Chapter 1514: Where Does the Path of the Heavenly Person Lead?

After Jiang Ding finished handling the aftermath for a friend of the Great Dao, he looked at the greatest gain of this trip.

Compared to this gain, any heavenly materials or earthly treasures, magic treasures were not worth mentioning—it was the crystallization of wisdom of countless prodigies and heroes over tens of millions of years in the Upper Realm.

The Heavenly Person inheritance!

Hum!

The void trembled, and the Dayang Dayang Tianchi and the Youming Pool bloomed from the void, radiant and resplendent.

As magic treasures mass-refined by near-immortal level experts of the Upper Realm, these two great inheritance treasures possessed extremely high levels of immortal Dao technical expertise, especially in escaping and protecting the inheritance—this was the sword cultivator's signature skill.

Not to mention, Jiang Ding had escaped together with them.

"Sword Child,"

"You agreed to coexist with the Taiyin lineage?"

Yue flickered and flew up, somewhat displeased: "I was still planning to transform the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven into a Sword Pavilion! How am I supposed to carry out my work with you like this?"

"Should all be beaten to death."

"The entire Taiyin lineage is no good!"

"Because…"

Jiang Ding was about to speak, but was immediately interrupted by the overwhelming killing intent beside him.

"Unrestrained Solar lineage array spirit!"

"You damned, stupid, despicable shameless, disgraceful, heaven-cursed…"

A little girl with pupils black as ink appeared beside the Youming Pool, pointing furiously at Yue's nose and cursing viciously.

"…idiot!"

The Youming Pool concluded in the end.

"Oh?"

"I'm the idiot?"

Yue's gaze turned cold.

Without a second thought, she raised her slender, fair fingers and stabbed toward the Youming Pool's brow. In a flash, scorching and destructive—one of the peak sword arts of the Dayang Sword Pavilion's sword Dao attainments—the Youming Pool couldn't react at all.

Ding!

Jiang Ding stopped her domineering action, helplessly saying: "Yue, don't act like an evil demonic cultivator."

"Hmph!"

"Sword Child, I was originally an evil demonic cultivator."

Yue stopped, huffing lightly.

"Uncontrolled Solar array spirit, eliminate."

"Sword Master,"

The Youming Pool's gaze was cool and clear, showing no reaction, as she said calmly: "Sword Master, you should let the Palace of Light devour this anomaly and return to its original state."

"Coexist."

"I've said it, we must coexist…"

Jiang Ding sighed: "Yue, the Dayang Sword Pavilion you want can exist, and Youming, the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven you want will also exist, and will surpass the past by far.

Of course, some modifications in line with my ideas will be carried out."

In reality, it was embedding into the Xianmen industrial system.

Before the campaign against the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven

Prior to this, Jiang Ding had already received authorization from Xianmen to set up the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven as a special ninth-tier vassal civilization—while its diplomacy and military would be fully controlled by Xianmen, it would have a certain degree of internal governance autonomy.

Besides this, the successive ancestors of the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven and the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm would be entered into Xianmen's Martyrs' Monument, to be worshipped together with the countless sacrificed sages of history past.

The inheritance of the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven would be collected by Xianmen, and after modification, many Taiyin-Solar sword cultivators would likewise appear among the citizens.

Taiyin-Solar sword cultivators, in the eyes of the Dayang Sword Pavilion, were indeed weak.

However, they had one good point—extremely high controllability. Unlike Dayang sword cultivators who lost control at the slightest provocation, successive Lie Yang Jianzi Children were renowned as refined gentlemen, the perfect companions in the hearts of many female cultivators in the Upper Realm.

Completely different from a certain Sword Child whose domain was hated by gods and ghosts alike.

Xianmen would also support education in ideology and moral character in the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven, striving to cultivate qualified citizens who could ascend to Xianmen in the next generation…

Such and so on were the compromises Xianmen made to obtain the Heavenly Person inheritance.

The Dayang Sword Master would certainly not go back on his word.

Xianmen also would not let the Dayang Sword Master go back on his word—these were Xianmen's citizens, not so-called allies to be casually discarded after strategic deception.

"Yue, Youming,"

"Discuss among yourselves a future sect system for the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven."

Jiang Ding said: "The principle is that Dayang sword cultivators and Taiyin-Solar sword cultivators are equal within the sect, disciples may freely choose any inheritance, and additionally Xianmen's advisory body will also join in—you two coordinate with them."

"Coexist, understand?"

"…Fine."

Yue said reluctantly.

The Youming Pool also nodded.

This anomalous Lie Yang Jianzi Child would never completely belong to Taiyin-Solar, but his talent was too terrifying—even if only partially belonging to Taiyin-Solar, it would make the glory of Taiyin-Solar far surpass the past. This was the reason she acknowledged it.

In the Cultivation World, the absolute loyalty of the weak was meaningless; only the strong could decide everything.

"《Great Youming Light Scripture》…"

After Jiang Ding finished handling these matters, he began to access the supreme inheritance of the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven.

His divine sense, through the Dayang Dayang Tianchi and the Youming Pool, began to request something from the Heavenly Dao. After a while, a hazy book interwoven with black and white colors appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.

Jiang Ding read silently, beginning to comprehend.

The "Great Obscure Light Scripture" is a lower sub-section inheritance of the supreme inheritance of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, the "Great Yin Great Yang Sword Scripture," its status equivalent to the Sun Moon Sword Pavilion's "Sun Moon Sword Scripture," sharing the same origin as the "Great Sun Sword Scripture," so understanding it is not too difficult.

"A Heavenly Being truly begins to finely adjust the rules of heaven and earth, creating rules that belong to oneself…"

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

This process will be extremely long and extremely perilous. Any slight alteration to the rules of heaven and earth, any minor mistake, will trigger a terrifying backlash. Many cultivators at the peak of Dao Merging are trapped at this barrier, not daring to change anything at all, because they know that if they truly did such a thing, they would die in an instant.

Conversely, if a cultivator's foundation is profound, far surpassing other cultivators at the same peak of Dao Merging stage, and their root can withstand one, two, or even ten instances of backlash from rule adjustments, then this cultivator's probability of advancing to Heavenly Being will be much greater.

This is the reason why almost all sects of the Suoyouxian Sect extremely emphasize foundation.

Additionally, a cultivator's understanding of the rules of heaven and earth is equally extremely important.

Some cultivators have foundations that are incomparably weak, with absolutely nothing outstanding about them—in fact, the founding ancestor of the upper realm's Suoyouxian Sect, such as that supreme expert of the Thunder Yang Heaven Sword Realm, was exactly like this. Born of a Void Refinement sect, his foundation need not be mentioned at all, with no predecessors paving the way for him—he himself was the predecessor.

Theoretically speaking, the supreme expert of the Thunder Yang Heaven Sword Realm could not possibly withstand a single backlash from altering the rules; he would have his soul destroyed in an instant.

But, even so, the supreme expert of the Thunder Yang Heaven Sword Realm succeeded back then.

He succeeded in a single attempt, without any mistakes, and the rules he finely adjusted were perfectly suited to himself, laying in one stroke the foundation for advancing to a Jiang Jiang Jinxian-level expert.

This is the importance of a cultivator's understanding of the rules.

If a cultivator does not sufficiently understand the rules of heaven and earth, and does not deeply enough comprehend their own Great Dao, then no matter how profound their foundation, they cannot advance to Heavenly Being. Even if given dozens of opportunities to adjust the rules, it would be useless—they would still die, or never dare to take a single step toward advancing to Heavenly Being for the rest of their lives, sinking into oblivion from then on.