Chapter 1737: Eighth-Grade Rule Treasure: Taiqing Flying Sword

Boom!

Endless Lei Gao Jie dark clouds gathered, shrouding the starry sky of the solar system; a heavy pressure descended upon heaven and earth, stirring panic and unease among all living beings.

Within that terrifying rule-based Lei Ting, a sword of Dharma-Ending radiance flickered, illuminating all ages.

Lei Ting flashed, and the endless scenes of the Dharma-Ending age—yellowed and desolate—surfaced: the five declines of heaven and man, the collapse of the immortal Dao, the absence of spiritual Qi. Within this world of endless despair, a yellowed sword was born between heaven and earth, born within the calamity of the Dharma-Ending age.

What is this flying sword, born within the Dharma-Ending age's calamity, doing?

Answering the call of all living beings under heaven, to save the immortal Dao of all living beings?

No.

The exact opposite.

She is inheriting this Dharma-Ending age, praising this Dharma-Ending age, and further guiding the Dharma-Ending age to descend upon the endless cosmic starry sky faster and more thoroughly.

Infinite immortal-Dao-destroying Lei Ting struggled and fought against this Dharma-Ending sword; rules collapsed, and all beings roared and howled.

The fierce waves of contention triggered upheaval throughout the entire world cluster.

Jiang Ding quietly gazed at the beautiful sight in the sky, admiring it, a feeling of joy rising in his heart.

"Jiang Ding?"

Many Divine Monarchs of the Immortal Sect were startled awake by the Lei Gao Jie.

They came to the side of the Great Sun Sword Master, observing together the treasure Lei Gao Jie of the Taiqing Flying Sword, carefully comprehending it.

This is a calamity of heaven-and-man rules—a process of qualitative transformation and breakthrough of rules, of subtle fine-tuning until a treasure's unique rule-will is formed.

This process shares similarities with a Dao-Unification Divine Monarch advancing to Heaven-and-Man; it can be considered a decent opportunity.

Among these Dao-Unification Divine Monarchs, Yuan appeared especially focused.

He who had never once entered slumber was now over eighty thousand years old, already not far from the lifespan limit of a Dao-Unification cultivator; even adding life-extending elixirs, he had at most thirty thousand years left to live.

At some point, thirty thousand years had somehow become a very short span of time.

Thirty thousand years from now, if Yuan did not choose slumber, he would inevitably have to stake everything on one strike, advancing to a Heaven-and-Man cultivator—life and death hanging on a single moment.

Given the current political situation within the Immortal Sect, would Yuan choose slumber?

Certainly not.

Yuan is the only existence within the Immortal Sect capable of checking the Great Sun Sword Master.

Once Yuan is lost, the entire Immortal Sect will in fact become a vassal of the Great Sun Sword Master—an existence akin to a dragon clan's retainer—held together entirely by the Great Sun Sword Master's morality. It would be no surprise whenever it collapsed, for the Great Sun Sword Dao is precisely so.

Moreover, even if the Great Sun Sword Master's morality did not collapse, the operation of the Immortal Sect's political system would still develop problems.

Divine Monarch Zhenjun Shenji and the others glanced at Yuan, their thoughts laden with worry.

The world is objective, with material and productive-force foundations.

An Immortal Sect that has lost Yuan will lose parity with the Great Sun Sword Master in terms of combat power, productive forces, immortal-Dao research efficiency, and creativity.

Combat power, productive forces, immortal-Dao research efficiency, and creativity.

Without these, even if things appear equal on the surface, is there true equality?

At that time, the equality between the Great Sun Sword Master and the Immortal Sect would in fact be inequality!

At that time, the Great Sun Sword Master—who possessed higher productive forces, combat power, creativity, and was superior to the entire Immortal Sect in every respect—if he were forced into equality with the Immortal Sect, would instead be suffering exploitation and injustice: the weak using morality, the imprints of bygone days, and inertia as chains to turn around and exploit the strong!

Although the Great Sun Sword Master might not care, and would willingly suffer such injustice.

Yet it is not a path that can endure.

If Yuan enters slumber or passes away, then one can only wait, across endless time, for the Immortal Sect to once again give birth to an existence of the same talent as this generation's ruler, and one possessing extremely strong organizational ability—only then would the Immortal Sect and the Great Sun Sword Master be equal once more.

Whether a citizen of the Immortal Sect with such talent and such high political reliability could appear again—this is unknown.

The Immortal Sect needs a ruler of this generation.

Therefore, from beginning to end, Yuan has only one choice.

That is: at most thirty thousand years from now, the ultimate leap, advancing from the peak of Dao-Unification to Heaven-and-Man—life and death resting on this single throw—he will absolutely not fall into slumber.

