Until he broke into the two-kilometer range, I didn’t notice him at all.”

”It wasn’t until he cast his spell and caused a disturbance in the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi did I realize, but by then it was too late, as I and the surrounding Qi Practicing Phase students died instantly.”

Jiang Ding held his breath.

The other war commanders who had witnessed the process were also momentarily silent.

Information gathering and espionage magic are the foundation of all Xianmen Sect battles.

It couldn’t be said to be not powerful; with the help of the Second-order Infantry Spirit Radar, even most Foundation-building cultivators could be detected within a thirty-kilometer range, thus allowing for their tracking and bombardment.

Sadly, the cultivators from Xuanwu Heavenly Palace were too strong and skilled in Concealment and Defense Techniques.

It wasn’t that the examiners wanted to be hard on them. The war that Xianmen Sect now faced was just like this, not one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects from the Outer Realm was an easy opponent.

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