Technological advancement begins with devouring.

Chapter 220 Invasion Response (5th update)

Generally speaking, different ethnic groups spend a lot of money to build 'quarantine zones' in the border areas.

Through special means, the space and dark universe of this area are sealed off, making it impossible for the enemy to enter our territory without slowly flying.

Forget about teleportation or teleportation, it's impossible to even traverse the dark universe.

Those who are even more ruthless might extend the blockade into the spatial torrent layer, blocking even means of divine kingdom teleportation.

Of course, only the elite groups possess such technology.

Human beings certainly possess this technology.

There is a large-scale spacetime blockade in the border area where the Origin Land meets the Demon Race.

However, inside the Origin Land, the devices for opening and closing the spacetime blockade are all in Jiang Chen's hands.

Whenever necessary, Jiang Chen can close the spacetime blockade and quickly send troops to designated areas via spatial teleportation.

After discussing with the Iron Wall Venerable, the Undying Venerable, and several of his apostles, Jiang Chen decided to dispatch three legions to the front line of defense.

The first legion of the Dark Prison Archers, the second legion of the Soul Eater Sword Demon, and the fifth legion of the Titan Titan.

As for Dragon God Nair's Third Legion, the Flame Lord's Fourth Legion, and the Elemental Sage's Sixth Legion, Jiang Chen did not intend to reveal the existence of these forces in the first war.

To deal with a 'devouring snake clan', three mechanical legions, plus the human legions brought by the Iron Wall Venerable and the Undying Venerable, are already enough to show them 'respect'.

If it weren't for the fact that this was a defensive battle, requiring the goal of keeping all enemies out of the defensive line, Jiang Chen wouldn't have deployed three legions.

As Jiang Chen said, the mechanical legion has an overwhelming advantage over ordinary armies below the level of a Cosmic Venerable.

Even the most powerful races would not mobilize hundreds of millions of immortal-level combatants in a single localized, small-scale war.

Of course, compared to the entire force of a top-tier race, the current mechanical legion is still far from being a match.

However, with the human race as their backing, unless the demon race intends to launch a full-scale war, it is unlikely that they will be able to deploy too many troops to deal with the Land of Origin.

In the event of a full-scale war, there would be no need for immortals or even cosmic sovereigns to appear on the battlefield.

That was a contest between the rulers of the universe, the strongest beings in the universe.

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The Devouring Serpent Clan acted slightly slower than Jiang Chen had anticipated, taking nearly ten years before their army finally set out.

Although the intelligence department of Virtual Universe Company kept saying that it was not worth paying a high price to gather information, it still sent a message before the war officially broke out, informing Jiang Chen of the approximate size of the enemy's forces.

One cosmic overlord, five cosmic venerables, plus hundreds of thousands of immortals, billions of realm lords, and an even larger army of lower-level soldiers.

News from the front lines has largely confirmed the accuracy of this intelligence.

"What's the point of these domain lords and universe-level armies?" Jiang Chen couldn't help but wonder as he looked at the intelligence reports sent back from the front lines.

The immortal led the team, with the realm lords as the main force, plus a large number of domain lords and low-level troops at the cosmic level.

In Jiang Chen's view, such a configuration was completely meaningless.

Whichever side's immortals win, the remaining low-ranking troops will be massacred, and even survival will be difficult.

Even if we only look at the outcome of a local battle, it still depends solely on the contest between high-level combat forces.

"For the purpose of elimination and selection," said the Iron Wall Venerable.

"Elimination, selection?" Jiang Chen looked up in confusion.

"A large number of universe-level beings are quickly eliminated on the brutal battlefield, and only a very few can survive. But those universe-level beings who survive the battle are almost guaranteed to break through to the Domain Lord level, and have a considerable chance of breaking through to the World Lord level. They even have a slight chance of entering immortality."

"For cultivators who are not geniuses, pursuing a sliver of a breakthrough in this brutal battle is their only chance. However, with this kind of elimination method, it would be difficult for even one immortal to emerge from a trillion universes."

The Iron Wall Venerable explained for a few moments, then sighed, "I have a disciple who went to fight in the extraterrestrial battlefield when he was at the cosmic level. He survived countless battles and is now a King-level Immortal. By the way, you've met him too."

Upon hearing the words of the Iron Wall Venerable, Jiang Chen fell silent.

