Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding cast his final Mana Technique.

Buzz!

A Poison Fog rose and spread in all directions, with an illusory vision of Qingmu forests emerged in a Formation Method encompassing thousands of kilometers around Gu God Mountain, presenting a vast wave of Formation Method fluctuations.

It took a while before gradually dissipating.

Ten Thousand Wood Poison Sword Array!

This was a Formation Method modified by Jiang Ding based on the adaptability of the terrain, using the inheritance from Xianmen Sect in his mind and combining it with the incomplete Formation Method from Ten Thousand Poisons Sect. It continued the usual style, barely possessing the strength of a lower fifth order, capable of matching an Early Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator in combat without falling behind.

The biggest advantage was cost-saving; beyond that, there were no other benefits.

”It’s somewhat fragile though, a Mid Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator could break it in a short time...”

Jiang Ding scratched his head.

”Should I set up a hidden super teleportation Formation in the dark for secretly deploying troops?”

”Let it be, wait until the Boundary Formation is constructed.”

”Once the Boundary Formation is established, the entire world can be seen as a huge composite Formation method, having a huge terrain advantage, possessing a formidable advantage in fights involving God-Transformation Phase, any Nascent Soul Cultivator who dares to sneak into my Minor Thousand World would be instantly killed...”

Jiang Ding indulged in his thoughts.

”As for the Boundary Formation, Xianmen Sect possesses a first-class Starry Sky World-Locking Array, which isn’t open to non-citizens.”

”This Boundary Formation is also massive in scale, the arrangement of various Formation Methods is simple but they are numerous. It would take me decades alone to complete, and only I can maintain it later on.”

”This won’t work.”

Jiang Ding pondered momentarily, a Formation Method appearing in his mind.

”Great Sun World Defining Array”

Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s inheritance, which Xianmen Sect has seized, partly includes the Nascent Soul Stage inheritance from the Dari Swordsman. In terms of effects, it is even stronger than the Xianmen Sect’s Boundary Formation but lacks matching materials and inheritance; also, it cannot enhance each other with Xianmen Sect’s Army Formation due to incompatibility.

However, the Great Sun World Defining Array has one advantage.

It effectively enhances the combat strength, cultivation, and the birth of Sword Cultivator talents, offering an all-around amplification. It is a strategic-level Formation Method of the Immortal Sects, highly classified and not easily disclosed.

”This will do. Matching Formation instruments can be specially customized at Xianmen Sect.”

Jiang Ding murmured inwardly: ”This world bears traces of immortals; traces of Xianmen Sect should remain concealed if possible.”

”My outermost facade is Tushan Central Court, underneath that is the inheritance from Great Sun Sword Pavilion, layer it with more facades in the future, combined with various Causal Skills to conceal, as time passes everything changes profoundly.”

”That should be quite stable.”

”After all, I’m not the kind of person to provoke heaven and earth troubles, always stable and low-profile, kind to others, tolerating when possible, but will eliminate promptly if tolerance fails and quickly flee far away, basically not causing huge disasters.”

Buzz!

During his contemplation, the super teleportation Formation in the Ten Thousand Wood Poison Sword Array activated, and figures blazing with dazzling light appeared, various Sword Intents rising, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Great Sun light wheels, the clearly supreme Army Formation’s Divine Power spreading out fiercely in all directions.

”Swordsman!”

True Master Void Square, Scorching Sun Immortal, and others stood solemnly.

Great Sun Longsword Metropolis, has arrived.

Tu Shan’s massive forces, with the most numerous being the Primordial Legal Heaven located in Northern Plains and West Desert, with the remaining Tu Shan Maiden Corps and the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis responsible for sweeping the four directions because they have the fewest people, consuming the least Spirit Stones, thus having the highest cost-effectiveness.

”Go sweep the Southern Border, the standards are the same as before, safeguard the upcoming reforms by the Governance Sect.”

Jiang Ding nodded slightly.

”Yes!”

True Master Void Square and the other Swordsman Cultivators bowed with a salute.

There are no elaborate protocols; a hundred thousand Swordsmanship Cultivators promptly soared outwards, their murderous aura apparent without any concealment.

