Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

May 27th,

Twenty-nine days before the college entrance exam on June 25th, less than a month away.

Students hurrying along the streets were a common sight, infected by the pervasive atmosphere of tension.

Jiang Ding, a frequent visitor to the library, noticeably found it several times more crowded than usual.

Single-person reading rooms had long been fully booked.

Elbowing his way through the crowd, Jiang Ding found an empty computer and sat down, typing in a few keywords.

”Martial will, will, sword intent.”

He could be certain that his tripled divine soul talent must be related to this; the sword-shaped phantom in his mind had yet to solidify into substance due to a lack of understanding in this area.

’Martial will is a rare spiritual soul specialization that few mortals among warriors can manifest. It can amplify the power of inner energy and true qi, and increase the speed of one’s attacks.’

’The cause of its formation is unclear; complex life experiences, extensive knowledge reserves, a certain quality of inner energy, and strength of the spiritual soul can all influence the birth of martial will.’

Beneath were listed several books, such as ”Research by Master Zheng Dayan of the Canghai Small World” and ”The Origins of Martial Masters: A Conjecture,” among various others—relatively fewer in number, with only ninety-eight pages.

”Is this the power that surpasses warriors, like Daoist Qing and other masters? My knowledge is too shallow.”

Jiang Ding was somewhat disappointed, having thought it was breakthrough martial research that could earn him a city-level scientific progress award or the like.

”Cultivators from the Outer Realm have conducted more extensive explorations on this.”

”Will can be law intention, sword intent, hammer intent, water law intention, etc., with the fundamental principle being the same. It is the degree of specialization of the cultivator’s divine soul, far surpassing that of warriors, that amplifies specific areas and attacks against divine soul and divine sense brands.”

”The reasons for its occurrence are unknown.”

”According to statistics, geniuses with firm convictions and pure spiritual souls are more likely to develop such intent; the level of one’s cultivation base is not the main factor influencing its birth.”

”Such intent is extremely rare among Xianmen Cultivators and, within the Nine Great Immortal Sects of the Outer Realm, only young cultivators with the most outstanding talent come close to the threshold of intent.”

”Among the many explorations of ’intent’ in the Immortal Path, the pure Jiandao School stands at the forefront, causing sword intent to often be singled out from the many kinds of intent.”

”Among the known sects, the now-destroyed Great Sun Sword Pavilion possessed the highest level of sword intent and Immortal Path science and technology.”

”During its heyday, the sect had ninety-nine Nascent Soul level and above sword peaks masters, often exhibiting the illogical phenomenon of lower-level challengers winning against higher-level masters.”

”The Sword Pavilion, adhering to extreme and mad principles such as ’Only sword in life, only sword in death,’ ’Outside this sword, there is nothing else,’ and ’All needs must come from the sword,’ often instigated wars against other sects for sheer battle desires, incurring the hatred of many sects including the Eight Immortal Sects.”

”History has proven that such extreme and foolish ideologies inevitably lead to self-destruction.”

”...”

Jiang Ding felt somewhat uncomfortable.

However, he had finally found a direction—searching for the keywords ’Great Sun Sword Pavilion’ and ’sword intent,’ their specialty.

There were two papers on complete cultivation methods successfully excavated and salvaged by Xianmen.

””Sword Way of Blood Slaughter”, challenge cultivators of similar strength, slay them, and repeat continuously. After slaying ninety-nine individuals whose strength always matches one’s own, there is a high likelihood to comprehend the Sword Intent of Slaughter.”

”As expected, quite insane.”

Jiang Ding shook his head.

Fighting to the death with others of similar strength, and doing this ninety-nine times no less, is akin to entering a lottery ninety-nine times in a row and winning every single time.

This is seeking death.

””Rescue Excavation of the 59 Sword Intents within the Great Sun Sword Pavilion Sword Tomb Ruins” by Zhang Junsheng, Hu Lin, Qingfeng University Cultivators Report, Year 10829, August 1”