Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Chapter 1409: Chapter 1377: Refining Divine Gold Above Harmonization on the Path of a Sword Soul Sword Cultivator for a Lifetime

“These materials, a total value equivalent to fifteen Refining Void battle merits, three million top-grade Spirit Stones.”

“The process of Sword Refining will last a hundred years.”

Jiang Ding calculated, his mouth twitched.

This meant that a hundred years of his cultivation would consume the entire fortune of a Mud Swamp True Venerable!

If you don’t account for Harmonization battle merits, his entire fortune now would at most support him for three rounds of cultivation, then he’d be broke.

However, could this be considered wasteful?

This was refining Heavenly Metals above the level of Harmonization!

Consuming a few Refining Void materials, many fourth and fifth-order materials, what could this amount to?

This was already extremely economical. Thanks to the exquisite Inheriting techniques from a Near Immortal Level force, the resource utilization in all aspects has reached its limit, without the slightest waste.

In fact, in this process, the largest investment isn’t these Refining Void materials and the millions of top-grade Spirit Stones.

The largest investment is the Sword Soul Sword Cultivator himself!

The Domain Sword Dao Sword Soul elite, with their mana, Divine Sense, heart blood, Sword Intent, and the combat and killing of a sword cultivator — this is the ambition and path of a Sword Soul Sword Cultivator’s life.

This is the key to refining Heavenly Metals above the level of Harmonization.

Without a Sword Soul Sword Cultivator, even if you multiply these materials ten times, a hundred times, you couldn’t even touch the edge of Heavenly Metals above Harmonization, which is a revolutionary qualitative change.

In the Cultivation World, the difference in level is as vast as the sky and earth, and the further you progress in realms, the larger the gap becomes; quantity cannot compensate for quality.

“A thousand golds may disperse only to return, and the cart always finds a way forward at the mountain’s edge…”

“Even bankruptcy has its way of living; a person can’t let themselves be suffocated by urine.”

Jiang Ding mumbled to himself.

In the span of several breaths as his thoughts flowed, the Taiqing Flying Sword Sword Body bathed in endless sunlight had already turned a blazing white, with three Sun God Prohibitions shimmering inside, rotating like stars, with countless runes flowing in the paths of stars, splendid and magnificent.

“Forthwith!”

Jiang Ding applied a Mana Technique.

The Sky Sun Fire Refining Stone, number one Synthetic Geng Metal, Yin Yang Fire Jade, Molten Lava Iron and other sixth-order Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures flew toward the center of the light like swallows returning to the forest.

In the process, these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures gradually dissolved, the Material Sun Sword Soul manipulating everything, removing all impurities, further refining the materials, making them purer, their quality further enhanced.

In the sky, nearly a million kinds of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures spun in the air.

Occasionally, some Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the shape of branches, ore, or beast bones fell, landing in the central Sun Furnace, mixing with some already refined sixth-order materials, often thousands of materials melted together in a secretly specified order, handled by the Material Sun Sword Soul through fire refining, ice quenching, sublimation, and other complex artifact refining processes.

“This seems so familiar,”

“This… just like an ultra-large top-end composite material reaction furnace…”

Jiang Ding’s mind was shaken during the refining of flying swords.

The Eight Great Immortal Sects of Nine Spirits Realm are only so; truly coming into contact with the Upper Realm Immortal Sect’s inheritances gave him a sense of reverent awe toward top scientific achievements.

Even though the Upper Realm Immortal Sects do not call their Immortal Dao as science.

They call it differently, but the principles are the same.

“The Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm… I should have more respect for it…”

“These are all venerable elders from the Immortal Dao, great sages… I also have the acclaim of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, right… Which means I can consider correcting their erroneous paths.”

“If my sword is sharp enough, they’ll acknowledge this viewpoint even if they come back to life.”

Jiang Ding praised.

His Material Sun Sword Soul surveyed all directions, handling the refining of multiple materials simultaneously, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, everything seemed orderly and not arduous.

