Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 464 - 422: Peak of Foundation Building

"Ding!"

"You are receiving fifth-level clearance intelligence, this intelligence is protected by the Xianmen Oath, please do not disclose it to those without sufficient clearance."

The voice of the Central Array Spirit Computer rang out.

Jiang Ding's face showed a serious expression.

"Originally, this domain was home to a rather splendid Immortal Path civilization, with each small world having Nascent Soul Cultivators, and over many tens of thousands of years, numerous small worlds have even accumulated several Refining Nothingness Cultivators."

Immortal Dinghai spoke slowly.

"More than 300,000 years ago, the Nine Great Immortal Sects came here and joined forces to extinguish the original Immortal Path civilization, establishing their own sects, lifting the Immortal Path civilization of this place to a new level."

"This doesn't concern us much. Lanying Planet is also an outsider, appearing here due to the spatial entanglement of the universe."

"In any case, after the Nine Great Immortal Sects ruled this domain, it remained stable for tens of thousands of years and then,"

"A terrible and bloody civil war broke out."

Immortal Dinghai asked, "What do you think was the cause?"

"Above Refining Nothingness."

Jiang Ding replied without hesitation.

Only this could drive the Refining Nothingness Cultivators to fight with their lives, sparing no effort.

"Correct."

Immortal Dinghai nodded, "The resources of this domain are quite abundant, but even with the crude laissez-faire nurturing by the Nine Great Immortal Sects, it's possible to birth nine Great Experts of Refining Nothingness, yet this is already the limit. It is simply impossible to go further."

"The only way is to eliminate the other Immortal Sects one by one, gather the entire domain's Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures, then through the use of secret techniques to slow down the erosion of Life Energy, amassing it for over a hundred thousand years."

"This way, one could theoretically possess the resources to break through Refining Nothingness."

"The final war ended without a clear victor."

"Sometimes one sect would have the upper hand, but then it would quickly be suppressed by the allied forces of the other sects, including, at that time, the Daymoon Sword Pavilion."

"Back then, the Daymoon Sword Pavilion was divided into two veins, the Sun Vein and the Moon Vein."

"The Sun Vein was explosive, offensive, advocating the ultimate in offense and destruction, risking the flesh and blood body being swept away by Sword Qi and burned to ashes.

The Moon Vein, by contrast, was milder, with the Moon's Swords specializing in Illusion and Sword Formations, defeating enemies quickly with a continuous stream of attacks."

"When the Divine Souls of both veins interacted, they would have a complementary effect."

Immortal Dinghai stealthily glanced at Jiang Ding.

"And then?"

Jiang Ding's expression remained unchanged.

"Afterwards,"

Immortal Dinghai seemed slightly disappointed.

"Under the circumstances of resource scarcity, the Sun and Moon veins agreed to alternate their advancement to Refining Nothingness every thirty thousand years."

"Within the Sword Pavilion, once a Dari Swordsman reached maturity, unwilling to accept the flaws in his own cultivation method and desiring to gather resources to reach higher realms, he brazenly broke the pact, initiating a bloody purge, nearly annihilating the Moon Vein. Only the Moon Vein Sword Cultivators stationed outside the sect managed to escape in part, afterward seeking refuge with the Green Wood Immortal Sect, thus becoming an offshoot of its Sword Dao."

"One hundred and sixty thousand years ago, the Daymoon Sword Pavilion was renamed Great Sun Sword Pavilion, and in just over ten thousand years, it resolved its cultivation method defects and began the plan to annex the other Eight Great Immortal Sects."

"At its peak, the Great Sun Sword Master dominated the domain, and the Great Experts of Refining Nothingness from the Eight Great Immortal Sects could only hunker down in their sect's Mountain Gate Formation, relying on super teleportation formations within their sects to support each other. A confrontation meant eight Great Refining Nothingness supported by the Sect's Great Formation, which the Great Sun Sword Master simply couldn't overcome."

"Even so, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion still held a massive strategic initiative. With forty-two small worlds in hand and double that number indirectly controlled, countless Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures were gathered. Given another seventeen or eighteen thousand years, they might have induced a qualitative change."

