Chapter 1736: Method-Slaying Solar Scripture

Unknowingly,

the Great Sun Sword Lord had already become one of the two oldest cultivators of the Immortal Gate.

Divine Mechanism Divine Lord, Sun-Slaying Divine Lord, Ten Thousand Mechanisms Divine Lord, and other Dao Merging Divine Lords had existed longer than the Great Sun Sword Lord — they were born and made their names before him.

But they had undergone a long slumber, only beginning to revive and advance to Dao Merging in the recent ten-thousand-plus years.

The Great Sun Sword Lord, however, had always been present, never once slumbering.

Judging by the years actually lived, the experiences undergone, and the developmental course of Immortal Dao science experienced, the Great Sun Sword Lord was the second-most ancient being in the Immortal Gate after Yuan; Sun-Slaying Divine Lord and the others could not remotely compare.

In the Cultivation World, time itself is the supreme treasure.

In the long life the Great Sun Sword Lord had lived, he had taught countless Void Refinement, Soul Transformation, and Dao Merging cultivators — a great shade of peaches and plums beneath his tree;

he had fought shoulder to shoulder with many cultivators, forging bonds of shared spears;

he had worked alongside countless Immortal Gate cultivators, jointly researching the various difficulties of Immortal Dao science, scratching their ears and racking their brains in laboratories with countless Immortal Gate cultivators…

The Great Sun Sword Lord had shared life and work experiences with countless citizens of the Immortal Gate!

This is what it means to be an ancient one.

How could Sun-Slaying Divine Lord compare?

In terms of prestige, Sun-Slaying Divine Lord was far inferior to the Great Sun Sword Lord — even Yuan's prestige might not necessarily have surpassed the Great Sun Sword Lord's; the two were not far apart.

Therefore, Sun-Slaying Divine Lord had to compromise!

This political storm in the Immortal Gate, because of the Great Sun Sword Lord's extremely unyielding attitude, was smoothed flat just as it began to stir, without producing any impact at all.

The global political community, composed of the Immortal Gate—the Six Afterglow Immortal Sects—and numerous vassal forces, sects, and races, was able to continue its rapid development.

Immortal Dao science advanced with each passing day, changing every moment.

The inheritances of the six ancient Upper Realm Immortal Sects, the Immortal Dao civilization born of the materialist universe, and the Four-Step Limit Dao Children — these three together were undergoing a strange transformation unique even in the endless cosmic starry sky, advancing toward unknown realms, exploring new directions in Immortal Dao science.

……

The world-community fell quiet.

Danding Middle Realm.

Danding Divine Lord stared at the chessboard, a black piece in his hand, silent.

Before him, Ten Thousand Beasts Divine Lord sat facing him, equally silent, dazed and blank, merely gazing at the sky like a sculpture.

This state had already lasted two thousand years.

In these two thousand years, there had been no change whatsoever — nothing at all.

The Immortal Gate had not summoned them; everything was as before, as if long forgotten — no goodwill, no particular malice, everything just so.

The two had waited here for a full two thousand years.

No miracle

occurred.

"This is…"

"A good thing."

Ten Thousand Beasts Divine Lord said hoarsely.

After a mere two thousand years, he had grown even older — white hair sprouting in profusion, interwoven among his locks, numerous wrinkles appearing on his skin, even age spots — looking in an instant as though he had aged tens of thousands of years, walking in the final stage of life, on the verge of death.

"The Upper Realm sects have not perished."

"They still flourish through the ages; the Ancestor's inheritance still blazes brilliantly, has not withered."

"How good, how good."

"This is… a good thing."

Ten Thousand Beasts Divine Lord repeated.

"Yes… a good thing."

"A good thing."

Danding Divine Lord also said.

Another round of death-like, long silence.

The entire Danding Mountain seemed filled with an inexpressible, heavy twilight air, stripped of vitality and spirit, shrouded in dusk.

No one knew how long passed.

"Heavenly Human,"

"this Divine Lord will surely achieve the Heavenly Human!"

Ten Thousand Beasts Divine Lord growled low, raging furiously — no one knew what he was angry at — and in an instant he left the place.

In his place, only the desolate figure of Danding Divine Lord remained, staring blankly at the chessboard, his gaze empty.

……

Dayang Dayang Tianchi.

Countless rays of brilliance bloomed.

