Chapter 1640: How the Human Race Rose from Insignificance

Rules and Causality Sealed!

After layers of schemes, that youth in green has become a bird in a cage!

"Haaah!"

The Disciple of the Artifact Sect roared.

Thousands of threads and myriad rays of divine light that slay demons, destroy gods, and break the Dao surged like a tide; the Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Refining Furnace in his chest operated beyond capacity, swallowing heaven and spitting earth, unleashing power in an instant that surpassed the peak and advanced beyond the limit.

His veins bulged; countless silver metallic filaments in his meridians bloomed. He grabbed the chains at the tails of eighteen bronze war-gong demon dragons, shook them violently, and countless array runes bloomed.

The eighteen demon dragons intertwined, instantly transforming into a world-destroying desolate dragon. Its starry giant mouth opened infinitely, swallowing the youth in green and that patch of starry sky spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers in a single crunch.

Under layers of schemes and seals, this was a killing move capable of devouring a Disciple of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong!

The sky dimmed.

Jiang Ding looked up, watching the starry giant mouth falling continuously from the sky.

Around him, only scattered billions of sun flying swords remained, solitary and weak in aura, circling the mechanical Sun God Halo, which now bore cracks.

"Puppet!"

"As a puppet lifeform, you must understand how the Human Race rose from insignificance..."

Jiang Ding showed no fear.

He did not cast many glances at the terrifying demon dragon about to devour his life.

Clang!

Beneath the terrifying starry demon dragon's giant mouth, Jiang Ding finally stopped evading. He slowly drew the long sword at his waist, merged his last remaining strength, and struck a single sword slash toward the entire heaven and earth.

This was a sword slash condensed from light.

It could be seen that, after being heavily sealed by the hundred-billion-strong army of the Flesh Furnace and cut off from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the remaining strength was extremely scarce. Like a beast trapped, even though he poured everything into this final slash, its light was so dim it did not even reach one-fifth of its peak state.

This was the desperate struggle of a caged beast.

"A sword cultivator fond of boasting, I will not waste your soul and body."

The Disciple of the Artifact Sect said coldly.

The cold soul crystal calculated, accessing tens of thousands of years of accumulated combat experience of the Artifact Sect, missing nothing, and deducing a single result from countless outcomes.

No matter what trump cards this creature before him possessed, now that spiritual energy was completely sealed and internal magic power reserves were gradually exhausted, there would be no chance left.

This was the deduction result of the Puppet Fate Heavenly Dao.

Just like this dimly glowing sword slash, so fragile, so powerless, this slash would touch the sharp teeth of the starry demon dragon, then snap, and then its spiritual light would shatter completely, dying together with its sword master.

Ding!

In the next moment, that dimly glowing sword slash struck the sharp teeth, shattered, and the flying sword was flung away.

Everything unfolded exactly as deduced.

"Pure Yang,"

"Your soul and body will become the strongest puppet under my command—"

The Disciple of the Artifact Sect, for the first time, addressed the name of this Disciple from the Lower Realm, granting him final respect.

Suddenly, he stuttered, his words halting.

Not only him, but nearly the hundred-billion-strong army of flesh puppets also froze instantly.

"Strongest puppet?"

"This is a joke. No one can obtain my body and soul to refine anything, not even a True Immortal Maiden."

Jiang Ding's expression was calm.

He stepped out from the mouth of the starry demon dragon, which had frozen for an instant, escaped the trap, and arrived in the starry sky.

The universe and starry sky froze for an extremely tiny instant, then revived.

Crack!

The first sound came from one of the nearly hundred-billion flesh-furnace sword soldiers, a half-human, half-spider sword soldier. A bump suddenly appeared on his cheek, and an eyeball burst through the flesh.

One, two, three...

Dense eyeballs appeared on this half-human, half-spider creature, then shattered in succession, spraying thick fluid.

