Chapter 2080: Forging a Sword from a Star (Chapter One Today)

"True follows the Stellar Dao, specifically the branch authority of stellar calculation rules."

"The same branch authority of calculation rules as you, Elder Yuan."

Jiang Ding looked at Zhen's back and said: "Elder Yuan, I suspect the Immortal Sect's Supreme will fall into the trap of the calculation rules branch authority—no matter which Dao they follow, they'll eventually circle back to this, and a Supreme with immense individual combat power is still far off; their individual strength is the lowest among Supremes."

"Don't let some Heavenly Person prodigy outclass you one day and bring shame."

"Hahaha!"

"Of course!"

Yuan laughed loudly: "Except for you, oddity, Immortal Sect cultivators spend their entire lives in group coordination; the branch authority they eventually gain is naturally tied to this—how could it be otherwise?"

"As for being outclassed in challenge?"

"You needn't worry about that."

Yuan shrugged: "Wherever we go, we're always with our fleet. We've only ever surrounded others—we've never been surrounded or outclassed in challenge."

The two chatted for a while, then turned to evaluating the Immortal Sect's battle array strength.

Because another Immortal Sect Supreme, skilled in battle arrays and whose branch authority is tied to them, has just emerged—this will surely greatly increase the Immortal Sect's fleet strength.

"Currently,"

"with the central array spirit's enhancement and two Supremes, plus ten Deep Space Annihilation Law Citizen Fleets, the Immortal Sect should have combat power approaching a Seventh-Catastrophe Supreme."

Jiang Ding calculated for a moment and said: "If the Immortal Sect can produce three or four more Supremes skilled in battle arrays, it should firmly possess Seventh-Catastrophe Supreme combat power."

"Eighth-Catastrophe Supreme combat power… that would likely require dozens of Immortal Sect Supremes skilled in battle arrays."

"Of course, if Elder Yuan you ascend to Seventh-Catastrophe or even Eighth-Catastrophe Supreme, the number of Supremes needed will decrease—the same goes for breakthroughs in the central array spirit computer."

"The future is still bright."

Jiang Ding held an extremely high evaluation of the Immortal Sect's potential, believing it surpassed most Eighth-Catastrophe Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong.

"More than that?"

"Don't forget—the Immortal Sect possesses an Immortal-level talent on the Qi-Yun Dynasty's Earth Immortal Dao, which can be seen as an undeveloped Qi-Yun Dynasty True Immortal offspring… though this path has no legacy and must be explored entirely by the Immortal Sect itself."

Yuan was even more confident.

"Haha!"

"Indeed—the Immortal Sect, born in a lifeless universe, is exceptionally outstanding as a collective."

Jiang Ding pondered seriously and agreed.

…

The Immortal Sect's homeworld.

Jiang Ding withdrew his gaze from his avatar.

The Immortal Sect's current foundation and resources are far too vast—far exceeding its actual strength. The Immortal Sect does not enforce oppressive, ignorant-population policies; quite the opposite—it continuously cultivates generation after generation of outstanding prodigies.

With all these factors accumulating over time, the emergence of Supremes is inevitable.

Zhen's ascension to Supreme was no accident—it was the inevitable result of accumulated momentum; more Supremes like Zhen will continue to emerge in the Immortal Sect, and he won't be the only one to shine.

Jiang Ding took a step forward, spending much time, until he reached the vicinity of a brilliant star.

In the distance, supreme radiance and unparalleled brilliance blazed like a furnace filling the entire sky, stretching endlessly, for this was a star with a mass approximately 660,000 times that of Earth.

Sirius!

The brightest star besides the Sun, a celestial body one kilometer in diameter, an ancient star over two hundred million years old.

On this day, a young man in blue robes arrived beside this star, scanning it continuously with his divine sense, gradually revealing a satisfied expression.

"The opportunity for Taiqing Flying Sword's advancement should be here."

"Do you have life, Sirius?"

Jiang Ding murmured: "If you have life, make a sound—I'll go find another star that won't make a sound. There should be others with similar brightness and mass, just farther away."

He waited for several years.

Sirius made no "squeak" sound, continuing its orbital spin without pause.

"Good. I'm relieved."

"You have no life—I can freely smelt you into a flying sword."

Jiang Ding's face lit up with delight.

He withdrew from his brow a flying sword—this sword shimmered with Jin Chong Guang, translucent and colorless, its hue like pure light, forged from numerous Immortal-grade materials infused with the core of the Sun Immortal Fruit, a True Immortal offspring's Ben Ming Fa treasure.

After years of ritual refinement, this True Immortal offspring treasure had already become a seed.

"Go, Taiqing Flying Sword."

"I'll come visit you often."

Jiang Ding muttered incantations.

He cast a Yi Dao Dao Fa toward Sirius—the seed-like Taiqing Flying Sword shot into Sirius with a hiss, triggering violent plasma surges across the star's surface, multiple solar flares erupting, destroying numerous surrounding planets with electromagnetic and radiation bursts, until it finally stabilized after a long time.

Immediately after, Jiang Ding retrieved numerous heavenly treasures from the Seven Star Realms.

These heavenly treasures were both natural and mostly artificially synthesized, ranging from Rank One to Rank Nine, including quasi-Immortal grade, and even his own synthesized Immortal-grade prototype material: Dayang Xian Ling Jin.

As the new Sun Smelting Sword Array emerged, spreading across the entire Sirius, the heavenly treasures surged in like a flood, slowly melting within the scorching plasma and merging with Sirius itself.

This was not the end—it was only the beginning.

For the next several hundred thousand years, all taxes and offerings accumulated by the Tai Shang Ri Chun Jian Xianzi across the Seven Star Realms will be converted entirely into materials needed for sword forging, continuously transported here by fleet; if necessary, loans will be sought from other human Immortal Sects to acquire even more heavenly treasures.

For hundreds of thousands of years, the Tai Shang Ri Chun Jian Xianzi has only collected taxes—never made major expenditures.

These heavenly treasures have not vanished, nor have they been used by the Immortal Sect—the Immortal Sect's protection of citizens' private property is unquestionable. Now, these heavenly treasures accumulated across thousands of great worlds in the Seven Star Realms have finally found their purpose.

That purpose: to smelt into a single True Immortal offspring sword!

Sirius is now shrouded in layers upon layers of radiant arrays, more importantly, enveloped by the Dayang Xian Fan Chun Jian Yi, effectively blocking spiritual dispersion, turning Sirius into a terrifying forbidden zone where sword qi surges and even Supremes would be swiftly slain.

"Will Taiqing Flying Sword's transformation last many years?"

"At that moment, the entire star will merge with the Taiqing Flying Sword as one, undergoing metamorphosis, qualitative change, and growing stronger once again."

Jiang Ding said silently.

In the distance, transport ships from the immortal sects arrived one after another via superluminal routes, ferrying semi-finished artifact-forging materials refined by the immortal sects and various human Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong branches, pouring them into the star to be smelted by the sword-forging grand array under the control of his split soul, further intensifying Sirius's searing heat and temperature.

At this moment, the star was the furnace, was the scabbard.