Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding listened quietly to the current situation in the Northern Plains.

In summary, the Great Sun Sect and the Great Sun Sword Sect’s secret gambits laid during the two-hundred-year conflict proved successful. Dozens of Righteous Armies offered rituals to the heavens, and in the end, seven armies, including Blood Cloud, successfully evaded the Causal Skill laid by Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch a myriad of years ago and received protection from the Dragon Qi.

The Northern Plains are now in utter chaos.

The Righteous Armies hold the third-tier Spiritual Vein strongholds, turning the major families upside down with headaches galore.

The only taboo for these chaotic forces is the area spanning a thousand miles around the fourth-tier Spiritual Veins; they dare not enter this range, as the protection of the Dragon Qi would fail there.

This was by design of the Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch back in the day, to avoid pushing the Immortals of Nascent Soul to desperation, leaving some room for maneuver.

Otherwise, no matter how profound the Causal Skill, with generations of Immortals of Nascent Soul fighting to the death, after ten thousand years, the Causal Skill would collapse, which would contradict his original vision of a domain to last for all eternity.

It also serves as a solid defensive ring that can block the entry of outside Nascent Souls.

However, it was exploited by a loophole found by the Great Sun Sect, deceiving heaven and crossing the sea.

”Blood Cloud is the strongest among all the Righteous Armies, hence it has drawn the encirclement and suppression by Liudao Sect, Ice Snow Palace, and the Joyous Union Sect. The Iron Family’s army, relying on the cities and Spiritual Veins, are holding their borders against the Great Sun Sect and the Great Sun Sword Sect’s forces, barely managing to hold on,” Chun Jian explained.

”So,”

Jiang Ding spoke indifferently, ”Does this mean that the Great Sun Sect or the Great Sun Sword Sect is going to claim victory before the battle for the Millennium King’s Court even starts?”

The power of the coalition between good and evil was already at a disadvantage compared to the two sects, and now it has been scattered so much that the outcome may already be sealed.

”Young Master, it’s not like that.”

Unexpectedly, Chun Jian shook his head, ”Although the armies of the Great Sun Sect and Great Sun Sword Sect are joining forces, the enmity and vigilance between them are very serious, and the infighting is fierce. The Iron Family’s cities are under siege but remain unbeaten.”

”The Righteous Armies are not lackeys of the two sects, each has its own schemes.”

”Moreover, within the realms of the Great Sun Sect and the Great Sun Sword Sect, there have also been rituals offered to the heavens, with people declaring themselves kings in remote lands, mostly direct lineage of the Northern Plains families sneaking in. Sudden outbreaks occur in dozens or hundreds of places, and under the restraint of the coalition’s Nascent Souls, the two sects can’t respond in time, resulting in many cities within their territories being protected by the Dragon Qi, making the Immortals of Nascent Soul hesitant to act rashly.”

”They are... stealing each other’s homes?”

Jiang Ding was taken aback.

The Northern Plains have become a complete mess.

All over, Golden Pill Monks and Qi Practitioners who are Foundation Builders are fighting with army formations. Immortals of Nascent Soul sit high above the clouds, watching the minor cultivators fight for life and death below.

This is very much in line with the usual state of war in the world of cultivation.

”However, overall, the coalition should be at a disadvantage, right?”

Jiang Ding conjectured.

Chaos already exists within the territories of the Northern Plains families, with a plethora of foreign Golden Pills, Loose Cultivator Golden Pills, and collateral Golden Pills that are not part of the ruling conglomerates, unable to share the benefits. One could say it’s a vast prairie dry to extremes, where a single spark could lead to a raging wildfire.

The territories of the Great Sun Sect and the Great Sun Sword Sect, however, are not like that.

They have absorbed all the Golden Pills they could and do not distinguish friend from foe by surname or lineage. Although there are also brutal internal factions fighting for interests, they have not turned the majority of High-Level Cultivators against them.

Even if the Northern Plains families were to start fires everywhere, without profound reasons, igniting a sweeping wildfire is not easy.

