Chapter 66: What Is That!
“Target: a hundred li off the coast of Tiangong Island. Xu Jin’s Barrage, saturation strike!”
“Beep beep. Acknowledged. Beginning deployment now.”
As Jiangxin’s mechanical, indifferent voice fell, a brilliant radiance flashed across its body and rapidly spread outward.
At the same time, within the thick clouds above Tiangong Island, star-like points emerged one after another.
But if one looked closely, they would find those were no stars at all.
Rather, they were silver tubes gleaming with a terrifying luster under the morning sun!
“Click, click!”
Then, dense and piercing sounds rang out without end.
From within each of those tubes, pitch-black metal rods materialized.
The entire sky above Tiangong Island was filled with the terrifying, ear-splitting sound of mechanical gears.
Not only did the Chaotian Sect hear it, even the rapidly approaching Heavenly Saber Sect cultivators heard it.
“What’s that sound?”
Ancestor Lidao frowned.
His divine sense had already swept the surrounding area, and there were no cultivators or demonic beasts present.
Yet that sound seemed not far off, and it truly existed.
“I don’t know. It sounds like some kind of mechanism operating.”
A Heavenly Saber Sect elder responded respectfully.
“A mechanism operating?”
Ancestor Lidao frowned.
Could there be some kind of formation puppet on Tiangong Island?
At this thought, though doubt remained in his heart, he still gave the order in a low voice.
“Keep advancing. Pay it no mind.”
But out of caution, he still released his divine sense to probe Tiangong Island, two hundred li away.
A Nascent Soul cultivator’s divine sense was powerful; the distance already spanned tens of thousands of meters.
But at this moment they were still two hundred li from Tiangong Island, which converted to a full hundred thousand meters. There was no way to probe anything at all.
They could only accelerate.
Two hundred li. A hundred and eighty li. A hundred and fifty li…
Only at a hundred li did Ancestor Lidao’s mid-stage Nascent Soul divine sense finally detect a blurry image of Tiangong Island.
Yet he found nothing unusual, until he slowly shifted his perception above the canopy of clouds.
A vast expanse of rod-shaped objects suddenly appeared within his divine sense.
“What is that thing?”
Ancestor Lidao’s pupils violently contracted, and he cried out in alarm.
“Are those puppets? No…”
“Those things, how can they be moving?!”
“No—scatter, quickly!”
In the divine sense image, those densely packed rod-shaped objects were spinning at high speed without end, like a vortex.
As blue flame erupted from their tails, those rod-shaped objects actually burst through the clouds and hurtled straight toward them!
“Boom…”
In the next instant, a terrifying shockwave erupted, sweeping across heaven and earth.
“Whoosh, whoosh!”
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”
“Shoo shoo shoo…”
In that instant, countless dazzling blue beams swept in all directions.
Streak after streak of blue light wrapped around pitch-black metal rods, tearing through the void like arrows!
The sky was filled with blue beams as if without end, endlessly surging forth.
In just a few breaths, thick pitch-black metal rods descended from the heavens, smashing viciously toward the Heavenly Saber Sect cultivators.
Though Ancestor Lidao had warned them in advance, the distance of a hundred li was nearly a blink of an eye for a Tier-Three Skybase Weapon.
So even though the Heavenly Saber Sect cultivators reacted in time, they were still struck head-on by tens of thousands of black metal rods!
“BOOM!”
“BOOM!”
“BOOM BOOM BOOM!”
With a chain of violent explosions.
One flying Dharma Ship after another burst apart, reduced to fragments!
At the same time, the disciples aboard all exploded into waves of blood and flesh.
At this moment, whether Golden Core True Monarch or Foundation Establishment True Person, they were as fragile as tofu.
Broken at a touch.
One flying Dharma Ship after another bloomed in mid-air like cherry blossoms in full fury, turning into a rain of fire that plummeted into the sea!
“Aah!”
“Aaaah!”
Miserable screams rose without end, making the listeners’ hair stand on end!
Those Heavenly Saber Sect elders in the sky who had luckily escaped were so shocked and enraged their livers and gall nearly split!
“What kind of Dharma Artifact is this?!”
“Damned things!!!”
“Block it!!”
Ancestor Lidao roared, his whole body surging with spiritual power as his hands formed seals.
Instantly, rolling spiritual power condensed into a pitch-black shield that sheltered him within.
The other three Heavenly Saber Sect elders likewise did not dare be negligent, each unleashing killing moves to protect their bodies!
But what greeted them was a rain of black metal rods!
“Bang!”
“Boom!”
“Splat!”
…
Streak after streak of black metal rods poured down like a violent storm.
Even those Heavenly Saber Sect elders at the peak of Golden Core could not hold out for long, spitting blood as they were sent flying backward.
Once or twice was survivable.
But at this density, no defense however strong could endure.
In less than a moment, their spiritual power gave out, and they were crushed, plummeting into the sea.
“Damn it!!!”
Ancestor Lidao gnashed his teeth, staring at the black metal rods surging toward him like a flood.
His heart was filled with utter hatred!
He wanted to free his hand to summon his Dharma Artifact, but could not spare even a thread of spiritual power.
Because those black metal rods seemed to have grown eyes; they gradually abandoned the other sect members.
All of them aimed at him, focusing solely on him!
“BOOM BOOM!!!”
The black metal rods poured down like a tempest, smashing viciously against the black shield.
Ancestor Lidao felt a tremendous force surging madly through the shield, churning his qi and blood.
Not good!
He inwardly sensed trouble; at this rate he definitely could not hold out much longer.
So, forcibly enduring a heavy internal injury, he summoned his life-bound Dharma Artifact!
A giant saber, pitch-black as ink, fully ten zhang long!
The giant saber was entirely a black iron hue, radiating a cold, eerie glow.
The instant it appeared, Ancestor Lidao without a shred of hesitation urged it to slash at those black metal rods!
“Clang!”
“Crash!”
With a crisp sound, Ancestor Lidao’s giant saber struck a metal rod.
That metal rod, originally as sturdy as a meteorite, instantly shattered apart…
On Tiangong Island, Lu Qingyang gazed at the distant sea of flesh and fire, his expression not relaxing.
The metal rods guarding Tiangong Island were all Jiangxin’s newest model.
Each one forged from Tier-Three spirit ore weighing a thousand jun.
Against Golden Core cultivators, a hit was almost always a one-strike kill.
He just did not know how much damage they could inflict on a Nascent Soul cultivator.
At this thought, Lu Qingyang turned around.
Behind him, hundreds of eerie blue Tier-Three Puppets stood in neat ranks, leading nearly a thousand bright silver Tier-Two Puppets, their gazes cold and sharp!
“Jiangxin, after the first round of strikes is complete, immediately dispatch the puppets to snipe any Heavenly Saber Sect survivors.”
“As for that Nascent Soul Ancestor… concentrate everything on surrounding and killing him!”
“Beep beep! Acknowledged. Estimated completion of Skybase Weapon strike in three minutes.”