Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

”Old man, risking great dangers, I’ve undermined the foundations of the Sword Sect, nurturing sword plants with untold youths of outstanding sword dao talent as the soil, and it wasn’t for some scrap iron that could only be smelted to enhance sword intent,”

Immortal Burning Bone shook his head.

”What I truly anticipate is the Yang-Attribute Sword Intent that can let this old man defy the heavens and change fate!”

”Just any person,”

”Thinks they can come and reap the fruits of the old man’s labor? Do you think that’s possible, Blood Bone disciple?”

Immortal Burning Bone said no more and gazed at his disciple within the tribulation thunderclouds not far away, his eyes shining with luster as if looking at a supreme treasure.

Immortal Blood Bone felt a chill down his spine.

His heart began to pound uncontrollably, filled with unease.

An uncontrolled sense of panic arose in his heart, his Divine Sense and Sword Intent incessantly scanning his Sea of Consciousness, Elixir Field, meridians, flesh, bones, Life Flying Sword, over and over again, even momentarily neglecting the heavenly tribulation.

Without finding anything.

There wasn’t a single problem anywhere. Over the past few centuries, he was always introspective and had never found any abnormalities.

”Old thing, deceiving and bewitching!”

Immortal Blood Bone sneered and ceased to pay attention, focusing on coping with the tribulation thunderclouds.

Immortal Burning Bone didn’t get angry but just watched him.

One day, two days, three days...

Unknowingly, half a month had passed; this amount of time was extremely brief for Infant Formation, which at least required a year to gather enough Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi to shatter the elixir and transform it into a Nascent Soul.

The commotion caused was carefully erased by Immortal Burning Bone, and anyone who approached had become a pile of white bones.

Suddenly, the tribulation clouds dispersed.

”No!”

”Master! I was wrong, please spare me! Mercy...”

Immortal Blood Bone screamed in terror.

On his body, wisps of grey-white flame appeared, starting from the depths of his bones and gradually burning, incinerating his blood, flesh, meridians, Elixir Field, Divine Soul, skin...

From afar, a man cloaked in flames writhed and twisted on the ground, wailing incessantly, sending shivers down one’s spine.

In the space of a breath,

Immortal Blood Bone’s skin had melted away, and the grey-white flames burned on his muscles, with flakes of ash falling down.

”Master! I was wrong!”

”It wasn’t disloyalty towards you, it was the Bloody Sun Sword Intent that seduced me; something is wrong with this Sword Intent, it’s not right! I was bewildered, it wasn’t my fault!”

”Spare me, master, please spare me...”

Immortal Blood Bone begged frantically, his cries sorrowful, lacking the cold domination that once slaughtered tens of thousands on White Maple Mountain; he wailed and wept unceasingly.

”Right.”

”Indeed it is so.”

With the obstruction of the heavenly tribulation clouds gone, Immortal Burning Bone walked step by step, arriving in an instant as if a ghost, and indifferently said, ”Bloody Sun Sword Intent, who wouldn’t be tempted? Even I am tempted, what mutt are you to stay true-hearted?”

”Heavenly treasures belong to those with fate.”

”Disciple, your life’s fate and opportunities are insufficient; you can’t bear such a fortune.”

He looked on indifferently.

Immortal Blood Bone writhed and twisted on the ground, wailing, gradually turning into a pile of white ash, dispersing with the wind, with even his bones and Life Flying Sword vanishing.

All the essence of flesh and spiritual energy surged into the Divine Soul, finally transforming into a blood-white bi-colored fruit, with the clear ringing of sword chimes resonating.

”Not bad, a top-grade Sword Fruit, just a hair away from the supreme grade,”

Immortal Burning Bone nodded slightly. He wasn’t too concerned at the moment and stored it away.

Then, his gaze heatedly turned towards a crimson, burning hot fruit revealed as the ash from the body of Immortal Blood Bone, blown away by the wind.

From the beginning to the end, Immortal Blood Bone was unable to digest it in the slightest, unaware of the special restriction set upon it.

”Bloody Sun...”

Immortal Burning Bone painstakingly bent over and cradled the Bloody Sun Sword Fruit with both hands, feeling its heat and sharpness, his body trembling uncontrollably, ”My path lies here, Nascent Soul Peak is inevitable, and even Divinity Transformation holds a slim hope, no longer mediocre.”

Bloody Sun.

Bloody Sun Sword Intent!

In the Great Sun Sword Sect, those who possess Yang-Attribute Sword Intent are without exception top-tier powerhouses, individuals with profound potential.

