Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding stepped out from the Lingbao Commerce Association, his Divine Sense browsing through the intelligence contained in the Jade Slip.

Many of these secrets were originally top-level, not discoverable even by spending a huge amount of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure at the Nascent Soul Stage.

But as time passed, they gradually became known to many, with only lower-ranking cultivators remaining ignorant.

The credibility of the Lingbao Commerce Association ensured that the authenticity of such level of intelligence was relatively high.

The Day of Great Sun’s Fall.

This was the name given by the Shang Clan to the internal conflict that took place within the Great Sun Sect, loaded with malice.

In this battle, the Nascent Soul Peak cultivators of the Great Sun Sect, the Tianyang Immortal, along with Supreme Elders from the Liudao Sect, the Six Fingered Old Demon, and the Tian Gui Old Monster from the Iron Family of Rule Mountain—these three Nascent Soul Peak cultivators joined forces to ambush Jianyang, the Immortal of the Great Sun Sword Sect. They inflicted heavy damage upon him, forcing him to flee in disarray to a Formation Method within the Sword Vein to barely cling to life, unwilling to leave his refuge.

It should be noted that this man was the strongest Sword Cultivator of the Great Sun Sect, who, in the past, could only be barely resisted through the combined efforts of the Six Fingered Old Demon, Tian Gui Old Monster, and several Nascent Soul Monks surrounding and attacking him.

This was the advantage of the Righteous Demon Alliance: more accumulated time and more Nascent Soul Monks.

However, as time went on, the situation reversed.

The Nascent Souls of the Righteous Demon Alliance kept dying and withering away, with replenishment only coming from the few from the Direct Lineage who ascended.

On the contrary, for the Great Sun Sect, the many commoners, Loose Cultivators, members of Collateral Lineages, and Cultivators from small and medium-sized Sect families all served as potential reserves. In just over two hundred years, the Great Sun Sect surpassed the number of Nascent Soul Monks of the Righteous Demon Alliance, thereby crushing them and initiating a pursuit northward.

If things hadn’t changed, it wouldn’t have been strange for all twenty-eight families of the Righteous Demon Alliance to be annihilated.

Regrettably, the many Loose Cultivators, members of families’ Collateral Lineages, and Golden Pill Monks from small and medium-sized Sects found the rigorous Sword Dao difficult and were more inclined towards the Great Sun Sect’s Magic Cultivation path, drawing ever closer to it, and the two factions began to merge.

As a result, the same resentment brewed within the Great Sun Sect towards the situation where all resources, all Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, were being given solely to the Sword Cultivators of the Great Sun Sect.

During the years of warfare between the Great Sun Sect and the Righteous Demon Alliance, conflicts of varying sizes had already erupted, but with the external enemy present, each party practiced restraint.

But when the Righteous Demon Alliance crumbled, the strongest Magic Cultivator of the Great Sun Sect, the Tianyang Immortal, was no longer willing to endure it.

He banded together with the Liudao Sect’s Supreme Elder, the Six Fingered Old Demon, the Tian Gui Old Monster from the Iron Family, along with many Golden Pill and Nascent Soul Magic Cultivators from the Great Sun Sect and Righteous Demon Alliance, to once again surround and attack Jianyang, the Immortal, and the Sword Cultivators of the Great Sun Sect.

The battle was catastrophic, with numerous powerful cultivators perishing one after the other.

More than eighty percent of the Sword Cultivators of the Great Sun Sect perished, eight or nine Nascent Soul Sword Cultivators died, and the remaining Golden Pill and Foundation-building Sword Cultivators suffered countless casualties.

Finally, the critically injured Jianyang, the Immortal, retreated into the main palace of the Great Sun Sect, relying on the Sect’s main defensive formation, which had been reinforced over the years, to barely hold on.

Tianyang Immortal, the Six Fingered Old Demon, and Tian Gui Old Monster—these three Nascent Soul Peak cultivators—along with a group of Nascent Soul Immortals, besieged them for years without success. Severe distrust prevailed among them, with many having blood feuds and ongoing conflicts, even leading to smaller-scale acts of vengeance that were unsustainable.

Left with no choice, Tianyang Immortal and the others had to withdraw.

