Fearing being killed for his overwhelming merits, the empress decided to marry him.

Boom boom boom boom——

When the cannon is fired, there is a thousand taels of gold.

The two heavy artillery battalions of the Imperial Guards indiscriminately bombarded the Blood Fiend Alliance headquarters on Mount Xulong with all their shells as if they were free.

The moment the shells landed at the headquarters, it was as if a lightning strike had struck, causing the earth to shake violently.

Before hordes of Blood Fiend Alliance disciples could even react, they were blasted into bloody blobs by the scorching grenades.

A Blood Fiend Alliance disciple at the Tongqiao Realm, holding a cold blade, watched his fellow disciples fall in pools of blood. Before he could react, a grenade exploded right in front of him.

In an instant, his body was torn to pieces, and his proud protective energy failed to provide even the slightest protection.

Severed limbs flew through the air before finally landing in the hands of an elder who had just entered the Innate Realm.

"Ah~"

The elder at the Innate Realm roared angrily and bit off the gold ring from his hand.

Then he spat on the broken palm, rubbed it for a while, and glanced at the life line on it.

"You can tell at a glance that he's going to die young and be good for nothing."

After discarding his severed arm, the elder took a deep breath and shouted as he watched the figures darting around.

"What on earth happened? Which sect dares to plot against my Blood Fiend Alliance? If you have the guts, come out and fight me one-on-one!"

boom--

The next moment, a 105mm high-explosive shell worth fifty-three taels of silver exploded twenty meters in front of him.

Before the elder at the Innate Realm could even react, he was thrown into the air by a huge shockwave.

Fortunately, he was not alone; flying with him were at least twenty Blood Fiend Alliance disciples who had been scattered and broken up.

Unfortunately, he was also one of those broken up.

After a dizzying spin, he finally landed on the ground, but he couldn't get up no matter what he did.

"Why can't I feel anything in my body?"

Just as he was wondering what was going on, he saw only corpses scattered all over the ground, a truly horrifying sight.

He tried to reach out, but he couldn't feel his arm anywhere.

With a slight turn of his eyes, he saw a flash of fire, and then swarms of Blood Fiend Alliance disciples silently fell into pools of blood.

"You son of a bitch, which traitor dares to plot against me? When I catch you, I'll tear you limb from limb and drink your blood dry! You son of a bitch—"

Soon, the elder at the Innate Realm stopped venting his anger amidst his passionate roar, and his pupils gradually lost their vibrant life.

Because at this point, he only had a head left; the rest of his body parts had been completely destroyed the moment the high-explosive bomb exploded.

At the peak of Thunder Abyss Valley, the first round of shelling ended. The artillerymen nervously removed the spent shell casings, pushed the cannons back to their designated positions, readjusted the angles, and loaded new shells.

"fire!"

With a roar from Qu Yi, the cannons, which had stopped for less than a minute, roared up again.

The whistling shells continued to relentlessly pound the Blood Fiend Alliance headquarters, five kilometers away, and exploded once again upon impact.

boom--

A grenade landed in the blood pool, instantly sending up a water column several meters high, drenching the Blood Fiend Alliance disciples who were already terrified.

"Don't panic!"

Seeing the scene before him, the Blood Fiend Ancestor roared in fury.

"Quickly activate the mountain-protecting formation! Hurry!"

The Blood Fiend Sect disciples then realized what was happening and scrambled towards a secret cave halfway up the mountain.

But in that brief moment, more than a dozen grenades landed precisely inside the headquarters.

boom--

With a deafening roar, the main hall behind the Blood Fiend Ancestor was instantly reduced to ruins.

Meanwhile, more than a dozen unlucky souls who didn't have time to leave the hall were hit by the falling beam and coughed up blood.

In just two rounds of shelling, at least a thousand Blood Fiend Alliance disciples were killed or wounded.

The high-explosive shells fired by several heavy artillery pieces directly accounted for one-third of the kills, and the damage caused was incalculable.

At this moment, as far as the eye could see, many buildings at the Blood Fiend Alliance headquarters had been destroyed, and even the training rooms had been reduced to ruins by the shelling.

"Is the mountain-protecting formation activated yet? Hurry up, what are you bunch of useless idiots doing?!"

Blood Fiend Ancestor stood there, helpless and furious. His greatest frustration and frustration came from not being able to find any trace of his opponent.

Just a few dozen breaths after the second round of shelling ended, the mountain-protecting formation was finally activated.

