All Preparations Complete

"Senior, are you there?" Yang Ning called out.

"Yes, I'm here!" Hengming appeared in front of Yang Ning.

"Um, aren't you usually busy?" Yang Ning felt a little embarrassed seeing how readily Hengming was available.

"It's alright!" Hengming took out a cell phone. "I used to travel all over the world, seeing strange people and things, but now I can see them without leaving home, so I'm very relaxed."

"Don't you need to cultivate?" Yang Ning asked.

"My cultivation has reached the pinnacle of this realm; the only way to advance further is through ascension!" Hengming. "Therefore, I cannot cultivate further!"

"Oh," Yang Ning understood. This big shot was cultivating without rest and couldn't leave either; he probably really had a lot of free time.

"What's the matter this time?" Hengming asked calmly.

"Um, I'd like to use your physical body for an experiment, is that alright?" Yang Ning asked cautiously.

After all, it's a celestial artifact. Although Hengming had said it was possible before, what if it's just a big shot being polite?

Then, the senior reached behind him and pulled out a small, golden pagoda about a foot tall, which he handed to Yang Ning.

"For you!"

Yang Ning was speechless for a moment, but still reached out his hands and carefully took it.

This is... a celestial artifact!

It can easily suppress a planet, a planet teeming with cultivators!

It also contains the supreme lineage of the Taiheng Sect.

It can be said that the Hengming Tower's ability to survive for 300,000 years. Even if every member of the Taiheng Sect were killed, the Hengming Tower and its internal heritage would still allow the Taiheng Sect to rebuild.

Yang Ning had thought the pagoda would be very heavy, but after holding it, he found that it was actually very light, even weightless, like holding a wisp of air.

However, how could a celestial artifact be weightless? It must have been the senior who restrained himself.

The pagoda is octagonal and has eight stories. A small bell hangs from the eaves of each story. Yang Ning gently taps it, and a clear, melodious sound rings out, making Yang Ning very soul feel numb.

"This is the Soul Calling Bell, which can summon, call upon, and stabilize the souls of living beings!" Hengming explained.

There are eight bells on each of the seven eaves, making a total of 56!

"Can the souls of the dead also work?" Yang Ning's eyes lit up as he asked.

"You mean those people who died a few days ago?" Hengming asked.

"Yes!" Yang Ning nodded. Although they could be resurrected once they reached the end of the Immortal Path, it would be better if they could be resurrected earlier.

"Okay!" Hengming nodded.

"Ah?" Yang Ning was immediately overjoyed, but then Hengming, "But are you sure you want to call back their souls?"

"Is this...?" Yang Ning blinked. "Is it very troublesome?"

"It's not troublesome, but Taiheng currently lacks the method to create physical bodies!" Hengming, "Rashly reviving them will only affect their future potential, and your current strength is insufficient to protect them."

Yang Ning was speechless. It was indeed true.

"Would you like to hear my advice?" Hengming.

"Please speak, senior!" Yang Ning nodded hurriedly. Hengming Tower had lived for 300,000 years and had witnessed countless partings and deaths, so it naturally had more experience in handling such matters.

"Strive to cultivate diligently and improve your cultivation level!" Hengming, "Then wait for them to reincarnate, and then take them under your wing!"

"Reincarnation?" Yang Ning was taken aback. "Does this world even have such a thing?"

"Why not tell me?" Hengming, "Our world doesn't have a similar inheritance, but other worlds do have inheritances like the Great Samsara Technique. They can even dominate and control reincarnation!"

Yang Ning was startled and quickly asked, "Are you referring to the Xuanhuang Great World? Is that person called Fang Han or the Samsara Emperor?"

"The Xuanhuang Great World?" Hengming shook his head. "Never heard of it. As for what that world is called, it's too early for you. You can learn about it when you reach the Spiritual Law Realm!"

"Oh, oh!" Yang Ning nodded emphatically, unsure whether to be happy or sad.

If that world is the Xuanhuang Great World, then it's simple; just go and latch onto Fang Han's coattails.

