Do All These Shells Possess Sentience? The Xingfeng Sect Must Be Destroyed.

Three days passed quietly.

The three ships of the Azure Flame Sect have sailed to an area less than 100 kilometers from the Black Coast.

The Azure Flame Sect doesn't possess a flying Law Treasure with the terrifying speed of Luo Yinxue.

Their Law Treasure were all very ordinary, and their sailing speed was naturally very slow.

"Sect Leader, we'll be there soon!" the elder said to Lu Yan.

Lu Yan gazed at the distant sea and said in a deep voice:

Do you think Xingfeng Sect might have laid an ambush on us beforehand?

Upon hearing this, the elder of the Cangyan Sect decisively shook his head:

"Absolutely impossible, because they simply cannot cross the Black Sea, nor could they possibly know we were coming."

The Black Sea is not a place that just anyone can cross.

There are many Demon Beast in the Black Sea, including even Demon Beast at the Golden Core level.

Currently, there are only two safe ways to cross the Black Sea.

The first method is to rely on one's own strength. As long as one's strength reaches the Golden Core stage, crossing the Black Sea is not a problem.

Another option is to give advance notice. As long as you inform the Golden Core demon Demon Beast of the Black Sea beforehand, you can cross the Black Sea safely.

But Golden Core Demon Beast don't give face to just anyone.

Only the three top powers of Moonlit Island will be respected by the Demon Beast of the Black Sea.

The Azure Flame Sect informed the Heavenly Demon Sect in advance, and only after the Heavenly Demon Sect communicated with the Demon Beast of the Black Sea did they dare to cross the Black Sea.

The Xingfeng Sect was merely a force composed of martial artists, making it impossible for them to cross the Black Sea to reach the vicinity of the Moon Dragon Islands, and naturally, they would not have known of their arrival.

Lu Yan suddenly said, "But I feel uneasy."

The elder of the Cangyan Sect looked at Lu Yan:

"Sect Leader, did you have a premonition of something?"

Lu Yan shook his head. "I don't know, tell everyone to be careful."

Although he was only at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, he still had a certain premonition of danger.

Just then, a dense rumbling sound suddenly came from afar.

The roar came from a great distance, at least tens of kilometers away.

Only cultivators who have reached the Foundation Establishment level can barely hear this sound.

The moment he heard that voice, Lu Yan's expression changed drastically, and he immediately shouted:

"Quickly, activate the protective array!"

Upon hearing Lu Yan's words, the magic ship beneath his feet immediately lit up with a light blue protective array.

The protective array enveloped the entire Dharma ship.

However, the other two French ships did not activate their protective arrays immediately.

Many of the cultivators on the two magic ships were confused, not understanding why Lu Yan wanted them to activate the protective array.

It was during that moment of distraction that...

Hundreds of shells have already been fired.

Against the backdrop of the black sea, these shells looked like shooting stars streaking across the sky, creating a truly spectacular sight.

These cannonballs arrived in front of the three magic ships of the Cangyan Sect in the blink of an eye.

Countless explosions began to echo across the sea.

Apart from the ship Lu Yan was on, the other two ships were destroyed by the explosion.

The three Buddhist ships, including Lu Yan's, activated their protective array.

Amidst the dense explosions, numerous holes immediately appeared on the two magic ships that had not activated their arrays.

The cultivators of the Azure Flame Sect were thrown into chaos.

Lu Yan looked at the scene unfolding before him, his face extremely grim.

They never expected the attack to come so suddenly.

Lu Yan immediately took out a talisman from his person and threw it out.

This is a high-grade defensive talisman.

As the talisman was unleashed, a golden light instantly enveloped the other two magic ships.

The incoming cannonballs were temporarily blocked by the golden light.

Although the cannonballs were blocked, they would explode immediately upon impact with the golden light.

The shockwaves from the explosion continued to bombard the golden light, which was dissipating at a visible speed.

"Quickly, get off the French ship!" Lu Yan immediately gave the order.

