Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Within the Tai Xu Fantasy Realm,

many candidates had already finished their exam and gathered together to watch the representative of the Xianmen Sect’s younger generation’s top-tier cold weapon combat.

”Second-order mobile Formation!”

”He’s able to fight even Foundation-building cultivators? This is the true heir of an Immortal of Nascent Soul!”

A Cultivator in the later stages of Qi refining from Zhongcheng High School exclaimed in shock.

Zhongcheng is a city near Rongcheng City.

The practical exams could involve cooperation between different regions; thus, many candidates from neighboring cities gathered to exchange sentiments and discuss tactics among other things.

”Li Tie, is that fierce person across Xu Jianian from your Rongcheng City?”

”Damn, a martial artist, though probably unable to defeat the Immortal of Nascent Soul’s direct heir, a second-order Formation Master, but I, a ninth-layer Qi Practicing cultivator, got knocked out before I even saw his face clearly!”

Somebody asked. He was the most outstanding student in the Qi Practicing Phase from Zhongcheng, even a minor realm higher than Li Tie.

”I don’t know him!”

Li Tie said with a darkened face, still struggling to recover from the shattered memories.

”He’s from our class.”

Hua Bing answered, still retaining a trace of horror in his eyes, which was completely different from what his father had described.

”It must be related to the ’Sun Seed Sword Practice’.”

This immediately drew sidelong glances from the crowd, who promptly logged into the library to search and read.

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”Just a Thousand-year Soul Nurturing Wood and a Flying Sword forged from Geng Metal.”

Above the sky, Xu Jianian, surrounded by layers of the Chongshan Monument, casually remarked and then with a wave of his hand, sent eighteen fireballs swirling out, forming an array in the sky, linked in breath and whistling as they plummeted down.

Indeed, these two materials would be extremely difficult for Golden Pill Monks to obtain, but for a direct heir of a Nascent Soul, it was merely a matter of whining a few times. Ordinary stuff, nowhere near his eighteen Tool embryos.

”Not bad.”

Jiang Ding couldn’t help but praise the opponent’s combat literacy.

Although grandiose in speech, he closely guarded the eighteen Tool embryos in front of him, refusing to expose even a fraction. He must have experienced outstanding and strict combat training.

In front of this kind of education, most so-called combat geniuses would pale in comparison.

The eighteen linked fireballs were not ordinary either. They bore the hidden patterns of the Formation Path, and together they were powerful enough to blast away a large number of Qi Practicing cultivators, not to be underestimated, even for those in Foundation Building.

Clang!

There was no strategy to speak of.

In fact, at the peak of Xiantian, he had nothing but this Flying Sword.

The Azure Sword-light pierced through the eighteen fireballs and continued to soar in the sky. The tip of the sword trembled slightly, as though it was using Sword Intent to sense weaknesses, searching for an opportunity to strike a fatal blow.

The eighteen fireballs briefly stalled, then exploded with a loud bang, dispersing in the air.

The structure of the fireball Magic crumbled under one sword strike!

Completely losing its original power, the nearly second-order Formation array could not stop the sharpness of the Azure Flying Sword.

”There is some merit to it.”

Xu Jianian frowned, and with another manipulation of his Mana Technique, countless amounts of Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi gathered, forming a small tidal force.

In a moment, the sky for hundreds of meters changed color.

Fireballs emerged from the void, transforming into firebirds that flew forward. The number of firebirds multiplied rapidly, soon exceeding dozens, and continued to increase.

Array Patterns kept forming among the firebirds, getting closer and closer to reaching the limit of a first-order Formation, entering the realm of a second-order Formation.

Whoosh!

An Azure Flying Sword passed through the flock of firebirds, annihilating seven or eight more. Compared to the flock, this was insignificant.

”Can you discern the hidden Formation Nodes I set up?”

Xu Jianian paused in casting his Mana Technique, uncertain and astonished.

In that area pierced by the Flying Sword, more than twenty firebirds collapsed for no reason and did not regenerate endlessly as before.

Logically, this shouldn’t have been the case. Even if someone destroyed one or two, the firebirds would regenerate swiftly.

”I cannot.”

Jiang Ding simply answered.