But upon further reflection, the naming style of things like "Great Dragon Physiognomy" and "Great Destiny Technique" was something I translated myself, which is why they have names similar to "The World of Eternal Life," but the two are indeed not the same worldview.

It's just a similar flower.

After putting these things down, Yang Ning turned the pagoda over again and asked, "Senior Hengming, could you open up the base of this pagoda and make eight parallel metal guide rails for me?"

With a wave of his hand, he used the illusionary water technique to construct the shape of the pagoda he desired in the air.

Immortal artifacts naturally possess the ability to transform; without Senior Hengming making any move, the pagoda in Yang Ning's hand had already completed its transformation.

Yang Ning nodded, and then began to input current into the pagoda.

He also discovered that the Hengming Tower, like the Moon Golden Wheel, was a superconductor!

The current is input into the pagoda without any loss, and since it is a pagoda, not a battery, the current can be stored, and there is no visible upper limit to the storage capacity.

Yang Ning didn't input much, only scratching the surface, and then casually made a tungsten rod and placed it at the bottom of the pagoda.

As the electric current surges, it first magnetizes the tungsten rod, and then the surging magnetic field instantly pushes the tungsten rod out.

The tungsten rod, shaped like a golden tracer bullet, was launched instantly.

"Huh?" Hengming Tower was taken aback and blinked. After all, what had just happened inside his body, so he immediately understood the reason.

Then something unbelievable happened: could this really be possible?

Yang Ning offered no explanation and switched to a different type of current.

He was just using gold electricity, now he's switching to wood electricity.

Of course, without the input of Law Power, the only difference between the two is the voltage and frequency; in reality, they are both ordinary lightning.

If Law Power was entered?

Then it wouldn't be called "Golden Lightning and Wood Lightning" anymore; it would have to be called "Geng Metal Divine Thunder" or "Yi Wood Divine Thunder".

"The driving effect of wood-based electricity is not as good as that of metal-based electricity, and the same goes for water, fire, and earth!"

"But the effect of the Golden Lightning is not as good as the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder!"

"The propulsive force of the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder is not as strong as that of the Chaos Divine Thunder Purple Heaven Divine Thunder Chaos Divine Thunder, but its armor-piercing effect is stronger!"

"I can't use the Immortal Slaying Divine Thunder!"

"Soul Scattering Divine Thunder, this is even inferior to Golden Lightning!"

After careful consideration, Yang Ning chose the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder as the energy source for the Electromagnetic Cannon. After testing, he confirmed that there was no upper limit to the energy storage capacity of the Hengming Tower.

At the very least, a mere Qi Refining First Level Karami like him wouldn't reach the upper limit of a Celestial Artifact.

Then you can go all out and get started.

"You want to use the pagoda to input divine lightning, and then launch that big stick at the Lin Family?" Hengming asked.

The fact that the two men had built the hydrogen bomb could not be hidden from Hengming.

Yang Ning nodded. "Yes! Senior Hengming, what do you think? Can I fight them?"

Hengming nodded. "The Lin family of Nanlin doesn't belong to the Taiheng Sect, so you can attack them as you please. However, the Lin family also has some powerful cultivators stationed there. If you just throw in a stick, it might not cause them much harm. But if you made a magic weapon, then there might be a chance!"

"I don't have the resources to create such a treasure, but I have my own methods!" Yang Ning laughed, "Senior, just wait and see!"

"Is that so!" Hengming nodded. "Then I'll wait and see!"

People who live too long naturally enjoy watching others have fun, and Yang Ning's understanding of Hengming's psychology is quite accurate.

However, Yang Ning also noticed that, according to Senior Hengming, the Lin family of Nanlin did not belong to Taiheng.

However, under the current system of Taiheng, Southern Forest is part of Taiheng!

Yang Ning suddenly felt that he might need to look up the Taiheng Calendar.

Back in the Spirit Realm, Yang Ning entrusted the task of collecting historical data to Deep Blue while simultaneously launching his experiments.

