Chapter 1381: Seventh-Grade Sword Embryo: Taiqing Flying Sword

Between heaven and earth,

everything was shrouded by the terrifying light of flickering Lei Ting.

The Lei Ting flickered for a long time, lasting for a long time, and something essential began to change.

In the occasional gaps between flickers of Lei Ting, one could faintly see a wizened, deathly pale, extremely weak youth in blue robes sitting cross-legged between two swords of Lei Ting.

Another dozen-plus years passed.

The Lei Chong Guang and destructive radiance between heaven and earth dispersed.

Jiang Ding's aura was even weaker, his face a sallow yellow, sickly, his body swaying as if about to fall, looking utterly spent.

"Hahaha!"

"Hahaha…"

Yet he was laughing, laughing wildly without pause.

"Taiqing Flying Sword,"

"is now a quasi-seventh-grade sword embryo!"

Jiang Ding cradled his lifebound flying sword, cheering loudly: "Just by smelting in a single wisp of Lei Ting Destruction flying sword essence, it leapt to a quasi-seventh-grade sword embryo!"

"Achieving a seventh-grade sword embryo in the future will be as easy as breathing — there simply cannot be any difficulty."

Seventh-grade sword embryo, sixth-grade sword embryo — these refer to the flying sword's potential, foundation, and depth, not the treasure-grade of the flying sword; the two are entirely different matters.

Back when Jiang Ding first obtained the Taiqing Flying Sword embryo, he was nothing but a mortal, not even a Qi Refining cultivator, yet the Taiqing Flying Sword was already a sixth-grade sword embryo.

Sword embryo grade and flying sword grade are two entirely different things.

"Eighth-grade sword embryo!"

"Dayan Jianzi, exactly what caliber of sword dao prodigy did you slay on this trip…"

Dayang Dayang Tianchi's Moon Spirit recorded this world-shaking scene in the annals of the Dayang Sword Pavilion, muttering to herself, her heart shaken beyond words.

Clang!

The Taiqing Flying Sword also sent forth a joyful emotion.

Her sword body had healed somewhat; even the most damaged spot was now only the size of a little finger, no longer looking as though it might snap at any moment, and the sword's sharpness had risen another level.

"I need to rest for a while…"

It took Jiang Ding a long time to calm down from his wild joy; he closed his eyes and entered cultivation state, recovering his utterly weak body.

His essence-blood was depleted, his magic power and divine sense dried up, his soul drifting and unstable — he needed to adjust for a period before he could continue refining his lifebound flying sword.

At the same time, Jiang Ding split his attention and began participating in the Immortal Gate's various scientific research work.

The Immortal Gate's immortal dao scientific research work was plentiful now: the development of Unity-of-Dao military formations, the development of Unity-of-Dao Gong Fa, the further iteration of planetary-grade warships, the design work for future star-grade warships, the artificial synthesis of various seventh-grade materials and the smelting of natural seventh-grade materials…

And so on, very many things — this was an immensely vast immortal dao scientific system.

This was the Immortal Gate's immortal dao scientific project.

As for Jiang Ding himself, his own sword dao scientific research projects were also many: deducing, on the basis of the "Great Sun Sword Scripture," a version of the Void Refinement secret art perfectly suited to himself;

the iteration of the Six Paths of Reincarnation structure — the previous battle had yielded many precious inspirations, and after digesting and absorbing them, the Six Paths of Reincarnation structure would surely conform even better to immortal dao science, further strengthening his sword dao foundation.

And his half-step Sword Spirit realm sword art could now break through to Sword Spirit realm sword art — he only needed to summarize it a bit; however, sixth-realm sword art required a stronger flying sword, or the Void Refinement realm, otherwise this sword art would injure himself before it was even unleashed.

And the Six Paths of Reincarnation Five-Element Destruction Sword, currently being deduced and perfected, and comprehending immortal arts…

He was very busy.

Among these matters, every single task was of vital importance, tied to his Dao path, and the foundation of his current strength — none could be omitted.

