218: Chapter 218 Overwhelming Firepower: A Meaningless Bombardment

"Open fire, damn it!" The ground commander's eyes were bloodshot. He tore open his uniform collar and roared at the top of his lungs. "I don't care what kind of conceptual-level entity it is! As long as it's alive, blow it to pieces for me!"

Following Major General Lei Wuji and the ground commander's supreme attack order, the entire defensive perimeter around the capital city erupted into chaos.

"First Battalion, high-explosive armor-piercing shells loaded!"

"Heavy Artillery Brigade, coordinates locked!"

"Airborne squadron, disengage safeties on spiritual energy missiles!"

Hoarse roars from officers at all levels echoed through the communication channels.

"Fire!!!"

The next second, over a thousand heavy spiritual energy howitzers roared in unison, shaking the heavens and the earth.

Hundreds of multi-barrel rocket launchers spat out long tails of flame. The bomber squadrons circling in the sky dropped their entire payload of heavy spiritual energy missiles like pouring beans.

Ten thousand guns fired simultaneously!

Dense streaks of fire instantly tore through the night sky of the capital, which had been stained red with blood. It was like a meteor shower, incredibly magnificent yet carrying an aura of endless destruction!

This was the absolute Peak of the Fusion between human martial arts and modern technology! This was the final dignity of the Great Xia soldiers defending their homeland!

All firepower was locked tightly onto that massive Undead Blood Beast in the city center.

"Rumble—!!!"

The first wave of missiles slammed fiercely into the Undead Blood Beast's hill-sized body. The blinding white light instantly illuminated the entire capital as if it were broad daylight!

Immediately following were the second and third waves! An endless barrage of bombardment!

The deafening explosions continued for a full three minutes!

The earth trembled violently, as if a magnitude-10 earthquake had occurred. The high heat generated by the explosions even sucked the surrounding air into a vacuum.

A massive, high-temperature mushroom cloud soared into the sky, erupting from the city center! The violent shockwave forcibly dispersed much of the thick blood-red aura in the sky.

Three minutes later. "Cease fire! Observe the results!" The ground commander roared, raising his binoculars.

The gun barrels were glowing red-hot, emitting pungent white smoke. All the soldiers stared intently at the center of the explosion, not daring to even breathe.

The smoke slowly dissipated under the gusting wind.

The scene before them caused everyone to involuntarily gasp in horror.

The once-bustling city center plaza had completely vanished. In its place was a massive crater, a hundred meters deep and over a kilometer in diameter! The rocks at the bottom of the pit had been scorched into glowing red, glass-like substances, bubbling away.

And what about that arrogant Undead Blood Beast?

It was gone!

"It's blown to pieces! It's been blown to pieces!" A scout holding binoculars trembled with excitement, his voice cracking.

Around that massive crater, hundreds of millions of pieces of flesh were scattered! The rain of blood filling the sky stained the ruins for several kilometers around a dark red.

The largest chunks of meat were no bigger than a fist. That monster, as massive as a hill, had been forcibly blown into a sky full of minced meat in the face of humanity's saturation bombardment!

"We won... We won!!!"

After a two-second pause, the Zhenyuan Army soldiers on the defensive line erupted into wild cheers of survival!

Some threw away their empty rifles and embraced each other tightly. Others knelt on the ground, covering their faces and sobbing loudly.

"I don't care what kind of Abyss god you are! In front of our heavy artillery, you were still blown to smithereens!" The ground commander wiped the soot from his face and let out a long sigh of relief.

High in the air, Major General Lei Wuji gripped his thunder spear, his chest heaving violently.

He looked at the flesh scattered all over the ground below, but his brows were tightly furrowed. Did it... really die just like that?

"Hahahaha!"

Just then, a burst of mocking, wild laughter came from the void nearby.

Grand Elder Wang Zhentian hovered in mid-air, looking at the cheering soldiers below as if they were idiots. "Stupid ants."

"You know absolutely nothing about the power of the gods!"

As soon as Grand Elder Wang Zhentian finished speaking, the cheers on the defensive line were suddenly choked off as if by an invisible hand.