As the cannonballs were stopped, the cultivators of the Azure Flame Sect snapped out of their panic and began to maneuver their Law Artifact away from the magic ship.

After leaving the magic ship, the cultivators of the Azure Flame Sect used Law Technique and Law Artifact to deflect the incoming cannonballs.

In an instant, the collision of Law Technique and cannonballs illuminated the Black Sea in this area.

However, after only a short while, some Qi Refining cultivators from the Cangyan Sect could not withstand it.

In no time, dozens of Qi Refining cultivators were killed in the explosion.

Only Foundation Establishment cultivators in the arena could withstand it with their speed and Law Technique.

In the distant sky.

Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng both watched the scene below in silence.

The two of them had been following the Cangyan Sect's magic ship, and with their concealment skills, Lu Yan couldn't detect them.

Looking at the scene in the sea below.

Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng were both shocked.

Each of these incoming shells possessed an explosive power no less than that of Foundation Establishment level Law Technique.

Moreover, these shells are extremely fast, and Qi Refining cultivators simply cannot react to them; only Foundation Establishment cultivators can dodge them.

What shocked the two men even more was that they couldn't figure out where the shells had come from.

Their spiritual senses had already probed outwards, but they found nothing.

"Where did this attack come from?" Xingfeng Sect Feng asked, puzzled.

Luo Yinxue looked towards the distant horizon and said, "It should be from the Black Coast."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Feng was filled with astonishment. "Black Coast? How is this possible!"

The Black Coast is dozens of kilometers away from this area of the sea.

Even a Golden Core level cultivator's Law Technique couldn't reach that far.

Unless a special Law Treasure is used, but even Law Treasure can only attack once, such a dense barrage of attacks is simply impossible.

"Why not? Have you forgotten the guns we bought?"

After Luo Yinxue finished speaking, she took out a pistol from her body.

After purchasing the pistol, Luo Yinxue became familiar with its use.

The range of this pistol's shots is several hundred meters.

Jiang Feng said in a deep voice, "But this is tens of kilometers!"

Jiang Feng still couldn't quite believe that Xingfeng Sect could attack the Cangyan Sect members from such a distance.

Luo Yinxue then said in a deep voice:

"That's not the worst part."

Jiang Feng looked at Luo Yinxue: "What do you mean?"

Luo Yinxue looked at the area where the battle was taking place and said, "Look at these cannonballs."

Jiang Feng immediately looked towards the area where the battle was taking place.

Below, the cultivators of the Azure Flame Sect were constantly fending off the incoming cannonballs, and the Black Sea in this area was also churned up with countless waves due to the explosions.

At first, Jiang Feng didn't notice anything wrong.

But soon, his expression changed.

He discovered that these shells seemed to have eyes.

Most of the cultivators from the Azure Flame Sect had already left the magic ship, and the cannonballs no longer continued to attack the magic ship as before.

Instead, they were attacking the cultivators who had left the magic ship.

The most shells were fired, especially in areas with a high concentration of cultivators.

Every single shell hit its intended target.

"How... how did they do that?!" Jiang Feng was completely shocked.

His first thought was whether these shells possessed sentience.

If these shells were sentient, they would indeed automatically choose their enemies, but it's impossible for every shell to be sentient.

Intelligent treasures are extremely rare.

But if they lack intelligence, how could these shells accurately locate their targets?

Luo Yinxue said with a solemn expression:

"This Xingfeng Sect must have some other methods we don't know about, methods that allow them to know the enemy's movements from dozens of kilometers away."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Feng's expression also turned serious.

Knowing the enemy's movements from tens of kilometers away is truly terrifying.

This made him think of a possibility: it was the Nascent Soul Cultivator from the Xingfeng Sect who made the move. If a Nascent Soul Cultivator's spiritual sense could indeed cover such a long distance.

But if Nascent Soul Cultivator were to make the move, would such a complicated process be necessary?

