Chapter 1188: Six Paths Samsara Sword Art

That fragment of a hand bone that had fallen from the starry sky paused for a moment, then flew toward the hand of a youth in blue.

"A Void Refinement cultivator's hand bone — what a fine treasure…"

Jiang Ding revealed a look of anticipation.

He was no demonic cultivator, but neither should he have any moral squeamishness.

The starry skies of the realm domains were so cruel — at any moment billions of cultivators might perish, entire races be wiped out — and in such a cruel environment, one could not let one's resource utilization rate drop a whole notch for no reason, for that would put one at a disadvantage in the competition.

Righteousness, in the utilization of resources, ought not to fall short of evil.

Therefore, confiscated demonic resources should also be put to use, to be employed in the righteous cause — beyond all doubt, the Immortal Gates were precisely the existence walking the righteous path; any who questioned it deserved death.

Void Refinement cultivators had already attained an extremely high degree of spatial utilization; according to the Immortal Gates' documented records, many Void Refinement cultivators — especially those of the body-tempering, blood-path, and soul-path traditions — tended to treat a part of their own body as a storage treasure, and besides, Jiang Ding had not seen this blood-robed elder carrying any other treasures on his person.

"Damn!!"

"Nothing? That can't be right?"

Jiang Ding swept his divine sense carefully, again and again, finding it somewhat hard to believe, suspecting he had seen wrong: "A Void Refinement cultivator's clone — even if he were dirt poor, how could there really be nothing at all on his entire body?"

"Not a single spirit stone!"

"Not even one spirit stone left for me!!"

Jiang Ding quickly thought of the reason, and said through gritted teeth.

"Zou Zou Xiyuan?!"

"No matter how you look at it, he's an existence comparable to Unity Dao — how could he be so stingy and penny-pinching?"

It had to be Zou Zou Xiyuan.

That person had already plundered the place in advance, not leaving even a single spirit stone for the Great Sun Sword Son, giving him no chance to take advantage.

This was on top of the fact that Zou Zou Xiyuan had previously already robbed two heavily wounded Unity Dao cultivators — like having dug up two Jin Shan, and then seeing two copper coins by a roadside beggar and snatching them away too, leaving nothing behind.

Simply utterly inhuman to the extreme!

This sort of situation seemed quite common among sword cultivators.

Sword cultivators were far too poor.

Their thirst for resources was boundless — no amount was ever enough; don't be fooled by Zou Zou Xiyuan having at his peak nearly possessed the entire Nine Spirit Domain, in his heart he was still a pauper, having always lived a bitter life, always keeping the habit of running the household frugally, never wasting resources.

Still, being excessive to this degree — not leaving a single spirit stone — was relatively rare.

No other reason — he simply did not like the current Great Sun Sword Son.

Zou Zou Xiyuan disliked any Great Sun Sword Son, especially this generation's Great Sun Sword Son; it was only out of regard for the sect's inheritance that he had left him a gift — anything more was impossible.

Besides that,

he had to save up money for the son he had left behind in this world; even after robbing two Unity Dao cultivators he still felt it wasn't enough, and had scraped this Void Refinement clone clean as well.

"Good, good, good…"

"Once I find Xi Ping'an, I must give him a sound beating!"

Jiang Ding said angrily.

Just a sound beating, nothing more.

He had promised Zou Zou Xiyuan that if Xi Ping'an did not take the initiative to provoke him again, he would not do anything to him — not even the wealth of two Unity Dao Divine Monarchs could make him change that.

A sound beating was the exception.

Xi Ping'an was a disciple of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, and the Great Sun Sword Son had the duty to chastise and guide him.

"Only this hand bone remains, but it's still better than nothing."

Jiang Ding put the hand bone away.

This was a Void Refinement-grade heaven-and-earth treasure, of very high value — perhaps worth as much as one-third of a portion of Void Refinement battle merit.

At this moment, Jiang Ding gazed into the four directions of the starry sky.

The many shattered spaces were healing, order was being restored, the constantly pulverized meteorites and the nether astral gale currents once again appeared across the ten-thousand-li starry sky, and everything gradually returned to its original state.

No matter how powerful a living being, it seemed unable to forever alter this vast cosmic star river — it could only show its might for a time, then vanish beneath the flow of time.

Only the cold, dead, silent cosmic starry sky was eternal.

Jiang Ding faced the boundless, eternally existing cosmic starry sky, as if gaining some insight.

"I always feel that after a fight and killing a powerful one, my brain becomes a lot more active…"

Jiang Ding sighed.

In that distant cosmic starry sky, he seemed to see six vortices; in one of them, the light of elemental magnetism shone brilliantly, countless warships, aerospace fighters, aerospace motherships, and starry-sky steel fortresses sailed within, producing, fighting — a scene of peaceful and beautiful human world;

He saw another vortex, in which all manner of plants and creatures grew, every moment mutating and evolving, new species being born, new sword qi being born, until a special sword qi targeting particular living beings emerged — a scene of beautiful Animal Path mutation and evolution;

And there was the vortex that shattered ten thousand dharmas, where Asuras fought and slaughtered within, destroying all dharmas under heaven…

With all this, inspiration surged up like a tide; various Gong Fa structures and sword art structures constantly reassembled and transformed in his Sea of Consciousness, faintly about to form a hazy, indistinct shadow of the Six Paths.

That samsara kept cycling and transforming, faintly about to break through the obstruction of heaven and earth's rules and bloom with its own radiance.

One year, two years, ten years…

This tide-like burst of inspiration lasted for a full thirty years.

During those thirty years, the youth in blue stood silently in the starry sky.

The asteroid belt passed by him, carrying

the force to smash small planets, yet could not affect him.

The cosmic nether astral gale currents that wore away divine souls and eroded flesh and blood blew ceaselessly against him, yet could not affect him.

This was an existence approaching star-domain-level life, already possessing in part the ability to survive alone within the endless realm domains.

On this day, this existence approaching star-domain-level life opened his eyes; within his twin pupils, six vortices formed rings, flickering ceaselessly, emanating an extremely terrifying pressure that could even make Void Refinement cultivators' hearts tremble.

"This time, having consumed many Imperial Sons of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan, this battle, and the accumulation of Immortal Dao foundations over a thousand years — a great burst of inspiration — finally…"

Jiang Ding extended a finger; between his fingers appeared a sword qi, within which likewise existed six samsara vortices, the six orders restructured according to a specific pattern, and its might instantly multiplied several times over.

However, he also saw that this sword qi was unstable — it lasted only a moment before collapsing at once.

"The inheritance of the hegemonic race of the Endless Starry Sky: the Six Paths of Reincarnation structure!"

"I've already found my own Six Paths of Reincarnation structure — the six great orders of Destruction, Law-Forbidding, Law-Slaying, Aberration, Yuan Magnet, and Sword Dao transform into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, allowing the might of Order to climb toward the power of Rule."

"But this structure is far too unstable, liable to self-destruct at any moment, and cannot be applied in actual combat. It still needs improvement — I need to establish a Six Paths of Reincarnation laboratory…"

Jiang Ding rapidly planned in his heart.

Most of the difficult barriers to breakthrough had already been resolved in this sudden enlightenment; what remained was repeated calculation, simulation, and the search for the most suitable, most stable Six Paths of Reincarnation sword art structure — one that truly matched Order against Void Refinement.

"Estimated, it will take about four hundred and seventy years to truly complete… that's actually quite fast."