Chapter 1061: Can I Still See You After a Thousand Years?

After a period of transmission that inverted suns, moons, stars, spatial directions, cause, effect, and time, nine Dao Sons appeared in a neutral zone somewhere within the Nine Spirit Realm's Nine Great Immortal Sects.

Yes, even the nine Great Dao Sons cannot know the exact location of the realm passage; this is the highest secret.

In this neutral starry sky, each of the Nine Great Immortal Sects has set up its own transmission array, each guarded by its own personnel. The Immortal Gate's garrison force is the Starry Sky Legion Fleet commanded by Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, while the other Immortal Sects have Refining Void Dao Soldiers stationed here, forming the Nine Spirit Realm's second-tier defense line cluster, preparing for the worst-case scenario.

Jiang Ding scanned the surroundings with his divine sense and flew toward Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun.

"Jiang Ding Zi,"

A voice came from behind.

It was Taiyi Taiyi Qingmu Dao Son Ji Liuyue; her voice was soft, ethereal, and carried the aura of Taiyi Taiyi Qingmu, instinctively evoking much goodwill in people's hearts.

This is humanity's natural pursuit of life and vitality.

"Speak."

Jiang Ding replied without turning his head.

Silence followed behind for a moment.

"I hope,"

"I can still see you a thousand years from now; do not die."

Ji Liuyue said softly.

The eight Great Dao Sons were about to enter a thousand-year slumber, quietly waiting for time to pass while the micro-immortal Dao ecosystems within their bodies grew.

As for sword cultivators, it was undecided.

For instance, Yu Yu Qianzi would not slumber; she would remain active on any battlefield where blood and death bloomed, continuing for a thousand years. Even when she grew old and feeble, she would still draw her sword to slay enemies, offering them as sacrifice to the sword in her heart.

The Sword Sons of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion chose either slumber or slaughter; it was not certain.

Based on their understanding of Jiang Ding Zi, Ji Liuyue and the others believed he would not slumber but would continue slaughtering for a thousand years, paving his Soul Transformation path with the blood of countless living beings.

This might be a prejudice.

Every time they met Jiang Ding Zi, it was on a battlefield, and every time they saw him in his mad state; generalizing from a part, they formed a stereotype.

"A thousand years later?"

"Yes."

Jiang Ding waved his hand and left.

……

"Jiang Ding, long time no see!"

"You've gotten thinner, have you been bullied by someone in the Jiao Jiao Mingyu?"

"Tell me who it was; when the opportunity arises, I will help you take revenge."

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun laughed heartily, ran over, and gave the young man in blue robes a big hug.

Having not met for several hundred years, Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun was still the same: chubby, always smiling on his face, giving people the impression of being very kind and easy to bully, with none of the fierce, iron-blooded aura of a fleet commander on his person.

"Senior Master Canghai, long time no see."

Jiang Ding showed a smile.

To this day, only these Canghai Tianjun elders could evoke feelings of familiarity and affection in him; Jin Dan cultivators, Foundation Establishment cultivators—after secluding themselves for a while and emerging centuries later, an entire generation was gone, vanished into the years.

Their lives were too short to sustain friendships, loves, or other bonds that were too deep.

"Don't change the subject; who bullied you?"

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun said dissatisfiedly: "Brothers have always been righteous; don't be polite with brothers."

"Haha!"

"Really, no one."

Jiang Ding thought carefully for a moment: "It seems there was a Cangyan Ancient Emperor Son; let me see…"

He took out a small notebook from his storage jade pendant, opened it, skimmed through the list of many dim, flickering lights, and finally reached the end.

"That's right, just one Cangyan Ancient Emperor Son."

"He dispatched a subordinate, a person named Zhu Xing Wang, to attack me; furthermore, his clone and my clone fought a battle, and he even injured my clone… I cannot let this grudge go unavenged."

Jiang Ding closed the small notebook, put it away, and said with a smile: "However, such a junior does not require Senior Master Canghai to act; it would only lose your status for no reason."

"When I have some free time someday, I will simply kill him directly."

"You little rascal, not honest!"

