Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Yue pressed her hands together, bathed in boundless moonlight, like a Goddess within the Moon Palace.

Endless rosy clouds and endless misty vapors coiled around her, and one after another blurred Sword Dao phantom emerged—beginning from the First Generation Sword Master opening the Dao, using the nascent Great Sun Swordsmanship to bury the Supreme Elders of the Eight Great Immortal Sects, then the Second Generation Great Sun Sword Master consolidating the foundation, allowing the newborn Great Sun Sword Pavilion to gain a foothold in the Star Sea.

One Great Sun Sword Master after another went forth without turning back; one Great Sun Sword Master after another cleared the way through brambles and thorns.

Among these Sword Masters, some were mediocre in talent, some possessed peerless gifts, yet all of them bore an utterly pure fervor for the Sword Dao; the fate of every Great Sun Swordsman was to fall in battle amidst the Star Sea, without a single exception—never had there been a Great Sun Sword Master who died old upon a bed.

The phantoms of one Great Sun Sword Master after another blossomed across heaven and earth.

”Great Sun Sword Master...”

Within Dubhe, there were descendants of the Eight Great Immortal Sects of the Nine Spirits Realm, and Supremes still remained; at this moment, they could not help but show complicated expressions.

In bygone years, should there not have been Nine Great Immortal Sects within the Nine Spirits Realm?

Yet now the Great Sun Sword Pavilion had risen to such an unimaginable height; even the birth of Supremes within their present-day Sects was achieved by riding the brilliant east wind of Great Sun Swordsmanship—otherwise they would at most be forces of Refining Nothingness or Harmonization, finding it far too difficult even to reach the stage of Heavenly Man, doomed to sit trapped within their cages.

”Pure Yang Lineage...”

The two present Eight Tribulation Venerables of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm wore dazed expressions, once more beholding the history of their Sect.

In ancient days they severed Taiyin and alone achieved Pure Yang—the Sun Lineage of the Sect—creating a miracle within the Endless Starry Sky; in later generations, whoever read the history of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty could not help but mention the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm. It was precisely from the Pure Yang Sword Sect, to the Yin Yang Sword Sect, to the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, and then to the Great Sun Sword Pavilion—this was a history of boundless splendor.

And now, the Dao birthed by the Sect for the third time, the Sect birthed for the third time, was blooming with radiance.

Clang!

Clang, clang, clang!

Within endless Sword-light and endless moonlight, Yue’s body merged into the space between heaven and earth, harmonizing with the Endless Starry Sky Path, harmonizing with the hundred and eight thousand Supreme Great Sun Dao Swords.

Swoosh! Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

One Flying Sword after another, bearing the heritage will of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, shot toward the Star Sea, flew toward the Sun Stars, merging as one with the Great Sun, no longer distinct from it; borrowing the status of the Great Sun to observe all beings under heaven, the Endless Starry Sky, and the River of Time and destiny of the millions of years to come, to seek out within the Endless Starry Sky those successors belonging to Great Sun Swordsmanship.

Heaven and earth seemed to fall still.

Hum!

Rumble!

Like the eruption of solar flares, heaven and earth blazed with brilliance.

One sword-light after another, blazing hot like the Great Sun, blossomed within the Nine Heavens, flying toward one Star Sea after another, flying into one being after another who possessed both the qualification and the yearning to attain the rank of Great Sun Swordsman.

In this instant, the ambitions of Sword Cultivators throughout the Endless Starry Sky were ignited.

...

Great Sun Forbidden Area.

Jiang Ding cast a glance at the boundless Sword-light blooming in the sky, paid it no further heed, and once more lowered his gaze upon the world of dusk, of white expanse and sparse, scattered grasses.

This Forbidden Area was connected to the Immortal Dynasty’s warehouses; at every moment, vast quantities of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure were being collected and placed into the Forbidden Area, becoming the reserves with which the Forbidden Area would endure the long River of Time in the future, becoming a portion of the time-vessel that would cross into the Golden Era.

Besides these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, one Immortal Dynasty warship after another flew in from the outside into the Forbidden Area’s war-readiness warehouses; one after another robots, from Harmonization up to Supreme, arranged themselves in neat formations and flew into another high-intelligence single-soldier machine armory. Farther away, standard-issue Treasures and standard-issue Military Array Heavy Artifacts were likewise being produced in an unending stream and assigned into the warehouses.

