Chapter 179

In the footage,

Liu Mei, appearing as a quiet and charming woman, was commanding the remaining fifteen divisions of the Western Group Army to bombard the nine towering pillars in the central region west of the Western Desert with heavy artillery, leaving them teetering on the brink of collapse.

Everything was normal.

Two core disciples had once joined forces to launch a sneak attack, with zombies and ghosts falling from the sky in an endless stream, but all were forced back by Liu Mei at the cost of heavy casualties.

Even so, both core disciples of the Profound Martial Heaven Palace suffered heavy injuries and, for a short time, dared not show their faces again no matter what.

Until,

A bronze-colored giant appeared openly in the sky, a heavy pressure spreading in all directions, suppressing the continuous roar of guns and artillery on the battlefield.

The moment he appeared, across a battlefield width of five or six kilometers, countless students of the Western Group Army—whether they were at the Qi Condensation Realm or martial artists—had their heads instantly explode, turning into a sea of blood mist and bone fragments, with over ten thousand dead.

"This is a Foundation Establishment prodigy of the Nine Great Immortal Sects, with Jin Dan combat power..."

Jiang Ding held his breath.

The cultivation world is just like this; even if you defeat everyone else, as long as the highest combat power survives, nothing else counts.

"Fire!"

Liu Mei reacted instantly; aside from self-defense, over twenty thousand artillery pieces aimed at this location simultaneously and fired armor-piercing shells.

Dense white streaks covered the sky, accompanied by shrill whistling sounds, slamming into the several-zhang-tall bronze-armored giant in the sky in an instant.

The clanging sounds were incessant.

A golden tripod appeared above his head, spreading a circle of golden ripples outward.

A sense of brightness, solidity, and immortality appeared in everyone's hearts.

Dense armor-piercing shells slammed into the area around the golden tripod, colliding continuously with the golden light ripples; the golden spiritual light was constantly destroyed and then regenerated, yet it never broke!

Not until all twenty thousand-plus shells had hit and been exhausted did the spiritual light on the golden tripod dim significantly, though it looked like it could still withstand at least one more round of heavy artillery cluster bombardment.

"Jin Dan combat power, the Qi Condensation troops cannot cope with it!"

Jiang Ding felt horrified in his heart.

It seemed that they had consumed most of the Jin Dan combatant's magic power head-on, and another one or two volleys might have a chance to kill him.

But this was only if the opponent stood there and took the hits without moving!

"Eastern Extreme Demon Gate, nothing more than this!"

The golden-armored giant Xia Hou Ding said coldly.

He transformed into a golden streak of light, his speed so incredible that it reached the level that Jiang Ding and the others had only seen core disciples achieve by using their trump cards at a great cost.

This was his normal speed!

In an instant, he dodged most of the armor-piercing shells; fewer than a hundred hit him, and instead of consuming his magic power, he actually recovered a bit of it while constantly regenerating.

"Die."

Xia Hou Ding's expression was calm as he pressed a palm print downward.

The golden palm print instantly expanded to several hundred meters in size, as if cast from gold and iron, indestructible, emitting a faint light; even the palm prints and tiny fine hairs were clearly visible.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Tens of thousands of armor-piercing shells shot in from the horizon, and the golden palm print's spiritual light was constantly worn down and violently consumed, yet in the end, it still managed to crush the defense formed by three thousand Dao soldiers with one press, sending Liu Mei flying back while vomiting blood, the twelve pure white lotus flowers around her shattering.

"It's over."

Liu Mei's face revealed despair.

Because, in the sky, another golden palm print was descending at an even faster speed, with no obstacles left; the air itself seemed to solidify, and no one under the palm could move.

"Target locked, authorization."

Liu Mei instead calmed down, letting the golden palm print smash her and the armored command vehicle into a pulp of flesh.

"Authorization successful, automatically tracking all non-Immortal Sect cultivators..."

In the void,

A black dot appeared out of nowhere, detaching from a semi-spatial stealth state.

A light of destruction and law-prohibition enveloped a region of several dozen kilometers; the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became stagnant, and the power of all spells below the Jin Dan realm dropped significantly.

Qi Condensation cultivators even felt as if they had lost their magic power and could do nothing.

"Law-destroying Dao artifact!"

Xia Hou Ding, who had been calm from beginning to end, changed his expression.

In fact, before Liu Mei died, he had already begun to flee, turning into a light that even the spiritual sense of Qi Condensation cultivators could not see, diving into the ground and moving rapidly away from here at a speed much faster than a core disciple.

"Locking on, locking on..."

A pitch-black light pierced through the sea of clouds and slammed into the ground; along the way, clouds, soil, and rocks dissolved silently, like snow melting, shooting deep into the ground while still traveling at high speed.

After a moment of silence.

Boom!

A terrifying roar that shook hundreds or thousands of kilometers, endless light, endless heat, and a mushroom cloud rose up; the pitch-black law-destroying light beam irradiated everything within a range of several dozen kilometers again and again.

Any living being, whether a mortal or a high-and-mighty Foundation Establishment cultivator, as long as they were touched by a wisp of the pitch-black ray, immediately froze, their bodies rotting and dying, unable to even transcend their souls.

In an instant, within a radius of thirty kilometers, hundreds of Profound Martial Heaven Palace Foundation Establishment cultivators died, and over one hundred thousand Immortal Sect cultivators and mortals perished.

Flowers, birds, beasts, insects, trees...

Everything that could be called life was gone, and absolute silence descended upon this land.

"This is the Immortal Sect's nuclear weapon, one of the final foundations for the Immortal Sect to survive in a realm surrounded by enemies..."

Jiang Ding felt a shock in his heart and watched the recording carefully.

Fifty or sixty kilometers away, a small mound on a dirt hill struggled to bulge, and a golden tripod emerged from it, its spiritual light nearly non-existent, its body covered in charred marks like bone-attached gangrene.

It was Xia Hou Ding!

He adjusted his breathing slightly and stumbled in his flight toward the distance.

"This person actually managed to survive?!"

"Even a dozen peak Jin Dan cultivators gathered together should have died, right!"

Jiang Ding found it somewhat unbelievable, then realized why.

Liu Mei had died, and lacking effective locking means, most of the power of the Tier 3 tactical nuclear weapon had been dodged, with only a very small portion of its power acting on the opponent.

He looked heavily injured and had lost his combat power.

But if the Profound Martial Heaven Palace had targeted Tier 4 precious elixirs, it was not impossible for him to recover most of his combat power after some time.

"That is how things are."

Liu Mei sighed lightly: "A Foundation Establishment prodigy with Jin Dan combat power is truly impossible to beat, and there are no lessons to summarize; people have become arrogant, and it still doesn't work."

"It would be great if our Great Sun Sword Child could also grow up."

"According to historical records, at the same peak Foundation Establishment, the Great Sun Sword Child is much stronger than him."

"..."

Jiang Ding was speechless.

"He hasn't even reached the Qi Condensation stage yet."

An Siyan said helplessly: "Jin Lingfeng sent an order: the remaining three group armies should take advantage of the fact that this Profound Martial candidate Daoist is heavily injured to quickly destroy their respective eighteen array bases and rapidly converge toward the center, lest they be decapitated again."

"Yes!"

After destroying the nine towering pillars, they no longer attacked the core of the Western Desert but turned in a different direction.

Looking from the sky, three torrents of steel broke through the ground and converged.

(End of chapter)