They stopped abruptly!

Stuck completely in everyone's throats!

"B-Battalion Commander..." The scout who had been holding the binoculars earlier was trembling like a sieve. He pointed fearfully at the ruins ahead. "It's moving... those pieces of flesh... they're moving!"

The ground commander lunged toward the bunker, staring intently ahead.

A hair-raising scene unfolded!

Those pieces of flesh scattered on the charred ruins. Those sticky blood droplets hanging from broken steel bars. Even the blood that had seeped into the soil!

At this moment, they seemed to suddenly possess an intensely strong independent consciousness and magnetism!

"Gurgle... gurgle..."

Those fist-sized chunks of flesh began to writhe frantically on the ground!

"Fire! Don't let them gather together!" The ground commander's eyes were wide with rage as he drew his pistol and fired wildly.

"Rat-tat-tat!" Bullets hit the flesh, merely splashing a few droplets of blood; it couldn't stop their writhing at all!

It was too fast!

In just one second! Hundreds of millions of pieces of flesh within several kilometers, like a reversed movie scene, were frantically converging at high speed toward the center of the crater!

"Stop them! Hurry!" The soldiers roared in despair, raising their machine guns to fire wildly; some even drew their blades and rushed up to hack at them.

But as soon as the blades cut into the flesh, the pieces instantly bonded back together. It was completely useless!

The second second! Countless pieces of flesh and blood collided and fused at the bottom of the pit. A massive, rudimentary blood-red meat ball had already erupted from the ground!

The third second!

"Boom—!!!"

A wave of blood-red energy, ten times more terrifying than before, erupted from the bottom of the crater! It directly flipped the armored vehicles that were charging at the front!

It only took three seconds!

Under the gaze of tens of millions of desperate eyes across the city, those fragments that had been blown into minced meat completely reaggregated!

An unscathed, massive Undead Blood Beast appeared once again in everyone's field of vision!

Not only that!

"It... it got bigger!" Lin Qinghan, standing far away, had eyes full of horror.

That's right. The resurrected Undead Blood Beast was actually a whole size larger than it was before it had been blown to pieces!

On the surface of its writhing flesh, there even flickered traces of the residual light from the spiritual energy missile explosions!

"Roar—!!!"

The Undead Blood Beast opened its bottomless, bloody maw and let out a terrifying roar that shook the heavens and the earth!

It was showing off! It was mocking humanity's incompetence!

"It absorbed the energy from the explosion..." The military analyst collapsed in front of the monitoring console, completely broken.

"The bombardment from thermal weapons is not only ineffective against it..."

"The energy inside those spiritual energy shells has even become nutrients for its evolution!"

"Physical attacks cause it to split, thermal weapons charge it up..."

"What kind of monster is this!!!"

Despair, like freezing ice water, instantly extinguished the hope in all the soldiers' hearts.

"Clang."

A battle-hardened veteran had hollow eyes. The blade in his hand fell powerlessly to the ground.

Following that was a second, then a third. Countless soldiers slumped in the trenches, not even having the strength to reload their ammunition.

Can't kill it. Can't blow it up. It gets stronger the more you fight it.

How can this war even be fought? Humanity's martial arts system, humanity's modern technology, in front of this conceptual-level Abyss monster, had been completely trampled underfoot and ground into powder!

"Hahahaha! Major General Lei Wuji!" High in the air, Grand Elder Wang Zhentian laughed wildly and wantonly. "Do you see! This is the immortal body of a god!"

"Your struggle will only make it stronger!" Grand Elder Wang Zhentian spread his arms, like a mad preacher. "Give up! Today, the capital will fall! The Great Xia will fall!"

Major General Lei Wuji hovered in mid-air, his hand gripping the long spear trembling violently. He gritted his teeth, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

Even saturation bombardment was useless. Was there... really no way left?

Major General Lei Wuji turned his head and looked at the massive underground shelter behind him. There, five hundred thousand unarmed women and children were hiding. That was the last hope of the Great Xia.

"Even if I die, I won't let you animals have your way!" A look of extreme, resolute determination to die flashed in Major General Lei Wuji's eyes.