Chapter 1499: The Friendship of Sword Cultivators: A Single Instant Is Eternity

"Two seniors, it has been long since we last met."

"You both look to be in good spirits."

The burning heat and crimson in Jiang Ding's eyes flashed and vanished. He offered a slight bow and said, "To have escaped successfully from the hands of the eight Tianji Divine Monarchs and returned to the sect, it seems the seniors are not as weak as imagined."

Through several hundred years of investigation, the Immortal Sects had already come to a general understanding of what had happened in the Ancient God Alliance.

Several hundred years ago, the Ancient God Alliance had been hunted by the Great Sun Sword Master and the Immortal Sects' Central Fleet, driven to the brink of life and death. The Weaving Heaven Spider Divine Monarch, the Three-Faced Divine Monarch, and others, ignoring the strong objections of the Heavenly God Divine Monarch and others, formed an alliance with the Badaxian Sect, bringing the Badaxian Sect into the Ancient God Alliance.

The Weaving Heaven Spider Divine Monarch and others hoped through this to build a stronger Ancient God Alliance, allowing themselves to continue surviving and grow even stronger, even further coveting the Heavenly Human realm, achieving a greatness never before seen for their race.

But who could have expected that the Dongji Demon Sect were vicious wolves, and the Badaxian Sect were no good things either.

In fact, the Weaving Heaven Spider Divine Monarch and others had made some preparations against this. They had signed an extremely strict alliance contract with the Badaxian Sect in advance, covering every detail, every clause, every action, airtight to the extreme.

They believed that if the Badaxian Sect violated the contract, they would surely Suffers Heavy injuries and be unable to do anything.

What a pity, truly a pity.

When they signed this contract, they had not asked the Dongji Demon Sect's opinion, otherwise they would surely have received a clear answer immediately.

Every sect in the Nine Spirit Domain had extremely rich experience in breaking alliance contracts and reserves of Immortal Dao techniques!

The alliance contract painstakingly crafted by the Ancient God Alliance, exhausting all their heart's blood, was broken, torn apart, and shredded by the Badaxian Sect within just a few short decades.

Form an alliance?

Allies?

What is the point of allying with a group of weaklings each harboring their own schemes?

The highest efficiency, the method of maximizing resource utilization, is for the strong to swallow up all the weak, devour everything — this is the way to make the Ancient God Alliance stronger!

As long as the Badaxian Sect is given ten thousand years to digest the legacy of the Ancient God Alliance's weaklings, their strength will see a massive increase, far surpassing the Ancient God Alliance's peak state, with absolutely no need for these Dao Merging Divine Monarchs.

The value of these Ancient God Alliance Dao Merging Divine Monarchs' existence is death — to die at the hands of the Badaxian Sect.

This was the Badaxian Sect's thinking.

Moreover, they truly succeeded — only the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven and the Yao God Sect's Three-Faced Divine Monarch managed to escape.

This might be related to the Badaxian Sect paying special attention to the same-origin sect's Dao Merging Divine Monarchs.

Or perhaps, it was the handiwork of the Badaxian Sect's Tianji Divine Monarch.

This great power had always been one to take one step while looking ten thousand steps ahead. Perhaps within that Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven, eight great powers lay dormant, quietly awaiting the appearance of the Great

Sun Sword Master.

Based on their understanding of the Great Sun Sword Master, he would not let the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven go.

Jiang Ding looked forward to this, and longed for it.

"Great Sun…"

"Pure Yang Sword Dao…"

In the scene, the Taiyou Sword Master gazed at the blue-robed youth before her, softly murmuring this name — this pure sun with not a trace of Taiyin, an existence that completely deviated from the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

If ten thousand years ago someone had told her that the Lone Yang Sword Dao had a way out, that it could become its own Dao, she would surely have taken that person for an ignorant cultivator, not even deigning to refute it.

Possessing the inheritance of the Upper Realm's Suoyouxian Sect, the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, was her greatest confidence.

This was the strongest Sword Dao inheritance among all currently known Immortal Dao civilizations, representing the supreme achievement of all Sword Daos under heaven!

The Sword Dao of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm was the most correct Sword Dao!

This was beyond doubt, an iron-clad fact.

Lone Yang Sword Dao, Pure Yang Sword Dao — hadn't the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm walked these paths before?

