Chapter 1395: The Strongest Great Sun Sword Lord of the Nine Spirit Domain Is About to Appear

The more distant "Hypothesis of Increasing Peril on the Road Ahead" came across as somewhat pessimistic.

The account of Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun's path to immortality, by contrast, was far more stirring, sending a surge of excitement through the True Honored Ones of many immortal sects.

Still, the two of them did not argue the point.

In fact, both viewpoints might be correct, or both might be wrong, because the path to immortality remained an exceedingly distant goal for the immortal sects' scientific community — one that might go unverified for hundreds of thousands of years.

"These things are far too remote."

"At least for now, when it comes to combat at the Dao Merging stage, we may hold a greater advantage over the Jiudaxian Sect of the Ancient God Domain, wouldn't you say?"

Zhenjun Shenji True Honored One inquired.

His Gen Ben Gong Fa was the Taiyin Taiyang Scripture among the Nine Scriptures of the Immortal Sect; his rule was a branch of the Taiyin Taiyang Rule — treating yin and yang as two entangled particles, zero and one — thereby vastly amplifying his divine-soul computational power and deductive ability. He possessed formidable expertise in array-spirit Yan Suan Fa research and in command and staff work, and had long served as Chief of the General Staff of the Immortal Sect.

Of course, after leaving the Immortal Sect's Citizen Fleet his individual combat power was exceedingly weak — dead last among those of the same realm, needless to say; the great majority of Void Refinement cultivators in the Immortal Sect were of this sort.

Zhenjun Shenji True Honored One looked out over the many Void Refinement True Honored Ones of the Immortal Sect, and at the same time fixed his gaze especially on Yuan and the Great Sun Sword Child.

These two individuals — one had pushed his command ability and array-path mastery to an unfathomably deep level within the seventh realm, simply monstrous; the other possessed terrifying individual combat power, capable of annihilating swathes of the Immortal Sect's Void Refinement cultivators in the blink of an eye during a duel. In the exploration of the Dao, they had already pulled noticeably ahead of every other cultivator in the Immortal Sect.

The judgments of these two carried the greatest reference value.

"The probability of this exceeds ninety percent."

Yuan said in a tone of certainty.

"Yes."

"I will need two to three thousand years to advance to mid Void Refinement."

Jiang Ding said calmly, "At that time, please allow me to take sole charge of one direction against an immortal sect of the Ancient God Domain. I need them. I am willing to bring greater light and happiness to all living beings of the Ancient God Domain."

Around them, silence fell in an instant.

"Alone…"

At that moment, the Void Refinement cultivators of the surrounding Immortal Sect drew a soft breath in unison.

They felt a tremor of instinct.

The strongest cultivator in the history of the Nine Spirit Domain — a Great Sun Sword Lord — was about to appear!

Moreover, his strength far surpassed that of the previous generation's Great Sun Sword Lord. At the Void Refinement realm he already intended to draw his sword against a peak Dao Merging cultivator — in sheer madness he had outstripped the previous Great Sun Sword Lord, Zou Zou Xiyuan, by a wide margin, growing ever more unhinged.

Swoosh!

Senior Wanji True Honored One, Zhenjun Shenji True Honored One, Master Canghai True Honored One and others simultaneously cast a covert glance toward Yuan.

Can he pull it off? Brother.

Don't end up in a situation where the entire Immortal Sect combined still isn't—

If he alone is overwhelmingly powerful, then the entire political system of the Immortal Sect's citizens will face a severe trial — the lives and deaths of trillions of Immortal Sect citizens will all rest upon a single thought of one powerful individual.

Regardless of how this powerful individual thinks or how reliable he may be, such a state of affairs is simply too dangerous.

As seasoned politicians, the Void Refinement True Honored Ones of the Immortal Sect were naturally unsettled by it.

Yuan gave a slight nod, then a slight shake of his head.

I don't know.

I am very strong, and the Citizen Fleet is also very strong. The strongest Citizen Fleet today already numbers a billion elite cultivators; the military discipline and tactical proficiency of its cultivators grow stronger year by year, far surpassing the Nine Spirit Domain era. Fighters, warships, aerospace carriers, and starry-sky fortresses at every level all vastly exceed those of the past. Peerless prodigies from the outside world continue to ascend, immigrate, and join as high-ranking officers, producing immediate and tangible improvements to the Immortal Sect fleet's military formations.

