Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

”This... is where the Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch sealed the contamination of his own immortal techniques...”

Jiang Ding’s gaze shone like the scorching sun, as he meticulously scanned the tens of kilometers wide metallic square-shaped mountain peak with his Sword Intent, eventually reaching a conclusion.

Within the metal mountain peak, a decayed giant body was sealed.

This decayed giant, its entire body was rotten, with maggots, no, those weren’t actual maggots, but the physical manifestation of immortal arts contamination.

Many harmless pieces of knowledge on immortal techniques mixed together, forming a substance that posed a lethal threat to the souls of living beings, and in turn affected the physical bodies of living beings, causing a state of decay.

This was the condition of the decayed giant in front of them.

”This is the Law Body of Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch.”

Jiang Ding stated once more.

Back in the day, Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch must have severed his own body and sealed it here, isolating part of the contamination of the immortal techniques, allowing his direct lineage, the Guishan Tie Family, to establish their Sect here. Taking this as a starting point, they prospered and expanded the Northern Plains Families whose offspring could be found throughout the Northern Plains.

Many children of these direct lineage families within the Northern Plains would often disappear, legitimately or otherwise, and their final destination would be here.

These cultivators from the direct lineage families, proud as elites, would consume the bloodlines of the collateral lineages to enhance their Spiritual Roots, only to be devoured by their own first generation ancestor, in what seemed like a cycle of reincarnation.

”The power of contamination from the immortal techniques here has weakened; it seems it has reached a tolerable level.”

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

Clang!

He drew his longsword, then sheathed it yet again.

In front of him, a golden, scorching sword scar appeared on the tens of kilometers wide Guishan Tie Family mountain peak, splitting it partially from the center and then spreading throughout the square mountain peak like a spider web, reaching every corner.

A gust of wind blew.

A fist-sized block of dark black metal rolled down from the mountain, with neat edges one cubic centimeter in size, and black, foul-smelling liquid flowing over it.

One fist-sized metal chunk fell, then two, then three, and then countless chunks!

The entire Guishan Tie Family mountain peak, tens of kilometers wide, collapsed as if disintegrating, countless fist-sized metal cubes rolling down from the mountain like a cascade, revealing what was inside.

It was the extremely decayed corpse of a giant!

A terrible stench wafted through the air.

Then, a smoke-like spectral contamination of immortal techniques spread in all directions, containing countless pieces of knowledge on the Immortal Path, forcefully and crudely infusing into the Divine Souls of all cultivators, with even those refining the voidness of life unable to be exempted.

Some of the knowledge was of a seventh-order Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure named the Great Sun Flower, with smelting...

Some was a kind of Heavenly Thunder called Nine Heavenly Thunders... Formation...

Some was a name... Blood ** King... the two characters in the middle could not be revealed in the world at all; the Heaven and Earth Rules did not allow it...

Some simply described the size of an ordinary stone by the roadside, which was white...

...

All sorts of knowledge, all related to immortal techniques, these pieces of knowledge were all incomplete, no, they could not be described as incomplete; they were merely like a speck of dust in knowledge, mixing with many other particles of immortal techniques’ dust, accumulating together with a multitude of conflicting logics and opposing contradictions, instantly forming a terrifying contaminant.

Immortal techniques naturally possessed an infectious power.

All cultivators who witnessed immortal techniques naturally operated their Mana and Divine Sense, attempting to run them in accordance with the structure of the immortal techniques...

And thus, disaster struck.

Jiang Ding observed his own arm.

Countless mouths and teeth began to grow, unknown weird laughs emerged in his Divine Soul, his hair moved without wind, violently twisting as if each strand had its own life.

These strands of hair, like serpents, burrowed into his scalp to reach deep into his brain, devouring the brain matter, forming independent lives of their own.

Even the Mana in his Elixir Field seemed to have its own consciousness, attempting to break free from the bondage of his meridians.

All sorts of chaos made Jiang Ding instantly ghastly and terrifying to behold.

Clang!

At that moment, Jiang Ding drew his sword.

