Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

”...Overall, the Great Sun Sect is on the offensive, while the Righteous and Demon Alliance is on the defensive. The situation has not reached the point of complete collapse.”

”The reason Liudao Sect is looking for a way out is simply because the sect has a large family business to consider and is preparing a step ahead.”

Jiang Ding finished reviewing the current situation in the Beiyuan Immortal Cultivation World and continued to search for items of interest in the Sea of Consciousness of Immortal Tiankuang.

”...The great battle with the Fox Monster...”

”...The great battle with the female cultivator of the Yin Yang Sect...”

”This Tiankuang with his mind full of indecent thoughts is truly despicable. Since the brothers in the forum are not interested, I won’t share it with them.”

Jiang Ding rapidly skipped over these matters.

”In the memory of Immortal Tiankuang, the Great Sun Sect was recognized as a special existence that did not fall under the category of the orthodox or demonic paths, but was instead categorized as part of the evil path.”

”There are two reasons for this; firstly, they do not recruit disciples based on surnames, which violates the mainstream values of the Beiyuan Immortal Cultivation World and is despised and vehemently hated by the orthodox and demonic paths... actually, by the topmost cultivation families.”

”The other reason is...”

Jiang Ding paused for a long time at a familiar name.

”Great Sun Heavenly Pond.”

”This has been a feature of the Great Sun Sect since its inception, said to be located at the peak of the sect’s gates, connected to Earth Fire below and to the Brilliance of the Sun above. It is as though a Great Sun has fallen into the midst of the gates, making a hundred miles surrounding it nightless.”

”The cultivators of the Great Sun Sect prefer to capture enemy cultivators, whether they be orthodox, demonic, or loose cultivators, and throw them into the Great Sun Heavenly Pond. Their bodies turn to ash while their Divine Souls are melted down. After long periods of accumulation and refinement, they transform into a precious treasure known as ’Sun Flame Crystal,’ which can enhance the foundation of the Divine Soul.”

”Every initiation of a great cultivation war has been related to the Great Sun Heavenly Pond.”

”Again, this familiar style of madness.”

Jiang Ding frowned.

Great Sun Heavenly Pond, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion had one too.

However, it didn’t use the lowly method of melting Vital Souls; instead, it directly treated the world as a treasure basin, drawing Great Sun Essence. It was a precious place for the Sword Cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion to temper their Sword Intent and Divine Soul.

It ended up destroyed by the Forbidden Nucleic Weapons of Xianmen, and the remains are still in the Great Sun World. Professor Zhang Junsheng’s main body is engaged primarily in rescue excavation work there.

”The ancient history of Liudao Sect...”

Jiang Ding’s Divine Sense hesitated.

”The mountain gate of Liudao Sect is known as Returnless Mountain. It is said to be protected by six profound and mysterious formations, called the Six Dao Reincarnation Formation, consisting of Heavenly Man Dao, Human Dao, Asura Path, Hell Dao, Hungry Ghost Dao, and Beast Dao. The cycle never ends, what is destroyed is reborn anew. It is so powerful that even cultivators at the Nascent Soul Peak have been trapped within it, reincarnating over and over until they die.”

”Very strong, but not this.”

Jiang Ding carefully examined an ancient book that Immortal Tiankuang had seen in the Sect’s Book Pavilion.

”Returnless Mountain, where the Six Dao Ancestor came more than twenty thousand years ago, and there established the sect. The mountain was once known as Yin Yang Magneto Mountain, a place where the forces of Primordial Magnetism ran wild, with the five elements prohibited. The sky was often illuminated with black and white magnetic divine light, leading to the eradication of life for thousands of miles, making it one of the ancient Northern Plains’ ten deadliest places...”

”...At this location, the Ancestor Master set up the Six Dao Reincarnation Formation, using great mana to subdue this deadly land, slaying demons and monsters, harmonizing the Earth’s veins, purifying the Primordial Magnetism, establishing the sect, and even severing the peak of Yin Yang Magneto Mountain to refine it into the Heavenly Man Palace, a Magical Treasure...”

”...Yin Yang Magneto Mountain, a place where the five elements are prohibited, divine light of magnetic poles...”

Jiang Ding looked and looked again at these terms, confirming repeatedly.

”Why does it sound so much like something I accidentally left behind?”

”If the records are true, beneath the mountain gate of Liudao Sect, there must be a hidden supermassive Primordial Magnetic Spirit Mine.”

