Chapter 1540: Two Lords of the Realm

A Heavenly Being!

The remnant soul of a Heavenly Being — a remnant soul in the midst of reviving — had appeared on the mother planet of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong!

His whole body was a mass of knotted muscles, black as ink; his dark hair whipped wildly. His lower half was rooted in the Central Array Spirit Computer, while his upper half bore a thousand arms twisted like tree branches, swaying from time to time, like flesh-wings formed of stacked limbs.

Compared to a human, he looked more like an ancient demon crawling out of the Nine Hells Demon Abyss.

Terrifying demonic will shrouded a region of several hundred thousand li; every living creature within suffered endless torment at every moment, and only by wholly converting and submitting to the Demon Lord could one obtain great freedom and great peace.

A terrifying figure like this, appearing in any quasi-Heavenly-Being-level faction, could drag the entire sect into ruin in an instant.

At this moment, his demonic corruption and devouring had no choice but to cease.

During the months he had been entangled with the Central Array Spirit Computer, accompanied by flashes of light from one backup super teleportation array after another, fleet after fleet of steel warships appeared between heaven and earth, radiating an extremely powerful pressure at the quasi-Heavenly-Being tier.

The Dongji Demon Sect, Central Army Group fleet!

Yet such a fleet retreated instead of charging in at the first moment. It only used the power of its military formation to shelter the several trillion surviving citizens of the mother planet, gathering them under its protection, and devoted more of its strength to dealing with the inner tides of heart-demons.

Having lost the soul protection of the Central Array Spirit Computer, this fleet of the Immortal-Dao Swarm Will civilization had revealed a tremendous flaw and could no longer shoulder the burden of a main force in top-tier quasi-Heavenly-Being combat.

At the center of the retreating fleet, a green-robed youth with a long sword at his waist was exposed.

He was so tiny, like a speck of dust, almost nonexistent on a cosmic scale.

Yet he was also so vast!

This small figure radiated terrifying pressure — scorching heat, destruction, radiation-induced mutation — suppressing the heavens above and the earth below, the four quarters of the star domain. That crimson, scorching madness seemed no less than the demonic will of the Thousand-Armed Ancient Demon.

No one would doubt that, were he in the Nine Hells Demon Abyss, this one too would be a Demon Lord slaughtering countless beings across billions of worlds.

Clang!

Jiang Ding drew his sword and walked step by step toward the Thousand-Armed Ancient Demon rooted in the Central Array Spirit Computer.

At first, having witnessed several trillion citizens controlled and falling into demonic corruption, his whole body was ice-cold with violent, murderous intent, with hatred and madness;

But after one step, his face returned to icy calm.

After another step, his heart had already returned to utter stillness, cold as a star, enduring through endless ages.

On the third step, he arrived before the Thousand-Armed Ancient Demon, gazed at him, and a pure desire for slaughter and destruction rose in his heart.

"Senior Ancient God,"

"I have long admired your Six Paths Reincarnation."

Jiang Ding gazed at the Thousand-Armed Ancient Demon and said quietly: "Welcome to my hometown. I wonder how the customs here differ from those of your hometown, the Ancient God Domain?"

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Hum!

Around the green-robed youth, rings of scorching ripples spread out between heaven and earth.

This was the Solar Rule Heavenly Dao Law Net, containing six great rules — Destruction, Aberration, Law-Slaying, Law-Binding, Yuan Magnet, and Sword Dao — and yet containing only the Solar Rule, and having already undergone subtle changes unique to himself, already walking the path of a Heavenly Being, even though he was only at the mid Void Refinement realm.

This was the result of nearly twenty thousand years of cultivation by a being comparable to a Dao Child of an upper-realm Immortal Sect.

And now, in this sword-child's hometown, the place of his birth and growth, at the border between the Spiritless Universe and the Immortal-Dao Universe, some terrifying change was occurring.

The Heavenly Dao of the Nine Spirit Domain favored every generation of Great Sun Sword Masters!

The Spiritless Universe was his hometown, the place where his genes had evolved and taken form!

Here, his Law-Slaying and Law-Binding rules showed a tremendous increase in strength, and his Destruction and Sword Dao rules showed a tremendous increase in strength!

Without a sect's grand formation, yet surpassing a sect's grand formation.

This was his hometown, his lair, his home ground!

Here, he was the Heavenly Dao's child of two worlds; the will of Heaven favored him, and the physical laws of the Spiritless Universe naturally leaned toward him, multiplying his strength several times over.

With all these layers stacked together, the Great Sun Sword Master standing here was terrifying to the extreme.

