Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding unleashed a sword strike.

This sword technique is named Moonlight Vanishing Phantasmal Realm Sword.

It is one of the highest techniques in the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s Moon Vein, reluctantly revealed in great need, now mastered by Jiang Ding, manifesting the honed strike of a century.

With this singular strike, it seemed as though the world had split into two separate realms.

In front of Yanliu Imperial Child, there stood a Cangkong Imperial Child.

In front of Cangkong Imperial Child, there stood a Yanliu Imperial Child.

This was quite normal.

However, these being two worlds, with two Yanliu Imperial Children and two Cangkong Imperial Children, was somewhat eerie.

Cangkong Imperial Child and Yanliu Imperial Child, they both had their rivals, each wielding heavy weapons, fiercely battling. Upon closer inspection, their rivals, albeit also utilizing the methods of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, hundred-zhang demon bodies, ten-zhang Indestructible Chaos Spaces, looked identical.

Nonetheless, a closer examination would reveal that their rivals appeared slightly nebulous, their bodies composed of Sword Qi, their attacks also formed of Sword Qi, emulating equivalent effects through the Sword Dao.

This sword technique, the Moonlight Vanishing Phantasmal Realm Sword, after revisions by Xianmen and eight Great Experts, they estimated a ninety percent certainty that it would not trigger any latent powers left by the Great Emperors in the two Imperial Children.

A Great Emperor desired their heirs to grow into Heaven-Supporting White Jade Pillars, not into wastrels, naturally wouldn’t trigger the Emperor’s methods simply due to equal footing in combat, even if a bit odd.

Otherwise, it would be better to keep them forever at home, never letting them out.

Imperial Children needed battle, needed tempering; unless it led to death, the Great Emperor’s mechanisms seldom triggered.

The two Imperial Children plunged into intense battle each with the virtual rival.

The surrounding Imperial Children, Kings, and attendants watched intently, breathlessly, no one noting anything unusual.

”You two are quite weak.”

”…Weak, fellow Daoists…”

Jiang Ding sighed, ”You must remember, your lives now belong to me, recorded on my account.”

”In the future, when truly meeting me, please commit ritual suicide according to etiquette.”

”Otherwise, you’d be an untrustworthy Imperial Child, and that would anger me.”

He was not without regret.

If only he was at the Refining Void Stage now, there wouldn’t be such troubles.

He alone, with a sword and a ship, could have invaded this Domain, slaying all who disobeyed, cleanse the sins of the world, bringing glory to the Human Race, saving countless races in difficulties, thereby forming a new order in the Horned Ming Realm centered around the Human Race.

What Xi Yuan managed to accomplish in the past, he could, and even surpass.

”Imperial Edict!”

Jiang Ding extracted a dull gray sphere, exactly a Horned Demon Celestial Sphere, and activated it.

The Horned Demon Celestial Sphere blazed brightly, sending out a ring of translucent, nebulous light, gradually disintegrating into countless rays, and then vanishing.

Imperceptibly, some minute changes occurred.

These changes, originating from fate manipulation, from Tianji observation, from a masterpiece of the highest Tianji path of the Nine Spirits Realm, would use the fate of the Imperial Children as the trigger to further inspire the early birth of the Imperial Crowns.

Of course, only the birth; whether the Imperial Crowns were complete, strong enough to help the Imperial Children ascend to Great Emperors.

These issues were no longer concerns of Jiang Ding.

After finishing everything, Jiang Ding’s figure slowly faded away, as if an illusion.

Unknown where he went.

The two worlds created by Moonlight Vanishing Phantasmal Realm Sword gradually began to merge; the true and shadow versions of Yanliu Imperial Child, and those of Cangkong Imperial Child, started to integrate.

The two worlds merged back into one.

Cangkong Imperial Child’s Tianqing Spear struck down like lightning, with an immense mandate of heaven and earth empowering it, condensing a ten-zhang Chaotic Indestructible Space into a point, transforming into an incomparably brilliant star that scorches everything.

This spear-like stroke directly targeted the middle of Yanliu Imperial Child’s Big Halberd.

Boom!

Yanliu Imperial Child’s arms audibly cracked, blood spouting as he recoiled, the ten-zhang Chaotic Undying Space shattered yet mended, his face full of unwillingness.

”Haha!”

”Brother Yanliu, thanks for letting me win.”

Cangkong Imperial Child said courteously, his charm boundless.

”Hmph!”