One move is all it takes to wipe out the entire Azure Flame Sect.

As Jiang Feng pondered, the explosions in the battle zone suddenly stopped, and no more shells appeared.

Thick smoke from the explosion filled the entire skies over the Black Sea.

The two magic ships of the Azure Flame Sect were completely destroyed.

Even though the materials used in French ships were very special, they couldn't withstand such intense bombing.

The main reason is that the protective formation was not activated.

The cultivators of the Azure Flame Sect were currently riding magical Law Artifact above the Black Sea.

On the Dharma ship, Lu Yan looked at the situation and his face was extremely ugly. In just a few minutes, nearly fifty of his men had died.

Among them were seven Foundation Establishment cultivators.

What frustrated him most was that they could only passively defend against these shells and had no way to retaliate.

Because until now, they don't even know where the other is.

"Sect Leader, what should we do now?" The Cangyan Sect elder asked Lu Yan anxiously.

He panicked at this moment, because their Cangyan Sect had participated in many cultivator wars.

But I've never encountered an enemy like this before.

The fact that the other party attacked them from an incredibly long distance is simply outrageous.

"Charge to the Black Coast, we can't stay here!" Lu Yan made the decision.

Although he didn't know where the attacks came from.

But he was certain that the attack was carried out by the Xingfeng Sect.

They will be safe as long as they find someone from the Xingfeng Sect.

It must be said that Lu Yan was extremely shocked at this moment.

He did not underestimate Xingfeng Sect, and he had already prepared for the worst.

In his previous speculation, this Xingfeng Sect might be hiding its strength, such as having many Foundation Establishment cultivators, or having some powerful trump card.

But he never expected that they would be beaten like this without even seeing the other side.

This was completely beyond his imagination.

As soon as Lu Yan gave the order, the cultivators of the Cangyan Sect immediately set off on their magical Law Artifact toward the Dark Shore.

But at that moment...

Suddenly, a series of sonic booms echoed from the distant horizon.

The sound was extremely loud, immediately attracting everyone's attention.

Everyone looked up at the sky and saw three fighter jets flying towards them in the distance.

These fighter jets are extremely fast, exceeding Mach 1.

The flight altitude was only a few hundred meters.

The members of the Azure Flame Sect were all somewhat bewildered; none of them could identify what the thing flying in the sky was.

If it were a top-grade flying magic Law Treasure, it should have emitted a burst of light at this speed, but they couldn't sense any Spiritual Qi fluctuations from the flying object.

At that moment, the fighter jets were already overhead.

Before the Cangyan Sect members could react, a terrifying barrage of machine gun bullets rained down from the sky.

Any cultivator hit by machine gun bullets was instantly reduced to a pile of minced meat.

This was also because the fighter jets appeared so suddenly that many cultivators of the Azure Flame Sect did not have time to react.

In just one volley of fire, dozens more cultivators from the Azure Flame Sect died under the machine gun fire.

After a volley of fire, the fighter jets flew overhead and headed straight for the distant horizon.

As the fighter jets flew away, the cultivators of the Cangyan Sect were completely dumbfounded.

They had never seen such aerial strike capabilities before.

Lu Yan watched the fighter jets disappear into the sky, his expression extremely solemn.

The attack from that flying object was too fast; he didn't even have time to react.

The elder beside him said in a trembling voice:

"Sect Leader, we have already lost over two hundred people!"

The Cangyan Sect mobilized a total of 600 cultivators this time, and they have already lost 200 of them in less than a short time of fighting.

Hearing that two hundred men had been lost, Lu Yan's heart was bleeding.

Just then, the fighter jets in the distance flew back.

Upon seeing this, Lu Yan's face hardened, and he immediately flashed to the horizon.

A powerful surge of spiritual energy erupted from his body, and a flame condensed in Lu Yan's palm.

The flames instantly formed a five-meter-long pillar of fire.

The moment the pillar of fire appeared, the terrifyingly high temperature caused everyone present to pale in shock.

