Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

"It has been a long time, esteemed elders."

"You both look well."

The fervor and scarlet in Jiang Ding's eyes flashed briefly as he bowed slightly, "To have successfully escaped from under the hands of the eight Heavenly God Monarchs and returned to the sect implies that the elders might not be as weak as imagined."

The events within the Ancient God Alliance, after centuries of investigation, are now somewhat understood by the Xianmen Sect.

Centuries ago, the Ancient God Alliance was pursued by the Great Sun Sword Master and the Immortal Sect Central Army Group Fleet, facing the brink of life and death. Weaving Sky Spider God Monarch, Three-faced God Monarch, and others disregarded the vehement opposition from the Heavenly God Monarch and others to establish an alliance with the Eight Great Immortal Sects, incorporating them into the Ancient God Alliance.

Weaving Sky Spider God Monarch and others hoped to build a stronger Ancient God Alliance this way, allowing their own survival and growth, even to the extent of peering into the Heavenly Man, achieving unprecedented feats for their race.

Yet, it was unexpected that the Eastern Devil School was a ferocious wolf, and the Eight Great Immortal Sects were not well-meaning either.

In fact, Weaving Sky Spider God Monarch and others were also wary of this; they had signed a binding and especially stringent alliance agreement with the Eight Great Immortal Sects in advance, covering every detail, every clause, and every action, down to the finest point.

They believed that if the Eight Great Immortal Sects breached the contract, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses and be unable to do much.

Alas, what a pity it was.

When signing this alliance, they did not seek the opinion of the Eastern Devil School, otherwise, they would have received a clear answer immediately.

All Immortal Sects within the Nine Spirits Realm possess extremely rich experience in breaking alliances and have reserves of Immortal Path technology!

The alliance painstakingly crafted from the Ancient God Alliance's heart blood was shattered, torn apart, and destroyed by the Eight Great Immortal Sects within mere decades.

Alliance?

Allies?

Allying with a group of weaklings, each harboring their own schemes, what meaning is there in that?

The highest efficiency, the method to maximize the use of resources, is for the strong to swallow all the weak entirely; swallowing everything is the way to make the Ancient God Alliance stronger!

Given ten thousand years, the Eight Great Immortal Sects would have drastically increased in power, far surpassing the Ancient God Alliance at its peak, making these Harmonization Divine Monarchs unnecessary.

The value of these Ancient God Alliance's Harmonization Divine Monarchs is to die, dying at the hands of the Eight Great Immortal Sects.

This was the viewpoint of the Eight Great Immortal Sects.

Moreover, they truly succeeded, leaving only Youming Sword Cave Heaven and the Three-faced God Monarch of the Devil God Sect to successfully escape.

This was perhaps related to the Eight Great Immortal Sects' special focus on the Upper Realm Immortal Sect's Harmonization Divine Monarchs.

Or perhaps, it was the handiwork of the Eight Great Immortal Sects' Tianji God Monarch.

This Great Expert had always played the long game, maybe in that Youming Sword Cave Heaven, eight Great Experts lay dormant, quietly waiting for the appearance of the Great Sun Sword Master.

Given their understanding of the Great Sun Sword Master, he would not let Youming Sword Cave Heaven go.

Jiang Ding was anticipating this and yearned for it.

"Great Sun..."

"Pure Yang Sword Dao..."

In the scene, Taiyou Sword Master looked at the green-clothed youth before her, gently chanting this name, a name devoid of even a hint of Taiyin, purely of the Great Sun, entirely deviating from the existence of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

If someone had told her ten thousand years ago that the Lonely Yang Sword Dao had prospects and would become its own path, she would have certainly regarded that person as an ignorant cultivator, even too disdainful to rebut.

Having the Upper Realm Immortal Sect and the inheritance of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm is her greatest confidence.

This is, among all known Immortal Dao civilizations, the most powerful sword path inheritance, representing the supreme achievement of the world's sword paths!

The sword path of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm is the most correct sword path!

This is undeniable, an iron-like fact.

The Lonely Yang Sword Dao, Pure Yang Sword Dao—had it not been traversed by the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm before?

It was nothing extraordinary.

Historically, the Pure Yang Sword Dao was a path already abandoned, first weeded out by the Yin Yang Sword Dao, and eventually overtaken by the more advanced Taiyin Taiyang Sword Dao.

This is not arrogance or pride.

This is a fact that has happened in history, proven countless times!

All sword cultivators of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm were aware of these facts and were proud, conceited, because the sword path they were walking was the most correct known in Immortal Dao civilization.

Is self-confidence based on facts arrogance and pride?

No, it is not; this is confidence.

Taiyou Sword Master had always thought this way, firmly believing all the experiences throughout her seventy to eighty thousand years of life had repeatedly confirmed this pride in the inheritance.

However,

The iron fact emerged.

From the Taiyin Taiyang Path was born the new Great Sun Sword Dao, innately carrying sin, bearing Taiyin resentment. The Great Sun Sword Dao shone with brilliance across the Domain with icy facts, in the Void Refinement Realm anti-slaughtering Harmonization Divine Monarchs, exhibiting ruling-level terrifying power, with Harmonization Divine Monarchs under the sword like pigs and dogs.

The self-confidence and pride of the Taiyin Sword Cultivator made Taiyou Sword Master unable to believe, resentful.

The pride of a sword cultivator compelled her to acknowledge the facts.

She developed a strong desire and intent for murder, wishing to defeat and consume this newly born sword path to complete her major breakthrough in swordsmanship.

She even contemplated engaging in a same-realm sword fight!

Such madness.

Alas, the icy facts brought Taiyou Sword Master back to reality.

"Great Sun fellow cultivator,"

Taiyou Sword Master's gaze fell upon the green-clothed youth in front of her, as well as the Great Sun Heavenly Pond surrounding her, and in a cold tone, she said, "To take without permission is to steal. The Bright Palace of our sect is a Supreme Treasure passed down through hundreds of thousands of years. I must ask fellow daoist to return it."

"As a sword cultivator, how can you engage in such a sneaky act?"

"Taiyou Fellow Daoist, you are mistaken."

"I am not stealing, but taking."

Jiang Ding smiled slightly, "The Lin Yang Ancestor once said, when two inheritor sword cultivators meet, they should resolve to a holy sword fight to the death to uphold the honor of sect sword cultivators, the victor carries on the defeated's sword path belief, the two sects merge into one, and all disciples remain the same, with no changes occurring."

"I wonder if there's such an arrangement in the heritage of Youming Sword Cave Heaven?"

"Haha!"

"The Eastern Devil School claims to carry on the legacy of Lin Yang Ancestor?"

Taiyou Sword Master's eyes turned cold.

Yet, the Light Sword Lord revealed a hint of friendliness, nodding slightly towards Jiang Ding.

The Sun Lineage has finally paved a new path!

This is his comrade, the new future of the Sun Lineage, how could it not bring joy?

Naturally, such joy and recognition are met with fervent intent to kill, otherwise, it would be an insult to another sun inheritor sword practitioner, as well as an insult to oneself.

"Greetings, fellow Daoist."

Jiang Ding meticulously saluted the Light Sword Lord.

Honestly, the Sun Lineage treated him well, whether in the Upper Realm or here at the Xianmen, having inheritance thought of him, though it didn't affect their life and death combat.

For sword cultivators, this is not hatred.

But a process of enlightening the Dao, a journey of walking the Sword Dao, where the victor achieves companionship, and is usually considerate towards the descendants of the defeated, even if those descendants often harbor substantial resentment.

To a sword cultivator, the hatred, thoughts of the ants are insignificant and have no bearing whatsoever.