Chapter 2047: The Supreme Great Sun Immortal Ascension Dao Spreads Across the Endless Starry Skies

All matters concluded.

Within the Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace.

Jiang Ding looked at the guilty Fusang Holy Maiden, staring at her.

The Fusang Holy Maiden felt a little uneasy and gave an awkward smile.

"Many thanks."

"Soft persimmon."

Jiang Ding was not angry and said sincerely.

In his early years when he could not yet suppress the starry skies with force, the traditions of the human race had to be respected, and the Seven Killings Divine Dynasty had to be bloodily suppressed—otherwise he would cast himself into a perilous situation.

Now he had no qualification to act recklessly, whether that recklessness was good or evil.

Deviating from tradition required paying a price, and he could not bear such a price now.

But, as a monarch, he had to maintain a positive image on the surface, had to be magnanimous—and this required someone to bear that price, to be resented by countless beings across the endless starry skies. This person's status could not be too low either; they had to possess a certain degree of autonomy, otherwise it would be meaningless—

Quite coincidentally, that person was the Fusang Holy Maiden.

She held such a status that the position of the Fusang Holy Land was readily acknowledged by the lords of many sects; even if she failed and stepped back, it would not cause both sides to tear each other apart and enter a state of endless blood feud, as there was still room for reconciliation.

"Puchi!"

"Your Majesty is too kind."

The Fusang Holy Maiden relaxed and smiled: "Your Majesty and I, we share honor and share disgrace—what is there to thank?"

"Yes…"

"What needs to be done now is to govern with stillness, not to change tradition, not to change political inertia."

Jiang Ding said quietly: "Wait until I ascend to Supreme, and in an instant I can change the Seven Great Star Domains, suppress all disobedient wills, ignore all political inertia. Apart from the united-front value beyond the Seven Great Star Domains, I can completely ignore any tradition. What is needed now is to wait…"

……

Between the star domains, it quieted down for a time.

The united human forces, with no internal friction, were far stronger than the alliance of the Divine Dao and the demon race by a large margin. Although they could not breach the heavily array-protected Divine-Demon Alliance, they already held a tremendous advantage, and the Divine-Demon Alliance's sphere of activity had been greatly compressed.

In this era when the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal awakened, the main focus of the Seven Great Star Domains was placed on the research and development of the "Supreme Great Sun Immortal Ascension Dao."

From Void Refinement Harmonization with Dao cultivators up to Eighth Tribulation Supremes, all were devoted to this path.

With the Sword Dao True Immortal as the core, everyone was mobilized and organized into research groups. Connected through the Great Dream Sword Realm, each tackled a difficult problem. Every research group was assigned a Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong cultivator to reshape the thinking habits of the many powerful cultivators of the sects and teach them how to cooperate with the Sword Immortal's research.

The current research model was that the Sword Immortal and the Eighth Tribulation Supremes handled the most critical core problems, while secondary problems were handed to the many star-domain prodigies and Supremes. All the powerful human cultivators of the entire Seven Great Star Domains were mobilized to jointly explore the Immortal Ascension Dao, pushing forward step by step.

Walking this Immortal Ascension Dao undoubtedly gave many twilight-year Supremes a strong sense of comfort.

Become an immortal!

Become an immortal, become an immortal!

This was the ideal of every twilight-year Supreme.

This ideal even transcended all worldly desires, all love and hate, all wealth. It was a transcendent, advanced pursuit, very easy to move their hearts, making them tirelessly devote themselves, forgetting to eat and sleep.

These twilight-year Supremes—though they appeared calm and rational on the surface—were in truth half-mad in the face of approaching lifespan limits. That was how madmen like the Seven Killings Sword Lord came to be.

Now, giving them something to do, especially something related to becoming an immortal, would quickly return their rationality to normal.

People simply cannot be left too idle.

