Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The Great Sun Heavenly Pool’s crystal wall swirled and spun, navigating through the dark domain.

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged in the heart of the Sun Abyss calmly cultivating, oblivious to the passage of time.

At a certain moment, he opened his eyes, looking at the slight spatial fluctuations that appeared on the outer side of the Heavenly Pool crystal wall.

Within those subtle space fluctuations, dozens of Air-Space Motherships and tens of thousands of Warships and Fighters teleported into the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, circled briefly within the pool, and flew toward the direction of the Sun Abyss.

Jiang Ding waved his hand, temporarily isolating the annihilation high temperatures and Sword Intent erosion of the Sun Abyss, creating a passage, and rose up to fly forward to meet them.

The fleet of Air-Space Motherships stopped, and more than fifty Immortals of Nascent Soul emerged, led by a middle-aged man with a square face, at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm.

”Professor Jiang, hello!”

The middle-aged man saluted and introduced himself, ”I am Liu Futong, Dean of the Immortal Sect Warship Research Institute, ordered to conduct a preliminary inspection on the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, prepare various data, for the future involvement of esteemed seniors to study and enhance the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s shipbuilding technology within the Immortal Sect.”

Liu Futong’s heart was somewhat uneasy.

Although the man before him was only at the mid-stage of Nascent Soul, a lower realm than his, he instinctively felt somewhat suffocated when facing him.

It wasn’t even a sense of pressure but purely psychological, as if he were facing a real Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch.

”Dean Liu, hello, you’re too polite,” Jiang Ding responded courteously.

This was an appointment that had long been arranged.

The Immortal Sect was very interested in the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s shipbuilding technology, believing there might be a chance for the true creation of Refinement Void Warships here, so the plan for the future was to invest substantial manpower and resources.

These Immortals of Nascent Soul and tens of thousands of Golden Core Foundation Establishment cultivators were just the beginning. The Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch, Yuan Deng, and others would gradually get involved, hoping to digest the technology of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, apply it locally, and take the Immortal Sect’s shipbuilding technology to the next level.

Jiang Ding was looking forward to this.

The Great Sun Heavenly Pool had many issues, the most significant being that it was broken, unable to face Masters of Refining Nothingness—it was incapable of even fleeing, necessitating repair.

For now, only the Immortal Sect with the strongest shipbuilding technology domain had the capability.

Furthermore, the Great Sun Heavenly Pool was not compatible with the Immortal Sect Army Formations, for instance, the fleet migration technology could not be applied to the Great Sun Heavenly Pool.

This meant that in the event of a large-scale war, the Great Sun Heavenly Pool would not be able to receive support and protection from the Immortal Sect Army Formations, falling into an extremely dangerous situation on the battlefield of Refinement Void Level.

Moreover, the current Great Sun Heavenly Pool satisfied his cultivation needs, but as he advanced to higher realms, the defective Heavenly Pool would become a challenge, necessitating repair and upgrade. Otherwise, it would impact his future path, leading to a state of relative underdevelopment similar to that of Mingguang Zi.

”Professor Jiang, hello!”

Another Nascent Soul Peak Female Cultivator with a stern appearance saluted, ”I am Wang Xianlan from the Agricultural Planning Institute of the Agricultural Science Academy, responsible for the cultivation and care of the various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures inside the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, ensuring its self-repair capabilities are accelerated as much as possible.”

”Thank you, Director Wang,” Jiang Ding replied, his expression becoming even more benevolent.

The Great Sun Heavenly Pool was not just a warship or treasure; it possessed some characteristics of a world. The cultivation of various Spiritual Plants, Spirit Beasts, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, the qi of Earth Veins, and the growth of Spiritual Energy inside the pool could all restore some power to the Great Sun Heavenly Pool.

At the same time, well-planned cultivation of industries within the pool would also represent a substantial wealth.

Even if shared with the Immortal Sect, this was still the case.

Currently, the yearly yield of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures produced by the Great Sun Heavenly Pool was valued at 4.3 billion Low-grade Spirit Stones, half of which amounted to 2.15 billion Low-grade Spirit Stones.

This output was actually not quite fitting of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool’s reputation—it was too little.

Jiang Ding hoped that this True Monarch Wang Xianlan would bring change to the current industrial situation of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, making this place he considered home more prosperous.

