Chapter 1378: The Foundation Beyond Dao-Integration

In the end, Yuan and the others accepted this result.

The Central Array Spirit Computer of the Immortal Gate is the ultimate foundation of the Immortal Gate; the divine souls of virtuous sages from past generations, who died in battle and possessed outstanding moral character, merged into it, forming the basis of the Immortal Gate's Immortal Dao Science and Immortal Dao Industry.

It can be said that if the Central Array Spirit Computer is no longer trusted, the Immortal Gate will also fall into a state of destruction.

Jiang Ding remained conscious for a period, exchanged words with Yuan and others for a while, and especially after digesting and absorbing the results of "changing the rules," he agreed with Yuan's conjecture.

He shared some of his own views and learned about the current situation.

His injuries were far from healed; the power of that silver-white sword qi was too tenacious and extremely adept at countering sword cultivators; even a mere wisp of it was not easy to wear down.

However, this kind of life-and-death struggle and combat against higher-level power was not entirely without benefit.

Amidst this repeated fighting, his divine soul and magic power were constantly being refined, continuously rising, gradually transcending the limits of his own Gong Fa, and advancing toward a higher level.

This more refined magic power, already manifested as a result, will surely provide immense reference and assistance for the further development of the Immortal Gate's Gong Fa in the future.

After he awakens, perhaps the Immortal Gate's Gong Fa surpassing the past Great Sun Sword Pavilion and moving closer to the true Upper Realm Immortal Sects will not be an illusion, but a goal that can truly begin to be pursued.

Additionally, the Ancient God Domain world cluster that Jiang Ding was extremely concerned about has also shown breakthrough progress.

After nearly a thousand years of espionage by the Nine Great Immortal Sects, information about the Ancient God Domain has gradually become known; there mainly exist three major powers there.

Namely, another batch of seeds from the Upper Realm's Nine Great Immortal Sects, the Nine Immortal Sects located in the Ancient God Domain, collectively called the Nine Immortal Alliance; the myriad races alliance formed by numerous demon races and strange species remaining from the Ancient God Dao; and the Ancient God Dao established by remaining disciples of the Ancient God Dao, though this name is not recognized and is often called the Demon God Sect.

After allying internally, these three major powers have been fighting each other for hundreds of thousands of years.

Meanwhile, aside from the fighting, the internal struggles within these three major powers are also numerous and extremely complex.

For instance, the Heavenly God Palace, the strongest within the Nine Immortal Alliance, once produced a powerhouse in history who had the potential to transcend the Dao-Integration realm, possibly leading the Nine Immortal Alliance to unify the Ancient God Domain.

The final fate of this powerhouse was being surrounded and killed by all powers, including the Nine Immortal Alliance.

This situation also occasionally appeared in the Myriad Races Alliance and the Demon God Sect; the Demon God Sect was actually established by numerous past inner and outer sect disciples of the Ancient God Dao who seized the core inheritance amidst the great chaos; it was not the most core disciples of the Ancient God Dao, and internally there were many factions, with no single powerhouse capable of suppressing all others.

In the history of the Ancient God Domain world cluster, whenever an unparalleled genius with the potential to transcend the Dao-Integration realm appeared, they would immediately be surrounded and killed by everyone, both inside and outside.

Even if the possibility of transcending the Dao-Integration realm was only one or two tenths, it would attract

the high alert of many powers.

This chaotic situation made the Nine Great Immortal Sects of the Nine Spirit Domain extremely delighted and eager to move.

However,

the most critical problem remains unresolved.

In the three ring-shaped Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie surrounded by black mist, do powerhouses transcending the Dao-Integration realm actually exist?

This point cannot be determined to this day.

Therefore, the Nine Great Immortal Sects have long dared not act rashly.

They need at least several thousand years to cultivate to the mid-stage of Dao-Integration before they will begin further exploration; only after learning more detailed information will they mobilize.

Why the mid-stage of Dao-Integration and not cultivating to an even deeper realm?

Even if it takes tens of thousands of years, the Dao-Integration experts of the Immortal Sects can afford to wait.

Alas, the Jiao Jiao Mingyu was not wealthy to begin with and was occupied by nine Dao-Integration-level powers; being able to support them in cultivating to the mid-stage of Dao-Integration is already considered half a miracle.

This was only possible because the Nine Spirit Domain had endured poverty for so long, achieving extremely high resource utilization efficiency.

But this is the limit!

The resources of the Nine Spirit Domain cannot, after supporting nine Dao-Integration-level powers, also give birth to late-stage Dao-Integration cultivators; not even in ten thousand years.

