Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 1199 - 1167: The History of This Minor Thousand World

Jiang Ding silently listened to the various words of Xi Yuan.

This person was his sworn enemy in life and death.

There was no doubt about it; during the early 4000s, many of Jiang Ding's ancestors died under this person's sword, countless ancestors fought and fell for the survival of the citizens, for the future happiness of their offspring, never retreating.

If this person were still alive, he would spare no effort to slay him.

If not immediately successful, then he would lurk and wait, accumulating strength until the day he could succeed.

Meanwhile, under these premises, this person was also a Fellow Daoist traveling on the same path as him, sharing fundamental common interests that no matter how deep the hatred, could not be affected.

In the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, these two aspects seemed not to contradict each other.

Dari Swordsmen have always been born later in the life of the Great Sun Sword Master, and not without reason. The appearance of two Great Sun Sword Masters always ends with either one party's defeat and death or mutual destruction.

Even if the two have no hatred towards each other, or even if they share a good relationship, none of these can affect the Holy Sword Fight.

Good relations remain so, but that doesn't prevent me from killing you.

"...So it's roughly this way with the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm and the Upper Realm. These are things only a Sword Master would know."

"However, this information is somewhat outdated; it is about matters from over 500,000 years ago."

The ethereal being radiating endless light chuckled, "No matter. There is a Cultivator in this starry sky who practices lightning cultivation at the Refining Nothingness level from the Upper Realm. Later, I'll capture him, conduct Soul Searching, and we should be able to get the latest information from the Upper Realm."

"Refining Nothingness with lightning methods..."

Jiang Ding's heart trembled.

Just dealing with a blood flesh clone from that Refining Void Blood Dao Cultivator of the Upper Realm involved fighting for his life, and with a bit of luck, he could defeat it but was still unable to kill it, let alone confronting a complete Master of Refining Nothingness.

Even if severely injured, such a being could crush him to death with a single move.

Yet such powerful existences, in the eyes of the other, seemed as insignificant as ants—holding the power of life and death with utter disregard.

"There's another clone from the Blood Dao Refining Void."

Xi Yuan continued, "This flesh clone of the Blood Dao Refining Void, I won't kill him. After severing his connection with the Upper Realm, I will instead strengthen him, heal his wounds, making him far stronger than he is now."

"You are about to enter a deep slumber, aren't you?"

"Then in twelve hundred years, you must kill him. If you cannot, then you shall die."

He said indifferently.

Jiang Ding did not express any objection.

He did not have the qualifications to do so.

"How much do you know about this starry sky?"

Xi Yuan asked again.

"Immortal Techniques have fallen here. It's a Lower Realm of two Refining Void Sects from the Upper Realm, roughly speaking."

Jiang Ding briefly recalled, then said.

"Both points are correct."

"In the Upper Realm, there is a most resplendent Immortal Path legacy, said to be a fragmentary miracle left by an Immortal Level power that once governed all realms in ancient times. With this miracle, the number of Minor Thousand Worlds under the Upper Realm's rule expanded by dozens to hundreds of times, encompassing even the most remote and secluded Minor Thousand Worlds within definite governance."

Xi Yuan spoke slowly, "This miracle is known as the Ascension Platform Rules."

"With the Ascension Platform Rules, even the most isolated starry sky, so distant and long that it drives Harmonization cultivators to despair, can be brought under control."

"This Minor Thousand World is just like that—very secluded, even for a Harmonization cultivator to travel back and forth would take a great deal of time, possibly up to a fifth or a third of their lifetime just on the road."

"But with the Ascension Platform Rules, it's possible to realize the exchange of talent and resources between the Upper Realm and many Minor Thousand Worlds."

"The reason it's called broken is that, in the era when that vast and ancient Immortal Level power still existed, talent and resources could be teleported freely, conveniently and swiftly."

"In contemporary times, with the age of that ancient Immortal Level power long since crumbled, the Ascension Platform Rules have greatly deteriorated. Minor Thousand Worlds can only ascend once every ten thousand or several tens of thousands of years, completing an exchange of talent and Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure."

"Those two Sects from the Upper Realm support Lower Realm powers through these Rules, harvesting Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure as well as living beings once every myriad of years. This situation has lasted for who knows how many years. This is the ancient history of this Minor Thousand World."

"Fifty thousand years ago, this long-standing history saw changes,"

"Because of Immortal Techniques."

Xi Yuan pointed at the sky: "These two Harmonization cultivators came here by unknown means and engaged in a life or death struggle over Immortal Techniques in this place, extinguishing all life in the entire world once, even damaging the barrier of the Minor Thousand World, drawing the resentment and curse of the world, and both were seriously injured."

"Harmonization..."

Jiang Ding felt a chill in his heart as certain conjectures solidly became reality.

What's even more terrifying is that Xi Yuan is not his true body; he might just be an avatar or something left behind like a Talisman.

Just that alone was enough to defeat two Harmonization cultivators!

Even, to slay them?

"You..."

Jiang Ding's tone became much more polite unconsciously.

"They're not dead."

"My luck is not good; I did not encounter them earlier with my true body."

Xi Yuan's voice was somewhat low: "At the Harmonization Realm, with the seeds of the rules engraved within heaven and earth, they profoundly affect the operation of the Heavenly Dao Rules of a region; they are not so easy to die. I've only extinguished their human world bodies and seized all their fragments of Immortal Techniques and Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures."

"Unable to kill them."

"My fate is so bitter, why didn't I come to this world earlier..."

His voice was filled with immense sorrow.

Jiang Ding looked on in a daze.

It was a good while before Xi Yuan's emotions stabilized.

"These two wastes, it is estimated they will be able to restore their human world bodies in six to seven thousand years. It could be earlier, it could be later; you'll have to look out for yourself when the time comes."

Xi Yuan sighed.

In his hand appeared a damaged multicolored crystal, held like a crystal ball in his palm, missing about thirty percent but still seventy percent intact.

"This is!"

Jiang Ding's gaze was instantly captivated, a sort of premonition arose in his Divine Soul, his heart thumping wildly, filled with immense excitement.

"It's not for you."

"Don't even think about it; I'm not your treasure-distributing boy."

Xi Yuan snorted coldly: "You, a sleazy and slippery scoundrel, are meant to be thrown into the endless blood battles. If you can survive, you live; if you can't, you die. Don't dream about such good fortune."

"You, what you said is right."

Jiang Ding forced a smile awkwardly.

Xi Yuan gestured with his hand.

Hum!

The Great Sun Heavenly Pond behind Jiang Ding uncontrollably flew into his hand, filled with terrifying Divine Sense and Sword Intent, he scrutinized and probed under his gaze.

"Huh? It's been repaired quite well."

"It was clearly seen shattered by the moon back then, almost breaking into countless pieces, thoroughly ceasing to exist."

Xi Yuan uttered a light huh, his Divine Sense and Sword Intent scanning the entire Great Sun Heavenly Pond bit by bit. Awakening the sealed Yue, his eyes revealed a hint of admiration and he asked, "Yue, are you still alive?"

"..."

"...Xi Yuan, boy?"

Yue slowly awoke, seeing a vague towering being in front of her and was stunned for a moment.

Whoosh!

The next moment, the Great Sun Heavenly Pond operated, bursting forth with countless resplendent Sword Qi Runes which instantly enveloped Jiang Ding, carrying him away as a dazzling sword-light in escape.