Chapter 1498

A sun star, its light veiled, traveled through the cosmos, flying toward the distance, never pausing for a single moment.

This was the Great Sun Heavenly Pool.

At a certain moment, a youth in green robes reappeared at the center of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool's Sun Abyss, closed his eyes, and continued to cultivate, refining the eleventh Sun Rule prohibition on his flying sword, while pondering and planning many matters within the Immortal Sect.

The current Top Priority was naturally the development of star-level warships and the development of Dao-Integration Stage Gong Fa; this was the key point for all Void Refinement cultivators in the Immortal Sect to advance to a higher realm.

Secondary matters included the structure of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the comprehension of the Heaven Sword Sword Art, and the development and utilization of the Sun Sword Art.

There was also the research and development of the Great Void Six Paths Illusion Realm, which was crucial to the Immortal Sect's citizen polity; this had a less urgent timeline, needing completion within twenty thousand years.

But for the Great Void Six Paths Illusion Realm to emerge after twenty thousand years, massive manpower and resources must be invested in research and development starting now, rather than waiting idly for twenty thousand years and then making a desperate last-minute effort, for nothing could be accomplished that way.

There was also the refining of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon into the dantian, accumulating drops of magic power; this was even more so a matter spanning a cultivator's entire life, never pausing for a single moment.

Just like this, busy and bustling, with not a moment of leisure.

Fortunately, all these many things were things Jiang Ding himself liked, so he did not find them particularly tedious.

Whenever he had leisure, he used the Great Sun Heavenly Pool communication array to connect with the Mother World, sharing the latest Immortal Dao technological achievements, exchanging various ideas with many fellow Daoists of the Immortal Sect, and caring about the Void Refinement Dao paths of classmates, teachers, and friends like Master Master Dinghai, An Siyan, and Jin Jin Lingfeng; his days were lived with flavor and zest.

The long, silent, unchanging dead starfields instead became a solace to his busy life; occasionally gazing at the boundless starry sky, he would instead generate many sighs.

"Perhaps only such an endless universe of starry sky can contain and give birth to the True Immortals of eternal life and deathlessness..."

Jiang Ding, traveling through the starry sky, sighed.

As a Void Refinement cultivator, he could transform the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the cosmic chaos, plus the light of the Great Yin and Great Sun, to barely sustain himself; as for cultivation, the reserve spiritual energy in the Great Sun Heavenly Pool could provide him with a thousand years of high-intensity cultivation and flying sword refinement, so he did not worry about anything.

A Void Refinement cultivator was already a star-domain level life form.

Just like this, time drifted on.

In the blink of an eye, this sun star, which had concealed its own light, had already flown through the cosmic starry sky for over four hundred years.

Now, in that extremely distant place, the faint light emitted by the myriad worlds of the Youming Sword Heavenly Cave could already be seen, like strings of pearls.

This was still an extremely distant absolute distance.

However, for a Dao-Integration cultivator or a Dao-Integration combat power, it could already be said to be not far away.

The former Sun Brightness Palace, swallowed by the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, was the inheritance treasure of the Youming Sword Heavenly Cave, clearly recording the coordinates of the Youming Sword Heavenly Cave inside; naturally, there were no errors along the way.

"Take a detour, a random detour; I will not pass through any Minor Thousand World."

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

Hundreds of years ago, he had personally ambushed over a dozen Dao-Integration Divine Lords of the Ancient God Alliance; naturally, he would not repeat the same mistake.

He naturally feared neither the Great Profound Sword Lord nor the Bright Sword Lord of the Youming Sword Heavenly Cave; they were precisely the targets of this journey, and he had been anticipating them.

But if the Eight Great Immortal Sects' great powers, such as Divine Lord Tianji, set a trap somewhere and managed to ambush him, he would have no way out; once falling into a trap, death would be certain.

Those eight were incredibly shrewd, all one major realm higher than him, and possessed hundreds of thousands of years of experience in hunting down the Great Sun Sword Lord; it was basically impossible for any error to occur.

However, this was precisely where the fun lay.

Jiang Ding traveled quietly through the cosmic starry sky, while wild killing intent in his heart quietly sprouted, constantly accumulating.

Jiang Ding traveled quietly through the cosmic starry sky, the frenzied killing intent in his heart quietly sprouting and continuously accumulating.

"Beep beep beep..."

This was a series of urgent sounds coming from the Great Sun Heavenly Pool Immortal Sect communication authentication module.

Jiang Ding's expression instantly became solemn.

