Chapter 940: Late Nascent Soul

"You understand reason well, that's good."

Jiang Ding nodded, ignored the Shadow Demon Dao Child whose face was deathly pale and who had vomited blood all over the ground, turned and left.

After this incident, the teaching effectiveness of the Shadow Demon class improved immediately and noticeably.

The Shadow Demon Dao Child not only prepared lesson plans in advance, but also distributed handouts ahead of time, humbly learning teaching methods from other teachers of the immortal sect, and soon raised the students' grades to the middle level of Qingfeng University.

Not more, not less — exactly the middle level.

What she taught were also the top-tier concealment spells and concealment Gong Fa of the Shadow Demon Abyss, perfectly suited to the immortal sect's path of reconnaissance sword cultivators, giving many students great insight.

It can only be said that as a Dao Child with top-tier aptitude in the realm, as long as she seriously does one thing, it's almost impossible for her to end up at the bottom.

Don't talk about different cultures, different customs.

For Shadow Demon Abyss cultivators whose identities change in a thousand ways, these are simply not problems at all.

Even Jiang Ding, upon discovering such teaching results, wore a solemn expression. Every time the Shadow Demon Dao Child held class, he would attend in his true body to audit, and from time to time gained insights, learning a great deal from the Shadow Demon Dao Child who took concealment as her foundation for survival.

Time flowed on leisurely.

Unknowingly, more than sixty years passed.

In Dayang Dayang Tianchi, Jiang Ding finished inscribing the twenty-seventh Great Sun Heavenly Gang prohibition on the Taiqing Flying Sword, admired the Taiqing Flying Sword for a while, then flew toward the immortal sect's Academy of Sciences.

Here, many Canghai Tianjun of the immortal sect had arrived — Extinction Sun Canghai Tianjun, Divine Mechanism Canghai Tianjun, Ten Thousand Mechanism Canghai Tianjun, and others — yet they did not discuss anything, only gazing with complicated feelings at clusters of shadows on a nearby plaza.

These people were the Shadow Demon Abyss cultivators who had completed special training and received joint recognition from the immortal sect and the Badaxian Sect.

Far away, they were seeing off these shadows.

Today, they would set out on campaign, silently infiltrating Jiao Jiao Mingyu under the cover of the already-formed Nine Spirit Life-Death Illusion-Destruction Two Instrument Dust Array, to establish an advance post for our domain.

This was the formal contact between the two domains.

On this trip, it was unknown whether they would render meritorious service and successfully obtain much intelligence on the foreign domain, or drag our domain into war and destruction.

Everything was unknown.

"Over these years, we and the Badaxian Sect have done a great deal of work."

Divine Mechanism Canghai Tianjun introduced in a low voice: "Based on the natural conditions of Jiao Jiao Mingyu and the Gong Fa characteristics of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan observed by Void Refinement great powers and the central array spirit computer, we designed the 'Shadow' series of single-person magic treasure mecha, which can fight individually or gather together to fight in military formations."

"In addition, we developed soul prohibitions targeting the Horn Demon Imperial Clan, ensuring that the moment the shadows' souls are touched by anyone, they will immediately self-destruct. Moreover, this soul prohibition possesses a certain active logic computation capability — once it judges that the outside world is extremely dangerous and the risk of leaking secrets greatly increases, it will self-destruct in advance."

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We also designed exclusive spells and Gong Fa for every Jin Dan and Nascent Soul cultivator, maximizing their combat strength... and prepared massive quantities of talismans..."

"... Armed to the teeth, essentially, with concealment ability enhanced to the limit of the current realm."

"But whether they can succeed is unknown."

"It's even possible that the moment they enter, the Horn Demon Imperial Clan will know, thereby bringing a destruction crisis upon our domain... Over these years the immortal sect has done its best to strengthen the End-Law City deep in the cosmos, moving it to a more distant place... If one day a great change occurs, hopefully it will be useful..."

Divine Mechanism Canghai Tianjun rambled on, unlike his usual self.

Contact with an unfamiliar immortal Dao civilization brought him tremendous psychological pressure; his nerves were somewhat abnormal.

Amid a burst of white light from spatial teleportation, the Shadow Demon Dao Child and a group of Shadow Demon Abyss cultivators vanished.

Before leaving, the Shadow Demon Dao Child seemed to be gazing in Jiang Ding's direction.

