Chapter 1448: The Nineteenth Generation Great Sun Sword Lord

Currently, after more than a hundred years of consolidation, the Immortal Sect is attacking the two domains of the Lava Fire Dragon Turtle, one of the Seven Great Clans of the Ten Thousand Races Alliance; the battle is proceeding smoothly, and it is estimated that the Lava Realm of the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie will be captured within fifty years.

The Ten Thousand Races Alliance has fallen into silence and has offered no resistance.

Jiang Ding stared at the military intelligence briefing and raised an eyebrow.

"This is unusual."

"Though they are no match for the Immortal Sect's fleet, such complete lack of resistance is far too abnormal. The General Staff suspects that after the Dark Heaven Crane Clan of the Netherworld lost its ancestral lands entirely, it was equivalent to the Yijia Immortal Sect suffering total defeat and losing everything."

"This must have triggered intense vigilance among many powers in the Ancient Divine Domain; the so-called 'Ancient Divine Alliance' may be forming, with all parties making concessions, unwilling to let the Immortal Sect continue expanding."

"Forces like the Heavenly Mechanism Xiangong are also secretly observing."

"Our future situation will not remain as easy as it is now; true bloodshed may be imminent…"

This issue of the Immortal Sect's military intelligence briefing detailed the Immortal Sect's tremendous battlefield gains, with its territory more than doubling.

After all sectors of the Immortal Sect rapidly revived and entered their zenith, they immediately surpassed any previous peak in the Sect's history, with GDP doubling every century.

It was nothing short of an economic miracle!

The economic benefits of the Immortal Sect spread swiftly to every citizen.

Now, the difficulty of Foundation Establishment has further decreased; funding for education, scientific research, infrastructure, and all other areas has multiplied several times over; every citizen's wealth has skyrocketed, with asset doubling being commonplace—everything has become too easy, within effortless reach.

Jiang Ding himself was no exception.

In just a few centuries, though he remained stationed at the rear and gained no spoils, his personal wealth tripled; the market value of his various stocks and Sword Hall conglomerates surged wildly, and the celestial treasures and rare artifacts he could command far exceeded what he once possessed.

Specifically, his current assets exceed those of an ordinary He Dao cultivator by more than double.

Yet, amid this golden age of flourishing wealth and opulence, the Immortal Sect's General Staff made a somber assessment.

The coming war will inevitably be a bloodbath, with countless citizens dying far from home.

Because as the strongest power among the realms, the Immortal Sect will inevitably face a united assault from all factions—this is unavoidable; no He Dao Divine Lord is a fool.

Had the He Dao Divine Lords of the Heavenly Mechanism Xiangong and others not been severely wounded, the current situation would have been far more perilous, not so calm.

In the past, due to the fragmented nature and deep enmities among the powers of the Ancient Divine Domain, they could not hastily form an alliance.

But now, as the Immortal Sect continues expanding and its threat grows ever greater, they have

become unable to stand idly by; they have grown more rational, suppressing internal conflicts to an extreme degree.

A new wave of anti-Immortal Sect momentum is about to erupt across the realms.

This is the inevitable consequence for the strongest power in any realm.

No one can escape it—whether the strongest power in a realm is the Immortal Sect, the Heavenly God Palace, or the Demon God Sect, all will eventually draw the malice, hostility, and united opposition of every other faction.

Every realm's strongest power must face this fate.

The Immortal Sect's General Staff's deduction received support from nearly all Immortal Sect's Lian Xu True Elders, including Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun.

"The storm is coming…"

Jiang Ding set down the military intelligence briefing and spoke calmly.

Confirmed: the Immortal Sect faces no major danger within the next hundred years.

Jiang Ding understood these powerful He Dao Divine Lords too well.

If these He Dao Divine Lords decide on open war, they will mobilize troops, summon vast legions of Dao Soldiers and vassal armies to besiege the Immortal Sect, doing everything possible to reduce their own risk of death.

Even if billions or tens of billions of cultivators die, turning the battlefield into a true sea of corpses and blood, to lower their own risk by just ten percent, not a single He Dao cultivator would flinch.

To many powerful beings, mid- and low-tier cultivators are like weeds—growing freely and dying freely.

