Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Capítulo 2212: Chapter 2179: Taoist Court Army’s Collapse

Rumble!

Rumble, rumble…

Countless orbital Destruction Ship Cannons roared, the Sword Cultivator legions’ Sword Qi falling like rain, prying at the branch Rule Authority of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth; the Magic Cultivation legions advanced head-on, swinging down like heavy hammers upon the enemy.

At this moment, three different Daoist Soldier Armies fused into one; the grand Army Formation blotted out heaven and earth, mutually amplifying each other, their Rule Authority resonating in unison.

At this moment, the legion-combat achievements of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Path system, researched over hundreds of thousands of years, were displayed to the fullest; Cultivators leveraged Immortal Wisdom to pry upon the Power of Heaven and Earth!

Even though the foe before them was several times their number, several times the Supreme of the Star Sky Cockroach race and the reinforcements of each Demon Race Supreme, under the offensive of this composite-system army they still gradually collapsed, turning to dust and smoke.

The Great Array of the Black Heaven Great Thousand World slowly shattered.

Innumerable cockroaches fell; these cockroach warriors who had endured countless wars of blood and fire died one after another, together with the descendants they had accumulated over countless years—a Star Sky Cockroach Supreme here, a Demon Race Supreme there—surrounded and slaughtered by Sword Qi, by Ship Cannons, by the Magic Cultivation Array, unable to withstand such an edge.

Several years later, the war to recover the Black Heaven Great Thousand World came to a close.

Aside from one or two Star Sky Cockroach Supremes who fled grievously wounded into the Dead Silent Starry Sky, all Star Sky Cockroaches were either killed or captured, and the Black Heaven Great Thousand World was once more restored.

The Human race legions, however, paid over three billion in casualties.

They had almost annihilated an army of over a hundred billion Star Sky Cockroaches at the cost of three billion casualties; this race had always been famous for its numbers, yet now even numbers could no longer play a decisive role on the battlefield.

“Three billion casualties…”

“Unwittingly, even for someone like me, a mere commander of the garrison for a Great Thousand World Clusters, this has become commonplace, hardly worth noting…”

The Sun Destruction Venerable and a group of Xianmen cultivators strolled across the battlefield still filled with smoke and fire, sighing in low voices.

He recalled many years ago, back in the Nine Spirits Realm, in those long-ago days when he was only a Nascent Soul Monk, charging again and again with his comrades, shouting battle cries together, besieging the Dari Swordsman of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion; comrades around him fell in swathes, yet they still charged resolutely, Undying.

The intensity of that battlefield could not compare with now.

Yet when he looked back now, those battles were the most vivid and brightest memories of his Life, and to this day he still felt they were the most important part of his life.

No matter how ancient a Cultivator becomes, he will be trapped for life by the years of his youth.

Many Xianmen cultivators were cleaning up the battlefield.

Finishing blows were delivered, captives sealed and then sent to the rear research institutes; the Star Sky Cockroach race was now extremely dangerous for the front lines, and the innate talent of this race in targeting the Xianmen Sect needed to be resolved as soon as possible.

For current research, the more experimental material on Star Sky Cockroaches, the better.

“These egg sheaths also need to be dealt with.”

The Sun Destruction Venerable lightly stepped on the ground; the mountains and earth before him ripped open, exposing the deeper soil beneath the surface, where one glistening white cockroach egg sheath after another was revealed.

“It will take at least several hundred years for the Black Heaven Great Thousand World to resume production, perhaps even a thousand.”

“This Star Sky Cockroach race truly has some skill; who knows how many times they mutated before such a brilliantly scientific Immortal Lifeform race emerged…”

The Sun Destruction Venerable muttered to himself.

There was not much such leisure time; after the fleet had only carried out a few years of overhaul, new orders once again came from the war system of the Great Dream Sword Realm.

This time, however, it was no longer to go reinforce some place.

It was to withdraw.

To completely abandon this swath of Great Thousand World Clusters and fall back to Great Thousand Worlds where the Star Domain Grand Formation was more solid.

“Withdraw?”

“Could it be that a great rout has occurred on the distant battlefield?”