Tianyang Immortal and many of the Magic Cultivators of the Great Sun Sect rebuilt the Great Sun Sect on another fourth-order peak Spiritual Vein seized from the Righteous Demon Alliance. He declared himself the Supreme Elder of the Great Sun Sect and completely annihilated the Firm Body Yang Family that originally occupied the place, sparing no one regardless of their Cultivation Base—Nascent Soul, Golden Pill, Foundation-building, Qi Practitioners were all massacred, as were all the mortals of the Yang Clan, including dukes, marquis, world-leaders, and scholars.

In the original Great Sun Sect’s mountain gate, Jianyang, the Immortal, without disputing the name of the Great Sun Sect, looked around at the surviving Sword Cultivators for months. After a long silence, he renamed the Sect to the Great Sun Sword Sect.

It seemed like a gesture of weakness, an acknowledgment of the status of the Tianyang Immortal-led Great Sun Sect.

Later on, the Great Sun Sect had another battle with the Righteous Demon Alliance and triumphed again, expelling a significant amount of land and Spiritual Veins.

The Great Sun Sect remained the most dominant force in the Northern Plains.

Below it was the Righteous Demon Alliance, with the Great Sun Sword Sect last.

Although the Great Sun Sect was powerful, with the most Nascent Soul Monks, they were also unable to eradicate any faction under the watchful eyes of the others, thus reluctantly reaching a compromise and gradually forming a tripartite equilibrium.

To this day, the three forces are still hostile towards each other, with conflicts among Golden Pill and Foundation-building Cultivators emerging from time to time, but large-scale battles at the Nascent Soul level are seldom heard of.

After over two hundred years of warfare, the Northern Plains had finally seen a glimmer of hope for peace.

However, everyone knew that this was just an interlude between two great wars, with all three forces striving to recover their strength.

Once the power of any family was restored first, and the disparity in strength widened, a war of extermination would erupt instantly.

Among them, many families of the Righteous and Demonic Alliance were rather pessimistic.

The speed of power restoration.

In the past two hundred years, it had been proven that the Northern Plains families were completely unskilled in this regard.

Many Immortals of Nascent Soul were worried and led their forces to make many changes, and Divine Crow Immortal was one of them.

”Such chaos, such...goodness.”

After reading the Jade Slip, Jiang Ding was full of admiration.

”The decline of the Great Sun Sword Sect’s power is a very good thing for me. Once I reached the strength, I could ask Immortal Jianyang for the Grest Sun heritage he held.”

”Not give...”

”No, that’s not possible.”

”Immortal Jianyang will certainly give me his eager assistance.”

His tone was calm.

During the time he spent wandering in Beast Spirit Immortal City, the sky had darkened a bit.

Night was approaching.

In the city walls and streets, many intricate Array Patterns began to wake.

Ordinary people and Qi Practitioners with a low Cultivation Base began to have blurry eyes, their complexions changed, and they quickly headed to their homes, dog kennels, stables, fish ponds, and the like.

After a moment,

many people’s faces began to show fur, scales, feathers, and the like, making dog barks, grazing on grass, preening feathers, and other actions.

Some even completely turned into wolves, jackals, snakes, eagles, and such, beginning their nocturnal hunt in the streets, often swallowing their prey whole and tearing them apart, with innards and blood scattered along the way.

”The Peeling Method...”

Jiang Ding took a look at these people.

It seemed to be a special Cultivation Method, enhancing the understanding and speed of cultivation of the beastly arts by completely immersing in the behavior of becoming beasts; it could be regarded as a Formation Method that improved the speed of cultivation.

It was just rather bloody.

Predatory and prey animals would sometimes devour each other, flee, or pursue, only stopping when they entered their homes, as if there was some taboo.

A hazy layer of skin began to appear on Jiang Ding’s body, seemingly the shape of a third-order Spiritual Eagle. At the same time, threads of bloodthirsty thoughts began to silently seep into his Sea of Consciousness.

The surrounding Golden Pill Monks also began to experience this.

Some showed drastic changes in complexion and hurried to inns or caves, while others unashamedly accepted the bloodthirsty distractions, attacking the half-human, half-beast creatures around them, chewing up the flesh and bones and transforming them into a surge of pure essence and Spiritual Qi Provision into their bodies.

”Not bad, it has become a trial ground.”

Jiang Ding watched the crowd around him gradually go mad.

Some were compelled to leave their homes against their will, the reasons varying; some were in debt, some were paying a blood tax, and others hoped to gain something, varying from one to another.

Others, however, had no reason at all; they simply wanted to kill, and eagerly participated in the fray.

He concealed his form, and before the eyes of those around him could focus on him, he disappeared and quickly headed towards the city gates.