Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 818 - 798: Swallowing Eleven Minor Thousand Worlds

"Hahaha, Old Liu, how do you like this feng shui treasure spot?"

"A Great Expert dug the pit, a Great Expert's blood sacrificed. That's enough face, right? Whose face could be greater than ours, brothers?"

Laughing in front of a pitch-black coffin, Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch patted the lid of the coffin, roaring with laughter, "Fellows, cheer up, let's get a banquet going, grandly and happily send our brother off..."

"Come on, sing! A friend's heart is just like..."

He strained his voice, singing a raspy, out-of-tune, and loud song, and the sound of Divine Sense echoed throughout the starry sky, carrying far and wide.

"Haha, that's the Sun Extinguisher for you!"

Many old and weathered Nascent Soul Old Masters laughed heartily, not sad at all, echoing the Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch with an out-of-date, long-forgotten old pop song.

The singing was joyful and impassioned, boisterous and majestic.

It wasn't just to wear a brave front, to comfort comrades-in-arms, but a feeling that came from the heart, without too much fear of death.

War, was what we sought.

Death, was what we were prepared for.

Crying and wailing,

what would that make us look like?

Like a little woman or a pushover, a loss of face. Are we throwing away our reputation built over so many years?

To die for the greater way, to die for the Xianmen Sects, was to die a worthy death!

After repairing and replenishing warships and Starry Sky Fortresses, and restocking the cultivator soldiers, a little over a month passed and the Star Sky Army returned to its peak state.

The injuries that the Great Expert of Xuanwu tiangong had desperately inflicted before had vanished without a trace.

To the outside world, this was terrifying.

Unkillable, indestructible, for every one killed, just as many were replenished. The tremendous price you paid, the risks taken to inflict damage, healed in the blink of an eye.

"All fleets, pay attention, all officers and soldiers, pay attention, cease all cultivation activities, do not leave the cabins..."

"The fleet is transitioning..."

The voice of the Array Spirit of the Star Sky Army broadcasted once again.

The journey of the expeditionary army had begun anew.

Jiang Ding followed the Starry Sky Fleet. In a situation where the ground forces of Xuanwu tiangong inside and outside had been completely destroyed, and the Seven Great Immortal Sects' armies didn't enter the fray, he could say it was smooth sailing.

Whichever Small World they descended upon, they could eliminate resistance in the starry sky of the Small World in the shortest time, dispatching landing troops to enter.

Under Jiang Ding's lead, the ground forces of Xuanwu tiangong without the Xuanwu Daoists were simply no match.

The landing operations of the North Air Space Army were mere military drills, and the ground forces summoned by Xuanwu tiangong from its various subordinate forces couldn't make any difference except for dragging out time with the Boundary Formation.

One after another, the Minor Thousand Worlds of Xuanwu tiangong were occupied by the Xianmen Sects, and the power accumulated over thousands of years burst forth at this moment, swallowing domains and sweeping through all obstacles.

All the great Immortal Sects were shaken.

In the meeting ground of the alliance, negotiations between the Eight Great Immortal Sects and Xuanwu tiangong were happening with increased urgency, almost every five days, then every three days.

The two sides argued fiercely over every detail, every bit of division of interest, both wishing to quickly reach an agreement to send out troops and curb the crazy expansion of the Eastern Devil School.

Alas, in the world, interests are the most troubling of all.

Changes of interests that involve the situations of thousands of domains are not things that can be negotiated in a hurry. Even the most eloquent cultivators are of no use; worn blisters won't influence the ownership of a single Spirit Stone.

It was all because the Seven Great Immortal Sects' appetites were too big, opening their mouths to demand that Xuanwu tiangong relinquish the accumulation of Incense Fire of many tens of thousands of years, ceding dozens of Small Worlds, reducing to no more than the safety limit of fifteen Small Worlds.

The Seven Great Immortal Sects deemed this to be reasonable.

Don't think that Xuanwu tiangong has ceded so much territory. On average, each Immortal Sect only received three Small Worlds. Is this benefit enough to compensate for the potential losses of a domain life-and-death war?

This is a matter that concerns the life and death of Masters of Refining Nothingness!

With such risk, are three Small Worlds too many?

Not at all!

