Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 772 - 753: The Unmanned Fleet in the Starry Sky

"Commander, it's been so long, you're still as robust as ever!"

"Commander, has your granddaughter married yet? Why don't I see her..."

"Scram, stop thinking about such nonsense. My great-grandson has been out for thousands of years, and you're still thinking about farts!"

In the starry sky, at the martial training grounds, war machines loomed like clouds, a dense mass that filled the entire view without end. Warships were positioned at the center, linking patterns of Air-Space Warplanes that converged within the Air-Space Mothership.

Ultimately, they all converged onto the Starry Sky Iron Fortress of Nascent Soul Cultivators, densely covered in array patterns and austere laws, forming formidable God-transforming Level Army Formations capable of suffocating the vast majority of Nascent Soul Cultivators.

These Army Formations were precise and strict, resembling finely crafted gears meshing together. Multiple Formations would occasionally couple, unleashing even greater power that made masses of Nascent Soul Cultivators tremble with fear.

The only pity was that such complex God-transforming Army Formations could only be managed by ancient Nascent Soul Cultivators like Yuan, Heavenly Monarch Wanji, Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch, not even Canghai Heavenly Monarch.

Military discipline was strict but didn't affect the lively spirits in the legion's channels. After many years, reunions brought warm greetings among friends, teachers, and superiors, as well as many regrets.

This legion was quite unique.

In the Immortal Sect military system,

Second-tier armies had one Nascent Soul Monk, fifty-four battalions, and fifty-four Golden Pill Monks, while First-tier armies had three Nascent Soul Monks, still fifty-four battalions, but with a hundred and sixty-two Golden Pill Monks.

Nowadays, the numbers of Foundation Building and Golden Pill Cultivators in the First-tier armies remain the same, but the number of Nascent Soul Monks has explosively increased tenfold.

Each First-tier army had sixty Nascent Soul Monks!

And these were top Nascent Soul Monks qualified for cryosleep and known throughout history!

They took over the original Immortal Sect armies' command, quickly adapting to new tactics and rehearsing them to perfection, as they had historically commanded wars multiple times.

With the assistance of these numerous top-tier Nascent Soul Monks, the power of every Divinity Transformation Cultivator's Army Formation was drastically increasing, easily overpowering the might of five past First-tier armies.

Moreover, the shortage of Golden Pill and Foundation Building numbers was also being addressed.

For countless years, the rarely depleted Starry Sky Armament Warehouse sent out drones and unmanned fleets from the Starry Sky Fortress. They formed squadrons and received commands from the newly awakened Immortal of Nascent Soul.

Once the unmanned fleet formations were complete, they stood silent and motionless, without even a flicker of Spirit Consciousness Fluctuation, emanating a cold, silvery-white metallic luster.

The awakened Immortal of Nascent Soul sat cross-legged in the void, on their own Air-Space Mothership, swallowing the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and starlight, refining the battle signals of the unmanned fleets.

No matter how time flowed in the outside world, they gradually gained control over the unmanned fleets, bit by bit.

...

Time meandered on, and twenty years passed without notice.

A cultivation cycle of Zhou Tian ended, the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi calmed, and Jiang Ding opened his eyes, Inner Vision Dantian.

Only a little more,

and his mana would accumulate to three-quarters of the way up, reaching the Latter Stage of Golden Pill, which would probably take another fourteen years.

Divine Sense then glanced towards the Taiqing Flying Sword.

Within it, five Great Sun Heavenly Gang Divine Prohibitions shone with a dazzling brilliance, exhibiting extraordinary spirituality as they could autonomously swallow the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence to enhance the sword's sharpness and resilience.

In the midst of battle, it was even more convenient for Cultivators to use magic and swordsmanship in conjunction, substantially elevating combat effectiveness.

The sixth Great Sun Heavenly Gang Divine Prohibition was almost tangible, not far from a mid-grade Nascent Treasure.

"In four more years... you will ascend to a mid-grade Nascent Treasure," Jiang Ding muttered softly.

After twenty consecutive years of cultivation, he felt a trace of weariness in his heart, and his figure vanished without a trace.

...

Tushan Immortal City.

Jiang Ding swept his Divine Sense over the area, understanding the whole picture.

Compared to twenty years ago, the population of Immortal City had not increased, still around six to seven hundred thousand cultivators, but its prosperity had multiplied several fold.

The cultivation base, spirit, and energy of the cultivators coming and going had improved by more than one level, with an endless emergence of Refining Masters, Alchemists, and Array Masters; commerce and industry were incredibly flourishing.

