Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding, engrossed in healing, developing the Infant Formation secret technique, and teaching, rarely engaged in anything else.

Year after year,

Day after day.

The students of Qingfeng University came and went, gradually getting used to Mr. Jiang of the Adult Sword Dao Department and the Great Sun Relic Major. They got used to his presence, as if he had always been there since their birth, and that it would continue endlessly without change.

In Rongcheng City, his hometown, Jiang Ding hardly ever returned.

Perhaps, many years later, like Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch, Immortal Dinghai, and others, all of his existence would be forgotten by the world, buried by time, leaving only titles like ’Old Monster of Qingfeng University’, ’Grand Sun Immortal of Qingfeng University’ in the mouths of the younger generations.

No one would know anymore that he once came from Rongcheng City, his past drowned by the years, unknown to anyone.

These calm yet busy years, unknowingly, passed by thirty years.

One day, under the dim radiative cloud layer.

A young man in green robes opened his eyes, his aura gradually strengthening, rising, reaching its limit.

”The injuries have healed.”

”It wasn’t easy, I should really try to avoid burning Essence Blood in the future,”

Jiang Ding sighed.

After thirty years of continuous nurturing of the Law Body and Divine Soul, and repeated confirmations, he had finally brought his body back to its peak.

”And this too, is complete.”

Jiang Ding opened a research paper and carefully admired it.

”Great Sun Nascent Soul Art - All-transforming Magnetic Origin Application,” Jiang Ding; Zhang Junsheng; Sword Dojo Laboratory; Xianmen Science Institute Qingfeng University Cultivator’s Gazette.

”This paper only scored me 0.5!”

”They wouldn’t even let me publish it in the top-tier journal ’Cultivators’!”

After admiring it for a while, Jiang Ding complained indignantly, ”The academic committee really has no eyes for talent, they don’t understand what a great masterpiece it is, and its significant meaning.”

”This is the beginning of the Immortal Sword Path in the Nascent Soul Stage!”

”Forget it, forget it, I won’t bother arguing with them.”

”Genius is always lonely, and a great article that transcends time is always recognized many years later, realizing its historical position; this is the sorrow of this genius being ten steps ahead of the era...”

Jiang Ding consoled himself.

This was like a child, into which one had put countless efforts and care, and yet others labeled it poor.

”Next is just waiting for the ’Nine Heavens Ascension Sword Crafting Skills’ from Heavenly Monarch Wan Ji, around thirty years or so, coming up soon.”

Jiang Ding admired his paper again, reluctantly closed it, and got up from the Great Sun Relic Laboratory, moving through the forest layers of the Divine Wood Sky Covering Rong, towering like mountains and seas.

Dozens of years had passed; the outside world too had changed.

Senior Wu Mengsha, after many years of preparation, was finally ready to enter the Nascent Soul Stage.

Jiang Ding’s visit this time was to attend the ceremony.

He was very hopeful that Wu Mengsha would succeed in advancing, as this would allow her to share the professorship of his Great Sun Relic Major, giving him more time to devote to cultivation and research in Sword Dao.

When Jiang Ding arrived at Wu Mengsha’s Tribulation Ground, there were already quite a few people present.

Immortal Gulin, Ouyang Hui, An Siyan, Jin Lingfeng... and hundreds more, all uniformly at the Golden Pill Peak Cultivation Base, without a single exception.

This too is an old tradition of the Immortal Sects; whenever a cultivator undergoes tribulation, there will be a crowd of onlookers.

This is both a right and a duty.

You can freely watch others undergo their tribulation, and others can freely watch yours; it’s mutual.

The area was quiet and serene; everyone communicated through Divine Sense, trying to keep their spiritual fluctuations as gentle as possible to avoid disturbing the person undergoing tribulation.

”...Forming a Nascent Soul is merely the transformation of the Pill into an Infant. Just as a human pregnancy culminates in tearing the fetal membrane, to achieve a Nascent Soul. This process is extremely perilous, severely testing one’s control over mana, foundational depth, and fortune...”