The mass of the Tai Heng Star is 8.87 m/s². Xiliang-43 began to accelerate under the influence of gravity at an altitude of 4135 km above the ground. If the speed at which it was launched from Hengming Tower was Mach 40, then the speed at which it landed would have reached Mach 47.

The Xiliang-43 is 38 meters in diameter and 180 meters high. Its outer shell and main body are made of tungsten gold. The warhead is a small Nuclear Bomb containing 4,600 kg of Helium-3 for ignition. The total weight is 1.7 million tons!

If Yang Ning hadn't built the Yingzhou underwater base, relying solely on Taiheng's production capacity, it would have taken forever to produce all this metal.

Just how powerful is this weapon?

"Xiliang 43, first test, begin!"

At an altitude of 4,135 kilometers above the ground, an octagonal, eight-tiered pagoda suddenly appeared in the atmosphere. Then, with a flash of lightning, a colossal metal rod was projected out at Mach 40, or 13,720 m/s.

The metal rod accelerated as it moved, but because there was a vacuum in front of it, it made no sound and produced no sparks.

Beneath the metal rod lay a palace complex far more magnificent than any imperial palace or heavenly palace Yang Ning had ever seen, or even imagined, and even more magnificent than the Taiheng Palace where Yang Ning resided!

This palace complex stretches nearly 400 kilometers in length and width, with towering buildings and pavilions scattered throughout. Inside, there are mountains, rivers, grasslands, deserts, and even swamps and seas, with all kinds of rare and exotic animals, treasures, beauties, and handsome men hidden in the layers of space.

It seems to be a collection of the most beautiful things and the most Spiritual Qi people in the world.

If a hundred or a thousand years later, the dynasty falls, the Aristocratic Clan cease to exist, and the world usheres in a time of Great Harmony, the people of later generations will surely regard this place as the most miraculous cultural treasure in Taiheng Calendar. Every year, millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of tourists will come here to marvel at the superb skills and outstanding aesthetics of the ancients.

But now, the more magnificent the palace is, the more Yang Ning wants to blow it up.

He suddenly understood Xiang Yu, who burned down the Epang Palace.

What use is a product that exploits the people, oppresses them, and harms ordinary citizens?

Two minutes and 41 seconds later, a 1.7 million-ton metal rod fell from the sky.

Yang Ning looked tense and solemn, but then he saw the Five Elements Rotation Formation flash, and then it was passed through by Xiliang-43!

What followed was endless light, heat, and peace!

"Boom!"

"Holy crap!" Yang Ning blurted out, "I prepared for so long, so carefully, doing calculations, adding weight, and even creating a vacuum environment by purging the air beforehand, just in case this formation could withstand Xiliang, and it shattered with the slightest touch?"

"Is it possible?" Deep Blue asked, "This formation defends against Law Technique attacks, but not physical attacks?"

Yang Ning was taken aback. Huh?

This statement sounds a bit outrageous, but upon closer inspection, it seems quite reasonable!

Physical attacks are either physical attacks or attacks that rely on the advantage of weapons, but both of these only occur in the Body Refinement Realm!

Once cultivators reach the Qi Refining Stage, they generally start using Spirit Artifact and magical treasures, making it unsuitable to rely on their physical bodies.

Because the human body grows very slowly, but Law Power grows very quickly, this inevitably leads to Divine Ability and Law Technique becoming the mainstream means of attack.

What if you just use Spirit Artifact or a treasure to smash someone?

It's possible, but unnecessary, because if you try to attack an enemy using the material itself, it will break!

What makes Spirit Materials is not its hardness, but its high affinity with Spiritual Qi!

Using Spirit Artifact for physical attacks is still quite common, because Spirit Artifact are relatively cheap and easy to repair if they break.

However, if a magical artifact is damaged, it will really hurt the cultivator, not to mention that many people only have one magical artifact, which is their life-or-death Natal Treasure Artifact.