These instruments of war contained an extremely high Immortal Path technological content, forged for the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty at the absolute peak of its technological reserves and productive capacity.

In the days to come, when the Golden Era arrived—or if they awakened midway—within a single instant they could arm vast numbers of Super-tier Elite Dao Soldiers, unleashing a terrifying combat strength sufficient to threaten even a Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor.

”Yun Ri, report the current reserve forces of the Forbidden Area.”

Jiang Ding spoke softly.

The Super Warship Great Sun had always accompanied the Ancient Emperor’s side; although, with the development of the Great Dao, it had lost its position as primary battlefield platform, it remained a critical component of the Great Sun system, responsible for commanding armies and handling state affairs. The current administrative system of the Great Dream Sword Realm was under Yun Ri’s management.

”Understood, Commander.”

”At present, reserves of all categories of technical equipment and unmanned forces have reached sixty-seven point two percent.” Yun Ri, ever in the guise of a uniformed ship-girl officer, said high-spiritedly, ”Once all technical equipment and unmanned forces are fully fielded, the Forbidden Area will possess thirty-six Super-tier Elite Level Unmanned Fleets, as well as Treasure armaments sufficient to equip eighteen Super-tier Elite Dao Soldier corps, and will also have a special reconnaissance group army composed of robots from Harmonization up to the Imperial Realm.”

”This special reconnaissance group army is composed of Immortal Path robots in various forms, able to adapt to all manner of extreme environments such as deep sea, desert, and outer space, capable of undertaking special missions such as concealed reconnaissance and assassination. If the Golden Era draws near, this special reconnaissance group army can disguise itself as the disciples, elders, and other figures of various Sects and clans, providing us with an unending flow of intelligence.”

”The authorized strength of this special reconnaissance group army is three hundred billion; among them are ten thousand Quasi-Emperor Level Immortal Path robots, and nine Emperor Level Immortal Path robots. They excel in concealment, assassination, and Concealment itself, and are equipped with the Immortal Dynasty’s most cutting-edge Concealment and reconnaissance Immortal Techniques, as well as corresponding Treasures, fully capable of accomplishing all manner of missions.”

”The sum of all these Forbidden Area forces is sufficient to withstand multiple bouts of Forbidden Area–level pitched battles!”

Ship Spirit Cloud Day rattled off, her small mouth chattering away, rapidly reporting the current military strength of the Great Sun Forbidden Area, the strategic plans for the future, the Golden Era strategy, and even contingency schemes for, should their calculations prove in error and the Golden Era be long delayed, how to devour other Ancient Emperors and the slumbering grounds of Forbidden Area Ancient Emperors, down to the finest detail.

”Mm, very good.”

Jiang Ding nodded with a smile.

He pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked again, ”At present, how many Emperor Realm Cultivators lie in slumber within the Forbidden Area?”

The slumber of Emperor Realm Cultivators was a major distinction setting an Ancient Emperor Forbidden Area apart from other Ancient Emperors; every Emperor Realm Cultivator was a priceless treasure, each possessing a specific role upon an Emperor Level battlefield, not an existence that could be overlooked.

If the Emperor Realm Cultivators of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty formed an array and launched a charge together, there were not many Ancient Emperors qualified to face them and ultimately survive.

”One hundred and seventy-nine Emperor Realm Cultivators.”

”Commander.”

Ship Spirit Cloud Day reported.

One hundred and seventy-nine Emperor Realm Cultivators!

This was the accumulation of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty across seventy million years—and this was not the end; over the next twenty million years, more than a dozen additional Emperor Realm Cultivators would be born.

This was a terrifying number sufficient to make even a Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor shudder in shock!

One must know, for an ordinary Ancient Emperor—for instance, the Ten Thousand Laws Ancient Emperor—throughout his entire life he cultivated but three Emperor Realm Cultivators; the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty’s Emperor Realm Cultivators numbered sixty times that of the Ten Thousand Laws Ancient Emperor!

This was a force capable of easily bringing about the Destruction of an Ancient Emperor.