Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Chapter 1412: Chapter 1380: Four Thousand Years Later, You Humiliate Me Once Again

In the decades that the Immortal Artifact Sect’s envoy was recuperating, the Thunder Flame Domain was peaceful with no major events occurring.

Even the fierce battle between the Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain and the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect came to a halt instantly, with no True Sect cultivators daring to provoke a fight under the watchful eyes of the Immortal Sect envoy.

Influenced by the two True Sects, many loose cultivators also became cautious, and the Thunder Flame Domain entered a rare state of peace.

Within Mud Swamp Demon City.

Jiang Ding opened his eyes in the emerald green palace.

He had completed his second cultivation of the “Sun Sacrifice Sword Technique,” gaining significant rewards, and estimated that in another hundred years, the fourth Sun Rules Divine Prohibition would be born, and the Taiqing Flying Sword would become a mid-grade space treasure, with its sharpness further enhanced.

In the millennia-long refining of space treasures, adding a Rule Divine Prohibition in several hundred years for the Taiqing Flying Sword was truly an astonishing speed.

Not only was the refining speed remarkable, but Jiang Ding’s divine soul and the material of the Taiqing Flying Sword also underwent subtle yet essential changes.

It could be considered a miracle, a miracle caused by the heritage of the Immortal Sect’s immortal path.

And there was a cost, indeed.

“I can cultivate one more time, and I will be bankrupt…”

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

Accumulated wealth over thousands of years, one of the wealthiest among the Harmonization level forces, went bankrupt in just a few hundred years of cultivation. Countless Minor Thousand Worlds’ millennia of accumulation were completely used up.

The melting of wealth like snow wasn’t enough to describe such terrifying expenditure.

This is the foundation above Harmonization.

Besides the material consumption, due to the lack of assistance from the Taiyin Swordman, even more terrifying internal demons accumulated in his heart, causing Jiang Ding’s eyes to start turning a blazing white, just like the critical state of the Taiqing Flying Sword.

He became extremely unstable, on the verge of being swallowed by his own internal demons.

“I can still maintain myself for two hundred thirty-seven years.”

Jiang Ding said coldly.

“Plus the reserved response time… at most two hundred years. If Guang Lei Heavenly Monarch doesn’t show up, I will start my sword fight journey, and in any place within the Lower Domain that lacks Harmonization God Monarch, any so-called evil human and demon cultivators according to the Immortal Sect Law, all must die!”

This path would certainly be a journey of nine deaths and one life.

Not everyone is a Sword Cultivator seeking to challenge those of the same level; if they find themselves at a disadvantage, they will inevitably draw upon forces above Refining Nothingness.

At that time, if you can’t escape quickly enough, if your luck isn’t good enough, you will certainly die.

“Swift!”

Jiang Ding cast a series of mana techniques upon himself, making his body become hazy.

This was a self-sealing technique from the Xianmen Sect, which he had improved with some Sword Dao modifications.

Without this technique, he would have no two hundred years of buffer time; he would need to go berserk now, requiring the blood of strong enemies to calm down, or else he would self-destruct and die.

After an unknown period, the turbulent internal demon was gradually sealed.

Jiang Ding returned to normal.

He knew it was merely quenching thirst with poison, like a volcano; the more suppressed, the more violent the eventual eruption, and the greater the destruction.

But he had no other choice.

Jiang Ding expanded his Divine Sense, beginning to receive various messages from Mud Swamp Demon City, especially information about the Immortal Artifact Sect envoy.

The Immortal Artifact Sect envoy had the sword refining material needed for the “Sun Sacrifice Sword Technique,” which was extremely important to him, concerning cultivation for the next thousand years.

No information was obtained in this regard.

The envoy at Mud Swamp Demon City did not meet the Immortal Artifact Sect envoy, only seeing an Inner Sect disciple from the Immortal Artifact Sect, a Divinity Transformation cultivator, who dismissed them after receiving gifts.

However, another piece of information captured his attention.

“The number of missing Divinity Transformation cultivators, Nascent Soul monks, and Golden Pill monks in Mud Swamp Demon City has increased, with nineteen Divinity Transformation cultivators missing within twenty years, thousands of Nascent Soul monks, and even more Golden Pill monks…”

Jiang Ding looked at this information, falling into deep thought.

Mud Swamp Demon City was not a sect force, and the control over cultivators was not strict; it was essentially just a hub for commerce, coupled with the inherent chaos and murdering for treasures among loose cultivators, missing cultivators were very common. Most of the missing people had died.

The remaining reasons varied, such as falling into a trap, changing identity, or relocating to another place for development… various reasons existed; missing cultivators in Mud Swamp Demon City were very common.

However, in recent decades, the number of missing was incredibly high!

Mud Swamp Demon City was in a state of panic, commerce had stagnated, and various tax revenues had decreased.

Jiang Ding, unless blind, could not ignore this situation.

“Is the Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain crazy?”

“Coming to my place to make trouble.”

Jiang Ding furrowed his brows.

This matter really had no mystery; it was indeed the doing of the Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain.

Only they thirst for large numbers of living cultivators. In the past, this kind of thing happened from time to time in their territory and the territory of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect; it was already well known.

In the past, Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain and Mud Swamp Demon City had an understanding, generally not taking action within Mud Swamp Demon City’s area.

After all, Mud Swamp True Venerable was solitary and, if pushed to desperation, could exclusively target younger generations of Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain, making them pay several times, even dozens of times, the price, completely not worth it.

This understanding had been completely broken in the last few decades.

“Damn it!”

“Blood Lake old thief, pushing it too far!”

Jiang Ding was furious.

“When I was young, a clone of you, this old thing, beat me; though I am still young, an offspring existing above Harmonization, more than four thousand years have passed, and you still bully me!”

“Do you really want to die that much…”

Blood light surged several feet from Jiang Ding’s eyes, piercing through the void, shattering rules, and the previously sealed rampaging internal demon surged once again, ready to engulf everything, slaughter everything.

He almost lost control, about to erupt, and charge into Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain, pulling out Blood Lake True Venerate to slice into dozens of pieces with his sword.

“Calm down!”

“The Immortal Artifact Sect envoy is there, now is not the time to act, calm down…”

Jiang Ding took deep breaths, calming himself.

It was without a doubt that the Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain suddenly breaking the understanding had something to do with the Immortal Artifact Sect envoy. Some reason had greatly increased the demand for high-level cultivators’ divine souls and bodies from Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain.

Indeed, the Immortal Artifact Sect and the Eight Great Immortal Sects originated from the same source; despite the immortal title, claiming to be the Righteous Dao, they were not as they claimed.

None of them are good!

“The Upper Realm is polluted.”

“The Upper Realm needs my cleansing, these parasites are purely harmful, the beings of the Great Thousand World do not need them…”

Jiang Ding calmed his mind.

He silently cultivated, understanding how the “Sun Sacrifice Sword Technique” subtly transformed his divine soul and flying sword, laying out the Material Sun Sword Soul to suppress the ever-growing internal demons in the Lake of Heart.

He cultivated quietly.

Years later, news came from the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect.

The Immortal Artifact Sect envoy, Cai Shan Venerable, was hosting a banquet at the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect, inviting fellow Daoists from the Thunder Flame Domain to discuss the mystical Dao, speak of past and present, and respectfully invite fellow Daoists from all directions to grace the occasion.