Even if you ignore them, they will die naturally in time, and new cultivators will emerge; better to exploit them as waste, extracting greater value for the sect.

He Dao Divine Lords can strike suddenly, appearing and vanishing without trace; these Dao Soldiers lack such ability.

Once the so-called 'Ancient Divine Alliance' is born and decides to rally all external powers to launch a full-scale assault on the Immortal Sect, it will inevitably trigger massive upheaval across the realms.

Countless worlds and countless cultivators will be conscripted, drawn in, and incorporated into military formations as soldiers and officers—there is no possibility of hiding this from the Immortal Sect's intelligence department.

"Storm?"

"No, this is not a storm—it is… the Great Dao's opportunity for this Lord."

Jiang Ding wrote his assessment on the military intelligence briefing, sent it out, then issued a series of orders to the Ninth Front Army; the entire front army instantly fell into a state of silent stillness, utterly quiet.

Within the range of a heavenly tribulation, life can exist—as long as it does not interfere with the Tribulation Crossing, it will not provoke the heavenly tribulation's attack, for life exists everywhere: ants, mosquitoes, plants, flowers… nearly no place lacks life; to the heavenly tribulation, they are all insignificant insects.

"This day has come,"

"the Great Sun Sword Lord…"

Zhen Zun of Annihilation Sun, Zhen Zun of Pingyang, Hua Teng, Huo Bao, and others held their breath.

Everyone knew that today, the former supreme power of the Nine Spirit Domain, the Great Sun Sword Lord, would once again appear in heaven and earth, radiant sword light enveloping all, suppressing the four directions.

Fang.

Some held great hope.

Others carried deep dread; past memories rose in their hearts.

"Sword Disciple…"

In the Great Sun Dayang Tianchi, Yue's figure appeared; she took a deep breath, then another, more lively, more emotional, approaching life: "How many years have passed? Finally, another generation of Sword Pavilion's Sword Lord is about to reappear."

She had already completed the assimilation of the Light Palace.

The current Great Sun Dayang Tianchi is a peak He Dao-level inheritance treasure, bearing the inevitable mission of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's legacy.

Beside Yue, the spirit of the Light Palace still remained, its aura diminished to Lian Xu early stage; she strictly adhered to the Sword Law of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, showing little emotion, and said seriously: "Yue, you are wrong—this is not a Sword Lord, but a Sword Disciple."

"Only when one becomes a Jiang Jiang Jinxian-level power does the Sword Disciple become the Sword Lord."

"No, it is the Sword Lord."

"The Great Sun Sword Lord of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion."

Yue stubbornly shook her head.

For hundreds of thousands of years, in her eyes, each generation of Great Sun Sword Disciples grew into Great Sun Sword Lords; now, once again, the cycle turns—the Eighteenth Generation Great Sun Sword Lord is about to appear.

Boom!

In the sky, accompanied by a thunderclap out of clear skies, a patch of black-as-ink clouds appeared.

This single patch of clouds moved neither fast nor slow, as if carrying a certain rhythm and cadence, steadily expanding in all directions—one hundred kilometers, one thousand kilometers, ten thousand kilometers, a hundred thousand kilometers, three hundred thousand kilometers…

Then, one million kilometers!

The Void Refinement heavenly tribulation clouds abruptly expanded to a terrifying span of one million kilometers!

This was a miracle unheard of in countless tens of thousands of years across this world-cluster: an existence akin to a Dao Child of the upper realm's Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong was undergoing Tribulation Crossing here, triggering endless upheaval throughout the cosmos.

Within the range of such terrifying heavenly tribulation clouds, the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth and the essence-light of the great sun surged in torrents, forming a funnel shape, pouring ceaselessly into the green-robed youth below, allowing his aura to break through once more at its limit, constantly solidifying his foundation and drawing in even more spiritual Qi of heaven and earth.

This process lasted for a full century.

At a certain moment,

Crack!

Accompanied by a crisp sound, something split open.

A supremely terrifying, supremely brilliant, supremely sharp aura of destruction was truly born between heaven and earth; order transformed into law, the essence of life completed its breakthrough in an instant, entering an entirely new realm.

The heavenly tribulation in the cosmos thus entered an even more terrifying and violent phase, even giving birth to a net of heavenly Dao thunder capable of destroying a Dao Merging Divine Lord!