Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

In his cell phone, Zhang Junsheng was hopping up and down with excitement, cheering and jumping for joy.

”My mentor is so awesome!”

Jiang Ding praised with a single word.

Within Xianmen Sect, there are two most important capabilities.

One is martial prowess, the ability to fight, and the other is the ability to publish top-tier articles; both can garner opportunities for Divinity Transformation and earn the respect of everyone.

It’s fair to say that with good articles, promotion to Divinity-Transformation is a mere trifle.

You see, the ability to publish articles and the ability to achieve martial feats complement each other and are not in conflict.

In mortal society, even scientists who are rare geniuses that come once in a thousand, maybe ten thousand years, can be killed with a handgun; they have no combat power to speak of.

It’s different for scientists in the cultivation world.

Those with a rich understanding of Immortal Dao science and who can forge new paths and bring forth new ideas, none of them are weak in strength.

If you’re weak, you can’t even understand an article on the level of Divinity Transformation placed in front of you. A few Spiritual Scripts combined together can trigger a natural fluctuation of Spiritual Energy that can shake you to death. To say nothing of researching it.

Even if their combat experience is lacking, with raw power alone, they can overpower the vast majority of cultivators.

Such characters, if placed within the Outer Realm, are unparalleled powerhouses who have reached the pinnacle and started forging their own paths.

The powerhouses of Xianmen are all like this.

Publishing articles and fighting, they excel in both hands, both strong.

Their path of cultivation alternates unceasingly among the military, scientific research institutions, and educational bodies.

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch, Heavenly Monarch Wanji, Yuan, Canghai Heavenly Monarch, without exception, are all like this.

Jiang Ding directly searched online for the Journal of Cultivators.

This is the most authoritative Immortal Dao academic journal of Xianmen Sect, published once every thirty years, with special issues released in case of special circumstances.

Such situations have arisen many times in history, always during eras when major scientific achievements emerge one after another.

When Jing-level Cultivation Methods, Heavenly Stellar-Earthly Destructive Orbital Composite Great Formation, ”Eagle Taking Off Technique,” Forbidden Nucleic Weapons, and other foundational results of Xianmen were discovered, there were several years of temporary increased publication of the Journal of Cultivators.

In many people’s hearts, the frequent appearance of special issues of the Journal of Cultivators symbolizes the progress of Immortal Dao science and technology within Xianmen.

In recent years, this kind of temporary publication has been fairly common.

He typed in Journal of Cultivators, and hit Enter.

In an instant, without any ads obscuring the view, the latest issue of the Journal of Cultivators appeared in front of him.

On its cover,

a young man in blue was holding a longsword, gazing into the distance.

Although he was merely standing there quietly, an invisible chill spread out; just from the image, it involuntarily made one’s scalp go cold.

Behind the young man in blue, Zhang Junsheng’s face was blooming like a chrysanthemum, his expression of pride and smugness visible even through the screen, somewhat lessening the chill in one’s heart.

To the right of the two, the four profound black characters of Journal of Cultivators stood grand and imposing.

”When did they take this photo of me?”

Jiang Ding was stunned, then suddenly furious.

”And who touched up the image?!”

This obviously did not match his temperament at all!

He’s clearly a sunny, cute, and kind young man,

so why did they make him look like a serial killer? Just having him stand there would silence the crying of children in kindergarten, make it so you don’t need air conditioning in the scorching heat of summer—just move him there and it would be cool enough, or throw him into the water and whole lakes would start to freeze over.

”I took it. What’s wrong?”

Zhang Junsheng was clueless.

”Oh, then it’s nothing.”

Jiang Ding withdrew his hand from the sword hilt and said calmly.

”Okay, you keep looking at that, I’m really busy right now.”

Zhang Junsheng complained, ”I just split off a hundred and eighty threads to visit friends, and then people from the Journal of Cultivators called me to give a lecture at the Golden Palace and answer questions from the seniors. Day in, day out, I’m so busy I don’t have a moment’s rest, and there’s just not enough Divine Soul computational power!”

”Forget it, I won’t talk anymore. My Divine Soul is throbbing painfully, I’m shutting down this thread.”

He expressed his annoyance and hung up the call.

