# Chapter 316: Earth, Heavenly Court's Thirty-Six Heavens
However, being close to the Gulf of Tonkin, the fate of this Hundred Flowers Spring City was already sealed when the underwater wormhole opened.
Vietnam's military strength was once claimed to be the third strongest in the world, and the bravery of the monkeys was once unmatched among armies.
The Vietnam War lasted for twenty years, almost dragging the Federation down. Even now, some Federation veterans who participated in the Vietnam War still change color when talking about the jungles of Vietnam.
The bamboo spike traps and pitfalls of the Vietnamese guerrillas buried countless Federation soldiers.
The damp and cold water prisons were a nightmare for many Federation soldiers.
After the Vietnam War ended, the monkeys, who boasted about defeating the world's number one military power, became increasingly arrogant with the support of Russia, even attempting to provoke China.
Although forced by the international situation at the time, China did not make harsh demands for land or reparations from the monkeys. Although Vietnam now claims a total military force of 500,000 and has organized Navy, Army, and Air Force branches,
In reality, with Vietnam's military industry level, they only have the capability to manufacture light weapons and lack the research and development capability for large weapon equipment. Their main weapon equipment relies on procurement. This has led to Vietnam's economy developing well in recent years, but supporting such a large military with this military budget is still stretched thin.
Take the Vietnamese Army, for example. They claim a total military force of 400,000, which is a relatively large scale, but their equipment is very outdated.
Their army is equipped with over 2,000 tanks, but only over 60 of them are relatively advanced third-generation T-90S main battle tanks. The rest are old tanks like the T-54/55 and T-62.
With this kind of equipment configuration, facing the Kaiju swarming out of the underwater wormhole, they were almost completely defenseless.
In the South China Sea, three large underwater wormholes opened. One of them was less than fifty kilometers from the Vietnamese coastline.
China's Navy deployed a large-scale naval force specifically in the South China Sea.
Over thirty active main vessels firmly blockaded two of the wormholes, including four aircraft carriers, ten amphibious assault ships, ten guided missile destroyers, and six guided missile frigates.
In addition, there were an unknown number of conventional submarines and nuclear submarines, and this was just in the South China Sea.
Among the four aircraft carriers, two were launched in the past two years, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers powered by large arc reactors.
According to intelligence stolen by the Federation's The Pentagon Intelligence Department, they strongly suspect that these two maritime aircraft carriers possess the flight engine equipment of Helicarriers.
If it weren't for everyone being preoccupied with their own affairs right now, the Generals at The Pentagon would have long since been promoting the China Threat Theory worldwide.
On the four Helicarriers, besides the conventional carrier-based aircraft, the most eye-catching sights on the flight deck were the rows of ferocious steel mecha.
"Huben is attacking the target, missile lock complete!"
After the energy monitoring radar and sonar on the aircraft carrier locked onto the Kaiju's position in the wormhole, red light flickered in the eyes of the mechanical mecha lined up on the aircraft carrier's deck.
Unlike the Tang Group's exquisite humanoid mecha, China's mecha leaned more towards a hard sci-fi style. The massive mecha body had two large rectangular launch pods connected to its arms. The left arm's launcher was neatly arranged with sixteen missile and rocket launch ports, while the muzzle of the right arm's launch pod was a heavy machine gun muzzle comparable to a cannon muzzle.
The mecha were synchronized with the radar and sonar systems on the aircraft carrier. The moment the target was locked, the dense artillery fire from the Huben mecha's missile launch pods rained down like a star rain towards the Kaiju that had just emerged from the wormhole.
Dozens of Huben simultaneously stepped forward and opened fire. Compared to fixed launchers, these Huben mecha, which possessed low altitude flight capability, had excellent firing angles and fields of view.
When the alien Kaiju attempted to slip away through the underwater wormhole without surfacing, using the complex underwater environment, the dozens of submarines spread across the seabed would launch torpedo attacks underwater, blasting them out! When the Huben encountered tough opponents like Leatherback, the Langzhu mecha on the guided missile destroyers located about three hundred kilometers from the battlefield would directly provide long-range firepower support.