According to the Iron Wall Venerable, the purpose of these low-level armies is not to defeat the enemy, but to create a sufficiently brutal environment for fighting, so that cultivators without talent can find a chance to break through in the midst of life-or-death crises.

Competition between ethnic groups can indeed lead to some almost unscrupulous methods in order to improve their combat strength and cultural heritage.

However, from the perspective of the clan, those low-level cultivators who originally had no chance of entering immortality would be of no value if they reached the end of their lifespan and died of old age.

Only after achieving immortality and possessing a theoretically endless lifespan can one be considered part of a race's 'foundation'.

Eliminating most of the low-level cultivators without talent through fierce wars, allowing an immortal god to occasionally emerge from among them, is a great gain for the race.

The human race is somewhat more 'humane' in this respect; the vast majority of the low-level cultivators' armies voluntarily joined the extraterritorial battlefield in pursuit of strength.

Or perhaps they committed a serious crime and were punished by being sent to fight for their lives on a foreign battlefield.

However, for those smaller clans, sending cultivators who are not considered geniuses to the outer battlefields to die in order to reduce the burden on the clan is a fairly common practice.

This brutal elimination process has an incredibly high mortality rate.

Not to mention cosmic level or domain lord level.

Even among realm lords, if ten thousand realm lords were sent to the outer battlefield and fought for ten thousand years, probably only a few dozen would survive.

Among the tens of thousands of surviving realm lords, even one who manages to break through to immortality is considered extremely lucky.

If domain lords and universe-level beings want to break through using this method, the elimination rate will be even more terrifying.

She shook her head slightly, banishing the chaotic thoughts from her mind.

At least, Jiang Chen's mechanical legion doesn't need to do that.

Among the existing six legions, the weakest in terms of individual strength is the E9-level Gundam mecha.

Even lower combat strength is meaningless to the mechanical legion.

Because of the unique nature of the mechanical legions, apart from the apostles, the combat power of the other mechanical units is permanently fixed the moment they are manufactured.

The purpose of the mechanical legion is to achieve victory on the battlefield, not to actively create high-intensity life-or-death battles to enhance the strength of the weak.

“There’s movement over there,” the Iron Wall Venerable suddenly said.

On the map, a string of red dots representing the Devouring Serpent Clan is rapidly approaching the border defense line of the Origin Land.

After settling in the Land of Origin, Jiang Chen spent a great deal of money to build a mechanical legion and a defense system; this money was not wasted.

Regarding detection equipment alone, unless one possesses advanced shielding equipment from the mechanical race, or a cosmic lord who is extremely skilled at concealment personally infiltrates, any approaching enemy unit will trigger a detection alarm from hundreds of light-years away.

A warning distance of one hundred light-years is enough to give the mechanical legion ample reaction time.

"Only a dozen or so life signals indicate that the powerful squad is trying to create an opening and then send their army into the Origin Land through the World Ring," Dragon God-Nair immediately realized.

"Just as the intelligence department gave us, there are six Universe Venerables, including a Universe Overlord with a hundred times the genetic power." Jiang Chen looked at the feedback data from the detection instrument, turned to look at Iron Wall Venerable and Undying Venerable, and said, "Senior brothers, thank you for your help. Dark Prison and Soul Devourer will also join you in this effort."

In fact, with only these few powerful figures deployed by the Devouring Serpent Clan, there was no need for the Iron Wall Venerable and the Undying Venerable to take action.

With Jiang Chen's seven mechanical apostles working together, they could at least repel the enemy, if not kill them.

The seven mechanical apostles, one-on-one, all possessed combat power slightly exceeding that of ordinary universe venerables, barely reaching the level of high-level venerables.

However, when they cooperate with each other, their overall combat strength can be greatly improved.

With seven mechanical apostles working together, they could easily handle four or five cosmic overlords.

However, Jiang Chen did not intend to merely defend; he also wanted to launch a counterattack simultaneously. He would not mobilize all the mechanical apostles to deal with this group of enemies, so he would naturally need the help of the Iron Wall Venerable and the Undying Venerable.

"Sure thing, you'll have to treat us to drinks when we get back from this battle!" Venerable Iron Wall laughed heartily as he stood up.

The Undying Venerable nodded and said, "That's right, Junior Brother, you have plenty of good wine, so don't be stingy!"