This all seemed closely related to the First Realm of Sword Dao’s ‘Sword-light Diversification,’ a capability honed by experience.

Orderly inheritance is just so convenient.

Moreover, long-term participation in Immortal Research and the refinement and development of new materials also honed Jiang Ding’s abilities in this aspect, very beneficial for the cultivation of the “Sun Sacrifice Sword Technique”.

This orderly sword refining unknowingly continued for several years.

Nearly a million kinds of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures mixed with dozens of Refining Void Stage Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, under the assistance of a quasi-seventh-order great formation, were carefully smelted to form a thin layer of dark golden film, covering the blazing white three-foot Taiqing Flying Sword.

Within the dark golden film, countless runes emerged and disappeared; rules and restriction runes embossed into the sword body, the refining speed compared to before had increased practically fivefold, sixfold, even tenfold!

Not only was the speed increased.

As the rules and restriction runes emerged, the material of the Taiqing Flying Sword was also undergoing slow but fundamental immense changes, starting to transcend the limits of sixth-order Inheritance Divine Gold Taiqing Divine Iron, advancing to another level.

This intense and fundamental change quickly affected Jiang Ding, the Sword Master.

“Pain…”

Jiang Ding’s Divine Soul twisted in pain.

Flying sword and person, becoming one and the same!

As the Taiqing Flying Sword underwent qualitative change, his Divine Soul was also experiencing subtle qualitative changes, like being thrown into a blender, brutally shattered, then finely recombined, with no regard for the fragility of the Divine Soul.

Jiang Ding was like a piece of steel repeatedly folded, constantly on the brink of breaking apart.

Even more terrifying was, during this violent Divine Soul slow qualitative change process, part of his Divine Soul particles underwent qualitative change while the majority remained as before.

This triggered tremendous conflict and disharmony, the Sword Soul no longer flawless, countless gaps appeared in an instant.

Underneath these numerous gaps and in the terrifying pain, Jiang Ding’s internal demons emerged instantly.

He saw all sorts of illusions, murderous intent raging like ocean waves, craving to slaughter all under heaven, annihilate all living beings, ultimately committing suicide to end it all, to no longer suffer pain.

This blazing heat, these innumerable illusions, this pain, it was enough to drive one mad!

At this moment, a person surfaced in Jiang Ding’s mind.

It was a girl in a moon-white fairy skirt, with a long sword at her waist, dancing under the moon, magnificently radiant, exuding a deadly allure, like a pool of clear spring, washing away a thousand sorrows with a single drink.

Taiyin Sword Disciple!

“She’s now at the Green Wood Immortal Sect in the Nine Spirit Realm, and if I use the teleportation formation, I could arrive in just a few days…”

Jiang Ding murmured.

Instinctively, he knew where the Taiyin Sword Disciple was, and at this time his instinctual sense was greatly heightened, even forming a sense of causality connection.

“However,”

“These are merely so.”

The frantic pain on Jiang Ding’s face gradually subsided, hidden within the Lake of Heart, no longer manifesting externally, his gaze cold as ice: “A good sword comes from honing, plum flowers blossom in the chill.”

“Balance, yin-yang harmony, this is not the path of sword sharpening.”

“A mere case of qi deviation, solitary yang disorder, I’ve been adapting to this for five thousand years, it’s nothing more, like a gentle breeze…”

In Jiang Ding’s heart, the beautiful image of the girl in the moon-white fairy skirt collapsed instantly, replaced by a majestic Thunder Sword Cultivator.

This Sword Cultivator possessed infinite charm, making people yearn for him.

“Guang Lei Heavenly Monarch, an Inheriting Disciple of Near Immortal Level power.”

“If you need a peer to hone your sword, I shall provide.”

“Do not disappoint me, if you’re too weak, I’ll go chat with the Heavenly Sword Sword Son, the Taiyin and Taiyang Sword Disciple…”