And now, he too could possess it.

If word got out, countless Immortals of Nascent Soul from the Great Sun Sword Sect would turn green with envy, go mad, and come to kill with swords in hand. Decades of friendships and years of profit sharing would be useless, bought loyalty would mean nothing.

”The longer the night, the more dreams one has.”

”Although it is somewhat rushed and a few auxiliary elixirs are lacking, it is enough.”

Immortal Burning Bone, without any hesitation, sat cross-legged, waving his hand to release a fourth-order Defensive Array he carried to protect himself. He took out elixirs, Spirit Talismans, treasures, and various other items from his storage bag, meticulously prepared for many years, just for the day when he would ascend to the heavens in one step.

After meditating and adjusting his breath for several days, everything was ready.

”Success or failure hangs in the balance!”

Immortal Burning Bone looked at the Bloody Sun Sword Fruit in his hand, steeled his heart, and suddenly pressed it to his forehead, allowing it to transform into a stream of light surging into his Sea of Consciousness.

Inside his Divine Soul, the original Burning Bone Sword Intent moved restlessly, greedily eyeing the rising bloody sun not far away, yet with hesitation, fear, and indecision.

”Burning Bone Sword Intent, go forth.”

Immortal Burning Bone, with a kindly expression, looked at another version of himself, ”Devour it, but don’t chew vigorously; its nature is stronger than ours, yet it is currently too weak, merely at the third order. You need to chew slowly and carefully, little by little, replace your own bones and blood, merge into your body, and transform yourself...”

He rambled on as if chatting aimlessly but was in fact checking for any oversights, desiring to transform his own Sword Intent.

”Tatat...”

The Burning Bone Sword Intent, like a grey-white bone serpent, slithered over, saliva dripping down, as if in response, suppressing the greed and restlessness within.

It slowly approached the bloody sun, opened its wide bloody mouth, and carefully nibbled a bit of the bloody sun.

Crack.

The grey-white bone serpent chewed contentedly, its eyes resembling fiery pits revealing a look of intoxication.

A moment later, it stopped.

It opened its mouth again, this time not carefully but rather eagerly tearing at it, biting off a full third of the bloody sun. Grey-white flames blazed in its mouth, burning fiercely as it sought to assimilate the foreign Sword Intent, wanting to replace its own bones and blood with a secret technique.

”No!”

”Impossible!”

The Bone Serpent formed from Immortal Burning Bone’s Sword Intent finally showed a look of shock and anger, ”How can there be no taste at all? No taste! It shouldn’t be like this!”

Aside from the very first bite, which tasted supreme, it seemed like the Burning Bone Sword Intent would break through in the next moment.

And then,

There was no taste at all.

Like chewing a bubble of air, a cup of plain water, nothing.

”Impossible!”

”This can’t be possible!”

Immortal Burning Bone roared angrily, his bone serpent opened its huge mouth, wanting to devour the rest of the Bloody Sun Sword Intent, unwilling to believe that the hopes for ascending to the next level had been shattered.

The bone serpent’s gaping maw caused intense turmoil in the Divine Soul, and before it got close, the dazzling Bloody Sun Sword Intent swayed, collapsed into a burst of Spiritual Light, and completely vanished.

From beginning to end, it had all been just a fleeting illusion.

Crack!

The Bone Serpent of the Burning Bone Sword Intent lunged at nothing, its sharp fangs striking violently together, sparks flying.

”Who is it!”

”Who dares to play with me?!!”

Immortal Burning Bone, consumed by rage, his eyes blood-red and on the verge of madness, his violent Sword Intent and oppressive aura spread in all directions. Within dozens of kilometers, the wind howled, the earth churned, and countless birds and creatures’ Divine Souls shattered and died.

Clang!

At that moment, a clear and piercing sound of a sword cry echoed between heaven and earth.

Boom!

Then came a thunderous boom.

A Bluegold Sword Light from the sky slashed down vertically, the Sword Intent of Destruction spreading in all directions, cleansing everything. The obstructing Arrays shattered loudly, the ground rolled and split, countless Array Bases and treasures broke and scattered, momentarily interrupting the Nascent Soul Monk’s fury.

”Who?”

Immortal Burning Bone was startled and looked in the direction of the Sword Light.

A young man in green clothes unsheathed his sword, cleaving through the fourth-order Defensive Array. Amidst the dust and smoke, he walked towards this side.

”Immortal Burning Bone, are you willing to take your own life?”