Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding landed in front of the library with a somewhat dejected demeanor and walked towards its depths.

”It’s Elder Jiang!”

”He looks so young, just like in the books...”

There were murmurs all around; both ordinary people conversing in hushed tones and cultivators transmitting their thoughts through Divine Sense, their words filled with excitement as if seeing a person from the news for the first time.

Since the year 11127 when he last took the college entrance examination, nearly two hundred years had passed before he once again appeared in the public eye, becoming known to a new generation of citizens.

”Be careful!”

”This old senior might be a pervert, the characters in TV dramas and movies... the child grandma... they all say...”

”Shh...”

Amongst them, one voice was not so pleasant to hear.

Jiang Ding raised his head to look, and it was a girl in her thirties gossiping.

He felt like refuting, but then he just pursed his lips and walked past her, appearing calm and composed.

Inside, he was roaring loudly,

wishing he could shout right into her ear.

”What do you mean, ’old senior’? Can’t you speak properly!”

”Dude, I’m only sixteen years old!”

”Looking around, isn’t everyone else’s age several times mine? Zhang Junsheng, Immortal Dinghai, Heavenly Monarch Wanji, aren’t just the fractions of their ages far beyond mine?”

”I’m still very young, okay!”

”Forget it, I’m a magnanimous adult, I can’t be bothered to argue with you... let it be, let it be...”

Take a deep breath, another deep breath, and then another.

Jiang Ding continued with a normal expression, walking quickly towards the deeper parts of the library.

”Elder Jiang, this question...”

”Elder Jiang, about the condensation of mana in Foundation Establishment...”

At the same time, others with bright eyes stopped him, bowed politely, and asked about the issues they had recently encountered in their cultivation.

They were utterly unabashed, not the least bit courteous.

This was someone who had appeared on the front page of the Journal of Cultivators!

Areas that were unclear when the teachers explained them, this person could perhaps clarify them, leading to integrated understanding, removing an obstacle on the cultivation path and smoothing the journey significantly.

”Here’s how the mana gate works...”

Jiang Ding put on a stiff smile, not even asking for the names of those who had questions, and delegated tiny threads of his consciousness to answer the Foundation-building cultivators and Qi cultivators with inquiries.

It was quite effortless.

The collective spiritual power of dozens of Qi and Foundation-building cultivators only took up about five percent of his Divine Soul’s computational capacity, and he could compress it further if needed.

The problems at the Qi and Foundation-building levels were too simple.

He could solve them instinctively, and at most, based on the individual cultivator’s situation, there were few points that required thought.

He didn’t stop his stride as he walked deeper into the library.

This short distance didn’t interfere with his teaching, which continued seamlessly. Dozens of Qi and Foundation-building cultivators showed faces of puzzled thought or sudden realization from time to time.

The surrounding people were not surprised and knew that they were communicating with high-level cultivators, so no one disturbed them.

Before long, he reached the entrance to the great hall of the Golden Palace.

Compared to a few years ago, there was now a banner and a sign with words written on it.

”Welcome Professor Zhang Junsheng from Qingfeng University to his lecture sharing ’The Sixteenth Power of the Sun Extinguisher’s Prototype’...”

Over the years, the editors of the Journal of Cultivators hadn’t found Jiang Ding, but they had found Zhang Junsheng, who was more than happy to accept their request to give a talk at the Golden Palace, sharing his academic research experiences.

Jiang Ding stepped into the hall.

”So many Nascent Souls...”

Jiang Ding was astonished.

A sea of heads! All of them were Immortals of Nascent Soul, with Nascent Soul Cultivators occasionally visible. The spatial Formation Method of the Golden Palace had automatically expanded manyfold to accommodate so many people.

As for the cultivators below Nascent Soul, their Divine Souls were too fragile to enter the Golden Palace; even with rigorous sealing, Immortal Techniques were too dangerous for them.

If something really went wrong, it could mean the mass death of many, with no chance for rescue.

Just like the demonstration of an Immortal Technique in its nascent form.

If actually used, it could lead to many deaths.

Besides, the knowledge shared here was like scripture to Golden Pill Monks. Nascent Soul Monks sharing academic experiences through Divine Sense contained a vast amount of information, incomprehensible to Golden Pill Monks.

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Listening too much might overload the Divine Soul and cause hidden injuries, which is harmful without any benefit.