"Of course, I will prepare fine wine to celebrate the victory of my two senior brothers." Jiang Chen stood up and said, "Dark Prison, Soul Devourer, Hell, and Giant God, the four of you will temporarily follow my senior brother's orders. Nair, Element, and Light Flame, the three of you, be prepared to launch a counterattack on the demon race's territory as soon as the battle begins on the front lines!"

The seven mechanical apostles rose to their feet and respectfully replied, "Yes, Master!"

The group quickly left and headed to the teleportation array outside the base.

The teleportation array was activated, and after a violent spatial fluctuation, the seven mechanical apostles, along with the Iron Wall Venerable and the Undying Venerable, were teleported to the border region.

The spatial sealing device was briefly shut down, and after several teleportations, the Iron Wall Venerable and the Undying Venerable stood in front of the Devouring Serpent Clan's 'vanguard'.

Dragon God-Nair, Elemental Sage, and Flame Lord also arrived at another border with their respective legions.

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The border region, spanning eight million light-years in length and nearly one million light-years in height, is truly enormous.

Without the means to rapidly deploy troops in a short period of time, it would be extremely difficult to stop the enemy's invasion.

Besides the ability to deploy troops, the ability to detect enemy movements is also a significant challenge.

If the detection equipment is not advanced enough and cannot detect the enemy's movements, no matter how quickly the troops are mobilized, it will be useless.

In this respect, Jiang Chen has a great advantage over the demon race, who are not good at technology.

In the border region, the Iron Wall Venerable, the Immortal Venerable, and others arrived at the border with the detection equipment provided by Jiang Chen.

The border region, spanning eight million light-years in length and nearly one million light-years in height, is truly enormous.

Without the means to rapidly deploy troops in a short period of time, it would be extremely difficult to stop the enemy's invasion.

Besides the ability to deploy troops, the ability to detect enemy movements is also a significant challenge.

If the detection equipment is not advanced enough and cannot detect the enemy's movements, no matter how quickly the troops are mobilized, it will be useless.

In this respect, Jiang Chen has a great advantage over the demon race, who are not good at technology.

The Hellwalker is an assassin-type mechanical apostle whose greatest skill is stealth.

Aside from the most advanced detection equipment of the Machine Race, or the use of 'domain treasures' by the Lord of the Universe or top cosmic overlords, there is no other way to detect the Hellwalkers who have entered a state of concealment.

When designing the Hellwalker, Jiang Chen abandoned most of its frontal combat capabilities and instead focused all its 'skill points' on stealth, mobility, and burst attack power, giving the Hellwalker extremely terrifying assassination abilities.

The others also possessed detection instruments that far surpassed those of the demon race.

Detection instruments can not only detect, but also shield themselves from enemy detection.

As for who will gain the upper hand, it depends on whose detection equipment is more advanced.

In this regard, the demon race, which is not good at technology, has suffered countless losses in silence.

In the battlefields beyond the region, it is generally accepted that the Mech race has the most advanced detection equipment, followed by the Terran race, and then the Zerg race.

The most pathetic of all is the demon race.

Often, even a demon king who is invincible uses a detection device that is less advanced than those used by genius world lords of the human or mechanical races.

This resulted in the demon race being completely unaware that their path was being blocked by an enemy.

However, most of the powerful demons have gotten used to this.

In battles against other races, especially humans and mechanical races, the powerful members of the demon race are often the ones who are ambushed.

However, they were also confident that they could use their superior strength to withstand the first wave of attacks and then turn the tables on the enemy.

If you lack technical skills, make up for it with sheer ability.

"We expect to engage in battle in an hour. Let us launch a ranged attack first," the Soul Eater Archer suggested to the Iron Wall Venerable and the Undying Venerable.

The Iron Wall Venerable nodded and said, "Then let's see what you've got."

"Dark Prison, I'll join forces with you." The Titan said, his divine power surging, and countless mechanical units appeared around him, covering a vast expanse of starry sky.

The Dark Prison Archer nodded and also released the mechanical legion hidden in the World Ring.

Millions of Hellfire archers were assembled in just a few seconds, forming neat ranks and ready to attack.

Under normal circumstances, the maximum effective attack range of the 'Hellfire' unit is ten million kilometers.

Beyond this distance, the bullet's power and accuracy will drop significantly.

However, with the support of the Dark Prison Archer, its range can reach the light-year level.

In terms of boosting the combat power of their legions, the Dark Prison Archer ranks second only to the Elemental Lord, placing them second among the seven Mechanical Apostles.

"One minute to prepare!" the Titan shouted.