This means that if the Dao-Integration experts of the Immortal Sects do not wish for their cultivation to make no progress for their entire lives, they must expand.

As long as it is not a situation of certain death, they dare to gamble.

Once the Eight Great Immortal Sects choose war, the Immortal Gate will be forced to be swept along and enter the game; otherwise, if the Eight Great Immortal Sects become immensely wealthy and their strength increases dramatically, the Immortal Gate will surely be destroyed.

The war in the Ancient God Domain will inevitably come within at most four thousand years.

After understanding the current situation of the Immortal Gate and confirming that there would be no sect-destroying disaster within a thousand years, Jiang Ding fell into a deep sleep again, plunging into the cruel life-and-death struggle with that silver-white sword qi.

Time flowed slowly, and years passed.

Unknowingly, more than six hundred years had passed.

During this period, Senior Jin Liu stepped down from the position of Vice Ruler of the Immortal Gate, and True Lord Tao Qing began to succeed him as Vice Ruler of the Immortal Gate, guarding the Mother Star; the Immortal Gate also produced two Void Refinement cultivators, who were still ancient Soul Transformation experts from Yuan's generation.

During this period, Jiang Ding's mother, Lin Lin Wanqiu, and his sister, Jiang Yuan, tried many times but ultimately could not break through to Soul Transformation; there was not even a shred of possibility, so they could only helplessly enter the Chen Mian Mi Jing to await a future turning point.

Before entering the Chen Mian Mi Jing, they came to visit Jiang Ding again, but he was still healing and had not awakened, just as in the past.

Time continued to flow.

Another hundred-plus years later.

On this day, the healing pod, which had always held a terrifying aura, gradually returned to calm.

In the Taiyi Taiyi Qingmu Life Essence Liquid, which rippled like water, a sixteen-year-old boy, completely naked, opened his eyes, starkly divided between black and white, and once again

looked upon this world.

He was slightly bewildered, then returned to normal, stood up, and his clothes automatically materialized from his body.

Clang!

The Taiqing Flying Sword let out a faint hum.

As the life-bound Flying Sword of a sword cultivator, she too had suffered terrible injuries; her sword body was pitted and uneven, with many places of incompleteness; in some places it even looked broken, with only a sliver of sword body connecting the pieces.

"It is nothing,"

"Rest assured, you and I will become stronger..."

Jiang Ding gently stroked the sword hilt: "The Thunder Yang Heavenly Sword Realm, especially that shameless Longevity Turtle Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun who dared to sneak attack me, and that powerhouse transcending the Dao-Integration realm, who are the masters of the sword talisman; I will surely give them the return they deserve at the appropriate time."

"Truly too shameless."

"I have never seen such an unscrupulous person."

He walked step by step out of the healing pod, bid farewell to the many Void Refinement cultivators of the Immortal Gate who had come to welcome him, attended various Immortal Gate banquets, and chatted with many old friends.

After attending various social engagements, Jiang Ding finally returned to Dayang Dayang Tianchi and began examining the spoils of war he had acquired a thousand years ago.

A storage ring, from a sword cultivator who had inherited the Lei Yang Heavenly Sword Realm.

And a dead, silent sword embryo.

"I'm ninety percent sure there's nothing too valuable in Fellow Chong Guang Lei's storage ring... just like me."

Jiang Ding picked up the storage ring and sighed softly: "I'm such a strong and confident person, yet I still left all my money back home beforehand. Fellow Chong Guang Lei couldn't possibly have gone into a decisive battle with the inheritor of the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm without making arrangements."

His materialist solar sword intent surged into it. The action was extremely rough, triggering many self-destruction prohibitions, and sure enough, he saw an utterly empty storage space.

Jiang Ding casually tossed it aside, letting it explode into a shower of sparks.

"Still, this loose wealth is actually useless."

"The real spoils of war..."

Jiang Ding's gaze burned with fervor as he looked toward that one dead, silent Lei Ting Destruction flying sword.

"Is this eighth-grade sword embryo!"

"An eighth-grade sword embryo forged from an eighth-grade heaven and earth treasure—the Destruction Lei Yan Dao Crystal!"

"This is a heaven and earth treasure of a grade above Dao Merging!"

"This single item alone might even be worth more than several Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie. In Fellow Chong Guang Lei's wealth, this eighth-grade sword embryo likely accounts for 99.999 percent of the total—not an exaggeration in the slightest."

"My foundation above Dao Merging is already a certainty."