Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding walked among the campus of Qingfeng University.

The majority were young students with youthful, naive faces, mostly teenagers with the occasional mature ones being parents sending their children to university, marking yet another opening season of the university year.

Year after year, a cycle of reincarnation.

The war fires of the Horned Ming Realm seemed never to have reached here, where citizens of the immortal sect grew, studied, lived, and then became powerful figures in the domain.

From students to powerhouses, to teachers, to the end of life, or entering into slumber.

Such is the life of a powerful being from the immortal sects.

In the past, people like Zhang Junsheng, Immortal Dinghai, and others lived this way, and now Grand Sun Immortal, Golden Bell True Monarch, Si Yan True Monarch, and others also follow the same path, entering the Sleeping Hidden Realm with countless protégés under their influence.

Unconsciously, it’s already a full cycle.

”Hello, Dean Jiang…”

”Hello, Mr. Jiang…”

”Hello, Teacher…”

Passers-by pulled Jiang Ding out of his long memories, one after another student, teacher, professor from Qingfeng University greeting the sixteen-year-old youth in green clothes walking among the crowd.

Teaching the Adult Sword Dao Department at Qingfeng University for nearly a thousand years was just like that.

Looking around, students, teachers, professors, staff... the entire campus was filled with juniors; there was no one to call him Fellow Daoist, all were those he watched grow from little children, and with a slight recollection, he could remember the times when these Golden Core Foundation Establishing and Nascent Soul Cultivators were naive and immature.

Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch once worried that Grand Sun Immortal would compromise the interests of Immortal Sect citizens for this very reason.

A thousand years of teaching, a thousand years of proteges!

Students once taught by Grand Sun Immortal started from Qingfeng University, spreading across various professions, including teachers, soldiers, politicians, businessmen, scientists… These students then taught new students, and those students taught more new students...

Such cycles repeat themselves, while Grand Sun Immortal has never exclusively catered to any, the prestige he holds within the Immortal Sects is terrifyingly vast, being called the sage of a hundred industries, causing awe and alarm.

A thousand years in time, is just that horrifying.

Even the most introverted individuals, would earn such prestige after teaching for a thousand years at Qingfeng University.

Right now, even in the meeting of the Immortal Sect, there are those accusing Grand Sun Immortal, claiming that he has taught at Qingfeng University for too long and must be stopped soon.

Because continuing this way, accumulating more prestige could potentially affect the operation of the political system of the citizens.

This is against the spirit of the Immortal Sect Law.

For example, the previous previous president of Qingfeng University, Immortal Dinghai Zhang Zhen, served as dean during his Mid-stage of Nascent Soul, stepping down at the Nascent Soul Peak, spanning three to four hundred years.

This duration was not a coincidence, but deliberately designed by the wise predecessors of the immortal sect.

Too short, and it affects the quality of education.

Too long, and you have cases like Grand Sun Immortal, garnering too much prestige, a scenario of ’power overshadowing the lord’ in some sense.

This ’lord’ being no one else but the entire body of Immortal Sect citizens and the normal operation of the citizen political system, the forefathers of the Immortal Sect had foresight of such situations, hence instituting the rotation system at Immortal Universities.

The adult Sword Dao department is a special case, being a newly established discipline within the immortal sects, struggling to find replacements momentarily. Coupled with Jiang Ding’s terribly high achievements and authority within the Immortal Sect, no one spoke up, thus dragging it out till now.

The voices of the opposition are no longer suppressible.

Far too seems to be facing these circumstances.

Many immortals of the Xianmen Sect have always tried to limit the power of the highest governing authorities, but without success, due to the strong external enemies faced by Xianmen, and the lack of alternative capable individuals. Forcing a change in governance could risk the extinction of the sect, hence the lifetime system of governance must be implemented.

”Hello.”

”Hello…”

Jiang Ding responded individually to the greetings of his fellow students and teachers, his Divine Sense spreading everywhere, returning the greeting to anyone who greeted him without missing a single one.

