Chapter 1527: At Last, the Heavenly Sword Sword Art

The lightning of the Youming Sword Cave Heaven gradually dispersed.

In that shattered space, two cultivators were revealed, their flesh torn and tattered, almost nothing left but white bone and a few scraps of flesh and blood; leaning on each other, they walked toward the ascension immigration passage.

The higher-level heavenly tribulation brought an even stronger baptism; amid the strange omens of falling heavenly flowers and golden lotuses springing from the earth, a wash of Jin Chong Guang surged forth, repairing their fleshly bodies, further tempering their divine souls and physical forms, smoothing their Dao path for the days to come.

This is the treatment afforded to citizens of a world-cluster hegemon.

All of it far surpassed what it had been within the Youming Sword Cave Heaven — utterly beyond comparison.

The figures of the two ascending cultivators gradually vanished from sight.

"Over two thousand years, and finally two usable sword-children have appeared — no, inheritors…"

The Youming Inheritance watched their departing backs and said, with some complexity.

For this day, they had screened sword-children, endured many failures, and only at last cultivated the citizen talents the immortal gate required, achieving successful ascension in the end.

The heritage foundation of the upper realm's Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong truly far surpassed that of creatures like the Blood-Skull Vine Demon.

They could directionally cultivate the ascending immigrants the immortal gate needed; how efficient it was, hard to say — for this day they had paid a heavy price, with many of their stores utterly consumed.

But in the end, they truly succeeded.

These two junior inheritor disciples would grow up within the world-cluster hegemon's forces, and their future achievements might well surpass their own.

"With this, the sect's inheritance can be at ease."

"Even if the two of us, in days to come, die in battle, perish in sword-duels, we shall still be able to face the old master and recount all that has happened within the sect."

The Guangming Inheritance sighed.

In the Cultivation World, every existence points toward the strong.

In the future, if strong ones friendly to the Youming Sword Cave Heaven are born within the immortal gate, and the interests are so tightly bound, the continued survival of the Youming Sword Cave Heaven will no longer be a matter of great concern.

The two of them, therefore, could now cultivate at ease, no longer needing to devote too much of their energy to the sect.

……

The immortal gate's participating administrators had also witnessed this outcome.

"Since it is so, then let us accept it."

"Within the Heart Demon, these two, even after grasping the power of Heaven and Man, even after becoming invincible, still firmly upheld the immortal gate's rule; henceforth they will also switch to cultivating the immortal gate's Yin-Yang Gong Fa…"

Senior Wanji Zhen Zun said helplessly: "Let us hope that these trials within the Heart Demon, should they truly appear in future reality, can become the reality we desire."

"If there is any deviation…"

Many looked toward the youth.

"I will correct it."

"The immortal gate's Central Group Army Cluster can also correct it."

Jiang Ding said quietly.

The Qingyang and Qingyou Inheritances only

had some possibility of achieving Heaven and Man, and that would require at least eighty or ninety thousand years.

By that time, if the immortal gate had not perished, it would surely already be different from today.

If there is upheaval, suppress it — nothing worth worrying over.

These realm-domain prodigies have brought the immortal gate a great deal of inheritance, many sparks of wisdom, making tremendous contributions to advancing the immortal gate's scientific development; for this, a few risks are worth it.

"Yes,"

"Even if there are errors, we can correct them."

Senior Wanji Zhen Zun also nodded.

The group discussed briefly, then set the matter aside, turning their attention to other affairs of the immortal gate.

After all, the possibility of these two little ones defecting was very small, and could only occur eighty or ninety thousand years from now — no need to pay it too much heed at present.

During this period, the immortal gate's participating administrators had focused their main energy on reorganizing the immortal gate's military forces.

"The immortal gate's current number of Void Refinement cultivators has reached three hundred and sixty-seven."

"Soul Transformation cultivators: one hundred fifty-one thousand and ninety-seven."

The immortal gate's Chief of the General Staff, Zhenjun Shenji Zhen Zun, said: "The Central Group Army Cluster is being reorganized; the projected headcount will reach three billion, among which the proportion of Soul Transformation, Nascent Soul, and Jin Dan cultivators is further increasing. These additional Void Refinement cultivators of the immortal gate have effectively reduced the difficulty of controlling the military formations, and the formations' power."