”Young Master, that’s exactly it,”

Chun Jian revealed a look of admiration, ”The Northern Plains families have stirred up more than a hundred rituals in the two sects’ territories, with nearly every one receiving a response, all successful—such is the nature of the direct lineage bloodline... and then, extinguished by the two sects’ Golden Pills one after another, with the scattered forces of chaos now on the run, without the potential to spread.”

”However, there is an exception, where a person from the Iron Family led an army to successfully offer a ritual within the Great Sun Sword Sect’s territory, and temporarily gained a foothold with the support of many Golden Pill Monks in the area.”

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”Oh? Who is this person?”

Jiang Ding was surprised.

Within the Great Sun Sword Sect, there should be no room for chaotic troops to flourish.

Anyone who could succeed in such an environment must be a hero of the moment, who might be seen in the future among the Immortals of Nascent Soul, becoming either an enemy or a friend.

”This person is named Gu Yue.”

”Also known as Tie Yue, from the Southern Border, his title is Immortal Da’ai.”

Chun Jian explained, ”It is said that both his biological father and mother are of the direct lineage, with his father being a Golden Pill of the Iron Family. However, their union did not follow their respective families’ arrangements, defying the elders’ matchmaking, because of their private affections, they joined together without any witnesses from the direct Iron Family.”

”Because of this, although Gu Yue has the bloodline of the direct lineage, he is not regarded as direct lineage, but rather as the material for the Bloodline and Spiritual Root Sacrifice Technique, a child of the collateral lineage.”

”When Gu Yue was young, his parents took him to live in the Southern Border to avoid being sacrificed, and only after his parents had passed away in recent years did he return home to acknowledge his ancestors and lineage.

He had made many contributions for the Iron Family during the war, but he was still of collateral lineage.”

”He himself does not mind, remaining loyal and devoted.”

”This time he was sent to the perilous Northern Plains, a place where one faces certain death, and it’s heard that he volunteered for the task, winning the admiration of many from the direct Iron Family lineage and secretly shaming them.”

”Why is he also called Immortal Da’ai?”

Jiang Ding asked curiously.

A Taoist name, unlike a birth name, is not something one is born with, but is closely related to a cultivator’s experiences.

A cultivator from Rule Mountain of the Iron Family, with love as their Taoist name.

This seems somewhat illogical.

”This... I’m not sure.”

Chun Jian was also puzzled, ”It is said that he is a person wholeheartedly devoted to Buddha, kind and virtuous, who would carefully avoid harming moths in the sky, and in fights with peers, even against the most wicked, he would not strike to kill, at most causing injury. He often advises others to lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha on the spot.”

”Within the family, he is also wholeheartedly helpful to others, possessing no extra wealth, often covering the retreat of his kin on the battlefield.”

”Even, when encountering cultivators of the Great Sun Sect and the Great Sun Sword Sect who were injured, he would patiently heal them after ensuring his own safety, gradually gaining a reputation and being admired and scoffed at by many cultivators in the Northern Plains, who behind his back call him Immortal Daistupid.”

”Didn’t the Immortals of Nascent Soul from the Righteous and Demonic Alliance kill him?”

Jiang Ding asked.

Many Immortals of Nascent Soul are quite old-fashioned, valuing rules and not liking people who act differently; just the act of aiding an enemy could lead to being casually killed off.

”There have been attempts.”

”Oh?”

”Yes, but he escaped.”

Chun Jian was also slightly in awe of what was on the intelligence, ”Three times by the Immortals of Nascent Soul from the Righteous and Demonic Alliance, and once by an Immortal of Nascent Soul from the Great Sun Sect, have they acted against him, but he managed to escape from the jaws of death each time. Afterwards, he remained unrepentant, steadfast in his ways.”

”Later, since he posed little threat, and often indiscriminately helped individuals from both sides, he gradually ceased to be a concern to anybody.”

”It’s heard that his reason for going to the Great Sun Sword Sect this time was because a cousin of his from the Iron Family had been selected for a sacrifice, and the plea reached him.

Then Immortal Da’ai voluntarily took his cousin’s place at the Great Sun Sword Sect’s Heavenly Sacrificial Ceremony, and successfully won the recognition of Dragon Qi.”

”His influence expanded rapidly, leaving the Great Sun Sword Sect helpless to respond.”

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