"Immortal City's tax revenue,"

Jiang Ding looked at the financial report.

"Four hundred and twenty million low-grade Spirit Stones, of which eighty percent are commercial taxes. Tushan Immortal City has already become a thorough commercial city."

"As expected."

He then looked at the maiden group.

Among the serving maidens, Yu Bai, Bai Hualing, and Kong Yu Ling had reached the latter stage of Foundation Building, while the rest, the highest in cultivation, were only at the mid-stage of Foundation Building, with very few exceptions. Evidently, they had all gone to the Northern Plains.

Jiang Ding gazed into his Sea of Consciousness.

The specks of starlight from the maidens in the Northern Plains scattered once again, starting from the Black Snow Prairie and spreading out in every direction, continuously expanding eastward, unceasingly.

Now spread over territories equivalent to five Black Snow Prairies, with small clusters here and large bunches there.

Eighty-three thousand two hundred and seventy-two people in the Tushan maiden group!

The weakest among them was at the early stage of Foundation Building, and the strongest at the Golden Pill Peak, with one thousand and seventy-four Golden Pill cultivators!

Jiang Ding was dumbfounded.

Golden Pill monks seldom have an aptitude weaker than a twinling root; from this, it can be inferred that nearly all the female Golden Pills they encountered on their path of expansion were taken under their wing and incorporated into their rule.

It was not only the female cultivators from territories like Yin's and its like. Blood Cloud was expanding too, and after a simple comparison, the majority chose to join the Tushan maiden group.

Correspondingly, as the Tushan maidens expanded, many male cultivators pledged loyalty to the Blood King Army.

The Tushan maidens were happy with this situation because having too many Golden Pill and Foundation-building cultivators was problematic, making it impossible to incorporate them into the ruling class. Even recognizing their rule was insufficient; without a path for advancement, troubles would arise.

This was the reason for the explosive increase in the number of Tushan maidens within a mere twenty years.

However, by this time, the rampant expansion of the Tushan maidens had been halted. Eighty thousand maidens were stationed in one area and had been unable to budge for several years.

Jiang Ding went through the meeting records of the Tushan maidens' central court and quickly learned about their current enemy.

Ice Snow Palace's Mu Family, along with the Yin's of Liudao Sect, had joined forces.

The two sects formed an army of a million strong, blocking the path of the Tushan maidens. Chun Jian and other maidens had led the army in numerous fierce attacks, to no avail, suffering heavy losses and casualties. Otherwise, the numbers of the Tushan maidens would have approached a hundred thousand by now.

With no other choice, a stalemate ensued.

In another direction, the Blood Cloud's Blood King Army also encountered resistance. A part of the Liudao Sect army, commanded by the Six Dao Saint Yin Dao, together with the large forces of the Joyous Union Sect's Liu Family, blocked their expansion.

And it was even more disastrous; they were forced to retreat over ten thousand li and only managed to hold on by relying on the Spiritual Vein and setting up grand formations.

Liudao Sect, Joyous Union Sect, Ice Snow Palace, three Diabolism Sects, achieved reconciliation under pressure.

"Has the contradiction within the alliance of righteousness and diabolism disappeared? That's not bad..."

Jiang Ding mumbled to himself as he perused the Tushan maidens' central court materials.

As of today, the Tushan maiden group had made a significant name for themselves in the Northern Plains, especially alluring for female cultivators. There were frequent covert intelligence reports from various collateral lineages and loose cultivators, no longer reliant on the intelligence network of the Blood King Army.

"Five years ago, the Yin's forces were continuously defeated under the assault of the Tushan maidens, their sect territories invaded, countless direct lineage cultivators perished miserably at the hands of the Tushan maidens, sect and family foundations were constantly slaughtered, teetering on the verge of collapse."

"At that time, Immortal Tianchou visited Rule Mountain's Iron Family and negotiated with the Iron Family's patriarch, Immortal Chenggui, for several months before leaving."

"Afterward, the Iron Family no longer obstructed the reforms of the various families in the alliance of allegiance and diabolism, but set a bottom line: direct lineage cultivators must retain fifty percent of interests, including Spirit Stones, Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures, Nascent Soul Opportunities—fifty percent of any family benefits.

Those who violate this will be personally exterminated by the Iron Family."

"As a result, the internal contradictions among the Northern Plains families began to ease, and the major families no longer deceitfully resisted the changes. The pressures on the various righteous armies increased manifold."