The Flying Sword soaring in the sky once again descended, bringing a shrill scream as it slashed towards the remaining third of the firebird Formation. Amidst its interweaving Sword-light, the big array was torn apart, utterly shattered.

He could not understand second-order Formations.

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Most sword cultivators also lack the Formation Path expertise of top-tier cultivators within the same rank, but they remain undefeated.

The reason is Sword Intent.

Within the perception of Sword Intent and Heaven and Human Unity, the Firebird Formation had numerous dense energy gathering sites, and then the flying sword pierced through the largest node. With Sword Qi destroying everything, it was just that simple.

”I still need to learn the Formation Method. If I had expertise in the Formation Path, one sword strike would be enough to destroy his formation,”

Jiang Ding whispered.

The Azure Flying Sword passed through the completely dispersed Firebird Formation, the Sword-light concentrating at the tip, stabbing fiercely at the robust Eighteen Stele Formation!

Ding!

This time, finally catching the opponent’s attack formation in its moment of insufficient recovery, he broke through the substantial layered shields and struck a grey-white Tools embryo.

Blinding sparks flashed, and the flying sword, piercing through the layered shields before the other steles could barely form an enclosure, retreated once more.

The Azure Flying Sword soared in the sky, searching for an opportunity.

”A turtle shell!”

Jiang Ding frowned.

Eighteen Artifact embryos, with extremely high-quality materials and significant potential, were also connected in a set to form a formation. That was just too crafty.

Besides, it was confirmed that the opponent cultivated a ’Law’ level Cultivation Method and reached the Peak of Qi Practicing phase at the age of sixteen.

This was a common cultivation process for Xianmen cultivators; eleven or twelve-year-old children barely knew all their characters. Even with exceptional talent, it was too fantastical for them to cultivate ’Scripture’ Level Techniques.

The best approach was to initially cultivate a somewhat inferior Cultivation Method, accumulate enough knowledge of the Immortal Path, and then it might be possible.

Although it was merely for children to practice, it was a goal that many most distinguished disciples of Golden Pill Sects could never achieve in their lifetime.

The two engaged in a titanic fight in the sea!

Spells like Firebird and Fire Phoenix were constantly unleashed, attempting to form the ultimate Second Order Big array but were destroyed just before it could take shape each time.

Continuous spell explosions shattered the sea water over and over again.

”Is Jiang Ding... displaying Foundation Building combat power?”

Hua Bing was dumbstruck, feeling somewhat surreal and gloated, ”I reckon you won’t be able to take your revenge.”

”What’s so great about that? I once squashed him flat with one move, making him unrecognizable as a human.”

Li Tie’s frown relaxed.

”You’re courting death!!”

Multiple times his Second Order formations were on the verge of completion only to be destroyed, Xu Jianian’s patience ran dry.

He tapped a nearby stele and bellowed,

”Chongshan Monument, go!”

Boom!

The true Second Order Formation activated, detaching from its master, suppressing everything below.

The eighteen Artifact embryos steles thundered, the ghostly silhouettes of Array Patterns in the void clearly visible as the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi fluctuated on a large scale.

A heavy pressure emerged from the void, smoothing out the waves within hundreds of meters, as slick as glass.

This power had reached a terrifying level that would change the colors of Foundation-building cultivators upon seeing it.

”Fall!”

”Die!”

Xu Jianian watched indifferently and with contempt from above, as the eighteen steles, grown to several meters in size, pressed down. Even an early-stage Foundation-building cultivator could be smashed with a single strike.

”Try disrupting it one more time?”

He spoke coldly.

Yet, he saw that the youth in blue clothes revealed a hint of a smile, causing an instinctive shock in his heart.

”Finally, from your turtle shell...”

Clang!

The sound of a sword cry clearly made its way into his heavily guarded consciousness.

In the boundless sky, a massive Azure Spirit Nurturing Tree uprooted itself, soaring into the heavens above. With every tremble of its branches and leaves, all things shattered, and a terrifying aura of destruction bathed in the end of the dharma era spread across heaven and earth.

To Xu Jianian’s eyes, it was overlayed with a patch of Azure light.

Then, a deep hole appeared on his forehead, penetrating from front to back.

His eyes became vacant, devoid of all spirit.