Chapter 1532: The Glorious Path of the Immortal Gate

On this day, amidst brilliant radiance, rows of rule runes gathered within the Great Clarity Flying Sword; rune after rune accumulated, continuing for countless years until the final rune descended.

Countless rule runes formed a rule star imbued with profound pressure, truly born, and fell into the orbit of rule runes.

Rows of rule rune prohibition orbits, like a nebula, shimmered with flowing light and color, rotating ceaselessly around a certain center.

Until today, the eighteenth sun-orbit rule rune prohibition star was born and merged into the orbit.

Hum!

Instantly, the entire sun-rule prohibition nebula blazed with light; countless runes and laws of heaven and earth appeared, stirring up massive ripples in the starry sky that only slowly subsided after a long while, returning to normal.

At this moment, the sun-rule prohibition nebula underwent many changes: its orbital paths became tighter and more three-dimensional, and the efficiency of unconsciously drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the Great Dao's laws increased significantly.

The changes in the sun-rule prohibition nebula even affected the entire sword body upon which it relied for survival, strengthening the sword body by a notch.

"It is done."

"Eighteen sun-rule prohibitions; the Great Clarity Flying Sword has ascended to a top-grade treasure of the Union of Dao. To refine it to this extent in less than ten thousand years."

"Very easy; there is no difficulty."

Jiang Ding stroked the Great Clarity Flying Sword, whose radiance was gradually receding, and murmured to himself.

A treasure of the Union of Dao possesses a total of thirty-six rule prohibitions; the Great Clarity Flying Sword still has eighteen rule prohibitions away from the peak of Union of Dao treasures.

At present, it will take merely nine thousand years.

For a Union of Dao treasure and a Union of Dao cultivator, this is not a long time.

"Now, should I be able to defeat the Badaxian Sect head-on?"

Jiang Ding thought calmly.

The problem now is that the Demon God Sect's world cluster lies over ten thousand years of travel distance from the Immortal Gate; furthermore, if the eight great powers were to flee with single-minded determination and never make contact, pursuing them could take tens of thousands of years, which is truly a headache.

After all, they possess combat power at the quasi-heavenly-human stage; if they flee at the first sign of danger, they are truly difficult to catch.

Of course, if one insists on pursuing and killing them, spending tens of thousands of years would still allow them to be caught; it is simply a waste of a very long time, making the cost-benefit ratio somewhat low.

As for lying in ambush to assassinate, the eight great powers reside within their home formation; fleeing is not a problem, so that approach still fails.

The eight Immortal Sects of the Nine Spirit Domain and the Great Sun Sword Master have fought each other for hundreds of thousands of years and know his strength very well; there is no possibility of mutual misjudgment between the two sides.

It is impossible for them to be like others, who fought the Great Sun Sword Master in a bloody battle for a long time and only began to flee when despair set in at the end—by then, everything was already over.

The eight great powers will flee from the very beginning.

Various thoughts gradually faded away.

Jiang Ding looked into the distance at the Ancient God Path Black Mist Star Sea, where he had been stationed for over five thousand years.

Compared to five thousand years ago, extremely obvious changes had appeared here: the Black Mist Star Sea was no longer as flat as water but had begun to show rolling ripples; the black mist churned from time to time, as if deep-sea ghost beasts were lurking, making people's hair stand on end and involuntarily giving rise to a sense of fear.

Yet when one truly explored into the black mist, pushing it aside, nothing was discovered.

Everything, in every aspect, seemed like one's own illusion.

This illusion sometimes even appeared in the hearts of those who had already grown into Domain Lords, whose power far surpassed that of previous generations of the current Great Sun Sword Master.

"Truly a mysterious Immortal Dao technique... what could it be?"

"Senior Ancient God."

Jiang Ding looked at the churning Black Mist Star Sea and whispered: "Actually, it is not hard to guess; you came from a humble background, far more humble than mine.