Precious artifacts are valuable, but Dao artifacts are even more so. If this is damaged, you might regret it for thirty or fifty years when you get back!

Can those magical artifacts be used to smash people?

That's feasible. The materials used in immortal artifacts are extraordinary; ordinary things really can't break them!

Hengming only has one celestial artifact on the surface, the Hengming Tower. Why would he bother attacking Southern Forest?

The designer of the formation could not have been unaware of the possibility of physical attacks, but it was only meant to defend against ordinary Demon Beast and Fierce Beast. He could never have imagined that someone in later generations would create a 1.7 million ton metal rod that would fly down from space at Mach 47 to attack the formation!

"However, this will only happen once. Once the other forces see the tragic state of Southern Forest, they will definitely raise their physical defenses!" Yang Ning said.

But he didn't care. He was only at the Qi Refining First Level. Once other forces improved their defenses, the strength of his Thunder Method would increase, and the power of the missiles he launched would also continue to increase.

That's right, Yang Ning never considered fighting someone head-on unless absolutely necessary.

He believed in the teachings of his teacher Chen Hegao: when encountering the enemy, use a gun if possible, and a dump truck if possible, rather than a motorcycle.

I can use hydrogen bombs now, why should I risk my life myself!

"How powerful was it?" Yang Ning asked, looking at the palace that had been one-tenth of its area wiped out.

"Its destructive power is comparable to 460 million tons of TNT!"

In other words, it is nine times larger than the Tsar Bomba's nuclear Nuclear Bomb.

After all, it's just an experiment, and the data may differ somewhat from reality.

Therefore, Yang Ning does not intend to launch only one.

Since the formation has five major areas, and each major area has five formation bases, then we should send 25 to destroy the formation first.

Secondly, the kill radius of a hydrogen bomb is only 55 kilometers, while Southern Forest Palace City is 400 kilometers long and wide, and its internal space is densely packed with arrays, making its actual space far more than 400 kilometers. After calculation, Deep Blue determined that a carpet bombing would require 3,691 Xiliang-43 bombs.

Finally, this 400-kilometer-long palace city belongs to the core group of people in Southern Forest. The branches and sub-branches also have their own palaces, each as luxurious as the imperial city of a dynasty. They are scattered across 500,000 square kilometers of land in the Lin Lineage territory, and each of these palaces needs to be named one by one.

Conservative calculations yield another 11,250!

The two combined would require a staggering 15,000 hydrogen bombs!

Is that an exaggeration?

It's no exaggeration at all. This is an Aristocratic Clan with a history of hundreds of thousands of years, not a small Lineage like those in the Tang Dynasty that could be wiped out by tens of thousands of rebels!

The Lin Family has a core population of over 30 million, and the number of servants and maids who depend on them is as high as 400 million!

If we also include the farmers cultivating the land outside the city, this 500,000 square kilometers of land is home to as many as 1.8 billion people!

What? It can't fit?

Don't forget, the Meso-Sumeru!

These people are also very good at enjoying life. Often, a palace covering thousands of acres only houses thirty to fifty people. You can't do without a hydrogen bomb, because they are cultivators who can fly dozens of kilometers away in two minutes. If the power is too weak, it won't hit them.

Even this isn't enough to completely eradicate the problem, because many Lin Family live outside their clan's territory.

However, these people no longer have any direct financial ties with the Lin Family. For example, although Lin Jingyun is a prince, he has severed ties with the Lin Family because he is separated from his family by a great distance. Therefore, there is no need for these people to pursue the matter further.

As for whether doing this is too cruel, or whether it harms innocent people?

Yang Ning really did hold back; he only attacked the palace. The farmers outside would be flashed by the light, but they would definitely not die!

Moreover, hydrogen bombs do not emit any radiation, making them a very clean weapon, and they do not pose any subsequent livelihood problems for the local population.

Yang Ning then calculated the ecological impact.