The interval between the two wormholes was about three hundred kilometers. In addition to dividing their forces to blockade, China's Navy fleet also arranged a long-range firepower system for support in the sea area between the two wormholes. Six guided missile destroyers were ready for long-range strikes at any time.
Langzhu, another mecha form researched and developed by China. With eight mechanical leg claws, its appearance resembled a black spider. It was a medium-range firepower strike mecha with a target range of 300 to 3000 kilometers.
The Langzhu's fire control system had independent monitoring radar, connected to the vessel's radar signal and Beidou data, allowing for precision strikes.
Late at night, the pitch black night sky was as brightly lit as if by countless lamps. The bullet rain streaking across the sky formed continuous, untrailing streams of fiery red bullets.
The dying roars of the Kaiju were interspersed with the roar of artillery fire.
It was as if the officers and soldiers of China's Navy were transported back to ancient times, to the era of using red-hot firecrackers to drive away the Nian Beast.
Today's China possesses weapons thousands, tens of thousands of times more powerful than firecrackers. These alien giant beasts are nothing more than Nian Beasts fleeing in disarray amidst the sound of firecrackers!
(Monarch, through analyzing the attack scenes of the Titans on the alien giant beasts during this period, confirmed that the Titans possess the ability to purify the venom of the alien giant beasts. Furthermore, these Titans will actively come to sea areas contaminated by alien giant beasts to perform environmental cleanup. According to Monarch's analysis, this seems to be some kind of subconscious self-protection rule of Earth! Of course, for the national governments that received this investigation report, it was more like a notification: Folks, just bomb them! Someone will clean up the mess!) With this, the Precursors' Kaiju self-destruct tactic completely lost its effect.
The night sky over the South China Sea was fiery red. The pitch black night sky, illuminated by the countless artillery barrages, looked like fiery clouds. And similarly illuminating the night red was Hanoi City.
This second-largest seaport city in Vietnam was left in ruins and rubble under the rampage of several Kaiju. It was burning everywhere, with rolling black smoke rising from all directions.
Fleeing crowds, a chaotic environment, mixed with the roar of the Vietnamese army's tanks and the chaotic gunfire.
Rumble! A Widow knocked down a tall building blocking its path, spitting out a mouthful of old phlegm.
The venom splashed all over the Vietnamese people. Then, it stepped over with its large foot, and the so-called steel defense line composed of tanks and armored vehicles used by the Vietnamese army instantly collapsed.
Compared to the Federation and China's most advanced mecha and long-range firepower attacks, the gap between Vietnam and the two is not just a little bit.
Vietnam's weapons and equipment are still stuck in the WWII period, while the former two have even secretly developed their own starship spaceships.
Vietnam is not without long-range firepower. It is the only country among the Southeast Asian countries that possesses ballistic missiles. The Vietnamese artillery has a missile force equipped with Scud ballistic missiles, possessing dozens of sets of Scud-B ballistic missiles. This is Vietnam's most powerful long-range strike force and Vietnam's trump card weapon.
However, facing the landed Kaiju, relying solely on their Scuds was clearly not enough to deal with these alien giant beasts.
In the initial stage of discovering this underwater wormhole, the Vietnamese government did not immediately send a request for help to the World Security Council.
These monkeys had their own small calculations. China has been historically regarded as their territory, and they were worried that China would use the wormhole as an excuse to divide the landscape of Southeast Asia.
Vietnam, still nostalgic about being the world's third military power, attempted in vain to rely on its own military force to stop these Kaiju outside the coastline.
For this purpose, they mobilized eighty percent of their national Navy around the wormhole, mimicking China in setting up a maritime defense barrier.
Initially, the battle results were indeed good. After all, the total military force of the Vietnamese Navy was also close to 50,000, and they had procured quite a few active warships from Russia.
Their advanced equipment included 4 Gepard-class light frigates of 2000 tons, 6 Kilo-class conventional submarines of Type 636, and 16 Molniya-class large missile boats of 500 tons.
Although it cannot compare with the navy of a major power, it is still considered a relatively strong maritime force in the Southeast Asia region.
This was also the reason why Vietnam was initially very confident that it could blockade this underwater wormhole by itself.
However, compared to the core countries of the World Security Council, the Vietnamese government was not only backward in military strength but also in information.
