Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Poison fog obscured both heaven and earth.

”This doesn’t count as a sneak attack, seems like this is the first post-golden alchemist human I’ve faced?”

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

Once humans enter the Golden Pill period and possess their Life Treasures, they become stronger than many demon beasts, unless they are facing ones with exceptionally high bloodline ranks. With humans’ diverse methods, they can suppress demon beasts of the same level in battle.

The greater their wealth, the larger this gap in strength at the same level.

The azure protective shield stretched out, hissing under the corrosion of the poison fog.

Ding ding ding!

One after another, metallic green poison snakes flew towards him in formation. The blue-gold Sword Light spun around him, slicing through the air with a sharp aura overflowing in every direction.

Each snake was cleaved in half as it charged at him, turning into bisected carcasses that fell from the sky. By the time they reached midway, they had been reduced to powder by the Sword Qi, eradicated so completely they couldn’t undergo any further change.

Due to his own vulnerability, he had to face this kind of group attack.

Jiang Ding was in no hurry, casually observing the woman in black about seven or eight kilometers away, as the layers of poison fog failed to obstruct his view by even the slightest degree.

”Why can’t the attack break through?”

”That damn Flying Sword is a freak!”

Ms. Thousand Snakes’s face was pale, her mana gushing out like the tide, her figure staggering as if she would fall at any moment.

The Poison Array and poison fog, combined with the attacks of myriad poison snakes, should have caused injuries in multiple post-golden alchemists by now—not left them completely unharmed.

”Run away?”

”Absolutely not. Sword cultivators are strongest in speed and attack. Showing them your back means certain death!”

Fleeting feelings of timidity flashed through her mind and were immediately dismissed.

She clenched her teeth, bit the tip of her tongue, and sprayed out another mouthful of Essence Blood. Her body suddenly became hunched over to an extreme degree, her fair skin almost translucent, with even her fine red musculature clearly visible.

This mouthful of Essence Blood fell upon a black-and-white snake. The thumb-sized serpent body swelled as countless poison snakes swarmed towards it, merging into its body and further speeding up its expansion.

Even the gold-melting, bone-corroding poison fog was drawn into its throat with each breath it took.

In a blink, a bulge appeared atop the head of the black-and-white poison snake, and a bit of green beard grew from its lower jaw. Surprisingly, it started to show traits of a dragon seed, its overbearing and brutal demon beast aura spreading outward.

”Damn fledgling…”

Mrs. Thousand Snakes felt as if her heart was bleeding.

These two black and white snakes had been nurtured by her for hundreds of years. She had fed them countless Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures, giving them a trace of dragon bloodline, hoping that they might have a chance to transform from snake to flood dragon and become Nascent Soul Stage great demons, uplifting her along with them.

Now, in her rush for quick results, it had all been destroyed.

Roar!

The newly dragon-like black-and-white poison snake let out the first dragon’s roar since its birth. Its overwhelming dragon aura locked on its target, and it spewed out a devastating green dragon breath so corrosive that the air around it sizzled and darkened with lines of decay.

With such might,

even top-grade magic treasures directly resisting it might corrode away into worthless scrap!

”To target my true form is to seek your own death.”

Jiang Ding shook his head.

With a flick of his finger,

amidst the sound of an explosion, a Blue-Gold Flying Sword charged suicidally towards the lethal breath, confident in its invincibility, believing it to be impervious to all Magic and indestructible.

Boom!

The light from the Blue-Gold Flying Sword was brilliant, the pressure from the green dragon breath, intense and highly condensed. As the two forces collided, a thunderous boom echoed through the heavens.

Countless points of Spiritual Light shattered, and in a standstill, the two converted into streaks of light, continuously colliding and entwining. The slightest leakage of their residual waves was enough to crack and dissolve large areas of the ground into nothingness.

Whoosh whoosh!

In the piercing gale, nine intangible and insubstantial thin needles, resembling cow hairs, shot from a distance, their tips concealed with a deep, green toxic light.

