Chapter 1561: The Great Sun Sword Master's First Nirvana

Jiang Ding returned to the sect's mother star.

He would hold this position, ensuring that incidents like the Ancient God Ancestor's body-seizing would not happen again, and at the same time convened a meeting.

"The Ancient God Ancestor's true body is still entangled with that unknown arm."

"He seems very weak right now, because my Great Sun Sword Dao instinct stirred — this is an opponent who can be slain, or at least there is a sliver of hope of slaying him."

Jiang Ding reported to the other sect administrators: "However, in his lair, he has deployed an extremely terrifying eighth-rank six-path formation, a formation that is extremely powerful even among Heavenly Beings — I am helpless against him."

"The only good news now is that the Ancient God Ancestor does not dare take a single step outside the formation."

"Otherwise, the sect might be able to beat him to death."

"The bad news is that once the Ancient God Ancestor wins his struggle against the unknown arm, he will very likely recover his Heavenly Being strength, and at that point, we will certainly die without a doubt."

"The course of this victory or defeat could be several thousand years, several tens of thousands of years, or perhaps several hundred years — I cannot judge."

"The situation there involves eighth-rank knowledge related to Heavenly Beings; I cannot see it clearly right now."

Jiang Ding reported to the sect's administrators, transmitting data after data — what he had seen and heard, along with his own understanding — and then quietly waited for them to digest this knowledge.

Several days later.

"In other words, what we are doing now is racing against time."

"Whoever can reach Heavenly Being-level strength faster will obtain absolute hegemony over the Ancient God Domain and become its master."

Yuan said slowly.

"If we are one step slower, that means death."

"Yes, that is exactly it."

Jiang Ding nodded.

Such matters had been experienced too many times in the sect's past.

Sailing against the current — advance or fall behind. If one cannot progress, one is destined to be surpassed by one's opponents, to die and have one's clan wiped out, accepting the cruel face of the universe's natural order.

"Then our research and development plan will need to be more aggressive."

Yuan sighed deeply.

……

Dayang Dayang Tianchi, Sun Abyss.

This place, situated at the border zone between the Nine Spirit Domain and the Spiritless Universe, the strongest location of the Great Sun Sword Master, also gathered countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures from all the myriad worlds, countless spirit stones, and sat at the center of a peak seventh-rank spirit vein — its cultivation conditions were superb to the extreme, already far exceeding what was needed.

In fact, the Great Sun Sword Master only needed a peak sixth-rank spirit vein; the seventh-rank spirit vein was what the Taiqing Flying Sword required.

Clang!

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged, lightly flicked the sword blade, producing a crisp sound.

Behind him, a Sun Divine Tree hundreds of thousands of meters tall shone brilliantly, gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the starlight of the universe — its breath, in and out, even drove the spiritual energy storms of the entire sect, becoming part of the sect's energy supply, functioning very similarly to the past Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong.

(continued from previous line) — its function was very similar to the past Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong.

"Slightly modify the Sun Rule, the first Nirvana…"

Jiang Ding murmured, countless thoughts flowing through his mind.

Yes, right here, he was preparing to undergo his first subtle-rule Nirvana, creating a finely-tuned Sun Rule belonging to himself.

No matter what the Ancient God Ancestor did, even if he were to awaken tomorrow, he would still carry out his own Nirvana.

He would not change because of any external force.

Jiang Ding, like a wooden puppet, sank into a deep-level meditative trance.

The sun and moon shifted; time flowed by like water.

This deliberation lasted one hundred and one years. The Central Array Spirit Computer and countless scientists of the sect's Academy of Sciences also assisted in calculations for a hundred years, repeatedly verifying the safety of the fine-tuned rule.

In the end, they and the Great Sun Sword Master reached the same conclusion:

This fine-tuning of the Sun Rule would certainly succeed, and no accidents would occur.

"This… is the result."

"That moment of enlightenment just now was not my illusion."

Jiang Ding opened his eyes, ending this hundred-year contemplative deliberation.

"Then, let me begin my Nirvana."

