My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1147 Immortal = Soldier
Before the allied forces of immortals and Buddhas could catch their breath, a dense buzzing sound came from the distant clouds again—tens of thousands of new drones poured out from the gaps in the clouds, their wings gleaming with a cold metallic light, swarming towards the allied forces like migrating locusts.

These drones are smaller and more agile than previous models, and their fuselages are equipped with miniature external tooth-shaped armor-piercing rotary cannons, clearly indicating that they are supplementary forces that the Demon Alliance had already prepared.

"How can there still be so many!" Sage Zhunti frowned, wielding the Seven Treasures Tree to shoot down several drones, but just as he finished clearing out the wave in front of him, a new swarm of drones attacked from the other side.

The panic that the disciples of the immortals and Buddhas had just calmed down spread again. Although Guang Chengzi's Zhen Tian Mirror could shoot out silvery rays, it couldn't withstand the sheer number of drones. The rays could only clear a small area before being filled by new drones in an instant.

No matter how fast Manjushri Bodhisattva's sword of wisdom slashed, it couldn't keep up with the replenishment pace of the drone swarm. The blue sword light weaved through the dense drones, but some drones still managed to slip through the net and break through the defenses, dropping bombs on the Buddha's disciples behind them.

Just as the allied forces of immortals and Buddhas were being held back by the drone swarm and were exhausted, a deafening sound of machinery suddenly came from all directions.

The gods and Buddhas looked in the direction of the sound and saw countless silver nanorobots rising from the clouds and rapidly converging in the air—it turned out that the boundless sea of ​​clouds below them was actually formed by the floating and gathering of nanounits.

In just a few breaths, the nanobots coalesced into a giant robot hundreds of feet tall.

The robot is made entirely of nanomaterials, with a metallic sheen on its surface. It holds a giant axe made of immortal-grade nanoparticles in its hands and has two scarlet energy lamps in its eyes. It is the "Nano-Magic Heaven and Earth Mech" that the Demon Alliance has adopted as a basic single combat unit.

"Everyone be careful! These steel giants are no less powerful than the ancient witch giants!"

Huanglong Zhenren exclaimed in surprise and opened his mouth to spew dragon flames. However, the scorching dragon fire breath was deflected by the energy shield on the surface of the giant mecha.

This giant of heaven and earth has been upgraded again, no longer relying solely on its strong interaction force shell to withstand damage, but also equipped with multiple energy shields.

The giant mecha raised its giant axe and slammed it down on the defensive barrier of the Immortal-Buddha Alliance. The moment the axe blade collided with the barrier, golden light and metallic luster exploded, causing the entire sea of ​​clouds to churn violently. Tiny cracks appeared in the Buddha's light barrier, and the Daoist barrier of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable also trembled slightly.

What caught the allied forces of immortals and Buddhas off guard was that countless incredibly fast silver mecha puppets suddenly rushed out from below the sea of ​​clouds. These puppets were covered in heavy alloy armor, their arms transformed into sharp swords or giant hammers, and their movements were as swift as cheetahs. They were the "Martial Arts Puppet Melee Legion" that Wen Rui had created with the help of the Heavenly Court's resources.

"Stop them! Don't let them get in!" Venerable Kasyapa hurriedly released Buddhist light to try to stop the mecha puppets, but the Buddhist light only left faint scorch marks on the puppets' armor, and the puppets continued to charge fearlessly.

No one understood the terror of these puppets better than Kasyapa. Once engaged in close combat with a martial arts puppet, more than 90% of the members of the Immortal-Buddha Alliance were almost powerless to fight back.

A mecha puppet dodged Manjushri Bodhisattva's sword of wisdom and swung its blade at a Buddhist disciple. The disciple hastily formed a hand seal to defend himself, but the shockwave from the sword shattered the Buddhist light, and his arm was slashed, instantly staining his robe with blood.

The battle instantly descended into chaos. A swarm of drones provided aerial cover, continuously dropping scorpion sting fragmentation bombs and fang armor-piercing rounds.

The nano-giant mechs launched a fierce attack down the central line, their giant axes repeatedly cleaving the defensive barrier, widening the cracks. Martial arts mech puppets charged at low altitudes, weaving through the disciples of the immortals and Buddhas like tigers among sheep; the sounds of clashing swords and giant hammers, the screams of the disciples, and the whirring of machinery mingled together. The allied forces of the immortals and Buddhas had completely lost their offensive capabilities and could only barely maintain their defenses.

While using the Zhen Tian Mirror to intercept the drones, Guang Chengzi also had to guard against the sudden attack of the mecha puppets, and the burn marks on the Zhen Tian Mirror increased.

Taiyi Zhenren's Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover could no longer release fire dragons, and could only rely on the cover itself to resist the attacks of the mecha puppets. The cover was covered with dents. The Western Sect's three thousand Jiedi formation was broken into pieces by the mecha puppets. Many Jiedi were hit by the puppets' giant hammers, their armor shattered, and they fell to the ground.

Every now and then, a strange beam of light would shoot down from space. Immortals and Buddhas caught in the beam would immediately fall into an uncontrollable floating state. If they did not have time to break free from the beam's pull, they would be dragged straight into the sky by a tremendous force and then disappear without a trace.

Even though the immortals and Buddhas who were inexplicably dragged away had the divine imprints of Buddha and Yuanshi Tianzun on their bodies, after only a few breaths, the two saints could no longer detect the person's whereabouts through their divine sense.

It should be known that the divine sense of a sage can detect the entire prehistoric Three Realms. The only reason why it cannot be detected is that the mark left behind has long since left the Three Realms and gone to some unknown and remote corner of the universe.

Yuanshi Tianzun looked at the chaotic battle before him with a grim face. He had thought that by blocking the pillar of the true fire of the sun and clearing out the drones, the battle would be turned around, but he did not expect that the Jie Sect had so many tricks up its sleeve.

Their side was already locked in a fierce battle, yet Yuanshi Tianzun hadn't even seen a single familiar Jiejiao immortal. Their generals were fighting the enemy's soldiers to a standstill, or rather, they were being utterly crushed by the enemy's soldiers.

Seven hundred years ago, after the Investiture of the Gods, the immortals did not consider the existence of soldiers when they fought, and even felt ashamed to attack soldiers as immortals.

Back then, mortal soldiers were no match for the fleas that parasitized the immortals. The immortals called them "ants," which wasn't meant as discrimination, but rather a description of the truth.

Even when breaking the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, the Tongtian Sect Leader disdained to attack the Jie Sect Immortals. However, he never expected that after only a few hundred years of seclusion, the times would change so much and become so unfamiliar.

The power of the nanomachines far exceeded his expectations, and the martial arts puppets' close combat abilities precisely countered the magical attacks of the immortal and Buddhist disciples. The allied forces could no longer continue their advance towards Hunshi City; at this moment, even self-preservation was becoming increasingly difficult, and every step was fraught with difficulty.

"Fellow Daoist Tathagata, this cannot continue!"

The Primordial Celestial Venerable said to the Buddha in a deep voice, "We must first destroy that giant mecha and puppet army, otherwise the disciples of the two sects will be dragged down sooner or later. When we reach the demon's lair, only the World Honored One and the three of us saints will remain."

Despite feeling very uncomfortable, Yuanshi Tianzun's words were a tacit admission that in the new era ushered in by demons, immortals and Buddhas had reached the same level as mortals, no longer the transcendent beings who looked down upon all living beings from a high place.

(End of this chapter)