Chapter 1518: The Flying Sword Transforms Toward the Great Sun Immortal Spirit Metal

Jiang Ding thought for a long time.

"The first condition, acceptable."

"I've been keeping their life-bound treasures, never refined them."

Jiang Ding waved his hand and released the life-bound treasures of Tianshen Candidate Daozi and the others.

To the dao children of the Badaxian Sect, these treasures were extremely valuable, capable of elevating one's foundation and reserves by a great leap; to him, however, they were merely ordinary, not even worth a simple portion of inheritance divine metal — the exchange was profitable.

If he could smelt the inheritance divine metals of the Jiudaxian Sect, together with the sect's Po Fa Xian Jin, as well as many research results from the sect's Materials Science Academy, there was a great possibility of refining an entirely new inheritance divine metal — the Great Sun Immortal Spirit Metal.

Stronger, and more suited to the Great Sun Sword Dao — it was born entirely for the Great Sun Sword Dao.

By comparison, the Taiqing Divine Iron was far too mild, originating from the Taiyin-Taiyang Sword Dao, not a perfect fit for the Great Sun Sword Dao.

He had been looking forward to this deal for a long time, and naturally would not let it slip by.

"The second condition,"

"I will do my best to facilitate the release of your sect's cultivators; in fact, the sect never really needed any hostages."

Jiang Ding said calmly.

The actual purpose of these cultivators' existence was simply to keep the great powers of the Badaxian Sect from going mad — having some leverage was enough; in truth, no one was that naive as to think that a mere handful of disciples could make a sect's ancestors make any major concessions.

"However, note that I don't have the authority to make this decision."

"Only the sect's Council of State Affairs does."

"Therefore, I'm not a hundred percent certain this matter will pass — I can only say there's a probability above ninety percent."

Jiang Ding added.

"Acceptable, then let it be so."

Yu Yu Qianzi nodded, inspected them briefly, and put away the life-bound treasures of Tianshen Candidate Daozi and the others.

Jiang Ding likewise took back the five portions of seventh-grade inheritance divine metal from the Badaxian Sect.

He was somewhat elated in his heart.

Great Sun Immortal Spirit Metal!

This was a stronger flying sword material, and his unique advantage — no matter how strong the dao children and sword children of the upper realm's immortal sects were, no matter how they were cultivated by their entire sects, they could never hope to obtain all the inheritance divine metals of the Jiudaxian Sect; this difficulty was almost equivalent to being invincible in the upper realm and annihilating all sects.

Let alone the Po Fa Xian Jin from the Spiritless Universe, equally precious and fearsome — they had never even had it.

Once the main material of the Taiqing Flying Sword changed to Great Sun Immortal Spirit Metal, this meant that at the same grade — for instance, both being quasi-ninth-grade sword embryos — the Taiqing Flying Sword would be far stronger than the flying swords of the upper realm's immortal sect dao children.

Of course, the Taiqing Flying Sword was now about to step into the quasi-ninth grade, still far from the ninth grade, but this distance was bound to close in great strides.

The gap between it and the life-bound treasures of the upper realm's immortal sect dao children had narrowed further.

"Sword Master."

"There's one more

matter."

Youming Pool interjected.

"Speak."

Jiang Ding said irritably.

"The Taishang Divine Moon Sword."

"Little Yu says the Taishang Divine Moon Sword is inside the Qingmuxian Sect, still pitifully at the Void Refinement grade — you need to find a way to snatch them over; this is also a treasure of our Youming Sword Cave Heaven."

She said expectantly.

In years past, the Sun Moon Sword Pavilion split, and the heavy treasure of the Taiyin branch, the Taishang Divine Moon Sword, fled with the Taiyin branch disciples to the Qingmuxian Sect, where they were accepted yet kept under guard; to this day, the sword still bears restrictions upon it.

"When the time is ripe, acceptable."

Jiang Ding said readily.

This was merely a trivial matter, something to be done casually in the future.

"Then there's nothing else."

Youming Pool was satisfied.

She no longer paid attention to Jiang Ding, and left with Yu Yu Qianzi — seemingly intending to give her some of the tutelage and inheritance that a Taiyin inheritance disciple ought to have, with an extremely strong sense of closeness.

