Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Back to the mining district dormitory.

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged, the blue-gold large tree behind him shining brightly, its branches dancing, the hazy light of Yuanmagnet barely visible.

”Since the end of the college entrance examination in the year 11127, I’ve unexpectedly studied for eighty-one years.”

”Nineteen more years until I graduate from Qingfeng University’s graduate school.”

Jiang Ding pondered, ”It’s time to prepare my master’s thesis now, I can extract a branch of research from Dyson’s Sunglasses Sword-shape Drone, the requirements for a master’s thesis aren’t that high, graduating shouldn’t be an issue.”

”If nothing unexpected happens, I will continue to pursue my Ph.D. at Qingfeng University and accept the teachings of a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s avatar.”

His figure disappeared from view.

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Tushan Immortal City.

Amidst the mountains full of Molten Gold Vine, groups of maiden girls gathered around, listening attentively.

A young man in green clothes closed and then opened his eyes, as if a touch of cleverness had been added to his gaze.

”...Stealth and concealment are our required courses.”

After a slight pause, Jiang Ding continued, ”No one is strong right from the beginning, I am like this, and so is everyone else. Many cultivators who are now incredibly powerful also had their times of weakness; therefore, we must learn to hide and to stealth.”

”The key to stealth lies in authenticity and stability.”

Recalling the material from the textbooks, Jiang Ding proceeded as if lecturing by the book, ”What is authenticity? It means to act with one’s true appearance and true cultivation base. For this purpose, we have to specialize in the ’Heavenly Human Growth Law’ and, when necessary, promote a second growth in our bodies to achieve a needed appearance.”

”Magic too, aside from combat sword art, everyone must learn a regular set of magic. During stealth, if not faced with a life or death crisis, one must not reveal one’s true capabilities...”

”What is stability? Not changing the original conditions of the place where one is hiding...”

Jiang Ding’s Divine Sense scanned the surroundings as he spoke confidently.

This wasn’t his forte, but it didn’t matter – he only needed to finish explaining the relevant magic.

After over forty years of nurturing and teaching, a maiden group of one hundred and forty-five members had initially taken shape.

Nowadays, there were more than thirty Foundation-building cultivators among the maidens, most of them at the early stage of Foundation Building; Gong Caiyu and a few others, having received key training, were now at the mid-stage of Foundation Building.

The rest, over a hundred maidens, were mostly late-stage Qi Practitioners.

The proportion of those with Twin Spiritual Roots was a frightening one-third!

The remaining two-thirds of the maidens all had Three Spiritual Roots, and they all possessed talents and comprehensions beyond ordinary people.

The Sky Spiritual Root maiden, Chun Jian, was already at the early stage of cultivating her Foundation, successfully acquiring the status of the second maid of Spring and able to lead a thirteen-member Heaven Light sword-soldier squad into battle, possessing quasi-third rank combat power.

The other two Sky Spiritual Root maidens rescued from Shang Chengye, Qiu Shanggong and Qiu Shangyun, were now at the peak of Qi Practicing.

In another five or six years, they were estimated to start their Foundation Building. Relying on their Sky Spiritual Root affinity with Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi, they should also be able to earn the title of titled maidens.

”...That will be all for today.”

Jiang Ding closed his mouth.

”Yes!”

”Farewell, young master!”

Gong Caiyu, leading the way, along with Chun Jian, Xia Tu, Chun Shi, and the rest of the maidens, stood up, lifted their palace dresses, curtsied, and retreated.

Peace was restored in the Demon Palace.

Jiang Ding flew into the sky, concealed himself, unfolded his Divine Sense, and circled around Tushan Immortal City.

”It’s gotten even better.”

Jiang Ding silently noted.

Over the past twenty-five years, with the intensification of the war in the Northern Plains, many Golden Pill Monks and Foundation-building cultivators came here to avoid the chaos of war, with more than twenty practitioners at the early and middle stages of the Golden Pill.

This had led to massive movements of cultivators and Spirit Stones, with the annual tax revenue increasing by nearly fifty percent, reaching over thirty million low-grade Spirit Stones each year.

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As for public security, it was still very good, having reached the state where nothing was lost at night and doors were not shuttered.

