Chapter 2035: The True Immortal Affects the Constants of the Immortal Dao Universe

Dark clouds gathered, the star domains dimmed.

"The ultimate authority of a branch of the Great Dao's rules…"

Amid the might of Lei Ting and the heavenly tribulation, enlightenment rose in Jiang Ding's heart.

At this moment, he knew that he had reached the ultimate of the endless starry skies on a single sword-Dao rule branch of the Law-Destroying Great Dao; searching the endless cosmic starry skies, among billions upon billions of living beings, no creature could rival him on this rule branch any longer—he had reached the mortal ultimate.

Every step from here on would widen that ultimate by one more pace.

The paths of predecessors could serve as reference, but there were no paths left; every step from here on had to be opened by himself, advancing step by step toward the supreme.

To all of this, Jiang Ding felt no discomfort and no confusion.

Because, from the moment he stepped out of Refinement-Void, the paths opened by successive generations of Great Sun Sword Lords had long been walked to the end; opening the way was what he had always done. A base man rising from obscurity—everything had to rely on himself; relying on the immortal gate, he had long been used to it. This was the path he had always walked.

He had now, already, set foot upon the Law-Destroying Great Dao!

Boom—!

Jiang Ding raised his head and looked toward the sky.

At this moment, heaven and earth overturned, the starry skies rolled backward; a terrifying might descended from the endless starry skies, a might that even made an Eighth Tribulation Supreme choke.

The Seven Killings Sword Lord's expression shifted, and he retreated several more steps.

Both had reached the pinnacle of their respective rule branches, both had reached the ultimate limit of the endless starry skies along a certain subdivision of the Immortal Dao.

But within that ultimate, there existed an enormous difference!

In terms of the immortal gate's scientific worldview, both are in biological science; you have reached the mortal ultimate in the study of grass carp—you are the most authoritative person in the world in this direction of research. Any study of grass carp that bypassed you could accomplish nothing at all; all grass carp research would be wastepaper.

In such a case, you have reached the ultimate of grass carp research in biological science; you are the Grass Carp Supreme of the biological Great Dao on this branch.

However, there also exists another kind of figure.

Such a figure has reached the ultimate in molecular biology, becoming the strongest, most authoritative scientist in the mortal world; within the scope of human science, within the scope of the observable world, such a figure is the ultimate of molecular biology.

Such a figure is the Supreme of molecular biology!

Both are Supreme, both are the mortal ultimate, both are on this single Great Dao of biological science—could the power, potential, and human and material resources the two Supremes could mobilize possibly be the same?

Completely not the same!

It can be said to be the difference between heaven and earth!

On this radiant Immortal-Ascending Great Dao of biology, the Grass Carp Supreme possesses at most a few thousandths of the authority, while the Molecular Biology Supreme can at least seize a few tenths of the authority on the Immortal-Ascending Great Dao of biology!

This is the difference.

A True Immortal is precisely such a terrifying figure within the Great Dao.

Now, as the Supreme Elder Great Sun Sword Immortal ascended to Heaven-Man and began to possess authority, the Law-Destroying Great Dao of the entire endless cosmic starry skies began to be affected; the entire endless cosmic starry skies underwent a subtle change because of the birth of the True Immortal's rule authority, unable to remain aloof.

The Great Dao of the endless cosmic starry skies did not arise from nothing, but was composed of the lives and matter of the endless cosmic starry skies!

Now, the birth of a single living being had actually begun to affect the Law-Destroying Great Dao!

This is the True Immortal!

The path the True Immortal opened could already affect the endless starry skies.

If higher-dimensional beings existed within the endless starry skies, these higher-dimensional beings would see that the constants of the Immortal Dao universe and the primordial ancient registers had begun to manifest subtle changes; the endless starry skies were in constant flux, nothing was eternally unchanging.

Historically, many Sovereigns had calculated the true constants of the Immortal Dao universe, but as Sovereigns passed away, these true constants of the Immortal Dao universe all failed and drifted.

Because the endless cosmic starry skies were in motion, not unchanging.

The reason the endless starry skies were now changing was that a tiny individual living being was opening the way!

