Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 816 - 796: A Citizen Dies for the Ideal of the Immortal Path_2

Hum!

A vast expanse of space was enveloped in white light, a teleportation method reserved by the Starry Sky Troops, now activated, making Jiang Ding vanish from sight.

Several breaths later,

In the northern region of the Spirit Fire Realm, turbulent spatial patterns appeared, revealing a youth amid the glow.

Jiang Ding looked around.

Lava, churning lava, with terrifying high temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius. The Spirit Fire Realm was already hot, but here it was taken to an extreme where ordinary beings would die upon contact.

Red Magma Sea.

That was the name of this place in the northern Spirit Fire Realm, known in ancient legends as a forbidden area, from which no Fire Spirit Clan member who entered had ever returned.

In fact, this place was not barren.

Many high-rank fire-attribute Spirit Beasts and Spiritual Plants grew here, thriving and reproducing. The weakest of them were at the Foundation Establishment level, naturally adapted to flames, capable of freely moving through lava without being affected.

Jiang Ding looked into the distance.

Thirty-six Xuanwu Heavenly Pillars rose and fell in the sea of magma, casting streams of power into the starry sky as anchors, providing strength for the three hundred and sixty Protector Deity Generals' Army Formation and Masters of Refining Nothingness outside the realm to wield the power of heaven and earth more swiftly and swiftly, a major advantage in the terrain of war.

"Ship Spirit, start Formation Method calculations..."

Jiang Ding, for a moment, forgot everything else as his Divine Sense and Sword Intent rapidly scanned every Array Base.

Inside the Sea of Consciousness, the Divine Soul was operating at high speed. Every detail of the Black Tortoise Boundary Array rapidly emerged in the Sea of Consciousness, being supplemented and perfected to form a three-dimensional model of the Formation Method. The Divine Soul was connected to the Super Sun Vessel Spirit, calculating something.

In a silent moment, a shadow surfaced from the magma at his feet.

A giant maw burning with flames stealthily opened, its razor-sharp and bright-red teeth the size of mountains, opening wide to swallow the youth in the sky in one gulp from below.

The speed was extremely fast, too quick to be seen in the blink of an eye.

Lava flowed from between the teeth and the body sank back into the lava, creating a massive splash of a magma wave.

The moment it leaped out of the lava lake, the appearance of the molten giant beast was revealed.

Branded Blood Beast.

This was a notorious giant beast within the bounds of the lava sea. While only at the peak Golden Pill realm, it leveraged the terrain to be a match for a Nascent Soul Immortal, worshipped as a true deity by many clans of the Fire Spirit Clan, willingly sacrificing blood as an offering in exchange for momentary peace.

"Roar!"

Having swallowed a tasty morsel, the Branded Blood Beast roared joyfully, showing off its dominance, with all the beasts nearby submitting, trembling with fear.

The next moment,

Hiss!

The body of the Branded Blood Beast stiffened, and a look of horror appeared in its eyes the size of wagons.

"Supreme Immortal, spare my life! Innocence through ignorance..."

The voice of a child emerged from the beast as massive as a mountain, pleasant and crisp like those favored by the Heavenly Palace Immortals.

Hiss!

A streak of Blue-Gold Sword Qi pierced its skull, showing through its scales.

Hiss hiss hiss!

Then, one after another, dense streams of Blue-Gold Sword Qi burst forth from its tail, eyes, limbs, back, belly, piercing through its whole body, shattering every inch of skin that still held life, obliterating any vestige of living flesh and destroying all traces of Divine Soul within it, leaving nothing behind.

The youth remained in a daze within the shattered skull, unaffected, all his attention devoted to rapid calculations, with only the active defensive Sword Qi shield being triggered to eliminate any outside influence on himself.

A dozen or so breaths later, his eyes started to show a spark of life.

"Nine major flaws, Boundary Method nodes..."

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

What's called a 'flaw' in a Formation Method isn't necessarily a weakness, but on the contrary, might be even more solid, like the supporting pillars of a house, specially reinforced. The more ingenious the Formation Method, the more likely this is the case.

The Boundary Formation of Xuanwu tiangong was ingeniously crafted.

However, Xuanwu tiangong's regular troops had already been annihilated, and the cultivators currently here were too unfamiliar with it, brought in from various Small Worlds and with limited skill and coordination in Formation Methods.

"Nine, that's enough."

Clang!

Jiang Ding drew his sword.

Boom!

In the sky, the sea of clouds split and dissolved as nine resplendent Great Suns rose, casting their brilliance upon the sky and earth, declaring their will to the world.

Destruction!

Forbidden Law! Destruction!

Under the radiance of the nine Great Suns, even the creatures of the Fire Spirit Realm, commonly resistant to heat and adaptable to high temperatures, found it futile!

