Chapter 1663: The Six Paths Solar Scripture

"Then what should we do?"

Yuan was silent for a moment, then said.

"Only,"

"accept reality."

Jiang Ding was silent for a long time.

"The first step toward becoming an immortal, the step at the Refining Void stage—I must have missed it. In this narrow world, there simply isn't the material foundation for anything approaching a true immortal. There is no such foundation."

"This is the helplessness of us cultivators."

"Perhaps, at the Dao Merging stage there will still be a chance…"

He said wistfully.

That long, long road to immortality—since ancient times it had cut off how many heroes and prodigies, how many peerless geniuses of hundreds of millions of years had in the end died of old age, and now here came another one.

All things in the world are ever thus, without a shred of novelty.

The two stopped discussing this topic and turned instead to matters of immortal-path science.

"This is called the Solar True Fire Shield."

Yuan pointed at the transparent shield enveloping the solar system: "Refined and put into use a little over a thousand years ago. The raw materials were those thirty-six Stellar Light Dragons, along with a great many heaven-and-earth treasures, and past technologies like the Dai Sen Solar Fortress. In the end, this brand-new eighth-tier treasure was rolled out."

"The Solar True Fire Shield is now the single strongest magic treasure of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong."

"Using numerous stars as energy for refinement, at a critical moment it can be deployed to draw in heavenly beings and living creatures, shrink them to fist-size, and use terrifying high temperatures to burn those heavenly beings to ash."

An animation appeared in Yuan's hand.

It was a fist-sized transparent shield, with thirty-six Stellar Light Dragons swimming alive and lifelike on its walls. Imprisoned within the shield was a heavenly being, who kept launching fierce attacks, but all were blocked by raging flames; his magic power and divine soul were worn down bit by bit, until in the end he was burned alive to death.

"Based on current projected data, it should be able to burn to death a late-stage heavenly being cultivator."

"That's what the simulations on the Central Array Spirit Computer show."

Yuan said: "Still, it's not entirely certain—after all, this is only theoretical. Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong has not yet discovered a single true heavenly being."

"The second function is to raise the spiritual energy density within the solar system."

Yuan pointed at the many points of light on the banyan tree: "The Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong can convert starlight into spiritual energy. This ability is very special—after all, this is the light of a spiritless universe, which to spiritual beings is no different from poison, yet the Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong can actually convert it into spiritual energy."

"Add to that the spirit stones and many heaven-and-earth treasures transported in from the many worlds of the entire world cluster, and the cultivation environment within the solar system is now growing more and more favorable."

"There's also Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's Grand Void Illusion Realm, which after applying Six Paths technology has been upgraded anew. Now citizens at every level have been integrated into one body, and an enormous collective dream has even formed. This is of tremendous benefit for preventing heavenly-being-level attacks, and in the fu—"

"—ture, if the Ancient God Ancestor attacks again, he definitely won't be able to breach our divine soul defenses as easily as in the past…"

The two walked and talked as they went.

Overall, Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's political situation over these five thousand years had been quite stable, with no great upheavals. The many breakthroughs in science and technology were very heartening, though as exploration deepened many problems had also emerged.

This time, with the return of the Great Sun Sword Master, his attainments in the immortal path would surely once again accelerate Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's exploration of immortal-path science.

"By the way,"

"In about five thousand years, Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's Dao Merging-stage heaven-and-earth treasures will ripen on a large scale, and at that point Senior Wanji and the others will be able to advance."

Yuan mentioned some matters: "At that time, the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong General Staff Department plans to launch an expedition into the region of the ancient god domain that once belonged to the Badaxian Sect, to completely swallow and destroy the ancient god domain."

"What is your view?"

That region was far too distant.

After the Badaxian Sect's collapse, the area had now been occupied by the Ancient God Ancestor's dependents.

In the past, Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong needed over ten thousand years of sailing to reach that region of worlds—it was simply beyond their reach. For Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong at that time, launching an expedition lasting over ten thousand years carried too many variables.

Now it was different.

The power of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong fleet had grown enormously, possessing a true heavenly-being-level fleet, and travel time had been shortened by more than tenfold. Perhaps Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong would need less than a thousand years to reach that region of worlds and bring the entire ancient god domain under complete rule.

"I agree."

Jiang Ding had no objections: "The Ancient God Ancestor is nothing but a withered bone in a tomb. If not for the eighth-tier grand array he laid down at his peak, we could slay him right now."

"Still, is merely recovering that region enough?"

"How about, in five thousand years, we just go ahead and slay the Ancient God Ancestor once and for all. He's lived far too long. By then I should have already advanced to Dao Merging, so I'll go handle it."

The events of those years—trillions of citizens dead—he had never forgotten such a thing.

This was the single greatest loss of citizen lives in Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's history.

"If you insist, then we could…"

Yuan hesitated for a moment, then said.

In the original plan, the entire Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong fleet was supposed to sortie together to jointly annihilate the Ancient God Ancestor—that would be more secure.

However, this old friend of his was truly too grief-stricken right now, his mood far too low, and he could not bear it.

……

In the leisurely flow of time, three thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.

Over these three thousand years, aside from daily participation in Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's immortal-path R&D, Jiang Ding had spent his time cultivating, comprehending the sword-path classics the Solar Sword Master had given him, and at the same time beginning to revise the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Nine Scriptures, bringing the Nine Scriptures much closer to the height of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's inheritance. He had already achieved many results.

Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's enormous immortal-path academy research teams had given him far too much help.

If the group of sword cultivators from the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, once organized, could boost his R&D efficiency by three, then the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong research teams could boost his R&D efficiency to thirty!

The two sides were far too in sync.

The Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong research teams were an extremely professional and efficient group, and with a top prodigy like Yuan coordinating at the center, it felt as though on immortal-path R&D they were stronger than three or five Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Children combined.

Additionally, Jiang Ding had obtained the Jiang Jiang Jinxian inheritance from the Solar Sword Master.

Although the Solar Sword Master did not permit the Great Sun Sword Dao inheritance to spread outward, if Jiang Ding comprehended it on his own and created other Gong Fa, that was beyond his reach to control.

Jiang Ding had seen the Jiang Jiang Jinxian scriptures and knew the direction, so using that to further develop the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Nine Scriptures was naturally far more efficient than before.

And so, three thousand years later, the final version of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Nine Scriptures appeared before Jiang Ding.

After assessment, Jiang Ding cautiously concluded that the Nine Classics of the Immortal Gate, at the Merging Dao stage and below, differed little from the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's inheritance, and in certain directions—especially formations and military formations—actually surpassed it by a great deal.

It could be said that this was a miniature version of the ancient god-domain Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong.

At the same time, due to the Great Sun Sword Master's unconscious strong influence, one of the Nine Classics of the Immortal Gate, the Wan Hua Wanhua Ciyuan Jing, had already undergone dramatic changes, its content altered in many ways, and therefore the name of this scripture had also changed accordingly.

The new Wan Hua Wanhua Ciyuan Jing was named the Six Paths Solar Scripture.