”Unexpectedly, you’ve been passed down the ’Ancient Emperor Cangyan Scripture,’ which rightfully only heirs of the Cangyan Holy Land are qualified to inherit…”

Yanliu Imperial Child snorted coldly.

In his heart, he had already believed that Cangkong Imperial Child was the illegitimate son of Ancient Emperor Cangyan.

Otherwise, no matter how talented, it would be impossible to comprehend the supreme scriptures that only the inheritors of Cangyan Holy Land could study. Without these scriptures, he would never have been defeated.

”This is the ’Cangyan Scripture,’ not the ’Ancient Emperor Cangyan Scripture.’”

”Brother Yanliu, you are mistaken.”

Cangkong Imperial Child replied with a smile.

There was some cover-up in his statement, but it had to be so, since rules are after all rules.

In an instant, everyone looked at him differently.

Having the strong backing of an Ancient Emperor, and strength in himself, there was little in this world that could trouble him.

”This is the crown of my Flame Stone Family...”

A pain akin to being bitten by thousands of snakes emerged in Yanliu Imperial Child’s heart: ”No, there’s still a chance, a thousand years more, I cannot believe in the other imperial children of Cangyan Holy Land...”

Boom!

Suddenly, a thunderous sound shook heaven and earth.

Endless golden-violet light appeared between heaven and earth, forming an aura of flames, rising into the sky and spreading through the Domain Starry Sky, exuding an aura of supreme nobility and sacred divinity.

An inexplicable oppressive force emerged.

Golden lotuses sprouted from the earth, cranes danced in the sky, a brilliant golden celestial river flowed from the void, and a scene of myriad creatures worshiping emerged, foretelling a vision of the future.

In this moment, the entire ocean of stars, including those outside the Cangyan Holy Land, numerous kings, imperial children, and Great Emperors awoke, casting their gaze here.

Cangkong Imperial Child, Yanliu Imperial Child, and others were stunned for a moment.

”Imperial child, the imperial crown...”

”The imperial crown has appeared!”

”The imperial crown has emerged! Another Great Emperor is about to be born in this Star Domain...”

Countless people were exuberant, filled with aspirations.

To follow the rise of a new Great Emperor was undoubtedly a highly profitable strategy, numerous families and races ascended to nobility during this process.

Years ago, the Magic Stone Clan was just a minor clan in the Domain, but by growing together with Emperor Flame Stone, it had now become a powerful clan renowned throughout the Domain, ranking ninth among the Slave Clans.

Similarly, this carried a dreadful risk.

The formerly powerful clans, where they were from and their brilliant history, had already been forgotten by many.

Not only the rise of the Slave Clans, but people from the Horned Demon Imperial Clan were also feeling apprehensive and hopeful, and many Horned Demon Imperial elites who were limited by their social status and couldn’t break through showed a strong desire in their eyes.

The emergence of an Imperial Child’s crown signaled the rise of new noble families.

This was an ancient tradition of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, the old giving way to the new; always the strongest and most excellent bloodlines would become the ruling families amongst their clans.

”Brother Yanliu.”

Cangkong Imperial Child, coming back from his ecstatic state, asked seriously: ”Are you willing to give up the imperial crown? I swear by the heavens, I will treat your family well, and if you can ascend to Great Emperor by your own strength later, I will share the authority of a Great Emperor with you, and will never go back on my word!”

In his view, having defeated Yanliu Imperial Child, the imperial crown had manifested.

This is the mandate of heaven!

The fortune of our clan is taking care of us!

”Cangkong!”

Yanliu Imperial Child, veins popping on his forehead, shouted angrily: ”This is my Flame Stone Family’s crown!”

”This is my crown!”

”No, this is the crown of the Imperial Clan!”

”Brother Yanliu,”

Cangkong Imperial Child smiled: ”Emperor Yanliu, his majesty, did not inherit this imperial crown from your grandfather; it was similarly seized from another.”

”This is the tradition of the Imperial Clan.”

”The Imperial Clan isn’t like those weak Slave Clans; always, only the strongest child of the Imperial Clan can attain the crown.”

Cangkong Imperial Child, seemingly knowing Yanliu Imperial Child’s answer, spoke no more and turned to leave.

All the kings around, kings of the Slave Clan and the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, watching this scene, trembled inwardly, seemingly sensing the intense scent of blood about to fill this Star Domain.

Accompanied by countless deaths and challenges, the victorious imperial child would be crowned, becoming the Great Emperor of the future.