Just like the major council member states, they had received data reports about the Kaiju's ability to emit energy pulse waves very early on and had installed isolation devices on their respective weapons for this purpose.
Vietnam, apparently, did not have this understanding.
The price they paid for this was the loss of nearly eighty percent of their national Navy.
The Vietnamese government urgently requested help from China, the Federation, Russia, and the World Security Council. But even for China, the closest country, deploying military force required a certain amount of time.
The alien Kaiju took advantage of this gap, directly tearing through Vietnam's coastal defensive positions, and seven Kaiju directly landed in Hanoi City!
A protected forest near Hanoi became a refuge for large numbers of refugees who swarmed into it because the city was under attack.
The rumble of explosions behind them still sounded from time to time. Nguyen Minh leaned against a tall tree, panting heavily. He looked at the fiery clouds in the distant night sky and prayed silently that the fire would not spread into the forest.
He had seen a mountain fire before. If a mountain fire were to spread in this forest, ordinary people like him would have no way to escape.
"This world is truly full of disasters. Otherwise, like King/Queen said, I should just immigrate to China!"
Nguyen Minh was a rubber merchant. Because the environment in Vietnam is suitable for planting rubber trees, the rubber industry is considered half of Vietnam's pillar industries.
Nguyen Minh had his own rubber plantation. Not long ago, several of them rubber plantation owners signed a cooperation agreement with a tire company from China.
The Chinese side would establish a tire manufacturing plant in Vietnam, and they would be responsible for providing the rubber raw materials.
With a fixed buyer, Nguyen Minh's business was booming. Unexpectedly, just one year later, they encountered the crisis of alien giant beast invasion.
Facing this irresistible crisis, Nguyen Minh clearly realized the sense of safety that comes from having a powerful country as a backer.
"But I heard King/Queen say that getting a green card in China is very difficult. If that doesn't work, I'll just spend more money!" Nguyen Minh recalled the words of the Workshop Director Wang from the tire factory, who he used to drink with, and began calculating how much he would have to pay to immigrate to China.
Rustle! The night wind blew past, and the leaves above his head made a rustling sound. The tree shadows were reflected on the ground, like devils brandishing claws and fangs. Startled, Nguyen Minh subconsciously raised his mobile phone. Using the light from his flashlight, he cursed and looked towards the treetop.
On the branches of the treetop, a tall figure was slowly fading out of stealth camouflage, revealing a ferocious figure wearing a mask.
With a thump, Nguyen Minh was so scared he collapsed onto the ground. He opened his mouth to scream.
Whoosh! A claw throwing knife shot out from the tall figure's wrist, directly piercing into Nguyen Minh's throat.
"Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle—" Nguyen Minh, whose throat was pierced through, clutched his neck and fell down, spitting blood foam from his mouth, and making sounds like a hen clucking from his throat.
That was the sound of air rushing into his throat, leaking out.
The Dark Predator leaped down from the treetop, walked up to Nguyen Minh, pulled out the throwing knife claw from his throat, raised its hand, and stabbed it into his forehead.
A beam of light lit up in the forest. Someone nearby had heard the commotion and was rushing over to check.
The shoulder cannon on the Dark Predator's shoulder lit up with three red dots. Just as it was about to go on a killing spree, a voice suddenly sounded in its communication channel.
"Target item detected! Coordinates: North Latitude: 16°51', West Longitude: 99°56'!"
The Dark Predator looked at the several lights getting closer and closer, its figure immediately entered stealth mode, and then disappeared into the jungle.
"Ah! Murder!"
Accompanied by a scream, the originally silent forest fell into chaos.
The Dark Predator stood in the treetop of a tall tree not far away. Stealth mode concealed its entire body in the darkness, quiet as a ghost.
The Predator race cannot see directly. They need their Predator helmet to sense the infrared of their prey.
Dense red shadows appeared on its thermal imaging, making the Dark Predator unable to resist starting a killing hunt several times.
However, Shadow Storm stopped it. This planet was not as simple as they imagined; it also possessed powerful Warriors.
Their mission was to seize several things needed by Thanos. Before completing the mission, no one was allowed to hunt freely.
For these radical Dark Predators, Shadow Storm's words were like the Führer's words to the Nazis during the WWII period.
