Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Geomagnetic Realm, southern part.

Here lies a mountain, high and iron-black, towering tens of thousands of meters into the sky, named Magnet God Mountain. It is surrounded by lingering clouds and steaming with geomagnetic spiritual light, a sacred ground for Magnet Yuan cultivation.

Within a ten thousand-mile radius, thirty-six Boundary Heaven Pillars pierce the sky, each standing atop one of thirty-six renowned immortal mountains with Golden Light Array Patterns encircling them, guarded by tens of thousands of cultivators from the army, symbolizing Xuanwu’s dominion over this realm.

At the mountain’s peak, a man and a woman sat facing each other.

The man was handsome and imposing, with a burning flame mark on his forehead, an Inheritance Disciple, one of the Ten Kings of Heavenly Palace, the Fire King.

The woman was charming and alluring, delicate and seeming frail, with sorrow often lingering in her eyes, stirring pity - she was known as the Rain Queen.

Both of them were top cultivators under the Taoist disciples of Xuanwu tiangong. At the moment, they looked at each other in silence.

A somber atmosphere was spreading around them.

”Zhong Yuanzi, isn’t the Taoist… still refusing to come?”

After a long while, the Fire King spoke slowly, ”Jia is dead, died like a dog in the hands of the Dari Swordsman, even one thousand and two hundred Hairy Spirits guards were useless.”

”Why does he think that the two of us can withstand them?”

”He possesses a Daoist Body of the water element.”

The Rain Queen sighed lightly, ”He would never leave the East Sea. No matter how confident he sounds, saying ’with me here, undefeated in the domain,’ but... after all, that is the Dari Swordsman.”

”The geographical advantage is very important to him, he won’t give it up for anything.”

”Then why not let both of us withdraw back to the East Sea with the elite forces?!”

A trace of murderous intent showed in the Fire King’s expression.

”Because what he cultivated is the ’Bixi Bagua Wuji Scripture,’ and he places great emphasis on deduction, on Tianji. The more moves Dari Swordsman reveals, the more confident he is of winning the battle.”

”Even if...”

The Rain Queen said with a desolate voice, ”Even if it costs the lives of tens of thousands of cultivators like us, it has nothing to do with him.”

”Foolish!”

”Absurd!”

The Fire King roared lowly, ”Back when the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s Dari Swordsman dominated the domains, wasn’t it only after the eight major Taoist disciples joined forces to besiege him that they could hold on.

The Dari Swordsman of the Eastern Devil School surely won’t come close, we should fight side by side, kill him together, achieve victory or die in defeat, no need for all this circumlocution!”

”He is simply afraid, all excuses!”

He nearly lost his reason in rage, yet didn’t mention fleeing from battle or surrendering to the Eastern Devil School, aware of the consequences.

”Sister apprentice doesn’t know...”

The Rain Queen gave a bleak smile, but said no more.

”No, I must go to the East Sea!”

”I can’t worry about that much anymore!”

The Fire King stated fiercely, ”If Zhong Yuanzi dares to kill me, I’ll fight him to the death…”

Boom!

Suddenly, from tens of thousands of miles away, there came a thunderous boom. Space erupted into terrifying turbulence, rivers running backward, grounds tearing apart, the sky shattering, scenes of lightning and thunder occurring incessantly.

It was as if doomsday had arrived, with the skies within tens of thousands of kilometers trembling non-stop, detected by the Formation Method of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace and displayed before the two of them.

”They’re here...”

The pupils of the Fire King and the Rain Queen shrank as they looked at the formation images.

Amidst the shattered space and the thunder and lightning, a hazy steel fleet appeared, indistinct, as if separated by countless layers of glass, impossible to see clearly.

In a single breath, the hazy space broke apart.

One steel fleet after another emerged from the ruptured space, spreading their Army Formation fields around, a heavy oppression expanding in all directions, calming the nearby flashes of lightning and the churning earth and rivers righting themselves.

In the center of the fleet’s flagship, a young man quietly stood in the void, dressed in the uniform of a general of the Eastern Devil School’s Air-Space Troops.

At this moment, as if sensing something, he looked in the direction of the two kings.

”Dari...”

The Fire King and Rain Queen felt a surge in their hearts, subconsciously shutting off the surveillance formation.

”Damned bastard!”

Immediately afterward, the Fire King, with an enraged expression, reactivated the surveillance formation, full of killing intent as he glared across the way. The Boundary Heaven Pillars under his command lit up one by one, his troops heeding the command, all activating the formation, their killing intention soaring to the sky.