He strolled around the campus aimlessly, making comparisons between many things and the way they were a thousand years ago.

In the end, he found that nothing had changed.

A thousand years, for a Domain Overlord force like Xianmen, seems only a moment.

The only change, perhaps, is the students with swords that occasionally appear on campus, wandering around aimlessly with a longsword like him. This is the distinctive appearance of a Sword Cultivator from the Immortal Gate, heavily influenced by the ancestor of the Immortal Sword Path.

”Greetings, Grest Sun Swordsman!”

Dozens of Sword Cultivators saw a green-clothed youth approaching and, from a distance, bowed deeply including three Nascent Soul Stage Sword Cultivators, using the ancient and complex Sword Cultivator rituals of the Immortal Sect.

These were foreign Sword Cultivator students from the Eight Great Immortal Sects.

Due to external threats, there has been frequent interaction between the Nine Great Immortal Sects over the past centuries. The Green Wood Immortal Sect gathered a large number of external Spirit Plant Masters, the Dan Ding Immortal Sect gathered numerous external Alchemists, and the Shangqing Lingbao Sect gathered numerous Artifact Refiners from the Eight Great Immortal Sects…

On this side of Xianmen, a large number of foreign students from the Eight Great Immortal Sects are gathered, primarily to learn Immortal Dao Technologies involving the synthesis of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure and techniques of Formation Dao Army Formations, and—Sword Dao.

Undoubtedly, wherever the Grest Sun Swordsman is, that is the center of Sword Dao in the entire Domain.

Here at Xianmen gathers the top end of Immortal Dao and Sword Dao technologies, producing the most Sword Dao achievements each year, covering aspects like Swordsmanship, Sword Dao Cultivation Method, Sword Refining secret techniques, and so on.

For Sword Cultivators of the Eight Great Immortal Sects who wish to advance further, who wish their path to be smoother, studying abroad at Xianmen is indispensable.

”Greetings, fellow Daoists.”

Jiang Ding nodded slightly, no longer as friendly, appearing somewhat aloof.

However, the Sword Cultivators from the Eight Great Immortal Sects did not find anything amiss, adapted to this behavior, and relieved, they cautiously started asking about their problems in Sword Dao.

”Swordsman, about the ’Cloud Wave Lightless Swordsmanship’…”

Seizing the chance, almost all the Sword Cultivators rushed to ask their questions.

This is the practice and privilege at the Eastern Devil School.

In their own Immortal Sects, no cultivator would dare to casually ask questions to a Taoist disciple, they could only ask their own masters or a closely related elder and still they would have to be very cautious about the elder’s mood.

Here at the Eastern Devil School, it is different; one can ask anyone, even if encountering the leader of the Eastern Devil School, questions can be asked and generally, answers will be obtained.

Therefore, studying abroad at the Eastern Devil School often results in the greatest gains; Disciples of the Eight Great Immortal Sects consider it a significant opportunity, often requiring intense competition internally to secure a chance.

”Cloud Wave Lightless Swordsmanship…”

Jiang Ding continued walking without stopping.

He still strolled aimlessly, accustomed to such a life, where his Divine Soul was split into hundreds of thousands of threads, not affecting his personal life even while working.

He carefully explained the question of this Qingmu Sect Sword Cultivator, honestly disclosing Immortal Sect heritages that are not allowed to be disclosed, trying to help her understand as much as possible.

Communicating with these Golden Core, Foundation Establishment, and Nascent Soul Cultivators required very little Divine Soul Computational Power, with thousands of them combined amounting to less than one percent of the Divine Soul Computational Power, hardly an effort.

Walking slowly, Jiang Ding arrived at a square where the Array Spirit Algorithm and Immortal Dao Artificial Intelligence Department were located, pausing to watch.

Here, Si Yan True Monarch of the Array Spirit Algorithm and Immortal Dao Artificial Intelligence Department was saying goodbye to her students, just as many years ago, Immortal Dinghai had bid farewell to his students before entering the Sleeping Hidden Realm.