The audience was silent again. All the demon emperors and Yuanying were calculating the four virtual wars that Li Yao proposed.
In the last two wars, the weapons such as supersonic fighters and Tomahawk missiles that seemed to be able to cause damage to Cultivators raised their interest.
A moment later, one of the Yuanying asked cautiously, "Fellow Cultivator Li Yao, it has occurred to me that the war system driven by oil, coal, chemical energy, and nuclear energy seems to be most powerful only on the surface of a planet with an atmosphere. Is it true that its power will be greatly reduced in space?
"Let's take the most powerful nuclear weapon for example. In the vacuum of space, most of the destructive methods will be ineffective. Its power will be reduced by more than ninety percent!"
"Yes!"
Li Yao admitted frankly. "My computational ability is limited, and this is as far as I can deduce. Perhaps, this is the limit of chemical energy and nuclear energy. It can only be applied within the atmosphere and is not suitable for a war in the sea of stars!
"Therefore, such a war system may be barely enough to stop the expedition army of the Imperium in space.
"But we also have to see that the expedition army of the Imperium has traveled billions of lightyears and spent as long as a hundred years to reach the edge of the cosmos. They are not here to make a loss, nor are they here simply to sabotage the place because of their natural brutality!"
"They are here to plunder resources. They are here to 'recruit men'!"
"Population resources, minerals resources, and spiritual energy resources … Almost all the resources are concentrated on the planets with atmospheres!
"However developed the technology of the Imperium is, if they want money, food, and people, they will have to land on the ground, won't they? I can tell that a lot of wars in the Star Ocean Imperium took place on the surface of a planet, too! After all, the planet is too large. It is impossible to suppress a planet with the blockage of a starship! "
"I'm only worried that he won't land. As long as he does, everything will be easy!
"Imagine this picture. The New Federation a hundred years later has explored more than fifty planets and established atmospheres and ecological systems on them! On those densely populated planets, countless' black hole bombs' have been buried in the strategic locations that are most likely to be attacked by the expedition army of the Imperium. Countless mobile black hole bomb launch platforms are on standby at all times, too. They can drain the spiritual energy of a city or even a larger area instantly! "
"When the expedition army of the Imperium arrived, they did not detect any intense spiritual waves on the planets, nor did they find any advanced defense rune arrays or magical equipment!
"In the eyes of the Immortal Cultivators, they are just some defenseless planets that they can take whatever they want!
"As soon as the expedition army of the Imperium landed within the atmosphere, the black hole bombs would be detonated immediately and the spiritual energy around the battlefield would be drained.....
"At this moment!
"The hangars hidden below the ground were all opened. Tens of thousands of supersonic fighters took off. The cannons and missile bases in the mountains were activated and locked onto the location of the Imperium's fleet. The iron tanks began to roar. The nuclear submarines hidden in the deep sea were ready to launch. Every common citizen of the Federation living in the local area carried a rocket launcher on their shoulders and an assault rifle in their hands, defending their home with their own strength!
"In the most extreme cases, all kinds of tactics and even strategic nuclear weapons would be enough to deal a destructive strike on the base of the Imperium's fleet!
"If all the planets are prepared for such a war, and all the citizens of the Federation are equipped with such weapons, equipment, and mental awareness, we will truly be the hard bones that cannot be boiled, chewed, or broken as Fellow Cultivator Jiang said! However strong the expedition army of the Imperium is, it is destined to be smashed to pieces by us! "
Li Yao clenched his fist and smashed it down brutally, as if he were really holding a thick, black, hard bone in his hand, smashing an unparalleled fleet that was billions of lightyears away into smithereens!
The picture that Li Yao described was popping up in the eyes of many Yuanying. They calculated quickly, trying to deduce the possibility of such a strategy.
Some other Yuanying, however, were frowning, thinking that Li Yao's idea was too simple.
"Fellow Cultivator Li, it is still hard for me to imagine that ordinary people can cause serious damage to the Immortal Cultivators with weapons that do not carry any spiritual energy."
A Yuanying from the Union Army said straightforwardly, "The morale and fighting will of the ordinary people are seriously low. Also, the Immortal Cultivators will not stand there stupidly and be attacked by the cannons and missiles!"
Li Yao nodded and said, "Of course, the Immortal Cultivators will not stand there stupidly and be attacked by the cannons and missiles. Besides, even if the missiles are more than five times the speed of sound, I estimate that the high-level Immortal Cultivators will be able to calculate the trajectories in advance and dodge them!
"However, both the calculation of the trajectories of the cannons and missiles and the instantaneous supersonic burst out to dodge dozens of kilometers away will consume spiritual energy!
