Chapter 1470: The Immortal Gate's Scout, the Great Sun Sword Lord, Sets Out!

"Mid Void Refinement…"

The aura on Jiang Ding's body gradually stabilized. He stood up, and a thread of blood-colored light slowly surfaced in his eyes.

At this moment, the Taiqing Flying Sword had ascended to a seventh-rank Dao-Comprehending treasure, his cultivation was at Mid Void Refinement, his swordsmanship at the quasi-Heavenly Sword realm, and his sword soul at the juvenile sword soul stage.

Every aspect had already reached the limit of its current stage.

Any further breakthrough in any single area would inevitably require thousands, even tens of thousands, of years; there was no longer any possibility of a short-term increase in strength.

Now, the moment was ripe.

Jiang Ding's divine soul connected to the Central Array Spirit Computer, and he once again convened the Immortal Gate's Political Participation Conference.

This time it took a while. Nearly ten years passed before the various participants of the Immortal Gate's Political Participation Conference arrived one after another. Everyone was usually extremely busy—cultivating, fighting, researching, handling political affairs—one could not simply convene a meeting whenever one wished.

Unless it was a matter of the utmost urgency, one had to wait for the other participants to free up time.

Moreover, if a meeting were convened without important business—dereliction of duty, playing tricks like lighting beacon fires for amusement—one would be severely punished, stripped of the qualification to participate in politics, and in serious cases would even violate criminal law.

"Great Sun, congratulations. It seems you've resolved your own issues."

Yuan swept his gaze over, instantly understood, and offered sincere congratulations.

This generation's Great Sun Sword Lord had finally completely dealt with his own affairs and was about to unsheathe.

The strongest Great Sun Sword Lord in the history of the Nine Spirit Domain!

He was about to appear before the myriad beings of the Ancient God Domain, letting them experience the blessings that the cultivators of the Nine Spirit Domain had been enjoying for hundreds of thousands of years.

"It seems our war situation is about to reach a turning point."

Divine Mechanism True Venerable breathed a sigh of relief and laughed.

"Those disgusting fellows, who only know how to launch sneak attacks and never fight head-on, hehe…"

Ten Thousand Mechanism True Venerable, Vast Sea True Venerable, and others revealed looks of anticipation.

"Seniors, what is the current state of the war?"

Jiang Ding asked casually.

"Still the same as always."

"In a stalemate."

Yuan said: "We hold fast to ten domains, continuously establish formations, lay down teleportation arrays, incorporating one Minor Thousand World after another into stellar-domain-level formations, constantly expanding our forces and consolidating defenses everywhere… at the same time, our formations keep being destroyed, and we have never been able to fully bring every region under our rule."

"Progress is extremely slow. If there are no changes, it may take thousands or tens of thousands of years before Dao-Comprehending cultivators appear in the Immortal Gate to completely resolve the current problem."

"Alright then."

"What do you need me to do now?"

Jiang Ding asked crisply.

"No fixed mission."

"Free play."

Yuan smiled, yet deep in his eyes was an icy chill: "The Immortal Gate Military Committee hopes you can

accomplish some objectives—simply killing some scattered Dao-Comprehending Divine Lords will do."

"Don't they pride themselves on extreme mobility, with all power vested in a single person, guerrilla warfare scattered across the four directions, leaving the Citizen Fleet helpless?"

"Great Sun, you'd best let them know one thing!"

"And that is—scattered, they still die!"

"The more scattered they are, the faster they die!"

Yuan said solemnly.

"Understood. I will do it."

Jiang Ding bowed slightly, and his body crumbled and vanished.

From this moment on, his figure completely disappeared—no longer appearing within the Immortal Gate's communication network, no longer appearing in the gaze of any intelligent being.

One could even say that, apart from the Central Array Spirit Computer, there was no longer anyone in this world who could contact him.

This being had completely vanished.

This was the Immortal Gate's scout.

Professional, reliable, dedicated, skilled.

The remaining eight members of the Political Participation Conference exchanged glances, did not leave immediately, and an inexplicable chill crept into their hearts, making their hair stand on end.

"Yuan, you'd better be careful."

Ten Thousand Mechanism True Venerable could not help but swallow: "A Great Sun Sword Lord whose strength far surpasses Zou Zou Xiyuan's, and who is sneaky, cold, and utterly lacking in honor—such a fellow is terrifying when he schemes against people. You'd best have the ability to guard against assassination at this level."

"We're all counting on you."

"…"

Yuan looked up at the sky.

"Yuan, I had originally thought that once Great Sun ascended to Void Refinement, he could check and balance you."

Senior Jin Liu sighed: "After all, everyone above and below is very uneasy."