There are many people, yet not a single noise can be heard, you could hear a pin drop.

”In the process of our research, we discovered...”

On the elevated platform at the center, Professor Zhang Junsheng’s face was flushed with excitement, his spit flying as he spoke loudly about the birth of the paper, the challenges faced, the gains made, and the lessons learned.

Down below, even the Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch listened intently, without a hint of disdain.

”The Immortal Technique: The Preliminary Form of the Destroying Golden Sword Sixteenth Power,” is a paper with a score of 16.7 points.

That means,

The Xianmen Sect will reward the authors of this paper with 16.7 portions of Spirit Transformation battle merits!

Sixteen point seven portions of Spirit Transformation battle merits!

Without fighting for life and death, just by contemplating at home, one could earn such an immense amount of Spirit Transformation battle merits!

One can imagine how precious this paper is.

In the history of over ten thousand years of the Xianmen Sect, there haven’t been a thousand articles receiving a score of sixteen points. Each one has deeply influenced history.

If it could be truly turned into an applied technology, who knows how many Domain’s political dynamics it would influence, affecting the fate and survival of countless cultivators on their Immortal Path.

Jiang Ding didn’t interrupt anything; he found a spot and listened quietly.

The Immortal Technique was extremely incomplete in its preliminary form; hearing it from someone else, imbued with another person’s thoughts, was stirring for him, and many inspirations emerged in his mind.

At the same time, while listening to the lecture, the Heavenly Monarchs were also using a part of their Divine Souls to calculate and exchange their thoughts with each other, not needing to concentrate as fully as the Immortals of Nascent Soul to understand the presentation.

”Holy crap!”

”It’s actually a preliminary form of an Immortal Technique!”

Canghai Heavenly Monarch exclaimed in the Heavenly Monarchs’ Divine Sense communication group, very lively, and in some ways similar to Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch: ”Compared to this, our one, two, and three-point articles might as well be thrown away!”

”The gap is just too big!”

”It’s fake, right? It couldn’t be that he found some incomplete legacy, could it?”

Canghai Heavenly Monarch was genuinely skeptical.

All these Heavenly Monarchs, decades of effort, all together, didn’t amount to the contemplations of a life of two hundred years.

What kind of absurd tale, an urban legend.

”Fake?”

”You’re talking nonsense!”

When Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch saw someone slandering his student, he became upset: ”Where have you ever seen a found incomplete preliminary form that perfectly fits one’s path, a Flying Sword?”

”Why don’t you pick one up for us?”

”That’s the principle indeed...”

Canghai Heavenly Monarch touched his head, still in a daze, as if in a dream.

What was happening before his eyes didn’t align with the common knowledge of cultivation.

”Hahaha...”

”Little fatty, you lack experience, right?”

The old monster of the Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch from the Xianmen Science Institute laughed heartily: ”Back when we tried to encircle and kill the Flame Spirit Heavenly Monarch, it was so tough, dozens of us along with a large number of Taoist Soldiers and armies barely managed to kill him.”

”If it were a Nascent Soul Cultivator of Great Sun Swordsman, I dare not imagine how terrifying that would be.”

”Perhaps...”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch shuddered with fear: ”Upon confrontation, we might have been shattered and fled in desperation, with a very high chance of not escaping and getting killed one by one.”

”With a snowball effect, it might have even influenced the battle against the Great Sun Sword Master!”

”That way, history could have been rewritten.”

The surrounding Heavenly Monarchs similarly felt a sense of relief.

A Nascent Soul stage Great Sun Swordsman is akin to a Domain strategic unit!

If combined with the powers of the Great Sun Sword Master, they would have the power to shatter the heavens and earth, and numerical superiority might not be enough to change the final outcome.

”What exactly is the Great Sun Swordsman?”

”A Domain Ruler in his youth!”

”Moreover, our Great Sun Swordsman might even be the culmination of generations of Sword Pavilion’s Sword Dao destiny, fulfilling many generations’ lifelong dreams, to break beyond the Refining Nothingness and ultimately being intercepted by the Xianmen Sect’s talents.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch stated confidently: ”His sporadic outburst of inspiration, changing the Domain dynamics, is extremely reasonable; that’s why they say the Immortal Path is where mighty powers reside within oneself, where a handful of people can determine the political landscape of a Domain.”

”Indeed, that is the case.”

The Xianmen Sect Heavenly Monarchs concurred deeply.

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