Chapter 1270: The Nine Great Immortal Sects Slay a Beyond-Domain Combined-Dao Divine Lord

Jiang Ding was planning in his heart the matter of ascending to the upper realm.

For him, this posed no difficulty; it was only because of safety concerns that he kept considering it.

"After late-stage Soul Transformation, we'll talk."

"I cannot leave the sect even one step right now, and there are still many preparations I haven't completed. My combat strength has not been maximized; venturing out now would be unwise…"

Jiang Ding set aside the distracting thoughts in his mind and continued cultivating in a cross-legged posture.

Defending the home planet is an extremely important matter. Not to mention going to the Northern Plains—even leaving the home planet for a single second would be an extremely serious political error, because this is the home planet, the safety of hundreds of billions of citizens, the sect's final fallback.

In such a major matter, not the slightest carelessness can be allowed.

"Right, Moon."

Jiang Ding recalled something and transmitted via divine sense: "Later, people from the sect's Academy of Sciences will come to Dayang Dayang Tianchi to collect the sealing data on Zou Zou Xiyuan. Cooperate with them and try to undo the seal without damage as soon as possible, to extract the immortal art."

"I need genuine immortal art fragments to comprehend, so as to create stronger sword arts and sword-escape arts."

Until a sword-escape art imbued with immortal art knowledge was developed, he would not step outside.

"Yeth, I know, already…"

Moon said weakly.

This generation's Great Sun Sword Son was always scheming in every possible way to squander the family fortune and sell off the sect—it was truly helpless.

"That's good."

Jiang Ding said, satisfied.

"Commander! Commander!"

"What about me?"

The warship spirit girl of the super warship Great Sun, Yunri, suddenly appeared and raised her hand: "What about our planet-class warship? The star-city loaded with massive silver-white metal sword guards, warships, fighters, and fortresses?"

She gazed longingly at the blue-robed youth before her.

The current super warship Great Sun could hardly be applied to Void Refinement-level combat; it was far too fragile and had already lost the qualification to serve as a main combat asset.

"Construction has already begun."

"I've already allocated thirty Void Refinement battle merits, ten Void Refinement heavenly materials and earthly treasures, three million top-grade spirit stones, plus massive subsidies from the sect—at cost price… it's expected to take about a thousand years before it can roll off the line."

Jiang Ding said immediately.

The current him was truly far too wealthy; he couldn't spend it all even if he tried.

The reason only the above budget was given was that the sect could only apply this much—it had already reached the technical limit of the sect's shipbuilding industry.

Of course, this was the cost price after subsidies, with no technical blockades either.

If outsiders came to purchase, multiplying it by ten would be ordinary—such high-tech immortal-path products simply had the qualification for such a premium.

"Right, Yunri."

"You need to fuse with a new planet-class warship core, equivalent to a magic treasure advancing through the Void Refinement heavenly tribulation… are you confident about this?"

Jiang Ding asked.

"Absolutely!"

"Don't worry."

Yunri was brimming with confidence, patting her flat chest as she said: "My success rate isn't a hundred percent—it's a hundred and fifty percent, a thousand percent!"

She was in high spirits, as if she had already transformed into a Void Refinement-grade warship spirit, commanding an army of billions of unmanned ships across the starry sky, sweeping across the stars and vanquishing all foes in every direction.

"Sword Son, she's really stupid."

"Like those foolishly overconfident weak sword cultivators."

The Dayang Dayang Tianchi Moon Spirit couldn't stand it and curled her lip.

This was truly unprecedented.

Moon had always had an extremely strong sense of hierarchy; unless absolutely necessary, she basically didn't speak with beings below Void Refinement. Since Yunri's birth she had never said a single word to Yunri, yet now she had actually opened her mouth. "Heh."

"An old woman about to be left behind by the times, a mere mid-stage Void Refinement…"

Yunri stared straight ahead without glancing sideways.

"What did you say?!"

Moon flew into a rage: "Little brat, I'm asking you—what did you just say?"

"…"

Jiang Ding sealed off the surrounding sounds, sank into a deep level of cultivation, and paid no more attention to the clamor around him.

It was estimated that in another seven hundred-plus years, he would be able to advance to late-stage Soul Transformation, his strength increasing further. By then, with an even more powerful divine sense and magic power as the foundation, the efficiency of comprehending sword intent and Void-order principles would both improve.

