Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

A thumb-sized person stood in the void.

Though small in stature, all his meridians and organs were intact, still a Refining Nothingness Cultivator, able to transform Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi from the void chaos and absorb it into himself.

A massive amount of sunlight converged upon him, absorbed and exhaled, transformed into Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi to nourish his body.

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged, motionless, for a full three years.

After three years, with the nourishment of abundant Spiritual Qi, his extremely weak Divine Soul recovered slightly, and his body seemed to have grown a few millimeters, though still inconspicuous.

"Alright."

"It will still take quite a long time..."

Jiang Ding opened his eyes.

After confirming that healing was a prolonged task, he temporarily set it aside and began to sort out his spoils of war.

Two Flying Swords, one black and one white, originating from Taiyou and the Bright Sword Child.

These two Flying Swords naturally attracted each other, intertwined, fighting together till death, in the Holy Sword Fight to slay the enemy, they advanced the Sword Dao further, burning their last bit of strength.

Ultimately, they died.

Just like countless Sword Cultivators who had died at their hands before.

A Sword Cultivator, fights for the Great Dao, dies without regret, without resentment.

"Bright Daoist, Taiyou Daoist."

"I will carry on your glory, until I attain immortality..."

Jiang Ding whispered.

If one day, he perished at the hands of another Sword Cultivator, provided it didn't involve the Xianmen Sect, he would wholeheartedly wish for this victor to progress further before his death.

"Your descendants,"

"I will care for them a little."

Jiang Ding sighed.

He opened his mouth, spitting out a Six Seals Talisman he had placed in his heart, gently lifted the seal, and released four individuals.

Taiyou Sword Child and Bright Sword Child, along with a Nascent Soul Monk and a Golden Pill Cultivator.

Among these four, Taiyou Sword Child and Bright Sword Child are the continuation of their Great Dao, while the other two Small Cultivators are their bloodline's continuation, seemingly equally important.

"Inheritance Disciples Taiyou, Inheritance Disciples Bright."

"Pay respects to the Sword Master!"

Taiyou and Bright Sword Child looked at the thumb-sized green-clothed youth before them and bowed deeply again.

Those eight terrifying Harmonization Experts, any one of them far surpassed the strongest Harmonization God Monarchs of the Ancient Divine Domain over tens of thousands of years. They meticulously set traps, joined forces to besiege and kill, yet still, a single Refining Nothingness Cultivator escaped—truly outlandish.

"You...have become an existence akin to an Upper Realm Sword Son?"

Bright Sword Child was silent for a moment, then asked.

A mix of reverence and a faint melancholy flashed through his heart, complex beyond measure.

The sect's tradition, the Sword Dao taught since childhood made him proud, excited, while the bits and pieces of his master's and mistress' teachings filled his heart with an invisible sadness, almost suffocating, inescapable.

"I have not."

"There remains quite a distant journey."

Jiang Ding slightly shook his head.

At this point, the strength of the Upper Realm Immortal Sect Disciple seemed to be surmisable, no longer shrouded in an incomprehensible mist.

It should be, the Refining Void Stage Heavenly Sword Swordsmanship, a Ninth-Order Sword Embryo, plus Near Immortal Level Technique which brought forth top-notch magical power and Divine Sense, overwhelming any in the same stage.

The first of these is soon to be matched by the Great Sun Sword Dao Inheritor.

"A distance, is it?"

Bright Sword Child sighed lightly.

His masters' defeat was not in vain, nor did they die in shame.

The Upper Realm, the center of countless worlds in the Great Thousand World, gathered with endless Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures and the boundless Immortal Wisdom from ancient times creating Taoist disciples, Sword Sons, and ethereal beings, should have been far above the Nine Heavens, elusive and distant, unattainable by mortal means, let alone beheld.

Yet now, in a barren Domain, one could chase the Upper Realm Disciple.

Such a void land birthed this anomaly.

"Are you sorrowful? Confused?"

Jiang Ding asked.

"Yes."

Bright Sword Child lowered his head and said: "My master and mistress are practically no different from my parents, but they taught me not to sorrow for those who fail in a Holy Sword Fight, nor resent the victors of such fights, for these are emotions of the weak, of inept cultivators."

"A Sword Cultivator should not be so."

"A Sword Cultivator should calmly face all deaths."

His heart was extremely pained, yearning for someone to converse with, lest he felt he might go astray, engendering an Internal Demon, shattering his Sword Heart.

"The Taiyin and Taiyang Inheritance indeed carries more warmth than the Great Sun Inheritance."

"Perhaps this is an advantage."

Jiang Ding compared the relationships between the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's Great Sun Sword Master and Dari Swordsmen, sighing slightly: "The high mortality rate of Dari Swordsmen over the ages might be related to this."

"Alone amidst Heaven and Earth, facing all alone, without elders, without kin, exceedingly prone to losing control."

"So, Bright, resent."

Jiang Ding suggested.

"Why would you..."

Bright Sword Child raised his head, perplexed.

He thought such a Domain's Heavenly Pride, born in a remote Domain yet able to chase Upper Realm Immortal Sect Sword Sons, would be infinitely close to the purity of Sword Dao, would scorn and disdain his soft feelings.

Yet rather accepts?

Why?

"Resent."

"This should be the Yin Yang Sword Dao."

Jiang Ding sighed: "Your Sword Dao, born from love, then births kinship and such. Yet a Sword Cultivator follows an emotionless path... this is contradiction."

"But nowhere is it prescribed that Sword Dao must be emotionless."

"Walk an extreme emotional Sword Dao, this suits you better. If you have resentment, then resent. Why suppress yourself for the so-called purity of Sword Dao?"

"Sword Dao should be me, not me changing myself to become Sword Dao."

"Sword Dao should be me..."

Bright Sword Child and Taiyou Sword Child stood thunderstruck.

They slipped into a state akin to Sudden Enlightenment. MyVirtualLibraryEmpire(M-VLEMPYR)

If viewed from a higher vantage, one would see that the words the thumb-sized green-clothed youth spoke were not merely statements but profound Sword Dao insights tailored to the current Sword Dao foundation, state, Mana Divine Sense structure, and Sword Heart of the two Sword Cultivators, a teaching, a refinement.

They were able to attain Enlightenment due to profound accumulation meeting this moment of great change and uncertainty, and luck aiding them into the state.

But the primary catalyst was the Great Sun Sword Master, regarded as the supreme educator in this Boundary Domain Group, devoting great attention to them.

Jiang Ding glanced over the two and turned his attention to the two Nascent Soul Golden Core Small Cultivators.

Clink!

Two Sword-lights intersected and slashed, landing on Jiang Ding's cheek, shattering into pieces.

Even though grievously injured, weakened to the extreme, he wasn't someone a Refining Nothingness Cultivator could exploit, let alone two Nascent Soul Golden Core cultivators.

The two Small Cultivators stared venomously at the green-clothed youth.

"These two are the continuation of Bright Daoist's path."

"So I will nurture them."

Jiang Ding's Divine Sense scanned them, casually saying: "You probably also know, your talents can only be considered mediocre, even with numerous Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures and opportunities, you can only at most advance to the Divinity Transformation Stage."

"Therefore, you will live a stable and happy life."

"And that shall be it."

Jiang Ding waved his hand, sealing them once more.

In the future, they will spend their lives in a Minor Thousand World, and to prevent their deaths by violating Xianmen laws, Jiang Ding would set protective restrictions upon them, forcibly halting them before committing crimes.

That suffices.

Bright Sword Lord's expectations for these two descendants were never on the path of the Great Dao.