Witch Wind

Chapter 404 The Fierce Taoist Priest (Part 1)

The Dali Holy Dynasty was a civilization that placed greater emphasis on technology.

The civilization of the Nine Provinces brought by Shu Han, especially the cultivation methods of Shu Han, was sealed off by the high-ranking officials of the Dali Holy Dynasty and could only be spread on the more than one hundred inhabited planets controlled by Shu Han.

Ordinary people in the Dali Holy Dynasty had no idea what the concept of 'cultivation' was.

Only the high-ranking officials of the Dali Holy Dynasty understood that 'cultivation' was indeed a good thing. They obtained the cultivation method from Shu Han. Among the royal family and prominent families of the Dali Holy Dynasty, those with high enough status and power tacitly enjoyed the benefits of cultivation.

Just like the dozen or so three-foot-tall little figures bouncing around happily, they are local officials of Bai Luan Star. Among them is a planetary governor, and the rest are his trusted subordinates.

As the highest power holders on a planet, these guys came from noble families and were highly valued, so they naturally received the cultivation methods spread by Shu Han—but their cultivation levels were just so-so. The strongest planetary ruler was only a Celestial Immortal, and the other dozen or so officials were all Earth Immortals.

Despite their low level of cultivation, they were so brazen, poking and pointing at Zhang Bao and shouting insults.

The planetary ruler named Lu Guan was furious and blamed Zhang Bao for all the heavy losses suffered by Bai Luan Star during the Sima clan's surprise attack: "Bai Luan Star, a rich, beautiful, peaceful, and safe planet... Under my rule, it is a planet where doors are left unlocked at night and lost items are not picked up on the road."

"It is because of you Shu Han people that we have attracted these cruel enemies."

"This time, our Bai Luan Star suffered enormous losses. More than three first-tier city clusters were completely destroyed, more than 100 million people died, and the economic losses exceeded..." Lu Guan blinked, quickly pinched his fingers, and shouted, "Three first-tier city clusters, more than ten trillion Dali Holy Coins in economic losses. All these losses must be borne by your Shu Han."

"Furthermore, the compensation for the casualties must also be borne by your Shu Han," Lu Guan shouted fiercely.

Xing Tianli coughed lightly.

He couldn't stand it anymore. Zhang Bao, you ignorant fool! The person you're pointing and cursing loudly with your finger is Zhang Bao... His father is the Third Master who scared away a million-strong army with a single shout!

For some reason, Zhang Bao actually tolerated the little fairy's curses, but Xing Tianli couldn't stand it.

With a swift movement, he teleported in front of Zhang Bao. Lu Guan, unable to stop in time, poked a finger into Xing Tianli's nose. Xing Tianli let out a soft snort, his facial muscles twitching slightly. With a gentle exertion of force, the recoil shattered Lu Guan's finger into dust.

Xing Tianli's physical strength alone now exceeds that of a hundred Lesser Heavens.

A mere celestial being.

He was not diligent in his cultivation, his aptitude was quite poor, and his magical power was weak and unstable. He was obviously a celestial being who had risen to the rank of immortal by taking drugs... Moreover, he was an ordinary immortal who followed the pure path of magic cultivation and did not work hard to temper his physical body or cultivate body cultivation techniques!
Not to mention, these tiny little people are naturally much weaker than the people of the Nine Provinces. At the same cultivation level, their strength is several times weaker than that of the cultivators of the Nine Provinces!

Lu Guan's fingers shattered.

The negligible recoil force from Xing Tianli blasted his entire finger into the finest particles. Above Lu Guan's palm, his exploding flesh almost underwent a small-scale annihilation reaction...

The violent light and heat transformed into a crimson torrent, bursting forth from Lu Guan's palm.

Lu Guan's protective suit emitted a dazzling light, and he and his dozen or so subordinates behind him simultaneously emitted light shields more than three feet thick, almost tangible—energy shields powerful enough to withstand the explosion of a high-yield hydrogen bomb.

With a muffled thud, the energy shield shook violently, and Lu Guan and the others were thrown back dozens of miles. Even the warship they had come on was blown far, far away by the annihilation explosion of a tiny finger.