Senior Master Canghai said unhappily: "Since there is a Cangyan Ancient Emperor Son, there must be a Cangyan Ancient Emperor. He taught such a rascal as an Emperor Son; does he bear no responsibility?"

"No, no, no!"

"Senior, he really does not."

Jiang Ding waved his hands repeatedly and said: "As members of the Immortal Gates, how can we be so meticulous about trifles?"

"The Cangyan Ancient Emperor Son is the Cangyan Ancient Emperor Son; the Cangyan Ancient Emperor is the Cangyan Ancient Emperor; these two cannot be conflated."

"We must be magnanimous."

Jiang Ding said earnestly: "We cannot punish a father for a son's crime or practice collective punishment; these are things that only existed in feudal times. Modern society has long abandoned them; we cannot turn back the wheel of history."

"We are civilized people."

"It seems so; we are civilized people."

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun reluctantly accepted it but said with some suspicion: "Are you sure it is not that you simply cannot defeat him, so you dare not provoke him?"

"How could that be… talking nonsense…"

"This Lord has always drawn his sword against the strong… fighting for the realm, fighting for billions of sentient beings… even if thousands oppose me, I will go forward…"

Jiang Ding stammered and changed the subject.

The two looked at each other.

"Hahaha…"

Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun slapped his thigh and laughed uncontrollably, unable to straighten his back.

Who said the Sword Disciple of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion goes mad and loses his reason upon seeing blood?

Before, he was not certain; now, he is absolutely sure. It is definitely a rumor spreading within the realm.

Spreading error by error, it is not fact.

The Great Sun Sword Disciple is quite flexible, after all.

"Senior Cang Hai, stop fooling around."

Realizing he was being teased, Jiang Ding said helplessly.

"Haha, come, I have prepared a welcome banquet for you. There are many Canghai Tianjun and Master Dinghai Zhenjun here; let everyone get to know each other."

Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun pulled Jiang Ding toward the Immortal Sect city floating in the starry sky, saying as they walked: "Because we are occupied with military affairs, we are all projections; do not mind."

"Too polite, Senior."

Jiang Ding felt somewhat displeased.

"Haha, that is true. This cannot be blamed on me. Not having met for hundreds of years, we must be slightly estranged..."

Following Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun, Jiang Ding met many new friends in the center of the Immortal Sect's starry city, especially many newly born Immortal Sect Canghai Tianjun who had awakened from deep slumber, obtained the opportunity for Soul Transformation, and advanced to the Hua Shen Qi realm.

These were all veteran cultivators of merit within the Immortal Sect; having finally fulfilled their wishes, they were all greatly gratified in their hearts.

In addition, there were some newly born Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun.

What moved Jiang Ding was that these Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun, upon seeing him, were extremely respectful, calling him "Senior" again and again, with innocent and expectant eyes, as if they had seen an old relic from history books.

He felt uncomfortable in his heart.

I am still a baby.

Subconsciously in his heart, Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun were all elders, such as Lu Ling Master Dinghai Zhenjun, such as Zhang Junsheng, such as Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun... these many old seniors were all Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun.

Now, the Immortal Sect's Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun had turned around and called him an old senior.

This is truly ghostly.

"Jiang Ding, has your Great Sun Soul Transformation Strategy been confirmed?"

During the banquet, Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun asked.

Many Immortal Sect Canghai Tianjun and Immortal Sect Master Dinghai Zhenjun looked over this way, all paying close attention to this.

"Mm, roughly confirmed."

Jiang Ding nodded.

He was not surprised that Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun and others knew, because several years ago, he had published a simple article in the Immortal Sect Daily introducing Ji De Xiang Fa.

Everything was open and above board; there were no dark tricks or private schemes.

It was not like staging a coup.

Letting the most people know, persuading the most Immortal Sect citizens, gaining the support of the most Immortal Sect citizens, welcoming more Immortal Sect citizens to participate as much as possible, and making corrections and additions to the Great Sun Soul Transformation Strategy—this is the right path.

All of his thoughts were upright and open, with nothing that could not be spoken to others.