Chapter 1442: The Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi and the Palace of Light Merge

The result of this battle has emerged.

The simulated Foundation Establishment disciples of the Immortal Sect from the Upper Realm were defeated in a single strike by the Great Sun Sword Disciple, with no power to fight back.

The two simply should not be compared.

"The outcome has appeared..."

The Palace of Light fell into intense fluctuations of sword Dao logic.

Instantly, Jiang Ding discovered many more changes.

His permissions within the Palace of Light had been restored, and seemed to have increased; now he could clearly perceive the cultivation grounds, assets, and various combat arrays within the Palace of Light.

"Sword Disciple, if you do not wish to enter the Palace of Light, then do not enter."

The spirit of the Palace of Light gradually withdrew its pressure, shrinking from a golden star to the size of dust, abandoning all defenses, and flew toward Jiang Ding, floating beside him.

She confirmed once again that this was indeed the Sword Disciple of the Sun Lineage.

The true Sword Disciple.

"I shall call you Ming."

Jiang Ding projected his divine sense into the Palace of Light, carefully scanning everything within.

Better cultivation grounds, better sword-forging grounds, and greater yields; in one thousand years, it could produce a Heaven and Earth Treasure of the Dao-Integration realm named Light-Flame Silk, which could be used to refine flying swords.

Cultivating with the aid of the Palace of Light could greatly accelerate the speed of refining flying swords.

However, there were no inheritances above the Dao-Integration realm.

Or rather, there were, but they were sealed.

"Inheritance, why?"

Jiang Ding asked quietly.

"Sword Disciple,"

"All inheritances require the joint approval of the Nether Pool and the Palace of Light to be unlocked; you must similarly obtain her approval."

The Palace of Light stated.

"Naturally, given the Yin-Yang Alliance grudge upon your person, she should not agree."

"She herself will not agree."

"You should... should..."

She seemed to be trying desperately to explain something, but was limited by the rules and could not speak it.

"Sword Disciple, she says you may consider beating the Nether Pool to death."

"Hypocritical,"

Yue pouted and said, "Things of the Yin Lineage cannot be handed over to someone bearing the Yin-Yang Alliance grudge; you may consider subduing her by force, or threatening her with inheritors of the Yin Lineage, or locking up the Nether Pool and torturing her..."

"In short, relying solely on words, one cannot obtain inheritances above the Dao-Integration realm from the Nether Pool."

"I see."

Jiang Ding nodded calmly.

The Immortal Sect had a similar plan.

If the Immortal Sect were to rule the Ancient God Domain, it could not rely entirely on citizens; it would similarly require numerous secondary civilization vassals. The Nether Sword Grotto-Heaven was an excellent target, capable of serving as the highest-grade wing.

Wing.

Of course, the most important thing was naturally the inheritances above the Dao-Integration realm controlled by the Nether Sword Grotto-Heaven.

Jiang Ding believed this was something given to him by the ancient Ancestor of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

Evidence?

The Palace of Light was the evidence.

"Sword Disciple,"

"In accordance with the Sword Laws of the Linyang Ancestor, I am about to merge with the Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi,"

The Palace of Light suddenly said, "During this process of merging, do you lean more toward the spirit of the Palace of Light or the spirit of the Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi?"

"I suggest you choose the spirit of the Palace of Light."

"Because the spirit of the Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi is already on the verge of birthing consciousness, about to become a life, and life is uncontrollable, insufficient to serve as the eternal foundation for a sect's inheritance."

"If you must choose the spirit of the Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi, I suggest erasing her life consciousness."

She kept emphasizing this matter.

Among the supreme treasures anchoring the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, preventing inheritance treasures from developing life consciousness was one of the most fundamental Sword Laws, which must be strictly guarded.

Pity that no matter how tight the Sword Laws, they could not withstand generations of descendants squandering the family fortune day and night.

The successive Great Sun Sword Disciples and Great Sun Sword Masters continued for hundreds of thousands of years, constantly indulging, even deliberately prompting the Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi to birth life consciousness.

"Hmph, foolish!"

Yue dismissed it.

She seemed completely unconcerned about anything.

"I choose the spirit of the Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi."

