Chapter 1634: The Unrivaled Prodigy Among Maidservants

Time drifted on, and more than ninety years passed.

The slaughter outside was utterly brutal, devouring lives like a mill of flesh and blood.

This place had always been quiet—one youth in blue, one maiden in a white skirt, cultivating in silence here; the youth practiced, and the maiden kept watching him.

Her life was like a candle flame in the wind, about to reach its end.

"Young Master,"

the white-skirted maiden said softly.

At last, the youth stopped cultivating, opened his eyes, and gazed at her quietly, giving her his final farewell.

This woman's soul and body had both grown incomparably aged, on the verge of total collapse—perhaps in the next few days, perhaps a few days later—no one could say.

"Young Master, what do you think of my talent and gifts?"

Gong Gong Caiyu asked.

"Ordinary."

"Ordinary?"

"You really are blunt—I'm a woman about to die."

Gong Gong Caiyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

No one answered.

Silence.

"Young Master,"

"Actually, I too am an unrivaled prodigy."

Gong Gong Caiyu said earnestly, looking at the blue-clad youth before her.

As if it were really true.

An unrivaled prodigy who couldn't even break through to the Void Refinement Realm.

"Yes."

At last, the Great Sun Sword Lord spoke again, his words brief and to the point.

"Pfft!"

Gong Gong Caiyu couldn't help but smile.

She had known him for tens of thousands of years, yet this was the first time she had seen the Great Sun Sword Lord lie—with such an expressionless face, as if stating a fact.

"Young Master,"

"Before you went to face the Dao Child of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong of the Upper Realm, you arranged the Great Sun Sword Cultivators, bestowing them Gong Fa and battle formations, yet why did you pay no heed to the Master Tushan maidservants?"

Gong Gong Caiyu asked slowly.

No one answered, and she didn't wait for one either, continuing: "Because, in your heart, the Master Tushan maidservants need not carry out creative work—only serving as close guards and political work is enough. If you are victorious, there will naturally be countless ways to raise the strength of the Master Tushan maidservants."

"Dao-soldier maidservants, so long as they can bear your sword Qi and your will, will inevitably be able to advance."

"However,"

"Have you ever considered a question?"

"Actually, there is one person who is, by nature, an unrivaled prodigy among maidservants. She can innately bear more of your sword Qi and will, just like the legendary holy maiden of the gods—she is born able to comprehend your Dao, cling to your Dao, and grow swiftly."

"Have you ever considered such a possibility?"

Gong Gong Caiyu said with a smile.

Though she was about to die, she was smiling, without a trace of fear.

"Oh?"

Jiang Ding was startled and fell into thought.

This possibility, he truly had not calculated, for neither the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, nor the Immortal Gate's research contained any record of it.

How could a living being completely comprehend another person, and be born alongside them?

"The Dao-soldier inheritance you transmitted, the 'Heavenlight Blazing Sun Sword Canon,' I have made partial revisions—please correct me."

Gong Gong Caiyu smiled and handed the youth a jade slip.

Jiang Ding swept it with his divine sense.

In an instant, his expression turned solemn.

This Great Sun Sword Pavilion Great Sun Sword Child's exclusive Dao-soldier inheritance, the "Heavenlight Blazing Sun Sword Canon," had been much supplemented; in terms of spell and Gong Fa structure, it had made little contribution—entirely copied.

But in the connection between maidservant and Sword Lord, it had achieved a breakthrough result!

This woman, combining the Dao of the Gods, Daoist meditation, and many soul-secret arts of the Pure Yang and Pure Yin lineages, had pioneered the creation of a scripture named the "Great Sun Maidservant Sword," altering herself to draw closer to the Great Sun Sword Lord's path—not to become the Great Sun Sword Lord, but to more easily bear the Great Sun Sword Lord's will.

She had accomplished such a thing!

"Well?"

"Young Master?"

Gong Gong Caiyu said, lifting her chin.

"Although it is very rough, it is indeed an outstanding result."

Jiang Ding said solemnly.

