Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The Blue-Gold Large Tree was more than fifty meters tall, with a canopy that stretched over a hundred meters wide, requiring several people to fully embrace it.

Its metallic branches and leaves swayed, inhaling the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence within a ten-kilometer radius, refining and filtering it before it formed into specks of starlight and fell down.

All of which were absorbed by the young man in blue clothes who sat cross-legged under the tree.

This scene had been occurring every day and had continued for decades.

Today, at last, change had come.

The last bit of Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and the essence of Great Sun Essence was inhaled; after complex refinement through the ”All-transforming Magnetic Origin Sutra,” it finally turned into a tiny sphere of Mana that dropped into the center of the Elixir Field.

Plop!

In the depths of his mind, he heard a clear sound, crisp like large and small pearls falling on a jade plate. The Mana in the Elixir Field reached two-thirds of its potential and encountered a tough, thin membrane that could not be further increased by even a hair.

”The peak of Mid-Stage Foundation Building,” he murmured.

Jiang Ding opened his eyes, a flash of blue light fleeting within them.

”Break,” he whispered.

There was nothing to prepare for; throughout his Cultivation, he had never experienced what was called a bottleneck, merely considering it a sign that he was about to break through to the next realm.

The ocean of Mana in his Elixir Field became restless at that moment, churning wildly with countless waves rising and falling.

If one observed closely, they could see droplets of Mana forming the shape of swords—countless, densely packed, like silverfish swarming, containing the Sword Intent of Destruction.

The waves surged, gathering into a giant wave,

And violently collided with the transparent bottleneck!

Crack!

Under the impact of immense force, the sturdy bottleneck started to show a dense web of cracks, with fine Sword Qi rushing into the fissures, eroding, engulfing, and annihilating the last tiny fragments.

Then, with no more obstacles, the ocean in the Elixir Field joyfully surged toward places it had never reached before.

Jiang Ding’s aura also soared abruptly, and his Divine Sense changed as well, expanding from a six-kilometer radius to an eight-kilometer radius, nearing the range of Sword Intent’s sensitivity.

The Blue-Gold Large Tree was making the most noise.

With rumbling sounds, the tree trunk that took several people to embrace burst forth from the ground, growing towards the sky. In just a few breaths, it stretched an additional ten plus meters, transforming into a sixty-meter-tall tree.

The canopy spread outward, growing and extending by an additional twenty meters, becoming an expansive azure metallic tree canopy covering over a hundred and twenty meters, swallowing the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence within ten kilometers, with the blue and bright blaze of Great Sun beneath it growing even brighter.

”Sixteen, Latter Stage of Foundation Building,”

A few days later, when Jiang Ding’s aura had stabilized, he opened his eyes with a trace of joy: ”My strength has increased a bit.”

He did not rush to end his seclusion but instead stabilized his Cultivation Base for over a dozen days before taking out a jade bottle, with Divine Sense and Sword Intent surging into it.

Clang!

A sound of a sword ringing resounded.

Only a few drops of the Fusion Magnetic Crystal Core remained, which was cut off in a slice; branches of the Blue-Gold Tree dropped straight down, drawing forth a puff of Grey Fog into the shade of the trees, within the Azure Great Sun.

Divide, smelt, absorb.

In a matter of moments, the puff of Grey Fog was completely absorbed, integrating into each leaf and bark, forming nearly invisible grey imprints on them.

After accumulating for over twenty years, another qualitative change had finally occurred.

Boom!

The Blue-Gold Large Tree seemed to explode, branches snapping straight out before forming parallel lines; like auxiliary dashed lines in a magnetic field, visible rays of Primordial Magnet’s Light burst between the branches, making them move with the planet’s magnetic field, utterly uncontrollable.

It took a long while before calmness returned, the branches drooped, resuming their usual swaying with the breeze.

”Integration of six thousand strands of Fusion Magnetic Crystal Core, great success.”

Jiang Ding closed his eyes to sense for a moment, then opened them: ”Affected by this, the Ampere force of the electromagnetic cannon has increased, and the speed of the Flying Sword has also increased a notch.”

In his heart, there loomed a faint desire to drag out Patriarch Hua Xue Mu Tiansnow and kill her.

”Forget it, limited by previous promises, I’ll have to find a way to get her out of Chu Country.”