”Too weak,”

Jiang Ding casually pointed a finger, and seven or eight strands of Blue-Gold Sword Qi flew out, slicing away the inferior magic treasure driven by the last of Ms. Thousand Snakes’ mana and crashed it far away.

Crack!

At that moment, Ms. Thousand Snakes’ face showed a look of terror.

She saw that, in the sky, the entwining green poisonous dragon’s breath and the Blue-Gold Flying Sword finally came to a result.

The dazzling Sword Intent of Destruction’s Gold Light flickered on the Blue-Gold Sword Light, and in the midst of the blade’s flow, the green poisonous dragon’s breath was split open from the middle, its core magic structure torn apart, and it collapsed amidst a world-shaking explosion.

After that, it pierced through the bulging head of the black-and-white poison snake and exited through the body from the head.

”Roar...”

The black-and-white giant snake let out a mournful cry, turning its head to glance at its owner for the last time, before its body exploded into a sky full of fragments.

”Young master, spare my life!”

Ms. Thousand Snakes had no time to mourn the death of her spirit pet, which had accompanied her for hundreds of years. She screamed, turning into thousands of tiny poison snakes that fled in all directions.

They moved with exceptional speed, and each poison snake’s aura was exactly alike, so much so that a Golden Pill Peak cultivator might not be able to distinguish them in a short time.

Whoosh!

A strand of Blue-Gold Sword Light flew past, smashing the head of a poison snake the size of a chopstick.

The surrounding thousands of poison snakes paused, then suddenly exploded, scattering stinking flesh and blood everywhere, which corroded deep pits into the ground, making the land infertile for hundreds of years to come.

If left unchecked, this would become an ideal habitat for poison-related demon beasts, and, years later, another base-building death zone would be born.

”Given the current situation, a post-golden pill cultivator still poses a significant threat,”

”If it doesn’t involve core interests, best not to provoke them unnecessarily,”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself, turning his gaze toward another battlefield.

Flaming lava great swords, one after another, fell from the sky, forming their own formations around Shang Chengye in the center, bombarding him continuously. His twelve copper coin treasures were now dim in spiritual light, and parts of them were even melting.

”Fellow Daoist, you are truly remarkable,”

Jiang Ding praised.

Third-rank Top-grade Formation Methods, relying on the Earth’s Qi from spiritual veins, were in terms of power actually much stronger than a post-golden pill cultivator. This person, managing to persist until now without losing a limb, was not lacking in strength.

If facing alone,

It would unavoidably take a lot of effort, unnecessarily increasing risks.

Whoosh!

The Blue-Gold Flying Sword cut through the air, its Sword Intent of Destruction adding Law-Breaking Immortal Gold to its strike, bringing the true intent of destruction to its limits, creating a monster that wielded a simple sword technique but possessed a terrifying Sword Intent.

”The Shang Clan will not let you off!”

Shang Chengye roared in despair.

Boom!

The flames and Array Patterns were dense; nine flaming giant swords descended from the sky and, along with the Blue-Gold Flying Sword, simultaneously struck Shang Chengye’s dim twelve copper coin treasures. The copper coins were thrown away with a snap, and the shield shattered.

Whoosh!

The Blue-Gold Flying Sword pierced Shang Chengye’s skull, and the nine flaming giant swords arrived at the same time. Amidst the sky-high flames and Sword Qi, his fleshly body turned to ash, scattered by the wind.

”The possessions of these two should be quite decent,”

Jiang Ding reached out, and the storage bags and treasures of Ms. Thousand Snakes and Shang Chengye fell into his hands.

With another sword strike, countless Sword Qi flew towards the surrounding caves, destroying the newly calculated points of the caves’ structural stress.

Amid the rumbling sound, the caves collapsed, the Concealment Formations that blocked detection crumbled, and this underground area, once outside the control of Tushan Immortal City, was buried once again, completely disappearing from sight.