Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The thunderclouds in the starry sky were gradually becoming thicker, their might increasingly terrifying.

Months later, sunlight and starlight facing this direction were blocked, plunging the entire planet into darkness. Artificial light from the Heaven-Covering Banyan was the only source of illumination, with formation methods simulating the change between night and day.

The planet had entered a state of extreme night.

At this point, not only were Peak Nascent Soul Cultivators like An Siyan, Jin Lingfeng, and Zhang Junsheng, who were about to face their tribulation, trembling, but even Divinity Transformation Cultivators were shuddering, sensing the cold scent of death wafting from that terrifying heavenly tribulation.

Death!

All senses of the Divinity Transformation Cultivators were telling them that ahead lay a field of certain death, a place with hardly a chance for survival!

”This intensity of a heavenly tribulation...”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch was observing the heavenly tribulation, feeling his scalp tingle. He turned his head and asked, ”Little Bone, was your tribulation also this intense?”

”It shouldn’t... It shouldn’t be...”

Gu Lin True Lord was anxiously uncertain.

”Elder, will Jiang Ding be alright?”

Jin Lingfeng couldn’t help but ask.

Around them, a large crowd including An Siyan and Zhang Junsheng, as well as Immortal Luling, Immortal Dinghai, and other old generations of Nascent Soul Immortals who had waited for many years, couldn’t help but worry.

”I don’t know.”

”He has many things that are not typical of Xianmen cultivators; I can’t make a judgment.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch shook his head slightly.

”However, according to historical experience, it seems that Swordsmen of the Great Sun haven’t died in the Huashen Heavenly Tribulation. Even when the First Generation Great Sun Sword Master faced it, during the phase when the legacy was far from complete...”

...

Within the endless thunderstorm, Jiang Ding sat cross-legged.

Contrary to the outside world’s imagination, he was very relaxed at the moment, even overly so, as he felt no pressure at all.

The heavenly tribulation, which was terrifying for Divinity Transformation Cultivators, seemed no different than a spring breeze or drizzling rain under his perception of Sword Intent, capable of sweeping away a large expanse with a single stroke of his sword.

”This won’t do...”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

The heavenly tribulation is not only a calamity for cultivators but also an opportunity.

Merely enduring the tribulation is not what he desired.

The heavenly tribulation holds great significance within the legacy of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, as well as within Xianmen traditions. It represents a grand opportunity to pave the way for one’s future Dao, to solidify one’s foundation, to make the road ahead a bit easier, and the breakthroughs into higher realms more attainable.

”The heavenly tribulation,”

”Is too weak.”

Jiang Ding stood up, holding his sword hilt.

Clang!

He drew his sword in one swift motion.

Surrounded by the Six Paths Order Power, an indistinct Sword Realm phantom wrapped around the sword-light, carrying the fully-fledged Immortal Sword Intent. Amidst the boundlessly splendid light, he sliced towards the heavens with his sword.

The millions of miles of thunder tribulation clouds in the starry sky stiffened for a moment.

Lightning serpents ceased to flash, clouds stopped rolling, and even the flashes of electric light solidified, no longer emitting sparkling radiance.

Whoosh!

A straight and slender sword mark appeared at the center of the millions of miles of clouds, evenly splitting the thunder tribulation clouds in two. The Great Sun Destroying Sword Intent’s will of destruction and elimination of mana surged in, instantly annihilating all the energy of the thunderstorm.

The next moment, the millions of miles of clouds in the starry sky gradually dissipated, losing their foundation to exist.

With the Thunder Tribulation Clouds gone, the brilliance of the Great Sun and the stars once again illuminated Xianmen’s Mother Planet, showering it in their glow.

The world recovered some of its colors, and the stars reappeared.

All turbulences dissipated, and the Starry Sky returned to its eternal silent stillness.

The Heavenly Tribulation had dispersed.

This scene left all Nascent Soul Monks and Divinity Transformation Cultivators who were observing the Heavenly Tribulation, hoping to gain some insight, completely stunned.

The Heavenly Tribulation had ended before it even began?

”Elder, why is this...?”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch, as the most senior figure present, was immediately besieged with questions.

This was the tradition of Xianmen cultivators; when in doubt, ask, whether in one’s youth or even after thousands of years.

”This I know.”

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch waved his hand, preempting their questions with an explanation: ”Heavenly Tribulation is a kind of cosmic law. The first theory is the existence of a ubiquitous cosmic Heavenly Dao consciousness, testing living beings, with those who pass succeeding;

The second theory is the cosmic energy theory. It states that when a Cultivator makes a breakthrough, from the Divine Soul to Mana and then to the body, there is a sudden leap-like change that causes violent conflicts with the surrounding environment, akin to the interaction between negative and positive magnetic fields, thus triggering the Heavenly Tribulation;

The third theory...”

”In any case, for Xianmen, this is an unknown subject.”

”But one thing is certain, the Heavenly Tribulation will definitely appear, and it must go through a process.”

”Some ancient cultivators, like the Ancestor Masters from the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, have discovered this principle. By leveraging it, they interrupt the embryonic stage of the Heavenly Tribulation, preventing the rules of the Heavenly Tribulation from unfolding... This is often impossible to succeed, as cosmic laws cannot be avoided.”

”However, the universe is material, and energy conservation prevails.”

”In the process of preventing it, if the laws of the Heavenly Tribulation continue to emerge, in order to bypass or break this obstacle, they will inevitably explode with much more terrifying power, potentially increasing in magnitude by multiples or even dozens of times—this is exactly what the Sword Cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion need.”

”This is a bad habit, don’t learn it.”

He earnestly advised, reminding the younger generation around him.

Boom!

The silence was but brief, followed by a thunderous roar as the Heavenly Tribulation in the vast Starry Sky rolled in again, this time even more terrifying. The dark clouds were black as ink, and the flickering azure-purple lightning between them emitted an unusual radiance.

A terrible radiance that controlled the growth of all things in the world, instantly multiplying the pressure of the Heavenly Tribulation by more than a dozen times.

This was the power of Thunder Order!

From the start, it was the power of Thunder Order!

The lightning in the starry space was lightning of Thunder Order, filled with an extremely pure and terrifying aura of Destruction, silently dissolving the void under such force.

And this was just the gathering of Tribulation Clouds!

”This is good...”

Beneath the Heavenly Tribulation, Jiang Ding slightly closed his eyes, then reopened them.

His hair, under such terrifying clouds, drifted unknowingly. The Six Paths Order Power was completely unable to isolate this Heavenly Tribulation’s aura, with deadly dangers brewing in the starry space.

At the mere thought from Jiang Ding, a prototype world unfolded around him.

The prototype world was now in autumn, with a world covered in snow, harsh cold winds, and many plants had shed their leaves, revealing bare branches adorned with ice edges. The snow painted a scene of a silent world, awaiting rejuvenation.

Now this world prototype was over four kilometers in size, having expanded by more than one kilometer.

This was the harvest from slaying the Netherworld Ancient Prince among other dozens of Horned Demon Imperial Clan Princes, drawing upon some of their Refining Nothingness essence for his own growth.

In the instant that this Sword Realm prototype rolled out, the surrounding Thunder Order could no longer affect Jiang Ding in the least, and his drifting electrically charged hair returned to normal.

Boom!

At that moment, after months of brewing and energy accumulation, finally, a twisted lightning bolt imbued with Thunder Order Power descended from the sky, striking along the path of rules towards the green-clothed youth’s head.