As the leader of the Cangyan Sect, Lu Yan is naturally capable.

Lu Yan stared intently at the fighter jet in the sky. He was confident that he could hit it with his Law Technique as soon as it got close.

However, as the three fighter jets were about to fly overhead, they did not approach but instead began to climb.

In an instant, the three fighter jets soared to an altitude of several thousand meters.

At the same time, aerial bombs fell straight down from the sky.

Lu Yan and the others from the Cangyan Sect were all stunned.

The object wasn't very high before, but now it's suddenly soaring so high; it's beyond the reach of Law Technique.

Soon, the aerial bombs fell from the sky.

Explosions echoed again in the area.

Lu Yan immediately launched the pillar of fire he had conjured at the several aerial bombs that were falling from the sky.

In an instant, several aerial bombs exploded above his head, and the powerful shockwaves forced him to stagger backward.

After dropping its bombs, the fighter jets flew away again.

Lu Yan stared intently at the fighter jets in the sky.

He felt utterly powerless at that moment.

We still can't see the enemy there; the only enemy we can see is this flying object.

But this flying object not only flies high, but it's also incredibly fast. He, at the Foundation Establishment level, simply couldn't handle it unless he reached the Golden Core stage.

Just then, Lu Yan heard countless booming sounds coming from afar.

The self-propelled guns at the Xingfeng Sect have completed their second loading.

Upon hearing that sound, Lu Yan's expression changed drastically. He knew that if things continued like this, all his men would die here.

"Withdraw!"

After Lu Yan finished speaking, he immediately returned to the Dharma ship and began to steer it away.

Upon seeing this, the other cultivators of the Azure Flame Sect immediately scattered and fled in all directions.

They can't stop the shells, but escaping shouldn't be a problem.

In the air, inside the cockpit of a fighter jet.

Zhou Jing watched the fleeing Cangyan Sect cultivators and then spoke into the walkie-talkie:

"Elder, they've escaped."

Wang Hu's voice came through:

"No need to chase after him. Just take him and patrol the surrounding waters for a bit, then come back."

Wang Hu naturally wouldn't let Zhou Jing go any further; what they needed to do was defend and wait for Chen Feng to arrive.

In addition, the self-propelled artillery of the Xingfeng Sect has a limited range, so if these people were to flee towards Youxinghai, their artillery range would not be sufficient.

"OK."

Zhou Jing immediately began piloting fighter jets to patrol the surrounding waters.

far away.

Luo Yinxue and Jiang Feng looked at the fighter jets flying away in the sky, both remaining silent.

They knew that the Xingfeng Sect had such flying objects.

Last time, when Ku Xiaotian tried to escape in the Xingfeng Sect using a flying Law Treasure, he was caught up by this fighter jet.

This flying object was so fast that even their top-grade magical Law Treasure couldn't keep up.

"I never expected the Azure Flame Sect to be defeated like this!" Luo Yinxue said softly.

Jiang Feng remained silent. He had originally thought that this time he would see the Cangyan Sect and Xingfeng Sect engage in a direct battle.

Unfortunately, not a single member of the Xingfeng Sect has appeared to this day.

Jiang Feng then said:

"Although the Azure Flame Sect was defeated, they also tested the Xingfeng Sect's methods and trump cards."

Luo Yinxue nodded slightly.

Indeed, as Jiang Feng said, Xingfeng Sect has already revealed its methods and trump cards.

Xingfeng Sect's trump card is undoubtedly these long-range artillery shells.

Furthermore, it possesses the capability for long-range precision strikes.

This trump card poses a significant threat to a small force like the Azure Flame Sect.

But it was of little use to the Heavenly Demon Sect.

Because those shells pose no threat to Golden Core cultivators.

The protective aura of a Golden Core cultivator could easily block these cannonballs.

After learning about the Xingfeng Sect's methods, the Heavenly Demon Sect will no longer have any reservations.