Jiang Ding had originally planned to devote all his soul computing power to sword refining.

Now that he thought about it, this was not appropriate.

The previous trinity of sword refining, cultivation, and immortal dao scientific research was still more suitable — learning, cultivation, and immortal dao scientific research were things that ran through an Immortal Gate cultivator's entire life and should not be interrupted midway, not even for what seemed a perfectly reasonable reason.

This was the path.

A lifelong path.

Time hurried by; after more than twenty years of healing, cultivation, and research, Jiang Ding had fully recovered to normal.

Without pausing for a moment, he immediately drew upon tens of thousands of kilometers of world's spiritual energy and the order of the six great suns, continuing to devote himself to the work of smelting the eighth-grade Lei Ting Destruction flying sword.

Unlike last time, he could now split his attention, using a small portion of his soul computing power for cultivation and immortal dao scientific research.

Although it was only a symbolic amount — smelting the eighth-grade Lei Ting Destruction sword embryo was far too difficult for him, tying up too much of his soul computing power.

Still, this was a good beginning.

……

Days passed one after another.

Jiang Ding's life each year was extremely regular: smelting the eighth-grade Lei Ting Destruction sword embryo, healing, cultivation and immortal dao scientific research, participating in the Immortal Gate's various immortal dao projects, mobilizing the Immortal Gate Sword Dao Science Academy to develop various sword arts, and his own Six Paths of Reincarnation structure and Six Paths of Reincarnation Five-Element Destruction Sword.

Additionally, there was one change.

The Six Paths of Reincarnation Five-Element Destruction Sword had originally been planned to build five stellar orbital giant cannons as the medium for unleashing the sword art; the plan had been completed several hundred years ago and was about to enter production, but Jiang Ding vetoed it.

What he now needed was not sixth-grade stellar orbital giant cannons.

Rather, five great seventh-grade stellar orbital destruction giant cannons that could still be used after Void Refinement!

He did not dare return to the Upper Realm, and there were no suitable opponents of the same realm in this domain; he had already given up hope on immortal-grade order, and planned to advance to the Void Refinement realm at an appropriate time.

Therefore, the five great sixth-grade stellar orbital giant cannon sword sheaths originally planned for construction were no longer suitable and had to be scrapped.

What was needed now was a redesign of Unity-of-Dao-grade stellar orbital destruction giant cannon sword sheaths.

This was a tremendous challenge for the Immortal Gate's cannon-building industry, but no matter how difficult, it had to be carried on — the enemies were too powerful; Unity-of-Dao peak cultivators existed within the Ancient God Domain, and this tough bone had to be gnawed down.

Fortunately, Jiang Ding and the Immortal Gate's Void Refinement True Sovereigns were already accustomed to this kind of immortal dao scientific research activity, and were not particularly disheartened.

And so, time slowly flowed by.

In the world of immortal dao, time always seemed to flow especially fast; before one knew it, more than three hundred years had passed.

On this day, the flickering lightning radiance within Dayang Dayang Tianchi gradually came to a halt.

"Seventh-tier sword embryo, Taiqing Flying Sword, complete."

"Effortless — there's no difficulty at all, far too simple!"

Jiang Ding cupped his Natal Flying Sword in both hands.

After more than three hundred years of refining the eighth-tier Lei Ting Destruction sword embryo, the Taiqing Flying Sword had fully recovered its wholeness, no longer a broken, battered thing; its sword aura had surged by more than twofold, and within its deep-blue sword-light wove a net of golden threads of Po Fa Xian Jin, enough to strike dread into even Void-Tricking cultivators.

When a sword cultivator's Natal Flying Sword completed its breakthrough, the sword's master naturally did the same.

Led on by the Taiqing Flying Sword, Jiang Ding's sword soul and magic power began a slow but steady process of purification, his strength increasing little by little.

Though the Taiqing Flying Sword had undergone such earth-shaking transformation, that Lei Ting Destruction sword embryo had only shrunk by a tenth.

It was still far from reaching its limit.