Even the Thousand-Armed Ancient Demon, whose Heavenly-Being remnant soul was reviving, seemed to shrink a notch under the Great Sun Destruction pressure, his violent demonic will greatly diminished.

"Six Paths Reincarnation?"

"Hahaha, yet another human inheritor…"

The Ancient God Ancestor confirmed something, his baleful light flaring, and let out a rasping, strange laugh: "Young friend, you and I are fated."

"Or rather, this stretch of heaven and earth is fated with the Six Paths Reincarnation — separated by mere hundreds of thousands of years, yet two generations of human inheritors have appeared."

"Our human race truly is the hegemon race of the endless starry skies!"

"Heaven's blessing!"

He finally revealed a sliver of human emotion — a look of emotion and joy.

This terrifying being, who looked like an ancient demon, had not a single part of him that seemed human, yet he possessed an extremely strong sense of belonging to the human race, an intense feeling.

Seeing the race flourish even more, his heart rejoiced from the bottom.

"Young friend, your Six Paths Reincarnation seems different from this old man's?"

The Ancient God Ancestor said in a rasping voice.

On the matter of the Six Paths Reincarnation, even though he had established the Ancient God Dao and carried on the human inheritance, every later generation had followed the path he had opened without the slightest deviation, never overstepping the bounds by a hair, and none were qualified to discuss with him how the Six Paths Reincarnation should proceed in the future.

Yet now, a completely different inheritor of the Six Paths Reincarnation had appeared!

This person's Six Paths Reincarnation actually had no

any illusory-reincarnation factors whatsoever; all the mysteries of the Six Paths Reincarnation had been transformed entirely into terrifying killing power. That reincarnation was exquisite, profoundly mysterious to the extreme, tolerating not a single flourish — it was pure violence.

This kind of difference, and yet so beautiful reincarnation, deeply attracted an inheritor of the Six Paths Reincarnation like him.

"It is somewhat different."

"Still, it cannot compare to Senior's reincarnation."

Jiang Ding sighed softly.

Had he been able to see through this powerful being's devouring and possession earlier — discovered it at the very beginning of its invasion of the Central Array Spirit Computer — the difficulty of destroying it then would absolutely have been far lower.

Time had caused irreparable damage to this Heavenly-Being-level powerhouse; even a Heavenly Being could not escape it.

This meant that, in terms of the heights reached in exploring the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the other party had to surpass him.

"Hahaha!"

"Little friend, no need to be discouraged. This old man has merely lived several hundred thousand years longer, that's all."

The Ancient God Ancestor laughed heartily: "If this old man were at the same realm as you, both at mid-stage Refinement of the Void, I'm afraid I wouldn't even qualify as your opponent."

"Sigh, those years were indeed hard, barely surviving among the alien races."

He recalled many past events, sighing with deep emotion.

"Senior truly rendered great merit to the human race."

Jiang Ding said with admiration.

Throughout history, the strong have generally followed two paths of growth.

One is like the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child — heaven-shocking talent from birth, with the sect's former sages laying the foundation, growing up relatively smoothly all the way, becoming a powerhouse under heaven, characterized by being invincible within the same realm, with a foundation deep as an abyss and vast as the sea;

The second is rising from humble origins — stronger than others within the same realm, but not so strong as to exceed the bounds of common sense in a terrifying way.

Representatives of this path were the Ancient God Ancestor, Han Lin, the strongest of the Thunder Yang Heaven Sword realm, and others.

When both paths reach their end, which path is stronger?

No one knows.

Judging by probability, the first path has an extremely high success rate — at least fifty percent or more.

The second path has an extremely, extremely low success rate. Often, across countless worlds and billions upon billions of cultivation practitioners, over hundreds of thousands of years, dying again and again along the way, with the convergence of supreme fortune, supreme talent, and supreme opportunity, only in the end do a handful of powerhouses typically emerge.

Although these powerhouses who survived by dying again and again were not strong within their tier in the past when at the middle and lower stages, once they reached the end, which one of them was weak?

Faced with such terrifying powerhouses who reached the end, even a Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child of the same tier could not look down upon them with any sense of superiority.

"Hahaha!"

"Back then, sweeping the Ancient God Domain clean, annihilating the alien races under heaven, laying the foundation of our human race's hegemony — that was indeed the most exhilarating feat of this old man's life…"

The Ancient God Ancestor hid nothing, proud and accomplished, laughing boldly and freely.

The two dominat

ing powerhouses of the realm chatted amiably, courteous and proper, with no hint of hostility or killing intent.