With several deafening explosions, Zhenghong's father and son were thrown into the air by the blast wave, and countless bricks and stones turned into shrapnel that struck them.
A normal person would have been turned into mincemeat long ago, but Zhenghong's father and son stood up as if nothing had happened.
One was born with innate talent, and the other had undergone a blood transfusion. Neither of them was directly hit by the shells, so apart from some damage to their clothes, they were unharmed.
But when they turned around, they were immediately speechless...
The once magnificent Great Hero Hall had been reduced to a radiating pile of construction debris!
The Great Hero Hall is the face of a temple, equivalent to the living room of a house.
This room in Xuanzang Temple has a building area of 3,000 square meters, and its magnificent appearance goes without saying.
But now it's just ruins! The thousand monks suffered heavy casualties!
Only a handful of people struggled out of the ruins, looking at the host in a disheveled and panicked manner; it was clear that less than one in ten had survived!
"Artillery fire!?"
Zhenghong immediately realized what had happened.
But the nightmare has only just begun; the shelling won't end in just one round!
A faint trail of light appeared on the horizon as six more shells hurtled towards them.
One of them even went straight for Zhenghong!
"Spirit Refining master!"
Zhenghong was right; Lu Li was indeed controlling this shell.
Including the first round of shelling just now, it was Lu Li who piloted the cannonballs and hit the center of the Great Hero Hall.
Since it was the first time the cannons had been fired, the cannons themselves were scattered, and the shells fired by Xiao Cha and the puppet only grazed the edge of the main hall.
But with a kill radius of 50 meters, this thing wasn't supposed to be as accurate as a gun.
At that moment, Xiao Cha loaded the second shell in less than 4 seconds, made a slight adjustment to the "steering mechanism", and then fired with a roar.
She stared intently at the drone's remote control screen. From her vantage point above, she saw a shell streak across the air with a white trajectory, landing right in the center of the surviving monks.
A 30-meter-high wave of earth and rocks rose up, and the monks within a 30-meter radius were instantly torn apart by the shockwave; the higher their cultivation level, the more intact their corpses became.
Xiao Cha cheered, and then the other five cannons opened fire in succession.
The shell flew past with a terrifying whistling sound, turning into an explosion image on the tablet computer.
You can tell whether the shot was accurate or not, and how to adjust the trajectory based on the footage.
Meanwhile, Xiao Cha had already controlled the drone to keep a close eye on Zhenghong.
She wanted to see how well her man's Mind Cannonball performed.
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Terrifying shells rained down around Zhenghong, exploding into massive waves of death.
He ignored everything else, focusing only on the missile that was constantly adjusting its trajectory in the sky, heading straight for him!
The shell travels at nearly twice the speed of Mach, giving Zhenghong at most three seconds to react from the moment he spots it.
But this person had a good mindset; he remained calm and didn't make any rash moves.
Just when he was only 100 meters away from the shell, he suddenly exerted his strength, stomped on the ground, and moved 50 meters to the side in the blink of an eye.
At such a short distance, Lu Li didn't have time to maneuver much before the shell hit the ground and exploded, at least 30 meters away from Zhenghong.
With the physique of a martial artist of innate talent, shockwaves and shrapnel at this distance would only mess up his hairstyle, if he had any.
"You dodged my attack with minimal cost, relying solely on your physical reflexes! Impressive!"
The opponent is strong, but Lu Li was only testing the waters with his attack. The real show is about to begin.
He boarded the Attack Helicopter and shouted:
"All artillery pieces are loaded with Mind Cannonball. Fire on my command!"
The propellers whipped up a whirlwind, and the "Doe" soared into the sky.
Xiao Cha looked astonished. "This thing flies so fast! How come I've never heard of this kind of airplane before?"
As Attack Helicopter, the "Hind" can reach speeds of up to 330 kilometers per hour!
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At the same moment, Zhenghong also confirmed the enemy's position by observing the direction from which the shells were coming.
"The thief is 20 li to the east!"
There was no way things could end well today, so Zhenghong immediately unleashed his movement technique and rushed over at full speed.
He crashed through the air with a powerful roar, reaching speeds exceeding 400 kilometers per hour!
Fortunately, Lu Li reacted quickly and immediately took out his Attack Helicopter, intercepting them halfway.
"What the hell is this thing? An airplane?"
Zhenghong was slightly taken aback, and then he saw the iron lump in the sky drop an "Iron Egg" that shot down with a violent tail flame.
This is the AT6 Missile launched from Lu Li; it is not only conspicuous but also has a flight speed of only about 200 meters per second.
The two were 1 kilometer apart, giving Zhenghong ample time to react, and he easily dodged the attack.
Lu Li wasn't expecting a Mach weapon; he was just testing it out.
He then turned the Gatling Gun under the nose of the aircraft and opened fire.
With a rate of fire of 2000 rounds per minute, a barrage of 12.7mm bullets swept in.
Even Blood Exchange martial artist would be beaten into a sieve, but when it hit Zhenghong, it only produced a string of Mars and left a few scratches.
Only bullets with extremely precise angles can penetrate the skin, but they will inevitably get stuck in the muscle.
Zhenghong covered his head and face with one hand, picked up a basketball-sized rock from the ground with the other, stretched out his arm, and threw it hard!
The rock exploded, creating a white shockwave that crashed down with enough power to shoot down a helicopter!
With a thought from Lu Li, the "Shadow Painter Sword" flew out of the cockpit, its cold light flashing as it shattered the stone.
"Flying sword!"
Zhenghong's eyes turned cold; he immediately knew that the person on the plane was the real deal, and he also knew the other party's cultivation level.
"Sword Control just past the speed of sound... Embryonic Breathing! [Four Spirits], is that it? You think you can cross borders and kill enemies just by relying on airplanes and firearms? Dream on!"
His words were clearly transmitted to an altitude of 500 meters, and Lu Li heard them perfectly.
Immediately afterwards, Zhenghong kept picking up stones from the ground and throwing them into the air, and also kicking the stones into the air with his feet.
Basketball-sized boulders hurtled towards them, and Lu Li maneuvered the helicopter to dodge them while simultaneously slashing them with his flying sword.
A martial artist's physical strength is cheap, but Cultivator's mental energy is precious; this cannot continue.
Lu Li had already issued commands to the puppet through telepathic communication:
[Fire in sequence, one second apart!]
At the Artillery Position, Number 0 fired the first shot, followed by the other puppets firing in turn, with Xiao Cha finishing off the rest.
The one-second interval is because Lu Li can only control one cannonball at a time.
Six shells came whistling in at intervals, threatening to bury Zhenghong.
Zhenghong threw a bunch of stones, but seemed to be running out of energy, and his speed decreased significantly for the last few stones.
Even if we ignore it, it won't damage the helicopter.
But at that very moment, Zhenghong's expression hardened, and a vortex of energy rose from his body, bursting his monk's robes and revealing his muscular physique.
"Die!"
He roared, stomped on the ground and shot into the sky, jumping more than two hundred meters high from flat ground.
Just as the momentum was about to decline, it caught up with the stone that had been thrown earlier.
Zhenghong used his feet to push off the rocks and charged straight at the helicopter without slowing down!
Thanks to Lu Li's caution, the helicopter was kept hovering at an altitude of 500 meters.
Behind Xuanzang Temple, Kongxing was kicking and punching, urging the terrified monks to rush towards the Artillery Position to support his father, while he himself quietly lagged behind.