"So it turns out,"

"History books record many times that Sovereigns were extremely hostile toward True Immortals, often exterminating them utterly, with very few exceptions."

"In the past I did not know the reason, but now I know one reason that must be extremely important."

Jiang Ding, comprehending the rule-branch authority of the Law-Destroying Great Dao at this moment, murmured: "The existence of a True Immortal will interfere with the true constants of the Immortal Dao universe!"

"Although Sovereigns can calculate the true constants of the Immortal Dao universe, it certainly is not easy."

"True Immortals readily cause the true constants of the Immortal Dao universe to change, producing more fluctuations, which inevitably forces Sovereigns to spend more time and effort on measuring the constants of the Immortal Dao universe."

"This is equivalent to indirectly consuming the Sovereigns' lifespans!"

"How, then, could this fail to draw the Sovereigns' hostility?"

"If the True Immortal does not die, then who does?"

At the instant the rule-branch authority of the Law-Destroying Great Dao coalesced, a ring of hazy twilight halo appeared behind Jiang Ding's head—this was the external manifestation of the rule-branch authority of the Heaven-Earth Law-Destroying Great Dao.

At this moment, Jiang Ding's entire soul, aura, magic power, and Dharma body began to undergo a leap-like transformation.

His entire being began to strengthen unbelievably—not by one or two times, but by several times, more than tenfold!

Clearly this person was still this person; the soul-matter and flesh-matter on him had neither increased nor decreased, always conserved, yet the Dharma body, soul, magic power, and all other matter and soul structures underwent earth-shaking changes, reorganizing and reconstructing under the rule authority.

The matter was still that same quantity of matter, but the intensity of the matter underwent an extremely terrifying change!

A True Immortal of the Dao-Unification stage was far from touching the power of a Supreme, unable to slay a Supreme, because this was the ultimate of a certain branch of the endless cosmic starry skies, and no one could be taken lightly.

However, at this moment, that chasm-like distance was crossed!

A True Immortal of the Heaven-Man stage could already step onto the topmost stage of the endless cosmic starry skies, begin to wield the authority of the endless starry skies, and could… begin to slay Supremes below the Seventh Tribulation!

In these Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Seven Domains, the human-race powerhouses below the Eighth Tribulation Supreme had always been obedient, without any rebellious intent, all utterly loyal—and there was a reason for this.

This was the reason!

"I am very strong now."

"Very strong…"

Jiang Ding, facing the heavenly tribulation, said yearningly.

At this moment, wielding the ultimate authority of the Law-Destroying Great Dao's rule branch, he understood what a Supreme was, and what a tribulation was.

At Refinement-Void, a cultivator could already form a structure akin to an Immortal Dao perpetual motion machine, drawing spiritual energy and Immortal Dao matter from chaos to greatly extend his own lifespan.

And now, when wielding the ultimate authority of the rules, a cultivator could already convert spiritual energy from the Heaven-Earth Great Dao to sustain life!

At this point, it could be said that a cultivator was nearly immortal!

However much spiritual energy the Supreme consumed, he could convert that much spiritual energy from the primordial chaos!

The Immortal Dao universe's perpetual motion machine of Immortal Dao, pursued by countless cultivators across ten thousand generations, could already, at the Supreme stage, convert spiritual energy from the primordial chaos to sustain life with almost no loss, achieving near-immortal lifespan without relying on external objects, with extremely minimal expenditure.

Now, the only thing preventing a cultivator from continuing to live was tribulation!

The Supreme's tribulation was the inevitability of life's decay.

All life in this world possessed a limit from the moment of its birth; the limit of matter meant that decay was inevitable.

The blood, bone, flesh, hair, ears, eyes, soul, life, and so on that sustained existence all had a material limit, just as an ordinary mortal elder would inevitably suffer withered blood and qi, brittle bones, falling hair, deafness, blindness… and all the other signs of decay. The Supreme's physical body had been extended in lifespan time and again, delaying the limit of material decay, but a limit existed nonetheless.

The continuation of a Supreme's life meant weathering these inevitable tribulations of decay time and again, thereby persisting endlessly in the world.