Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

For several tens of kilometers around, the destructive, forbidden light enveloped the area, causing the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi to stagnate unbearably, and the power of magic below the Golden Pellet Realm diminished greatly.

Qi Practitioners even felt as if they had lost their mana, powerless to do anything.

”Magic Arts-Annihilation Instruments!”

Xia Houding, who had been utterly calm from the beginning, changed his expression dramatically.

In fact, even before Liu Mei’s death, he had already begun to flee, transforming into a beam of light that not even the Divine Sense of a Qi Practitioner could detect, diving into the ground and rapidly moving away from the scene at a much faster speed than that of the core true disciples.

”Locking on, locking on...”

A pitch-black light shot through the sea of clouds and slammed into the ground, silently dissolving the clouds and soil along its path, melting like ice and snow, deeply piercing the ground and still moving at high speed.

After a moment of silence.

Boom!

A terrifying roar that shook hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometers, an endless light, an endless heat, a mushroom cloud rose, and the black light of elimination shone over and over again, covering everything within several tens of kilometers.

Any living being, whether mortal or high and mighty Foundation-building, if touched even by a wisp of the black ray, would instantly stiffen, their bodies decaying and dying, the soul unable to escape.

In an instant, within a thirty-kilometer radius, hundreds of cultivators Foundation Establishment from Xuanwu Heavenly Palace perished, along with over a hundred thousand Xianmen cultivators and mortals.

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

All that could be considered life ceased to exist, and absolute silence fell upon the land.

”This is the nuclear weapon of the Immortal Sects, one of the final reserves that sustained the Immortal Sects’ survival amidst encircling enemies...”

Jiang Ding was shaken, watching the recording closely.

Some fifty or sixty kilometers away, a Soil Mountain struggled to rise, forming a small mound, and a Golden Ding emerged from within, its Spiritual Light nearly gone and its body covered with burn marks like a persistent ulcer.

It was indeed Xia Houding!

After a brief moment to gather his breath, his Escape Light wobbled as he flew into the distance.

”This person actually survived?!”

”Even if a dozen or more at the Golden Pill Peak were gathered together, they should have died, right?”

Jiang Ding was astonished but soon understood.

Liu Mei was dead, lacking effective locking mechanisms, and the bulk of the third-order tactical nuclear weapon’s power had been evaded, leaving only a small part affecting the target.

He appeared seriously wounded, bereft of combat power.

But if the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace had targeted fourth-order magic pills, it wasn’t impossible that he could recover most of his fighting strength after some time.

”So that’s what happened.”

Liu Mei sighed lightly, ”A prodigy in foundation building, with Golden Core battle power, indeed unbeatable, and there’s not much in the way of lessons or experience to draw upon when one is so arrogant, yet still lacking.”

”If only our Sect’s Dari Swordsman could grow up as well.”

”According to historical records, even at the Peak of Foundation Building, the Dari Swordsman was much stronger than him.”

”...”

Jiang Ding was speechless.

”He hasn’t even reached the Qi Practicing Phase.”

An Siyan said helplessly, ”Jin Lingfeng has sent orders for the remaining troops of the three groups to quickly destroy their eighteen Array Bases while this Xuanwu Substitute Daoist is seriously injured, and rapidly converge on the center to avoid being decapitated again.”

”Yes!”

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

Seen from the sky, three torrents of an Iron Tide broke through the ground, converging and moving forward.