Within the ten-thousand-mile radius, half the domain, patches of firelight rose everywhere, the range far exceeding the spellcasting range of a Nascent Soul Immortal, nearing the boundary of a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch - terrifying to behold.

”You, come!”

The Fire King roared lowly.

...

”It looks very dangerous...”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself, looking at the vast expanse of land before him.

Under the influence of the thirty-six Boundary Heaven Pillars, flames rose on one side as magma surged, forming the yang aspect of the Taiji; while on another, rain dotted the landscape amidst dark clouds, creating a marshland that spread for miles, symbolizing the yin aspect of Taiji.

This was clearly a formation that covered thousands of miles!

In front of such a formation, even an Immortal of Nascent Soul would feel insignificant and harbor a sense of fear.

This formation must have originally been presided over by a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch, capable of withstanding the assault of more than ten peers of the same rank without defeat, and could even counterattack.

However, it shattered under the extensive bombardment of the Xianmen Sect’s Starry Sky Troops.

”All flash and no substance.”

”It hasn’t reached the level of Divinity Transformation, and the person leading the formation isn’t powerful enough.”

Ouyang Hui, commanding the army and using the Group Army’s Spirit Particle Sonar formation to repeatedly scan the miles-wide formation for a long time, concluded, ”Commander, please enter the formation. The Xianmen’s warships can obliterate it.”

”Attack.”

Jiang Ding said indifferently.

In his heart, there were many regrets.

In front of such an overwhelmingly large formation, he couldn’t annihilate it on his own against the hundreds of thousands of troops from the Xuanwu tiangong; at best, he could only attempt to chip away at the formation over many years, gradually grinding it down piece by piece.

”Yes, sir!”

Ouyang Hui saluted.

The forty-eight Group Army fleets of the Air-Space Troops slowly entered the range of the formation set by the thirty-six pillars of the Xuanwu tiangong.

Boom!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

The moment they entered, the previously tranquil celestial phenomena suddenly changed.

To the left, thousands of miles worth of volcanoes erupted, spewing magma as molten lava dragons roared into the sky, blotting out the sun, each with the terrifying aura of a late-stage Nascent Soul.

To the right, fierce winds rose and heavy rain fell, as dragons born of the storm emerged from lightning and dark clouds, snarling ferociously as they charged at the steel fleet that had intruded into the formation.

Yin Yang Boundary Great Array of Water, Fire, Mountains, and Rivers!

This was the name of the formation, created by the Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch of the Xuanwu tiangong. Although now in ruins, it was still immensely terrifying, powerful enough to crush any Nascent Soul-level power within a Small World in an instant, with power to spare.

”Fire the cannons!”

Ouyang Hui commanded sharply.

Boom!

With a single command, forty-eight Group Armies, thousands of warships, hundreds of thousands of air-space warplanes fired in unison.

The forces were not dispersed; the main cannons of each warplane, influenced by the Array Pattern of the Army Formation, were converging towards the Group Army warships, and the power of the Group Army’s main cannons coalesced towards the division’s main cannons...

Division, corps, Group Army headquarters!

Layer by layer, intricately interwoven.

In the span of a breath, spiritual energy from thousands of miles around roared in, melded by the Army Formation field into interlocking and folding beams of light that transformed into a beautifully intricate magic entity, enormous light column cannons tens of kilometers wide.

This breathtaking beauty was like a deity within the light.

And there were forty-eight of these radiant deities, these light column cannons!

”Fire!”

Boom!

Booming!

With one salvo from the northern Air-Space Army, the expanse of thousands of miles trembled non-stop, radiance brilliant, as the magma dragons and storm dragons formed by the Boundless Heavenly Pillars array shrieked in agony, their bodies shattered, with water and fire annihilating each other.

”Fire the cannons!”

”Fire the cannons!”

”...”

Ouyang Hui shouted loudly.

Boom!

Boom! Boom!

It did not end there; the northern Air-Space Army fired again and again.

The ship cannons smashed the elemental dragons of wind and water, targeting the earth, and the group cannons obliterated each node of the Boundary Heaven Pillar formations, with the cultivators within vanishing in an instant, leaving no trace.

Where once there were mountains, now there was nothing but deep glaze-like valleys.

Hundreds of thousands of cultivators from the Xuanwu tiangong perished into dust.