Great Ancestral Formation

Ancestral Capital.....

Currently, a bright golden glowing barrier shielded the entire capital, the crystals on the the metallic walls of the capital were all activated, creating a blinding light around the capital.

Gu Shang stood above the clouds as he glanced at the Great Ancestral Formation of the Wei empire.

He had never anticipated the existence of such a powerful formation in the Wei empire. He stared at the formation in awe.

The formation exuded an air of antiquity, almost as if the days of the old ages, the blinding lights covering the capital also made it feel so divine.

Gu Shang was impressed, he had never seen such a formation before.

The formation seemed to be drawing spiritual energies from the heavens and earth, the crystals within the walls seemed to quicken the process.

Just a moment ago, the shaking of the capital was an attack by the 'The Scarlet Dragon' warship which was floating behind Gu Shang.

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A few moments ago, on The 'Scarlet Dragon' warship....

"General, the Ancestral Capital is now in sight, what are your orders!" Commander Yue asked.

"Yes commander, I can see it!" Gu Shang casually replied. They were now aboard the warship, they had swept the entire Wei empire province's clean, while squashing all resistance, the only place left was the capital. It was very ironic, what was happening was no different from the Wei emperor's plan, but this time used against them.

Gu Shang glanced at the grand metallic walls of Ancestral Capital with a serious expression.

He could detect chaotic energies surrounding the capital, the runes on the metallic walls gave him a dangerous feeling, and for someone like him, that was no joking matter.

"Commander Yue, Stop the ship when we are within a thousand meters range from the walls!" Gu Shang commanded.

Commander Yue was confused, but he definitely wasn't going to ask why.

All the soldiers on board were confused too, The Ancestral Capital was right infront of them completely defenseless, so why would they stop now???

"General we are now a thousand meters away from the walls!" Commander Yue reported.

"Are we in firing range?" Gu Shang asked. This warship was new to him, he had knowledge of its development, but apart from that, he knew nothing else.

"Yes General! We are in firing range!"

"Good, fire the strongest attack this ship has to offer, on my signal" Gu Shang ordered.

"General, what's our target?" He couldn't help but ask cautiously. They had been made aware of the fact that the Wei empire had a powerful formation protecting the capital,

But the so called grand formation was not even difficult to break through, they had just destroyed it before entering the capital territory, so he needed to know what their new target was.

"Aim for the capital!" Gu Shang responded in a calm voice.

"But... General, there are still regular commonners within the capital, if we open fire with our strongest attack, wouldn't it ..."

They were cold blooded soldiers, but they were still humans. Killing innocent people wasn't part of their principles,

Infact, it was Gu Shang's guiding codes that were used in all three armies under him. They never took the lives of the innocent.

"But General, our code.. !" Commander Yue did not even end his statement when Gu Shang interrupted him.

"Don't worry about the codes, just follow my orders!" He said harshly.

Commander Yue gritted his teeth, there was nothing he could do as preparation were already in place.

The mouth of the Scarlet Dragon sculpture on the Prow of the ship suddenly opened slowly.

A long silver cannon began to come out of the mouth of the sculpture.

The cannon was two meters wide and twenty feet tall, purple lights glittered on its surface,strange signs and symbols of the Dwarves Tribe were engraved on it. The wepon gave chills to anyone who saw it, the purple lights shimmering on the silver faces gave them a feeling they were so familiar with,

It was the feeling of destruction!

"General, this cannon has the highest firing power according to the dwarves" Commander Yue reported.

Gu Shang gave him a questioning glance?"

"We are yet to use it!" Commander Yue couldn't help but clear his throat.

"But we've been told, it has the power to penetrate the defense of a cultivator at the first stage of the immortal king, but it can only be fired three times and also can't be fired successively because it needs a cooling period of two rotations" Commander Yue reported everything he knew about the wepon.

Gu Shang raised his eyebrows in doubt, The dwarves were underestimating the power of an Immortal King?

"We'll just have to see about that" Gu Shang responded.

A large ball of light, roughly the size of a cauldron was brought forth. Gu Shang couldn't help but widen his mouth.

That white ball of light contained soo much spiritual qi within it, to the level of being ridiculous.

He examined the ball of light, but he couldn't make out the material it was made off.

"The Qi within this ball has been accumulated for more than five thousand years!" Gu Shang said as he examined it.

"But what material is this? And how is capable of containing such massive power?" Gu Shang questioned inwardly.

The soldier holding the ball couldn't help, but hold it tighter. They only just realized how important, it was .

After Gu Shang was done admiring it, he looked at the commander, "Fire when ready!" Commander Yue was helpless.

The ball of light was loaded within the cannon.

The moment the ball of light entered the barrel of cannon, the purple runes on the cannon began shining brighter and brighter.

"Fire!!!!" An order was giving.

Just before the cannon was about to be fired, the purple light runes on the cannons immediately went off like a candle light being blown by a strong wind.

But before anyone could even ask whether it had failed or not, A huge beam of purple light, ten meters wide fired from the cannon.

The cannon was so powerful that, all the soldiers near the cannon were blown away by it's force.

The powerful light beam obliterated everything within its path to dust, everyone thought and knew it was going destroy the capital.

Commander Yue couldn't help but close his eyes in regret.... He couldn't help but feel guilty of all the lives he was about to take.

But then the shouts of pain and tragedy he expected didn't come for a long time, he couldn't help but open his eyes.

To his astoniment a large protective barrier barrier had whirled into action blocking the cannon.

But after sometime, the shield began to flicker a bit, it was almost as if it would go off at any moment.

The entire Ancestral Capital couldn't help but tremble at the clash between the two powerful weapons.

Building began to collapse as people escaped for their life.

Everyone within the walls of the capital thought they were going to die, the formation wouldn't be able to hold on any longer.

A mother and daughter pair couldn't help but hug tightly as they awaited their inevitable doom.

When everyone thought it was all over, the crystals within the metallic walls of the capital began glowing, whiles releasing massive amounts of spiritual energy.

The formation began absorbing the energy from the crystals, the more it absorbed the more powerful it became.

The dome begun to finally stabilize but that didn't stop the crystals from continue to shine brightly, becoming almost blinding.

The purple light beam from the cannon, flickered before disappearing, that signified the attack was over.

The white crystal in the cannon disintegrated after the attack, also the light purple runes on the cannon weren't flashing anymore, it was almost as if the cannon was dead.

Gu Shang looked at the blinding protective dome infront of him, "I'm guessing that is the Great Ancestral Formation!!"