Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The armies arrange like clouds, thundering as they move.

One after another, Bright Great Halls, resplendent halos, and visions of sword clouds unfold in the sky, flying through the air with neither haste nor delay. From afar, they resembled gods on patrol, purging the sins of the mortal world.

As they passed, evil spirits and monsters were eradicated, and demons and ghosts cowered, daring not to stir any trouble.

Unconsciously, amidst the trembling of countless Cultivators and demons, Tushan Central Court’s army had been marching for several years.

Jiang Ding, closed his eyes, meditating in the Sect of Liudao, yet always kept a watchful eye on these developments.

It was indeed a helpless situation. Whether it was the Xianmen Sect navigating through the domains or the grand army of Tushan traversing within a domain, it took a long time.

It wasn’t as if two neighboring sects could just decide to fight on a whim. It necessitated spending a considerable amount of time on the move.

A war in the cultivation world often consisted of ninety-nine percent travel time.

The route choice matters as well.

For a few individuals, it is alright, but an army consisting of over a million Cultivators must depend on Spiritual Veins for travel, stopping intermittently to rest and recover.

You cannot just travel any path you wish.

This is a thought only held by cultivators who are ignorant of military strategies.

Ignoring this basic military principle of the cultivation world is possible, but one must bear the consequences of the immense consumption of Spirit Stones from the storage bags of the cultivators.

Bear in mind that these are over a million cultivators!

Even if you carried a mountain’s worth of Spirit Stones, over a million Foundation Establishment Golden Elixir Nascent Soul Monks could deplete it within a day.

And this is not about just carrying a few Spiritual Stone Mountains; it is about sustaining several years, sometimes even decades of military campaigns!

How many Spirit Stones would be needed to keep an army of over a million cultivators at their peak readiness?

No amount would be sufficient!

Thus, for short-distance sudden assaults lasting a few months, it wouldn’t be an issue. Cultivators have life tenacities stronger than cockroaches; not cultivating for a brief period wouldn’t make much difference.

But for military campaigns that cross domains within a realm, relying on Spiritual Veins is essential, which is a disadvantage for huge-scale cultivator armies.

Almost all native powers prefer to focus on individual combat strength development, and this choice is not without reason.

However, despite these disadvantages, Cultivator legions have the distinctive advantage of being able to battle beyond their levels in massive numbers, a trait that continues to attract numerous sects to pour resources into them.

It is an organizational method with clearly visible pros and cons.

After years of marching, the army under Hei Louxi from Tushan finally crossed the Northern Plains and entered the West Desert.

Looking around, the continuous grasslands gradually gave way to a sparser expanse, revealing the shape of the Gobi, with its sweeping sands resembling a desolate wasteland.

However, all Northern Plains cultivators know that beneath these vast, sandy expanses, relying on Spiritual Veins, there are numerous large and small oases scattered around, producing all kinds of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure.

In terms of richness, West Desert is not a bit less fertile than Northern Plains; the sandy desolation is merely a facade.

According to historical records, thousands of years ago, this place thrived with flourishing sects, blooming with many well-known powerhouses.

Among them, the West Desert Thousand Machine Sect was especially renowned, with the Court’s Blessed Land’s automatic Pill Concoction Formation originally coming from their craftsmanship, universally revered during the prime years of Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch.

However, this period of prosperity did not last long.

Soon, Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch encountered problems in his cultivation. The Northern Plains Families retracted their influence to within the Northern Plains, and Shuoyang himself fell into a seal.

Consequently, various sects in the West Desert gained independence and flourished for a period.

Then, the Ice Field Heavenly Monarch came into prominence, awakening from her self-imposed seal.