Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Regardless of the turmoil of war outside, it could not disturb the tranquility of the Silver Sky Island dormitory.

Under the Sun God Wood, a young man clad in green sat cross-legged, with the shimmering branches and trunk of the tree transitioning between light and shadow. Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence gathered and dispersed with a frequency that resonated with the human breath.

Crack... crack...

Boom!

After an indeterminate length of time, amidst the flickering lightning and the roaring thunder, Jiang Ding opened his eyes and looked up at the sky through the canopy of the Sun God Wood.

The Great Sun Battleship shone brilliantly, the Array Pattern of the Ten Thousand Magnetic Thunder Cloud it bore etched into its hull activated spontaneously, spreading thunderous might hundreds of kilometers across, a fearsome display.

”She advanced...”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

For years, the Super Sun Vessel had melted various ranks of Nascent Treasures in its engine furnace, assimilating a massive amount of fourth and third-tier Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure. The essence extracted in the furnace was mixed with various metals, creating high-grade composite Spirit Materials that were integrated into the ship’s hull.

There was also the perpetual highest-standard maintenance and refining support service from the Xianmen Sect’s warship maintenance center.

This was a project comparable to the Scorching Sun Spirit Iron of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion Dari Swordsmen, naturally occurring, requiring no search, and additionally, it was free.

Such accumulations led to this day, decades later, when the warship finally underwent a transformation.

On the silvery white giant iron ship, Spiritual Light flickered erratically, forcefully inhaling and exhaling vast amounts of Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence. Layers of electromagnetic thunderclouds appeared around the hull, occasionally spitting out fist-sized globules of thunder liquid that scorched vast holes into the void.

In the midst of the lightning, the hull turned a glowing red, and the surface of the high-grade spiritual alloy began to ripple like water, with patches of black rust-like solids occasionally falling to the ground and smashing deep pits into it.

The materials of the hull, cannon, engine, sonar, and other components underwent drastic transformations.

The materials were transforming, and the internal Array Patterns and prohibitions of the warship were also undergoing dramatic changes.

Crack!

The lightning became even more dazzling and dangerous.

Bolt after bolt of lightning flashed, with the azure magnetic induction lines visibly spanning heaven and earth, manifesting physically as if a net of thunder spread over hundreds of kilometers.

Waiting to capture something.

Jiang Ding concentrated and held his breath, watching all of this unfold.

After a long while, the world grew calm, the lightning and spiderweb-like magnetic induction lines disappeared.

”Commander, the Super Sun Vessel’s promotion is complete.”

The Ship Spirit Cloud Day reported with a crisp voice.

In the sunlight, the thousand-meter-long giant iron ship sparkled brilliantly, its hull’s curves now seemingly more soft and a lot more graceful.

It exhibited a natural and weighty pressure, its mere presence smoothing out the air currents in tens of kilometers around, without stirring a single ripple.

This was the exterior.

Jiang Ding’s Divine Sense flooded into the ship, scanning bit by bit. He discovered that the Formation Patterns within the warship had become more complex, especially the critically important Magneto-Cloud Star-Splitting Main Cannon, where the six Heavenly Gang Electromagnetic Prohibitions appeared like energy rings wrapped around the cannon, with lightning faintly flickering.

If Divine Sense delved into a single Heavenly Gang Electromagnetic Prohibition, one would find that each one was composed of seventy-two Electromagnetic Accelerators, capable of increasing a projectile’s speed to the point of tearing through space.

Now,

This group of Heavenly Gang Electromagnetic Prohibition Accelerators had six!

Aside from the electromagnetic main cannon, enhancements of various degrees also appeared in the Super Sun Vessel’s hull strength, Spirit Particle Engine power, Spirit Particle Sonar range and precision, as well as the fourth-tier Electromagnetic Thundercloud Array.

”Cloud Day is really amazing!”

Jiang Ding praised.

”Of course.”

The Ship Spirit Cloud Day raised its head proudly,

Having just been promoted, it appeared extremely fatigued. After several self-checks of the ship’s body and finding no errors, it lay its face on the deck and fell into a deep sleep.