Lu Guan was in so much pain that his vision blurred, and he screamed hoarsely, "You bastard, how dare you hurt me? How dare you hurt me? Do you know who my aunt is? She is the Imperial Concubine Lu, the current Imperial Concubine... She is my own aunt, my father's biological sister... How dare you hurt me? How dare you?"

Xing Tianli's face contorted in pain.

Bai Luanxing, the highest administrative official of such a vast planet, is this the kind of person he is?

It's just a broken finger.
A planetary ruler should possess the composure to remain calm even in the face of a collapsing mountain... It's just a blown-off finger, isn't it? And yet she's crying and screaming like this, even introducing herself as her aunt to scare people...

Tsk, how could such a spoiled brat be able to control a residential planet in the Great Li Holy Dynasty?

Even a strategic location like a border planet?

Xing Tianli shook his head and sighed, "General Zhang Bao, the Great Li Holy Dynasty is probably doomed... Didn't Liu Huangshu think of just killing the emperor of the Great Li Holy Dynasty and becoming emperor himself?"

Pointing at Lu Guan, who was wailing and crying, Xing Tianli sneered, "Look at this behavior. Isn't he just a second-rate playboy? When the Sima clan attacked before, this kid didn't lead his troops to fight to the death and fight back against the enemy. Now that we've driven him away, he suddenly pops up?"

Lu Guan's cursing stopped abruptly.

He stared at Xing Tianli in panic and disbelief, his lips pale and his whole body trembling. Suddenly, he let out a loud howl: "You, you, what nonsense are you spouting? You, you, you, you instigated General Zhang Bao to rebel? You, you, you, you, how dare you! This is outrageous!"

Xing Tianli looked at Lu Guan intently.

He was very curious. Where did this guy, a complete playboy and a complete good-for-nothing, along with the officials around him and the important figures of the Great Li Holy Dynasty behind him, get the audacity to do such an unreasonable thing?
"Can a gentleman be deceived by his principles?" Xing Tianli shook his head, looked back at Zhang Bao, who had a gloomy face, and sighed softly, "Alas, Liu Huangshu is a benevolent man... well, cough cough."

Xing Tianli roughly understood something.

In the distance, amidst a chaotic mass of stars, thousands of warships, each three to five miles long, shaped like black barracudas, entirely black with no reflection, and bearing the shield emblem of the Great Li Holy Dynasty atop their heads, rapidly surged forth.

These warships were still tens of thousands of miles away from Xing Tianli and his group. On either side of the shield emblem at the bow, the decks were moved aside, revealing long, narrow jet nozzles inside. Silently, streams of dazzling deep blue particles shot out, tearing through the void and quickly passing by Xing Tianli and his group.

The void burned fiercely.

A strange spatial tremor emanated from the lead warship, carrying a clear voice to Xing Tianli and the others: "Shu Han allies, cease your provocative actions... You have harmed the esteemed Governor Lu Guan; your crimes will surely be punished!"

As the particle stream passed by, Xing Tianli extended his little finger and gently traced it.

His skin felt a slight burning sensation.

With Xing Tianli's current physical strength, these particle streams actually made him feel a certain burning sensation—the attack intensity of these particle streams was almost at the extreme level of a Golden Immortal.

This was merely a warning shot, and it didn't truly unleash the full power of these warships.
In the distant stardust, more warships bearing the shield emblem of the Dali Holy Dynasty emerged.

Three thousand...

Five thousand...

Over 10,000...

Finally, more than 30,000 warships emerged from the stardust from all directions.

Although the warships that rushed out later were only tens to hundreds of feet long, far less massive than the thousands of warships that were three to five miles long, their combat power would likely be much lower.

However, it's surprising that so many warships from the Great Li Dynasty are stationed on Bailuan Star.

When the Sima clan's army invaded Bailuan Star, none of these warships appeared. Only Zhang Lan, Zhang Zhu, and others, along with a group of Shu Han soldiers, resisted the massive army of the Sima clan!

That was a really cool move!
Ran Min watched the warships with great interest. Previously, Xing Tianli had only extended his little finger to test the power of the particle stream. But Ran Min, with his arms outstretched and chest exposed, smashed several particle streams head-on with his bare body.

