Chapter 1713: The Arm of a True Immortal Lady from Countless Generations Ago

Unknowingly, a hundred years passed.

Jiang Ding remained immersed in cultivation and research, neglecting sleep and food.

In cultivation, he, at mid Path Merging, needed to continually accumulate magic power and divine sense to climb toward a higher realm; moreover, his second Path Merging rule micro-adjustment Nirvana would naturally occur within two thousand years. Once his Dharma body and divine soul adapted to the first Path Merging rule micro-adjustment, the second would arrive without any threshold.

During this process, Jiang Ding needed to continually deduce the rules of the Law-Destroying Great Dao and his own path, so as to grasp the process of the rule micro-adjustment Nirvana.

All of this Jiang Ding had originally prepared, believing it to be perfect.

But now, he had discovered a better road ahead!

A better reference object!

"Heavens!"

"What a beautiful arm…"

In the Suspected Immortal Arm Laboratory, Jiang Ding gazed in awe at a thin slice of flesh-and-blood diagram and a spirit-particle fate-rule tunnel microscope scan before him.

The fact that the Ancient God Ancestor could not destroy this arm did not mean the Immortal Gate could not.

Decades ago, the "Ninth-Order Forbidden Nuclear Weapon Scalpel," jointly developed by the Immortal Gate's Great Sun Sword Master and Yuan and others, had already come into being. Its principle was very simple: constantly constraining the might of forbidden nuclear weapons, concentrating the burst onto a single point the size of a fingernail, forcibly reaching the level of ninth-order might.

The limitations of this scalpel were extremely great.

First, each use had to consume fifteen quasi-ninth-order forbidden nuclear weapons; second, it required a disposable scalpel refined from quasi-ninth-order materials; and finally, it possessed no actual combat capability whatsoever.

Each preparation took decades, and it could only burst at a point the size of a fingernail, at most piercing the skin of a Supreme. Yet due to the characteristics of the Spiritless Universe treasure, even a thread of rotten flesh from this unknown arm could be peeled away and sliced.

At this moment, after years of scanning, the structure of this thread of flesh appeared before the eyes of the many Divine Monarchs of the Immortal Gate.

Clearly it was merely a thread of flesh rotted over who knows how many years, yet its immortal-path structure was so exquisite, so beautiful, so complex to the extreme—utterly incomprehensible, with only the minutiae visible.

But even these barely comprehensible minutiae left the Great Sun Sword Master profoundly shaken.

Any single Dharma-body structure or rule structure here had an energy efficiency more than ten times that of his own Dharma-body and rule structures!

In other words, with the same portion of spiritual energy, this being could unleash more than ten times the power of the Great Sun Sword Master!

"This being… should not be an immortal."

"But a being extremely close to an immortal!"

Jiang Ding knew the answer in his heart, his eyes blazing with fervor.

Because if it were a true immortal, even a single thread of flesh would not be something he was qualified to study.

"This being, in its youth, was a…"

"True Immortal Lady!"

"A True Immortal Lady!"

Jiang Ding could not help but roar wildly: "A True Immortal Lady! And the arm of a fully grown True Immortal Lady, placed right before this Monarch!"

"Oh heavens!"

"Does this mean the future True Immortal Sword Child is destined to rise?"

Jiang Ding was so excited he could not contain himself; his very body trembled.

Because an unimaginable great opportunity had descended—one even greater than battling a True Immortal Lady and luckily escaping with his life.

The arm of a True Immortal Lady, appearing right before Jiang Ding, free to be studied!

In this world,

there was nothing happier than this.

Jiang Ding's whole body felt dizzy, as if treading on cotton, one step light, one step heavy.

"Ahem!"

Yuan interrupted the Great Sun Sword Master's wild reverie, somewhat speechless.

"?"

Jiang Ding cast a puzzled glance over.

"It's time to install the quasi-ninth-order forbidden nuclear weapon collective grand formation defense system."