Jiang Ding was speechless.

While flying, he opened the Journal of Cultivators.

As expected, what caught his eye was an article that dominated the entire page.

”Immortal Technique: The Protoform of the Destroying Golden Sword in the Sixteenth Power” by Jiang Ding, Zhang Junsheng, Liu Jiayu, and Zhang Cheng, Journal of Cultivators 11309 First Issue.

Liu Jiayu is Count Spirit Immortal, the Dean of the Xianmen Science Institute, and Zhang Cheng is Immortal Dinghai.

In significant article signatures, some people like to use names given by their parents, expressing their joy to their parents in distant times, while others prefer to sign with honorary Daoist names they have been awarded; each has their own preference.

Count Spirit Immortal possesses strong computing capabilities and excellent support skills; many people want to collaborate with her, including some Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarchs, such as Canghai Heavenly Monarch and Panda Hua Lingling.

Immortal Dinghai, on the other hand, was pulled into this by a good brother from his dorm, adding to his qualifications and Spirit Transformation military achievements.

Not merely a titular contribution.

Immortal Dinghai also has strong academic and organizational abilities; otherwise, he could not have become the President of Qingfeng University, and he did a lot for this article as well.

Jiang Ding looked at the foreword.

For this article, he only dealt with various experiments and solved many sword Dao puzzles, producing results; he didn’t actually write the article.

The same was true for Zhang Junsheng and Immortal Dinghai; it seemed some doctoral students were dedicated to the writing.

But they only wrote a portion of it.

Most of the article was beyond the capabilities of Golden Pill Monks to write, to put to paper, to fully understand; it was Immortal Dinghai who took up the pen himself.

”...This is a top-tier sword Dao article in the Domain, damn it, Xianmen actually has a piece of cutting-edge sword Dao exploration. Although we can’t directly use it, the applications related to Golden Causality are quite instructive, holding important significance for the exploration of Golden Causality...”

Having spent some time, Jiang Ding read the entire article and understood it completely.

This was not difficult, because it was his own work.

”The protoform of the Destroying Golden Sword...”

Jiang Ding felt a surge of apprehension.

He looked at his fingers, unconsciously practicing his swordsmanship.

A strand of golden light appeared.

Booming thunder!

In an instant,

Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi became turbulent, the sky changed color, dark clouds roiled, and thunder and lightning rang out; an intangible and insubstantial killing intent filled the air that not even formations could block.

Within hundreds of kilometers, all cultivators, whether they were Qi cultivating, laying foundations, Golden Pill, or Immortal of Nascent Soul, were all struck with terror.

”Enemy attack...”

Multiple Immortals of Nascent Soul roared in anger, attempting to resist, but to no avail; the world before them darkened, and Divine Sense became clouded, briefly losing their perception of the outside world.

Hundreds of thousands of cultivators and mortals likewise plunged into sudden oblivion.

Their bodies stiffened, their brains experienced a brief lapse, unable to resist in the slightest.

”Warning!”

”Warning!”

”Unauthorized magical flux detected, please cease immediately, cease immediately!”

The piercing alarm of the Central Array Spirit Computer sounded.

Simultaneously, a powerful pressure emerged, forcibly disrupting the execution of the Immortal Technique protoform, allowing the affected multitude of cultivators to regain their senses.

They looked around at their companions in horror, relentlessly pressing the alarm button in their hands.

”Sorry, sorry.”

Jiang Ding snapped out of it as if from a dream.

Just now, he had subconsciously used the swordsmanship protoform, which stopped halfway because it was only a very incomplete protoform, and he currently lacked the ability to perform it outside the lab.

”Ding!”

The voice of the Central Array Spirit Computer rang out.

”...According to Xianmen Civil Peace Law Article 1458, citizen 522789, Jiang Ding, unauthorized use of large-scale destructive magic in a public space, affecting hundreds of thousands of citizens, with conclusive evidence, without causing severe consequences, is recommended to be sentenced to three years of fixed-term imprisonment; if there are objections, please apply for administrative reconsideration.”

”If there are no objections, please surrender yourself to Xianmen Prison within one year.”

”I truly didn’t...”

”...No objections.”

Jiang Ding was on the verge of tears.