Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Seventy-six Immortals of Nascent Soul once again paid their respects to the youth in green robes seated on the throne of the ninety-nine-tiered platform, then slowly retreated from the Dark Demon Palace.

One by one, they moved lightly and held their breaths, careful not to disturb the Heavenly Monarch’s cultivation.

Many Immortals held feelings of deep respect and admiration.

In history, this absence of bias towards sects, treating each cultivator almost equally regardless of their origin or status, and willingly opening the path above the Nascent Soul for inheritance, allowing anyone to climb, was unprecedented.

Was there ever such a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch in history?

No!

Not in the era of Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch, not in the era of the Six Dao Ancestor, nor in any more ancient times.

Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch prohibited all arts, allowing only his progeny to grow while killing all Nascent Soul monks who were not his descendants.

The Six Dao Ancestor was somewhat lenient, but he likewise ensured the absolute dominating position of his direct disciples and family cultivators. Outsiders who dared to touch the forbidden would die instantly.

Such broad-mindedness in the present Northern Plains Heavenly Monarch is exceptionally rare, and many Immortals were sincerely grateful.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes.

At the summit of the ten-thousand-meter peaks of the Yin Yang Magneto Spiritless Mountain, where living beings were forbidden, billions of Great Sun rays converged, and the Primordial Magnetism Spirit Light swept like a tsunami in all directions. It forbade the five elements and other arts, with the world’s power rushing from within a two-thousand-kilometer radius, entering his meridians, Zhou Tian, and Elixir Field through a ten-thousand-meter-tall Sun God Wood.

Mana was accumulating bit by bit.

Divine Soul was also amassing a foundation bit by bit, waiting for a groundbreaking leap into the pinnacle after hundreds or thousands of years.

While cultivating, Jiang Ding allocated part of his Divine Sense Computational Power to refine the Taiqing Flying Sword and deduce the remnants of the Six Dao Reincarnation Lifeless Great Formation beneath his feet.

He had made ample preparations for this Formation before the battle, merely pinpointing and destroying nine key array nodes, with 95% of the array base still intact, representing a high probability of repair.

However, Jiang Ding did not plan to keep things so simple.

The Six Dao Reincarnation Lifeless Formation fundamentally conflicted with his Flying Sword and Cultivation Method, severely impacting the absorption of the necessary Primordial Magnet Light for his cultivation technique when practiced there. It was unusable.

Jiang Ding’s plan was to set up a Formation of at least fifth-order superior, or at least fifth-order upper quality, on the basis of the broken Formation of the Liudao Sect, using the Yin Yang Magneto Spiritless Mountain as base. This Formation must accommodate the attributes of Primordial Magnet and Great Sun, capturing that strand of Yin Yang Magnetic Extreme Divine Light within the Yin Yang Magneto Spiritless Mountain, preparing for future sword refining.

Beyond that, the Formation should also have certain productivity powers, such as gathering Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi to cultivate elixirs and Spirit Beasts, and condensing Primordial Magnet attribute Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures.

With such exceptional external conditions, it would be a waste not to utilize them.

So many functions, each with high demands, could not be scrimped on...

Without a doubt, this was beyond Jiang Ding’s capability.

This was not something achievable at a fifth-order median Formation Dao level, not even at a fifth-order top level, given the many demands.

Hence, Jiang Ding planned to go to Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch and act coquettishly to seek his help.

Flirting was necessary; money wouldn’t do.

Jiang Ding now knew that Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch had a sixth-order Formation Dao level and a sixth-order warship designer title, and was not just a mid-level sixth-order but a very strong one within the sixth order, a rare genius in the realm of Formation and warship design across the ages.

He had the talent;

He had the strength, with capabilities to command the Refining Nothingness Great Formation.

Even the eight Masters of Refining Nothingness respected Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch and did not take him lightly.

For such a top talent of the realm, his appearance fees were terrifyingly high; fifth-grade heavenly and earthly treasures were barely enough, and Jiang Ding did not have sixth-grade heavenly and earthly treasures.

He could only flirt.

This level of Formation, with its jumbled functions and the requirement not to start anew but to utilize the existing broken Formation, had an extremely high difficulty. Even the fifth-order top Formation Masters of the Xianmen Sect would find it overwhelmingly challenging, requiring at least decades to develop even a preliminary plan.

For Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch, he needed only one look.

Jiang Ding had already gone back. After one look, Divine Monarch simply handed him a Formation blueprint and told him not to disturb his cultivation, instructing him to find a fifth-order Refining Master from the Xianmen Sect to refine the core of the Formation.

After thanking them, Jiang Ding gracefully stepped back and immediately placed a rush order with Immortal City Shougang Group. Several Immortals of Divinity Transformation worked on the project, anticipating its completion within a year.

Currently, Jiang Ding was allocating a portion of his Divine Soul Computational Power to comprehend the Array diagrams casually handed to him by Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch, ensuring the installation of the Formation would proceed smoothly upon arrival.

Days slowly passed by.

Cultivation.

Refining flying swords.

Deducing Formations.

Compared to his time in the Xianmen Sect, Jiang Ding now had considerably more leisure time, essentially on vacation, leisurely experiencing the passage of time and observing the significant changes occurring in the Northern Plains Human Race territory after its unification.

In the first month, under the newly promulgated Tushan Law of the Northern Plains, the eight Sect Masters appeared in succession, each the highest achiever in their respective fields.

