Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 1223 - 1191: Commander's Seal

Several years later, with the help of the Central Array Spirit Computer, Jiang Ding obtained a detailed intelligence report.

The Horned Demon Imperial Clan and the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan are vying for the Realm Dominator Authority.

The Horned Demon Imperial Clan excels in physical strength, army formations, and has extremely strong individual combat capabilities, top-notch defense, and recovery abilities;

Unfortunately, the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan is also adept at army formations.

Not just adept, but extremely adept!

The most terrifying aspect of the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan is the seemingly infinite Skull Sea, which spreads across the starry sky. You can smash a hundred thousand skeleton puppets with one punch, and they can resurrect two hundred thousand, or even three hundred thousand puppets in an instant; your killing speed can't outpace the speed of the skeletons' resurrection!

This dominant race specializes in the paths of soul and bone, possessing extremely high proficiency and a substantial numerical advantage in military strength.

So, what if they abandon countless skeletons and opt for a decapitation strike?

That's what the strong members of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan thought as well.

However, they discovered that apart from the less proficient Bloodvine Demon cultivators of their own lineage, they couldn't locate traces of equivalent-level Skull Blood Vine Demon elites easily, nor could they assassinate them effortlessly. The lives of the Bloodvine Demons are directly connected to countless subordinate skeletons; without annihilating the undying Skull Sea, it is difficult to slay the Skull Monarch.

The two powerful races engaged in a deadly battle in the Horned Ming Realm.

Initially, the Horned Demon Imperial Clan advanced triumphantly, conquering one Minor Thousand World after another, and the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan couldn't resist.

However, in the later stages, as the strength of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan Cultivators was depleted, the overwhelming Skull Sea flooded in from the starry sky, gradually encircling the Horned Demon Imperial Clan. Although they repelled numerous attacks and killed countless skeletons— even many Emperor Blood Vine Demons— they were never able to completely annihilate the enemy.

In this situation, the Skull Blood Vine Demons chose to destroy the fundamental existence of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan— their weaker kin.

The Skull Blood Vine Demons fully exploited their advantage in military strength, launching attacks everywhere, establishing battlefields specifically targeting the slaughtering of weaker members of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, causing them severe losses. During that era, almost every powerful member of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan had relatives who died in battle, and their corpses were turned into bone puppets that attacked their own.

By then, the Horned Demon Imperial Clan had nearly lost all hope.

Almost every battlefield was smothered under an endless sea of white skeletons, and the entire starry sky was a ghastly white, without a single speck of other colors. The Skull Formation, like a grinding mill, crushed the strong members of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan one by one.

"The Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan is very strong…"

Jiang Ding gently exclaimed to himself upon seeing this.

This strayed far from the narrative usually promoted by the Horned Demon Imperial Clan. In their historical records, they were destined rulers; though the Bloodvine Demons were somewhat cunning, they were quickly exterminated.

But, in the inherited memories of the Bloodvine Demons, it was not so.

In the battle, the Horned Demon Imperial Clan was no match for them; the endless Skull Sea could drown everything and was continuously wearing down the life force of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan's elites, even Great Emperors began to fall, their immortal bodies exhausting the last traces of spiritual energy amid the vast Skull Sea Formation.

No matter how furiously and madly the Horned Demon Imperial Clan's strong members crushed swathes of white bone skeletons, the Skull Blood Vine Demons could always resurrect more skeletons, endlessly.

"If the records here are true…"

Jiang Ding's eyes gleamed: "Then the Skull Blood Vine Demons must possess a remarkable proficiency in spiritual energy and material recycling, forming a kind of undying quality, which is definitely tied to their core racial talents."

"If the Xianmen Sect can decipher it, the Xianmen Sect's endless metal robot army might truly be ready to be formally employed..."

The Xianmen Sect has had nanofluid robots all along, but cost issues had always prevented their mass deployment across the whole army, and now, with the drive from external technologies, a dawn seems to be breaking.

Once achieved, the survival ability of the Xianmen Sect Fleet would inevitably increase significantly, providing a chance to turn defeat into victory even after being ambushed by the enemy.

This is the necessity of inter-civilization communication.

Jiang Ding wrote down his idea and submitted it, continuing to observe the records of the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan regarding the final battle.

"...Just as the Imperial Clan was about to claim victory, Ming appeared."

This sentence is from the bloodline inheritance of the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan, followed by a long silence.

Bloodline inheritance often occurs among the Demon Race, usually bearing the mark of one of the most outstanding figures in the history of that species. This particular bloodline inheritance came from the last generation Ancient Skeleton Emperor, who ultimately died at the hands of Ming, his Divine Soul completely annihilated.

Ming was the first Emperor in the history of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan.

The 'Ming' in the Horned Ming Realm originates from this Emperor's name. Generations of Horned Demon Imperial Clan might revered and worshipped him, considering him the progenitor of their race.

Jiang Ding held his breath slightly.

From this statement of the Ancient Skeleton Emperor, he seemed to personally feel the Ancient Skeleton Emperor's frustration, unwillingness, defiance, and sense of injustice. Despite being an Ancient Emperor on the verge of becoming an Emperor, about to triumph, yet in the end...

"Ming brought the Commander's Seal."

"Commander's Seal."

The Ancient Skeleton Emperor painfully closed his eyes, and while desperately fleeing with his residual soul, struggling to survive, he wrote: "Ancient Gods, clearly annihilated by a terrible foe, the connections severed. We no longer need to abide by constraints; we are free... Our race no longer has to step onto battlefields that have nothing to do with us time and again..."

"But why does Ming possess the Commander's Seal!"

"...The entire Domain's... Formation... has been activated..."

"...Monarch-level blood battle... This is an unfair Monarch-level blood battle, our children burdened with bindings, while the Horned Demon Imperial Clan's monarchs are blessed by Heavenly Dao, our children slaughtered like mere ants..."

"...with the blood of our children... curse... discontent... Ming was nothing more than a defeated foe beneath this Emperor..."

What follows is a mass of meaningless rage along with some incomprehensible elements, apparently the last generation Ancient Skeleton Emperor was in great peril, thus stopping the recording.

"Commander's Seal?"

Jiang Ding's heart startled, his expression grave.

In the records of the Skull Blood Vine Demon's inheritance, they were about to win, having slain countless strong members of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, including several Ancient Emperors, almost ready to be crowned as the Domain Ruler.

However, an Ancient Emperor from the Horned Demon Imperial Clan named Ming then appeared.

He held something called 'Commander's Seal', which activated a terrifying Formation Method already existing within the Horned Ming Realm, forcibly dragging in souls below the Refining Void Stage into an unfair blood battle.

In this blood battle, the Horned Demon Imperial Clan was vastly strengthened, while the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan was significantly weakened.

With one enhanced and the other diminished, the initially dominant Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan was abruptly massacred, all members below Refining Void Stage slaughtered, finally condensed into a drop of Curse Blood in that terrifying and unknown Formation Method, significantly weakening all Emperor-level members of the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan with a forced curse.

Thus, the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan met its destructive destiny, with not a single survivor remaining.

It was tens of thousands of years later before they could resurface due to the arrangements made by the Skull Blood Vine Demon Clan during the constant mutations among the Ten Thousand Clans, relying on many fortunate factors, and their race reemerged.