This was an Immortal Sect emergency communication, requiring the expenditure of massive heavenly treasures and earthly materials to establish; it could achieve real-time communication, rather than a communication delay requiring one to wait tens of days to a year.

Such emergency communications were generally applied when the Immortal Sect encountered major incidents, such as invasion by external enemies or internal rebellion, requiring the summoning of the distant Great Sun Sword Lord to return to the Immortal Sect to support the battle situation.

The communication naturally unfolded and locked onto Jiang Ding, transmitting a series of divine sense transmission signals.

A screen appeared before Jiang Ding; at first it was somewhat blurry, occasionally showing snow-white static dots, and only became completely clear after several seconds, revealing the appearance of Zhenjun Shenji True Venerable on the screen.

"Jiang Ding, there is news from the Youming Sword Heavenly Cave; I am informing you."

This real-time communication was very expensive; after confirming the youth was still safe, Zhenjun Shenji True Venerable quickly got to the point.

This kind of real-time communication was very expensive. After Divine Mechanism True Venerable confirmed the youth was still safe, he quickly got down to business.

Jiang Ding breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

As long as the Immortal Sect was not under siege by a massive external enemy force or suffering a large-scale citizen rebellion and civil war internally, everything else was a small matter, not a big problem.

"The Great Profound Sword Lord and the Bright Sword Lord of the Youming Sword Heavenly Cave, two Dao-Integration Peak cultivators, have sent you a letter, which has been delivered here to the Immortal Sect."

"We have read it; it is just some simple greetings, such as 'long admired your name' and the like."

Zhenjun Shenji True Venerable spoke briefly: "However, through analysis by the Central Array Spirit Computer, this should contain a massive amount of encrypted data, the kind that requires a designated inheritance sword soul sword cultivator to decrypt; we cannot understand it for the moment, and it may take hundreds of years to decrypt. I will transmit it to you shortly; you look at it yourself."

Divine Mechanism True Venerable said briefly: "However, according to the analysis of the Central Array Spirit Computer, this should contain a massive amount of encrypted data—the kind that requires a designated inherited sword soul sword cultivator to decipher. We can't understand it for the moment; it might take several hundred years to crack. I'll transmit it to you in a bit, take a look yourself."

"Do not fall into their trap."

"Understood, Senior."

Jiang Ding said solemnly.

"Good that you know to pay attention."

After Zhenjun Shenji True Venerable finished speaking, he cut off the ultra-long-range real-time communication.

The older generation of Immortal Sect cultivators had all come from hard times; their usual habit was to split a single spirit stone in half to spend, insisting that spending one spirit stone must yield the results of one spirit stone; they would not easily waste anything.

After a while, a divine sense encrypted communication appeared in the Great Sun Heavenly Pool transmission array.

Jiang Ding swept with his divine sense.

Nothing extraordinary; it was just an encrypted message of a yin-yang attribute sword soul, a unique inheritance of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

Judging by the aura of this sword intent, the Sword Lord had only recently broken through to the sword soul stage, and the sword soul attribute could be considered mediocre.

Judging by the aura of this sword intent, the sword master should have only just broken through to sword soul not long ago, and the sword soul's attribute is also fairly mediocre.

"These two Dao friends both possess excellent talent and comprehension; it seems they achieved some breakthroughs during the war."

"These two fellow Daoists both have excellent natural talent and comprehension. It seems they achieved some breakthroughs during the war."

Jiang Ding sighed in admiration.

The two Sword Lords of the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven must have endured much hardship to grow, countless sword duels, and surely there were many deeds worthy of song and tears.

But in his view, their environment had still been too comfortable — they had never even slain a single Dao Child of an ancient god-domain immortal sect.

Only recently had they finally stepped onto the proper path of a sword cultivator's sword cultivation, walking the righteous Dao.

Of course, all of this was done voluntarily by the Great Sun Sword Lord; the intention was enough to keep in one's heart, no need for excessive thanks.

Clang!

Jiang Ding flicked a finger, slashing out a streak of sun-sword-intent sword-light.

This divine-sense encrypted communication instantly collapsed, transforming into streams of black-and-white spiritual light, then swiftly reassembling into the forms of two Dao-Unity sword cultivators — the female cultivator cool and beautiful, the male cultivator radiant and grand — the terrifying sword-Dao might of Lunar and Solar pressing down on all directions, emanating a powerful aura.

They looked this way.

At the same time, the Great Sun Sword Lord's devastating scorching radiance likewise arrived.