"Ming,"

Jiang Ding did not hesitate and said lightly, "At the same time, Ming, I hope you retain a backup at the early stage of Void Refinement; I hope you will still exist."

"Why? Sword Disciple."

The spirit of the Palace of Light paused for a moment: "I am not a life; I am merely an aggregation of rules and Sword Laws, something like stone, air, water, or sunlight."

"Even if you choose the spirit of the Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi, you should not retain me."

"It is different; I am a living being; I have emotions."

"Therefore, I insist on Ji De Xiang Fa."

Jiang Ding said calmly.

"…"

The Spirit of the Palace of Light fell into thought.

This kind of challenge to the underlying logic of sword law would normally not be approved here; if one wished it approved, one would have to wait until the Sword Child grew into a Sword Lord and forcibly subjugated it.

But this was the Sword Child.

A true Sword Child, one now drawing close to the Sword Child of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong of the Upper Realm.

In the span of a breath, numerous sword laws and rule-logics completed their judgment.

"As you wish."

The Spirit of the Palace of Light chose to obey.

Hum!

The Palace of Light unfolded once more, blooming with boundless radiance; boundless rules of light spread in all directions, forming a Heavenly Dao law-net, and the deep-layered formations within were activated,

the formation patterns in many places gradually melting, opening the sealed structures.

Similar changes occurred in the Dayang Dayang Tianchi of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion.

She was drawing close to the Palace of Light.

Yue wore an expression of anticipation, yearning, and much worry.

"Will there be danger?"

Jiang Ding asked.

"Yue, if you feel it is dangerous, you may wait until I advance to Refining Void, or after Harmonizing with the Dao, before we fuse; at that time it will surely be safe, and I can take charge of everything."

"No, Sword Child."

"I only have some things about the future that I cannot see clearly…"

Yue shook her head slightly.

The Dayang Dayang Tianchi and the Palace of Light began to draw close, then fused; formation patterns interwove, the walls of many palaces melted, the earth split apart, river waters reversed their course… but none of this was chaotic or destructive—every place within, the many lakes, animals, spirit-herb gardens and all, was gathered up in an orderly manner, suffering no damage whatsoever.

The two great sect-suppressing treasures, both inherited in common from the Upper Realm, began fusing with each other just as their original design intended.

No one knew how long passed; both the Palace of Light and the Dayang Dayang Tianchi had vanished.

In their place remained only a hazy, chaotic orb of light, within which violent changes were taking place.

"The fusion is expected to require three hundred years to complete."

Jiang Ding swept his divine sense across and obtained the result.

The new Palace of Light would be stronger—the logic of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, the nearly complete immortal-technique fragments within the Dayang Dayang Tianchi, the Sword Immortal technique successive Great Sun Sword Lords had madly attempted to create, and the more correct path of the Great Sun Sword Dao… all of these would be reorganized into the Palace of Light, allowing her to complete her advancement.

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged in the starry sky, falling into cultivation.

Tempering his Dharma body, tempering his magic power and divine sense, polishing his sword arts, developing new sword arts, and from time to time the internal education and teaching work for the Ninth Front Army's troops—such and so on, his days passed busy yet fulfilling.

Time slipped away unnoticed.

A hundred years later, Jiang Ding had successfully refined all the Ben Ming Fa treasures of Dao Children and Holy Sons except those of the Dao Children of the Badaxian Sect of the Ancient God Domain, melting all their essences into the Taiqing Flying Sword, bringing the Taiqing Flying Sword one step closer to an eighth-grade sword embryo.

He had a premonition that it would be very soon now.

Perhaps, if he merely killed one or two Harmonizing-with-the-Dao cultivators and fused a true seventh-grade rule-treasure into the Taiqing Flying Sword, he should be able to complete the sword embryo's breakthrough.

Just at this moment, a communication arrived from the Central Army Group of the Immortal Gate, informing of the battlefield situation.

Far from them, after more than two hundred years of marching, they had successfully reached the Demon Heaven Domain, one of the three domains of the Dark Heaven Crane Clan of the Netherworld, and were launching a full-scale assault against the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie of that domain and all its Minor Thousand Worlds.