Qi Hanxing had no idea that, amid the fierce fighting, countless sensors and reconnaissance instruments had locked onto them, collecting combat data in conjunction with the terminal devices representing each unit.
Flight speed, destructive power, attack range, behavioral habits...
Every kind of information observable on the surface was being modeled in real time, building a precise war-simulation model.
In the control center, the artificial intelligence cluster centered on Heavenly Pivot worked at full capacity, deducing their preferences and potential tactics, and running repeated predictions in virtual scenarios.
Without their realizing it, the strategies these people would adopt against the Puppet Sea had already fallen firmly within its grasp.
By this point, the true commander had long since ceased to be human.
Xu Zhikai was merely a graphical stamp, a figurehead serving as a banner. Those who truly made the important decisions and wielded military authority were still Li Chen himself and Heavenly Pivot!
The heavenly authority persona decisively implemented an internal plan called "Core Formation Nuclear Detonation." First, using Salt City's magic array as the trigger, it detonated three ten-megaton Blazing Sun Divine Thunder bombs in succession, forcing the enemy to take evasive action. Then it detonated the true trump card prepared beforehand, delivering a blow that settled everything.
It was an enormous Divine Thunder bomb with a yield exceeding a hundred megatons, a terrifying weapon whose close-range explosion was enough to blast a Core Formation Cultivator into shattered flesh and bone!
When its light blossomed, all of Salt City seemed to be swept by a storm of divine radiance composed of searing flames.
Soundlessly, buildings turned to ash in an instant, then were swallowed by the expanding orb of light.
The orb expanded relentlessly, engulfing everything in its path-the Insect Race army, the puppet army, warplanes, vehicles, everything was