Chapter 2128: An Unexpected Victory

Jiang Ding quietly watched the slaughter between the Celestial Fortune Breaker Dao Soldiers and the Chengtian Town-Mount Bixi Immortal Army.

He saw countless lives fall—each one a region's finest prodigy of the human race—dying here in obscurity, like weeds.

Sword Dao Supremes perished from time to time.

On this battlefield, a Supreme who had reached the extreme of a single Sword Dao scientific direction was nothing remarkable, unable to dominate—because this was an army gathered from over a hundred star domains and more than ten thousand great thousand worlds, the strongest beings of all. Even top Immortal Dao scientists were not rare; each person had a talent and brilliance worth praising, as well as achievements.

By this day,

such deaths could no longer stir the heart of the Sword Immortal Maiden.

His gaze merely lingered briefly on the Celestial Fortune Breaker Dao Soldiers before shifting to the opposing force condensed from dense Fortune power.

Unlike the great army of human Sword Cultivators, this was a multi-racial, mixed-formation force.

Within this force were human powerhouses, Dragon Clan powerhouses, Phoenix Clan powerhouses, and even Ox-Demon, Horse-Demon, Pig-Demon powerhouses… truly all-embracing and magnanimous, united front gathering all strength, with True Dragon Clan powerhouses as the core and the imperial clan, establishing a Fortune Immortal Dynasty system that encompassed all living beings under heaven.

"Not bad,"

"The True Dragon Son's united front has been done very well."

Jiang Ding could not help but offer a word of praise.

The Celestial Fortune Breaker Dao Soldiers possessed over twenty Eighth Tribulation Supremes—this could not be considered few.

An Eighth Tribulation Supreme was the strongest being in a star domain, a being born to rule a star domain. Moreover, this was not their full force sallying forth but merely a detached contingent; possessing so many Eighth Tribulation Supremes was already terrifying.

However,

the number of Eighth Tribulation Supremes in the Chengyun Town-Mount Bixi Immortal Army exceeded fifty!

The same held true for the many Seventh Tribulation Supremes and ordinary Supremes beneath them; in terms of the number of powerhouses and the degree of elite strength, this force far surpassed the Chengyun Breaker Dao Soldiers!

The reason for this, Jiang Ding discerned at a glance.

The first was that the Fortune True Dragon Son had ascended to Supreme over a hundred thousand years before him, gaining over a hundred thousand additional years of endless starry sky campaign time.

The second was that the Fortune True Dragon Son had united fronted every powerhouse capable of being united fronted!

Whether human, Phoenix Clan, or lowly-blooded Ox, Sheep, or Horse Demons—so long as they were powerhouses, he accepted all without refusal, taking them all under his command, and moreover had the ability to keep them under control without causing chaos, allowing his own strength to grow ever faster.

Compared to this, the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden's united front system was far too narrow.

Only human beings could be fully absorbed; the rest—the Bixi Immortal Clan, the Heavenly Horse Immortal Clan, the Suanni Immortal Clan, and other factions possessing Eighth Tribulation Supremes—had all been swallowed by history, because both historically and in the present, these races bore the sins of humanity and needed to be reckoned with.

Not only the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden was like this; the Ten Thousand Laws True Immortal Maiden was likewise.

Both had walked this path of taking the human race as the absolute main body.

This had also led to the current bitter fruit: in the number of Eighth Tribulation Supreme powerhouses, they greatly lagged behind their opponent—an unavoidable disadvantage.

"However,"

"Is this truly a disadvantage?"

Jiang Ding's gaze was somewhat cold as he watched the battlefield, silently thinking: "Whether it is the Immortal Dao industrial system or the materialist scientific Immortal Dao industrial system, what is the most important thing?"

"It is unified standards, unified measures."

"It is meters, kilograms, kilometers, spiritual energy concentration, rule frequency… and all manner of things contained within the Original Ancient Seal Script. These standards demand extremely high precision, to the point of hairsplitting; an error of a hundred-trillionth cannot be permitted."

"And the formulation of standards and measures is closely related to race."