"However… sigh,"

"You'd better keep going. He, this one, is completely uncontrollable, cannot be constrained by military orders at all, and is over a hundred times more dangerous than you."

"Hahaha…"

"Exaggerated."

Vast Sea True Venerable laughed heartily, not as worried as the others, not concerned about the citizen-political tradition being undermined, and said very relaxedly: "Why overthink it? Isn't this precisely a check and balance now?"

"Yuan going rogue is impossible; Great Sun going rogue is also impossible."

"This is a dual-strong balance structure."

"Once the Central Array Spirit Computer ascends to eighth rank, everything will return to normal."

"... You sure make it sound easy..."

The few of them bantered, seemingly unconcerned about failure.

This question, no cultivator who had lived through the era of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion would have the slightest doubt about.

After many teleportations known only to the Central Array Spirit Computer.

Sometimes becoming ore, sometimes a chair on a warship, tableware, sometimes

an ordinary Foundation Establishment soldier of the Immortal Gate.

After much time, a completely hidden figure appeared within the Demon Sky Domain.

Leaving the Zhong Senior Qian Demon Sky World, he walked into the cosmic starry sky.

"Another domain realm I've never been to..."

Jiang Ding walked silently through the dead, silent starry sky.

Around him, in every direction, he was the only one. This kind of solitude put his heart at ease; he had long since grown accustomed to it. In the Upper Realm, and back in the Northern Plains, it had always been this way.

Concealed between heaven and earth, having no interaction with any living being, untainted by any karmic ties.

The Demon Sky Domain, one of the ten domains occupied by the Immortal Gate in the Ancient God Domain, originated from the former clan lands of the Dark Nether Black Crane race. It has now been occupied by the Immortal Gate, liberating the countless living beings of this domain and bringing them a better life compared to the past — this is a fact that occurred in the past.

However, as many Dao Merging Divine Monarchs of the Ancient God Alliance refused frontal combat and adopted a piecemeal approach, this domain realm once again fell into a state of partitioned chaos.

Apart from the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie Demon Sky World, the vast majority of the many small worlds within the entire Demon Sky Domain were only nominally subordinate; in reality, they had once again become the territory of the Ancient God Alliance.

From time to time, Dao Merging Divine Monarchs would appear in these Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie. The moment the Immortal Gate attempted to actually control these places, they would immediately draw a Lei Ting strike.

They hoped to use such methods to wear down the Immortal Gate, cause the logistical collapse of the Citizen Fleet, and thereby trigger the collapse of the entire fleet.

Jiang Ding flew through the domain realm, occasionally using teleportation jumps to travel, constantly evaluating and combining the Immortal Gate's intelligence to form his own judgment.

In the end, he chose a place called Dragon Grass Minor World, a transit node at the border between the Demon Sky Domain and the Black Sky Domain.

This minor world had once been occupied by the Immortal Gate, brought under actual control, with a grassroots government established, production carried out, taxes collected, and so on. At its peak, it had 270,000 citizens, and the Jiao Jiao Mingyu conscripted 1,500,000 cultivators to manage the entire Minor Thousand World in an orderly fashion.

Until a change occurred.

A Dao Merging cultivator named Blood Bone Divine Monarch appeared here, slaughtered everyone — including the 270,000 citizens — turned this place into his own Dao arena, left Void Refinement cultivators from his clan to garrison this place and the surrounding dozen-plus Minor Thousand Worlds, and then vanished without a trace.

In the void, a white bone palace stood tall, swallowing the heaven and earth spiritual energy drawn in from the surrounding Minor Thousand Worlds, as well as the light of the sun, moon, and stars, for cultivation.

"This should be the place."

Jiang Ding quietly gazed at this massive palace; it seemed to far surpass the Flame Stone Great Emperor's palace of the past.

Unfortunately, the Void Refinement cultivator residing here was but an ant. The true Yao God Sect Dao Merging cultivator, Blood Bone Divine Monarch, had vanished without a trace.

In the deductions of the Immortal Gate's Central Array Spirit Computer, the probability of a lone Dao Merging Divine Monarch appearing here again was the highest.

Of course, this required the cooperation of the Immortal Gate Citizen Fleet.

The Immortal Gate Citizen Fleet would soon launch a sweep operation

?? to sweep all Ancient God Alliance forces from the Minor Thousand Worlds within several domain realms, and once again restore actual control over the many Minor Thousand Worlds.

At that time, these Dao Merging Divine Monarchs would make their move, attacking the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie behind the Immortal Gate.

At that moment, a lone Dao Merging Divine Monarch would inevitably appear.