Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 1035 - 1004: One Man and One Sword Suppress the Three Great Heavenly Monarchs

Jiang Ding advanced slowly within the Great Sun Destroying Sword Domain.

It was ostensibly three Heavenly Monarchs besieging him, yet the Great Sun Destroying Sword Domain instead hindered the trio's retreat.

Behind him rose three rounds of the Great Sun, annihilating everything in their way and descending upon the three Heavenly Monarchs.

"Arrogant!"

Bai Zu Heavenly Lord's complexion was as dark as water.

"Ha ha ha!"

"Bai Zu, you old mongrel, are you finally willing to stay and fight to the death?"

Ice Field Heavenly Monarch bellowed with maniacal laughter.

Shriek!

She screeched, her snow-white ice wings descending from the heavens and flapping as if to fly, countless ice crystal wings shooting off, firing like thousands of arrows. They followed the array patterns inherently within the feathers, forming a dense and massive arrow formation that assaulted the radiant sun in the sky.

Boom!

The Great Sun plummeted, endless smoke and clouds dispersed, the ice arrows instantly vaporized, and waves of searing heat assaulted in all directions.

Countless Great Sun Annihilation Sword Intents corroded everything around.

Ice Field Heavenly Monarch stumbled back several steps.

With each step taken, droplets fell from her pair of ice wings, melted by the terrifying heat, yet ultimately, they endured without a scratch.

"Good!"

She rejoiced within her heart, casting glances all around.

The other two rounds of the Great Sun had fallen amidst the Golden Armor Divine General and millions of Incense Fire Divine Guards.

"Kill!"

The Golden Armor Divine General clenched a golden greatsword with both hands, and with millions of Divine Guards roaring in rage. The strength of millions of Divine Guards, assembled through the Belief in Incense, formed into a sky-piercing greatsword, slicing down at the Great Sun above.

This unity of purpose, the Divine Guards supporting the deity, their collective strength, was enough to directly shatter the Protective Shield of a Late Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Boom!

The splendid Great Sun collided with the golden greatsword, exploding with a roar. Instantly, tens of thousands of Divine Guards were reduced to ash, and the core of the Incense Fire turned into powder, paying the price as the Divine Army Formation wavered.

But in the end, this round of the Great Sun was extinguished.

Xi Ping'an's gaze was cold and detached as he separated several beams of light from the core of the Belief in Incense, replenishing tens of thousands of Divine Guards.

These devoted and righteous believers from thousands of years were not afraid to be spent.

He remained unscathed.

Bai Zu Heavenly Lord, however, was somewhat disheveled.

It seemed that the Hundred Poisons Golden Thread Gu was repressed by the Sword Dao, instantly having over a hundred thousand gu infested by the boundless Great Sun Annihilation Sword Qi, all pierced through the head, the wounds identical, instantly leading to their demise.

The so-called Vajra Indestructible gu bodies were utterly useless.

With this sword strike, the three Heavenly Monarchs held their ground.

Xi Ping'an was still fine, as he had anticipated.

"You..."

Bai Zu Heavenly Lord's eyes widened in terror, somewhat shocked.

Three Late Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators, joining forces to attack, were now being pushed back by one man, one sword!

Bai Zu Heavenly Lord was starting to regret getting involved in these troubled waters.

But it was a pointless thought really.

Even if he hadn't come, Tusen Heavenly Monarch would have sought him out—it was inevitable.

"Not bad."

"My Fellow Daoists, you've provided some amusement at last."

Jiang Ding nodded slightly.

Heaven have mercy.

A lone Ice Field Heavenly Monarch was truly too weak!

Her blood was simply incapable of suppressing Dari Swordsman's innate bloodthirsty desire.

Now that they were three.

That was much better, indeed.

Boom!

Jiang Ding struck down yet another sword.

But this time, it wasn't a single strike but a barrage of three, then ten, and finally thirty consecutive swords!

In the Great Sun Destroying Sword Domain, one after another Great Sun rose, descending upon the three Heavenly Monarchs with a thunderous crush.

Every booming explosion of a Great Sun resulted in a catastrophic blast that obliterated the surrounding space and life, forcing the Heavenly Monarchs to retreat again and again, their mana continuously depleting, their insects and Incense Fire Divine Guards perishing in droves.

The Great Sun's frontal assault was relentless and unceasing!

