Chapter 1457: Great Sun, make a trip to the Immortal Gate's End-Law City

While Jiang Ding was crossing his tribulation, the Immortal Gate had already defeated the coalition army of the Ancient God Alliance and won the war for the realm!

"However,"

"Really, I really don't want to say 'however,'"

Senior Wanji True Lord said helplessly: "These bastards really are cowardly rats, sly as foxes. They quickly discovered another weakness of the Immortal Gate fleet — it cannot disperse in large numbers."

"Once they realized this, they completely avoided the main battlefield."

"They began using a tactic of having a single powerful expert launch raids from all directions. One Void Refinement cultivator, leading a certain number of Soul Transformation cultivators, would attack Immortal Gate territories everywhere, slaughter the Immortal Gate's grassroots institutions, or sweep clean all of the Immortal Gate's forces on the Minor Thousand Worlds."

"Even Harmonization Divine Monarchs would occasionally join in these piecemeal guerrilla battles."

"The Immortal Gate once tried to attack the clan lands of the Weaving Heaven Spider tribe, striking where they had to respond, but it was useless. They absolutely refused to give decisive battle, and just watched us destroy their clan lands after they had already evacuated their clansmen one step ahead. The Immortal Gate fleet pounced on empty air."

"While the Immortal Gate was out on campaign, several Harmonization Divine Monarchs joined forces to launch a sneak attack and breached a number of the Immortal Gate's Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, which were only recovered recently."

"This kind of guerrilla fighting everywhere really suits the individual powerhouses of the Immortal Dao."

"If nothing changes, the Immortal Gate can only keep building defensive arrays in Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie everywhere, keep expanding the citizen fleet, station a full army group's fleet at every key Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, and grind, bit by bit, grind, bit by bit. Spending tens of thousands of years, there should be a certain chance of occupying the entire Ancient God Domain."

"Back on the home planet, the citizen count is now growing toward twenty quadrillion. As long as we have enough resources, we are not short on fleets and soldiers."

"Of course, there are many variables in this."

"For example, the injuries of Divine Monarch Tianji and others will gradually heal over time. When they return to the battlefield, the situation may change again. The Immortal Gate may need to hold fast in the ten great Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie grand arrays, dragging things out to wait for change, waiting for chaos to arise within the Ancient God Alliance before victory is possible. That will require a great deal of luck."

Senior Wanji True Lord gave a detailed explanation of the current situation.

Mainly explaining it to Cang Hai True Lord, Senior Jin Liu, and others in the rear, since the various military reports and the firsthand accounts of those who experienced the war differ in many ways, and the firsthand accounts are closer to the truth.

Of course, the main audience was the Great Sun Sword Master.

Yuan, Zhenjun Shenji True Lord, Senior Wanji True Lord, and the others all looked toward Jiang Ding, eyes full of expectation.

"Great Sun,"

Zhenjun Shenji True Lord did not bother with pleasantries or beating around the bush, and said directly: "The Military Committee suggests that you act as a strike force, breaking into the rear of the Ancient God Alliance. Ideally, you would successively destroy a few Harmonization-level powers, scatter their attention, stop harassing us every day, and let them know there is no such thing as a safe rear."

"What do you think?"

Among the members of the Immortal Gate Military Committee there is no real superior or subordinate, and no such thing as commands. Generally, military missions are decided through internal deliberation by the Military Committee, so this is only a suggestion, not a mandatory order.

However, once a resolution of the Immortal Gate Military Committee is formed, every Immortal Gate citizen must carry it out.

"Senior Zhenjun Shenji,"

"I am very willing, and very grateful."

Jiang Ding immediately said obediently.

The seniors of the Immortal Gate really are like elders of the family.

An elder in the house is a treasure indeed. Knowing what he needs after his breakthrough, they have everything prepared for the junior — truly moving.

"Hahaha!"

"You little rascal, thanking us now."

