Chapter 966: Great Sun Boundary Array

The Great Sun Long Sword Corps gradually dispersed across the entire Southern Frontier.

They faced alone the human cultists—evil by Tu Shan’s laws—alongside beast cultivators, venomous insects, all manner of terrifying poison worms, treacherous and insidious poison arts, various miasma clouds and magical treasures, and a Southern Frontier environment saturated with traps and poisonous creatures.

Each with one sword, they set out alone—either purging a region, fleeing in disgrace, or dying far from home.

Only these outcomes existed—nothing else.

This was an almost epic scene.

Jiang Ding silently observed these sword cultivators, and a sudden premonition surged within him.

‘They, in the future, will possess far greater collective power than the Tu Shan Maidens’ Corps; thousands, tens of thousands of years hence, countless Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation cultivators will be born among them.’

‘They are the true core of the Great Sun Sword Cultivators.’

To this day, the Great Sun Long Sword Corps has become the most coveted, most revered holy land among young cultivators of Tu Shan’s Central Court.

Despite its mortality rate being extremely high—often reaching fifty percent.

Yet,

It offers the highest success rate for promotion within the entire Tu Shan Central Court!

The probability of breaking through to Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and even later to Soul Transformation far exceeds that of any other sect—even surpassing the promotion rate of the Tu Shan Maidens’ Corps.

As long as one breaks through, one gains immortality.

What is death?

Such cultivators with unshakable Dao hearts are countless throughout the cultivation world!

The latest news: Zhenjun Mu Tianxue of the Ice Blood Sect resolutely disbanded her cultivation, discarded her Ice Palace sect’s methods, reverted to Foundation Establishment, and joined the Sword Sect, entering the Great Sun Long Sword Corps to walk the Great Sun Sword Path.

She keenly realized that the most probable path to Soul Transformation within Tu Shan’s Central Court lay within the Great Sun Long Sword Corps.

Not only her—many supremely gifted True Persons also hesitated, for they too saw what she saw.

The Great Sun Long Sword Corps,

is gathering the very pinnacle of prodigies from this small world!

‘This is truly… a sharp blade…’

Jiang Ding’s gaze flickered.

Before him appeared a vision: the recent arrival of the Great Sun Long Sword Corps. The image magnified, revealing the faces of one hundred thousand sword cultivators.

Some looked reverent, some fearful, some awestruck.

Naturally so.

Many were like this—their opponent, whether in sword Dao or strength, vastly surpassed them.

Yet,

Jiang Ding focused his gaze on Zhenjun Relyang, Foundation Establishment Mu Tianxue, Zhenjun Xu Fang, and the faces of the new generation of sword prodigies, peering through their eyes into their souls.

They, while reverent and respectful,

were also defiant, eager, brimming with killing intent.

Some concealed these undesirable emotions well—Zhenjun Xu Fang, Zhenjun Relyang, Mu Tianxue; the elder cultivators were more composed.

Others, like the younger sword prodigies, openly displayed this killing intent, this hunger for slaughter, on their faces.

They were barely short of saying: ‘Old man, wait a bit—when I’ve grown, I’ll cleave you in two with one sword.’

This had nothing to do with hatred or resentment.

This was the proper etiquette of orthodox Great Sun Sword Cultivators toward their superiors!

Generation after generation of sword cultivators continuously slew enemies, continuously slew their own seniors, pushing human sword civilization to higher levels—new replacing old, rowing upstream; if you don’t advance, you fall back—this is the natural law.

‘These damned brats… they’re becoming more and more like Great Sun Sword Cultivators…’

Jiang Ding felt helpless.

He had done nothing—simply stood here—and these sword cultivators had naturally become this way, nearly identical to those of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion.

‘If so, then grow.’

‘Grow.’

‘As long as you don’t violate Tu Shan’s laws…’

Jiang Ding sighed.

To this day, with the death of the Ice Phoenix Clan’s Tianjun, the escape of the Bai Zu Tianjun, and Xi Ping’an’s unknown whereabouts, he had no more enemies.

He truly longed for these rebellious sword cultivators to grow strong and launch a sacred sword duel against him.

Failure?

Death?

That is impossible!