Every few hundred, or close to a thousand, years, another Void Refinement cultivator is born within the Immortal Sect, and the power of the Citizen Fleet grows ever stronger.

But the speed at which he grows stronger is also very fast!

I truly do not know.

This exceedingly subtle, covert exchange lasted only a hundred-thousandth of an instant and disrupted nothing.

"In other words, purely from a military standpoint, several thousand years from now, we do stand a fairly good chance of victory."

"Even with variables such as the Yao God Sect and the Myriad Races Alliance in play."

Zhenjun Shenji True Honored One, taking into account the opinions of the many Void Refinement cultivators of the Immortal Sect, drafted a brief operational plan and handed it to the assembly: "The only question now is — does the Ancient God Domain harbor any existence above Dao Merging?"

"This question is best confirmed before the war."

"Because an existence above Dao Merging could annihilate us with the utmost ease — it would be far too dangerous. If such a figure exists, then flight is the correct course of action…"

The Immortal Sect conference proceeded in an orderly fashion.

"That Ancient God Dao's Cangtian Pavilion may well be a key that shapes the situation across the domain."

Master Canghai True Honored One pointed at the Six Paths Reincarnation surveillance record submitted by Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, pausing the image on the covert divine-sense exchange between the Heavenly God Dao Child and the Tianyun Xianzong Dao Child.

'Cangtian Pavilion… direct-line cultivators of the Ancient God Dao…'

'Perhaps we can help them…'

Even though these two Dao Children communicated covertly through divine sense, they could conceal nothing from the Great Sun Sword Child — the gap in strength had reached an indescribable magnitude, like that between a heavenly god and a mortal.

"Yes, this is precisely the matter I was about to raise."

"The Ancient God Dao's Cangtian Pavilion."

Zhenjun Shenji True Honored One pointed at the surveillance image and said, "According to information gathered by our intelligence department, several hundred thousand years ago, some cataclysmic upheaval struck the Ancient God Dao, and the entire sect faced the danger of annihilation."

"At that moment, the Ancient God Dao's supreme treasure, Cangtian Pavilion, carried the sect's legacy and broke through the boundary, coming to rest in a place within the Ancient God Domain called the Void Spirit"

"Abyss, awaiting the return of the Ancient God Dao's direct disciples to revitalize the sect."

"However, numerous servants and inner- and outer-disciple members of the Ancient God Dao took the opportunity to rebel, colluding with the cultivators of the Jiudaxian Sect who had suddenly descended, and slaughtered every direct disciple of the Ancient God Dao, severing its lineage for good."

"Over these hundreds of thousands of years, the Myriad Races Alliance and the Yao God Sect have continually attempted to assault Cangtian Pavilion to obtain the true legacy of the Ancient God Dao, but have never succeeded. This sect-guarding supreme treasure is a Dao artifact above the Dao Merging realm, and it remains ever hidden within the void and the rules, refusing direct confrontation — they could do nothing about it."

"That is the history of Cangtian Pavilion."

"Judging from the Heavenly God Dao Child's meaning now, the Jiudaxian Sect of the Ancient God Domain seems, like us, confident — believing their strength holds a generational gap over ours — and intends to use Cangtian Pavilion as bait to firmly draw the attention of the many powerful figures of the Yao God Sect and the Myriad Races Alliance, allowing them to swallow up sects of the same origin and send their own strength soaring."

"Within this, is there perhaps something we can exploit?"

Zhenjun Shenji True Honored One inquired, "Might we be able to involve ourselves, in order to ascertain what transpired back then, and — most critically — to determine whether an existence above Dao Merging truly exists?"

"The legacy above Dao Merging within the Ancient God Dao is likewise tantalizing… however, I myself do not hold out much hope. Such a legacy is hard for outsiders to obtain — the pavilion spirit of Cangtian Pavilion could easily destroy the legacy, and even an existence above Dao Merging would be hard-pressed to wrest it from its grasp."

"The Ancient God Token is probably useless as well."