Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Chapter 1426: Chapter 1394: Immortal Technique Fragment Acquired

Blood Tide True Venerable, soul scattered and dissipated.

Jiang Ding solemnly and meticulously performed a ritual to absolve him, swept away the residual rules of cause and effect, and then concealed his form to return to Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain.

From beginning to end, everything in this Demon Sect remained as usual.

The disciples and elders each fulfilled their duties, cultivating or working, just like what had happened over the past hundred thousand years.

Occasionally, a Nascent Soul Cultivator who had gained favor would seek an audience with the Refining Void True Venerable, sometimes ignored, sometimes reprimanded, and sometimes received guidance, pointing out one or two things.

Everything was as it always was.

None of the disciples or elders of Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain knew that their sect’s Refining Void Ancestor had vanished without a trace, leaving the sect hollow inside, with only a façade remaining.

Now, only another sect remains.

“Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect, you stole my money…”

“Back in Beiyuan Small Realm, your Thunder Department Taoist Soldiers attacked me, and over the last hundred thousand years, you enslaved countless Lower Realm Ascenders, including the Northern Plains Ascending Practitioners who are my subordinates. New grudges and old hatreds, it’s not just me attacking you on a whim…”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

He wandered ghost-like through Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain, unnoticed by the elders and disciples passing by, some even walked through him without any interaction, completely existing in another spatial layer.

After walking several dozen steps, he arrived at Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain’s forbidden area in the rear mountain.

Here lies one of Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain’s final resources, the body of the founding ancestor of the sect, Blood Puppet True Venerate, who refined himself into a blood corpse and settled in the sect.

Nurtured for ten thousand years, the blood corpse grew increasingly terrifying, faintly surpassing the peak of Refining Nothingness.

If external enemies invade and Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain cannot defend, it would activate the Sect Suppressing Formation, the accumulated ghosts and zombies, along with this blood corpse, would not fear being besieged by several Refining Emptiness Peak Cultivators.

“Indeed, there is a reason why entities and forces can exist through the immense passage of time.”

Jiang Ding sighed.

He thought of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect.

Even though this sect lacks any Refining Void Late Stage cultivators, the strongest being Mid-stage Wanlei True Venerable, when they chose to remain in their mountain gate, the Blood Lake Ancestor, a Peak Refining Void Cultivator, led numerous sect refiners and Taoist Soldiers to attack for thousands of years without success.

In fact, when the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect showcased their heritage, he was forced to temporarily retreat, utilizing greater mobility to slowly deplete their formations, talismans, Taoist Soldiers, Spirit Stone reserves, etc.

Fortunately, after several thousand years of wear and tear, Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect’s many resources have been reduced, showing him an opportunity in recent years.

Now, these foundations of Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain naturally turned into nothing.

For Jiang Ding, destroying a blood corpse that had been dormant for a long time was naturally a simple task having grasped all the secrets within Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain.

This Refining Emptiness Peak blood corpse offered him somewhat of a surprise, annihilated the Human Dao, severely damaged nearly half of the Mutant Beast Dao, its power was truly pleasing.

Finally, after abolishing the cultivation of this blood corpse, it was sealed again.

The reason for not choosing destruction was because the blood corpse was made from the corpse of the founding ancestor of the Blood Puppet Elder Faction of the Immortal Artifact Sect; although they might not believe it, otherwise, they would not have refined their body into a blood corpse.

To be safe, Jiang Ding didn’t choose to destroy this blood corpse, lest it attract the attention of the Blood Puppet Elder Faction of the Immortal Artifact Sect.

Jiang Ding naturally didn’t come for a blood corpse that had lost its fighting capacity.

“Immortal Technique fragments…”

“No doubt, Blood Lake True Venerable was ingenious, placing the Immortal Technique fragments beside the blood corpse’s sarcophagus, so even Immortal Artifact Sect Practitioners would not dare disturb this departed sect predecessor lightly.”

Jiang Ding arrived at a hauntingly crimson grave in the rear mountain, and with a tap of his toe, the tombstone rumbled open, revealing a dark opening resembling the gaping mouth of a Blood Demon Giant Beast.

He entered it.

Inside was a stone platform with a blood-red sarcophagus, and the grave chamber ceiling appeared as a dim starry sky, with occasional flickers and movements of heavenly stars casting star lights formed from essence of earth’s and moon’s quintessence.

“Open,”

Jiang Ding casually tapped.

The blood-red sarcophagus opened, revealing within an elder of emaciated appearance, skin armored with blood-red scales, with three-inch-long nails gleaming coldly.

This was the blood corpse suppressing Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain.

Jiang Ding casually tossed this blood corpse into the corner of the grave chamber, treating it like discarded trash. The various malicious restrictions, curses, formation traps present were neither triggered nor activated.

Within the casket where the blood corpse lay, a damaged blood crystal gleamed faintly, sealing a polychromatic item inside.

Immortal Technique fragments!

Jiang Ding carefully took it out, placed it in his palm, gazing at the kaleidoscopic fragment with numerous insights tightly related to the fragment surfacing in his mind.

“Fragment of Immortal Skill: Void Suppression…”

“If the visions I saw weren’t illusions, this might be an intentional dissemination of knowledge by a suspected True Immortal, possibly having undergone harmless treatment; otherwise, it wouldn’t be so easily sealed.”

“Ordinary Immortal Techniques, even without malice, may pose a life-and-death threat that Near Immortal Level powerhouses couldn’t approach, and just aftereffects could obliterate Upper Realm Immortal Sect Level forces…”

Jiang Ding held his breath, carefully retrieving this most significant trophy into the Storage Jade Pendant.

One of the two Immortal Technique fragments recovered, completing half of the Thunder Flame Domain’s crucial target, ensuring harvest if faced with danger and needing rapid escape.

“The last one, Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect.”

“This sect, is somewhat troublesome.”

Jiang Ding recalled intelligence about this True Sect, slightly frowning: “The psychological shadow from the Blood Lake Ancestor’s thousands-of-years-long attack has had them shrinking back into their sect, and Refining Void existences don’t leave in case they’re caught alone by the Blood Lake Ancestor, meaning certain death.”

“It’s not that they won’t step outside; it’s impossible to die within the sect.”

“However, given the lifespan of Refining Void cultivators, they can turtle up for thousands more years; such patience exists, not difficult in life-and-death situations.”

“Hence, hoping to encounter Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect is unrealistic.”

“Forget it,”

After contemplating for a long time, Jiang Ding sighed lightly: “It seems I must personally visit Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect’s ancestor Wanlei True Venerable. If he sincerely apologizes and returns the fragment of my Immortal Technique they picked up, and all Refining Void cultivators within the sect take their own lives in penance, I might not pursue matters further.”

“After all, I am a magnanimous person.”