Following the two Immortals of Nascent Soul were dozens of other Immortals of Nascent Soul and tens of thousands of Golden Core Foundation Establishment cultivators, all their assistants and students of sorts, ready to jointly participate in the research and development of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool.

Jiang Ding’s Divine Sense divided into thousands, greeting each person one by one.

He then led everyone around for a tour.

”Please make yourselves at home,”

”If you encounter any danger, just call out.” Jiang Ding brought Yueling out in front of everyone and said with a smile, ”If there’s anything at all, even something as trivial as getting lost, feel free to ask her for help. Don’t be shy.”

”I’m definitely not babysitting...”

Yueling muttered, yet she didn’t dare to refute.

”Thank you, Professor Jiang, we won’t hold back,” assured Liu Futong and the other Immortals as they quickly bowed again in gratitude.

Jiang Ding nodded, instructed Yueling to take care of everyone’s accommodation, rest, cultivation, food, and other needs. After personally making sure everything was in order, he then returned to the depths of the Sun Abyss, sat down cross-legged, and continued his cultivation, sharpening his Sword Intent.

A large group of cultivators from the Xianmen Research Institute scattered in different directions, heading to various places to conduct research, inspect, control various devices, and collect diverse data, staying tirelessly busy.

Several months later, another round of cultivation and refining of the Taiqing Flying Sword concluded.

Jiang Ding opened his eyes, his figure hazy, and crossed hundreds of kilometers to arrive at the edge of the interior of the Great Sun Heavenly Pond, gazing at the distant boundary.

Ahead lay a distinct separation between two areas.

One teemed with life, overflowing with the Qi of Taiyi Green Wood, a vast and boundless forest.

The other was filled with scorching heat and Elimination Method radiation that had not dissipated for thousands of years, where one could faintly make out the corpses of all manner of oddly shaped mutated creatures within the radioactive dust.

These were the remnants left by the war that annihilated the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, a conflict between the Immortal Sects and the Green Wood Immortal Sect, showing no signs of fading even now, still unbearably fearsome, a death zone even for Divinity Transformation Cultivators.

The Great Sun Heavenly Pond’s recovery was extremely slow because of these scars.

”Open!”

Jiang Ding formed a Mana Technique, controlling the Great Sun Heavenly PondArray, exposing an extremely small gap.

An invisible and immaterial forbidding force of Forbidden Nuclear Weapons capable of annihilating anomalies drifted out, falling onto the Taiqing Flying Sword, to be absorbed.

Clang!

The Spiritual Light on the blade of the Taiqing Flying Sword flickered uncertainly.

It surged violently at times, weakened immensely at others, and even occasionally, the smooth and straight blade would grow dense, matted tentacles, strange and terrifying, gloomy and ghastly.

Yet in the end, this wisp of top-tier Forbidden Nuclear Weapons radiation was absorbed and digested, and all the abnormalities vanished.

”It seems I can only extract a wisp every three months, which can enhance the Taiqing Flying Sword’s affinity with the Great Sun, its Elimination Method, and Forbidden Law abilities...”

Jiang Ding calculated and suddenly felt a bit despairing.

At this rate, when could he completely eradicate this area’s radioactive aura?

Fortunately, this was a part of his cultivation that could continually strengthen his own power, so it wasn’t entirely dull.

After decades of cultivation, as years go by, the Taiqing Flying Sword, once adapted to the aura of Forbidden Nuclear Weapons, might see a change in the speed of this process.

”Provisional Warship, please enter the designated orbit as instructed...”

The voice of the Central Array Spirit Computer came through.

Jiang Ding felt a strong sense of fondness and controlled the Great Sun Heavenly Pond to orbit the Mother Star a few times before re-entering the Heavenly Gang’s thirty-third orbit, returning to node 734, and placing the Spatial Anchor Point.

”I’m stepping out for a bit.”

Jiang Ding didn’t plan on continuing to cultivate.

He flew out of the Great Sun Heavenly Pond, controlled his Flying Sword through the Immortal Sect orbit, and went straight to the Central Bank of the Xianmen Sect.

His goal was clear, to apply for a loan.

First, to borrow several tens of trillions of Low-grade Spirit Stones, he could start the Super Warship Great Sun project without any further delay.