Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding started with a thread of faint mana from his Elixir Field, circulating it through a meridian in Zhou Tian, feeling a slight sting.

This tempering and nourishing continued uninterrupted, for decades, to fully recover to his original condition, with his Law Body flawless once again.

It was quite common, for an Immortal of Nascent Soul who suffered severe injuries, to have a similar recovery time.

”Senior Divine Mechanism, how is the battle situation now?”

Jiang Ding inquired.

He didn’t forget that he was still in a foreign domain, surrounded by enormous potential dangers, and it wasn’t a time to be complacent.

”Everything is as usual, no major changes have occurred yet.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch said, ”Currently, together with the Great Powers from the Eight Great Immortal Sects, we have initially taken control of Flame Stone Great Emperor and are conducting detailed soul searching on him, a process that might take decades.”

”The current plan is to utilize puppets and refined corpses to turn the Flame Stone Great Emperor into a living corpse, using him as a pawn to infiltrate the ranks of the Horned Demon Emperor Clan.”

He spoke of this incredibly cruel act in a remarkably calm tone.

”This living puppet corpse has high requirements; it must be completely under control while possessing enough spirituality. It requires that he himself doesn’t know that he’s a puppet, and also deceive the Emperors of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan. Therefore, it’s a joint domain scientific project conducted by the Nine Great Immortal Sects to discuss and develop the most suitable refining plan.”

”Below the Flame Stone Great Emperor, figures like Yanliu Imperial Child, Chenshan King, etc., will also be processed similarly.”

”They will become our chess pieces and eyes spread across various places.”

”The preparation and planning phases should span between one hundred to three hundred years.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch elaborated to Jiang Ding on the thought process behind the domain war: ”Too fast, and the preparations might be insufficient; too slow, and secrets might be leaked.”

”In the Cultivation World, any kind of accident could happen, and our enemy is a strong immortal civilization that has produced individuals surpassing the Refining Nothingness stage. We must not underestimate them.”

”While being careful and thorough with each step, we must also strike decisively, aiming precisely, aiming to paralyze the top forces of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan in a single battle.”

”All these, the Central Array Spirit Computer’s super calculation core and the Great Powers from the Eight Great Immortal Sects are all meticulously planning, and in fact, the situation is extremely complex, hard to explain clearly.”

”That’s good, that’s good.”

Jiang Ding nodded repeatedly as he listened.

The many seniors of the Immortal Sect, along with those eight extremely shrewd old figures, were reliable without inner conflicts.

They were neither aggressive nor hesitant, like cold Star River quantum computers, superior to him in many aspects.

”Regarding the spoils, I won’t mention the many Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures; they all have unique characteristics, special materials from the foreign domain. Many of these materials have a great impact on our material science. Just last month, Heavenly Monarch Wanji told me that the industrial synthesis of Gengjin has seen the dawn of a breakthrough.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch continued.

”Within the next hundred years, the number one synthetic Gengjin, equivalent to Sixth Order top-grade materials, will be developed. The Immortal Sect’s warship and treasure industries will benefit from this.”

”Heavenly Monarch Wanji is truly a formidable figure bestowed from heaven!”

Jiang Ding was overjoyed and admired deeply.

In terms of material science, even carrying shoes for Heavenly Monarch Wanji would be deemed an obstruction by others.

This was not a suppression by realm, the things of the same or different stages mattered not; even if he were to advance to the Refining Nothingness stage in the future, surpassing heavenly Monarch Wanji by one realm, he would still fall short in material science compared to Heavenly Monarch Wanji.

”If material science also had its own path, Heavenly Monarch Wanji would easily overcome great realms and dominate him.”

”Now, with the emergence of unexplored domains full of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, the material sciences of Xianmen Sect have experienced explosive growth. The blue ocean is terrifyingly vast.”

”As many material science experts of Heavenly Monarch level have said, stepping out each day now feels like picking up money; they are extremely excited, not wanting to sleep or practice cultivation. Just by choosing any direction to explore, they can derive a patent within decades, securing their cultivation needs for hundreds or even thousands of years.”

”If luck explodes, and they obtain a patent that could significantly boost the development of Xianmen, they might even start considering their own path to Refining Nothingness.”

”The material science scholars of Xianmen Sect, the ’Bald Doctor’ academics, have welcomed their spring!”

”This year’s Xianmen college entrance exam saw the material science major leading the scores by a wide margin. Some students even gave up entering the prestigious Breezy Big Dipper University to attend a lower-tiered university because the material science departments there were full. They preferred other universities but insisted on entering the material science field.”

”This demonstrates the popularity of material sciences.”

”Some standout material science professors have even proudly claimed that this millennium could be named the ’Material Millennium’, with no challengers in sight.”

”Un-phased by the craze over materials, these people are frighteningly excited now.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch shook his head as if in disdain: ”Cultivation Methods are the most fundamental matters, some people are simply narrow-minded, proclaiming a ’Material Era’, heh… but let it be. Back to the topic of our spoils, we seized several Sixth Order Body Refinement Techniques from the Horned Demon Emperor in the Starry Sky Imperial Palace of Flame Stone Great Emperor, the most powerful being the ’Push Mountains and Tread Seas with Ten Thousand Fires True Scripture’ practiced by Flame Stone Great Emperor.”

”These Body Refinement Techniques differ from our path of Magic Cultivation, but they still serve as strong references and are helpful in studying the unique Indestructible Chaos Space of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan.”

”Several years ago, there was a minor conflict over the ownership of these methods between the Immortal Sect Fleet and eight Great Experts of Immortal Sects, but the Xianmen stood firm and the standoff lasted long.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch sneered.

The reason was obvious, the Eight Great Immortal Sects feared that Xianmen obtaining the Refining Void Stage Techniques would lead to the emergence of Refining Nothingness Cultivators from Xianmen, thus they crazily obstructed Xianmen’s acquisition of these techniques.

But they couldn’t succeed.

”What eventually happened?”

Jiang Ding was startled.

”The Eight Great Immortal Sects temporarily retreated.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch said: ”Only when we produce Refining Nothingness Cultivators, or someone from the Eight Great Immortal Sects breaks through above Refining Nothingness, will the current balance possibly be disrupted.”

”For now, the status quo is maintained.”

”However, those eight Great Powers of the Immortal Sects might become more aggressive due to this. The strategic preparation time initially estimated at one to three hundred years might be expedited—they are becoming desperate.”

”According to our estimates, once the Nine Spirits Realm army conquers the Medium Thousand World of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, it’s possible for those eight Great Powers to ascend beyond Refining Nothingness.”

”They have always possessed the legacy beyond Refining Nothingness, only hindered by the impoverished Nine Spirits Realm that prevented their breakthrough. The Medium Thousand World of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan could provide them with such an environment.”

”That is the overall situation.”

”Various crises and chances of internal upheavals loom, yet balance is maintained, with no major changes for the time being.”

”What about you? What are you planning now?”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch inquired, fully respecting his opinion.

”I need to return to the rear for recuperation, until I recover to the peak of my combat capabilities.”

Jiang Ding replied without hesitation.

He was too weak now; even a Peak Nascent Soul Cultivator might defeat him, and a Divinity Transformation Cultivator could kill him with a single move, feeling utterly insecure.