The face of the Sun Destruction Venerable changed.

The military orders were incomparably icy, giving him no explanation whatsoever.

Only after he returned to the rear did the Sun Destruction Venerable learn that his guess was indeed reality.

On the distant main front, the armies of the Supreme Great Sun Dao Court had been besieged by at least ten times the number of enemy powerhouses and ten times the troops; after a long battle their Formation Method was breached, each force fleeing in all directions; dozens of Supremes of the Supreme Great Sun Dao Court fell in battle, and hundreds of billions of Human Cultivators died, their Blood and Flesh becoming food for the enemy.

After this defeat, dozens of Great Thousand World Clusters were lost, and uncountable low-tier Cultivators and mortals met with deaths akin to great extinction; the phrase “mortal tragedy” was not enough to describe even a fraction.

…

Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace.

Many Supremes gathered together, the Fusang Saintess presiding over the military conference.

On the Star Map before everyone, dozens of Star Domains were covered in red dots; that was where the armies of the Ten Thousand Races were located, and in some Star Domains, the red dots had already begun to spread, forming patches of regions.

“Honored Chief of Staff,”

“what is the reason for our defeat in the war?”

The words of the Fusang Saintess were somewhat icy.

The victory or defeat of the Supreme Great Sun Sword Fairy was her victory or defeat, and the life or death of the Supreme Great Sun Sword Fairy was equivalent to her own; once he was defeated at the hands of the True Dragon Son, she and all Human Race Supremes would be buried with him!

Under such pressure, a trace of killing intent began to rise in her heart.

Even the Sword Immortal’s Sect, under such circumstances, had to bear responsibility; no one could remain aloof in such a situation.

“…This is my responsibility.”

Yuan fell silent for a moment, then spoke.

This time, in the war situation of the Sirius Star Domain, it was precisely because of his poor deployment that the Human race armies in that region fell into an encirclement where the enemy had at least ten times their troop strength, and thus were defeated.

That Gouchen Upper Palace Heavenly King of the True Dragon Destiny Immortal Dynasty, with only a Heavenly King–rank Immortal Dynasty official title, truly possessed terrifying art of war; he was an opponent no weaker than Yuan, perhaps even surpassing him.

In the past, Yuan had never met an opponent whose mastery of Army Formations surpassed his own.

This perhaps had to do with the fact that Human Immortal Sects, under a system where individual might was supreme, found it difficult to give Army Formation cultivators the highest-level training; they had always existed merely as attachments to the Sect’s mighty experts.

But now, Yuan had encountered such a terrifying being who specialized solely in Army Formations.

This Gouchen Upper Palace Heavenly King of the True Dragon Destiny Immortal Dynasty was precisely such a prodigious hero of Army Formations, a peerless Army Formation Elite, a top existence in the Endless Starry Sky.

One mistake by Yuan had been seized upon by him with precision, thereby forging one of the True Dragon Destiny Immortal Dynasty’s glorious great victories, with nearly half of the Sirius Star Domain falling.

This defeat might become the fuse, triggering the collapse of war situations across multiple Star Domains.

“Honored Chief of Staff!”

“This palace is not asking about your guilt, but asking you: what is the cause of the defeat?”

The voice of the Fusang Saintess grew ever colder.

The Supremes present all bowed their heads.

Everyone could feel the wrath of this Empress, and within it there was very likely a portion of the True Immortal’s will—the True Immortal was dissatisfied with the state of the war.

“The reasons are as follows,”

Yuan took a deep breath and said, “First, the Gouchen Upper Palace Heavenly King—that True Dragon Yazi with a Heavenly King–rank Immortal Dynasty official title—his Army Formation strategy is not to be underestimated, no weaker than mine, or even above mine.”

“Second, the enemy’s forces are far too many!”

“Their total troop strength is four times ours, or even more! Their number of Supremes is four times ours, or even more! And note, these armies are no rabble, but the regular troops of the True Dragon Destiny Immortal Dynasty!”

“Even though we relied on the terrain of the Star Domain and Formation Method to hold fast, it was still far too difficult!”