A Gambler's End, Four Thousand Words

These pillars of light stood straight up into the sky like flagpoles, each one over five hundred meters long.

All at once, the pillars of light began tilting away from the Mingdou Mountain Range at extreme speed, sweeping one golden trail after another through the air.

"Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble."

Vast stretches of explosions detonated in the sky.

Some of the shells had not even had time to fall before most of them were set off by the sweeping pillars of light.

They moved swiftly and nimbly, like the long spears of ancient generals picking enemy arrows out of the air, guarding this mountain fortress against invasion.

These pillars of light were precisely the defense system the Sun Moon Empire had developed to guard against Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, relying on large numbers of Soul Tool detectors in the sky to Lock On to targets before placing them under manual control.

Though this defensive method was somewhat abstract, it was undeniable that it did have some use.

More than half of the shells were blasted apart in the air, but the hundred-plus remaining shells still were not so easy to neutralize.

Under Huo Yutong's Lock On, great numbers of shells poured directly through the breach that had been blown open earlier.

Massive amounts of light and heat exploded inside the fortress.

The terrifying heat waves and shock waves caused even greater and more numerous casualties than before.

Though the three secondary peaks had not been razed to the ground quite that severely, the upper portions of the fortress had already been completely destroyed.

They did not even have the value of emergency repairs or rescue.

Vast amounts of fire element had completely melted the interior, refining the Soul Engineers garrisoned inside along with it into an entirely new