There was one thing that Jiang Ding had always kept close to his heart.

Ever since his sword intent advanced to Hua Shen Qi, it had already reached Great Perfection of Sword Intent, and the next realm—Sword Soul—remained indefinitely distant; he simply couldn't see the slightest possibility.

He speculated that, ordinarily, he might need to break through to the Void Refinement realm, or have his Void-order principles advance to Dao-order principles capable of slaying Void Refinement cultivators, before his sword intent would have any chance of transforming into Sword Soul, possessing the material and soul foundation.

Sword Soul!

When sword intent reached this stage, it had completely fused with the sword cultivator's soul—sword intent was the soul, and the soul was sword intent.

A Sword Soul sword cultivator's resistance to external illusions, curses, and heavenly-secret deductions would increase dramatically. Moreover, they could send out their flying sword fused with Sword Soul, ignoring the defenses of fleshly bodies and magic treasures, slaying the opponent's soul with a single sword while leaving the opponent's body completely unscathed—truly terrifying.

The unsheathing of Sword Soul could be called the ultimate sword of a sword cultivator.

Once the sword came out, someone was bound to die—either oneself or the enemy; there was no second possibility.

……

Time drifted on.

Before he knew it, over a hundred years had passed.

On this day, a piece of information sent over from the central array spirit computer of the Jiao Jiao Mingyu triggered a massive earthquake among the top-tier cultivators of the sect.

"With the joint efforts of the Jiudaxian Sect, the planar passage to the Ancient God Domain has already been located, and the sealing and array deployment have been completed."

The surrounding spiritual Qi of heaven and earth and the radiance of the great sun slowly calmed.

A youth in blue robes opened his eyes, a look of horror on his face: "Moreover, the Jiudaxian Sect repelled the attack of three Extra-Domain Dao Merging cultivators. One of those Dao Merging cultivators was Jiao Minghuang — it was he who led his people back to the Jiao Jiao Mingyu to take revenge!"

"No, 'repelled' isn't quite right."

"An existence named Celestial Ghost Divine Lord took the lead and broke into the entrance of the Jiao Jiao Mingyu, only to be slain on the spot by the Jiudaxian Sect. We tried to take him prisoner, but failed — he self-detonated, and his Shen Hun Yin returned to the Heavenly Dao."

"At the very instant this Celestial Ghost Divine Lord died, Jiao Minghuang and another Dao Merging Divine Lord on the other end of the realm passage fled in panic, and the Jiudaxian Sect could not catch up."

"The Jiao Jiao Mingyu and the Jiudaxian Sect have already been exposed to the gaze of the Immortal Dao civilizations of the outside world!"

Jiang Ding's face darkened.

In that instant, the Immortal Gate's Political Participation Council meeting presided over by the Yuan had already reached a joint decision: at any cost, prioritize strengthening the construction of the mother star's Facheng, and if necessary, evacuate at least one billion Immortal Gate citizens to sustain survival for over a hundred thousand years.

Jiang Ding also cast a vote in support.

An unfamiliar Extra-Domain Immortal Dao civilization!

This unknown, like a dark forest, truly makes one's heart tremble. According to Yuan, even the Dao Merging Divine Lords of the eight great Weixian Sect showed a momentary wavering, their Dao hearts unsteady.

"Right now, at this very moment, after a moment's thought, the Jiudaxian Sect has already walked out through the realm passage, joining forces to strike out into the Jiao Jiao Mingyu!"

"They have already descended upon an unfamiliar realm domain, and are attempting to hunt down and slay Jiao Minghuang and the other Dao Merging Divine Lord, silencing them to seal off the news. A great power of the Celestial Secrets Immortal Palace is currently divining their location, with the Central Array Spirit Computer providing full computational support."

"That is an unfamiliar realm domain — it is not the Ancient God Domain we imagined at all. The citizen fleet passed by a Minor Thousand Worlds along the way, within which were many Human clan sects. The strongest was a Soul Transformation cultivator, and from his divine soul we learned this is the Tian Yuan Domain."

"This is a subordinate force of the Ancient God Domain, similar to the Jiao Jiao Mingyu?"

"Or is it that, due to shifts in the starry cosmos, this is an unfamiliar realm domain?"

(End of this chapter)