Countless hands, feet, heads, and mouths appeared on his body. In an instant, with a bang of explosion, this Void Refining-level half-human, half-spider puppet collapsed into a lump of rotten flesh.

Countless activated arms, heads, hands, and feet flew everywhere, emitting terrifying, resentful hisses.

The countless living beings composing this half-human, half-spider puppet had awakened today!

Materialist Sun Rule, Power of Mutation!

The shattering of this one half-human, half-spider puppet was only the beginning. Like a plague, it spread rapidly outward, instantly affecting the entire Flesh Furnace sword soldier army. In an instant, over a billion sword soldiers collapsed into lumps of rotten flesh, while countless activated hands, feet, and hearts, driving people mad with rage, hissed resentfully everywhere.

The Eighth-Rank Flesh Furnace Sword Soldier Array was thus severely affected, revealing numerous flaws!

Clang!

Jiang Ding drew his sword again and, following the largest and most numerous flaws, struck his sword slash.

The sun rose in the east; infinite light illuminated heaven and earth. The light of destruction pierced through all domain seals and rule seals. The Sun Rule spread across heaven and earth once more.

Endless starlight and sunlight fell upon the Great Sun Sword Disciple again, like water pouring onto cracked earth, rapidly healing his injuries and repairing the various cracks on the Six-Path Mechanical Sun God Halo. A terrifying pressure of destruction reappeared in heaven and earth.

"Disciple of the Artifact Sect!"

"Come, witness this sword slash of my Lord!"

Jiang Ding roared.

Boom!

The constantly rotating giant cosmic creation, the Mechanical Sun God Halo, gathered the light from the entire Tiangong Star Chain World Cluster.

It transformed into a sword slash of brilliant light, into a sun of destruction, and descended to slaughter the Disciple of the Artifact Sect within the nearly hundred-billion-strong Flesh Furnace Sword Soldier Array.

"Error!"

"Error! Error! Unknown error..."

Countless Immortal Dao runes in the Immortal Artifact Disciple's pupils spun into chaos, losing their order, and his reaction slowed significantly.

Only when the Destructive Sun descended and danger appeared was the emergency array logic within the Spirit Crystal forcibly activated.

Roar!

Instinctively, he moved, gripping the black chains of the eighteen bronze war-gong demon dragons, transforming into a terrifying Star Demon Dragon that carried the full power of the entire Flesh Furnace Dao Soldier Formation, smashing violently upward at the Destructive Sword Dao Sun in the sky.

Boom!

Boom!

A terrifying explosion occurred.

This time, the Immortal Artifact Disciple could not maintain the stalemate for long before a terrifying destructive force struck; the Star Demon Dragon was instantly shattered by the Destructive Sun, collapsing into eighteen bronze war-gong treasures that scattered and crumbled.

He himself was blasted back hundreds of thousands of kilometers, spitting dark green blood, while the Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon Refining Furnace powering the entire formation trembled uncontrollably.

In that instant, tens of millions of Qi Sect Dao Soldiers and cultivators died from the attack's aftershocks!

"Flesh and Spirit Mutations!"

"This is impossible!"

The Immortal Artifact Disciple stared fiercely at the youth in the sky and roared, "Our Sect's Immortal Arts are peerless and profound; you, a mere Void Refinement cultivator, could never possibly trigger flesh conflicts within the puppets!"

In that instant, something he could not comprehend occurred.

The Qi Sect was renowned throughout the Upper Realm for its flesh puppets, combining efficiency, long operation times, flexible responses, and high cost-effectiveness; since these were crafted from numerous living human beings as activated treasure components, they naturally placed special emphasis on conflicts between the various flesh parts.

It could be said that at least fifty percent of the Qi Sect's most outstanding achievements in flesh puppet technology were applied to this very aspect.

This seemingly massive flaw simply did not exist!

Even if the Sun's rules contained strange mutational forces, they should not have triggered large-scale conflicts between flesh puppets; this completely defied reason!