Chapter 1013: Killing Calamity

Boom, boom, boom!!!

The divine might of the Rune Cannons once again left Wang Jian and the others shocked, each of them dumbfounded; the power of the Rune Cannons that Su Fan had refined earlier was simply terrifying.

That mountain peak was instantly blasted into smithereens.

As for blasting apart a mountain peak, Wang Jian and the others actually did not care, for after all, people like them could easily shatter a mountain as well.

Moving mountains and overturning seas was nothing to them.

Yet at this moment, the one erupting with such divine might was actually an inanimate object, and it was a Golden Core-level cultivator who, by relying on this inanimate object, erupted with the power of the Refining Spirit Realm.

Wang Jian and the others certainly knew that cultivators could also use magic treasures to erupt with stronger power beyond their level, but those were magic treasures.

And they were not ordinary magic treasures either.

Wang Jian and the others were very clear about the preciousness of magic treasures; even for them, what they used were merely Divine Weapons. Although their power was similar to magic treasures, when comparing some of the functions of magic treasures, Divine Weapons were actually a bit inferior; Divine Weapons were relatively singular.

Of course, as Martial Dao powerhouses, their need for magic treasures was not great; it was those Immortal Dao cultivators who had a greater need for magic treasures.

Right now, the power erupted by this inanimate object was even more terrifying than ordinary magic treasures, which was something everyone had not expected.

More importantly, they saw this row of dozens of Rune Cannons, which meant that this thing could be manufactured on a scale.

This was very terrifying.

Of course, they soon discovered that the power of these things called cannons was different.

The strongest one could erupt with the divine might of the Refining Spirit Realm, while the others were all ordinary, yet compared to the power of those Arrows and Crossbows, their lethality and explosive power were still more than ten times greater.

With their eyes, they estimated that these ordinary cannons, if one shot were fired directly into the center of an enemy army, could at least take out dozens or hundreds of people; of course, if they encountered the Military Qi formed by a Military Formation, the power might be weakened a little.

But even so, they could imagine that the effect and scene of these thousand cannons firing together in the future would definitely be far more terrifying than ten thousand arrows fired at once.

As veteran generals in the army, Wang Jian and his son saw at a glance that the effect achieved by these Rune Cannons on the battlefield would be absolutely extraordinary.

It was equivalent to a cultivator legion releasing various divine abilities within the great army to kill the enemy.

Cultivators were very powerful, especially their divine abilities, which also posed a great threat on the battlefield.

However, in reality, even though it was known that those cultivators were more powerful than martial generals who practiced Martial Dao in terms of large-scale lethality, these cultivators were still rarely seen on the battlefield.

Or rather, there were almost none.

The reason there were none was also because cultivators killing on the battlefield harmed humanity, and even the Heavenly Dao.

When the time came, Heaven would send down disasters, and almost no one could survive this calamity.

In the ancient era, when Xuanyuan and Chiyou were competing for the position of Human Emperor, those immortals and gods personally descended to the world to assist Xuanyuan, causing immense slaughter.

The baleful Qi of the calamity clung to them, eventually forming the Fengshen Calamity.

In the ancient era, when cultivators became immortals, there were no such calamities, and even the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations did not exist; the only Thunder Tribulation was the Transformation Tribulation.

When the living beings of the Ten Thousand Races transformed, they had to face the Thunder Tribulation sent down by the Heavenly Dao; if they survived, they could transform.

Of course, for those like the Three Pure Ones, who were born with Merit, they naturally did not need to undergo the Transformation Thunder Tribulation and could transform directly.

Moreover, once they transformed, their cultivation would reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal level, though of course, such great divine beings were not many.

But after the Battle of Fengshen, the Honghuang shattered, and the Heavenly Dao became increasingly strict with cultivators; perhaps the world could not withstand so many cultivators, so the Heavenly Dao sent down disasters, and only after surviving them could one have the opportunity to break through to higher realms.

And if one could not survive, one could only die and have their Dao dissipate, and their entire cultivation would become nourishment for the world, which was considered settling the karma with the Honghuang, and was very fair.

It was precisely because of this, with the constraints of the Heavenly Dao, that most cultivators, at least Immortal Dao cultivators, dared not easily slaughter those mortal beings.

Once there was large-scale slaughter, the disasters sent down by Heaven and Earth when eventually undergoing the tribulation would be very terrifying.

This was also the reason why the Thunder Tribulations of the Demonic Path and those Evil Path cultivators were often more terrifying than those of other cultivators.

In the Earth Immortal World, everything you have done is recorded by the Heavenly Dao; it is not that there is no retribution, but that the time has not yet come.

Once a Thunder Tribulation or a calamity descends, most will die and have their Dao dissipate.

And the slaughter of the human world was something countless cultivators stayed far away from; no one wanted to become the next Chan Sect or Jie Sect.

The battles of mortal humans were their own business; as for those martial generals in the army, they did not care.

After all, they were already deep within the baleful Qi of the calamity, and for their Martial Dao cultivation, especially for some, the stronger the baleful Qi, the faster their cultivation improved.

These martial generals themselves were combined with the Qi of Luck of the dynasty; they were closely linked to the dynasty, and as long as the dynasty was not destroyed, Heaven and Earth would not send down any killing calamity.

After all, slaughter by martial generals was the norm, and once the dynasty was destroyed, most of the martial generals would also fall along with the dynasty.

As for those who did not fall and could survive the killing calamity sent down by Heaven and Earth, they were also very powerful.

For example, many martial generals among the Six States actually surrendered to the Great Qin later and were protected by the Great Qin's Qi of Luck; they did not even suffer from Thunder Tribulations.

Therefore, martial generals were different from cultivators; the disasters they suffered from their slaughter were actually not great.

But cultivators were different, so before the various states, there were also many cultivators, especially after the Hundred Schools of Thought flourished; those cultivators appeared frequently, but few dared to personally enter the battlefield to participate in the fighting.

The first reason was that the battlefield was very dangerous, and even immortals had the possibility of falling.

Secondly, on the battlefield, baleful Qi permeated, which easily affected the minds of cultivators, and cultivators practiced by absorbing the Pure Spiritual Qi of the Nine Heavens.

Whereas on the battlefield, there was only the turbid Earth Sha Qi, which was poison to cultivators.

Only those of the Martial Dao, who tempered their physiques, could absorb this turbid Earth Sha Qi and not fear the baleful Qi.

Finally, there was the issue of excessive slaughter triggering disasters sent down by Heaven and Earth; it was fine as long as they were protected by the dynasty's Qi of Luck.

Once they lost the protection of the dynasty, they were finished.

Moreover, for cultivators undergoing the Immortal Tribulation, even the dynasty's Qi of Luck could not protect them, unless they were unwilling to strike at the path of the Immortal.

But it was impossible for cultivators not to strike at the Earth Immortal Realm.

After all, there was a huge difference in lifespan between the Earth Immortal Realm and the Refining Spirit Realm; what did cultivators cultivate for, if not to live longer?

If it were not to live longer, why would they work so hard to strike at higher realms?

For the sake of power and desire, even in the Refining Spirit Realm, one could live very comfortably in the Great Qin.