This is his pride as the ruler of this generation.

Everyone knows this.

"This is the Immortal Sect's second Heaven-and-Man rule treasure, isn't it?"

Divine Monarch Senior Wanji said, somewhat entranced: "With more data, building solar-system-grade warships from here on should go much more smoothly."

"Yes."

"This is a treasure of law-extinguishing rules. Special law-extinguishing rules are forming within the flying sword, interspersed with solar rules, destruction rules, aberration rules, and others."

Yuan instinctively explained for the many Dao-Unification Divine Monarchs, helping them more easily understand the path of Heaven-and-Man: "These are Jiang Ding's law-extinguishing rules."

"Look, the fine-tuning process of the law-extinguishing rules…"

"Yes."

Jiang Ding listened with a smile to the insights of the many Immortal Sect Divine Monarchs, occasionally chiming in with a word or two—offering his own views, or correcting certain obviously mistaken points.

This kind of rule fine-tuning explanation and research had already continued for who knows how many years; everyone had been exchanging with one another and advancing together.

During this process, the Immortal Sect's Dao-Unification Divine Monarchs' understanding of rule fine-tuning deepened continuously.

It can be stated clearly: a small number of the Immortal Sect's Dao-Unification Divine Monarchs have already surpassed Divine Monarch Wanshou and others in their understanding of rule fine-tuning; they were instead caught up to and overtaken by these people, rising from behind to take the lead.

This is why, across the endless cosmic starry sky, generation after generation of powerful beings are born from creatures outside Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong—Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao-children are not the only powerful beings in the world.

Under the accumulation of infinite numbers and time, there will always be prodigies with outstanding luck and talent emerging.

These Immortal Sect Dao-Unification Divine Monarchs were not lucky enough; they were not like the characters in some storybooks who had a great encounter every day and a cave-dwelling inheritance at every step, nor did they possess terrifying natural talent.

But they possessed one precious thing.

The Immortal Sect.

These Immortal Sect Dao-Unification Divine Monarchs grew up within the Immortal Sect; this too is an incomparably precious great opportunity—an opportunity that becomes all the more precious the further one advances.

Within an environment like the Immortal Sect's, they received excellent growth.

In the past, the Ancestor of the Profound Heaven Sword Realm rose from obscurity, and with a meager and weak foundation, he advanced to the Heavenly and Mortal realm with a single minor adjustment; Jiang Ding was greatly shocked.

But now, it does not seem such a strange thing.

If one has sufficient understanding of the Laws, it can naturally be done.

Such a figure, with sufficient understanding of the Laws yet an incredibly weak foundation, has appeared by his side; a character from the legends of the Upper Realm of the past stands before his eyes.

This is Yuan.

"The environment of the Immortal Sect is relatively stable now, with no external enemies; there is no need to lick blood from the blade every day like Ancestor Lei Ting did back then, snatching opportunities, snatching Gong Fa, and being chased and hunted down."

Jiang Ding silently assessed.

"Yuan can calmly perform six Law adjustments during his Nirvana to forge a powerful foundation within the Heavenly and Mortal realm."

"Although... one mistake means death."

In his assessment, Yuan's success rate for each Law adjustment should be between eighty and ninety percent; it is still very dangerous, separated from one hundred percent by a distance that cannot be ignored.

Yuan's understanding of the Laws is already extremely strong, rare among many world clusters.

However, a weak foundation is a negative score; it cannot provide assistance but instead exerts a negative influence, causing his success rate for advancement to drop.

This is the huge gap between Yuan and the Four-Step Limit Dao Son.

This is also the innate limitation of those with weak foundations; every step is a gamble, requiring countless people to fight and struggle, until only a few survive in the end.

He hopes that this Immortal Sect Regent will achieve another breakthrough in understanding the Laws of the Immortal Way three thousand years from now.

Jiang Ding silently offered his blessings.

Boom!

In the sky, the final heavenly tribulation Lei Ting descended.

The clouds covering the heavens dispersed, the heavy pressure lifted, and the sun, moon, and starry sky reappeared in the cosmic expanse.

Amidst a scene of the Era of Dharma Decline, a dim yellow flying sword floated and sank.

At this moment, an incomparably terrifying pressure spread in all directions; the spiritual energy within a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers fell into silence and inertia, and the Laws of the Immortal Way could not operate effectively.

"Dharma Annihilation!"

The Divine Lords of Law-Union changed countenance drastically.

In that instant, they could no longer sense their spiritual energy or divine consciousness; they had become ordinary mortals, completely imprisoned by the aura of the flying sword.

They could not help but be horrified, looking toward the horizon with some panic.

There, a flying sword named the Eighth-Order Law Treasure — the Great Clarity Flying Sword!