Chapter 1659: Great Sun Tian Palace

A terrifying Near-Immortal Treasure thus arrived before the Great Sun Sword Disciple.

She arrived suddenly, she expressed affection, she suddenly declared she would accompany you for hundreds of thousands of years until you became the Supreme, with no natural enemies left in the Upper Realm.

All of this was so abrupt, with no prior preparation, making one suspicious.

Yet, Jiang Ding did not feel this way.

He even subconsciously accepted it, growing accustomed to it.

Why?

Since his childhood, starting tens of thousands of years ago, the Great Sun Dayang Tianchi had always accompanied him; he had long grown accustomed to the existence of such a role by his side. This was a lineage inheritance passed down through generations.

"Please grant permission to open the prohibitions."

Jiang Ding said softly.

As the inheritor of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's legacy, he possessed a complete set of reception procedures; he could not fully trust just any treasure that happened to arrive.

In this world cluster traversed by the River of Yellow Springs, even before a Near-Immortal Treasure, he still possessed the power of self-preservation and was not overly fearful.

"Very well, Sun Sword Disciple from a foreign land."

The voice of the Great Sun Tian Palace was extremely gentle.

This seemed to be a characteristic of the Sun lineage's inheritance: the spirits of their supreme sect treasures were all female, from the Great Sun Sword Pavilion to the Dark and Bright Sword Grotto-Heaven, and all the way to the main sect of the Sun lineage.

Hum!

Layers of prohibition light, incomprehensible even to Immortals, bloomed and unfolded layer by layer.

At the deepest core of these layers of prohibitions, a pre-reserved Sun prohibition core was revealed, its upper portion blank.

Jiang Ding extended his divine sense, silently confirming.

This was indeed a prohibition lineage-connected to the Great Sun Dayang Tianchi, yet far more high-level and profound, extremely complex—so complex that he could no longer comprehend it. He could only compare it bit by bit according to the inheritance, authenticating permissions step by step and verifying the soul keys.

Each time Jiang Ding provided a soul key that dynamically changed with the Heavenly Dao, the Great Sun Tian Palace provided one in return; this repeated to confirm each other's identities.

Thus it continued for ten years until the final soul key was input.

All were correct; not a single error.

"Respectfully invite,"

"the Eighteenth Lord of the Great Sun Sword Dao, Jiang Ding Zi, to ascend to the position of Lineage Master!"

"Today's events are recorded in the sect's green history; future generations will surely remember them."

The Great Sun Tian Palace declared in a solemn voice.

Such a scene had appeared twice in the history of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

The first time, the Pure Yang Qingse Jianzong protected the newborn Lord of the Yin-Yang Qingse Jianzong, the young Yin-Yang Ancestor, opening a separate Yin-Yang lineage and supporting it with vast resources. At that time, they nearly emptied the entire treasury of the Pure Yang Qingse Jianzong, a Dao-Integration-level sect, solely to support the newborn Yin-Yang Qingse Jianzong.

The second time, the Yin-Yang Qingse Jianzong, having transformed from newborn to ancient, protected the newborn Taiyin and Taiyang Sword Dao, protecting the young Taiyin-Taiyang Ancestor, and similarly nearly emptied the treasury of the Yin-Yang Qingse Jianzong, a Heavenly Immortal-level power.

This is the history of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, generation after generation, inheritance after inheritance.

Every time a special new branch lineage was born, the Immortal Dao civilization of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm inevitably underwent a leapfrog-style development. The foundation of the Sword Dao did not grow merely by a few times or dozens of times; that would be too petty.

It grew by hundreds or thousands of times!

Now, such an inheritance has arrived for the third time.

The Taiyin-Taiyang, having transformed from tender to ancient and weathered, has begun to protect the Great Sun lineage.

Will everything unfold exactly as it did in the sect's history?

No one knows.

However, the Sun Sword Lord must be expecting such an event to occur and has expended great effort for this purpose.

"The Lineage Master of the Great Sun lineage?"

Jiang Ding's gaze was somewhat dazed.

