Chapter 1466: Returned to the Mother Planet

Time flowed slowly and leisurely.

Unknowingly, one hundred and twenty-seven years had passed; Jiang Ding was further drawn by this planet's gravity, falling onto the surface ice layer. The cold wind blew, covering his body with a thin layer of frost.

Layer upon layer of frost.

Years passed; he was completely covered by frost, sinking deep into the eternal glacier that would never melt.

The cold wind blew over this icy planet, unchanged for a long time. The ice layer kept thickening, thickening; unknowingly, several more decades passed.

This year, a volcano suddenly erupted. Immense power smashed through the ice layer, bringing forth something from the deep underground.

Rivers of lava flowed over the ice layer, melting out gullies. A vast amount of water vapor filled the air, forming white mist, which was then frozen by the extreme cold of dozens of degrees below zero into ice crystal particles. These fell into the lava, vaporized again, and the cycle repeated.

In this river of lava, a black obsidian stone the height of a person rolled and flowed, heading downstream. After traveling a certain distance, it stopped on the ice layer by the riverbank, lying still.

Time passed; several more years went by.

The river of lava was frozen over again, solidifying, leaving only a dark riverbed trace, which was once more covered by frost, including that person-height black obsidian stone.

Crack!

This day, the black obsidian stone cracked open, revealing a youth in green robes inside. He opened his eyes, his gaze calm.

"Fellow Daoist, is it only one hundred and fifty-seven years, and you cannot endure?"

"Trash."

Jiang Ding said indifferently.

He gazed inward at his divine soul. At the deepest part of his divine soul, the shadow of the butterfly, which he had thought had completely dissipated, had appeared again. It was extremely weak, extremely tiny, hidden in some inconspicuous corner deep within layers of memory. Its aura was even weaker than that of a Qi Refining cultivator.

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, you are very well."

Immortal Butterfly deeply gazed at the youth in green robes. His form slowly crumbled and vanished.

"This Lord is naturally very well."

Jiang Ding did not care. He took out the pair of ice-crystal dream butterfly wings again. Sure enough, a butterfly was hidden deep within the wings. The spiritual energy of the butterfly wings had also dissipated greatly; in this spirit-less universe, they could conceal nothing.

Clang!

A sword qi appeared on Jiang Ding's finger, surged into the butterfly wings, and completely severed that butterfly.

She was too weak, not even as good as a Qi Refining cultivator. She had lost all power to resist. Even her concealment abilities had dropped significantly; she could hide nothing.

"They should be completely extinct."

"Just a mere Immortal Butterfly. She is not the child of a True Immortal."

Jiang Ding said indifferently.

However, it was still the same saying.

He did not lack time. His seventy-thousand-year lifespan was meant to be used this way; he did not need to learn those short-lived

races' rush for every second. Time was very abundant.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes and entered again into the deduction of sword techniques and the many scientific engineering projects of the Immortal Sect.

Even though he could not cultivate now, his time was not wasted. The various processes of the Seventh Realm of the Sword Dao, the Heaven Sword Realm, were being deduced in an orderly manner. The five great sword moves of the Sword of the Five Elements that breaks the Six Realms of Heaven and Earth were also being constantly perfected. This involved sword techniques, shipbuilding engineering, sword souls, flying sword smelting, and other multi-disciplinary composite engineering projects.

Time flowed, year after year.

The cold wind blew down, and frost covered him once again, freezing him once more into an ice layer dozens of meters deep.

In the flow of time, many things happened on this planet: earthquakes, volcanoes, asteroid impacts. All kinds of world-destroying disasters appeared frequently.

Unknowingly, more than three hundred years passed.

The five-hundred-year limit had ended.

Crack!

A glacier that never melted cracked open, revealing a youth in green robes inside. He took one last look at this planet, then flew toward the sky without looking back, passing through the planet's thin atmosphere, heading into the dead, dark starry void of the universe, and soon vanished completely.

"Nothing was discovered again."

"The Immortal Butterflies are extinct, completely purged from my divine soul. Even her original body, the child of a True Immortal, cannot overturn this conclusion."

Jiang Ding flew toward the direction of the Mother Planet.

He was very weak now. Although his realm had not dropped, the reserve of spiritual energy in his body had run dry. His sword soul had fallen into an extremely weak state, even dropping below the combat power of the Dao Integration stage. A Void Refining cultivator could pose a life-or-death crisis to him. He was weak like never before.

But he was very relaxed, very happy.

He even began to sing, a melody incredibly cheerful. Although sound could not propagate in the vacuum, only the opening and closing of his mouth could be seen.

"The Sky Illusion Immortal Butterfly Clan could actually merge with a cultivator's heart demon heavenly tribulation. This is truly terrifying."

"This race must be treated with extreme importance."

Jiang Ding recalled the various events of the past and gradually smiled broadly: "But after enduring this heart demon heavenly tribulation, it has also brought me even greater benefits!"

"My divine soul will welcome even more growth, and might even approach eight times the level of a cultivator of the same realm!"

"These are all huge benefits brought to me by Fellow Daoist Immortal Butterfly. I will remember her, and in the future, I will properly repay her..."

Jiang Ding spent several decades and finally re-entered the Solar System. Afterwards, he boarded the super warship Great Sun, flying quickly toward the direction of the Mother Planet.

The super warship Great Sun contained much spiritual energy, which he absorbed like a whale, quickly stripping it clean.

This vast spiritual energy transformed into magic power, dripping into his dried-out dantian, then turning into some kind of formless thing that entered his divine soul, nourishing his weak divine soul and causing

the injuries in his body to stop worsening.

Much time was spent.

Finally, in the distance, that blue planet finally appeared in the far distance. It could be seen even with the naked eye, no longer the eternal dead darkness.

"Mother Planet!"

"I am home!"

Jiang Ding's eyes were filled with tears.

Whoosh!

He took one step and instantly entered the Mother Planet's three-dimensional defense array, entering the Dayang Dayang Tianchi circling the planet's orbit, where he sat cross-legged.

The ambient spiritual energy of the heavens and earth and the essence of the sun and moon surged toward this place like a tsunami, forming a funnel vortex tens of thousands of kilometers wide that voraciously swallowed and spat out the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth.

This vortex continued to expand!

Fifty thousand kilometers, one hundred thousand kilometers, three hundred thousand kilometers, five hundred thousand kilometers!

Having truly returned to the Immortal Dao universe and received the support of the Heavenly Dao, Jiang Ding's power instantly skyrocketed by dozens of times, truly revealing the terrifying pressure of an Immortal Dao giant, causing the home planet's three-dimensional defense formation to warp, unable to imprison anything.

"Sword Master... Sword Son, you have finally returned."

The Moon seemed to have witnessed history and sighed, "Back then, Zou Zou Xiyuan also returned in such a miserable and grievously injured state, only to be immediately besieged by the Nine Great Immortal Sects, and ultimately fell just short of success."

"This young man's luck is not very good."

Jiang Ding was too lazy to pay her any mind.

The spiritual energy of the heavens and earth and the essence of the Great Sun rolled in to gather, quickly filling his dantian, which was riddled with gullies and cracks; his weak sword soul recovered, rapidly restoring his own strength.

At the same time, that pair of ice-crystal dream butterfly wings, which had been confirmed to have no remaining soul or spirit, was also absorbing the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth to recover; as an inanimate object, its essential structure had not been damaged.