Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 1252 - 1220: The Terrifying Sword Dao Genius Amidst the Heavenly Tribulation

Boom!

The fifth Order Divine Thunder descended with a mighty roar!

This strike of thunder, so intense in its Destruction Order, so terrifying, was infinitely close to the power of heavenly rules, beginning to touch upon a dreadful existence that could affect cosmic laws.

"Haha!"

"Good! That's how it should be! What was that hesitant nonsense before?!"

Jiang Ding laughed heartily, his hand pressed on the hilt of his sword.

Clang!

Boom!

A sound like thunder, the wail of a sword, exploded between heaven and earth; then, as the starry sky dimmed and brightened, twinkling for an instant, a morning sun was born amidst the stars, illuminating the whole world.

This was a Great Sun!

Destruction Order, Law-Breaking Order, Forbidden Law Order, Mutant Order, Primordial Magnet Order, and Sword Dao Order became six semi-transparent ripples that swirled around the shining sun, their Power of Order ten times stronger than when at the Nascent Soul Peak.

Around this radiant sun, there moreover existed a real and solid Sword Dao World, where countless Sword Qi lived and circulated, magnifying the radiance of the sun by several times.

"Kill!"

Jiang Ding uttered a low shout.

Boom!

Sunrise!

This terrifying Sword Dao sun rose straight upwards, hitting the fifth Heavenly Tribulation Order Divine Thunder head-on, silently absorbing it; within the Great Sun, the Destruction Thunder and the Great Sun's light burst forth incessantly, flashing, its aura turbulent and erratic, sometimes collapsing violently, sometimes compressing rapidly.

After an instant.

Boom!

A portion of the Great Sun exploded, space dissolved, and order shattered.

In the dazzling Spiritual Light, a blue-violet Order Divine Thunder struggled to break free from the Great Sun's constraint, sought to escape from the Great Sun Sword Dao World, and just as it was about to do something, it was chased down by the Great Sun once more, completely shattering the thunder.

The remaining parts of the radiant sun, unhindered, crashed into the thunder clouds, destroying a large swathe of clouds and the Thunder Order within, creating a hole hundreds of kilometers wide in the dark starry sky that did not dissipate for a long time.

Consequently, the heavy oppression of the Heavenly Tribulation weakened considerably.

Clang!

With a gentle sound of a sword's hum, the Taiqing Flying Sword reversed its direction and returned to the hands of the green-clothed youth.

"Aha~ Hahaha!"

Jiang Ding laughed heartily, filled with self-pride and a spirited air: "True Immortal's Child, True Blood Dragon Phoenix's Child, at the Divine Transformation Realm, how do you compare to me?"

"I truly wish to meet you..."

He sighed again.

"Hurry up and encounter a true Elite, so I can wake up from this inflated madness, this horrible delusion of wanting to catch a Refining Nothingness Cultivator and beat them to death."

After breaking through to Divinity Transformation, the Mana and Divine Sense within Jiang Ding's body surged over tenfold!

Especially the Divine Soul, which suddenly transformed from a Nascent Soul into a Primordial Spirit, slightly ethereal, washed and baptized by the immense Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi, some parts transparent and hazy, slightly swelling as if about to tear open.

This is the 'Five Qi Tribulation' that every Divinity Transformation Cultivator must endure.

The Primordial Spirit, sensing the heart of heaven, manipulating the tides of heaven and earth, the pressure endured is terribly immense, requiring support within both body and soul.

Magic Cultivation, including the specialized variant that is Sword Cultivation, choose a classic secret technique structure called 'Five Qi Toward Primordial', and no matter which family's Spirit Transformation Mystique one practices, none can escape the scope of this classic structure.

In simpler terms, it is a process by which Cultivators compensate for the deficiencies of their Five Spiritual Roots, either through Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, or through their Life Treasure, or through Beast Taming, each using different means.

Once the foundation of Five Qi Toward Primordial is laid, both the stability of the Divine Soul and the body will significantly improve.

This often represents a major tribulation for Cultivators, with over fifty percent of them perishing at this juncture during their advancement to the Divinity Transformation Stage; the body and soul are unable to bear the immense Mana and thus self-destruct. The risk is even greater for those with a single Spiritual Root.

For Jiang Ding, however, there was no such need.