”...and Internal Demons...”

”...A Nascent Soul is often termed a ’Law Manifestation.’ Below three inches is considered low-grade, three to six inches, medium-grade, and above six inches, high-grade. Eight inches is superb-grade, and nine inches is a Dao Principle Nascent Soul, behind which a Heavenly Earth Divine Ring appears...”

”If there’s extra energy, everyone should try to let their newly formed Nascent Soul absorb as much of the Yin Yang Creation Qi from the Golden Pill as possible. This affects the assistance during the Divinity Transformation later on.”

”...you must know, once the size of a Nascent Soul is set, it cannot change; future cultivation merely involves variations in strength...”

Immortal Gulin was discussing in hushed tones with someone.

She had reached the peak of Golden Pill many years ago and remains at that stage, continuously amassing foundational strength, with an unhidden goal of achieving a Dao Principle Nascent Soul.

In this regard, Xianmen Sect and the Immortal Sects have a disparity.

The Taoist disciples of Immortal Sects are bound to achieve Dao Principle Nascent Soul, as a result of upbringing from a very young age.

The Taoist disciples of Xianmen Sect, however, are uncertain; the gap in foundational depth means they will eventually fall behind the Immortal Sect disciples.

The Golden Pill Monks around her looked at Immortal Gulin with respect.

Immortal Gulin was profoundly knowledgeable and passionate about Infant Formation research. Whenever a Golden Pill from Xianmen Sect had a question, she would do her best to explain, helping many resolve significant challenges on their path.

”This...”

”...trying to absorb Yin Yang Creation Qi... is easier said than done...”

A Golden Pill Peak Cultivator, noticing Jiang Ding’s arrival, raised the volume of his spiritual voice slightly and sighed, ”The Yin Yang Creation Qi is nurtured from the moment of Foundation Establishment, constantly growing until it fully matures at Golden Pill Peak.

Ordinary Golden Pills contain just one strand of Yin Yang Creation Qi; many Golden Pill Cultivators don’t even have one, being inherently flawed and thus naturally incapable of forming a Nascent Soul.”

”For us, cultivators of Jing-level Cultivation Methods, possessing six or seven strands of this Qi only, achieving a high-grade Nascent Soul hangs in a delicate balance—often, we simply lack the requisite energy...”

If Golden Pill Peak Cultivators from before the Domain War heard their conversation, they would secretly be astounded.

High-grade Nascent Souls!

They overlooked ordinary Nascent Souls, wholly focused on pursuing high-grade ones—a frightening level of determination.

Such are the spoils of war.

Compared to the past, anyone who participated in the war and earned military exploits had their chances of achieving a Nascent Soul multiplied by at least tenfold, increasing the probability of achieving a Nascent Soul far more than before.

”Then, that is,”

”Can the innate Golden Pill Yin Yang Essence Qi be increased?”

The crowd looked at An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng with prompting eyes. After a moment, An Siyan adjusted his black-framed glasses, somewhat embarrassed, and stammered out the question.

Jiang Ding was speechless.

”Of course, there is!”

”Innate Golden Pill Yin Yang Essence Qi generally arises naturally, as a condensation of a cultivator’s personal Immortal Path foundation, almost impossible to change afterward.”

Immortal Gulin replied promptly, her expression unchanged.

”But there is still a possibility for change.”

”For instance, the Yin and Yang Void realm is a joint deduced creation by the Nine Great Immortal Sects to aid the growth of their Taoist disciples.”

”This is a cosmic marvel within the Domain, an ever-forming and annihilating embryonic world that appears once every thirty thousand years. It contains innate Yin Yang Essence Qi. If one can absorb it, enhancing the foundation of the Golden Pill occurs quite commonly.”

”For hundreds of thousands of years, Nascent Soul experts from the Nine Great Immortal Sects have been abundant, and the Yin and Yang Void is a significant reason.”

Immortal Gulin’s soft dark green hair fluttered in the wind, her skin pale, her eyes large and expressive, smiling lightly at the young man in green before her.