This is still considering the fact that they are from the same origin, a concession given for the sake of saving face. Otherwise, if they joined forces to attack and destroy the weakened Xuanwu tiangong, and then backstab the Eastern Devil School, wouldn't they gain even more?

The concessions were already substantial.

What was Xuanwu tiangong thinking, then?

The Eastern Devil School may be crazed, but now they have only consumed seven of my Small Worlds. You claim to be allies, but at the drop of a hat, you want to take away more than twenty of my Small Worlds. A threefold loss, and you're asking me to dissolve the power of faith in Incense Fire that I have accumulated over tens of thousands of years, effectively crippling myself.

Have you gone mad or do you think Xuanwu tiangong is as foolish as pigs and dogs?

Both sides have fundamental conflicts of interest. If one side doesn't compromise, negotiations are simply impossible.

In this situation, the Seven Great Immortal Sects kept deploying troops and making extensive war preparations, opting to watch with indifference and without a lack of patience.

Time passed, and the situation in the domain rapidly evolved.

Before anyone knew it,

another twenty years had gone by.

The Immortal Sect Expeditionary Army had continued to destroy four of Xuanwu tiangong's Minor Thousand Worlds, turning them into an inherent part of the Immortal Sects' territory.

During this period, after much contemplation, the great experts of Xuanwu tiangong chose to deploy a massive number of Divinity Transformation Cultivators and Nascent Soul Monks, as well as countless Golden Core Foundation Builders, into several Small Worlds and a vast meteorite belt and lightless planets in the star domain. They set up the Star River Xuanwu Great Formation in an attempt to block the Immortal Sects' attacks.

The Immortal Sect Expeditionary Army did not retreat but directly assaulted the defensive line of Xuanwu tiangong.

In that battle, starry skies dimmed, the heavens shattered, fleets of warships and fighters, along with ancient palaces and pavilions, were destroyed. Blood was spilled across the star domain, and several Small Worlds were pushed far away by the aftermath of the war, shifting from their original coordinates.

Nearly a million citizens fell in battle for the Immortal Sects!

This included a vast number of Nascent Soul and Golden Core Monks, over ten Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarchs, and a multitude of Forbidden Nuclear Weapons were launched, creating vast expanses of radiated Land of Absolute Spirits where Nascent Soul Monks died upon contact.

The outcome was the death of nearly one hundred Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarchs from Xuanwu tiangong, countless more Nascent Soul and Golden Core Cultivators, three hundred and sixty Protector Deity Generals wilted away, and Masters of Refining Nothingness were gravely injured and fled.

The star domain quivered in terror as Xuanwu tiangong no longer had any defensible positions. The last of their field forces was lost, leaving a vast number of Minor Thousand Worlds like lambs ready for slaughter, ripe for the picking.

In such a state, panic was rampant throughout Xuanwu tiangong, and their stance was no longer firm.

In the negotiations, they made significant concessions, even more so than what the Seven Great Immortal Sects initially demanded. They were willing to settle for keeping just ten Minor Thousand Worlds.

They could no longer concern themselves with so much!

Otherwise, they feared there might be a calamity that would lead to their sect's extermination!

All the Cultivators would die under the assault of the Eastern Devil School, and the Ancestor Masters' lineage would be severed!

The pace of negotiations among the Eight Great Immortal Sects accelerated considerably, with powerful binding covenants already drafted, just waiting for the signatures of the eight Masters of Refining Nothingness to take effect.

At that point, the Eight Sects Allied Army could immediately be established, attacking together like they did many years ago when they besieged the Great Sun Sword Pavilion. All necessary regulations and systems were already in place.

However, at this moment, the Immortal Sects' expeditionary forces halted their advance.

The expeditionary force did not seize the Minor Thousand Worlds that were close at hand and easily within their grasp. Instead, they sent a peace treaty proposing a cease-fire to Xuanwu tiangong.

Moreover, it was a treaty supervised and executed by the Central Array Spirit Computer, whose reliability was beyond question.

If the cessation treaty could be signed, both sides would immediately cease hostilities, and Xuanwu tiangong would only lose the current eleven Small Worlds while still retaining thirty Minor Thousand Worlds. The Sect's power of faith in Incense Fire, accumulated over tens of thousands of years, would still be preserved.

They would remain the strongest dominant power in the domain, with the largest territory and the most potential.

The impending covenant of the Eight Sects came to a sudden halt.