He patted his chest lightly and murmured, "Interesting, very interesting. They clearly have such powerful weaponry. If you can work together and cooperate with General Zhang Bao, the Sima family's army will probably not be able to set foot on Bailuan Star!"

"Pah!" Ran Min suddenly spat heavily. The spittle, like a bullet, accompanied by a terrifying tearing sound, slammed directly into Lu Guan's protective light shield. With a deafening roar, the light shield, capable of withstanding the bombardment of a high-yield hydrogen bomb, was shattered by Ran Min's spittle.

Lu Guan let out a strange cry. The energy shield on his body was clearly a creation of the high-tech side.

The shield was broken, and his close-fitting, dense and soft protective armor, which was like a second skin, was also shaken open with countless tiny cracks.

A piece of armor of quite high quality was ruined just like that.

Lu Guan was breathing heavily. After his armor was destroyed, a white jade bracelet on his wrist, with a distinct ancient Han style and a dragon and a tiger facing each other, suddenly shone brightly. In the eyes of the dragon and tiger, four green turquoise stones exploded with dazzling light, and a ball of emerald light enveloped his body.

The armor was shattered by Ran Min's spit, turning into tiny butterfly fragments that fell off Lu Guan's body.

Lu Guan looked at Ran Min with a pale face, raised his right hand trembling, and tried to say something harsh, but he couldn't get the words out.

After a long while, Lu Guan roared hoarsely, "Zhang Bao, Zhang Lan, Zhang Zhu, you, you just wait for His Majesty the Holy Emperor's punishment..."

Xingtian Carp, I can't be bothered with it anymore.

Such a worthless piece of trash, such a despicable little man, does he really think he's something special?
He spread his right palm and slapped Lu Guan across the body.

With a muffled thud, the emerald green light shattered, the jade bracelet with dragon and tiger patterns crumbled, and Xing Tianli shattered Lu Guan's body with a single palm strike, turning him into a cloud of blood mist.

The dozen or so subordinate officials that Lu Guan brought screamed in unison, as if they were shy men who had just stripped naked and were rinsing off in a bathhouse when suddenly the entire bathhouse collapsed, exposing their white flesh to the light of day.

They screamed, roared, cursed, and then turned and ran.

Running away won't help.

Before Zhang Bao could even utter a cry of surprise, the Tongtian Miaozhu swayed and transformed into the Qingping Sword. A ray of sword light pierced through the void, annihilating all of the dozen or so Bai Luan Star officials.

Xing Tianli's voice resounded for tens of thousands of miles, even penetrating the thick armor of the warships and echoing directly inside them: "If you surrender, you will still have a sliver of hope. If you dare to resist, this humble Taoist is also skilled in the art of murder and arson."

More than 30,000 warships of various sizes suddenly sprang into action, like flies disturbed from a nest.

Groups of three to five warships moved swiftly through the starry sky, clearly following some ancient battle formation. The outer armor of these warships had obviously undergone some preliminary refinement techniques. As they moved, faint streaks of light could be seen weaving between the warships, connecting the thirty thousand warships into one.

The next instant, an overwhelming stream of particles poured down.

These particle streams not only bombarded Xing Tianli, but also completely engulfed Zhang Bao and the others.

Even more remarkably, some incredibly fast, shuttle-shaped metal devices, spewing long, red flames, viciously rammed into the reinforcements led by Ma Su and Ma Liang.

Xing Tianli snorted coldly, and his purple robe soared into the air, transforming into a hazy purple mist that covered a radius of a thousand miles, obscuring the entire void. The particle streams collided with the wisps of purple mist and were instantly devoured by the robe. Meanwhile, the extremely fast-flying metal devices exploded violently upon impact.

Hmm, an antimatter annihilation weapon?
The annihilation of matter and antimatter means that a single gram of antimatter can unleash a destructive force comparable to 40,000 tons of standard military explosives. And these metal devices in front of us contain at least kilograms of antimatter!
Xingtianli was terrified.

In its previous life, the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated on Earth was only 50 million tons.

The total yield of each of these metal devices that explodes before us exceeds one billion tons.

What a ruthless and insane method! If such a weapon were placed on the White Phoenix Star, and it exploded, there would probably be no survivors within a radius of thousands of miles. Even the largest mega-city clusters would be completely wiped out in an instant.

