Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Light blue smoke rose straight into the sky, visible from hundreds of kilometers away.

The sky suddenly darkened with changes in the wind and clouds, accompanied by flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder. An even more terrifying Great Sun Sword Intent descended from the heavens, covering the entire Great Sun Heavenly Pond, causing many sword cultivators who were in the middle of their cultivation to spit out blood, suffering internal injuries.

A brutal, scorching, and sharp terrible aura permeated between heaven and earth.

”What is this?”

Jiang Ding’s Bluegold sword-shaped Escape Light paused as he looked up at the sky.

Within it, he could sense a clear hostility, even a killing intent, as well as disdain; the whole world began to reject him.

”Eastern Devil School...”

”Cowardly rats, dark villains...”

From all directions, low roars of hatred and disgust could be heard.

”What are you?”

Jiang Ding could no longer ignore it and asked.

He sensed an aura similar to that of ghosts, zombie specters, and resentful spirits on this unknown creature and it seemed to be deeply obsessive.

”I am from the Great Sun Sword Pavilion...”

”Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s sword cultivators are not like you.”

Jiang Ding interrupted it, appearing unconvinced.

”If you’ve been defeated, then you’ve been defeated; they wouldn’t make excuses about ambushes, cowardly rats, dark whatever. They would accept the result, then hide their killing intent deeply, accumulating strength, waiting for the opportunity to turn the world upside down.”

”There is nothing despicable nor grand and bright.”

”There are only victory and death!”

”You like this...”

Jiang Ding gave a cold smile, ”like a nagging shrew, Great Sun sword cultivators don’t do that, it’s rather embarrassing.”

”...”

The gloomy voice fell silent.

”Indeed.”

”The Swordsman is right; for sword cultivators, there are only victory and death.”

A cheerful female voice spoke again.

”...Die!”

The concealed voice grew somewhat furious with embarrassment.

Boom!

Within the dark clouds, a bolt of lightning suddenly appeared, taking the shape of a sword as it descended from the sky, filling one’s vision in a flash.

”Go.”

Jiang Ding barely lifted his eyelids.

Whoosh!

The Taiqing Flying Sword’s Bluegold Sword Light flashed, cutting through the heart of the thunderbolt and splitting it in two amidst the brilliant lightning, causing a massive thunderous explosion and continuous thunderclaps in the void.

”A bit weak.”

”Somewhat unworthy of your current status.”

Jiang Ding expanded his Divine Sense, carefully scanning every place within a ten-kilometer defensive range.

He saw strands of lightning land on the rocks, which then wriggled, deformed, and moments later, a sword cultivator clad in earthen yellow armor emerged from the stone, drawing his sword and attacking the sky.

Landing on a river of magma, a magma sword cultivator made of flames and molten lava pulled out a lava longsword.

Landing on a cloud, the hazy shape of a cloud sword cultivator appeared.

Landing on the soil...

In the blink of an eye, sword cultivators of all shapes and colors manifested from heaven and earth, forming a Sword Formation to attack the sky, their crisscrossing Sword-light all emanating real unfake Sword Intent.

A killing intent filled the fields.

”Kill!”

With one word from their mouths, the Sword-lights slashed down, encircling the young man in green at the center with layer upon layer, like a peacock’s tail feathers unfurling, glorious and dazzling, without a single gap to the outside.

Then there was a pause.

Boom!

A wild explosion, numerous earthen and rock sword cultivators’ bodies tore apart, their longswords snapped.

A Bluegold lotus blossomed.

A young man in green walked out from within, the Bluegold lotus under his feet continuously rotating, shooting out Sword Qi, whistling as they flew, precise and nimble, piercing through the chest of every puppet sword cultivator around him, shattering their cores.

One by one, stones and lumps of mud fell, revealing their true forms as they wriggled on the ground, seeking to regenerate. This was the puppet’s innate instinct, undying and unkillable.