"Therefore, at that time, the emergence of Xianmen Sect, as you can imagine, was met with great joy by the Eight Great Immortal Sects, who provided substantial support."

Immortal Dinghai laughed, "Can you imagine? At that time, cultivators from the Eight Great Immortal Sects came to Xianmen Sect, cultivators from the Green Wood Immortal Sect taught Xianmen cultivators the way of Spiritual Plants, cultivators from the Wanshou Immortal Sect taught us how to breed Spirit Beasts, the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace taught us how to conduct Army Formation defense and attacks, and Shangqing Lingbao Sect taught us Artifact Refining..."

"Alas, with the fall of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, everything vanished like smoke in the air,"

"Moreover, with the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace leading the way, the Five Elements Heavenly Sect's attitude was ambiguous, and the Eight Great Immortal Sects smoothly launched a backstabbing attack.

Despite being prepared, Xianmen Sect suffered heavy losses and gained nothing in the end, relying solely on their final reserves to hold onto the Mother Realm for over a thousand years.

Only when the Eight Great Immortal Sects once again turned on each other over the division of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's inheritance did they slowly deploy their forces and recover part of the spoils of war."

"Even so, we can't afford to oppose the Eight Great Immortal Sects."

"I hear you're planning a trip to the Great Sun Heavenly Pond recently?"

Immortal Dinghai finally stated his purpose.

"That's right."

Jiang Ding nodded lightly.

Decades, for an Immortal of Nascent Soul, is akin to the near past.

"We can't consider all the Eight Great Immortal Sects our enemies,"

"Because we can't defeat them."

Immortal Dinghai said solemnly, "Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, a sworn enemy, diehards, Wanshou Immortal Sect, excelling in concealment and the Shadow Demon Abyss lurking stealthily, it's the same for the others like the Green Wood Immortal Sect, Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Palace, Dan Ding Immortal Sect, etc. They do not make the first move, and it's better we do not provoke them unnecessarily."

"Of course, don't be tied hand and foot, the juniors, after all, are not significant enough to affect inter-domain relationships."

"The main thing is that we should cultivate this habit, trying our best to align our own interests with the grand scheme of Xianmen Sect, borrowing strength while protecting its existence."

"Understood!"

Jiang Ding said earnestly.

The interests of Xianmen Sect are his interests, no doubt about it.

Here, he would have access to the most advanced immortal path technology, his cultivation methods could be greatly deduced by Xianmen Sect, and unlike in the Immortal Sects, where one has to be on guard against both outside and inside threats, unable to fully trust anyone, a slight inattention could mean death and obliteration of one's Dao.

Returning to his dormitory, Jiang Ding unfolded the Bluegold Large Tree and entered into cultivation once again.

Time passed leisurely, and ten years went by.

That year, Jiang Yuan successfully established her foundation with the aid of many high-rank heavenly and earthly spiritual entities, her daughter, the younger of the Dragon and Phoenix Twins, succeeded in switching to a Magic-Level Technique to cultivate Qi, and her son began to get married and start a family.

Jiang Yuan had a grandson.

All these, Jiang Ding no longer paid attention to.

A gentleman's grace is cut off after three generations.

They were too distant from each other, practically strangers, meeting only to experience the awkwardness of having to chat about whether one had a girlfriend, was married, or had a job just to break the ice and bridge the gap, pointlessly breeding resentment.

Better not to meet at all.

Another nine years went by.

Lin Yuanwang got married to a Foundation-building cultivator.

Jiang Ding graduated as a master's degree student and successfully became a doctoral student at Qingfeng University; An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng did the same, with Xianmen Sect's top talents continually escalating, receiving the attentive guidance of the most powerful cultivators in Xianmen Sect and the highest quality of education and training in the domain.

Twenty-two more years passed.

Underneath the Bluegold Large Tree, absorbing Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence, his mana circulated through the last cycle of Zhou Tian, gradually calming down.

Jiang Ding opened his eyes.

A bright light flashed and disappeared; his magical aura was pure and complete after years of refinement, without a trace of space for further improvement.

"I've reached the peak of Foundation Building."