Chapter 1255: Dao Merging Level Array Spirit Computer

The sword realm above the sword art realm, the sixth realm of the sword Dao.

It is called Sword Spirit!

During the Soul Transformation heavenly tribulation, Jiang Ding did not understand the sword art of the Upper Realm Heavenly Sword Sword Child well, only feeling it was shrouded in clouds and mist, far beyond himself, and was uncertain about the specifics.

Now, accompanied by several thousand years of cultivation and accumulation, he already understood.

At that time, the sword art of the Upper Realm Heavenly Sword Sword Child must have been the sixth realm of the sword Dao that had just been broken through, the Sword Spirit realm!

In this realm, when a sword cultivator slashes out a sword, using sword intent as the bone, it combines the differentiation of sword light, thunder sound, indestructibility, and beyond the sword realm, there is also the birth of a kind of 'spirit'.

The spirit of sword art attaining spirituality!

When a sword is slashed out, the sword art automatically generates a spirit, assisting the sword master in manipulating the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the order of the great Dao rules, causing the sword cultivator's strength to surge in an almost leap-like manner.

The Heavenly Sword Sword Child mastered such sword art the instant he broke through to the Hua Shen Qi realm—truly terrifying.

This is what it means to be born with better bloodline than you, better inheritance than you, and better learning ability than you—no shortcoming anywhere, a cliff-like lead in both software and hardware in every dimension, making one despair.

"This is good,"

"A sliver of hope for True Immortal—such a wonderful thing!"

A fervent look appeared in Jiang Ding's eyes.

The Sword Child of a near-immortal level faction in the Upper Realm undoubtedly possessed a faint, ethereal hope of ascending to immortality, a possibility that existed—perhaps immeasurably small, but real.

And the sword cultivator who slew such a Sword Child must surely possess this hope!

"However, I've suddenly developed a strong interest in sword escape arts…"

Jiang Ding's thoughts unconsciously fell upon the sword escape art he had been planning for over a thousand years.

An escape art from the lower-tier inheritances of the Badaxian Sect surfaced in his mind.

A Nascent Soul level inheritance of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Sky-Breaking Escape.

The source of this inheritance was the Garuda's Wing secret art of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, a lower-tier gold-attribute spell escape art differentiated from this top-tier secret art.

This situation was very common within the Xianzong and even within the Immortal Gate.

A single top-tier Gong Fa was divided into tens of thousands of Gong Fa and spells, allowing disciples to progress layer by layer in cultivation, finally reaching the peak, without having to challenge the highest difficulty from the start—the learning difficulty was greatly reduced, and the rate of successful cultivation thereby increased.

At this moment, in the state of sudden enlightenment, Jiang Ding developed an intuition that this seemingly ordinary gold-attribute escape art, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Sky-Breaking Escape, possessed extremely strong potential and could serve as a reference for his Gold-attribute Karmic Sword Escape art.

Countless inspirations surfaced in Jiang Ding's mind, rapidly completing this sword escape art.

……

Three hundred years.

The Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of sun and moon for a full three hundred years, only then accumulating enough energy to complete its ultimate leap.

At a certain moment, under the tense watch of several hundred million Immortal Gate citizens, something instantly appeared in the Heavenly Dao—

A certain thing.

The rules of destiny.

The destiny rules belonging to the Central Array Spirit Computer, the ultimate treasure of the Immortal Gate, were imprinted into the Heavenly Dao, profoundly affecting the operation of the Heavenly Dao law net.

At this time, the factor of the Central Array Spirit Computer appeared in the Heavenly Dao of the Jiao Jiao Mingyu, and all things in heaven and earth, the time and space of the universe, underwent some changes because of it.

"Destiny rules, Dao Merging level destiny rules…"

Jiang Ding carefully comprehended.

It was rare to encounter such a Dao Merging level existence that was completely harmless to him, and which had even specially lowered the difficulty of comprehension for him—he could study it carefully, to avoid being caught off guard by similar enemies in the future.

Both being destiny rules, the destiny rules of the Central Array Spirit Computer and those of the great powers of the Tianji Xiangong differed enormously.

