Chen Fan did not immediately answer Long Live's suggestion. Instead, he sank into thought.
Although it sounded rather crude.
It was not entirely unreasonable.
"Long Live."
"Send orders to the Missile Storage Base on Nameless Mountain. Launch a Sky-Piercing Pillar carrying a Nuclear Warhead into an uninhabited area of the Despair Continent. Let's see what happens."
"Yes."
Long Live hurried to acknowledge the order and pulled a Message Talisman from his robes.
With Mutated Heavenly Dao Cannon just unlocked, a single shot from a Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannon cost only 225 million eerie stones. In other words, a Sky-Piercing Pillar carrying a Nuclear Warhead cost roughly the same.
However.
This Sky-Piercing Pillar had been stockpiled earlier, so its cost was still around 450 million eerie stones.
Most of that cost came from the Heavenly Dao Cannon. After all, charging a Nuclear Warhead version of the Sky-Piercing Pillar required firing a Heavenly Dao Cannon at it. The cost of the pillar itself was negligible.
Spending 450 million eerie stones just to sound things out.
That was certainly extravagant.
Standing inside the Strategist Pavilion, Chen Fan calmly watched the Heaven-Deriving Formation Screen as the Sky-Piercing Pillar slowly rose behind Nameless Mountain. Its trajectory was clearly visible on the screen.
It passed over the strange entities surrounding the Eternal Night Continent.
Then headed South.
Straight toward the Despair Continent, before finally landing in a remote, uninhabited area.
He began to wait patiently.
A cup of tea's time passed.
He received no word from the Despair Continent.
At that point.
He knew things might have taken a serious turn.
Even if the Despair Continent really had harbored some delusions, after suffering that strike, it should have contacted him immediately to state its position, just as the Feng Qiya Continent had before. Yet now, it