Chapter 1664: Rich Enough to Rival a Nation

"Six Paths Solar Scripture."

This is the newly born Ten Thousand Transformations Magnetic Origin Scripture.

Building on the foundation of the original Yuan Magnetism, it represents a great upgrade, marking the fundamental path of the Great Sun Sword Lord and the Immortal Gate — which had begun to diverge — once again merging into one, their fundamental Dao interests once more completely aligned.

This scripture, personally created by Jiang Ding and the Immortal Gate, has already reached the level of a Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong scripture.

"From this day forth, in terms of magic power, this sovereign and the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child no longer have any gap between them."

Jiang Ding gazed at the scripture before him and murmured.

In an instant, the magic power circulating within him began to undergo a violent transformation, like mountains roaring and seas surging; the various Gong Fa pathways within his body shifted in an orderly manner, advancing toward something more profound and intricate, completing it all in a single breath.

This was a Gong Fa he himself had created!

In an instant, Jiang Ding's magic power, divine sense, and Dharma body all surged forward by a great margin — no worse than the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child's, with no gap remaining at all.

The foundation had been made whole.

"And then there's the life-bound flying sword…"

Jiang Ding looked toward the depths of the cosmos.

More than two thousand years ago, seen through an astronomical telescope, an anomalous solar flare had appeared in the depths of the cosmic starry sky, its radiance blooming so fiercely it seemed to surpass even the final moments of a star's lifespan.

At the moment of its utter destruction, vast quantities of spiritual matter were simultaneously released, scattering across a vast stretch of starry sky.

This large-scale spiritual dispersion phenomenon persisted for several hundred years before gradually fading away.

Jiang Ding's figure vanished.

After a long span of time, he appeared in a distant, spiritless stretch of cosmic starry sky — the place where, three thousand years ago, he had returned from the Upper Realm to the Immortal Gate. He spread out his divine sense and surveyed his surroundings.

Many changes had taken place here.

A star system that had once existed here was now shattered to pieces; the planets had broken apart, leaving only some meteorite remnants bearing a familiar aura; the star itself had vanished without a trace, leaving only some heat-resistant meteorite material behind.

This place must have endured a catastrophe of horror beyond the imagination of any Heavenly Being.

But alas, even such a catastrophe, in this cosmos that could be called infinitely vast, was utterly insignificant — it destroyed many things, yet seemed to destroy nothing at all; everything remained exactly as it had been, unchanged in the slightest.

Jiang Ding searched through this star system for a very long time.

Finally, near the edge of the star system, he discovered several faint glimmers of spiritual matter, collected them, and held them before his eyes for a careful examination.

They were precisely a broken furnace, a string of hazy Immortal Dao runes, and a storage dharma treasure.

These were the spoils of the Immortal Artifact Child.

"After three thousand years of spiritual dispersion in the spiritless cosmos, even the hidden hands of a Supreme cannot remain concealed…"

Jiang Ding Zi murmured to himself.

Having studied the Jiang Jiang Jinxian scripture, he was certain of this.

A Supreme, standing at the very peak of mortals, seemingly only a single step from a true immortal, still cannot contend against the laws of an entire cosmos — this is inevitable.

At this moment, Jiang Ding's divine sense surged into the broken furnace.

The many restrictive formations of the Immortal Artifact Sect flashed and vanished; he paid them no heed, destroying them all without exception, and finally beheld the true essence of this dharma treasure — a wisp of clear, faintly glowing immortal light.

This was the inheritance divine metal of the Immortal Artifact Sect, and of the Lingbao Realm in days past — a dharma treasure embryo forged from ninth-tier Upper Clarity Azure Fall Meteor Iron, one of the solid foundations for a future Supreme.

Clang~

The Taiqing Flying Sword chimed softly, its joyful emotion spreading out in all directions.

"With this harvest,"

"the Taiqing Flying Sword's advancement from a quasi-ninth-tier sword embryo to a true ninth-tier sword embryo will no longer face any obstacle."

A trace of delight appeared on Jiang Ding's face.