If these 14,000 hydrogen bombs were detonated on Earth, they could carpet bomb the entire Eurasian continent, and the dust they would generate could engulf the entire planet, blocking the spread of sunlight and plunging the Earth into a nuclear winter!

The Earth may only see it as having scratched its face, while humanity is undoubtedly extinct!

But this is Taiheng, and even excluding the space within the Meso-Sumeru, its surface area is 54 times that of Earth.

What is a serious injury to Earth is only a minor injury to Taiheng!

Moreover, once the explosion is over, the celestial artifact will step in to stabilize the situation!

After finishing the calculations, Yang Ning checked them several times to confirm they were correct before leaving the Spirit Realm.

The surging magical Law Power within his body flowed into the Dragon Pearl, then transformed into the Lawful Nightmare Power, and was transmitted to the distant deep sea through the Cloud-Mist Information Matrix.

The Spiritual Qi energy was conducted faster than light. In the blink of an eye, the surging Lawful Nightmare Power was distributed by the sea mist and Water Droplet on the seabed of Yingzhou to countless robots, conveyor belts, metallurgical tables, and mining equipment.

The machines, already possessing unimaginable potential when infused with the Nightmare Energy of the Body Refinement Realm, are now being injected with even higher quality and greater quantity of Lawful Nightmare Power, causing all the machines to instantly exceed their limits!

Efficiency, strength, and speed all increased, instantly boosting the entire underwater factory's work efficiency by 437 times!

Large chunks of ore were mined, fed into a conveyor belt, crushed, smelted, and transformed into elemental metals. These were then fed into a smelting furnace according to a set ratio. Geng Metal Divine Thunder directly refined the metals into metal parts. Robots nearby automatically delivered the parts to the assembly workshop, where they were assembled one by one. The parts were then transported to Yang Ning via Teleportation Formation on his phone.

"There are more?" Yuanxi had just completed the task of engraving a hydrogen bomb rune, stared wide-eyed at the numerous Xiliang-43 ships that had appeared in the courtyard.

"Of course!" Yang Ning said calmly, "If you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll grow back in the spring!"

If you only seek revenge against Lin Tianheng, who knows what kind of father or grandfather he might bring up later?

It would be better to wipe them out completely. After all, the Lin Family is no good either. They hold great power and act lawlessly. Over hundreds of thousands of years, they have accumulated boundless sins!

"That's not all, there are more than ten thousand more to come!" Yang Ning asked, "Aren't you tired?"

"No way!" Yuanxi immediately shook her head. As a cultivator at the Supernatural Power Realm, drawing a few runes was nothing tiring. "Besides, the more I draw, the more skilled I become. I feel I have quite a talent for runes. Do you think I should switch to learning talismans and formations?"

"Don't study it, it has no future!" Yang Ning shook his head.

"Huh?" Yuanxi blinked. "How could that be?"

"Look at this!" Yang Ning handed over a seal.

"This is..." Yuanxi took it and looked at it, but found that the other side of the seal was engraved with what looked like the design of a spirit-gathering talisman?

"Enter your Law Power, then find a Spirit Materials and try imprinting it!" Yang Ning said.

Yuanxi was taken aback, then realized a possibility and quickly took out a piece of Spirit Materials and imprinted it on the surface.

A spirit-gathering talisman appeared directly on the Spirit Materials!

"Ah!" Yuanxi exclaimed in surprise, "How could this be!"

Even a skilled artist would need to spend two blinks to draw a spirit-gathering talisman!

But now, she just printed it!

In other words, with this, there's no need for a talisman master at all?

"You invented this too?" Yuanxi asked in surprise.

"Hmm!" Yang Ning nodded. "Just a toy!"

"A toy?" Yuanxi exclaimed in surprise, "Do you know how much this will change the talisman master industry? How can this be a toy!"

Yang Ning smiled and said, "It's just a seal, what else could it be but a toy? Besides, I've improved the craftsmanship, so you won't need to draw the talismans anymore!"

He had been pondering the application of photolithography machines in talisman drawing since his Body Refinement Realm, and he had just designed it for the mass production of Xiliang-43.