The Great Snow Mountain for thousands of miles around turned into an apocalyptic world where the Great Sun fell continuously, exploding, with temperatures soaring to tens of thousands of degrees Celsius. Space shattered perpetually, Sword Intent and Sword Qi that destroyed all life cleansed the area, slaying one insect after another along with countless divine guards revered by the civilians of the East Sea.

In an instant, the Great Snow Mountain was engulfed in the Sunflame Hell!

The millennia-old accumulated snow and ice melted, exposing dark soil; melting droplets banded together, forming mighty rivers that roared and surged in all directions with wild abandon amidst this land of ice and snow.

Clang!

Clang clang!

Amid the wave-like cries of his sword, Jiang Ding slashed down one sword after another.

There was no need for any sophisticated swordsmanship; it was all about Sword Intent, Sword-light Diversification, Sword Qi Thunder Sound, Refining Sword into Silk, the undying Sword Qi, and his life-long refined and now luminous Taiqing Flying Sword.

It was simply a slashing down, that was all.

Boom!

Boom boom!

The three Heavenly Monarchs kept retreating, one after another, before this straightforward display of sword art. Ice Crystal arrows shattered, Divine Guards broke apart, and the Golden Armor Deity General battle array formed by the Hundred Poisons Golden Thread Gu was bombarded head-on into near destruction, countless insects perishing, their formation teetering on the brink of collapse.

"Kill!"

"Kill! Kill kill!"

At the moment when the Heavenly Monarchs were locked in battle, the three Great Expedition Armies of Tushan also launched their attack. Three Deity Transforming Army Formations thundered into action, countless Sword Qi and Great Sun wheels smashing into the Great Snow Mountain Formation, nearly instantaneously shattering this Clan-Protecting Formation into a perilous state, on the verge of collapse.

This was only a Fifth Grade Low-Tier Formation, after all.

In peacetime, it could suppress all else, but on such a battlefield, it barely qualified to participate.

Screech!

At a critical moment, accompanied by a sharp cry, a small Ice Crystal Phoenix flew out from the Great Snow Mountain Formation, taking over the Formation, its numerous ice crystal arrows shooting out resiliently against the attack of Tushan's three Great Expedition Armies and preventing the Formation from shattering.

"This is…?"

Many Human Race Immortals of Nascent Soul expressed their uncertain shock.

Then, they all showed an extreme look of yearning mixed with vitriolic hatred, especially peak Nascent Soul Cultivators like Tianyang Immortal, who wished they could tear the enemy to pieces right then and there.

This was the Ice Phoenix Demon Monarch!

No, it should be the Ice Phoenix Heavenly Monarch!

This small Ice Crystal Phoenix was none other than the emperor of the Western Desert Demon Race Dynasty, the former Ice Phoenix Demon Monarch, who had apparently secretly advanced to the Divinity Transformation Stage at some unknown point and lay hidden with evidently sinister schemes.

But under the ferocious bombardment of the three Great Expedition Armies of Tushan, she had no choice but to reveal herself.

And then, that was it.

Nothing more.

"Impossible!"

"Ah! This can't be happening!"

The Ice Phoenix Heavenly Monarch's eyes nearly burst with fury, roaring wildly.

She swung her icy wings repeatedly, breaking through waves of multicolored Sword Qi torrents, the bombardment of a thousand Radiance Halls, and most frenzied of all, the ten thousand wheels of Sword Qi from the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis.

Her aura fluctuated wildly as it was being rapidly depleted.

There was none of the domination and slaughter of everything below Divinity Transformation, as she had imagined.

Instead, she found herself retreating step by step under the combined siege of Tushan's three Great Expedition Armies. If it weren't for the support of the Great Snow Mountain Formation, she would likely be at a disadvantage by now.

"Early Stage of God Transformation…"

In the sky, Jiang Ding, single-handedly suppressing three Heavenly Monarchs with one sword, glanced at her and furrowed his brow.

He pondered for a moment but did not bestow upon her a strike of his sword.

This demon was too weak; it was unpleasing.

Better to leave her to the Expedition Armies for some practice.

He was, after all, so merciful.

Subordinates needed to progress, progress required blood, required battle merits, without which they couldn't seize opportunities to grow. Being a benevolent and generous person, it wouldn't do to take everything for himself, so he must leave something behind.