"Take the human race, for example—centimeters, meters, kilometers… such measures are very suitable; this race is accustomed to them. But if such measurement standards were transplanted wholesale into the Dragon Clan, whose members routinely measure thousands or tens of thousands of zhang in size, would these same standards still apply?"

"They would not!"

"Completely inapplicable—such measurement standards could never guide the development of True Dragon Immortal Dao science and technology!"

"If the True Dragon Clan wishes to develop Immortal Dao science and technology, it must discard this set of human measurement standards and develop its own set of True Dragon measurement standards suited to itself. This is the Original Ancient Seal Script; this is the importance of the Immortal Dao universal constants."

"This is the inherent cost of multi-racial forces!"

Jiang Ding smiled coldly: "Generations of Human Emperors—some selflessly devoted, some universal in love, some cold and evil—yet all, without exception, chose the human race, never once betraying it. This is the reason."

"The human race is not merely the Human Emperor's kin, not merely because of emotion, but because the human race is truly very useful!"

"The human race is of tremendous use on the path to becoming Emperor!"

This was one of the deep foundations of the human race as the hegemonic species of the endless starry sky.

If given several hundred thousand more years to develop, the number of human Eighth Tribulation Supremes would surpass those of the Fortune True Dragon Son's True Dragon Immortal Dynasty—this was potential.

But that was the future.

At present, the Fortune True Dragon Immortal Dynasty's advantage in the number of powerhouses was indisputable.

Jiang Ding had some psychological preparation for failure and defensive posture in the current time segment; what he was more concerned with was the measure of the Chengyun Town-Mount Bixi Immortal Army—that is, the golden-yellow great drum carried on a mountain peak at the center of countless Fortune Bixi.

This great drum emitted an ancient, weathered aura, as if born from the origin of the Great Dao.

Each time this great drum was struck, ripples of pure gold spread in all directions, annihilating billions upon billions of Breaker Sword Qi with True Dragon Fortune, and moreover inspiring the myriad-race powerhouses, aligning their divine sense and magic power, so that the army formation erupted with might far surpassing that of an Eighth Tribulation Supreme—comparable even to a newly ascended True Immortal Maiden.

This was the application vessel of the Fortune True Dragon's Original Ancient Seal Script!

"This standard measure of the Immortal Dao universal constants…"

Jiang Ding silently comprehended, referenced, and various thoughts arose in his heart: "It is not a pure True Dragon Clan standard Immortal Dao universal constant measure, but rather takes the True Dragon Clan as the core, then shifts downward and accommodates the myriad races, taking the most suitable average value from among the Phoenix Clan, Heavenly Horse Clan, Ox-Demon, Horse-Demon, Tiger-Demon, and other myriad-race beings as the Immortal Dao universal constant measurement standard."

"It seems the Fortune True Dragon Son wishes to establish a universal-for-all-races Fortune Immortal Dynasty."

"This path has both good and bad points; it is a grand early-stage strategy. It all depends on whether he can grasp it… if he cannot transform the grand early-stage advantage into a late-stage advantage…"

"Then,"

Jiang Ding said calmly.

"He will surely die at my hands!"

Amidst his lengthy thoughts, the future strategy was already set: that was, for now, to substitute defense for offense, awaiting the late-stage exertion of the human race's racial advantage to counterattack the True Dragon Immortal Dynasty.

And at this moment, the battle of the Heavenly Bottle Star Domain had already drawn to a close.

The Chengyun Town-Mount Bixi Immortal Army was in rout!

The Fortune Bixi that had swept across all directions like primordial Shenshan shattered one after another, plummeting, ground to pieces by terrifying Breaker Sword Qi. Tens of billions of flying swords crossed the sky, shrieking as they tore apart ten thousand paths of starry sky. Human Sword Cultivators were pursuing the fleeing and striking down the stragglers, slaughtering the myriad-race beings of the True Dragon Immortal Dynasty!

"This…"

"Huh? Th-this… this…"

Jiang Ding, who was in the midst of a storm of countless thoughts, suddenly raised his head and stared fixedly at that battlefield.

(End of chapter)