In this moment, he thought of the ancestors of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm through the ages, rushing forward one after another, disregarding their own safety. Their longing for the Sword Dao and for becoming Immortals had never faded; they had always been striving and fighting fiercely.

Today, he seemed to have stepped onto the same historical track.

In that history, not a single generation of the Taiyin-Taiyang Ancestor had become a Supreme.

Instead, they inherited the path pioneered by their predecessors, accumulating generation after generation, until the Taiyin-Taiyang Ancestor's generation saw a concentrated, massive explosion, only then leaping to become an Immortal Sect.

Will this generation's Great Sun Sword Lord complete such a historical mission?

Or will they continue to wait, to accumulate, until countless years later, when another unprecedented Great Sun Sword Lord appears, truly taking the Great Sun Sword Dao a giant step forward toward the Immortal path?

"It must be!"

"It must be in my generation that I become an Immortal!"

Jiang Ding whispered.

In this moment, as he accepted the crown of the Great Sun Sword Dao Lineage Master, Jiang Ding also received the permissions of the Great Sun Tian Palace, instantly comprehending all aspects of the Great Sun Tian Palace.

"Sword Disciple,"

"The Great Sun Tian Palace was originally named the Sun Tian Palace. Tens of thousands of years ago, the current Sun Sword Lord renamed it the Great Sun Tian Palace. This was a gift he bestowed upon the newborn Great Sun Sword lineage, just as the Taiyin-Taiyang lineage once received the Yin-Yang Dao Palace as a gift from the Yin-Yang lineage."

The Great Sun Tian Palace spoke slowly, explaining to the Great Sun Sword Disciple.

"Due to the inheritance of the Great Sun Sword Scripture and to ensure the continuation of the Great Sun Sword Dao, the Sword Laws of the Great Sun Tian Palace have changed."

"Specifically,"

"First, the Great Sun Tian Palace will only protect you against Super-Class enemies and allow your escape from Super-Class enemies. Beyond that, it will ignore any other enemies and handle no other matters."

"Second, the Great Sun Tian Palace will strictly protect the Great Sun Sword Dao inheritance from leaking out, including the many inheritances bestowed upon you by the current Sun Sword Lord. These are gifts to the Great Sun Sword lineage, not personal gifts."

"Third, if you wish to violate the Great Sun Sword Laws, you must personally suppress the Great Sun Tian Palace."

The spirit of the Great Sun Tian Palace narrated gently.

The changes were few, yet every word was ruthlessly cold and bloody, unlike the warm and affectionate sect atmosphere of the Taiyin-Taiyang. It was more like the Great Sun Sword Pavilion founded by the first Great Sun Sword Lord.

"Good."

Jiang Ding nodded slightly.

He had already known this.

The Yanggu Tianren and the Sun Sword Master both bestowed legacies, but there was a difference: cultivators' spiritual awareness was vast, and the information transmitted in an instant was extremely detailed, with no misunderstandings arising.

The Yanggu Tianren bestowed it upon Jiang Ding personally.

The Sun Sword Master bestowed it upon the Great Sun Sword Line, not upon any individual.

"May the Sword Heir's sword path proceed smoothly, directly reaching the path to immortality…"

The voice of the Great Sun Palace gradually grew soft, until it vanished entirely; the entire radiant palace disappeared.

The Tiangong Star Chain World Cluster slowly returned to normal; all things under heaven and earth regained their colors, the star river resumed its motion, and the beings within the world cluster resumed their cultivation, array-setting, and daily tasks—nothing had changed.

Jiang Ding began to familiarize himself with the Great Sun Palace.

It was much like the old Dayang Dayang Tianchi, only stronger; moreover, he had gained partial authority: to plan the production of celestial treasures and rare resources within the palace, and to autonomously shut down the Great Sun Palace's surveillance to protect his secrets—at the cost of the Great Sun Palace potentially failing to detect Jiang Jiang Jinxian's enemies approaching, leaving the Great Sun Sword Heir vulnerable to being slain.

Everything ultimately rested upon the Great Sun Sword Heir's own judgment.