Runes are something that can be randomly generated by nature, so there's not much skill involved.

The reason why drawing talismans requires high skill from the talisman master is not because of the high level of control over spiritual power, but because the spiritual liquid used for drawing talismans is of poor quality, with too many impurities, which affects the conduction of spiritual power.

The higher the level of the talisman master, the higher their cultivation level and the higher the quality of their Law Power. This allows them to ignore impurities in the spiritual liquid, achieving a powerful, explosive effect.

Yang Ning used a centrifuge to extract the spiritual liquid, removing impurities. The remaining spiritual liquid only needed to be drawn into a fixed shape and then infused with Spiritual Qi to produce its effects.

As for the photolithography process, the Ghost Head Tungsten is first refined into a single Ghost Head Tungsten, then patterns are etched onto it using a photolithography machine. Spiritual liquid is then injected into the patterns, and finally, it is encapsulated with a metal that does not conduct Spiritual Qi. Thus, a Ghost Head Tungsten chip engraved with runes is born.

It's a bit of a pity that his photolithography process isn't very advanced; even with the infusion of Lawful Nightmare Power, it only reaches 248nm. Even so, 1.6 billion runes can be engraved on a 1 square centimeter tungsten sheet.

What used to require a 1-cubic-meter Ghost Head Tungsten for the warhead, now only requires one piece at the tip!

The only pity is that he only built the lithography machine in the Spirit Realm; it doesn't exist in reality yet, and he has to wait 36 days.

A hydrogen bomb can be assembled in a day, but a single lithography machine takes 36 days to assemble.

Although Yang Ning did not have readily available production lines and equipment, it is enough to prove that lithography machines are indeed worthy of sitting on the crown of industry.

Time passed by, little by little.

While Lin Tianheng had people guarding the gate, he also kept track of the progress of the acquisition of Tianma Company.

Then he discovered that although Tianma Company existed, it was just an empty shell, because the factory buildings hadn't been built, and naturally there were no machines or anything like that.

As for the students Yang Ning recruited at the school, they only learned the basics and couldn't build cars at all.

His weapon Artifact Forging Master could indeed imitate the cars and build them, but while cars earned silver, Artifact Forging Master earned Spirit Stone. Lin Tianheng only wanted to increase his own money, not decrease his Spirit Stone.

Yang Ning, who could build cars, was hiding in the Taiheng Palace and wouldn't come out, which made Lin Tianheng feel extremely frustrated.

Within the Great Tai Array, the chaotic battle continued. Although the Xuantian Sect members had disappeared, the atmosphere of battle showed no signs of abating. Deep Blue did catch a glimpse of someone stirring up trouble, but he was too busy causing trouble to pay attention to that.

North of the Demon Alliance and west of the Myriad Saints Alliance, there is a force called the Tianfei Palace, which has begun to gain worldwide fame with the popularization of mobile phones.

This sect, like the Antarctic Li Han Palace, is one of only two sects in the world composed entirely of women.

But unlike the Li Han Palace where people are always dressed in thick clothes and nothing can be seen, the Tianfei Palace is next to the Demon Alliance and the Myriad Saints Alliance.

Both of them were very open-minded, and the female cultivators in the Tianfei Palace were also very open-minded as a result.

In addition, there is a warm current near the Tianfei Palace, which makes it spring-like all year round. This also leads to the fact that the clothing style of the Tianfei Palace is elegant and flowing, with one piece of clothing on the upper body and one on the lower body, highlighting a charming and graceful style.

Tianfei Palace had only recently joined the internet when its Yao Yue, Palace Master, surpassed Tian Dao Yi in the number of fans, becoming number one in the world.

Taiheng has always been like this, noisy and bustling, but overall, it is relatively peaceful!

This chapter is 6,000 words long, which is actually a bit long, but I haven't found a suitable place to break it into chapters, so I won't.

I'm going to bed now. If I can wake up before 10 o'clock, I'll write another chapter.