Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Zhang Dingjun felt his brain was about to crash.

Why would a Xiantian martial artist participating in the College Entrance Exam have a flying sword?

And how could he instantly kill a Mid-stage Qi Practitioner, even bisecting them along with their high-quality defensive magic tool into two halves?

Hundred Step Flying Sword?

What the hell is that!

”I’m old.”

Elder Lin Gang sighed bitterly, ”When did the Xianmen Sect develop this new cultivation method?”

No one around had any idea.

An Sinuo returned to her own separate space, a bamboo forest, with a vacant look in her eyes, it took her a long time to snap out of it before she screamed, ”Ah! I was killed by a Xiantian martial artist with a flying sword in an instant!”

”Oh my God! Could it be that he is a cultivator in disguise?”

She quickly reviewed the previous battle footage.

The cold weapon component of the College Entrance Exam was not a single-round affair, but consisted of multiple rounds with constant ranking.

The footage was also encouraged to be watched to maximize the Immortal Gate Students’ improvement through actual combat.

”He really is a Xiantian martial artist!”

An Sinuo was bewildered and ended up fixating on the Azure Flying Sword, ”There’s a problem here.”

Unable to figure it out for the moment, she sent the battle footage to the public exam channel with a very eye-catching deceptive clickbait title.

”A martial artist killed me, a Mid-stage Qi Practitioner, with a single move!”

This was also her subtle way of retaliation.

The candidates weren’t just competitors, they also cooperated and closely communicated within allowed parameters.

The battles continued.

”A Xiantian martial artist? Haha…”

”How are there still martial artists to this day?”

”Holy shit!”

The further the rounds progressed, the more cultivators they encountered.

Many began with looks of pleasant surprise, but the ending was always the same—after casting their magic and controlling their magic tools to attack, they were cut in half along with their tools by a single move.

”Mid-stage, Late-stage, no difficulty.”

Jiang Ding gradually started to gauge his own strength, ”Their magic and magic tools are so fragile, they die as soon as they pop up, no special tricks needed.”

”Round thirty-seven, Li Tie.”

A Qi Practicing Level 8 Cultivator appeared, and upon his Divine Sense Scanning a martial artist who was calmly observing, he cursed instead of being happy, ”A Xiantian martial artist! Jiang Ding!”

It was none other than Li Tie, the Dual Spiritual Roots Practitioner from Rongcheng No.7 High School.

He was also extremely decisive, casting an invisibility magic and vanishing from sight.

Above the sea, only Jiang Ding remained.

Jests came from all directions.

”Your Hundred Step Flying Sword is so sharp, huh? Well, I can become invisible!”

A Little Primordial Magnetism Mountain began to reveal its shape in the sky, continuously enlarging and plummeting towards the youth in blue clothes below, while a heavy pressure arrived, constraining his movement.

”Come on! Try to cut your lordship down!”

”Your lordship can smash you flat once, and can do it countless times!”

Boastful, triumphant laughter.

This was the perfect strategy discussed in a frenzied public chat room by multiple Qi Practitioners who had been abused, now put into action by him, added with his own swaggering words to disturb his opponent.

The Sword Qi around his body trembled slightly, and the binding invisible pressure immediately disappeared.

”An old acquaintance, eh!”

Jiang Ding revealed a grim smile.

He was remembering that not-so-pleasant afternoon.

”Go.”

Whoosh!

The flying sword streaked across the sky, where there was nothing, blood bloomed, and a body bisected at the waist along with severed organs fell from the sky.

Before hitting the sea, numerous bursts of Azure Sword Qi erupted, turning flesh and bone into a heap of fragments.

The Little Primordial Magnetism Mountain Artifact that was about to suppress him lost all its Spiritual Light and fell into the sea.

”Why…”

Only Li Tie’s head remained, murmuring in unwillingness.

Sword Intent detection and lock-on,

mere invisibility was entirely useless.

...

”This is…”

Inside the Air-Space Mothership in Xiandu, An Si with his yellow hair appeared hesitant, moments of terrifying killing intent leaking out, which shifted back to confusion, two extremely contradictory states alternating ceaselessly.

”Senior!”

Immortal Dinghai broke out in cold sweat, ”I searched the library, and the ’Great Sun Sword Cultivation Method’ from the Great Sun Sword Pavilion has already been deciphered by the Xianmen Sect, making cultivation possible.”