Toward anyone who achieved a breakthrough technical result in Immortal Dao science, he would show great respect.

And in that instant, the Great Sun Sword Dao instinctively operated, madly perfecting this scripture, taking its concept as its foundation and swiftly creating a more complete scripture better suited for the Master Tushan maidservants.

"Why didn't you bring it out more than ninety years ago?"

"There would have been more time to prepare then."

Jiang Ding said, puzzled.

He had seen through the aim of the woman before him who called herself an unrivaled prodigy of maidservants.

She wished to make her ultimate leap at this moment, using a sword qi imbued with sword intent from a Great Sun Sword Child as the foundation to undergo nirvana, to bring about an essential transformation in herself, and thereby advance to the Dao Merging Realm, completing a qualitative change.

Amid the endless cosmos and starry skies, time stretched vast and boundless, and prodigies and heroes emerged in endless succession.

And now, another one had appeared.

"Young Master,"

"This is where you don't understand the way of the maid sword."

Gong Gong Caiyu said with a smile: "Whether one succeeds or not, the greatest key does not lie in whether this 'Great Sun Maid Scripture' is completed; the most crucial point lies in the maid's awakening, and that destructive, do-or-die resolve of the Great Sun Sword Dao—even a Great Sun Maid should possess such an awakening."

"At the final moment of life, with no path of retreat, let the heavens witness my resolve."

The young girl said with a smile.

Jiang Ding could only show respect for this, and dared not measure her professional maid sword dao with his own sword dao.

"Then, Young Master,"

Gong Gong Caiyu cast one last, deeply reluctant glance at the blue-robed youth before her, and said: "Might you grant me one strand of your sword qi—your strongest strand of sword qi—so that I may have one final chance at nirvana in this life?"

"Hahahaha!"

"Naturally, I have no objection."

Jiang Ding laughed freely.

This Dao companion, this old friend—since she possessed such lofty ambition, he naturally would not brush aside her wishes.

Clang!

The Taiqing Flying Sword trembled lightly, and a blazing solar sword qi bloomed from its edge.

Countless solar six-pathway rule runes blossomed within the sword qi, carrying an incomparably terrifying aura that made one suspect that below the Heavenly Human realm, even an inheritor of the Dao Merging Divine Monarch would die instantly, without any power to resist.

This was the current Great Sun Sword Child's single strand of sword qi!

Below the Heavenly Human realm of strength, it could suppress and slay all living beings.

"How great is your ambition?"

Jiang Ding asked.

Such a strand of sword qi should be sufficient for nirvana.

If the sword qi were stronger, she would become even more powerful in the future, but naturally she would also find death that much easier.

"Young Master,"

"My ambition as your maid is boundless."

Gong Gong Caiyu smiled lightly: "Even if you become a Supreme in the future, I can continue to remain by your side, executing the laws of Tu Mountain across the entire Great Thousand World for you."

"I shall carve up the entire Great Thousand World for you!"

At this moment, this gentle, tender woman actually revealed a trace of the Great Sun's madness.

"Your choice will be respected."

Jiang Ding nodded slightly.

Clang!

He took up the Taiqing Flying Sword, gently sliced open his own chest, and drew out a single drop of deep red, blazing essence blood imbued with endless destructive and aberrant aura, letting it fall upon that strand of solar sword qi, causing its might to rapidly multiply, swiftly approaching the limit of Dao Merging, and gaining even more spiritual nature.

Essence blood!

The essence blood of a Dao Child!

"Will this affect your battle with the Dao Child of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong?"

Gong Gong Caiyu said softly.

Essence blood, for a cultivator, was precious beyond measure—even a single drop.

"It won't."

"What I pursue is the path of the True Immortal Child; compared to the True Immortal Child, these Dao Children are far too weak. Before the battle, I had already planned to weaken myself in order to strengthen them."

Jiang Ding said calmly.

At this moment, what Zou Zou Xiyuan had once done in the past appeared once again upon the contemporary Great Sun Sword Master; one could only say that many things truly are not coincidences.

This strand of solar sword qi was a deep crimson, like blood.