"Our strength, compared to the past, has theoretically increased by seventy-one point nine percent."

"We have taken another step forward on the quasi-Heaven-and-Man-grade military formation."

"What still remains lacking is the Dao-Unification stellar-grade warships; once the stellar-grade warships emerge, our strength will see a doubling-type increase."

"It would be best to complete this within ten thousand years, then launch an expedition against the Badaxian Sect, annihilate them, and devote our full attention to the various dangers brought by the Heaven-and-Man awakening…"

……

The immortal gate's various military and governmental affairs advanced in orderly fashion.

Production and research within the realm-domains never ceased for a moment — the most creative prodigies from the myriad races, the top immortal-path scientific research elites cultivated by the immortal gate's educational system, and the vast number of immortal-path scientific practitioners of the immortal gate reaching the tens of billions — they all worked day and night, driving rapid advancement in every aspect of the immortal gate's immortal-path technology.

Time hurried on; between realm-domains, generation after generation of cultivators were born, aged, fell ill, and died, their fruits of wisdom remaining in the world.

Unconsciously, another five thousand years passed.

On this day, within the Sun Abyss, sword howls rose one after another, shaking the cosmos in all directions, even spreading to several surrounding realm-domains; countless Heavenly Dao rule-law nets gathered here, undergoing subtle and invisible natural changes, leaning further toward rules of scorching heat, destruction, law-prohibition, and aberration.

The power of these rules received a subtle strengthening within this stretch of starry sky.

Correspondingly, the rules of heaven and earth outside the Six Paths rules were repelled, undergoing

a subtle weakening; the distribution of heaven-and-earth rules showed man-made unevenness, with varying degrees of favor.

In that instant, heaven and earth displayed all manner of strange omens — the Six Paths of Reincarnation endlessly arising and perishing, the Sun Divine Tree bursting from the soil and taking root within an ancient star, the spectacle of countless stars shattering and dimming…

This terrifying fluctuation of power even triggered layer upon layer of alarms in the immortal gate's Central Array Spirit Computer, only ceasing after detecting the registered contingency plan; the reaction was enormous.

"Dammit!"

"The increase in strength the immortal gate's Central Group Fleet had just gained from the birth of so many Void Refinement cultivators seems to have been smoothed away again…"

Many of the immortal sects participating in politics looked in this direction and cursed.

However, their eyes were filled with joy.

……

"Hahaha!"

"Hahahaha………"

"Heavenly Sword Sword Art, today it is finally achieved!"

From within the Sun Watchtower came laughter that shook heaven and earth.

The sound alone caused illusory shadows of the Sun Sword Dao rules to emerge from the void, radiating terrifying might, as if words became law—ghastly to behold.

"The feeling of this day, I have finally come to understand it."

Jiang Ding's laughter continued for a long time before finally subsiding, and an infinite longing welled up in his heart: "Thunder Yang Heavenly Sword realm's Heavenly Sword Sword Child, Grand Yin Sun Sword Child, Immortal Artifact Child, Immortal Butterfly Child, where are you, do you miss me? This sovereign misses you all very much…"

His eyes were blazing and wild, burning like the sun itself.

Heavenly Sword Sword Art!

At this moment, the Great Sun Sword Lord had finally drawn completely level with the Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child in the realm of swordsmanship—no longer was there a vast chasm between their ranks. They now stood on the same tier. Among the four great categories of Sword Dao realm, Gong Fa, flying swords, and swordsmanship, the gap in Sword Dao realm was no longer significant.

And in swordsmanship, perhaps the difference would not be too great either.

By today, he might already possess the basic conditions to initiate a Sacred Sword Duel with the Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child; the chance of victory was no longer zero, but had begun to exceed one percent.

This meant that, in theory, the Great Sun Sword Lord had the possibility of slaying an Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child and completing a great breakthrough in life.

This meant that, in theory, he was qualified to seize a sliver of clear hope in attaining True Immortality!