Chapter 1673: The Sword Soul's Transcendence Begins Here

"The Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Chapter!"

A resplendent, majestic scripture appeared in Jiang Ding's sea of consciousness; every character was heavier than Shanfeng, every passage contained the mysteries of Heaven and Earth, and in an instant it could burst the sea of consciousness of a Unity-of-Dao Divine Lord—such was a weight his sea of consciousness could not bear, a burden his divine soul could not carry.

This scripture rotated within Jiang Ding's sea of consciousness like the stars of myriad heavens, blooming, incomparably beautiful.

"This… this is this lord's Sword Dao…"

Jiang Ding laughed heartily.

Since leaving the Solar System, more than eight thousand years had passed; his divine soul was now incomparably frail, like a candle flame in the wind, with at most two thousand years of lifespan remaining. The road ahead was utterly dark; death was drawing near.

Yet now, vitality had appeared once more!

Tens of thousands of years of persistence, tens of thousands of years of Sword Dao—at last there was a result. At the very least, he would not die in obscurity; at the very least, he had been granted the chance to bloom with one final radiance.

Jiang Ding stood dozens of light-years beyond the Silver Star Black Hole, the tides within his sea of consciousness rising and falling.

He continued to deduce The Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Chapter, repeatedly refining every detail of this scripture, verifying every process and every structure of the divine soul.

Until five hundred years later, the very last character had also been deduced; no further method of perfection could be found.

"This is it—"

"The Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Chapter has already reached its utmost, reached the utmost of this lord's present wisdom."

Jiang Ding gazed at the scripture within his sea of consciousness.

Tens of thousands of years of accumulated Sword Dao foundation, tens of thousands of years of honed immortal-path scientific cultivation, all sublimed to their peak—added to a measure of fortune—what finally took shape was this scripture; not a single character could be altered.

Unless another, better path of divine soul metamorphosis were found and everything torn down to begin anew, not a single character could be changed.

Yet even if a better path were found now, Jiang Ding would no longer walk it.

Because he no longer had the time; the remaining less than fifteen hundred years could not complete any large-scale immortal-path research project.

"This is it."

"This current Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Chapter—this lord will not change a single character more."

Jiang Ding smiled.

A beam of light appeared upon his finger, a wisp resplendent and bright, nearly comparable to the sun's radiance of a natural star.

This beam of light propagated toward the Solar System, expected to arrive twenty-six thousand years hence, bringing to the people of his homeland the inheritance of the Great Sun Sword Lord at this moment—a scripture concerning the breaking open of the Third Extreme Limit.

This scripture would likewise be granted to the Great Sun Heavenly Palace situated within the Solar System.

Jiang Ding had obtained the inheritance of successive patriarchs of the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

Now Jiang Ding likewise added a breakthrough scripture to this inheritance that had already continued for tens of millions of years.

In the future, presumably for the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm—

the inheritance would play a promoting role in the future birth of Fourth-Extreme Limit sword cultivators, and it could be considered not letting down Pure Yang Sword Ancestor, Yin-Yang Patriarch, Grand Yin Grand Yang Patriarch, Great Sun Patriarch, and the many cosmic heroes of this single lineage—taking yet another small step toward the direction of immortality.

This beam of sunlight departed, and this stretch of cosmic starry sky once more fell into darkness.

"This lord's current probability of breaking through the Fourth Extreme Limit should be thirty percent."

"Thirty percent is enough."

Jiang Ding murmured.

From the past where there was not the slightest hope, to now where there was a thirty percent chance of success—this was already a leap-like advancement, enough to make any dao-child of the Third Extreme Limit under heaven give birth to boundless envy and jealousy.

Immortal-path scientific research is not about crashing into luck, about staking on probability; this thirty percent lies not in The Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Chapter, and not in the Great Sun Sword Child himself.

It lies in the central black hole of the Milky Way!

Within it, everything is unknown; since ancient times no one has ever set foot there. No one knows what it is like inside, what the gravity is like inside, what the living environment is like inside, whether superluminal speed can escape the black hole…

And so on and so forth—the unknowns within are far too many!

If any one of these conditions exceeds the design limits of the Great Sun Sword Child's Limit-Breaking Scripture, then death is certain.

This is what every Path-Opener must inevitably face.

"Back then—"

"Did the First Great Sun Sword Lord, who founded the Great Sun Sword Dao, face the same situation as this lord today?"

Jiang Ding murmured: "The road ahead unknown, one's own circumstances already pushed to the utmost—only a final leap remains, staking one's own life, one's own sword, one's entire foundation of Sword Dao to explore whether within the darkness ahead there exists a path that can be traversed."

"Tens of thousands of years ago, the First Great Sun Sword Lord succeeded."

"Today, this lord will likewise succeed!"

Jiang Ding gazed at the central black hole of the Milky Way before him for a long while; many thoughts surfaced within his mind, and then, without further hesitation, he continued forward toward the region dozens of light-years away.

One year, two years, three years…

One light-year, two light-years, three light-years…

As he drew ever closer to the central black hole of the Milky Way, vast gravitational forces began to appear within the cosmic void, seeking to capture nearby living beings into the black hole's orbit.

Jiang Ding did not wish to be captured by the black hole's vortex too quickly, lest it affect his collection of black hole data.

Clang!

Jiang Ding drew his sword!

A resplendent sun appeared between Heaven and Earth.

For the first time, the radiance of an immortal-path sun bloomed so gloriously; with the terrifying mass of a star, it withstood the attractive force of the black hole's vortex, advancing toward the galactic-center black hole at an unhurried pace. Sword intent and divine sense ceaselessly scanned the surroundings, continuously collecting black hole data.

At this moment in the cosmos, among the many stellar bodies such as the S2 star orbiting around the galactic-center black hole at this moment, one more—

star appeared, its sunlight likewise propagating into the universe.

This brand-new star would certainly, tens of thousands of years hence or over an even longer span of time, be observed by civilizations within the cosmos.

This brand-new star advanced at uniform speed, slowly drawing closer to the galactic-center black hole's orbit—utterly unlike the trajectories of other stars, appearing exceedingly peculiar within the cosmos, because it actually possessed the speed of light!

A star moving at the speed of light!

This terrifying sight was enough to shock any civilization in the cosmos into suspecting their observation instruments had broken, or that they had been interfered with by the motion of some other celestial body, leading to a mistaken judgment.

Regardless, this scene was a first since the dawn of creation within the cosmos, and would inevitably stir up many ripples.

Before he knew it, several decades had passed.

Jiang Ding had already reached the edge of the Silver Core black hole's vortex orbit; one more step forward and he would inevitably be captured by the black hole's orbit, becoming one of the many stars revolving around the black hole until he was completely devoured by it.

"Within the Silver Core black hole's orbit, there must be even more detailed information."

Jiang Ding took a deep breath.

The Silver Core black hole's orbit was not the same as the black hole itself; it was merely the gravitational pull associated with its supermassive presence, which then captured numerous stars to revolve around the black hole at ultra-high speeds, forming a celestial orbital path.

"Haha!"

"No need to fear anything — the transcendence of the Sword Soul begins from this!"

Jiang Ding let out a great laugh.

He stepped across the vast distance, entering straight into the Silver Core black hole's celestial orbit, accompanied by countless stars moving at high speed.

In an instant, an utterly terrifying, all-devouring gravitational force descended!