It was nothing remarkable.

In history, the Pure Yang Sword Dao was a path that had already been eliminated — first eliminated by the Yin-Yang Sword Dao, and finally eliminated by the even more advanced Taiyin-Taiyang Sword Dao.

This was not arrogance, or conceit, or anything of the sort.

This was a fact that had already occurred in history, verified countless times!

All Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm sword cultivators knew these facts clearly, and were proud, and self-confident, because the Sword Dao they were walking was the most correct Sword Dao among all known Immortal Dao civilizations.

Was self-confidence based on facts arrogance and conceit?

No, it was not — it was confidence.

The Taiyou Sword Master had always thought this way, firmly believed it; the seventy to eighty thousand years of her life's experiences had repeatedly verified this pride of her inheritance.

However,

An iron-clad fact appeared.

From the Taiyin-Taiyang path, a new Great Sun Sword Dao was born — a Great Sun Sword Dao born with sin, carrying the resentment of Taiyin. With cold, hard facts, it blazed brilliance across the realms, using Void Refinement to counterattack Dao Merging Divine Monarchs, displaying terrifying ruling-level power, with Dao Merging beings beneath the sword no different from pigs and dogs.

The confidence and self-assurance of Taiyin sword cultivators made the Taiyou Sword Master unable to believe it, filled with resentment.

A sword cultivator's pride made her acknowledge the fact.

A strong desire to kill arose within her, wanting to defeat and devour this newly born Sword Dao, to complete her own great Sword Dao breakthrough.

She had even wanted a same-realm sword duel!

Such madness.

Unfortunately, cold, hard facts brought the Taiyou Sword Master back to reality.

"Fellow Daoist Great Sun,"

The Taiyou Sword Master looked at the blue-robed youth before her, and at the Dayang Dayang Tianchi around her, and said coldly: "To take without saying is to steal. This sect's Sunlight Palace is a treasured inheritance passed down for hundreds of thousands of years. I ask Fellow Daoist to return it."

"As a sword cultivator, how could one do such sneaking, underhanded things?"

"Fellow Daoist Taiyou, this statement is mistaken."

"This Monarch did not steal, but took."

Jiang Ding smiled slightly: "Patriarch Linyang once said that when two inheriting sword cultivators meet, they should engage in a sacred sword duel to decide life and death, upholding the honor of the sect's sword cultivators. The victor shall carry the loser's Sword Dao conviction forward, the two sects shall merge into one, all disciples remain as before, and nothing changes."

Jiang Ding smiled slightly: "Ancestral Master Lin Yang once said that when two sword cultivators of the lineage meet, they must engage in a sacred sword duel to the death to uphold the glory of the sect's sword cultivators. The victor will carry on the defeated one's sword path convictions, the two sects will merge into one, all disciples remain as they were, and nothing changes."

"I wonder if the inheritance of the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven has such an arrangement?"

"Hahaha!"

"The Eastern Extreme Demon Sect dares to claim it carries on Ancestor Linyang's will?"

The Taiyou Sword Lord's gaze turned cold.

The Guangming Sword Lord, however, revealed a trace of friendliness and gave Jiang Ding a slight nod.

The inheritance of the Solar lineage has finally stepped onto a new path!

This is one of his own kind, the new future of the Solar lineage — how could it not bring joy?

Naturally, such joy and recognition must be met with blazing killing intent; otherwise it would be an insult to the other Solar-inheriting sword cultivator, and an insult to oneself as well.

"Greetings, Daoist friend."

Jiang Ding bowed to the Guangming Sword Lord with meticulous propriety.

To speak honestly, the Solar lineage has treated him quite well — whether in the Upper Realm or here at the Immortal Gate, when there was an inheritance they thought of him. Though this does not affect the life-and-death struggle between them.

For sword cultivators, this is not hatred.

It is a process of comprehending the Dao, a process of walking the Sword Dao. Whoever the victor is, they are Daoist friends, and will generally take very good care of the descendants of the defeated sword-dueler, even though those descendants often harbor intense resentment and cannot forgive the killing of their father.

But this is not important.

The meeting and sword-duel between sword cultivators is precious beyond measure — a single instant is eternity — how could mere ants understand it?

The hatred and thoughts of ants have no influence whatsoever.