Chapter 161 - Cultivation Becomes a Trend (1/2)

The news of a force of tens of thousands being wiped out shocked the world.

No one believed the news when they first heard it, thinking it must be a hoax or a joke. The White Ape King was still just a being of flesh and blood, regardless of how powerful it actually was.

Despite being an Invincible Vajra, it should have died when subjected to carpet bombing just the same as any other creature.

With a massive force consisting of tens of thousands of soldiers, the operation should have been able to take out ten White Ape Kings, let alone just one in the woods alone.

If the White Ape King was indeed powerful enough to take out a force that huge single-handedly, it would not have needed to flee all the way back to Shennongjia from Mount Tai to begin with.

Modern armies were not like the armies of old, after all. When amply equipped, an army’s combat capacity would have been over a hundred times, even several hundred times, that of the same forces back in ancient times.

If the White Ape King were truly that fearsome, it might as well have been the reincarnation of Sun Wukong.

As the enormous force searched the Shennongjia and put all of their cutting edge equipment to use, they were able to locate the ape hidden deep in the Shennongjia. They then mobilized all at once, heading in the direction of the White Ape King.

However, it turned out to be a trap. A sword formation that had been around for ages had been activated all of a sudden, and even a force of that size could perish under its power.

The entire nation was shocked by the news.

Everyone had been duped by just a single ape.

Or rather, it was more accurate to say that no big group of people had ever encountered a monster of such a level before that incident. The massive force had been on the tail of the White Ape King for a long time, throwing all manner of huge, heavy projectile weapons on it and seemingly razing the whole of the Shennongjia. They bombed that white ape to such an extent that it had to keep running, even as it suffered all manner of injuries from being incessantly bombed by such weapons.

Everyone thought that the white ape would definitely end up dead. Certainly, no one had expected that location to be a trap, springing up and taking out the massive army altogether.

All their modern, high-tech weapons had been of no use against that sword formation.

The formation had long been in a half-dead state due to severe lack of spirit qi to nourish it, causing it to gradually lose its original capacity.

With the recent restoration of the world’s spirit qi, the place was nourished by spirit qi again, and the sword formation became fully operational once more.

Still, it was unknown how the white ape had managed to take control of the formation, let alone how the animal had managed to make the formation into a trap.

After the entire force had been confirmed killed in action, countless missiles were thrown into the area, bombing everything in it indiscriminately. Yet when the bombing was over, everyone saw that the place remained intact after all that bombardment. In reality, there was a barrier above that area that had nullified the bombardment and prevented the place from being destroyed.

Everyone was silent, seeing how modern weapons, the weapons that humans had undoubtedly come to rely on entirely, were rendered completely useless for the first time. Those high-tech weapons had given humans the confidence that they would be able to take on the era of cultivators in the near future.

But now, those high-tech weapons were rendered totally ineffective for the very first time, as they had been completely ineffectual against that sword formation.

Of course, humans had yet to take up the weapons that embodied their very last resort.

Many believed that they would be able to raze the area if they were simply to use nuclear weapons. But if humans went that far, things would take a truly dire turn.

Nuclear warfare was the last resort of humans, and if they were ready to go that far, they would be making a clear statement that humans had no other options remaining.

However, such weapons were not conventional weapons in the first place, and they were used mostly to ensure mutual destruction. Once they were used, both sides would suffer severe losses of all kinds.

No one would be willing to use such weapons until things had gotten unimaginably bad.

The White Ape King had, of course, simply made use of special measures laid on special terrain, and there was no proof that it was ready to take on human armies for real.