Countless streams of heaven and earth's spiritual energy and the essence of sun and moon were gathered by the Sun Divine Tree, finally inhaled and exhaled by the blue-clothed youth sitting cross-legged beneath it, refined within meridians as complex as star systems along the Gong Fa pathways of the "Method-Slaying Solar Scripture," transforming into subtle dantian magic power and the foundation of divine sense.

Sand piled makes a tower; dripping water wears through stone.

This was the strength of ancient cultivators — accumulating through endless time, finally breaking through stone to the heavens.

"Method-Slaying Solar Scripture"!

This was one of the first nine scriptures to achieve breakthrough in the Immortal Gate, broken through by the Great Sun Sword Lord — the first scripture of the Method-Slaying Great Dao in the Immortal Gate, and it had already achieved succession and popularization, allowing the many citizens of the Immortal Gate to cultivate and switch to it.

Citizens walked the Method-Slaying path, walked the path of their homeland's genes and bloodlines.

These brand-new Method-Slaying cultivators would be the reason the Immortal Gate's Method-Slaying fleet would be powerful in the future.

With one scripture's breakthrough, the remaining eight scriptures would also break through.

The various Gong Fa structures, Gong Fa principles, and rule principles in the "Extinction Law Solar Scripture" are not isolated; many of them can equally be applied to the other eight scriptures, triggering breakthroughs in the other texts, thereby driving comprehensive breakthroughs in Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's Gong Fa and a great advancement in the level of civilization.

According to the assessment of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong and the six great Afterglow Immortal Sects, this is a four-step extreme scripture!

A four-step extreme scripture!

Although it only has the highest Heavenly

Human-rank portion, this scripture has already comprehensively surpassed the Heavenly-Human chapters of the various sects' Gong Fa in the Fallen Immortal Realm, achieving a great breakthrough at the Gong Fa level.

From now on, Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong has surpassed the same rank of the Upper Realm Immortal Sects in terms of Gong Fa!

The breakthrough of this scripture likewise received tremendous effort from the six great Afterglow Immortal Sects, who once again established immense meritorious service for Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong and made another tremendous contribution to the Dao path of the Great Sun Sword Child, earning great favor from the Great Sun Sword Child.

Of course, the six great Afterglow Immortal Sects did not work for nothing either.

During this process, they traded for many of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong inheritances they needed, industrial chains, and access to Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's research and development capabilities for their own use, beginning to push the breakthroughs of their own sects' Gong Fa Heavenly-Human chapters beyond their limits.

Although the progress was not as great as Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's, because there was no four-step extreme Dao Child pushing with full effort, compared to the past there was still tremendous progress.

The six great Afterglow Immortal Sects were likewise advancing at flying speed.

This kind of scene—where there is no plundering or war, and great progress in Immortal Dao science and greater material abundance emerges purely from internal research, development, and exploration—is extremely rare in the endless starry sky.

This faction possesses a terrifying self-driving force, capable of achieving something out of nothing in a certain sense, enlarging the cake.

During this process, the foundation potential of the six great Afterglow Dao Children was gradually repaired and broadened, beginning to surpass their own limits.

The destruction of the Upper Realm Immortal Sects was a disaster for the entire sect.

For the six great Afterglow Dao Children, however, it was a supreme opportunity, the beginning of the Great Dao!

"Now,"

"everything is so beautiful…"

Jiang Ding sighed.

He awoke from a stage of cultivation and looked toward the sky.

At some unknown time, the Great Sun Heavenly Palace had descended, laying down layer upon layer of ninth-rank supreme sword-refining formations, among which various quasi-ninth-rank inheritance spiritual golds, Upper Clarity Blue Fall meteor iron, Heaven Void Ten Thousand Concealment mystic gold, Taiyi Taiyi Qingmu divine trees, and so on, rose and fell within the solar sword-refining formation, transforming into streams of spiritual light essence absorbed by the Taiqing Flying Sword, causing her aura to grow ever stronger, only a sliver away from the Heavenly-Human rank.

The many quasi-ninth-rank inheritance spiritual gold problems that had plagued the Great Sun Sword Child for tens of thousands of years became utterly trivial after the six great Afterglow Immortal Sects descended, being completed in mere decades as early as two thousand years ago, without the slightest effort.

The Taiqing Flying Sword, having absorbed a great quantity of inheritance divine golds, today reached its limit.

Today is the day the Taiqing Flying Sword achieves a Heavenly-Human Dharma Treasure!