The hunters who had descended upon the American Continent had already detected a radiation fluctuation from a piece of the target item. Their next mission was to kill the obstructors and obtain that gemstone.
The Dark Predator glanced at the spaceship behind it. Its spaceship was damaged by the prey on this planet when it landed. The repair of the spaceship would take at least one stellar day, so it could only wait.
The mouthparts under the Dark Predator's mask opened wide. It looked quite enviously at the city outside the forest, which was burning like raging fire. Those giant beasts were excellent prey for hunters like them.
Heavenly Court Dimension, an increasing number of Yellow Turban Warriors were bustling with activity, working on a massive project.
Large groups of engineering vessels mobilized from the Underworld, as well as Great Tang Ships that had just come off the assembly line not long ago, flew to various parts of the Heavenly Court Dimension like flies chasing after scent and stench, buzzing around.
Large numbers of engineering robots rushed onto an asteroid dozens of kilometers in diameter, installing various propulsion facilities on these asteroids, such as advanced plasma thrusters or even subspace folding thrusters, and backward ones like liquid rocket engines. Then they started the engines, propelling these asteroids to be arranged in a predetermined sequence.
Accompanied by dull sounds, these asteroids were stacked together.
Large amounts of rapidly solidifying high-performance concrete were poured into the gaps between these planets, firmly fixing these asteroids together.
Gradually, this artificial celestial body became larger and larger. Finally, combining the power of countless Yellow Turban Warriors and science and technology, they forcefully constructed over thirty artificial celestial bodies with diameters exceeding fifty thousand kilometers in a pure white space.
These celestial bodies quietly floated at a distance within the Heaven Dimension.
High-energy shield generators were installed on these artificial celestial bodies, and large amounts of air were poured onto the planet surface.
After microwave pulverization, thick soil appeared on the planet surface.
In the hands of countless Yellow Turban Warriors, these planets, from the stellar core to the rock layer and the surface soil layer, were fully inscribed with spirit marks.
Tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Warriors jointly cast divine abilities to summon wind and rain and change heaven and earth, forming oceans and lakes on the surface of these planets.
Large amounts of medicinal herb seeds were planted on the artificial celestial bodies. Accelerated by genetic biochemical agents, in just a few days' time, the surface of these planets was covered with thick vegetation.
From tall trees reaching into the clouds to low-lying moss and lichen, the plant species were very rich, already forming a complete ecosystem.
Following this was the use of Doctor Octopus's artificial star technology to catalyze climate change on the planet surface; using gravity traction devices to connect these artificial stars and artificial planets into a complete system.
Hidden by clouds, the thirty-six pieces of land named Thirty-Six Heavens by Tang Song were suspended in the Heavenly Court Dimension. It is hard to imagine that all of this, this extraordinary creation, was accomplished in just a few months' time.
Although a large part of this was due to Tang Song utilizing the power of the Reality Stone and the Time Stone.
But the abilities displayed by the Yellow Turban Warriors combined with science and technology were no different from the legendary immortals instantly changing seas into mulberry fields.
Tang Song realized long ago that whether it is science or the supernatural, both, when developed to the extreme, involve changing and controlling the matter and energy between heaven and earth. When the power of technology develops to the extreme, it is the methods of immortals.
This is also one of the reasons why Tang Song has always been dedicated to developing technology in addition to his cultivation.
The Thirty-Six Heavens that Tang Song spent a large amount of manpower and resources to build were naturally not just for living or simply imitating the Heavenly Court of the Jambudvīpa World.
In the ancient times of the Jambudvīpa World, the Great Divine Ability Users who established the Heavenly Court integrated the best grotto-heavens, spiritual vein immortal mountains on the Yanfu Continent, integrating them into the Four Realms and Thirty-Six Heavens.
Widely spread among the Four Realms and Thirty-Six Heavens are the Three Pure Ones' Sacred Realms, namely the Jade Pure Sacred Realm, Qingwei Heaven; the Supreme Pure True Realm, Yuyu Heaven; and the Grand Pure Immortal Realm, Da Chi Heaven, respectively ruled by Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Lingbao Heavenly Venerate, and Dao De Heavenly Venerate.
