Chapter 1198: The Taiqing Flying Sword's Void Refinement Space Tribulation

Immortal Gate Mother Star, the Moon.

From the Mother Star's Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong, a root and trunk like a star bridge stretched out and landed on the Moon, which had been celebrated by countless scholars and poets of the Mother Star since ancient times, providing it with spiritual energy support.

If necessary, the Moon could also detach from the Immortal Gate Mother Star and exist independently, transforming into an independent planetary-level war fortress.

In peacetime, this was where the Immortal Gate's various high-standard laboratories of considerable danger were built.

However, from the outside, the Moon was still a desolate wasteland and Gobi, and had not changed much.

This was required by the Immortal Gate's "Material Cultural Heritage Committee," which did not allow any institution or individual to destroy the Moon — a place that carried the emotions of countless Immortal Gate citizens — and turn it into some sort of bird-song-and-flower-fragrance paradise on earth.

Jiang Ding walked quietly across the Moon's Gobi.

The surrounding vacuum environment and the weightless environment had no effect on him. After walking on the Moon for several dozen minutes, he finally arrived near the Material Cultural Heritage scenic spot "Sky Ship Base."

Sky Ship Base was the site where the previous civilization era's Chang'e-5 landed on the Moon. It was damaged when Zou Zou Xiyuan era's Great Sun Sword Pavilion invaded the Mother Star, and has now been restored. It is a Class 2A scenic area of the Immortal Gate.

Actually, there wasn't much to see — just a crater.

If not for a sign erected there, a protected area marked out around it, and a pile of restored spaceship artifacts placed there, no one would notice it even if they stepped right on it.

Jiang Ding walked to a point seventeen hundred meters east of the Sky Ship Base, paused briefly, verified his identity, and walked in.

His vision blurred.

Before him appeared a silent, cold, dark starry sky, with countless warships hanging in the air, starry-sky cities standing in rows, and starry-sky humans coming and going among them.

At this moment, sensing an unfamiliar presence, the starry-sky civilization's starry-sky defense system was activated. Countless warships swiveled their gun ports, and one after another, bright destructive light points appeared, converging through the omnipresent web of mortal electromagnetic order into one place — the power of the mortal world merged into one.

Boom!

A terrifyingly powerful, dazzlingly brilliant sword-light slammed down, illuminating the entire starry sky, and fell upon the suddenly appearing new presence.

Jiang Ding stared straight at this attack.

He let this attack — which had faintly broken through the boundaries of order and rules — pass through his body, pass through like an illusion, and fall into the endless sea of stars, tearing apart a large swath of space and distorting countless rules.

After the strike, the world was not destroyed. Under the influence of a certain brilliant crystallization of Immortal Dao wisdom, all the energy did not disappear, but instead continued to circulate within the world, with extremely little loss.

Even if a power far stronger than this attack were to fall upon this world, the world would still not be destroyed. Instead, it would absorb and digest the terrifying external attack, and in turn transform it into a driving force for the world's circulation, entering the next cycle stage.

Now, all around

countless plants and countless animals grew, mutated, and finally formed another cold, sharp sword-light…

The world was in endless cycles — magnetic force, mutation, destruction, law-prohibition and law-destruction, sword-Dao — cycling without cease. Even attacks far exceeding its own limits that fell upon this world could not break through it; instead, through constant cycling, the external power was continuously worn down, and finally vanished without a trace.

This was the inheritance of the human race, overlords of the endless starry sky — the Six Paths of Reincarnation structure!

This kind of inheritance was naturally suited to the human race as a species.

Humans only needed one-tenth or even one-hundredth of the difficulty other races required to master it, making it equivalent to one of the artificially created racial talents.

Of course, even though the difficulty was this low, that was only relatively speaking.

One had to be a once-in-an-generation prodigy of the human race, unrivaled across dozens of domains, to even be qualified to touch it — and one still had to look at one's own talent, as well as opportunity, fortune, and compatibility.

The existence of this thing was too transcendent.

