Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 846 - 825 Breakthrough to the Third Realm of the Sword Path, Refining Sword into Silk

Months flashed by in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Ding slowly opened his eyes, showing a hint of fatigue.

His divine soul, meridians, and physical body had sustained serious injuries, and it had taken a tremendous amount of energy just to prevent them from worsening.

In fact, Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch had once asked him whether he wanted to risk returning to the Refinement Void Battlefield and then be sent back to the Xianmen Sect for recuperation, but he had refused.

His physical injuries could still withstand stress, ensuring they did not deteriorate was the main reason.

The secondary reason was the barrier of the Minor Thousand World, which could prevent the attack of the Masters of Refining Nothingness; it was indeed the safest place, even safer than Yuan's flagship.

These old monsters had lived for such an interminably long time.

Grandeur, face, those were things they didn't need to consider at all. Friends, relatives, and mentors from their own eras had all died off. They wanted to save face, but they didn't even know in front of whom to do so, or who would ridicule them.

If such a thing did happen, it might even bring a touch of amusement to their monotonous lives.

"The injuries have just about stopped worsening, so I can move around a little."

Jiang Ding let out a sigh of relief.

Then, with a look of excitement, he immersed his Divine Sense into the Sea of Consciousness and observed the changes in the space between his eyebrows.

Months had passed, and the space at the edge of chaos and thunder had grown a bit larger.

But that was not the reason Jiang Ding was looking forward to it.

Based on experience, after slaying the Shadow Demon and Tianxuan Zi, there should have been a huge burst of inspiration, a characteristic of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion Technique and the path of Sword Cultivator that was bound to occur.

However, prior to this, due to the severe injury to his divine soul and extreme weakness, this barely perceptible understanding had remained hidden and had not been expressed as a basic condition.

Now, as the damage to his divine soul had begun to stabilize, a flood of insights could no longer be contained and poured out uncontrollably.

Jiang Ding's gaze became distant and unfocused.

Indistinctly, the world, time, and the Star River passed before his eyes, his divine soul became clear and peaceful, and his Divine Sense didn't move quickly, yet it matched a certain law between heaven and earth.

Every thought could precisely decode the laws of nature, bringing many deep insights.

"Great Sun Nascent Soul Art…"

Even amidst the haziness, Jiang Ding still held on to this thought.

It was the foundation of his path.

If he couldn't advance to Nascent Soul, even if he was unbeatable in his own level and reigned supreme, it would all be nothing but a fleeting dream. When time was up, his life would end, he would sit and decay helplessly into a handful of dust.

In fact, the notion of being unbeatable was just arrogant talk.

Not to mention the Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch, even the top Peak Nascent Soul Cultivators in the Immortal Sects could defeat him. He was relying on the environment within the realm, with many restrictions, temporarily without an opponent. It wasn't something to be proud or complacent about.

Besides, there were certainly more splendid civilizations of the Immortal Path beyond this realm, and even the children of True Immortals within the realm could crush him.

Even Zhong Guangzi, who fought against nine alone, was stronger than him.

If he really were to have a narrow outlook, he would only become a laughingstock.

In this regard, Jiang Ding had a clear understanding.

Many thoughts appeared in the Sea of Consciousness, involving Great Sun Swordsmanship, Electromagnetic studies, Immortal Dao physics, knowledge of Immortal Dao Artifact Refining... and so on. Jiang Ding pondered many possible developments for the Great Sun Nascent Soul Art.

Among these, Great Sun Swordsmanship and Immortal Dao Electromagnetism were his main focus, and he was leading and participating in the development of related disciplines within the Xianmen Sect.

Over the years, he had published many papers and was seen as an elder, a senior professor in the eyes of many junior cultivators, fulfilling every aspect of the image of a leading academic figure from Qingfeng University—except for looking a bit youthful.

Of course, that was just a prejudice of the youngsters.

Jiang Ding admitted to himself that he was just a bit too genius, having achieved so much by the age of sixteen; it was normal for others to misunderstand.