"I believe that quantity leads to quality, and I also believe that enough ants can kill an elephant! However inferior the weapons are, as long as there are enough of them and they can attack for a long time, they will certainly cause serious trouble for a high-level Immortal Cultivator!
"Think about it. If you are the Immortal Cultivators who have invaded the Federation and come to a planet that is devoid of spiritual energy but filled with tanks, cannons, supersonic stealth fighters, and cruise missiles, it is like an iron hedgehog!
"Yes, for you, a tank without a spiritual shield will be as easy to tear apart as a paper shell. Even if you take a few cannons or even missiles head-on, you may still be perfectly fine. As for the supersonic stealth fighters, as long as you focus all your spiritual energy on your eyes and perform the technique of 'Heaven Vision and Earth Hearing', you will naturally be able to see everything clearly and calculate the trajectories of the enemy's attacks without the slightest error!
"However, which of the above does not consume spiritual energy? Before the spiritual energy inside your body runs out, how many tanks can you tear apart, how many cannons can you withstand, and how many supersonic jets can you blow up?
"Don't forget that you are already the best of the Cultivators. Even in the Star Ocean Imperium, you were one of the few Yuanying experts!
"However powerful the Imperium of True Human Beings is, there must be very few Yuanying Immortal Cultivators in their ranks, right? It is impossible that every expedition army is made up of Yuanying, right?
"Most of the Immortal Cultivators are in the Refinement Stage and the Building Foundation Stage after all. The best that they can do is to use more advanced magical equipment!
"Supersonic jets and cruise missiles may not be able to defeat the Yuanying experts or the experts like Jin Dan, but can't they defeat the Immortal Cultivators in the Refinement Stage and the Building Foundation Stage?
"The expedition army of the Imperium has come from afar without any supplies or soldiers. If they are killed, they will have one less soldier. If the bottom-level troops of the expedition army are stalled, the remaining top experts will be exhausted and will be running for their lives!
"Besides, I never said that the 'army of ordinary people' was going to fight the expedition army of the Imperium on its own. We still have so many Cultivators!"
Li Yao's lips curled into a brilliant smile. A three-floored structure that looked like a pyramid appeared behind him.
Pointing at the structure, he explained, "The greatest advantage of developing the backup war system is that it will barely consume our most precious crystals!
"Fellow Cultivators, you have proposed a lot of very valuable strategic plans just now. Some of them are far-sighted, some of them are ingenious, and some of them are ingenious. But all of them require Cultivators to implement, and astronomical crystals will be consumed, too!
"Both Cultivators and crystals are extremely precious strategic resources. Their total quantity is limited. If we invest too much in one plan, the other plan will have to be reduced!
"The backup war system, on the other hand, does not consume any crystals at all. All we need are coal, oil, and metals!
"Coal and oil are abundant in the Heaven's Origin Sector, Iron Plateau, Spider Den, and the Blood Demon Sector. They are enough for us to collect for hundreds of years. We only need to pay attention to the environmental pollution.
"The metals are slightly more troublesome, especially the rare metals. But as the demon race excavates the resource planets on a large scale, they will not be as scarce as the mother lodes of crystals!
"Most importantly of all, this is a plan that does not require the participation of Cultivators from the beginning to the end. There are tens of billions of ordinary people in the three Sectors, and they boast infinite wisdom and strength when all of them are added together!
"With their unremitting efforts and the guidance of the Cultivators on the cutting-edge theories, a hundred years will be more than enough for them to establish a planetary war system based on chemical energy, atomic energy, oil, and coal!
"It may not be enough for a space battle, but it is definitely more than enough for them to build their home into a coldly shining iron hedgehog!
"By then, the new Federation will boast three levels of armed forces!
"The most basic level, and also the largest in number, will be the ordinary people who use non-spiritual weapons. They are sort of the 'militia' of the Federation. When the country is destroyed and the country is destroyed, the number of the militia will surpass ten billion. Everybody will be a soldier, and the Immortal Cultivators will be drowned in the ocean of people's war!
"Those in the middle level will be the experts of martial arts who are physically the strongest and have the most solid souls among the ordinary people. They will be the regular army that is equipped with spiritual weapons after a long period of rigorous training. They are the Union Army and the Coalition Army of Demons today! Their number may not be much higher than right now, but most of the errands can be delegated to the militia. They will be able to focus on the battles in the frontline. Their combat ability will certainly be significantly improved!
"Above the regular army, at the top of the pyramid, is the most elite force made of the few Cultivators!
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