Your sole reliance was the human race's inheritance of the Six Realms of Reincarnation, leaning toward that kind of reincarnation focused on eternal life through rebirth, rather than my approach of treating the Six Realms of Reincarnation merely as an immortal Dao classic spell structure for efficiently casting sword techniques and Gong Fa."

"In what form will your Six Realms of Reincarnation manifest?"

"What form..."

Jiang Ding sank into deep contemplation.

Over five thousand years ago, he had already discovered that some subtle changes had appeared within the domain; now, after five thousand years, these changes may have grown to a shocking degree.

Perhaps even a certain undercurrent capable of overturning the Immortal Gate's hegemony over the domain!

This is a resurrection contingency deployed by a terrifying existence at the peak of the heavenly-human stage; even after being weakened layer by layer by time, it remains fatal to the current Immortal Gate.

And even more terrifying is that Jiang Ding clearly knows this undercurrent is brewing, yet he still cannot find it!

A terrifying enemy is growing, is reviving, yet he does not even know where the opponent is; this feeling is truly somewhat anxiety-inducing.

"What could it be..."

Jiang Ding cultivated, refined the sword, researched, and sank into deep contemplation, unaware of the passage of years.

Unknowingly, several hundred more years passed.

"Hahaha!"

"Hahaha..."

On this day, Jiang Ding was awakened from his contemplation and realization of the Dao by the spirited and high-spirited Divine Machine True Venerable.

The excitement and joy on this elder's face were completely unhidden, like a chrysanthemum blooming; the faint, deeply concealed wariness that had existed over the past several thousand years was gone at this moment, involuntarily bringing a warmth to people's hearts.

"Is there great news, Senior Divine Machine?"

Jiang Ding smiled.

"Hahaha!"

"Of course, and there are two of them!"

The Divine Machine True Venerable danced with joy and laughed aloud: "Little friend Jiang Ding, the Immortal Gate's star-class warship, the Prototype No. 1 Experimental Vessel, has emerged!"

"If you have time, send a clone out now to take a look, inspect it, and see if there are any errors or anything that can be modified."

"Note well: a clone."

"The original body is not allowed to go!"

The Divine Machine True Venerable laughed and scolded: "If your original body were to arrive now at the Immortal Gate Mother Star's Lianyun Airport Shipyard, everyone would lose sleep; even the Central Formation Spirit Computer would activate all defensive and offensive formations, and at a critical moment might even resort to self-destruction to amplify the formation's power."

"If that truly happened, it would be very chaotic."

He now said such words openly, no longer pretending everything was normal as he had for the past several thousand years, smiling on the surface while harboring a thread of tension and wariness in his heart.

"Sigh, Elder, you speak so directly."

"Is it really that serious?"

Jiang Ding smiled bitterly.

"Definitely."

"Then it's definitely serious."

Zhenjun Shenji Zhenzun sighed: "Without power in your hands, relying entirely on others' morality—anyone in your place would be frustrated."

"But now things have improved greatly. The Stellar-class warships have emerged, and immediately after, the HeDao-level Gong Fa appeared. The Central Fleet of the Immortal Sects will now surge again, barely maintaining strategic balance; otherwise, the Immortal Sects wouldn't dare expand outward—all their strength would be tied up stabilizing internal politics."

"If we wait another eight or nine thousand years until Yuan advances to the HeDao realm, the strategic balance will become even more stable—completely secure."

"By the way, Jiang Ding, thank you for everything you've done for the Immortal Sects' greater cause."

Zhenjun Shenji Zhenzun bowed deeply.

In just over a thousand years, barely two thousand, the Immortal Sects achieved breakthroughs in Stellar-class warships and HeDao-level Gong Fa—far exceeding expectations, and the results were even better than imagined.

The only variable behind all this was naturally the support of the Great Sun Sword Master.

Not only has his strength grown, but after breaking through to the seventh realm of Sword Dao—the Heaven Sword Art—his ability in Immortal Science and Technology has also surged forward.

It was precisely due to the Great Sun Sword Master's support that the Immortal Sects' Immortal Science and Technology advanced so rapidly.