Chapter 177: The Immortal Sect Army Is Not an Individual's Army

"Is it suitable..."

"To place one's own safety above all else, as expected of a Xu family descendant..."

"Not fellow travelers..."

Without hiding anything, many high-level officers communicated rapidly under An Siyan's leadership.

"What are you doing?! This is offending superiors!"

"You will all get zero points!"

Xu Jianian realized something, a look of panic appearing in his eyes, and he said fiercely: "Without me, it is absolutely impossible for you to obtain the final victory."

No one answered his words.

"Ding! Eastern Group Army Chief of Staff, An Siyan, initiated a military meeting."

Jiang Ding, who was diving silently, received a new notification and joined in.

This was the first military meeting not initiated by him since Xu Jianian took over as the temporary General of the Eastern Group Army.

"Chief of Staff An Siyan initiated the topic, a proposal to impeach the temporary General of the Eastern Group Army, Xu Jianian, and report it to the superior command department for approval."

"Agree/Disagree."

This was a vote that only officers at the regiment level and above could participate in.

If passed, it would be submitted to the superior Frontline Committee in the form of a document for approval; if passed by the superior Frontline Committee, it would form a resolution; if not passed, it would be returned.

Without violating the overall strategy, superiors would generally respect the opinions from below.

"You are offending superiors!"

"How could the Immortal Sect have students like you, future soldiers?!!!"

"Practical exam zero points, all zero points!"

Xu Jianian roared and shouted incessantly, but unfortunately, no one paid attention to him.

Jiang Ding cast a vote in favor, and most other high-level officers did the same; the proposal was quickly passed and sent to the Frontline Military Committee for review.

"Ding!"

"The Frontline Military Committee made a decision, 6 in favor, 1 against, passing the impeachment of student Xu Jianian from the position of temporary General of the Eastern Group Army, and appointing student Xu Jianian as the commander of the 1st Division of the Eastern Group Army."

"Dismiss student An Siyan from the position of Chief of Staff of the Eastern Group Army, appoint student An Siyan as the temporary General of the Eastern Group Army, and the Chief of Staff will be succeeded by the original commander of the 1st Division."

"I disagree! Refuse to take office!"

Xu Jianian roared, his face twisted beyond recognition.

"Fire! Bomb these rebels who offend superiors to death!"

The barrels of the seventy-two tanks directly under his command moved slightly, but they quickly reacted and didn't make any move.

Xu Si and the other seven were startled, immediately wanting to take action.

"Quiet!"

A cold sword intent descended, and the seven people's bodies stiffened.

"Do you want to refuse military orders?"

An Siyan's expression didn't change, and she said faintly.

"Resisting orders on the battlefield?"

"I..."

Xu Jianian was about to roar something, but his heart turned cold.

He didn't know how many gun barrels were slightly adjusted, aiming here.

"... Yes!"

He said with difficulty.

Even as a direct descendant of the Xu family's Nascent Soul, he didn't have no competitors in the family, and he couldn't easily obtain everything; the college entrance exam score was very important to him.

He had a premonition that if he had any more irrational behavior, zero points and death would be the only results.

"Hahaha!"

Yellow-Haired True Lord watched with great amusement.

"Inbreeding leads to this result."

"In just two thousand years, the third generation, the original Soul Transformation cultivator whose aptitude, will, and comprehension were all top-notch and extraordinary, his most excellent descendants have already degenerated to this point."

"Like a mentally retarded person, having stayed in the family private army for too long, thinking that everywhere is his father and mother, all pampering him."

"The drawbacks of the family."

Dinghai True Lord shook his head: "Selected from at most a few hundred people, no matter how you cultivate, it's just like that; however, I heard that the mortals breeding in the Xu realm have reached billions, all of whom have a trace of Xu family bloodline; perhaps there will be changes after this."

"Or accepting top geniuses to marry into the family, these are all possible."

"Hehe, I bet not."

Yellow-Haired True Lord disagreed: "Those two people are selfish to the extreme, trapped in the narrow perspective of bloodline; after all, in terms of bloodline, people in the Immortal Sect all came from the same ancestor a million years ago."

"The son of a mouse will dig a hole; their descendants are naturally the same, and they won't allow outsiders or collateral branches to invade their interests."