The Six Paths of Order in the starry sky, the Six Paths of Reincarnation worlds constantly cycling, were continuously corrected and adjusted under the massive computing power of the central array-spirit computer. From time to time, local worlds would collapse and shatter, producing new spell data, and then begin a new round of correction and adjustment.

Up to now, the massive central array-spirit computer's computing power had been gathered here continuously for several hundred years, consuming more than ten Void Refinement battle merits — all spent in simulation and calculation.

Jiang Ding's own divine soul also kept a constant eye on this place, adjusting, correcting, and comprehending at all times, never slacking off.

Finally, today, a result appeared.

In the starry sky, the Six Paths world that had been constantly cycling and rotating finally reached an extremely harmonious, extremely natural state at a certain point. Its might began to surge, far surpassing any previous moment, and the cycling Six Paths world was stable, no longer showing signs of collapse at the slightest provocation.

"It's done, it's done…"

Jiang Ding said joyfully.

The cycling Six Paths world gradually stabilized, and then all the spiritual light dispersed, revealing an ancient, simple, vicissitude-laden rune, with a faint aura of Chaos spreading from it.

This was the Great Sun Canghai Tianjun · Six Paths of Reincarnation Sword Rune!

This represented a structure of the Six Paths of Order — a structure that caused a qualitative change in oneself!

At this moment, the Six Paths of Order changed from charcoal into diamond. It was still composed of carbon atoms, with no change whatsoever, but its hardness at this moment was completely different, having become something of another level.

With the body of Order, comparable to Rules!

Clang!

Clang clang!

The Taiqing Flying Sword suddenly leapt from its sheath, humming softly.

Within her flying sword, the Great Sun destructive force among the Six Paths of Order was surrounded by the five great Orders, undergoing a violent and abrupt metamorphosis — a metamorphosis to a higher level, completing a leap in the flying sword's tier.

Rumble—

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In the sky, lightning serpents flickered — that was the thunder of the Rule of Thunder. Then rolling dark clouds gathered, covering the entire sky full of stars. The universe fell into absolute darkness, with not a single trace of light remaining.

The Rule Thunder Tribulation had appeared!

This terrifying pressure rapidly threw the entire Immortal Gate into a combat-ready state.

However, there was no chaos. Everything had been reported in advance. Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, Teacher Gu Lin, and others held their breath, looking at the dark clouds in the sky that covered a hundred-thousand-kilometer stretch of starry sky, their hearts trembling uncontrollably.

The pressure of this heavenly tribulation even faintly exceeded that of when Yuan had overcome the Void Refinement Thunder Tribulation back then!

"Yuan's worry was not wrong."

"He is getting closer and closer to the Great Sun Sword Master of those days…"

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, forcibly enduring the pressure of the Void Refinement heavenly tribulation on his divine soul, whispered to the surrounding Immortal Gate Canghai Tianjun: "At the early stage of Hua Shen Chu Qi, approaching Hua Shen Zhong Qi, his Ben Ming Fa treasure is already beginning to metamorphose into a Void Refinement-space treasure!"

"He is about to grasp the power of Void Refinement. Although he may not necessarily be able to slay Void Refinement cultivators, among Void Refinement, he is already a presence that cannot be ignored."

"Back then, Zou Zou Xiyuan, at the early stage of Hua Shen Chu Qi, could not do this — otherwise the Jiudaxian Sect would have had no possibility of achieving victory in the Battle of Sun Destruction…"

"This makes me both joyful and worried."

"No, you should be joyful."

"Don't overthink it."

Teacher Gu Lin shook his head slightly, in disagreement. "The Immortal Gate's Great Sun Canghai Tianjun is growing stronger, adding another layer of depth to the Immortal Gate's foundation, another layer of safety — this is a tremendous blessing."

"You're right, indeed."

"However, I believe the Immortal Gate's internal security work needs to be strengthened once more…"

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun said to the surrounding Tianjuns, everything an aboveboard conspiracy.