Chapter 1679: The Immortal Sect's Path to Immortality

The central array spirit computer lifted its high-risk alert and instead began an enthusiastic welcome.

Welcome, welcome, a warm welcome!

This abrupt switch left the entire immortal sect momentarily stunned.

"Great Sun Participates in Governance!"

"Great Sun Participates in Governance!"

This name was utterly unfamiliar to the newly born citizens of the immortal sect—a figure from history—but to the dozens of Dao Merging Divine Monarchs of the sect, it was more familiar than anything.

Silence fell; everyone was lost in stunned disbelief.

"Haha!"

"This kid! This kid!"

"Hahaha…"

Extinction Sun Divine Monarch was the first to recover, slapping his thigh hard, laughing until he trembled: "Laozi knew it—this kid is tougher than a cockroach. He's been beaten to pieces so many times in the past and still survived. A mere ten thousand years, what does that even count for!"

"He's actually come back today!"

"He's back!"

"Damn it!"

"At least there's finally one familiar face!"

He cursed once more.

"Jiang Ding…"

An Siyan murmured, as if in a dream.

"Good kid!"

"Survived again… haha, worthy of being Laozi's student…"

Zhang Zhang Junsheng was in high spirits, beaming with pride.

The immortal sect's Divine Monarchs plunged into a sea of joy, leaving the many Void Refinement cultivators slightly dumbfounded—they had never seen their seniors' emotions swing so wildly.

Yuan's face broke into a smile.

Under the gaze of the many Divine Monarchs, a beam of light flew in from afar; it was completely undetectable by physical means and could only be perceived when it touched the Heavenly Dao's rule-net.

This beam of light arrived at the solar system, gradually slowing as it approached the immortal sect's mother star, dropping below light speed so that its form could finally be seen.

Within the hazy glow, a blue-robed youth, smaller than a grain of rice, appeared before everyone.

In an instant, a terrifying Law-Extinguishing pressure bloomed.

Within hundreds of thousands of kilometers in every direction, every sentient being felt a terrifying power manifest between heaven and earth, causing the spiritual particles of the world to collapse, grow inert, and become incredibly difficult to mobilize; their own strength instantly dropped by more than half, bringing on a tremendous sense of weakness and helplessness.

Some Void Refinement and Soul Transformation cultivators even discovered in horror that they had lost all their magic power and divine sense, reduced to mortals!

Is this consequence reversible?

If it isn't reversible, will they die?

All manner of conjectures nearly drove them to despair.

Fortunately, the blue-robed youth noticed this terrifying pressure at once; he gently closed his eyes, the aura flowing on his sword soul, black and white

pupils flickering alternately, and the terrifying Law-Extinguishing pressure gradually receded.

Still, he could not perfectly retract it.

Beside the blue-robed youth, streams of spiritual energy and rules sporadically went haywire and failed, triggering spatial rifts and chaotic currents—extremely dangerous.

Rules are an essential component of heaven and earth.

When the rules themselves begin to fail and fall into chaos, heaven and earth descend into chaos as well.

"This is all I can manage for now."

"My sword soul state isn't stable; I can't control it perfectly."

Jiang Ding opened his eyes and explained to the surrounding Dao Merging Divine Monarchs: "I have no law-body now, not even a flying sword body. My strength is drastically weakened, and my control has problems. I'll need a period of healing to recover."

His left pupil glowed faintly, as if forming a spiritual energy low point.

From the four corners of heaven and earth, the entire solar system's world spiritual energy surged in, forming a black-hole-like vortex around the rice-grain-sized Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword soul; countless streams of world spiritual energy, sunlight, moonlight, and starlight were inhaled and exhaled by the sword soul, forming transparent meridians, flesh, blood, and bone outside it.

The Great Sun Heavenly Palace, shaped like the Dayang Dayang Tianchi, appeared at some unknown moment, releasing vast quantities of heavenly materials and earthly treasures into this black-hole spiritual vortex; treasures of every grade were refined and merged into the newly born law-body, condensing a new Taiqing flying sword body, bit by bit solidifying the sword soul.

Fully several months passed before a hazy human figure appeared on the surface of Jiang Ding's body.

The forging of the law-body was only a beginning; it was still far from a true law-body, but it served some purpose now—at least it kept the sword soul from deteriorating further when not in operation, and brought some recovery.

"That's about enough."

"Going forward, it'll probably take about two thousand years to forge a passable law-body, one much stronger than the previous one."

Jiang Ding opened his eyes, murmuring to himself, escaping the dangerous state of the sword soul's collapse.

He looked around—Senior Wanji Divine Monarch, Zhenjun Shenji Divine Monarch, Extinction Sun Divine Monarch, Cang Hai Divine Monarch, Siyan Divine Monarch, Ling Feng Divine Monarch, Master Master Dinghai… a great crowd of old acquaintances, all watching him tensely.

"Congratulations, everyone, on advancing to Dao Merging!"

Jiang Ding laughed heartily.

"What's there to congratulate…"

Extinction Sun Divine Monarch had actually become somewhat reserved; after all, it had been many tens of thousands of years, and an inexplicable sense of unfamiliarity had crept in.

"Jiang Ding, you… have you taken that step?"

Yuan suddenly asked.

The surrounding Dao Merging Divine Monarchs shuddered.

That step.

They naturally knew what that step was—to transcend the limit, a true step toward immortality, where a single person's fate could influence the fate of all living beings across the myriad worlds.

"Thanks to the blessings of the immortal sect's forebears,"

"It did succeed, although there are some aftereffects that need to be dealt with."

Jiang Ding raised his head and said proudly: "Senior Yuan, all the seniors, and Jin Jin Lingfeng, An Siyan, Teacher Gu Lin — I have very good news to tell everyone. The Immortal Gate has already begun to step into the realm of Immortals. Although it is only a tiny step, it is a tiny step toward becoming an Immortal!"

"Everyone must be full of confidence in the future — the goal of becoming an Immortal has already appeared before us…"

Jiang Ding did his utmost to encourage the crowd, and transmitted a scripture over — it was precisely the "Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Boundary-Breaking Chapter."

Several thousand years ago, he had transmitted this scripture toward the solar system through light; now this scripture was still on its way and had not yet been learned by everyone.

"A tiny step toward becoming an Immortal…"

Everyone held their breath, their divine senses flooding into this scripture that touched upon the Immortal, and they studied it carefully.

The place fell into silence for the moment.

A long while.

The dizzy Jin Jin Lingfeng could not help but quietly raise his head, and immediately saw An Siyan looking at him in bewilderment; the two of them looked around once more, and likewise saw many Unity-of-Dao Divine Lords staring blankly at one another.

"You can't understand it?"

Teacher Gu Lin Divine Lord ventured.

"Yes."

"Yes, yes — this is already a scripture that surpasses the Heavenly Being rank…"

An Siyan said with a bitter smile.

The conversation between the two of them broke the silence; the surrounding ring of Unity-of-Dao Divine Lords felt somewhat awkward, stopped pretending, and likewise raised their heads. Everyone swept their gazes around and locked onto Yuan, Divine Lord Senior Wanji, and a few others.

Among them, Yuan was reading with a calm expression, while Divine Lord Senior Wanji and the others were scratching their ears and cheeks, half-understanding and half-not.

"In a while, I and the Great Sun will make it into teaching material for you."

Yuan answered them with a single line, then looked toward Great Sun Swordson, his eyes brimming with excitement and joy: "You're saying that within the citizens' genes and bloodlines there exists a talent for destroying the Fa? A staircase for climbing the Immortal Dao?"

"The path of destroying the Fa will be the Immortal Gate's road to heaven?"