It squirmed for a long time but remained a heap of dead matter.

Bang!

Amongst the puppet fragments, streaks of Bluegold Sword Qi exploded, grinding them into dust, forever still.

”It has a hint of the concept of ’all things as swords.’”

Jiang Ding was surprised and looked up to the sky, ”I see now, you are something like an Array Spirit. The Array Spirit of the Great Sun Heavenly Pond, then filled with resentment and obsession for some unknown reason... Is it the fusion of massive amounts of hatred and fear from Great Sun Sword Cultivators at the moment of their death?”

”A mere Eastern Devil School rat!”

”You must die!”

The sky churned with dark clouds, gathering endless Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi, with a voice growing more sullen and venomous within.

”Die!”

The sky darkened once more, spawning strands of cold and sinister pitch-black webs. The webs were thick with curses, sprawling extensively as far as the eye could see.

”Aren’t you claiming to be a Great Sun Sword Cultivator, why do you look like a ghost?”

Jiang Ding’s Divine Soul shuddered slightly, sensing a fatal threat from above. He absolutely must not touch even a hint of it, or else it would be a great trouble, and his Divine Soul would suffer a heavy blow.

”As long as I kill you, everything will be worth it.”

The rolling dark clouds spoke coldly, ”Sword Cultivator, so what if you die? As long as I kill all my enemies, there is no one in the world who will not acknowledge a Great Sun Sword Cultivator.”

”Makes sense.”

Jiang Ding flicked his fingers.

Hum!

The Taiqing Flying Sword suddenly shone brightly, as infinite Sword Qi flew in all directions with the aura of Sword Intent of Destruction attached, spirit-breaking and Law-destroying, slashing towards the bizarre pitch-black web spread across the sky.

The first strike of Destruction Sword Qi landed, causing the black web to tremble slightly.

Immediately after, countless Destruction Sword Qi surged in, and in an instant, the black web became exceedingly frail. Moments later, it collapsed into a sky full of Spiritual Light, clearing the sky above the Great Sun Heavenly Pond.

”Die.”

Jiang Ding swung his finger downward.

Whoosh!

The Taiqing Flying Sword burst with light, swallowing up the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi within a ten-kilometer radius. The Sword-light suddenly expanded to a few hundred feet in size, carrying the Law-Breaking and spirit-destroying Sword Intent as it cleaved through the dark clouds in the sky.

Boom!

Accompanied by a scream, the dark cloud miles wide was split in two!

A clear divide a hundred meters wide was evident, and then the Sword Intent of Destruction filled the cloud, causing a world-shaking explosion, purging anything with spirit.

Moments later, the dark clouds dispersed.

”Still alive?”

Jiang Ding frowned.

A hundred meter-wide dark cloud remained, frantically absorbing the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi from all directions, rapidly trying to expand its size.

”I am the spirit of the Great Sun Heavenly Pond!”

”I am undying!”

A roar came from within the cloud.

Whoosh!

Another sword slashed through, and in the scream, the Sword Intent of Destruction filled every nook of the cloud.

After one sword strike came another, with the Taiqing Flying Sword crisscrossing all over, hacking away seventeen or eighteen times.

The Sword-light receded.

The dark cloud shrunk to just over twenty meters, but it still existed.

Jiang Ding frowned.

Indeed, within the perception of the Sword Intent, there shouldn’t be any living creatures or souls in there, not even any structured Spiritual Energy—it should be deader than dead.

”The Heavenly Pond is eternal!”

”I, am undying!”

The dark cloud instantly swelled back to a hundred meters across and continued to grow rapidly, cackling madly, ”You sewer rat of the Eastern Devil School, keep slashing, slash faster, my body is itching unbearably.”

”Hurry up and serve me!”

”Otherwise, what do I need a piece of trash like you for!?”

Jiang Ding remained silent.

He let the manifested dark cloud absorb the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and keep expanding, sinking into a deep contemplation.