”Please, don’t let the main cannon of your Air-Space Mothership obliterate Rongcheng City.”

Such elder cultivators, having gone through unimaginably brutal racial extinction wars, coming from a time of bloody wind and blood rain, possess nerve reactions so sharp they’re beyond belief; many of their combat actions are subconscious and hard to control.

”Why didn’t you say so earlier!”

”I thought I’d hit on a magnificent achievement of a Dari Swordsman!”

The terrifying intent to kill that surrounded the blond dissipated, and he cursed loudly.

...

Whoosh!

A sword strike killed a Qi Practitioner at the peak of Qi Practicing Level 9 who was in hiding, and the flying sword returned.

Ding!

”You have entered the top thirty of the Year 11127 cold weapons examination.”

The mechanical voice of the Array Spirit sounded.

”Is the Xianmen Sect perhaps a bit weak when it comes to cold weapons?”

Jiang Ding felt some hesitation.

Whatever enemy he faced in the Qi Practicing Phase, they were all pierced by one sword, leaving nothing behind; it was useless to dodge or defend, an instant kill with one move.

Of course, it might not be considered as battling above one’s level.

The ’Eagle Taking Off Sword Technique,’ although an inner power of martial arts, once cultivated to the Xiantian level, could actually be considered on par with the most basic ’decree’ level cultivation methods.

It still couldn’t solve the innate disadvantage of cultivators being looked down upon for their lack of ranged deadly strikes, which is why they were scorned by other cultivators.

Now, with the problem of ranged attacks solved by the Hundred Step Flying Sword, the disadvantage was no longer a disadvantage.

That is to say,

you can consider Jiang Ding as a Qi Practitioner at the peak of the Ninth Layer of Qi Practicing who cultivates the lowest ’decree’ level cultivation method.

”Round sixty-two, Xu Jianian.”

Jiang Ding felt a slight shock in his heart.

Famous finally, a celebrated figure of the Xianmen Sect has arrived.

Xu Jianian!

The boss of the Xuda Group, son of Immortal Tianfang, a second-order war commander, graduated from Changbai University Affiliated High School, and with a cultivation base at the peak of Qi Practicing.

Even though he’s merely sixteen and hasn’t attended college yet, the cultivation method he practices is certainly not of the lowest ’decree’ level.

”Your innate talent for cold weapons is quite impressive.”

An attractive youth emerged from the white light, naturally carrying an air of superiority, as if all his peers ought to be accustomed to bowing their heads in front of him.

”What a pity that cold weapons are merely a minor path and of little significance.”

Jiang Ding felt somewhat uncomfortable.

Not because of his words.

But rather because of that look the other gave, similar to those of aristocrats from a feudal society like Tang Wang’s, the way they viewed commoners.

If it were Tang Wang looking at him with that gaze,

he wouldn’t be angry,

nor would he have any emotional fluctuations.

But being looked at with that gaze by a citizen of Xianmen Sect, that wasn’t acceptable.

”Please.”

Jiang Ding spoke in a deep voice.

His complex emotions concealed, he offered respect to a genuine prodigy of the Xianmen Sect.

”Very well.”

Xu Jianian shook his head, seemingly feeling it was below him to say more, flicked his sleeve and launched eighteen steles into a line, their auras connected, forming a complex array, and proceeded to suppress the youth in blue clothes in front of him.

Whoosh!

The Azure Flying Sword traced a rainbow light, always cutting straight through without any fancy tricks.

Sizzle!

The Azure Flying Sword, which has not met any object it couldn’t cut through since its inception, encountered an obstacle.

Between the eighteen steles, the array’s patterns flickered in and out of existence, seemingly creating shields out of thin air; as the flying sword pierced one after another, the opponent kept regenerating them, endlessly.

With no choice, it changed its angle and shot out, hovering in the sky.

Of course, this was without revealing the Magic Arts-Breaking Immortal Gold.

There was no space left for annihilation.

”A second-order formation!”

”Eighteen magic tool embryos connected by heart and blood!”

Jiang Ding blurted out.

He stared intensely at the handsome youth surrounded by eighteen steles in the sky, intimidated by the wealth and talent of an Immortal of Nascent Soul’s direct descendant.

This person possessed the power of single combat at the foundation building level.