Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The captain's command center.

Surrounded by numerous instruments, a pure black cube with one corner pointing downward, was slowly rotating.

Jiang Ding's Divine Sense flowed into it, and a dense network of patterns came into view, resembling the Earth Evil Prohibition pattern of a treasure yet bearing a certain similarity to Formation Methods, lying somewhere in between them.

Occasionally, devastating lightning would burst forth from the prohibitive patterns, emitting a terrible aura. There were traps within the prohibition that were powerful enough to shatter the Divine Sense of Nascent Soul Monks, spreading into the Nascent Soul itself, inflicting severe damage.

When Jiang Ding's Divine Sense surged in, these prohibitive traps did not activate. Each of them retracted their presence, allowing him to enter and leave a Divine Sense Brand in the heart of the layered prohibitions.

In an instant, certain changes occurred.

With a thought from Jiang Ding, a complete projection of the Super Sun Vessel emerged within his Sea of Consciousness. Every deck, every Mirror Sword-shaped Drone aboard, the reserve quantity of Spirit Stones for the engines—all the minutest details were vividly apparent, and he could be informed of any change at will.

It was as if the thousand-meter-long Giant Iron Ship had become an extension of his limbs and extremities, with absolutely no sense of delay.

"This is the pinnacle of Xianmen Sect's shipbuilding industry... very powerful."

Jiang Ding opened his eyes, his heart shaken.

"Daoist Jiang, is there anything unsatisfactory?"

Xia Caiyun said with a smile, "If there are compelling reasons, Lianyun Shipbuilding Heavy Industry will return it to the factory at no charge."

Her words contained strong confidence, proudly indicative of her industry's top standing in the world.

"No, it's outstanding."

Jiang Ding did not skimp on his admiration, praising her, "Classmate Xia, you and your colleagues have worked hard. I'm truly grateful."

"You flatter me."

Xia Caiyun was modest.

With a thought from Jiang Ding, accompanied by the sound of gears turning, a staircase lowered from the Super Sun Vessel, extending before him.

The few of them stepped onto the staircase, and everything in front of them came into view.

"How spacious..."

An Siyan exclaimed in amazement.

In the Divine Sense, one wouldn't feel it, but standing on the warship itself, it was like walking into a land of steel, so vast that one couldn't see the end with array instruments like radar, citadels, anti-air Formation instruments set up tall like skyscrapers everywhere.

Standing amongst them, one felt like a tiny ant.

"Much larger than the average warship, it's almost catching up to an Air-Space Mothership."

Jin Lingfeng commented.

She had come into contact with many warships and had visited her mother Immortal Yueling's warships many times, so she was quite knowledgeable about these matters.

The group didn't fly but instead took a casual stroll on the Super Sun Vessel, visiting the deck, the hangar, and the ammunition depot one by one, spending the longest time in the crew rest area and the dining hall.

"Can I have this room?"

Jin Lingfeng asked, pointing at the resting room of the deputy commander who held the rank of Brigadier General and was responsible for the command of drones and escort ships.

Generally speaking, super warships and Air-Space Motherships don't go to war alone; they are paired with a complete group army, carrying a large number of Air-Space Warplanes, destroyers, scout ships, frigates, and other vessels. The Fleet Rear Admiral is in charge of central command and needs someone to help share some of the command duties of the vessels.

This position is the deputy commander with the rank of Brigadier General, the second in command of a carrier strike group.

Seeing this scene, Xia Caiyun felt somewhat envious.

If nothing unexpected happened, this would be a core group army just like Gulin's, with every Cultivator inside receiving key training from Xianmen Sect.

Not to mention, this was the second-in-command position of the fleet, the rank of the Fleet Brigadier Deputy Commander, whose training treatment would far exceed that of Nascent Soul seeds.

Such a position was casually mentioned during a casual conversation.

"Of course, you may."

Jiang Ding revealed a joyous smile.

"Then this room is mine."

An Siyan smiled lightly and, pointing to another room closer to the captain's command room, said.

This was the resting room for the fleet staff chief.

Beneath the command of the fleet headquarters and overseeing many fleet staff officers, it assisted the captain in commanding the entire fleet and extended the captain's thinking and command abilities.

A good staff agency could turn a mediocre captain into an excellent commander.

"Naturally."

Jiang Ding laughed heartily.

Childhood classmates, comrades in arms today, and bound to fight together in the future, what a wonderful thing it was not to be alone on the great path.

Jin Lingfeng didn't just talk; they took out clothes, hats, quilts, toiletries, tufted beds, Pill Furnaces, and other items from storage rings, placed them around, moved in just like moving houses, and even asked Jiang Ding to help tidy up various items.

It took several hours to get everything in order.

Following that, the three of them arrived at the spacious dining hall.

The place was empty, with nothing inside, and supplies hadn't yet been replenished.

"Restocking a full set of Elixirs, ammunition, food, Spirit Stones, and other materials seems quite expensive."

Jiang Ding did a quick calculation and whistled inwardly: "A standard restocking would consume around forty million Low-grade Spirit Stones, and that's not even considering the supplies for each of the warships and Air-Space Warplanes. Counting their supplies, it would be at least one hundred million Low-grade Spirit Stones."

"Not to mention the salaries of the Golden Pill Monks, Foundation-building cultivators, etc."

"Air-Space Motherships are expensive to build and equally costly to maintain. A single cultivator using one would become impoverished in minutes, and bankruptcy is but a moment away."

The four of them, in the super warship's dining hall, used the kitchen tools available there and the ingredients taken from Storage Jade Pendants to cook a lavish feast supplemented with juice. After eating until their bellies were round, they continued their tour, satisfied.

They walked past the hangar displaying a sea of Mirror Sword-shaped Drones, tallying up to one thousand and twenty-four, then visited the fourth-tier Spirit Particle Engine of the super warship, listening to its powerful roaring as it operated, and proceeded to a fourth-tier Spirit Particle Sonar installation as large as a basketball court to test its functionality.

In this fashion, they finally arrived at the captain's command room, which was filled with various instrument screens.

"I remember there was supposed to be a Ship Spirit, right? Crafted by Immortal Shuling using Dao-number Stones."

Jiang Ding recalled something and fiddled in the core of the Super Sun Vessel for a while, activating a Formation Method node.

Weng!

In the captain's command room, various Array Patterns extended and converged, crystallizing into a humanoid phantom on the cubic core of the warship, continuously drawing Spiritual Energy from the Spirit Particle Engine to form a body.

After a short while, the phantom solidified.

A young girl over one meter tall appeared before them.

She hovered in the air, wearing a dark green military-style dress, her top buttoned up with double rows, her chest pronounced. Her face was cute, and she wore a wide-brimmed military hat. On each shoulder, she carried two electromagnetic cannons, and resembling the Mirror Sword-shaped Drones, she had mechanical wings. Ammunition boxes lined her hips.

Her expression was very serious.

Her azure eyes swept around and finally rested on a delicate-looking youth in green.

Pa!

She snapped her legs together and saluted.

"Commander, Ship Spirit Cloud Day at your service."