Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding concealed his form, flying at the border between Chu Country and Tushan, his speed reaching terrifying levels, a pace not even high-level cultivators at the Golden Pill Peak sacrificing all their essence blood could match by a third.

”Even with Sword Escaping, I can’t increase my speed.”

Jiang Ding sighed.

He rummaged through his Storage Jade Pendant and pulled out several blood-red metallic fragments. After piecing them together, a small blood-red knife about a foot long, without a handle, thin and curved, appeared before his eyes.

The embryo of the Hua Xue Magical Blade!

Originating from the Nine Heavens Relics, it dropped from the clone of Patriarch Hua Xue after he was slain. Considering its usefulness, he had kept it for over a hundred years, where it lay gathering dust in the Storage Jade Pendant.

Jiang Ding’s mana and Divine Sense surged into the Blood Knife, not refining the already damaged array patterns but exploring, gathering, and collecting the remaining aura within.

Soon, thread-like strands of blood light, nearly invisible to the naked eye, converged and solidified into a thread, a bright red color, exuding a malicious aura of blood and curses.

”Aura locked.”

With a flick of his finger, Jiang Ding unleashed a streak of bluegold Sword Qi, then shed his own aura, allowing it to revert to a half-transparent color without any distinctive features. The Sword Qi trembled internally, constantly changing its frequency and aura, shifting hundreds to thousands of times each second, exhausting all possibilities.

Three days later.

Hum!

Accompanied by a humming sound, the half-transparent Sword Qi resonated with the extracted crimson aura, indicating mutual attraction.

”This is it.”

A trace of joy appeared on Jiang Ding’s face.

It wasn’t any sophisticated secret technique, just a pure understanding of cultivation and mana. Against a Golden Pill Cultivator, it was more than enough.

Taking out several ore stones, he refined them and produced a substantial half-transparent Sword Qi, shrinking it to the size of a cow’s hair needle.

Casually dropping it onto a rock, it adhered and stuck to the surface.

”Within a hundred kilometers, I should be able to sense Mu Tiansnow’s aura, and unless she has Nascent Soul level concealment measures, she cannot be exempted,” Jiang Ding murmured with his eyes closed, making a judgment.

This was the fate of those who offended high-level cultivators!

Even with numerous restrictions, as long as one remembered, finding loopholes or bypassing them was easy.

He then exhaled Elixir Fire and refined thousands of cow-hair fine needles.

”If you have a Nascent Soul level concealment technique, then I accept it,” he said.

Jiang Ding concealed his form, flying in the sky along the border of Chu Country, not stopping along the way, at intervals of seventy to eighty kilometers, he dropped three cow-hair fine needles, also inspecting the livelihood of the kingdoms.

The Three Kingdoms had been at peace for over a century.

It was evident, the population had increased significantly, with each country having several hundred million people, nearly reaching the governance limit of a feudal dynasty. If nothing unexpected occurred, within a few decades, massive uprisings and revolts would happen, leading to the fall of one dynasty and the birth of a new one.

This pattern was almost unavoidable.

Cultivators could intervene, forcibly contravening this natural law, but like a dam, it could be blocked, yet it required the continuous expenses of spirit stones and mobilization of numerous cultivators for mundane management each year.

This was a losing proposition.

Tushan was also similar; in the beginning, Li Qingyun had established the Tu Dynasty due to the suitability of the location, with princes guarding all four boundaries and the state and wilderness systems being implemented side by side. With the increase in population, the elimination of demon beasts and wild beasts in the wilderness, the luxury and decadence of the nobility, and the proliferation of their clans, the system was no longer quite suitable.

There was not enough land for the growing population, and internal corruption was rampant.

Conflicts and contradictions among the people were fierce, with the only restraint being the fear of causing a large number of casualties.