Zhenjun Shenji True Lord laughed heartily.

The nine discussed for a moment, and finally set the operation for one hundred and fifty years later.

By then, the Great Sun Sword Master would have already advanced to mid Void Refinement. Zhenjun Shenji True Lord would return to defend the Immortal Gate's rear and take over from the Great Sun Sword Master in holding the realm passage to the Ancient God Domain.

Cang Hai True Lord would also come here.

At that time, the fleets of three Immortal Gate army groups would gather at the realm passage to the Ancient God Domain, ensuring the Immortal Gate's rear passage was absolutely secure.

Even if attacked by surprise, they could hold out until the Central Army Group came to reinforce.

These matters decided through deliberation would be formed into an Immortal Gate military order resolution, with binding force, and no citizen may violate it.

The meeting of the nine lasted several years, deliberating on many matters, before finally adjourning.

"Senior Yuan,"

"I wish to ask you something."

At this moment, for some reason, Jiang Ding looked toward Yuan and asked.

"Go ahead."

Yuan paused slightly, stopping his steps.

He did not know how many years it had been, but the green-robed youth before him once again solemnly asked him a question, just as he had in the classroom at Clear Wind University back then.

Around them, Zhenjun Shenji True Lord and the others looked this way.

"Right now,"

Jiang Ding once again carefully examined his divine soul, sword soul, and sea of consciousness, and once again found nothing abnormal: "Right now, I have a faint sense of confusion, as if the world outside is illusory, as if the Heart Demon heavenly tribulation has not yet ended."

"This feeling is very, very faint, but sometimes I really do have such a thought."

"This fleeting thought has appeared in my heart three times during this period. The first was after crossing the tribulation, the second was during the lecture, and the third is now."

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"The interval between the first and second was twenty-seven days."

"The interval between the second and third was four years, two months, and fifteen

days... I somewhat suspect that the fourth interval may be even longer — perhaps several decades, several centuries, or perhaps such a thought may never appear again."

"Do you think this is an illusion?"

Jiang Ding gazed at the Immortal Gate's ruler before him and asked slowly.

"You... feel the world is illusory?"

Yuan was stunned, then a chill ran down his spine.

Around them, Senior Wanji True Lord, Zhenjun Shenji True Lord, and the others all felt a chill in their hearts.

Losing control,

Great Sun is losing control!

Could it be that, merely after advancing, this generation's Great Sun Sword Master is about to lose control?

Mistaking the real world for an illusory one!

This is an extremely terrifying consequence. Even an ordinary mortal would cause enormous destruction to their surroundings and easily hurt people, let alone the strongest single-target combatant of the immortal sects—one of the most powerful beings in this world cluster.

If he mistakes the real world for an illusory one, then the consequences...

Yuan, who had always remained unmoved before a collapsing Mount Tai, whose chest and abdomen contained the mechanisms of the universe, who always thought ten thousand steps ahead and calculated to the extreme, was now genuinely shaken.

The surrounding Void Refinement cultivators of the immortal sects fell into an even deeper silence.

"Your feeling..."

Yuan fell into deep contemplation.

He even mobilized the immense computing power of the central array spirit computer, standing rigid and dazed on the spot, falling into a state of deduction.

This continued for ten years before finally ceasing.

"Your feeling should not be ignored."

"Sword cultivators revere sword intent and divine soul. You have already approached the sword soul of the Sword Son of the upper realm's Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong—it can be called the crystallization of the finest immortal Dao wisdom in the universe. This kind of feeling is extremely valuable and may involve life and death."

Yuan opened his eyes and said seriously.

"Great Sun, since you believe yourself to have fallen into an illusory world."

"Then, go back to your hometown and take a look. Go back to the original site of Mofa City Ruin One. That place is a universe where all laws are forbidden, completely isolated from the influence of immortal Dao spiritual particles. Perhaps it can help you see your true heart clearly."

"This should be of use to you."