Jiang Ding got up and went to school.

After Immortal Dinghai and Immortal Luling stepped down, new principals and teachers took over at Qingfeng University. There was no vacancy to disrupt the teaching.

Jiang Ding continued to learn from them.

Moreover, Yuan was stationed at Xianmen Sect and did not leave, so the curriculum was not interrupted.

No matter what, even when things were urgent, nothing could interfere with his schooling. Learning Formation Methods, Cultivation Methods as well as the development of Great Sun Nascent Soul Art, swordsmanship, and other matters were all crucial for accumulating the foundation of the Immortal Path.

Each year passed normally like this.

Cultivating, going to school, researching, reading about the new findings of Xianmen Sect, enriching himself.

Unconsciously,

Five years went by.

One day, Jiang Ding opened his eyes and took some time to pay attention to the events in the Northern Plains.

”The Tushan maiden group has won...”

Jiang Ding flipped through the intelligence in his Sea of Consciousness regarding the affairs of the Tushan maiden group’s courthouse.

Several years ago, with the help of Qing Yunzi and Han Lin, Xie Louxi of the Tushan maiden group and her more than five thousand maidens successfully ambushed the Ice Snow Holy Maiden, Mu Tiansnow. They inflicted serious injuries on her, causing her to flee in a sorry state and leaving her unable to continue troubling the Tushan maiden group’s rear.

As a result, their control over the rear gradually stabilized.

There was also an interesting matter: Fifty-six maidens from the Tushan maiden group’s courthouse jointly filed a complaint.

They said that Han Lin clearly could have stopped the Ice Snow Holy Maiden, Mu Tiansnow, but when she began burning Essence Blood in a desperate bid, he chickened out, not daring to intercept anymore. He made some token interceptions, letting the Ice Snow Holy Maiden escape before the maiden group’s encirclement completely closed, saving her own life.

Well, then, they said Han Lin’s Token of the Court’s Blessed Land should be revoked.

”Not allowed.”

Jiang Ding annotated, ”The rewards that should be given cannot be reduced by the slightest, including the share of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and Spirit Stones due for this battle.”

As for Han Lin’s avoidance of battle, Jiang Ding was not surprised at all; no one could make this man fight desperately without an escape route.

But this wasn’t a mistake; Han Lin had only agreed to contain Mu Tiansnow, he had never promised to fight to the death. Avoiding combat was reasonable and shouldn’t be harshly judged.

If it had been agreed from the beginning to fight to the death, he wouldn’t have come at all.

This battle had already achieved its purpose, successfully stabilizing the shaky foundation of the Tushan maiden group’s rule.

Years later, which is today, the Tushan maiden group, at the cost of heavy casualties, successfully breached the Formation Method and captured the stronghold of Liudao Sect and the Ice Snow Palace’s forces.

They then began to pursue the defeated forces northward, accepting surrenders, collecting spoils of war, and executing all members of families without merits, especially the direct lineages.

It is estimated that within a few more years, they will be able to completely take over the grasslands of the Yin’s, Liu’s, and other three families of the Liudao Sect. They will enter deep into the territories to establish their own rule. Next, they will turn their attention to the Joyous Union Sect and the Liudao Sect coalition in the direction of Blood Cloud – as well as the King’s Court in the plains, which is critical to the outcome of the Court’s war.

There, the main forces of the Righteous and Demon Alliance, the armies of the Great Sun Sword Sect, and the forces of the Great Sun Dharma Sect are present.

Once they defeat these three powers, the Tushan maiden group will be able to take control of the Court’s Blessed Land, obtain the Nascent Soul Opportunity, and realize the cherished Nascent Soul Path for which they have been vigorously fighting.

”Keep it up, girls.”

Jiang Ding casually put down the intelligence report.

He closed his eyes and continued to absorb the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence, which passed through his meridians and the Elixir Field, slowly accumulating Mana.

Within the Elixir Field, he was just a slight bit away from breaking through from the middle to the late Golden Pill stage.