He had already completed his deductions of the "Nine Heavens Ascension Sword-Forging Art" needed to smelt this dharma treasure embryo over these years, and with the aid of the Great Sun Heavenly Palace's power, smelting a ninth-tier inheritance divine metal posed no problem.

It could be said that everything was ready; the Taiqing Flying Sword would inevitably advance to a ninth-tier sword embryo.

Jiang Ding looked toward the second item — that string of hazy runes, which came from a portion of the Immortal Artifact Child's body left behind after his utter death.

Just as dragons, phoenixes, and demon beasts, upon death, leave behind the hardest parts of their bodies, so they themselves cannot destroy these hardest parts.

Jiang Ding's divine sense surged into them, scanning carefully, and soon completed his appraisal.

"A string of Immortal Dao runes akin to materials — they seem to be a great opportunity for beings like array spirits and puppets, capable of strengthening their computational power and promoting the birth of spiritual intelligence, though they also carry many risks… not bad at all."

"They can be given to Yue and the super warship Great Sun."

Jiang Ding made his decision.

"Thank you, Commander!"

"Thank you, Sword Child!"

The voices of Yue and the super warship Great Sun rang out simultaneously, then they glanced at each other, snorted coldly, and paid each other no further attention.

Jiang Ding looked toward the third item — the Immortal Artifact Child's storage dharma treasure — with a great deal of anticipation in his heart.

Setting everything else aside, even he, a wild-born Dao Child, carried the accumulated wealth of three world clusters over tens of thousands of years; surely the Immortal Artifact Child, a true Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child, could not be any poorer?

Boom!

The Materialist Solar Sword Soul transformed into a resplendent destructive great sun, descending into the storage dharma treasure, shattering its already weakened-to-the-extreme restrictions as easily as chopping melons and vegetables, and breaking inside.

In an instant, dazzling treasure-light flooded into view, illuminating the starry sky.

"No way!"

"How is it that he's not all that much richer than me? What's going on?"

Jiang Ding swept his divine sense across it and said in surprise.

The heavenly materials and earthly treasures within this storage dharma treasure were indeed as plentiful as Rushan and seas, with no few eighth-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures among them —

?? — wealthier than most Heavenly Being powerhouses, yet amounting to only about four or five world clusters' worth of accumulation over tens of thousands of years, not the imagined lavish wealth of a Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child.

"Immortal Artifact Child, you penniless wretch!"

"Not only are you weak, not only did you dare block my path, but you dare be this poor as well!"

"I've remembered you!"

Jiang Dingleng said coldly.

He had originally thought he could strike it rich.

After all, he was a native-born Dao Child of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong — even he himself had this much money, so how could a true Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Child be lacking?

But in fact, that was exactly how lacking they were.

Jiang Ding had underestimated the wealth of the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm and overestimated the wealth of the newborn Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong and Qi Sect.

As the oldest Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong in the Upper Realm today, the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm had, at the end of the Great Tribulation, swallowed up the territories and treasuries of several Taiyi Qingmu Xianzongs, its foundations growing enormously; its territory was nearly several times the size of a newborn Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong like the Qi Sect, to say nothing of the countless heaven materials and earthly treasures accumulated over the long course of history.

The territory allotted by the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm to a new Sword Child was larger than that of the Qi Sect Child!

"Qi Sect, this sovereign has remembered this sect."

"A sect loathed by the Human Dao, a puppet existence that enslaves countless human lives — this sovereign has the duty to purge it, and once more restore the glory of the human race."

Jiang Ding etched this grudge deep into his heart.

He transferred the Qi Sect Child's wealth into his own storage jade pendant, placing it together with the fief tax revenues that Gong Gong Caiyu had previously given him; he also took out a batch of eighth-grade heaven materials and earthly treasures produced by the Great Sun Heavenly Workshop and placed them together as well.

In that instant, the treasure-light was dazzling, enough to stir endless greed in even a Heavenly Being.

At this moment, the Great Sun Sword Child's wealth rivaled that of more than ten Qingmen.

If only the liquid funds in the national treasury were compared, Jiang Ding's wealth was a hundred times that of a Qingmen's national treasury without the slightest exaggeration!