If it were a heavy treasure of the Taiyang branch's inheritance, such as the Moon, she would have completely ignored Yu Yu Qianzi.

However, it seemed that the itinerary Yu Yu Qianzi had initially submitted to the sect as Qingmuxian Sect ambassador already included these arrangements — she had originally planned to stay in Youming Sword Cave Heaven for a very long time.

The nominal purpose was to comprehend the sword arts of the Taiyin branch.

"Qingmuxian Sect, what is the meaning of this…"

Jiang Ding gazed at the gradually disappearing figures of Youming Pool and Yu Yu Qianzi, falling into thought.

Qingmuxian Sect — its recent moves were puzzling.

They recently seemed to be making great efforts to ease relations with the sect, making move after move — not only Yu Yu Qianzi, but other Qingmuxian Sect ambassadors had made similar gestures.

The occurrence of such things seemed to be after the Youming Sword Cave Heaven incident.

"Qingmuxian Sect… is there a possibility of compromise?"

A thought surfaced in Jiang Ding's mind.

Qingmuxian Sect and the sect did not share too much blood-feud; if the benefits were great enough, they could completely follow the precedent of the Youming Sword Cave Heaven.

If they could fully absorb the Qingmuxian Sect's inheritance, the sect's spirit-plant cultivation techniques and battlefield healing techniques would welcome a great leap forward, and productivity in all aspects would rise to a major new level.

The sect did not necessarily have to destroy the Qingmuxian Sect — that was the treatment reserved for the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace.

"Forget it, I'll write up an idea and submit it to the sect's General Staff Department for consideration."

Jiang Ding shook his head.

When it came to such matters of inter-domain trends and games of human nature, he was completely unskilled; by comparison, they were far more adept — better not to waste time.

However, regarding the Badaxian Sect's sudden agreement to the exchange, he also had his guesses.

The great powers of the Badaxian Sect hold a certain degree of pessimism about the future.

Because of this, they have already been preparing a fallback for the seeds of their sect's inheritance.

A way out for the seeds of inheritance.

Therefore, they are now doing their utmost to strengthen the sect's Dao Children, entrusting them with the hope of carrying on the sect's inheritance, sending them to seek out paths that can still ensure survival after defeat—whether to distant, unfamiliar star domains, or elsewhere.

"Refine the sword, refine the sword!"

The many distracting thoughts in Jiang Ding's heart dispersed.

He took out numerous seventh-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and most importantly, eight portions of inherited divine gold, flew into the Dayang Dayang Tianchi, and began another sword refinement.

In the Sun Abyss, the complex and dense Great Sun Sword-Refining Formation spread out in all directions, catching the sunlight and forming a terrifying high temperature. Within it, the many heavenly materials and earthly treasures, millions of types of metals, melted in the light, and the inherited divine gold of the Badaxian Sect at the very center also showed slight changes.

Smelting these inherited divine gold is not too difficult—after all, they are only seventh-tier.

And the Taiqing Flying Sword is an eighth-tier sword embryo, about to become a quasi-ninth-tier existence!

"There's a bit of a mismatch…"

Jiang Ding calculated for a moment, discovered the problem, and muttered to himself.

These seventh-tier materials cannot be directly refined into the Taiqing Flying Sword, because it would be like pouring the water of a pond into a lake—unable to change anything.

The gap between seventh-tier materials and a quasi-ninth-tier sword embryo is far too vast—simply the difference between heaven and earth.

"The Taiqing Flying Sword must be sealed for a period."

"Only after the Great Sun Immortal Spirit Gold is thoroughly born within the flying sword can the seal be lifted. With this small amount of Great Sun Immortal Spirit Gold, it can then absorb countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, transforming the entire flying sword into Great Sun Immortal Spirit Gold… this line of thinking has promise."

"There are just some materials-science issues—let me ask True Venerable Senior Wanji and the Immortal Sect Materials Science Academy."

Various thoughts surfaced in Jiang Ding's mind, and he temporarily stopped smelting the Badaxian Sect divine gold.

He allocated a large amount of spirit stones, war merits, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures, invested them into the Immortal Sect Materials Science Academy, and opened a new Immortal Dao discipline project, intending to wait until True Venerable Senior Wanji and the others produced results before continuing.