Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Thousands of miles from Yuejing,

The nearest Chizhong Mansion is also hundreds of miles away, deep within the vast wilderness.

Poisonous insects and fierce beasts are everywhere; it is often decades before a human appears.

Hidden beneath a concealment formation, Jiang Ding sat cross-legged beside a small pond, swallowed a Ginseng Flower Calming Qi Elixir, and closed his eyes to nurture and refine his meridians.

A month had passed.

As it turns out, as long as you have no desires or demands from the outside world, remain unseen, and have an excellent means of surveillance, you can avoid getting involved in any conflict.

Over this month,

Jiang Ding attended classes to study cultivation and, in his spare time, he would return to this desolate location to release the blue-golden tree, with elixirs taken daily. Coupled with his many times transformed aptitude and cultivation method realm, his cultivation speed had reached a terrifyingly unbelievable level for most people.

Not far away, enjoying the top-tier cultivation spirit liquid of gold-attribute spiritual plants daily, along with a first-order premium Gathering Spirit Formation and nurturing formation method, the growth of the blue-golden tree was not to be outdone. It had grown from just over forty centimeters to over eighty centimeters tall, doubling in size and getting closer to reaching one meter.

Now, with every breath and photosynthetic process, it could easily absorb the heavenly earth spiritual qi and Great Sun Essence within a twenty-meter radius. Flowers and trees within dozens of meters turned black under the relentless high temperatures and had carbonized.

The soil near the tree roots seemed to flow, almost indistinguishable from magma.

From afar, the metallic blue trunk and branches were tinged with red, and under the shade of the tree, it seemed as though a sun’s silhouette was hidden, too bright to look at directly.

If it were not for the array disk undergoing an expensive upgrade, reaching the top-tier first-order level, and possessing multiple functions such as divine sense optical concealment, gathering spirits, and spiritual plant cultivation, it would have already been damaged by now.

In a certain moment, the blue-golden tree’s light radiated brilliantly, and rolling waves of heat spread outward, igniting the carbonized trees within dozens of meters, setting them ablaze.

Between the flames and the blazing sun, Jiang Ding’s aura became complete.

It happened naturally when conditions were right.

”It’s done, the Great Perfection of Circle of Vital Energy,”

Jiang Ding opened his eyes and exclaimed.

Since his first day, after six years and countless days and nights of hard cultivation, experiencing many events, today he had finally achieved perfection.

He could feel that the Eaglet Innate was just a step away, ready to be crossed at any time. There were no bottlenecks, and he could immediately condense a special Dao Body Embryo, with cultivation aptitude comparable to Three Spiritual Roots.

”There’s one more thing, Taiqing Spirit Iron!”

”The Supreme Immortal Base for Taoist disciples of the Nine Great Immortal Sects!”

Flames burned in Jiang Ding’s eyes.

The Central Array Spirit Computer had promised that the final deadline for the sword embryo refinement was these next two days.

”The reason why the ’Great Sun Sword Cultivation Method’ is said to be capable of forging a Supreme Immortal Base, sparing no effort in using supreme divine substances like Taiqing Spirit Iron and Magic Arts-Breaking Immortal Gold, is that it can induce a qualitative change in the divine sense during the mortal stage!”

”Cultivating Qi, foundation building, Golden Pill...”

”The growth process of a cultivator is clear and straightforward. What does it mean to have an additional qualitative change out of thin air during the mortal stage?”

”A divine sense and aptitude that crush their peers, presenting many times the chance of advancement over cultivators of the same rank!”

”It has to be forged during the mortal stage, as Xiantian is already stepping into the threshold of cultivation. Miss it and it’s gone.”

Several tens of kilometers away,

An unmanned drone returned from the distance, and video footage of various cities entered Jiang Ding’s invisible eyeglasses.

It could be seen that most of the wars and chaos triggered by dynastic changeovers and natural calamities had disappeared. Most cities no longer flew the Royal Chen Family’s golden dragon flag, having replaced it with a black dragon flag on a gold background, officially becoming the territory of the newly established Tang Country.