As the Mana and Divine Sense within his body swelled to the brink of bursting, the Five Qi Toward Primordial secret techniques from Jiangding Immortal Gate and Great Sun Sword Pavilion merely circulated through him, instantly resolving this terrifying hurdle in the God Transformation.

It wasn't that he was special.

Within the Xianmen Sect, all strong individuals who grew up cultivating the "Eaglet Ascension Art" naturally possess this advantage.

The broadest number of ordinary citizens support the Xianmen Sect, and this is no empty statement.

At the Nascent Soul Stage, cultivators with Sky Spiritual Root, and those with Two and Three Spiritual Roots, form the mainstream among the Xianmen Nascent Soul Cultivators, while those with Five Spiritual Roots are rare. This is an undeniable fact, as mortals born with Five Spiritual Roots naturally carry formidable inherent shortcomings, and despite their vast numbers, the emergence of strong individuals among them is quite uncommon.

The stronger grow ever stronger, while the weaker become increasingly weaker.

This is the harsh law of the world.

However, when it comes to the God-Transformation Phase, this situation is completely reversed!

Among the Xianmen Nascent Soul Cultivators, mortals with Five Spiritual Roots account for more than half of all cultivators at this stage!

Any cultivator from Xianmen who reaches the peak of the Nascent Soul stage with Five Spiritual Roots is considered an elite prodigy within the sect, overcoming countless hardships and braving numerous challenges to arrive at this day; their potential to ascend to Divinity Transformation is much greater than their peers at the same stage.

This is the reason why the majority supports the Xianmen Sect!

"Heavenly Tribulation!"

"Come again!"

Jiang Ding places his hand on the hilt of his sword, gazing into the sky.

In the blink of an eye, he has already completed the integration of his body using the 'Five Qi to Primordial Art' secret technique; although he is just at the initial stage of Divinity Transformation, his cultivation base is as stable as if it had been honed for hundreds of years.

Moreover, he has ascended directly to the peak of the early stage of God Transformation!

This is a phenomenon of an overflowing abundance, post-tribulation, like a flood that cannot be contained, an effect so strong that it defies suppression.

In the starry sky, the clouds sundered by a sword are healing.

Amidst the flashes of lightning and thunder, the Thunder Tribulation Clouds emit deep roars; within the clouds, indistinct Chaotic runes burst forth, coalescing, transforming, and emitting an unpredictable aura.

Clang!

At a certain moment, within the thunder, a sword's cry pierces the air.

This cry of the sword resonates like the rules of thunder, filled with an aura of destruction, stillness, and a solemn chill as if it commands the punishments of heaven and earth.

In that instant, everyone envisions the silhouette of a black-clothed swordsman in their minds. With an indifferent expression, he cradles a black-sheathed longsword, his hazy figure emerging amidst the boundless Thunder Tribulation Clouds.

"This..."

"This is..."

The green-clothed youth laughing wildly beneath the clouds suddenly becomes stern, his hair standing on end, a chill running down his spine.

He senses an extremely familiar aura!

A kindred spirit!

A sword cultivator!

Moreover, a cultivator at the early Divinity Transformation Stage who seems to have just survived the Heavenly Tribulation, emitting an overwhelmingly oppressive aura that instills horror in Jiang Ding.

His divine soul trembles in fear yet excitement.

That is... the visage of a Sword Dao prodigy, imprinted by the Heavenly Tribulation, in the boundless starry sky!

In an era unknown, this Sword Dao genius, during his tribulation, left an imprint in the tribulation clouds, which is now revealed with the emergence of another exceptional sword cultivator. Being indestructible by common tribulation, it reflects outward.

"May I have the honor of knowing your name, sir?"

Jiang Ding takes a deep breath, places his hand on the hilt of his sword, and inquires with a tone of respect.

Even though it is only a phantom.

It is an instinct.

When facing a formidable enemy, his soul has a sharp intuition, treating this phantom as if it were a real, living cultivator, believing it would answer.

The shadowy figure of the black-clothed Sword Dao prodigy with the black-sheathed longsword, shrouded within the vague Thunder Tribulation Clouds, considers as his gaze falls on the green-clothed youth.

After a moment, he decides that he should reply to the youth below.

"My name is 'Mysterious'."

"From one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects of this realm, the contemporary Swordsman of the Heavenly Sword Realm, and the slayer of the Jiuyou Demon Abyss and the Spirit Treasure Realm from the previous generation of the Nine Great Immortal Sects."