Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 1391: 1359: Mud Swamp Demon City

Chapter 1391: Chapter 1359: Mud Swamp Demon City

“Blood Lake Ancestor, truly an old friend…”

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

About three thousand years ago, the incarnation of Blood Lake Ancestor descended to the lower realm, injuring him multiple times, nearly killing him.

The ancestor of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect is even scarier, mastering stronger space transmission technology, actually descended to the Minor Thousand World in his true body.

Unfortunately, bad luck, he died at Xi Yuan’s hands, even his Divine Soul was forcibly searched.

Both of them are at the Refining Void Late Stage.

“Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain has the potential to unify the Thunder Flame Domain,”

Jiang Ding contemplated.

Theoretically, the Immortal Artifact Sect should interfere, not allowing unification within the domains, lest they weaken their control.

However, this isn’t certain.

If the Immortal Artifact Sect is engaged in battle with a strong enemy, distracted and unable to manage other affairs, or if Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain bribed a certain elder of the Immortal Artifact Sect, or even received instructions from a certain elder, or it’s a conspiracy from another rival Immortal Sect… all these factors could lead to the possibility of unification.

“If I could catch Blood Lake Ancestor alone, that would be good.”

Jiang Ding thought quietly.

He wanted to kill Blood Lake Ancestor and then go to Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain to retrieve immortal technique fragments.

The current hindrance is that Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain not only has one Refining Void practitioner, but its sect gate surely has a frightening Sect Suppressing Formation, which Jiang Ding cannot defeat.

“Let’s wait, no rush.”

“The key now is to gather materials for the ‘Great Sun Sacrificial Sword Technique.'”

After searching for a moment in the memories of the Playboy Demon, Jiang Ding locked onto a place named Mud Swamp Demon City.

Mud Swamp Demon City was built by a cultivator named ‘Mud Swamp True Venerate,’ a Loose Cultivator Immortal City, located in a place called Mud Swamp at the border between Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect and Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain.

This Mud Swamp True Venerate was able to establish an Immortal City between the two True Sects without being destroyed, his strength is naturally formidable.

However, strength is not the most important reason.

His strength is not enough to contend with either of the two True Sects, the reason he hasn’t been destroyed is because Mud Swamp True Venerate’s Escape Technique is exceedingly strong, and he has unique advantages at Mud Swamp.

Throughout history, both Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect and Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain have invaded Mud Swamp Demon City, going unchallenged, encountering little resistance, but they could not find Mud Swamp True Venerate to kill him, instead, he took the opportunity to raid many subordinate forces, causing numerous casualties and losses.

Eventually, left with no choice, the two True Sects tacitly acknowledged the existence of Mud Swamp Immortal City.

Thus, Mud Swamp Demon City became a sanctuary for Loose Cultivators, numerous Demon Cultivators within the territories of the two True Sects gathered here, dealing with many shady objects, trade flourished greatly.

Of course, Mud Swamp True Venerate is not completely carefree in the world.

He must pay seventy percent of his offerings to the Immortal Sect.

This is the basic obligation of any force in the Upper Realm, otherwise catastrophe follows.

“Let’s make it here.”

“A commercial city, trade prospers, a gathering place for massive materials… it’s perfect for me to trade fairly.”

Jiang Ding lamented.

…

According to the memories of the Playboy Demon, after traversing many places, taking several years, Jiang Ding arrived at an endless swamp area.

The air here was filled with a rotting odor, the ground occasionally churned, some white bones and silt surfaced, releasing some green toxic gas.

“Mud Swamp…”

Jiang Ding continued deeper inside, after several months, he reached the center of the swamp area.

Here, many cultivators came and went, orderly heading towards a magnificent grand city of green mud.

This city is entirely made of flowing green mud, jelly-like, its elasticity and toughness are quite good.

