Chapter 1680: The Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Dharma Body Emerges

"Yes."

"This is the Immortal Gate's path to immortality!"

Jiang Ding said in a low voice.

Compared to the countless races of the endless starry sky, the Immortal Gate was weak as ants, but it possessed a tremendous advantage they could not — the spiritless universe of its homeland.

In the future, if the Immortal Gate gave birth to a true immortal, it would surely be through the path of Law-Destruction!

If an immortal-grade fleet were born, it would surely be a Law-Destruction immortal-grade fleet!

"Is this the Immortal Gate's Dao of Immortality? …"

Yuan took a deep breath.

The Immortal Gate, a weak faction of Heaven-Humans, now seemed to have found the direction of the Great Dao.

"We have no Sword Souls — how can we transcend?"

"I'm afraid your current path cannot be replicated."

Yuan asked again.

"Having a Sword Soul is far from enough."

Jiang Ding shook his head slightly: "This question must be left for the future to resolve. This scripture is already the limit of my current wisdom on the Dao of Immortality. I cannot answer it now."

"True."

"Cutting-edge technology, civilian and military, takes time."

Many inspirations surfaced in Yuan's mind, and he committed them to memory one by one.

The group chatted about what they had seen and heard over the years, all filled with deep emotion. Tens of thousands of years later, so many old acquaintances could meet again, most of them still alive — this was truly wonderful.

After a round of catching up, Jiang Ding did not go handle the Immortal Gate's various official matters, but swiftly entered closed-door cultivation.

The Sword Soul's injuries could not be delayed any longer.

……

At some unknown point, the light of the solar system dimmed by several measures.

And this dimming continued for over a thousand years without stopping. The beings of the solar system gradually grew accustomed to it, and citizens born within that millennium even assumed the solar system had always been this way.

Beside the sun, a low point of spiritual energy was devouring the spiritual energy of the entire solar system. Countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, synthetic spirit-metal and spirit-stones were transported from the myriad heavens and worlds, all pouring toward this place, swallowed and smelted by the black-hole sun here, forging something within it.

If someone could lift the veil of the all-devouring black hole, they would discover the truth.

Countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures and spiritual energy were forging a body of solar light!

It was a youth of about sixteen years of age. Every strand of hair, every muscle fiber was composed of pure light; the entire human form was a creation condensed from solar light — the sovereign of the sun, the ruler within the sun.

The pupils of this Solar Light Body flickered with black-and-white light, then gradually faded.

A contemplative look appeared in his black-and-white pupils. He continued to gather countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures and spiritual energy into himself, continuing to forge his own Dharma Body — far from reaching its limit.

Sword intent surged like tides, clanging and ringing, tempering this Dharma Body like an iron hammer—

—body.

"Sword Child,"

"What is the name of your new Dharma Body?"

The Great Sun Heavenly Palace said softly.

Only at this moment, when the Great Sun Sword Child had recovered most of his strength and possessed a certain sense of security, did she begin to speak and ask.

"Haha!"

"Senior, this Dharma Body is adapted to the Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul, so naturally it is named the Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Body."

"Of course, it is not an immortal body — it can only be called a prototype."

Jiang Ding smiled: "I must thank the senior greatly for your help. Without the Great Sun Heavenly Palace's Sword-Forging Array, I fear I could not have completed the condensation of the Dharma Body."

The physical body is the treasure-raft for crossing the world; without a physical body, a cultivator is not whole.

"This is the duty of the Great Sun Heavenly Palace."

"Sword Child,"

The Great Sun Heavenly Palace said: "Congratulations on taking the Three-Step Limit and pushing the Patriarch's path one step further toward immortality. This deed will surely be inscribed in the sect's green annals."

"For countless years to come, it will be known by posterity, never forgotten."

Following the Great Sun Patriarch,

another inheritance disciple of the sect has walked a new path!

"Thank you."

"However, this is equally the merit of the successive patriarchs and sages, and equally the merit of the Solar Sword Lord."

Jiang Ding said solemnly.

Without the inheritance of the successive patriarchs of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm and the achievements of the successive sages of the Immortal Gate as a foundation, he too could not have taken the Fourth-Step Limit.

Without the thirty-six ninth-rank sword-forging heavenly materials and earthly treasures gifted by the Solar Sword Lord, his chances of success would have been somewhat reduced.

These were all debts of kindness; he would remember them.

"Sword Child,"

"The 'Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Chapter' has already been inscribed in the Sword Pavilion's inheritance."

The Great Sun Heavenly Palace raised another matter: "If in the future I can make contact with the Taiyin-Solar Lineage, may I bestow this scripture that breaks the Three-Step Limit upon the Taiyin-Solar Lineage?"

This was an extremely precious scripture, of extremely important value.

"The Taiyin-Solar Lineage?"

Jiang Ding thought for a long while this time.

"You may,"

"but you must wait for the right moment, and wait for my permission, before doing so."

"I need a battlefield, a battlefield where I can slay eight Dao Children… Also, when I reveal the power to break through the four-step limit, the attitude of the Solar Sword Lord may change and bring me danger. So, wait until I have completed my goal before giving this scripture to the Solar-Yin Solar-Yang lineage."

Jiang Ding said seriously.

The Solar Sword Lord treats him well — that is a fact.

But, when the Great Sun Sword Child reveals potential enough to overturn the entire Fallen Immortal Realm, will the Solar Sword Lord's attitude change?

He doesn't know.

What does a four-step rule fine-tuned Nirvana represent?

It represents that if the contemporary Great Sun Sword Child grows into a Supreme, he would be enough to sweep through the entire Great Thousand Worlds, invincible wherever he goes!

This is a tremendous opportunity, and a tremendous risk.

If other immortal sects and quasi-immortal races learn of it, they will surely rise up together to attack, and will not stop until the contemporary Great Sun Sword Child is destroyed — otherwise, the ones to perish in the future would be themselves.

This is a calamity that could annihilate the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm!

Faced with such a great calamity of annihilation, whether the Solar Sword Lord's stance will change, and what kind of change it will be, is truly hard to judge.

The best way to protect human nature is to never test it.

Jiang Ding has already made his preparations.

If he himself dies in battle, this scripture will be left to the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

If he himself prepares to stake it all, he will likewise notify the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm. At the very least, it would be no problem for the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm to take the sect's core disciples and sect assets and flee in advance. No matter how strong the joint army of the upper-realm immortal sects and quasi-immortal races is, if they cannot find anyone there is nothing they can do — the danger is not great.

The Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm would at most only need to lie dormant for two hundred thousand years. Once the Great Sun Sword Child ascends to Supreme, everything will see several-fold or ten-fold returns!

"Yes."

"Since it is your will, the Great Sun Heavenly Palace will comply."

The Great Sun Heavenly Palace fell into silence.

Within the Heavenly Palace, the clang of sword-hums like the forging of iron once again covered everything. Any single sword-hum sonic wave could tear apart the sky and earth, severing all the myriad laws of the heavens.

Countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures were brought in, and the Great Sun Sword Child's wealth melted away like ice and snow.

Countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures vanished, transforming into muscle fibers, skin fibers, and bones like strands of light. A body of law-annihilating flesh adapted to the Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul was being born.

Unknowingly,

another thousand years passed.

On this day, the sound of law-annihilation that had persisted beside the sun for over two thousand years vanished. The light of the entire solar system suddenly brightened by several degrees, then stabilized, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth no longer converged toward this center.

A terrifying law-annihilating pressure flashed and vanished. Heaven and earth froze for an instant, then gradually calmed.

The Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Dharma Body was born.