Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 1395: 1363 He’s Really Bullying People Too Much!

Chapter 1395: Chapter 1363 He’s Really Bullying People Too Much!

In the emerald green palace, it fell into an eternal silence once more.

The smile on Mud Swamp True Venerable’s face gradually faded, turning into indifference, his eyes carrying a look of contemplation.

It was evident that he was not fond of smiling and wasn’t particularly hearty, just the enthusiasm of a merchant towards guests, though this sort of enthusiasm wasn’t repelling.

“Croak!”

“Croak, croak, croak!”

The green toad on his shoulder croaked a few times, somewhat excited, speaking human words with a greedy voice: “It’s merely a Divinity Transformation junior with a grasp of a Void Refining Talisman, yet they have so many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, should we make a move?”

This green toad was named Sky Blue Treasure-fishing Toad, an ancient exotic species, with its greatest ability being able to peep at treasures.

Mud Swamp True Venerable rose to prominence in his youth due to a fortuitous encounter with a severely injured Sky Blue Treasure-fishing Toad, entering into a contract of equality, henceforth avoiding peril and gaining treasures, becoming a legendary figure in the Thunder Flame Domain.

“It has actually made you so tempted?”

Mud Swamp True Venerable was somewhat surprised.

Since advancing to Void Refining, this old friend of his hadn’t been this excited for countless years, not even when encountering the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect’s Jiuxiao Ancestor.

This emotion also infected him, reminding him of the days as a loose cultivator.

Back then, there were no taboos, slaughter was rampant, disregarding even those with a profound background, dancing on the edge of the knife, getting rich overnight.

That kind of life, though dangerous, invoked a slight nostalgia when thinking back.

“… Not wise.”

Mud Swamp True Venerable pondered for a while: “If a Divinity Transformation has a Void Refining item, this should be someone from a profound background… Croak!”

His words were interrupted by a croak.

“Profound background?”

“Mud Swamp, have you forgotten that in this Thunder Flame Domain, you are the background itself!”

The voice of the green toad was greedy and blazing: “In my opinion, there’s probably a Void Refining behind this junior, and the Void Refining coming from the other side of the realm must be severely injured, hence driving the junior to do the work.”

“Or even better, they’re an elite from a more powerful sect—”

“That’s even better!”

His voice was somewhat distorted: “The reason the two of us made our fortune back then was that we targeted the right opportunity and directly robbed the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect’s Void Refining Direct Disciple, only then upgrading to Void Refining, otherwise how could we have today?!”

“These elites, not only are they weak, but they’re very wealthy!”

“Mud Swamp, are you scared?”

The green toad stirred vehemently.

Mud Swamp True Venerable was hesitant.

He knew the Sky Blue Treasure-fishing Toad’s talent was to seek treasures, and this instinct had a fierce greed for treasures, which was both a sharp instrument and a source of danger, all depending on how he used it.

“Without risk, where would the opportunity come from?”

“You are trapped in the Mud Swamp land, and for millennia, still at the Early Void Refining Stage, although the Mud Swamp Demon City is known as the first merchant route Immortal City, unfortunately, the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect and Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain, these two giants occupying all the mineral, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures Spiritual Veins of the Thunder Flame Domain, simply do not do business, staying like local landlords, what can you do about it?”

“If this goes on, you’ll be at the Early Void Refining Stage for life!”

The green toad laughed coldly.

To many Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarchs, Mud Swamp True Venerable was an unimaginable giant, yet to the two True Sects, he was more akin to a beggar by the roadside.

Despite being fundamentally the same as oneself, the difference was heaven and earth.

“Haha, my old friend, the Early Void Refining Stage is quite good too.”

“The Early Void Refining Stage is also a Void Refining True Venerable, capable of living for thirty thousand years.”

Mud Swamp True Venerable did not get angry, disregarding the green toad’s words.

…

Jiang Ding went to the Mud Demon Puppet Tower established by Mud Swamp Demon City to purchase some items, a few books, some rough intelligence on what had happened in the Perishing Immortal Realm over the millennia, and then immediately left the city.

Leaving the city, he repeatedly shifted through multiple hidden teleportation Formation methods, cleaning traces of cause and effect.

With hundreds of hops, he distanced himself far from Mud Swamp Demon City, arriving at the edge of a mirror-like small lake.

Here, a young man resembling him was fishing a Fish Demon of the God-Transformation Phase with a thin strand of Sword Qi, occasionally waving the fishing line.

Upon hearing a sound, Jiang Ding turned around.

“Failed?”

“Yes, it failed.”

Mud Swamp Jiang Ding nodded.

He took out three portions of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures of the Void Refining Phase, handing them over, Melted Sun Crystal Jade, Covering Water Jade Liquid, Withering and Thriving Branch, all materials containing Rule Power, of which the Melted Sun Crystal Jade he needed, while the other two weren’t wasted, as the large market of the Xianmen Sect could digest them.

In fact, turning it over, a tenfold profit was barely saying it.

It wasn’t that Jiang Ding was cutthroat, but that’s just how the market price was for these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the Horned Ming Realm.

“No,”

“Not a total failure.”

Jiang Ding’s Material Sun Sword Soul glanced, finally landing on the Melted Sun Crystal Jade.

A crystal stone the size of a fist, covered in golden specks, circulating with the power of the Sun Rules, containing blazing, destructive aura.

Among them, a certain tiny golden speck looked exactly like other specks in appearance, material composition, and energy composition.

However, there was an extra something.

“What’s this thing here?”

Jiang Ding carefully compared the spectrum scanned by the Material Sun Sword Soul.

“It’s not Space Rules, somewhat akin to Cause and Effect, carries a slight financial greed, somewhat like the legendary aura of Innate Divine Power… If it weren’t for my Material Sun Sword Soul being too special, even Harmonization God Monarchs might not be able to detect this thing.”

“Not bad, not bad.”

Jiang Ding’s brows beamed with joy.

“As expected from someone who fought their way from the bottom, truly has a knack.”

“Good old Mud Swamp True Venerable!”

“Such rudeness!”

Jiang Ding suddenly changed his expression, slamming the table, erupting in anger: “I honestly come here to shop with you, creating profits for you, generating Spirit Stones, what does it mean that you put a locator on my thing?”

“Huh?”

“Do you think just because I’m young, I’m easy to bully?”

“Right, right.”

“He’s really bullying too much!”

Mud Swamp Jiang Ding also said indignantly.

Then, he added: “Should we set up a Formation method here? We’re alone, out on the road, setting up a Formation for protection is very reasonable, isn’t it?”

“Indeed, it’s reasonable.”

Jiang Ding said calmly.

The Material Sword Soul operated, the Human Dao Sword Skill operated, making the surrounding environment blurry and quickly changing.

An image emerged.

A mid-stage Void Refining Practitioner, severely injured, his face bluish, looking quite hurt, Mud Swamp Jiang Ding was serving him, handing over the many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures he bought.

This wasn’t a fictional person.

In the memories of the deceased Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect’s Jiuxiao Ancestor Qinglei True Venerable, this person was known as the Molten Fire Old Demon, originating from the Golden Light True Sect, a Great Sect in the Thunder Flame Domain’s adjacent Golden Sea Domain, a Void Refining Elder of his sect, known for his elusive movements, living in seclusion.

In fact, the whereabouts of any Void Refining True Venerable are uncertain, especially these sect cultivators, even if they saw the person, without probing, no one would know if it was the true self.