Above the Three Pure Ones' Heavens is the place named Da Luo Heaven, which is the residence of that Great Heavenly Venerate of the Heavenly Court.
The Four Realms and Thirty-Six Heavens were like a huge drain, devouring nearly half of the spiritual energy of the entire Jambudvīpa World.
The ancient Thirty-Six Heavens imprints Tang Song saw in the Jambudvīpa Origin, especially Da Luo Heaven where the Heavenly Court was located, truly had a cultivation environment where if you threw a pig into the Heavenly Court, it wouldn't take long before it was returned to you as a Marshal Tian Peng.
Just taking a breath was visible to the naked eye as dense spiritual energy. Cultivating in the Heavenly Palace for one day was faster than cultivating diligently for a year on the Yanfu Continent.
Tang Song building these Thirty-Six Heavens did not attempt in vain to reach heaven in a single step. He would be satisfied if he could restore ten or twenty percent of it.
Outside, the Yellow Turban Warriors were building artificial stars surrounding the Thirty-Six Heavens under the supervision of the Blood Daoist. According to Tang Song's plan, around the Thirty-Six Heavens there would be three hundred and sixty-five great stars.
(A Pinduoduo version of ancient stars, replaced by artificial planets. Once completed, not only the Heavenly Court Dimension but also the energy of over a dozen surrounding Dimensional Realms will be absorbed by the formation and transformed into pure spiritual energy.) During this time, Tang Song did not have a moment of leisure. Every day, besides dual cultivating with several women, he was constantly tempering his nascent divinity and condensing his physical body.
Re-condensing the nascent divinity and refining the nascent divinity to form the infant is the step to becoming a true Pure Yang True Immortal. This step requires time and effort.
In the Jambudvīpa World, some old monsters at the Nascent Divinity Realm have even been stuck at this step for a thousand years.
Compared to them, Tang Song has mastered enough knowledge in the origin and has a clear understanding of the Road Ahead.
His mind is naturally clear, but the path of cultivation still needs to be taken step by step.
Perhaps this is the way of cultivation. Even the demonic path methods, which progress quickly, require the mind and spirit to be united and oneself to be refined once they reach a certain height.
Perhaps this is the difference between worlds. In the Marvel World, if you drink a bottle of potion, perhaps you can possess the power of a million stars exploding simultaneously.
In the Jambudvīpa World, perhaps only Grand Supreme Daoist's Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir has this kind of effect.
On another note, at the time of his influence expanding, Tang Song had investigated some secret government data/information through certain channels. There are no freaks like Sentinel in this universe.
(Sentinel's real name is Robert Reynolds. He was originally a drug addict who broke into a professor's laboratory to get drugs and accidentally drank a secret formula invented by the professor, gaining powerful abilities. It is said that this energy came from Another Universe, and this power is so great it can compare to the power of a million stars exploding simultaneously. This energy also generated a negative personality within Robert's inside the body, which is The Void. In order to protect humanity from The Void's threat, Robert had no choice but to delete all memories related to him, including his own. Therefore, the power of a million stars is roughly his memory.) This made Boss Tang let out a sigh of relief, while also secretly competing. The power of a million stars, given the intensity of this universe, he should be about there when he cultivates to the Golden Immortal Realm, right?!
In the Thirty-Six Layers of Da Luo Heaven, groups of palaces were hidden within the sea of clouds. These sea of clouds were naturally not just atmosphere created by dry ice, but spiritual energy filtered and transformed from various energies after passing through these Thirty-Six Layers of Heaven.
Most of these palace groups were sketched out by Tang Song using the Reality Stone based on the scenery of the Heavenly Palace in his memory, and then built by the Yellow Turban Warriors casting spells.
However, these Yellow Turban Warriors do not have the ability to create things out of thin air. For Boss Tang's prodigal spending, which is hard to describe as anything but extravagant,
Besides the Underworld and this Heavenly Court Dimension,
In the Universe, tens of thousands of mining spaceships are frantically mining all the rich mineral resources they have detected.
The buyers acquiring these mineral resources were so generous that quite a few Ravagers and Space Pirates changed professions to mining. No wonder they went crazy! That Old Rhino took out box after box of pure energy crystals.
(end of chapter)