Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 509 - 494: Great Sun Conglomerate Army

A streak of azure sword-shaped escape light pierced through the clouds, breasted the piercing gale, and landed atop a floating peak.

"Hmm, very pretty."

Jiang Ding's Divine Sense swept across the mountain peak of over seventy kilometers in size, its flowers, grasses, and trees all present, with the vast majority being Golden Attribute Spiritual Plants, endowing the entire peak with a silver-white metallic luster.

He chose a spot resembling a cliff halfway up the mountain.

Whoosh!

The Taiqing Flying Sword flashed out from his glabella, its sword-light crisscrossing.

Under the gleam of sword-light, rock and soil were shaved away piece by piece, forming a platform several kilometers in size, smooth as a mirror, though occasionally there were sizable holes—the empty cavities of soil and rock.

"Let's fix it up."

Jiang Ding beckoned with his hand, and rocks flew over from all directions, taking a brief measure.

Quite heavy, clearly very high-grade metal ore, they should be first-order Spiritual Gold ore called Silverlight Iron, which would be considered quite excellent material for a Qi Practitioner's Flying Sword.

"Golden Pill Monks are much wealthier than Qi Practitioners, even those from Xianmen."

Jiang Ding exclaimed with feeling.

These things, perhaps the total possessions of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of Qi Practitioners put together wouldn't be enough, but they're just things like floor tiles for a Golden Pill Monk's residence, not worth a mention.

A Great Sun Elixir Fire of deep blue hue spouted forth, falling into the rocks that had gathered around, accompanied by the sizzling sound, light blue smoke wafted, and the rock melted into magma, dropping to the ground.

Clouds of light blue smoke rose from the ground, and even the Golden Attribute Spiritual Plants were ignited in the high temperature, catching fire and melting a large area of the mountain terrain.

A basketball-sized orb of silver-white metallic liquid was extracted, suspended mid-air, as the deep blue Elixir Fire burned beneath it.

Rocks constantly flew in, unceasingly refined.

Soon, in front of Jiang Ding, a house-sized sphere of silver-white metal formed, spinning continuously, casting off deeper impurities, becoming further refined.

"That should do."

Jiang Ding's mind moved with a thought.

A wisp from the house-sized silver-white metal sphere separated, fell on the holes of the cliffside platform, filling them without leaving a trace.

After that wisp came thousands more, all at once, the metallic sphere in the sky kept shrinking, dividing slippery strands of silver-white liquid that fell to the earth, mending the pitted ground, then laying another layer.

In the blink of an eye, this several-kilometer expanse of cliffside had been repaired to a smooth, mirror-like finish, reflecting streaks of bright sunlight, dazzling to the eye.

"That'll be fine."

Jiang Ding nodded with satisfaction.

From his Storage Jade Pendant, he threw out a television, desk, teacup, and other items, completing the relocation of his abode.

In reality, as a qualified abode, there should at least also be a protective Formation Method, isolating the inside from the outside.

However, he believed it unnecessary since the dormitory formation at Qingfeng University itself sufficed, at least better than his own level.

"Off you go."

Jiang Ding pointed with his finger.

The Taiqing Flying Sword soared into the sky, ascended to the clouds, and then plummeted, deeply piercing the smooth mirror-like ground, leaving a hole.

Boom~

Then, accompanied by the rumbling of the earth heaving, dirt and rocks shattering, a bright blue ancient tree rose from the ground, its branches stretching out toward the sky, sprawling in all directions.

In the blink of an eye, it propped up a large canopy-like spread of shade.

Fifty meters, a hundred meters, two hundred meters...

It kept growing taller, expanding, always getting bigger!

Jiang Ding looked up, quietly appreciating the tree-shaped form of the upgraded Taiqing Flying Sword.

Over five-hundred meters tall!

The canopy spread over a thousand meters, covering an area of one kilometer!

Within a fifty-kilometer radius, it suddenly dimmed.

Infinite Great Sun Light converged here, transformed into Great Sun Essence, the bright blue branches dazzling and splendid, inhaling and exhaling Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi, a vast Spiritual Energy pressure undulated hundreds of kilometers, visible to the naked eye.

Without Formation Method concealment, Foundation-building Cultivators' Divine Souls would be left blank, and even Golden Pill Monks would feel uneasy and unable to meditate quietly.

At this moment,

It truly possessed a trace of the Sun God Wood's grandeur, as if in the midst of the azure heavens!

"The Sun God Wood!"

"If a Golden Crow or Phoenix were to come here, I wonder if I'd welcome it, or drive it away..."

