Chapter 1551: The Authority of Heaven and Earth in the Six Paths of Reincarnation

The notebook flipped to its last page, closed for a moment, then opened again.

"Right, almost forgot."

"There are still a few more people."

Jiang Ding lightly tapped his head, picked up his brush, and wrote down new names—as if his memory had always been poor, and he had only just remembered them today.

"This sovereign has always been pure and kind, treating others well, striving for the happiness of all sentient beings between realms and across the myriad worlds. When bullied, I would grit my teeth and swallow it down, enduring in silence for the greater good."

"But still, there are people who bully me!"

"Taiyin Taiyang Dayan Jianzi indulged his inherited disciples Xuan Shui Canghai Tianjun and Xuan Huo Canghai Tianjun in surrounding and attacking me—utterly unsportsmanlike. And that Harmonization Divine Monarch of the Taiyin lineage, the moment we met, intended to beat me to death. If this can be endured, what cannot? The Taiyin lineage must pay the price—hand over that Taiyin Harmonization Divine Monarch for me to execute…"

"Tianjian Dayan Jianzi beat me up during the Lei Gao Jie, but let it be—this sovereign won't hold it against him."

"If Tianjian Dayan Jianzi binds Shougui Shenjun and hands him over for me to execute, this sovereign can let him off. Otherwise it's the crime of harboring. According to the laws of the immortal sects, harboring a capital offender is equally a grave crime. This sovereign has the authority to arrest, and if they resist law enforcement, execute them on the spot…"

"And there's Xiandiezi of the Tianhuan Immortal Butterfly Clan—your avatar was quite interesting, actually coming to this sovereign's homeland."

"This sovereign is very much looking forward to meeting you again…"

Jiang Ding kept murmuring.

One after another, the Dao Sons of the upper realm's Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong and the legitimate sons of quasi-immortal clans were written into his notebook.

Every single thing would absolutely conform to the existing laws of the immortal sects, without the slightest overreach.

The Great Sun Sword Son understood the law and abided by it.

If the Dao Sons of the upper realm's Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong were willing to obey the law, the Great Sun Sword Son of the immortal sects would not touch them—not even a single hair.

Ding!

"The final harvest—a sliver of the authority of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, authority…"

Jiang Ding took out his Taiqing Flying Sword.

His finger flicked it lightly, producing a clear, pleasant sword-chime.

Around the youth, hazily, a dreamlike Six Paths of Reincarnation appeared—between which one could faintly see the birth and destruction of universes, the reincarnation of all beings in heaven and earth.

This was a natural phenomenon.

Not divine sense, not magic power, and certainly not driven by sword intent.

This reincarnation phenomenon existed innately.

If not deliberately restrained, it would accompany the youth at all times, like his crown and ceremonial robes, representing something exceedingly precious in the universe.

This was the authority of the Six Paths of Reincarnation of heaven and earth!

No, to be precise, the authority of the Six Paths of Reincarnation held by the human race!

It was extremely slight, but it existed. Originally held by the remains of an ancient divine celestial, it was seized after that holder was defeated by another inheritor of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Within the same race, there existed an order of transfer.

"Authority—how could it fall into the hands of an ant like me…"

"The Six Paths of Reincarnation of heaven and earth—is it now masterless…"

Jiang Ding's heart chilled, and a terrifying guess arose.

He recalled how the ancient divine ancestor had used the Six Paths of Reincarnation as his foundation to summon celestials and gods to slaughter the battlefield.

Those scenes of carnage and falling—were they the ancient divine ancestor's fantasies?

Or had they truly happened in the primeval history of reality?

Assuming that scene was real, had that terrifying existence presiding over the Six Paths of Reincarnation of heaven and earth died?

Was it in the process of reviving?

Once it revived, how would the one holding the authority of the Six Paths of Reincarnation fend for himself…

For a moment, Jiang Ding's heart was in utter turmoil.

He vaguely sensed that he had obtained something extremely troublesome and dangerous—once it erupted in the future, it would drag the beings within into a situation of certain death.

