Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

”Yue,”

Jiang Ding summoned Yueling and softly asked, ”The Eight Great Immortal Sects are about to perform repairs on you, is there a possibility that they may set up secret control measures, or monitor you?”

The Great Sun Heavenly Pond is his home.

This is where he regularly cultivates and also accompanies him in battles to ensure that no Refinement Void level cultivators bully the lesser, with whom he shares a very close relationship, definitely tolerating no deviations.

”Really?!”

”Swordsman, are you sure you’re not mistaken?”

Yueling revitalized in spirit.

”That is the case...”

Jiang Ding explained to her the source, especially about the Horned Ming Realm.

Not long ago, the Central Array Spirit Computer authorized Yueling, allowing her to know this secret because in the future, the sealed Great Sun Heavenly Pond will accompany Jiang Ding into the Horned Ming Realm for a mission.

”Horned Demon Imperial Clan?! Horned Ming Realm?!”

”Oh no!”

”What a pity.”

”The Sword Master truly has bad luck.”

Yueling was flabbergasted, repeatedly slapping her thigh, and said regretfully, ”If he could have endured a bit and launched the war to devour the Eight Great Immortal Sects in this era, maybe the outcome would have been vastly different.”

”Don’t say that even if there are ranks above Refinement Void, it doesn’t mean that the Sword Master couldn’t have slain them.”

”Heaven has indeed dealt thinly with the Sword Master, presenting him with so much elite nourishment, yet he cannot claim it all.”

She sighed.

”Swordsman, you truly are born in a great era, within the Domain not only are there the ten Taoist disciples, but there is also the much broader Horned Ming Realm. By slaying each of them one by one, those above Refinement Void would hardly be worth mentioning,”

Yue You suddenly got excited.

”A tremendous opportunity lies before us.”

”You even have the chance to break through the expectations previous Sword Pavilion Ancestor Masters held, reaching an ever more distant realm.”

”Ten Taoist disciples?”

Jiang Ding focused on a different point.

”Yes,”

Yueling naturally said, ”Those from the Eight Great Immortal Sects, plus Gulin Taoist disciple, and the one from Taiyin Sword Sect that barely qualifies, isn’t that ten?”

”Could there be more?”

Her eyes sparkled brightly.

”That’s wrong,”

”There are nine.”

Jiang Ding corrected, not bothering to argue with her: ”Tell me about the repairs by the Eight Great Immortal Sects, will it affect us? I need a definite answer.”

”There will absolutely be no covert moves by the Eight Great Immortal Sects.”

”This can be confirmed.”

Yueling’s voice rang clear and strong, without a hint of hesitation: ”Swordsman, what you do not know is that the Great Sun Heavenly Pond is one of the supreme masterpieces of Sword Dao from the Sword Pavilion, composed of the corpses of past Sword Masters at meditation, their Sword Intent, Life Flying Swords, and their final obsessions, akin to a swordsmanship that transcends endless time. It is not some ship-building technique as stated by the Dongji Demon School.”

”This is the swordsmanship exhibited collectively by successive Great Sun Sword Masters.”

”In the future, if you ascend to Refinement Void, you will also master this swordsmanship. You may choose to use all your Divine Soul, flesh, and Sword Intent to perform it at the end of your life, allowing your Sword Dao to continue on.”

”Within the Great Sun Heavenly Pond, there has always been attempts to foster...”

Yueling hesitated for a moment, saying, ”attempts to foster a type of Immortal Technique, a Sword Dao category Immortal Technique, using the lives of successive Great Sun Sword Masters as a price, persisting for many years, unsure if it would ultimately succeed since after all, it is an Immortal Technique.”

”However, this has been a collective aspiration of successive Great Sun Sword Masters, so it doesn’t really matter whether it succeeds or not, generation after generation just carries on.”

”Sword Dao Immortal Skill!”

Jiang Ding felt a tremor in his heart.

Even he thought that the Great Sun Sword Pavilion was too audacious.