”Divine light of magnetic poles, Xianmen also has records of it. It’s the divinity-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, occasionally born from supermassive Primordial Magnetic Spirit Mines. When integrated into Electromagnetic shells, it can obliterate the five elements...”

”It’s not just similar.”

”This is exactly what I left at Returnless Mountain!”

Jiang Ding stated with certainty.

”The last one.”

”Immortal Tiankuang arranged an escape route for himself in the Northern Plains by taking over a Golden Pill power called the Wei Family of Tuling. He killed their patriarch Wei Poshan in secret, and after searching his soul, replaced him, planning to use it as a hiding spot if the situation turned unfavorable. He was the only one who knew about it.”

”The Wei Family of Tuling is located on the fringe of the Immortal Cultivation World of the Northern Plains, in a secluded Immortal Cultivation realm known as Chen Country. They maintained neutrality with all factions, submitting to whomever ruled the surrounding area, which made them very inconspicuous.”

”Mark it down, it can serve as an option if we plan to leave this place in the future.”

Jiang Ding noted down the relevant intelligence.

He could not possibly show his real body; neither the Great Sun Sect nor the forces of good and evil from the Northern Plains were entities to be trif.D with lightly.

”Not bad.”

”Immortal Tiankuang, as a Post-golden Alchemist of the Liudao Sect, indeed knew quite a lot of intelligence.”

Jiang Ding performed a Mana Technique and raised a gust of wind that scattered the ashes of Immortal Tiankuang’s Divine Spirit and Golden Pill, followed by a flash of white light as he disappeared without trace on the teleportation Formation.

...

Demon Palace.

The teleportation Formation’s light flickered, revealing a storage pouch devoid of any marks, and then there was no further activity.

In these past few months, due to the need to transport materials, a teleportation Formation had been set up within the Demon Palace. They no longer needed to travel frequently through the Spiritless Gobi Desert, thus avoiding any potential exposure.

”Has the puppet been refined?”

Jiang Ding grasped the storage pouch and flew up into the sky, leaving the range of the Sky Sword Meteor Stream Formation around the Demon Palace and concealed himself. He scanned the entire city with a god-like Divine Sense akin to a Spirit Particle Sonar.

The Tushan Monster City had changed drastically since then.

Gone were the days when Demon Cultivators gathered and humans were treated as livestock. Now, Cultivators bustled to and fro, amounting to thousands, with about twenty Foundation-building cultivators among them.

Of these, only about half the Qi Practitioners and the majority of Foundation-building cultivators came from the Qiyu Sect.

The rest were Loose Cultivators who had heard the news and come here over the past few months. Their origins were varied, some from Yue Country, some from Chu Country, and some had been hiding in the Demon Country all along.

As for the reason,

It was naturally the small and large First-order and Second-order Spiritual Veins within the Demon Country!

These Loose Cultivators yearned for such treasures, which lay almost ownerless on the land of the Demon Country, surrounded by an abundance of Elixirs and Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures. How could they resist the allure?

In Yue Country and Chu Country, these treasures were exclusively owned by Sect Cultivators, and it was extremely difficult for Loose Cultivators to obtain them.

In the newly established Demon Country, no, the Tushan Dojo, it was much easier, and the path to success was much smoother.

Not just Loose Cultivators, but even many Foundation-building cultivators from the Qiyu Sect who felt they weren’t receiving good treatment shamelessly came to the Demon Country, claiming they would serve their Master’s Uncle’s Grandfather until death.

Jiang Ding naturally accepted them all.

It didn’t matter who they were; as long as they paid taxes to him while in the Demon Country—just 30% of their annual production—he would recognize their residency and trading rights over the Spiritual Veins within the territory of the Demon Country.

Of course, Demon Cultivators and Bandit Cultivators were exceptions; if caught, he would deal with them harshly.

The arrival of these Cultivators was very beneficial for him.

Apart from taxation, the various Spirit Mines, Spiritual Medicine Gardens, and timber yards now had managers, and these people could also help in clearing out the Demon Race.

Furthermore, they played a significant role in the migration of the common folk of the Tushan Monster Country, the reconstruction of cities, and the advancement of education, which he valued greatly.

According to reports from Li Qingyun, a mere hundred kilometers away, a mortal kingdom called Tuguo had been established, with government officials brought in from Yue Country.

One could imagine that if this situation continued, the Ten Thousand Miles Demon Country would become increasingly prosperous, with a growing number of Cultivators and mortals, and a richer inheritance of various Magic and Cultivation Methods.

Until it turned into a realm completely belonging to the Human Race, just like Yue Country and Chu Country.