In the memories of some killer treasure snatcher Demon Cultivators Jiang Ding questioned, this is a material called ‘Green Toxic Mud,’ a third-tier material produced in abundance in the Mud Swamp, later refined into a demon city by Mud Swamp True Venerate, attracting numerous Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures with loose trading policies to supply his cultivation.

Jiang Ding paused here slightly.

He fell into contemplation, the Taiqing Flying Sword trembled slightly, and a crimson killing intent began to emerge.

“No.”

“Without detailed information, I can’t act against any Refining Void True Venerate.”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

Refining Void True Venerate, to be clear, possesses the capability to kill him.

Jumping at any strong force without care marks Chong Guangzi Xi Yuan and others, not him.

Furthermore, Jiang Ding doesn’t kill any cultivator indiscriminately, even if their reputation is terrible, he will confirm again and again then act, just like the Playboy Demon.

“In that case…”

Jiang Ding’s form blurred, and a nondescript gray-clothed young man appeared.

Nondescript this isn’t a description, but a statement, because his appearance is collated from the facial features of the surrounding hundreds of millions of people, after comparison, selecting the most generic look, no matter which aspect, very commonplace, and seen everywhere during travel.

“Go, collect supplies, gather intelligence.”

Jiang Ding said flatly.

He couldn’t enter an old nest full of formations and traps deployed by a Refining Void True Venerate.

This Divinity Transformation Peak Level nanofluid robot avatar refined by the Immortal Sect is the ideal substitute, possessing part of Jiang Ding’s memories without involving major secrets of the lower realm and Immortal Sect.

…

Jiang Ding walked into Mud Swamp Demon City.

Here, there were no city walls, just a stretch of tender green jelly-like ground, highly resilient, even when body refining practitioners weighing ten thousand jin walked on it, no dents occurred.

People came and went all around, cultivators moved like tides, at a glance, there was no end in sight.

Among them, Qi Training Foundation-Building Cultivators and Golden Pill Monks were common, Nascent Soul Monks weren’t scarce, Nascent Soul Cultivators could occasionally be seen, unlike in the Minor Thousand World where immortal traces were unseen.

Mud Swamp Demon City is surrounded by swamps, generally barren.

To develop trade, accumulate Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures for cultivation, Mud Swamp True Venerate invested significant effort.

He refined a large number of ‘Mud Swamp Tokens,’ within the domain, Divine Sense could connect to the Mud Swamp Tokens, browse the items listed on them, cultivation methods, magics, furnace cauldrons, assassins, alchemy, talismans, spy searches, intelligence… and many more, comprehensive as an online marketplace, exceeding the times.

By paying certain Spirit Stones, items could be directly transmitted to the customer.

If major clients wanted to procure goods, or others wanted to come to Mud Swamp Demon City but feared the distance or lack of safety, they could invest a defined amount of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures and Spirit Stones into the Mud Swamp Tokens, allowing transportation to Mud Swamp Demon City.

Trading in the Demon City is absolutely safe, gaining protection from Mud Swamp True Venerate, where the taxes imposed were less than elsewhere.

Under such convenient conditions, many cultivators within the domain with trading needs gathered here, including many from the two True Sects.

“This True Venerate’s rules likely relate to space.”

Jiang Ding speculated.

The various means he uses an average Refining Void True Venerate can also achieve, but it needs the establishment of space formations everywhere, and requires direct actions from the Refining Void True Venerate themselves, hard to widely spread.

The Refining Void True Venerate of the space path, mastering space rules, can do the same things with much less difficulty.

“Space…”

“No wonder the true body gets a headache.”

Jiang Ding smiled bitterly: “Cultivators like these, strength generally very strong, escape ability even stronger, without prior restrictions it is impossible to corner them.”

“Certainly, I need to verify their crimes.”

“If they are indeed just common business people, then I can only consider staking out for Blood Lake Ancestor outside Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain.”

His figure blended into the crowd of cultivators within the Demon City, with no special distinguishing feature remaining.