A mere power at the level of Refinement Void, yet not having transcended above it, daring to create an Immortal Technique, was absolutely outrageous.

”Where is the Sword Immortal Technique?”

The next moment, Jiang Ding immediately asked.

”In the core of the Heavenly Pond.”

Yueling straightforwardly said, ”However, Swordsman, I advise you not to look, because you will die.”

”Your strength is too weak, even though the Sword Pavilion tries to create techniques that cannot compare with true Immortal Techniques, it is still the ultimate crystallization of the Divine Souls and Sword Intent of the past Great Sun Sword Masters.”

”You do not have the qualifications to view it now.”

”Is that so?”

Jiang Ding remained silent.

This reaction was beyond Yueling’s expectation; she thought the person before her would definitely refuse to accept this and argue.

”Anyway, the Great Sun Heavenly Pond is the supreme creation of the Sword Pavilion’s Sword Dao.”

”Swordsman, rest assured.”

Yueling patted her chest and promised, ”The Eight Great Immortal Sects and the Eastern Devil School have no qualifications to meddle with the Heavenly Pond. Their level of Sword Dao...”

She sneered.

”What they can do is only to reclaim and seal the power left on the Great Sun Heavenly Pond, without limiting anything else, and then invest large amounts of Fifth Order Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that the Heavenly Pond requires, activate the indomitable will that exists within the Heavenly Pond, and let it repair itself. They don’t need to perform any magic.”

”The Heavenly Pond can do this on its own.”

”That’s good then.”

Jiang Ding nodded slightly: ”In a few years, Peak Divine Transformation Cultivators from the Eight Great Immortal Sects will come with the Refinement Void Mandate. You should interact with them then, be courteous, let them seal it but do not remove those residual powers, I still have use for them.”

For sword practice.

After Divinity Transformation, these residual powers from Void Refinement can be used as targets to hone Sword Intent and Swordsmanship; they make great sparring partners.

”Don’t worry, Swordsman, I won’t kill them.”

Yueling readily agreed.

”Don’t always think about killing others, Sword Cultivators should value harmony.”

Jiang Ding’s face darkened.

”Understood, Swordsman.”

…

Under the Sun God Wood, Jiang Ding closed his eyes and practiced, refining flying swords for several years.

Today, he opened his eyes, flew out of the Great Sun Heavenly Pond, kept flying, and finally landed near a remote teleportation formation in a Domain, and closed his eyes standing still.

Moments later, Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch also arrived here, nodding to him.

Buzz!

In a burst of spatial teleportation white light, dozens of people appeared in their sight.

Most of these people were Peak Divine Transformation Cultivators, with the rest being eight Nascent Soul Late-Stage Monks.

Although these eight were Nascent Soul Monks, in terms of aura, they weren’t weaker than Divine Transformation Cultivators, and were filled with an indescribable vigorous vitality, as if like the early rise of stars.

”Elder, are there no Immortal Sects Inheritance Disciples?”

Jiang Ding asked softly.

The strength of Immortal Sects Inheritance Disciples is quite commendable, barely possessing the qualifications to fight a Divine Transformation Cultivator at the Nascent Soul Peak.

Even though they would ultimately be defeated, they still possess such qualifications, and are cultivators of the Domain Pride level.

”No need.”

”We don’t need them.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch shook his head slightly, ”Such covert assassinations are not suitable for too many people; if one Inheritance Disciple is captured, even if they can self-detonate in advance, it would still cause complications and make the Horned Demon Imperial Clan suspicious, doing more harm than good.”

”For gathering intelligence, the Shadow Demon Abyss cultivators are enough. They are the most professional.”

”That makes sense, I thought wrong.”

Jiang Ding realized.

As they spoke, his gaze fatefully intersected with the gazes of eight Taoist disciples.

They ignored everyone else, focusing solely on each other, staring intently.

They looked at each other for a long time.

The surrounding air was faintly frozen, spreading a chilling aura.