Such a powerful weapon is like a cool breeze to a powerful being above the Taiyi Realm, utterly harmless.

However, for cultivators below the Taiyi realm, even powerful beings at the Golden Immortal level could be caught off guard and suffer unexpected defeats if bombarded by such a powerful weapon... not to mention the soldiers whose cultivation levels are generally only at the Heavenly Immortal level.

One powerful weapon after another exploded with a deafening roar. The purple aura emanating from the purple robe was hazy and filled the void. No matter how many powerful weapons exploded, not even a wisp of purple aura could be destroyed.

Xing Tianli looked at Zhang Bao's ugly face and laughed: "General Zhang Bao, have you seen through the wicked intentions of these villains? Their war preparation plan already has a complete set of countermeasures... I only killed a few of their worthless corrupt officials, and they actually included me, along with General Zhang Bao and everyone else, in their attack targets."

Xing Tianli formed a hand seal, protecting his heart, and said loudly, "With the Three Pure Ones above, I have quite a bit of knowledge about the weapons on the technological side... Their attack is so efficient that it directly included the General and others in the attack range, which shows that their plans had already included the General and others in the enemy list in the combat system."

Zhang Bao's face was ashen.

From all directions, countless streams of particles roared in, and a barrage of deadly weapons rained down. In the starry sky thousands of miles away from Xing Tianli and the others, the particle streams disintegrated, thermonuclear weapons exploded wildly, and the void trembled in waves. The overflowing destructive energy streams could not penetrate the protective range of the Purple Ribbon Robe in the slightest. It was like a flood crashing against a dam, violently surging backward.

The outer armor of thousands of warships was scorched red, and the hulls shook violently as they hastily retreated.

Xing Tianli snorted coldly.

Within the Tower of Creation, enormous metal constructs, resembling giant whales from the deep sea, slowly slid out—on the planet Tyrannosaurus, Xing Tianli obtained extremely advanced technology and mechanical civilization techniques from silicon-based life forms represented by Maria.

After leaving Tailan Star, experiencing a series of events including Yaksha Star and the Heavenly Calculator, and passing through hundreds of small and medium-sized worlds, Xing Tianli received many benefits from the saints.

The crafting techniques of cultivation civilization and the mechanical civilization of silicon-based life forms actually have much in common.

Not to mention, during his journey through more than a hundred worlds, Xing Tianli also plundered hundreds of billions of dead souls within the Tongtian Yuling Banner—many of these souls were once intelligent individuals born from the unique talents and spiritual essence of their respective worlds.

On Earth, these people would be scientists of the caliber of Niu, Ai, and Nuo.

There are hundreds of billions of such intelligent people.

As Xing Tianli traveled along, these souls, bored within the Tongtian Yuling Banner, began frantically analyzing and learning the various technological knowledge Xing Tianli had given them, and researching various weapon-refining techniques.

At this moment, Xing Tianli dared to say that the technological level of the various technological creations in his Tower of Creation was at least ten times that of the Maria Legion left on Tyran Star!

One after another, giant metal warships, shaped like orcas and nearly a hundred miles long, silently glided out.

The warships were pitch black, except for some key locations where blood-red light adorned them, giving them an eerie and ferocious aura.

A total of one thousand giant warships filed out.

They burst forth from the starry sky, and on their outer armor, streaks of crimson light quietly lit up. In the next instant, a storm of crimson light tore through the void, carrying a terrifying Daoist aura that could shatter everything, and struck wildly in all directions.

The Disintegration Ray is a powerful weapon developed by the hundreds of billions of intelligent souls within the Xing Tian Li Tongtian Yu Ling Banner.

Wherever the crimson light passed, all matter, even formed energy fields, was completely disintegrated, directly collapsing into the most basic chaotic energy flow.

The rapidly expanding energy flow suddenly spread outwards, and a series of earth-shattering explosions erupted in the starry sky.

Thirty thousand of Bai Luanxing's warships exploded simultaneously in the blink of an eye.

Not a single one was left.

Zhang Bao's face stiffened, and he murmured, "A warship of the Great Luo Realm?"

Xing Tianli smiled and nodded. Indeed, the warships created in the Tower of Creation now have a combined combat power that has reached the Great Luo realm!
(End of this chapter)