Jiang Ding sunk into pondering.

He closed his eyes, inhaling and exhaling the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence, plunging into deep cultivation.

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Three months later, Jiang Ding opened his eyes.

As a doctorate student at Qingfeng University, he attended class once every three months.

The rest of the time, besides cultivation, was deeply invested in scientific research.

Moreover, there were explicit demands for research achievements, incredibly high standards, and without them, graduation was impossible, as was obtaining the Infant Formation Spiritual Object.

This was also why Wu Mengsha and others went into raptures after the appearance of the Dari Swordsman.

Of course, it wasn't limited to scientific research; having military merits could also lead to graduation.

Jiang Ding flew into the sky, passed through the troposphere, and reached the cloudless stratosphere, heading towards a leaf several kilometers in size, with people arriving from all directions one after another.

Nearly two hundred people.

Most were Golden Pill Monks; a smaller portion were cultivators at the peak of Foundation Building, and as for those in the latter stage of Foundation Building, they were the least, just a handful.

Every one of these individuals could be called a Domain Pride.

An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng also arrived, bending their escape light to follow the flight.

"How are the preparations for Golden Pill going?"

Jiang Ding whispered.

Both of them were at the peak of Foundation Building.

"It should take about another twenty years or so,"

Jin Lingfeng thought for a moment and said, "I estimate that after another twenty years of refining, my mana and Divine Sense will reach their limits, unable to progress further, and I can attempt to break into the Golden Pellet Realm."

"I'm pretty much in the same situation."

An Siyan adjusted his glasses.

The three of them landed on the leaf and respectfully walked towards the stone platform at the center, step by step.

Doctorate students at Qingfeng University's Cultivation Department had one more course than the graduate and undergraduate students, named the Taoist Rhythm course, capturing the rhythm of the road of cultivation.

The lecturer,

was the seventh-generation ruler of the Xianmen Sect, an incarnation of a Nascent Soul Cultivator, distantly!

This ruler had been in power for over three thousand years, and it was under his leadership that the Xianmen Sect built upon the foundation laid by predecessors, began to take the stage of the Domain, and achieved the prestige of being the Domain Overlord.

The superior cultivation environment that Xianmen cultivators enjoy today is all thanks to Distant and his comrades' efforts.

People quietly arrived from all around, the atmosphere was solemn and respectful, no one jesting or laughing.

Of course, that was just on the surface.

In the presence of this legendary figure who was almost from history, even Golden Pill Monks who were hundreds of years old could not help but treat themselves as clueless kids, regaining a bit of their youthful mischief and naivety.

"Hey, Dari Swordsman, congratulations on your Foundation Establishment!"

"In the future, you'll have to look out for your bro here, don't let the disciples of the Immortal Sects kill me."

"Will you follow the traditional path of a Xianmen disciple and build your own conglomerate army? I could take the role of a staff officer. Consider me, bro..."

A circle of Golden Pill Monks around him greeted him excitedly, having been classmates for nearly twenty years, they knew each other very well.

"Celebrations to us, celebrations to us..."

"Not at all, not at all..."

Jiang Ding warmly responded to the greetings of the surrounding students, avoiding a direct answer to the inquiries about the conglomerate army.

Because he was unsure himself!

Xianmen disciples,

Often referred to as disciples of Extra-terrestrial Immortal Sects, within the Xianmen Sect it's known as the Refining Nothingness Training Sequence, indicating those cultivators whom the Central Array Spirit Computer recognizes as having the potential for Divinity Transformation.

Of course, as the Xianmen Sect does not possess a Divinity Transformation inheritance, in reality, these cultivators' potential and hopes for Divinity Transformation are much less compared to the likes of An Tuzi and others.

However, at least until they reach Divinity Transformation, their combat power at the same level meets the standards of the Taoist disciples of the Eight Great Immortal Sects.

That's if they possess their own Air-Space Group Army.

The Xianmen Sect will specifically select talented elites among the pride of Xianmen, intentionally design corresponding Air-Space Warplanes and Air-Space Warships, military formation methods, and expend massive resources to form these special conglomerate armies for internal warfare and future outer Realm combat.

Periodically, they even rotate the staff and soldiers within to prevent the emergence of military strongman tendencies.

The Green Divine Group Army of Immortal Gulin is such a special Air-Space Group Army, capable under siege of rivaling the disciples of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace.

As for Jiang Ding himself,

To tell the truth, his Army Commanding Ability had not yet reached the standard of a Xianmen disciple, and the difference was quite substantial.

But going into battle with a sword, that he could do.

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