"Otherwise if this thing goes out of control, the Immortal Gate is done for. We cannot repeat the lesson of the Ancient God Ancestor."

Yuan reminded him—this had long been planned.

That is, using over a thousand quasi-ninth-order forbidden nuclear weapons as a foundation, a grand formation would be laid out, along with restraint devices, to seal the unknown arm and prevent loss of control during research.

Once out of control, the formation would be detonated immediately, destroying the arm—at least crippling it severely.

"Oh! Oh!"

Jiang Ding suddenly understood and busied himself together with the Immortal Gate's Divine Monarchs.

Several hundred years later, everything was ready.

Jiang Ding continued his research; whenever he gained a single harvest, he immediately broke it down and dispatched it for the entire Immortal Gate research team to resolve.

The R&D team composed of Yuan and many Divine Monarchs was the same, busy at work.

This most top-tier laboratory gathered all the outstanding talents of the Immortal Gate, hungrily exploring these higher immortal-path achievements.

"Confirmed."

"This Monarch's second Rule Nirvana will surpass all previous ones by far."

As the research deepened, Jiang Ding gradually understood something.

The amplitude of the second Rule Nirvana would change more, because from the unknown arm he had obtained more references for rule structures and Dharma-body structures.

This was an opportunity comparable to battling a True Immortal Lady!

And a repeatedly recurring opportunity at that!

While busy researching the arm, Jiang Ding did not neglect his other research: for instance, the study of Karma Sword Art, the construction and development of solar-system-class warships, the resolution of conflicts between the Great Sun Sword Dao and the Immortal Gate's path, as well as long-term projects like future ninth-order military formations, Gong Fa, and the Central Array Spirit Computer—all continually accumulating, never ceasing.

Cultivation, research, refining flying swords.

Thus the cycle repeated.

This was the Great Sun Sword Child's dull cultivation life, utterly different from many Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Sword Children who sought out sword duels everywhere — plain and unremarkable.

And so, unconsciously, three thousand years passed.

On this day, the Great Sun Sword Child, who had been cultivating and researching, opened his eyes, stepped out of the Suspected Immortal Arm Laboratory in one stride, and arrived in the deep void.

Boom—

Streams of dim-yellow sword qi around Jiang Ding uncontrollably splashed out in all directions, tearing apart the cosmic space and severing rule after rule.

Boundless scenes of the Dharma-Ending Era's calamity manifested across hundreds of thousands of kilometers of starry sky, within which the Law-Ending Rules were madly shifting and transforming.

The second Rule Nirvana could no longer be suppressed!

"This time, the magnitude of change in the Rule Fine-Tuning Nirvana will far surpass that of the Dao Child of Immortal Fall Realm…"

Jiang Ding Zi murmured.

His Dharma Body was wildly agitated, on the verge of losing control, yet he showed no panic, for everything was within his grasp.

The structure of the True Immortal Arm provided him with immense reference, like road markers standing in the fog, giving him a direction to strive toward.

Crack!

Jiang Ding's body was undergoing a terrifying transformation.

Bones broke and reformed, skin shattered and healed, flesh rotted and was reborn; within him, the Great Sun Law-Ending Rule — composed of Sun Rule, Law-Ending Rule, Aberration Rule, Destruction Rule, Yuanci Rule, and other rules — was constantly adjusting.

This adjustment had already reached its limit, dancing on a knife's edge — a single misstep would trigger rule backlash and death.

Originally, it shouldn't have come to this.

The foundation of a Dao Child at the Dao Merging Stage was far too deep; even suffering rule backlash once or twice wouldn't necessarily mean death.

But if a Dao Child insisted on pursuing the most extreme, the greatest possible Rule Fine-Tuning Nirvana, actively walking toward death, then no depth of foundation could withstand the backlash.

Because the limit of Rule Nirvana is that there is no limit!

Forging the foundation to become a Supreme Being is merely a beginning — it may be the limit of a certain rule-branch path, but it is far from the limit of the boundless cosmic starry sky's Immortal Dao.