The destiny rules of the great powers of the Tianji Xiangong were more ethereal, more mysterious, carrying the atmosphere of divination and shamanic prayer, focusing more on glimpsing a corner of future destiny, humble and prostrate before the Heavenly Dao, like a servant, following the trajectory of a supreme existence, thereby receiving a picture of future destiny as a reward.

This lineage of his took the glimpsed picture as a basis to guide their own cultivation of the Dao.

Previously, when the great power of the Tianji Xiangong saved the divine soul of the great power of the Dandingxian Sect, it seemed to involve such a factor.

He believed that in the future situation, the Tianji Xiangong would need the friendship of the Dandingxian Sect, and now was not the best time to swallow up the Dandingxian Sect to strengthen itself—the node designated by destiny had not yet been reached.

The destiny rules of the Central Array Spirit Computer, on the other hand, did not have so many tricks; there was only one thing.

Computing power.

The ultimate computing power!

Everything—the deduction of the future, the influence on the rules of heaven and earth—was all accomplished by ultimate and enormous computing power, deduced, and not by seeing some destiny of the future.

It purely used enormous computational volume to calculate the probability of a certain future event occurring, like solving a math problem.

Boom!

From within the endless heavenly tribulation dark clouds, the first bolt of lightning wrapped in the net of rules crashed down, following the rules of the Heavenly Dao law net, arriving in an instant, bombarding the World Tree rooted in the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie.

In an instant, the lightning shattered several hundred kilometers of tree sea, countless dark green leaves, and brown tree trunks snapped, turning to flying ash, scattering.

The world wall, full of green, thus developed a black blotch and a Kong Dong.

It looked like heaven and earth were destroyed, several hundred kilometers reduced to ash, but for a World Tree covering an entire Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, it was nothing more than a drop in the ocean—a few hairs on its body broken, not damaging anything.

In the instant of destruction, countless branches and leaves grew and spread over, rapidly filling all the space, the scorched-black places vanishing without a trace.

The first heavenly tribulation, for the Central Array Spirit Computer,

was simply like a gentle breeze, completely ignored.

At this point, one could see the diametrically opposite understandings of the Immortal Gate and the Tianji Xiangong regarding the existence called 'Heavenly Dao'.

The Immortal Gate believed that in the endless universe and starry sky, there were only natural laws and rules, and there did not exist a supreme existence called 'Heavenly Dao'; the Heavenly Dao was merely here, merely a phenomenon, neither good nor evil nor intentional, only a physical phenomenon operating since time immemorial.

These two cognitive viewpoints both seemed correct.

The Tianji Xiangong was utterly reverent, utterly humble, treating itself as a servant of the Heavenly Dao, yet received no visible benefit.

The Immortal Gate completely denied that the Heavenly Dao possessed 'personality' or 'emotion', treating the Heavenly Dao as a natural phenomenon, extremely emphasizing the subjective initiative of cultivators, yet also received no heavenly punishment.

Boom!

Rumble!

In the starry sky, bolt after bolt of orderly Lei Ting descended from the heavens. The entire starry sky's Lei Ting-order Heavenly Dao law-net blazed dazzlingly, converging an incomprehensibly vast power that thundered down upon the World Tree rooted in the world, strike after strike, seeking to destroy the sudden energy upheaval that had appeared in the cosmic starry sky.

As the destructive Lei Ting struck down without cease, the divine tree Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong at last began to truly take damage—countless branches tens of thousands of kilometers long snapped and charred black, and even the main trunk, hundreds of kilometers in diameter, was blasted apart by the heavenly tribulation. Beginning from the upper third, one pillar of the world collapsed and crashed down upon the earth, triggering a worldwide great earthquake.

Even more innumerable banyan roots and tendrils, countless in the billions, were affected by the heavenly tribulation and turned directly to ash, tumbling up out of the ground and turning the earth into a boiling, soup-like state.

Beneath the Dao-Integration heavenly tribulation, the divine tree Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong had become a bare, charred-black wreck, its aura faint—utterly wretched.

At this moment, the rolling black clouds in the starry sky paused for an instant, then scattered toward the four corners, once again revealing the quiet night sky. Countless stars twinkled, and the Sun Star cast its first ray of sunlight upon the world—upon the bare, charred divine tree within it.

The Dao-Integration heavenly tribulation had ended.

Central Array Spirit Computer, promoted to Dao-Integration-grade Computer!