In the fields of Great Sun Swordsmanship and electromagnetism, Jiang Ding's contemplation led to many perplexing issues suddenly becoming clear. With complex problems transformed into mathematical and physical ones, he could leave them to the resolution of other Nascent Soul Immortals and Divinity Transformation Heavenly Monarchs of Xianmen Sect.

Payment was required, primarily in the form of Library Points.

After all, however important the matter, everyone should not work for free as they all have their own paths to pursue.

What remained was the learning of Immortal dao artifact refining, mainly concerning the "Nine Heavens Immortal Spirit Sword Casting Technique" which required the reforging of the Taiqing Flying Sword with a Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation.

The primary materials, the Xuanwu Divine Metal from Xuanwu Heavenly Palace and the Heavenly Void Myriad Concealment Profound Gold from Shadow Demon Abyss, were already in hand.

Jiang Ding's main role was to set design specifications, such as the level of spiritual energy affinity required, attributes, material hardness, toughness, and other indicators. He could only act coquettishly and ask Heavenly Monarch Wan Ji for help with the rest since artifact refining was truly not his forte.

Various thoughts and realizations, like the ebb and flow of the tide, emerged and vanished in the Sea of Consciousness, with billions of bits of information circulating within in the blink of an eye.

Unknowingly, several more months had passed.

"Gained a lot…"

Jiang Ding slowly opened his eyes, feeling some regret.

"The development time for the Great Sun Nascent Soul Art reduced dramatically from over nine hundred years to just over four hundred after an epiphany."

"Beyond this point, no further progress could be made, regardless of the epiphany."

This was inevitable.

Understanding and epiphany are not about creating something out of nothing or conjuring up the unknown. Instead, they represent an intense burst of accumulated knowledge, life experience, and Immortal dao foundation of the cultivator, a scientific sorting through to solve previously insurmountable problems.

The limit here is the cultivator himself.

It is absurd to imagine a low-level cultivator having epiphanies that suddenly put them on par with the Immortal dao accumulation of a Great Expert or True Immortal.

"The rest of the epiphanies, I used on refining sword into silk within the Third Realm of Sword Dao."

Jiang Ding raised his hand, and a threadlike strand of Sword Qi appeared between his fingers—he looked as gentle as willow branches, swaying with the wind, seemingly weak and devoid of any killing power.

In reality, it was a high concentration of Sword Qi and Sword Intent, even altering the characteristics of the Sword Qi. The sharpness reached an extreme, manifesting a soft appearance.

This seemingly frail strand of Sword Qi could easily sever three Thunder Sound Sword Qi.

Refining sword into silk was not about discarding the Sword Qi Thunder Sound but was an evolution based on Sword Intent, Sword-light Diversification, and Sword Qi Thunder Sound, possessing terrifying offensive power.

The grasp of Sword Dao Realm in this aspect went extremely smoothly—it seemed as if understanding was meant for this purpose.

"I wonder if Yu Qianzi will be able to break through refining sword into silk in the future to reach the Fourth Realm of Sword Dao, the Undying Realm?"

Jiang Ding suddenly thought of another sword cultivator from another Domain.

After breaking through refining sword into silk, his foundation in Sword Dao had been completely depleted. He briefly tried to comprehend the Fourth Realm of Sword Dao, the realm of the undying, but immediately felt his scalp tingle at the difficulty.

The challenges were as massive as mountains, as deep as seas—just standing at the threshold made one despair, with no idea where to begin.

If there was another person who had gone ahead to serve as a reference, that would have been much better.

"No, a reference?"

"Yu Qianzi is so weak, what is there to reference."

Jiang Ding shook his head, his eyes filled with longing: "What I need is a legacy!"

"The kind that comes from a complete Sword Dao legacy. Otherwise, I will have to explore everything on my own, and thousands or even tens of thousands of years would not be enough.

This is the accumulation of extraordinary talents of the Sword Dao over countless years. How can one person surpass them all?"

Suddenly, the ranking of Great Sun Sword Sect in his little notebook rose by more than fifty places, nearly reaching the first place.