It cannot happen—no preparation, no backup plans, no psychological readiness needed.

Even if it did occur, he would simply flee—rebuild strength, wait for the right moment, and fight again. What is there to fear? Why restrict his subordinates?

Others growing strong, rising up—that is their own talent.

The great Dao medicine of sword cultivation in heaven and earth gains yet another portion.

This is a magnificent blessing.

Hum!

Amidst the spatial teleportation light, Jiang Ding returned to the Six Paths Sect of the Northern Plains.

He sat upon the Black Demon Palace’s Six Paths Throne, closed his eyes, and cultivated, drawing in the magnetic force he had not touched in nearly a century, storing it for his own cultivation.

The main matters were resolved.

Now, all he needed to do was wait—for the four directions to complete their cleansing sweeps, for the Great Sun Boundary Array to be fully constructed, to thoroughly survey this entire small world and bring it all under control.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes and cultivated, inhaling and exhaling thousands of kilometers of celestial spiritual energy and Great Sun essence.

Vast quantities of filament-like magnetic forces surged toward him, first flooding into the Yin-Yang Magnetic Absolute Spirit Mountain, then transforming into two magnetic dragons that flowed into his mouth and nose, gradually increasing the magnetic foundation within his dantian.

Time passed slowly, and before he knew it, many years had gone by.

In the twenty-seventh year, the Southern Frontier was the first to be cleansed—far faster than the Tu Shan Maidens’ Corps in the Eastern Sea. The Great Sun Long Sword Corps swept the entire Southern Frontier, exterminating every man-eating beast, every human cultist who used humans to forge treasures or cultivate, leaving none alive.

Twenty-seven years later, the Southern Frontier completed its purge first, far faster than the Tushan Maidens of the Eastern Sea; the Great Sun Long Sword had swept the entire Southern Frontier clean, exterminating every man-eating beast and human cultivator who used humans to forge treasures or cultivate, leaving not a single one alive.

Countless sword cultivators greedily, eagerly slew every person permitted by Tu Shan’s laws to be killed, almost all in one-on-one duels against peers or lower-ranked opponents.

When one sword cultivator died, another stepped forward.

If no suitable sword cultivators remained in the expeditionary force, if they were all wiped out, reinforcements were summoned from the rear—this vast world had no shortage of sword cultivators unafraid of death, hungry for opponents, coming one after another without end.

In the end, the spirits of all demonic and beast cultivators in the Southern Frontier shattered; they fled in madness to other realms, abandoning everything.

Though the Great Sun Long Sword Corps fought with single combat and peer-level duels, their combat efficiency was extremely high—far exceeding that of the Tu Shan Maidens’ Corps.

Because they fought alone—tens of thousands of battlefields opened simultaneously across the Southern Frontier, each sword cultivator alone holding down a region!

In contrast, the Tu Shan Maidens’ Corps placed great emphasis on discipline: they preferred group attacks over duels, used Nascent Soul cultivators to suppress enemies rather than Golden Core ones, advanced steadily and methodically—efficient, with low casualties—but their speed in clearing enemies was far slower than the Great Sun Long Sword Corps.

The sword cultivators’ tactics had no flaw except for the cost of lives.

This left many cultivators who valued military discipline and wished to scold the Great Sun Long Sword Corps for being disorganized and undisciplined speechless.

When your battlefield results are inferior, what face do you have to complain?

As time passed, in the thirty-eighth year, the Tu Shan Maidens’ Corps in the Eastern Sea also completed their cleansing—eradicating all incense temples of debauchery, implementing economic, tax, and agricultural reforms, changing customs, and completely uprooting Xi Ping’an’s divine incense worship.

Twenty years later, as cultivators across the lands grew free, they extensively used sect-customized array devices to construct arrays, and finally, the Great Sun Boundary Array was completed.

This world was now fully under control.

‘Xi Ping’an, Bai Zu Tianjun—are you still in this world?’

Jiang Ding flew out of the Six Paths Sect and arrived at the center of the Great Sun Boundary Array in the sky, his expression filled with anticipation.

Jiang Ding flew out of the Six Dao Sect and arrived at the center of the Great Sun Boundary Array in the sky, his expression one of anticipation.