”Too much trouble, I’ll deal with it when the opportunity arises.”

Concealing his aura, he turned into a grey-blue Escaping Light and flew towards the Heaven Covering Divine Wood Melting Branches and Leaves above him, finding a leaf with the scorched Great Sun insignia and flew into it.

”Welcome to Qingfeng University’s Engineering Building - Great Sun Relic Laboratory.”

Before his eyes, the greyish sky and the ruins filled with explosion glass pits and sword marks came into view, the air was heavy with the smell of radiation.

After flying over several tens of kilometers, there they were, Zhang Junsheng and Wu Mengsha along with the others.

”Hi, Jiang Ding.”

Wu Mengsha threw a pile of specially bound, ceremoniously packaged ancient books at him: ”Your Electromagnetic Sword Escape is ready, and the Magic Array Spirit testing instrument from Xianmen Science Institute hasn’t found any flaws. Give it a try and see if there’s anything that needs to be improved.”

After more than a decade of research and testing, with the participation of a Nascent Soul Monk and a large number of Golden Pill Monks and with the assistance of various research institutions of Xianmen, consuming a huge amount of library credits and Spirit Stones.

The second-tier Electromagnetic Sword Escape has finally been successfully developed!

”Thank you, senior sister, thanks to the mentor and all the senior brothers.”

Jiang Ding’s spirits lifted as he took the half-person-tall thread-bound ancient books and began flipping through the pages.

The rustling sound of pages turning was swift; it was almost with a single glance that the Spiritual Scripts containing vast amounts of knowledge on the pages were fully understood, posing no particular difficulty.

He had been deeply involved in the development of the Electromagnetic Sword Escape, especially in the part concerning Sword Dao. Nearly every change in direction was connected to him, and he had put a lot of effort into it.

A few days later, the last page of the book was closed.

”Not bad.”

Jiang Ding set the book aside and gently closed his eyes.

The Mana within his body began to change in a complex structure rapidly, with specks of grey-blue light lighting up on his skin, possessing the distinctive sharpness of Sword Dao and the evasiveness of the electromagnetic system, creating an aura of thunder and lightning.

He would not take these books with him; there was always the possibility of leaking secrets when entering other worlds for long periods.

Zhang Junsheng, Wu Mengsha, and others all looked this way, a trace of tension in their eyes.

No matter how theoretically correct, if it couldn’t be applied in practice, more than a decade of hard research would be wasted.

Hum!

A dozen breaths later, an Azure Flying Sword emerged from Jiang Ding’s brow, surrounded by the flickering virtual lines of Magnetic Field Spirit Power Gathering Formation’s Array Patterns, not showing any attack but instead merging with the Sword-light and disappearing with a burst of air explosion.

”That speed...”

Wu Mengsha’s expression was somewhat dumbfounded. When her Divine Sense swept over, she only saw a sword-shaped grey-blue Sword-light shuttle up and down in the distant sky, its speed even faster than that of a Post-Golden Pill Alchemist.

”The Dari Swordsman lives up to his reputation, I reckon I can’t beat him now,” said another senior brother, clearly taking pride in their achievement.

The tone sounded as if bragging about one’s own field’s top-notch research, as if beckoning others to come forward with envy and jealousy.

”You’re only at the Middle Jindan Stage; you couldn’t beat him in a one-on-one fight to begin with,”

Wu Mengsha gave him a blank look.

Whoosh!

Moments later, the grey-blue sword-shaped Escaping Light returned, stopping precisely in front of everyone, with the Azure Flying Sword flying back into his brow.

”No problem.”

”The expected speed and agility have both been reached.”

Jiang Ding said with a joyful face, ”Thank you, senior brothers and sisters, and the mentor.”

”What’s there to thank for; it’s part of our field’s research tasks anyway,”

”Keep up the work.”

Zhang Junsheng waved his hand and, with the others, re-entered the research state, discussing the progress of various projects in their field, such as Great Sun Foundation Establishment, Dyson Sun Mirror Sword Domain, and rescue excavations of the Great Sun Heavenly Pond.

”Alright.”

Jiang Ding also joined in. He had extremely keen intuition in Sword Dao and was exceptionally sharp in all research related to the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, which could significantly accelerate research progress.

”Desolate Bronze...”

He muttered to himself.