The Seven Great Star Domains, and the endless starry skies beyond them, were connected through the Myriad Laws Celestial Pivot. Vast numbers of beings across the great universe together deduced the Great Dao of Immortal Ascension. This was a pure exchange of wisdom, an experiment built from countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and enormous human and material resources.

When the many prodigies, heroes, and Supremes of the endless starry skies deduced a minor problem on the True Immortal's Immortal Ascension path, the True Immortal repaid them with a problem.

Every sect's inheritance had its various problems; there was no perfect inheritance.

Take for instance sects like the Heavenly Beast Garden of the Fallen Immortal Realm—they had been stuck at the threshold of Seventh Tribulation Supreme for tens of millions of years, and countless generations of sect cultivators had sacrificed themselves in succession without solving it.

Such Immortal Dao bottlenecks existed in every human sect across the endless starry skies!

As long as they had not yet become immortals, their sect inheritances were bound to have flaws. These flaws might come from the inheritance itself, or from the cultivators themselves.

Without the Sword Immortal, all of this could only be set aside, letting generation after generation of sect prodigies ponder and comprehend, relying on time and luck to advance further—or never advance further at all.

But now, dawn had appeared in everything.

As long as they could solve a minor branch problem of the Sword Immortal's Immortal Ascension Dao one step ahead, these minor branch problems were all published in the Myriad Laws Celestial Pivot. Any person or any sect could take them on. Once solved, the Sword Immortal would devote part of her team's divine-soul computing power to handle the matter, and it would usually be resolved.

This opened up another great path for the human race of the endless starry skies!

The entire human race of the endless starry skies began to undergo subtle changes. These many subtle changes were accumulating and would surely affect the future situation.

……

The Divine Buddha Great Thousand World.

Jiang Ding's split soul walked out of the Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace and quietly admired the Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong standing in the spiritual veins of the Divine Buddha Great Thousand World. Its branches and leaves were like a canopy, covering the sky of the great thousand world, breathing in the starry radiance of heaven and earth into the great thousand world, supplying it for the many citizens to cultivate.

Beneath the dark-green starlight canopy, one Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Immortal Dao factory after another stood in rows, ceaselessly producing various Immortal Dao materials, pills, talismans, and the like, selling briskly within and beyond the Seven Great Star Domains, with no tariff barriers of any kind.

All the sects were cordial and easy to talk to—it was just business.

The Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's Immortal Dao industrial system was already at the top level of the Seven Great Star Domains!

This was the advantage of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong industrial system, and even more because the star-domain prodigies had participated in the design and construction of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Immortal Dao industrial system. With so many advantages stacked together, it was hard not to be top-tier.

The current Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong was in a state of extreme prosperity, on the eve of an explosion.

The finest Immortal Dao talents from a million planets of the Spiritless Universe came to the great thousand world to cultivate, advance, research Immortal Dao science, providing a continuous stream of Immortal Dao wisdom in exchange for the various resources they needed for cultivation.

This situation had continued for one hundred and eighty thousand years!

Over these one hundred and eighty thousand years, no one knew how many Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong prodigies had grown and lain dormant; in the future they would surely erupt with astonishing power.

Jiang Ding walked step by step through the current Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong, looking at one young face after another. Not a single one of them was someone he knew; everyone was utterly unfamiliar.

This stirred a sense of loneliness in his heart.

Fortunately, the spirit and bearing of these Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong citizens remained familiar—they had gone through the same primary, middle, and high school education experiences, shared the same past, and were citizens just like him.

These were his kindred.

"Senior Yuan,"

"It's been many years since we last met, yet your bearing remains unchanged — what a delight."

Jiang Ding suddenly raised his head, looking at the lean Daoist walking over from not far away, and sighed sincerely.

At that moment, he recalled many years ago, when he had first entered university for his master's degree — the Yuan he had seen then had looked exactly like this, unchanged after all these years.

Looking across the entire immortal sect, there was still one familiar figure to be found — what a stroke of luck.