Inside Thunder Abyss Valley, as he gazed at the crimson ball of light appearing on Mount Xulong, a cruel smile crept onto his lips.

"75mm rapid-fire guns, switch to armor-piercing rounds, all other artillery pieces stand by and adjust their angles!"

At Shen Lang's command, the 75mm rapid-fire cannon, with an effective horizontal firing range of over 6 kilometers, was immediately reloaded with armor-piercing high-explosive shells and its muzzle angle was quickly adjusted.

"fire!"

Boom boom boom——

At a command, 32 rapid-fire cannons roared almost simultaneously.

Armor-piercing shells flew like meteors, heading straight for the protective array of Xulong Mountain.

Boom boom boom——

The moment the thirty-two armor-piercing shells touched the crimson orb, they immediately burst into brilliant fireworks in mid-air.

click-

A crisp sound startled all the Blood Fiend Alliance disciples, including the Blood Fiend Ancestor.

Looking up, the once smooth and clean barrier now had several shocking cracks.

"How could this be? This is a seventh-grade mountain-protecting formation, a peerless formation forged by generations of disciples of the Blood Fiend Alliance! How could this be? No, I don't believe it..."

The Blood Fiend Ancestor could not believe the bloody reality before him. His proud mountain-protecting formation was so easily defeated.

Just then, another round of rapid-fire cannons swept in, slamming into the air shield and further increasing the density of the cracks.

boom--

"Do not--"

As another shell landed on the air shield, the barrier shattered instantly.

The moment the grenade exploded, Blood Fiend Ancestor let out a desperate cry.

boom--

Once the barrier was broken, it triggered a violent chain reaction.

The shattered barrier immediately transformed into a shockwave that began to rage and backfire within the Blood Fiend Alliance.

The scattered fragments of spiritual energy instantly turned countless Blood Fiend Alliance disciples who had no time to escape into a bloody dust.

"Great! That's satisfying!"

Meanwhile, in the distance, through the surveillance lens, Qu Yi witnessed the moment the mountain-protecting formation shattered, and couldn't help but clap his hands in delight.

"Well done! Let these sect members think they're superior. But in front of my Imperial Guard's artillery, they're nothing but ants, easily crushed by us!"

Qu Yi, who has a deep-rooted stereotype of sects, would love nothing less than to blast them all into dust in order to avenge the humiliation of being rejected back then.

Shen Lang remained calm, as he had already anticipated everything that was happening before him.

The cultivation world in this world has long been in its decline phase. It is no longer the era when Great Emperors were everywhere and Quasi-Emperors were as rare as dogs.

If our artillery can't even break through this, then carrying out industrial revolution in this world is a complete joke.

"Any fear stems from insufficient firepower. Even if a god came, you would have to kneel down and sing 'Conquer' in the face of overwhelming firepower."

Shen Lang tightened his cloak and continued to give orders with a blank expression.

"Continue firing the 75mm gun, no need to conserve ammunition!"

The deafening artillery fire continued to roar towards Xulong Mountain.

At this moment, the Blood Fiend Alliance headquarters had been reduced to a sea of ​​fire, and the Blood Fiend Sect disciples, who had once killed countless people and committed numerous evils, were running around in all directions like headless flies.

Limbs and torsos were everywhere, and bodies were writhing.

Blood Fiend Ancestor and several protectors hid behind a rocky outcrop, watching the scene of collapse unfold before them, but they were powerless to stop it.

But compared to the massive casualties before him, what frustrates the Blood Fiend Ancestor even more is that he still doesn't know who cast these "spells" or what their purpose is.

Suddenly, a protector spoke.

“Ancestor, there seem to be people in Thunder Abyss Valley across the way. I see flashes of fire and lots of white smoke coming from there every now and then.”

"really?"

Upon hearing this, Blood Fiend Ancestor immediately poked his head out and looked towards Thunder Abyss Valley, following the words of the protector.

Sure enough, the mountaintop was shrouded in smoke from time to time.

"Traitors, no matter who you are, now that I've caught you, you'll all be torn to pieces by your ancestor!"

Enraged, Blood Fiend Ancestor leaped out of his cover and used his lightness skill to rush towards Thunder Abyss Valley.

"Ancestor, you—"

boom--

Just as the guards were about to offer some advice, a high-explosive shell suddenly landed behind the cover.

In an instant, several guardians were blasted into the air, turning into specks of cold light and raining down blood.