They are solely responsible for slaying humans, demons, insects, and Incense Flame Deities.

They slay according to the standards of Tushan Law—spare none and ignore everything else; other matters are other cultivators’ concerns.

The Great Sun Longsword Metropolis is an extremely pure military organization.

Aside from combat, the Tushan Maiden Corps manage various matters for Jiang Ding: administrative, surveillance, agricultural development, and industries of Artifact Refining and Alchemy, showcasing versatility as multi-skilled talents.

Primordial Magic Heavenly Metropolis, needless to say, consists of a vast number of Magic Cultivators. Combat is merely their secondary duty, their official duty.

The main occupations of Magic Cultivators are Alchemist, Refining Master, Talisman Master, Array Master, Spirit Plant Master, Spirit Beast Master, Gu Master, and so on—each Magic Cultivator possesses one of these hundred mystical arts.

The Great Sun Longsword Metropolis is different.

They stubbornly refuse to learn any of these mystical arts and spend their time sharpening swords, practicing swordsmanship, and slaying humans and demons.

Besides this, there is nothing else.

All of their needs are derived from the sword.

This isn’t because the swordsmen of the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis are uniquely pampered and spoiled but rather, throughout countless worlds, almost all Sword Cultivators are like this.

Their extreme specialization, along with the inheritance of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion and the presence of Dari Swordsmen, has led to a continuous increase in the number of true Sword Cultivators in the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis, with those who have comprehended Sword Intent now surpassing five thousand.

Nearly one in every twenty Sword Dao Cultivators here, who in the past was a rare Sword Intent Cultivator known as a genius, are now commonplace.

In a few hundred years, it’s expected that all Sword Dao talents of the Minor Thousand World will gather here, and with the efficient cultivation methods of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, the number of Sword Intent Cultivators in the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis could easily surpass tens of thousands.

The Great Sun Longsword Metropolis, a latecomer, is gradually becoming the strongest force under the Tushan Central Court Swordsmen.

Jiang Ding gazes at the horizon.

A hundred thousand Sword Dao Cultivators disperse in all directions, dividing from one into two, two into four, and four into endless.

They do not act collectively but scatter individually in all directions, forming camps commanded by Nascent Soul Cultivators, and without halting, continue to subdivide into units led by Golden Pill Monks, and even further splitting into individuals.

The massive army formation of a hundred thousand Sword Dao Cultivators gradually disappears, each independently leading a direction, an area’s clearance and slaughtering operations.

This completely contradicts the military principle of ’using strength to bully the weak, and the many to oppress the few.’

If in the Tushan Maiden Corps, anyone dared to do this, they would be severely punished immediately, and repeated offenses would justifiably lead to imprisonment.

But in the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis, this is the norm.

Their fighting is not about results; what matters most is the process.

Unless under the strict orders from above, or confronting an enemy of the God-Transformation Phase, they will not gather for military formation against the enemy but would duel individually.

A single person draws a sword to sweep through and slay the enemies.

Some cultivators of the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis shall fall, while others may successfully slay their opponents and ultimately breakthrough in their Sword Intents and Swordsmanships.

Some may defeat the enemy and gain nothing, feel dejected for a while, then continue searching for the next.

This is all normal; nothing is certain.

If a Great Sun Longsword Metropolis cultivator dies in that direction, the commanding officer would calmly deploy another, stronger one, repeating the cycle, persisting up to nine times.

Only after confirming that the same rank and lower rank cultivators cannot slay the opponent do they reluctantly gather a military formation to surround and annihilate.

This isn’t military bullying or settling personal scores.

Because the commanding officers, too, follow their own paths in the Sword Dao, like their subordinates, and aside from dispatching cultivators or gathering to kill strong enemies, they have no other interactions.

They all walk alone on the vast lands of the Southern Border, facing alone the powerful individuals from the Human and Demon Races that need eradicating.

Aside from their immediate superior officer, no one knows whether they have died or are still alive; such matters happen every moment.

In peace times, they mop up the remaining enemies.

Under this tactic, such combat missions aimed at garnering Battle Merits have harshly resulted in a frightening casualty rate of over fifty percent!