This was a terrifying attack on the Divine Soul, inflicting unbearable agony upon any creature it touched, as if their flesh and blood sizzled in the midst of a fierce inferno.

"Destroy!"

Boom!

Boom!

The nine Great Suns, each following a dazzling trajectory, violently crashed into the Black Tortoise Boundary Array, shattering array patterns wherever they fell; the Suns exploded, unleashing waves of scorching Sword Qi that devastated everything in their path.

Golden Core Foundation Building Cultivators, array bases, array instruments—all were obliterated under the Sword Qi, reduced to ashes and annihilation.

Again and again, the nine Great Suns repeatedly hammered into the Formation Method, obliterating all signs of life, anything that still stood above the magma.

Crack!

Crack crack...

Thirty-six top-tier pillars of the Xuanwu crumbled in succession, shattering to pieces, and the anchor point of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace in this realm lost a critical corner.

The cultivators within, either surrender to be spared from death or die alongside the collapse of the pillars of Xuanwu—heavenly Palace; there was no second option.

"Yun Ri, the array diagram."

Jiang Ding ordered the Super Sun Vessel to unfold the Star Boundary Array diagram before him.

Without pausing for a moment, he drew one after another heat-resistant engineering machine puppet, as tall as buildings, from his Storage Jade Pendant, totaling over fifty thousand.

Jiang Ding infused his Divine Sense into these engineering machine puppets, deeply excavating the magma's earth, solidifying lava to form mountains, organizing the Earth Veins and Spiritual Energy, and planting Array Flags...

Such tasks, a single person performing the work of tens or hundreds of thousands, and with high efficiency at that.

Strong cultivators,

Not only excel in fighting but also in labor—both fierce and vigorous!

Tilling and warring.

To fight and to till, such is the essence of civilization.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

It wasn't just Jiang Ding at work; the Taiqing Flying Sword was also busy. Born to a family in hardship, having learned to cook, wash dishes, and clean from a young age, it worked on the Formation Method with great proficiency, zipping back and forth, bustling busily, transporting materials, employing magic to solidify magma into mountains, and quickly crafting Array Flags...remarkably fast and fine work.

Boom!

Yun Ri wasn't idle either, using the Magnetic Cloud Splitting Star Cannon to bombard precise locations, creating straight deep pits, preventing the backflow of magma; these would become one of the bases for the Immortal Sect Star Boundary Array.

A man, a sword, and a warship, unleashed in frenzy—mana and Divine Sense erupting to hastily accomplish task after task, wishing to utilize even each strand of hair to hasten the formation speed by even a fraction of a moment, to gain the slightest edge in the Starry Sky War.

In such frenetic infrastructure building, the speed of array construction accelerated dramatically.

One month, and it was complete.

This pace could only be described as terrifying; a single person had done the work of hundreds of thousands of well-trained Xianmen cultivators, which typically took them two months to finish—on par with the Earthworks Daoist.

Bloodshot eyes filled Jiang Ding's gaze as he placed the final Mana Technique.

Hum!

Hum hum!

The earth shook, the magma sea roiled and boiled as if stirred, and the fire-attribute demon insects and beasts frantically fled, sensing an inexplicable pressure.

Subsequently, red pillars of stars emerged from the magma sea, ascending slowly to the sky, breaking through the clouds, and piercing into the starry sky, establishing a connection with the stars of Zhou Tian.

Hum!

Half a day late, thunders of a similar kind resonated from the other three directions, where pillars of stars thrust into the heavens, converging to form one, bridging stars and firmly securing control of the realm.

In the Starry Sky Battlefield, the Immortal Gate Formation had gained additional power, anchored by an entire Minor Thousand World.

"That's all I can do..."

"I am too weak!"

Jiang Ding took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to look at the various shadows that kept appearing in the sky, clearing his mind of distractions, and sat down to cultivate in the lotus position.

In the sky, the scene of the Starry Sky Battle occasionally reflected and appeared, with warships breaking apart, war machines emitting mournful cries, crashing into the Boundary Wall and Realm Thunder Layer, becoming fireworks and incinerating into oblivion.

The citizens faced death with resolve and sacrifice, passionate and spirited, regardless of being Foundation Establishment Golden Elixir or Nascent Soul to Divine Transformation; yet he was helpless, unable to do anything but wait quietly.

Should the moment come when Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch sent news of defeat, he would say his final farewells to An Siyan and others, then abandon his physical body, unify his Divine Soul with the Taiqing Flying Sword, and, with the help of the Dharma-Ending City Imprint, flee this world, leaving behind a sliver of a seed.

Waiting for the coming thousands, tens of thousands of years to revive his people's Immortal Sect.