They would pass through hundreds or thousands of teleportations, undergo layer upon layer of Void Refinement-level inspections, with every immortal sect inspecting multiple times to ensure absolute certainty, only then appearing in the Jiao Jiao Mingyu passage sealed layer upon layer by the star domain grand array, where multiple great powers would personally escort them to Jiao Jiao Mingyu to carry out the mission.

After Jiang Ding and the various Canghai Tianjun discussed some matters concerning war preparations and research, they each departed.

As the war drew ever closer, every single person had an enormous amount to do — cultivating, producing, researching — with soul threads split into multiple tasks, almost no idle time at all.

Jiang Ding returned to Dayang Dayang Tianchi.

The Sun Divine Tree rose with a rumble behind him, its branches and leaves spreading into the Sun Abyss, receiving the tempering of sword intent and soul.

With each breath he took, heaven and earth spiritual energy and Great Sun essence within a thousand miles came rolling in, winds rising and clouds surging.

It was not only heaven and earth spiritual energy and Great Sun essence.

While he cultivated, fine cracks appeared in space one after another. Strand after strand of jet-black luster — ultimate forbidden nuclear weapons imbued with infinite radiation and mutation power — were drawn forth, flying into the Sun Divine Tree transformed from the Taiqing Flying Sword, causing countless fleshy protrusions to appear on the golden Sun Divine Tree, countless fine eyeballs, tentacles, scales and the like, savage and terrifying.

This was the radiation mutation power of forbidden nuclear weapons!

Compared to the bit-by-bit absorption of a hundred-plus years ago, now the Taiqing Flying Sword was simply swallowing whole, devouring twisted jet-black threads as if it would never be satisfied, making Yueling's scalp tingle.

Eyeballs, scales, mouths, arms and other grotesque features sprouted on the Sun Divine Tree, instantly transforming it from a Sun Divine Tree into an utterly vicious flesh-and-blood demon tree. Anyone who came to the Sun Abyss of Dayang Dayang Tianchi would immediately conclude this was the most evil demon lair under heaven.

Clang!

Clang clang!

As arms, eyeballs, and scales grew luxuriantly, the Taiqing Flying Sword could no longer endure

?? and emitted an ethereal sword cry. Great Completion-level Great Sun Destruction Sword Intent spread out with a rumble, suppressing all, destroying all.

It further stirred the Great Sun Destruction Sword Intent fire within the Sun Abyss, transforming it into bright golden flames that fell upon the arms, eyeballs, and scales sprouting on the Sun Divine Tree.

These twisted eyeballs and mouths wailed, cursed, wept bitterly, and finally all turned into patches of white ash that scattered down.

The Sun Divine Tree once again returned to its golden color.

Heaven and earth spiritual energy and Great Sun essence within a thousand miles poured in continuously, falling into the ten-thousand-meter-tall Sun Divine Tree, its radiance resplendent and sacred. The Sun Abyss once again became the dwelling place of immortal gods from myth.

Jiang Ding paid no attention to the various strange phenomena in the outside world.

He continued cultivating. While splitting off the majority of his soul computing power for research, reading, and handling various miscellaneous matters, he continuously accumulated his own magic power, never pausing for a single moment.

Time flowed past like running water.

The Jiudaxian Sect was all preparing for the realm war; internal disputes had almost completely vanished. All Soul Transformation cultivators, Nascent Soul cultivators, Jin Dan cultivators were striving to cultivate, drilling military formations day and night, refining magic treasures, drawing talismans, refining pills... desperately making all kinds of preparations.

Clearly the realms were terrifyingly peaceful, yet it was as if sitting atop a powder keg. All cultivators were cautious and careful, as if they sensed that the moment a single tiny spark appeared, it would instantly trigger a terrifying explosion capable of destroying the star domain.

Amid this peaceful yet anxious atmosphere of the realms,

Unknowingly, another thirty-plus years passed.

On this day, in the Sun Abyss, the storm that had persisted for decades gradually subsided. Heaven and earth spiritual energy no longer flowed violently, Great Sun essence no longer gathered, and everything returned to the natural calm appearance of heaven and earth.

"My path of mid Nascent Soul has reached its end."

"I can break through to the late Nascent Soul stage."

Jiang Ding awoke and opened his eyes.