The Artifact Refinement Sect, Agriculture Sect, Talisman Sect, and other sects gathered Cultivators from across the Northern Plains skilled in the first to fourth Ranks of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation. They began to organize inheritances of Refining Masters, Spirit Farmers, Talisman Masters, and Alchemists as per the Governance Sect’s directives, placing these in each Sect’s Sutra Pavilion for those with enough military exploits to exchange and review.

Jiang Ding also exchanged a batch of Cultivation Methods and Hundred Arts inheritances that could be transferred to affiliated forces, using library points from the Xianmen Sect, and placed them in various sects to enhance the foundations of the Northern Plains Tushan Central Courtyard.

After all, the capabilities of these individuals were directly linked to the amount of his tax revenue. He had to care about it.

Of course, Jiang Ding considered himself to have a sense of racial sentiment as well; helping the Human Race build more advantages was naturally a joyous matter.

Personal interest and racial interest were not necessarily in conflict; those with high political acumen had sufficient capabilities to handle them.

These measures greatly inspired the Cultivators of the eight sects.

Especially the loose Cultivators, who, seeing the many sparklingly visible Cultivation Methods set with merit requirements, were green with envy and wished they could transform into tireless donkeys, working and killing Cannibal Demons frantically to obtain merits.

It’s worth noting that the Sect Master of the Agriculture Sect was Nine Elements Spiritual Ginseng Spring Third Babe, who had ascended to become an Immortal of Nascent Soul. Born with powerful plant-manipulation abilities and commanding the Agriculture Hall in Tushan Immortal City for many years with rich experience, he defeated numerous Spirit Farming Masters to become the Sect Master of the Agriculture Sect.

In the second month, the Military Sect initially completed its integration, restoring The Tushan Maiden Corps to 180,000 members including seventeen Immortals of Nascent Soul, and ten thousand Golden Pill Monks, gathering a large number of elites from Northern Plains.

The Great Sun Longsword Metropolis was completed, primarily formed by the original cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Sect and supplemented by Swordsman Cultivators from various regions of Northern Plains, totaling one hundred thousand members including fourteen Immortals of Nascent Soul and ten thousand Golden Pill Monks, with Foundation-building Cultivators being the weakest link.

Primordial Magic Heavenly Metropolis was also completed.

Unlike the elite nature of the first two armies, the Primordial Magic Heavenly Metropolis took the route of a large army, hosting millions of people, including forty-five Nascent Soul Monks and notable Immortals of Nascent Soul such as Han Lin, Mu Tiansnow, and Yin Dao, as well as ninety thousand Golden Pill Monks, with the rest all being Foundation-building Cultivators.

Any Foundation-building Cultivator was instantly enlisted, continuously drilled day and night in formations.

In the third month, under orders from the Black Demon Palace-affiliated Military Sect Sect Master Hei Louxi, individuals like Yin Dao, Mu Tiansnow, and Han Lin led their subordinates to sweep across the Northern Plains. Loose Cultivator Immortal Feihe, who did not immediately submit, was executed. The remaining two Loose Immortals were shocked and promptly registered at Tushan Central Courtyard before the army arrived.

In the fourth month, Immortal Da Ai, having nowhere left to hide, voluntarily went to Tushan Central Courtyard to register. As a Fourth Tier Superior Refining Master, he defeated the Master of the Implements Sect, becoming the new Sect Master, and then proceeded to Primordial Magic Heavenly Metropolis to serve, taking up the position of Captain in the forty-eighth Cultivator Camp.

By then, the Northern Plains Human Race territory had unified.

The will of Tushan Central Courtyard could penetrate any corner of Northern Plains; just by adding a large number of administrative Cultivators, they could immediately gain actual control over every locality.

Gong Caiyu’s Governance Sect accelerated the training of administrative Cultivators and dispatched them batch by batch via teleportation formations to various locations in Northern Plains. There, Golden Pill Cultivators respectfully cooperated to start reforms in agriculture, mining, animal husbandry, commerce, Artifact Refining, and financial taxation.

All these developments proceeded at breakneck speed, encountering little resistance from local strongmen or old entrenched interest groups, aside from the individual capabilities of the administrative Cultivators.

If local strongmen were subtly disobedient, the administrative Cultivators would report upwards. Instantly, an Immortal of Nascent Soul would descend from heaven via teleportation formation, executing those who should be executed and jailing those who should be jailed.

Escape was essentially impossible, as was concealment.

While individual variants might exist, a local strongman’s power could not withstand having everyone endure soul searching.

Corruption was also impossible.

Every enforcing Immortal of Nascent Soul wore a monitoring treasure refined by the Governance Sect. Post-enforcement, they were subject to multiple inspections to ensure compliance with Tushan Law, and the results had to be reported to the top-level Dark Demon Palace.

Heavenly Monarchs, during their idle times from Cultivation, might conduct random inspections. If anyone was found violating Tushan Law, the consequences were self-evident.

Such was the terrifying nature of the Immortal Path’s regimes and power structures. As long as the top-level suppressing forces remained unchanged and the top-level will desired to reach the grassroots, there was hardly any difficulty.

With this nearly swarm-like terrifying efficiency, Northern Plains saw tremendous changes every month, with productivity, commercial, and agricultural prosperity showing a sharp upward trend. With developments changing day-by-day, the overall strength of Tushan Central Courtyard continued to grow.