Qingniugong, the royal family of the former dynasty, nobility with mutual interests, and other powers were wiped out, freeing up vast amounts of interests.

Tang Wang issued an edict to reorganize the administration, imprisoning and executing officials who were incompetent, corrupt, or had great public grievances. The previously entrenched networks of interests lost their use, and local influential families and sects that dared to resist were, without exception, exterminated by powerful experts and the Big Army with thunderous might.

Regions severely affected by disasters and wars received the deployment of capable officials for disaster relief, with a three-year tax exemption and rest for the people.

With such measures,

The nascent Tang Country surprisingly found its footing and initially won the people’s hearts. With a foundation becoming more solid over the next couple of decades, and without interference from external forces, it could be the basis for another dynasty that would last for hundreds of years.

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”...the cycle of feudal society...”

Jiang Ding didn’t know what to say.

Success or failure determines the hero.

People like Tang Wang, within the moral perspective of feudal society, also had the historical status of a generation’s great ruler.

”But when the opportunity’s ripe, you still have to die,”

Jiang Ding said calmly.

The course of Heaven remains constant; it favors not the worthy emperor Yao nor the tyrant Jie!

A generation’s great ruler, once dead, is just dead. With proper arrangements, could there still arise any turmoil affecting the common people?

With a wave of his hand,

the blue-gold small tree shrank into a sword, skimmed over the burning trees and grass all around, and the sources of the fires instantly turned to crumb powder, extinguishing the wildfires threatening to spread in the forest.

On the ground, within the cover range of the formation method, a spirit energy spectrum frequency measuring device the size of a carriage was still operational.

...

Ding!

He took out his cell phone from his storage jade pendant; the signal connected.

”The sword embryo you commissioned has arrived and is received by the Central Array Spirit Computer; you can collect it at the Cultivation Room Array Spirit at the school - Luban Immortal Path Technology Co., Ltd.”

Jiang Ding was taken aback for a moment, then quickly understood.

It was part of the Rong Tree Scholarship, a reward of a monkey version of a sword embryo forged from Thousand-year Soul Nurturing Wood and No. 21 Synthetic Geng Metal.

He had assumed that once the commission for a real sword embryo was placed, the scholarship’s sword embryo would be taken back. Yet, it was still normally forged and sent to him.

”Perfect, this can serve as the best cover,”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself internally.

Taiqing Spirit Iron should be kept absolutely secret even within the Xianmen Sect, lest it cause many cultivators to lose their rationality, even after recognization by someone else, making it unusable to others.

If he wasn’t mistaken, both the monkey version and the real sword embryo should have arrived.

The Great Perfection of Circle of Vital Energy flowed throughout his body with his Inner Energy, and as the nearly perfected Minor Concealing Breath Technique operated, Jiang Ding’s agitated heart gradually calmed down, and he slowly fell asleep.

The next day, he attended the morning class as usual, took a noon break, and practiced using anti-material sniper rifles on the training field according to Zhang Dingjun’s guidance, learning from past College Entrance Exam practical combat lessons.

Everything was no different from usual.

Not until after class,

did he go to the Cultivation Room, close the metal door, and then saw a silver-white rectangular box rise from the ground, tightly entwined by the roots of the banyan tree, which gradually loosened.

”Your ordered sword embryo has been delivered.”

The mechanical voice of the Array Spirit resounded.

Jiang Ding held his breath as he opened the silver-white box.

Two azure-blue Flying Swords appeared before his eyes, thirty-three point three centimeters long, two fingers wide, identical to each other.

”It’s you.”

Without hesitation, Jiang Ding picked up the Flying Sword on the left.

Between the touches, it was as smooth as jade.

A strong sense of kinship came forth as if it was fated, belonging innately to someone, and furthermore, a cool sensation entered his mind, instantly enhancing his Divine Soul’s reaction speed by multiple times, and the many things he hadn’t been able to understand before became clear.

Click!

In an instant, the proficiency level of ”Eagle Taking Off Sword Technique” changed from Great Achievement to Perfection and ”Minor Concealing Breath Technique” from Great Achievement to Perfection.

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