Boom!

A brilliant Great Sun appeared in the world, radiating endless, boundless Sword Dao brilliance, the undying will of the Sword Dao spreading outward, countless trails of blood-golden light present between heaven and earth, temporarily suppressing and isolating all forms of contamination.

Jiang Ding gradually regained his calm, and the various abnormalities on his body returned to normal.

This is the result of Xianmen Sect’s developments, using controllable Immortal Technique contamination to combat chaotic, uncontrollable Immortal Technique contamination, temporarily isolating it.

However, this technique can only handle a limited amount of Immortal Technique contamination, not too much, which is exactly why he had been delaying for so long.

The blood gold trajectory between heaven and earth gradually retracted, forming a roaring mass of black fog.

Jiang Ding activated the Great Sun World Defining Array, sending it outside of this world, to the distant reaches of the starry sky, no longer concerning himself with it.

There was no other way.

Immortal Technique contamination cannot be destroyed, cannot be eradicated, it can only be dealt with in this way.

Everything is finished.

Jiang Ding once again looked at the Law Body left by the Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch, that mutant, rotting giant.

This time there was nothing to hinder his view, and the scenes within became vividly clear.

This rotting giant had many wounds on its body, as if it had torn them with its own fingernails; the flesh was indistinct, the skin was completely peeled off, gradually torn away, utterly terrifying.

But these were not the most severe wounds.

The biggest wound was on the chest, a sword scar that almost cut the rotting giant’s entire body in half, which to this day still retained a pure aura of scorching heat, destruction, and sharpness.

”Mingguang!”

Jiang Ding’s gaze began to fill with blood-red.

Many things began to make sense upon seeing this rotting giant.

Years ago, the Great Sun Sword Disciple Mingguangzi went mad, wanting to hone his sword using the life of Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch, even though the two seemed to have a good relationship. In the end, Shuoyang was defeated and had to release his Law Body, which sealed the Immortal Technique contamination, intending to perish together with Mingguangzi.

In the end, did he succeed?

Clang!

Jiang Ding flicked his finger lightly.

A burst of Bluegold Sword-light blossomed from his finger, turning the rotting giant, which had lost all its Immortal Technique contamination, into countless powder-like fragments that dissipated between heaven and earth.

Only a Formation Method was left behind in the original spot.

”This is an anchoring Formation Method.”

”It’s used for transferring spiritual energy, blood, etc., to sustain life in the Outer Realm starry sky...”

With a sweep of his Divine Sense, Jiang Ding instantly understood the purpose of this crude space Formation Method.

It was like a long umbilical cord, connecting to someplace in the Outer Realm starry sky, allowing Cultivators in the starry sky to survive much longer without dying.

If it were not for the obfuscation of the Immortal Technique contamination, such a rudimentary and crude Formation Method would have never evaded the scrutiny of the Great Sun World Defining Array!

”Just a space Formation Method, and it also needs to maintain contact with the Minor Thousand Worlds, how far could it possibly lead?”

Jiang Ding’s intent to kill was gradually boiling in his heart.

Boom!

In an instant, he deciphered the space Formation Method and transformed into a scorching sun-like Sword-light, breaking through the Minor Thousand Worlds’ Barrier and flying towards the Outer Realm starry sky.

Seen!

He could see it now!

He saw it.

In the starry sky some seventy to eighty thousand miles away, two distinctive life forms were emerging from a deep-seated spatial seal.

One shone as brilliantly as the Scorching Sun, carrying a breath of destruction and intense heat;

The other carried the scent of Golden Causality, seemingly the embodiment of Golden Causality.

The moment these two life forms revived, they began to battle, harboring a vendetta that would not end until one was dead, with each clash capable of shattering a swath of the starry sky.

But in the next moment,

They both simultaneously stopped and looked in the direction of the Minor Thousand Worlds.

A rising sun was emerging on the barrier!

He approached with an air of destruction, mutant chaos, Forbidden Law, and the terror of Elimination Method, attacking both of them at once!