This was fate—utterly irresistible, destined fate—that made the heart tremble with fear.

"The ancient divine ancestor was truly remarkable, to have come into contact with such a thing."

"If he had been at full strength, he probably wouldn't have been a nobody even in the upper realm… Do all inheritors of the Six Paths of Reincarnation eventually encounter such a predicament?"

Jiang Ding murmured coldly.

The old things among the powerful of the human race were indeed none of them easy to deal with.

Even within racial inheritance, there existed enormous risks. The more ancient the old fellows, the more they deserved to die—none were innocent, none treated the lives of the weak of their own kind as lives at all.

The only good news was that what the Six Paths of Reincarnation of heaven and earth involved was too terrifying.

This meant that the scheming timeline of that unknown terrifying existence would be exceedingly long. The ancient divine ancestor hadn't died hundreds of thousands of years ago, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of years later the scheme still hadn't erupted.

To an unknown existence, perhaps a million years, ten million years were but an instant—trivial and insignificant.

For beings below the Jiang Jiang Jinxian level to worry about it or fear it was as laughable as the man of Qi worrying about the sky—utterly meaningless. Your entire lifespan couldn't even reach the basic duration of its schemes, no different from the yellow earth found everywhere in the universe.

Cultivators below the Jiang Jiang Jinxian level had no qualification whatsoever to receive its malice.

Of this, Jiang Ding was absolutely certain.

"Relax—how safe I am…"

Jiang Ding Zi laughed at himself.

For some reason, at this moment he thought of a person.

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun.

Once again, Jiang Ding wanted to kill him on the spot—even if it violated his own Dao-heart principles, this thought inexplicably arose.

This thought flashed and vanished, hidden away.

"The authority of reincarnation

is a good thing."

Jiang Ding quietly contemplated the subtle change that had taken place within himself.

Through the various strange phenomena, and this sliver of subtle authority, he could clearly perceive a more exquisite, more complete and beautiful structure of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, whose profundity was simply vast as a sea of smoke, with no limit any living being should possess.

One could see that this authority of the Six Paths of Reincarnation was dark, dreamlike, and endless, quite similar to what the Ancient God Patriarch wielded.

Comparing the two, the Ancient God Patriarch's was the orthodox one; Jiang Ding's was the heterodox one. His Six Paths of Reincarnation was entirely different from the one within the authority of the Six Paths of Reincarnation — it was another direction, an unorthodox path.

"Truly beautiful. My Six Paths of Reincarnation structure is bound to undergo a great breakthrough..."

Jiang Ding exclaimed in admiration.

He now knew where the Ancient God Patriarch's terrifying attainment in the Six Paths of Reincarnation came from. With the orthodox authority of the Six Paths of Reincarnation as a reference, his Heaven and Earth Sun Divine Halo was bound to undergo a great breakthrough and experience earth-shaking changes.

What was somewhat unexpected was that even after witnessing the orthodox Six Paths of Reincarnation within the authority of the Heaven and Earth Six Paths of Reincarnation, Jiang Ding harbored no doubt about his own path, nor any thought of completely abandoning his own Six Paths of Reincarnation and wholeheartedly converting to the orthodox one.

This attitude of complete indifference, so firm it felt only natural, surprised even himself.

"…The Six Paths of Reincarnation hold no interest for me."

Jiang Ding thought it over and discovered the essence of the matter.

His path was the Sword Dao, the Sun Rule — not the Six Paths of Reincarnation. The Six Paths of Reincarnation was merely the most efficient, most profoundly potential immortal dao spell structure he had currently discovered, and thus he made use of it; it did not mean his aspiration was to become the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation in the future.

No matter how profound the Six Paths of Reincarnation or the reincarnation of all beings might be, it was all useless.

His talent lay entirely elsewhere. If he were to covet its complete profundity and recklessly plunge into it against his own heart, that would truly be the path to death.

To him, the Six Paths of Reincarnation was nothing more than a structure, a tool.