"And even if there are a few top geniuses, how can they compare to the talents cultivated by the Immortal Sect?"

"I also understand what happened back then."

Yellow-Haired True Lord revealed a trace of coldness.

"If it weren't for the obstruction of the Profound Martial Heaven Palace and several old monsters hidden in the dark, plus the need to hide one's light and bide one's time, not causing the collective hostility of the remaining eight great Immortal Sects, they would have paid a certain price to bomb those two to death long ago."

"They also have their uses."

"Since the nails were buried, the eight great Immortal Sects originally had contradictions, and it was difficult to make up their minds to unite, so the Immortal Sect truly gained a very long period of development time."

The tank main force and infantry units passed through the steel pontoon bridge slowly, and no accidents happened again.

Half a day later, the iron torrent reorganized into eighteen divisions arrived within a forty-kilometer range of the Changhe Qingse Jianzong mountain gate; under artillery cover, the drone obtained relevant intelligence.

Jiang Ding observed the reconnaissance images carefully.

The mountain gate was not high, just over a thousand meters, surrounded by thirty-three jade belt rivers, a scene of birds singing and flowers fragrant, full of vitality, making people doubt that this was not a desert, but in the Jiangnan water town.

It was just that the ruins all over the mountain gate, and several deep holes over a hundred meters wide ruined this peaceful scene, instead having a sense of horror.

On a remaining corner,

An earthy-yellow mountain gate protective shield lit up, relying on a Tier 3 spirit vein, reaching the level of quasi-Tier 3, indestructible.

Nine earthy-yellow towering giant pillars shot out from the mountain gate, straight into the clouds, with mysterious runes flickering inside, and Dao sounds lingering.

Profound Martial Heaven Palace, a corner of the Four Extremes Boundary-Setting Formation!

"Construct a Tier 2 electromagnetic fluctuation formation."

An Siyan ordered.

It was not randomly assigning one or two divisions to do it, but screening those with formation expertise in the army, organizing those with expertise, those with calculation expertise, and matching them into a team to do it; the efficiency was much higher than before.

Apparently, she was more familiar with the Immortal Sect's army, deeply understanding everyone who had more value.

Four hours later, the formation was constructed, and backup formations were made in several other directions, so even if one place was destroyed, it would not affect the spirit radar sensing accuracy.

"Ready!"

"Fire!"

Over eighteen thousand cannons fired, the roar shaking the desert for tens of kilometers.

Boom!

The Changhe Qingse Jianzong's quasi-Tier 3 formation wavered, the spiritual light flickering, relying on the Tier 3 spirit vein, much stronger than other formations, and still had the energy to shoot out earth spears, each one comparable to a full-strength strike of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

It was just a pity that the spiritual sense attack distance of a Golden Core early-stage cultivator was only ten kilometers, far exceeding Foundation Establishment cultivators, but it could not cause any damage to the Immortal Sect units forty kilometers away.

Boom!

It was another round of volleys; the fixed mountain gate could not perform any dodging, and could only resist hard with countless earth-line spells, stone walls, stone spears, stone pillars... and so on, equivalent to dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators forming a formation and attacking together, barely blocking the attack.

Boom! Boom boom!

Third round, fourth round... seventh round!

The mountain gate earth-line formation collapsed in the wild bombardment, countless building fragments and corpses splashed outward, the thousand-meter-high mountain gate was flattened layer by layer, until there was no longer any vitality, and even a little green was a luxury.

The nine towering giant pillars collapsed with a bang.

At the same time, after changing the commander, Jiang Ding resigned from the duty of close protection, silently bypassing the constantly collapsing Changhe Qingse Jianzong mountain gate, patrolling nearby, sensing enemies with sword intent.

Hum!

The flying sword vibrated, outlining a dwarf-like person in the spiritual sense, hiding in layers of formations, full of unwillingness, looking toward the center of the iron torrent from time to time, very reluctant.

"Didn't leave?"

"His life-blood magic treasure!"

"This is very important to him, perhaps related to the magic treasure for advancing to the Golden Core realm and future potential, or even the key to advancing to the Golden Core realm."

Jiang Ding thought of the gray spike in the storage jade pendant, thoughtful.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 178 =====