He closed his eyes, then opened them again.

This was an entirely new world — his divine soul's sea of consciousness.

Everywhere here was a deep blue glow; countless dream-like phantoms filled the place, constantly shifting, representing the ever-flowing thoughts.

At the center of this sea of consciousness, a radiant, resplendent Sword Soul stood between heaven and earth, propping up the skies, suppressing the cosmic star rivers.

Materialist Sun Sword Soul!

Upon the Sword Soul, golden Sun Networks were distributed, spreading like meridians throughout the entire body, seeping into the pupils, into the flesh and blood and bones — omnipresent, reaching everywhere — like golden rivers of flowing magma, with capillaries distributed to every single place.

This was his Sun Rule.

This Sun Network was similar to the Heavenly Dao Law Net of a Dao-Unification Divine Monarch; in fact, they were similar things.

A cultivator's realm was not always matched to that of an Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child — they often, while at a weaker realm, had already traversed the cultivation of higher realms, having long since substantively completed the transformation of the Dao-Unification realm.

This Sun Rule was bound to him so tightly, penetrating into every place, even every single cell.

Any subtle alteration, if it conflicted even slightly, would inevitably cause his divine soul and fleshly body to collapse and turn to ash — there was absolutely no possibility of survival.

This was the Rule Backlash that made all Dao-Unification Divine Monarchs turn pale at the mere mention.

At the same time, it was also the unavoidable path to becoming a Heavenly Being.

This was the price that Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Children would inevitably pay to become Jiang Jiang Jinxian-level powerhouses in the future, and also where

their absolute confidence lay — believing they would absolutely not make a mistake.

"Begin,"

"My Sun Rule, my fine-tuning rule, draws closer to the envisioned Materialist Sun Rule..."

Jiang Ding murmured to himself, his Shen Hun He Fa sinking into a state of void and stillness.

In this moment, he had no thoughts, no ideas; his entire consciousness completely transformed into the Materialist Sun Rule, merging with it, feeling its development, its existence, its birth, and the myriad events and changes that occurred throughout endless ages.

The Sun, endless light, endless heat.

The Sun dispels the chaos of the universe, bringing light to the world, bringing life; the Sun's radiance is the source of all life in the world, the beginning of the Creator.

The Sun is also destruction, destroying living beings, destroying all things; countless sentient beings, even gods and demons, fear the Sun.

These are the Sun of heaven and earth and all things, the Sun of the universe.

What is my Sun?

Such a thought instinctively arose in Jiang Ding's heart.

A cultivator's Sun, a cultivator's Dao; this is a problem all Heavenly Man cultivators must solve: what is one's own rule, for only then can everything that follows come to be.

Many are lost and terrified; even many renowned Heavenly Man experts have a past of seeking the Dao that they cannot bear to recall, and attempting it again does not guarantee they can advance once more.

However, this confusion and terror do not exist in the heart of the Great Sun Sword Master.

"My Sun is the Materialist Sun Rule."

Jiang Ding stated without any hesitation, the experiences of his childhood vivid before his eyes: "The Sun contains destruction, primordial magnetism, distortion, law-annihilation, law-prohibition, and the Sword Dao; just as a star in the universe naturally displays different characteristics, yet in reality these are merely the limbs, ears, mouth, and nose of living beings."

"This is the Materialist Sun Rule."

In this instant, he suddenly saw the light.

In this instant, a slight change occurred in the Sun Rule from heaven and earth; the six rules instantly condensed into a single whole, undergoing an extremely subtle change, a change belonging to the individual cultivator.

This subtle change made the Sun Rule here belong solely to that one cultivator!

Pain!

Agonizing pain!

The terrible pain brought by the rule's change spread throughout Jiang Ding's entire Shen Hun He Fa and flesh and blood, making his face contort in a grimace, yet an uncontrollable smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

The rule fine-tuning was completely correct, with not a single error, not a single conflict; the Materialist Sun Rule belonging solely to the Great Sun Sword Master had been born, and was now changing his Shen Hun He Fa and dantian body!

Nirvana has begun!