In just twenty-five short years, which was not a very long time for Golden Pill Monks, not long enough for them to forget the incident when three late-stage Golden Pill Monks died years ago.

None of the newly arrived Golden Pill Monks were rash for the time being.

For Foundation-building cultivators and Qi Practitioners, it was a bit different; this period of time was long enough for them to experience many promotions and to forget many things.

However, thanks to the continuous culling by the growing Tushan maiden group, and the repeated deaths of demon cultivators and bandit cultivators, the surviving Foundation-building cultivators and Qi Practitioners also learned how to adhere to the order of Tushan Immortal City.

The better the public security, the more prosperous the trade became.

A great number of cultivators gathered here as a result.

Here, there were many talisman shops, artifact refining pavilions, elixir towers and such; whatever one needed, as long as one had spirit stones, it could easily be bought at a relatively cheap price, including third-order items that even Golden Pill Monks needed had established a basic market.

Hua Xue Palace and Qiyu Sect, in turn, opened massive shops here, selling some unique items of their sects, as well as buying many things needed inside the sects for their Foundation-building and Golden Pill Monks.

”I am quite wealthy among the Golden Pill Monks.”

”How much money do I have now?”

Jiang Ding actually had to ponder for a moment to find the answer.

”After more than forty years of commerce and trade tax revenue, mining, cultivating elixirs and spirit rice, breeding spiritual fish and other industries’ revenue, as well as occasional gifts from well-wishers, I now have——”

”One billion three hundred and ninety million low-grade spirit stones!”

”I’m so wealthy!”

exclaimed Jiang Ding in astonishment.

”If we don’t consider the difficulty of obtaining fourth-order heavenly materials and earthly treasures, I’m richer than many Nascent Soul Monks of the Immortal Sects. After saving up more spirit stones for a few more years, and once Dyson’s Sunglasses Sword-shape Drone is successfully developed, I can build super warships.”

”Hmm, swapping some magic tool embryos from true disciples of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace that Immortal Sects can’t synthetically produce for some fourth-order heavenly materials and earthly treasures should be about enough,” he thought.

This was the unique advantage of Immortal Sects, being able to synthetically produce some heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

More often than not, the gap between ranks was so vast it was terrifying, and there was no possibility of exchange; Nascent Soul Monks simply wouldn’t value second and third-order heavenly materials and earthly treasures no matter the quantity and couldn’t trade for fourth-order materials.

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Jiang Ding once again entered a busy and orderly state of learning.

Every day he learned cultivation methods, formation methods, and other knowledge to enrich his foundation in the Immortal Path, especially the Golden Pellet Realm ”All-transforming Magnetic Origin Sutra” and formation methods.

The former was related to cultivation techniques after reaching the Golden Pellet Realm, and the latter was related to the basic requirements for piloting super warships.

Even though he had advantages in Divine Soul and Sword Intent, without fourth-order Formation Dao capabilities, he would not be able to activate the super warships and could only look on helplessly.

Currently, he was only an upper third-rank Array Master, which was far from the required level.

During language class.

”Student Jiang Ding, do you know the relationship between Great Sun Sword Pavilion and Taiyin Sword Sect?”

After explaining a section of the cultivation manuscript of ”All-transforming Magnetic Origin Sutra” suitable for the Golden Pellet Realm, Immortal Dinghai changed the topic and asked.

”Relationship?”

”They are both sword cultivation sects.”

Jiang Ding thought for a moment and said, ”According to the materials I’ve researched in the library, it seems that Taiyin Sword Sect is a sword dao branch of the Green Wood Immortal Sect, which is one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects. After the destruction of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, it was recognized by the remaining Eight Great Immortal Sects and established the Taiyin Sword Sect.”

”Is there some secret?”

He asked curiously.

The library only had knowledge; for particular intelligence, one could only know if they had a certain level of citizen privilege.

Now, with the passage of time, it seemed a certain rule was triggered, allowing his citizen’s privilege to reach the point where he could be informed.

”Indeed, there is.”

Immortal Dinghai smiled and slowly said, ”Thirty thousand years ago, when Great Sun Sword Pavilion first came to this domain, its name was Daymoon Sword Pavilion.”

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