Chapter 2137: The Sword That Disrupted the Endless Cosmic Starry Skies

The brutal slaughter between the star domains continued.

This was a clash between two great immortal Dao systems—a contest spanning frontal combat power, rear combat power, logistics, sustained warfare capability, and every other aspect. The moment an enemy found a weak point, a fatal blow would immediately follow.

Jiang Ding sat upright within the Supreme Great Sun Heaven Palace, quietly deducing the empirical formulas of the immortal Dao universal constants.

The chaos in the immortal Dao universal constants caused by the True Immortals' slaughter still persisted, making the calculation of constants harder. This caused the True Immortals' strength to drop in tandem, but he was rapidly adapting to the process—his steps for calculating the constants were shortening, and his results were growing more precise.

"Son of the Dragon of Fortune—I wonder if you possess such a recovery speed…"

"If you don't, then this sovereign will be terribly disappointed."

Jiang Ding Zi murmured.

Clang!

The Taiqing Flying Sword left its sheath.

This flying sword, refined from a star, was like a black hole in the river of time—inconceivably heavy, inconceivably scorching, possessing a terrifying mass sufficient to warp time itself.

At this moment, this sword was not aimed at any person.

It was aimed at the Heavenly Dao!

Aimed at the immortal Dao universal constants of the endless starry skies!

This sword deliberately disrupted the immortal Dao universal constants, triggering even more violent fluctuations and even more violent chaos. This was entirely man-made, entirely intentional—not a byproduct of the True Immortals' clash.

This sword, contemplated by True Immortals for many years, was a sword that shattered law and threw Dao into disarray—a single strike causing the three thousand great Daos of the endless cosmic starry skies to be thrown into unceasing turmoil!

In an instant, Jiang Ding's face went slightly pale, and his strength plummeted.

The immortal Dao universal constants constituted his divine soul, Dharma body, magic power, and more—they were an extremely vital structure. This chaos in the immortal Dao universal constants likewise brought him a violent, extremely dangerous impact.

As for the other True Immortals…

……

In an instant, countless True Immortals across the endless starry skies fixed their gazes, cold and grim.

They knew that one True Immortal had been the first to break the unspoken accord, unleashing a war without bottom lines, deliberately disrupting the immortal Dao universal constants—utterly despicable and shameless.

"Ha!"

"Interesting, truly interesting—and with a sense of déjà vu…"

Within the Purple Tenuity Star Domain's Yin-Yang Imperial Heaven, True Immortal Wan Fa sat upon her throne, radiant and moving, dignified and noble, impossible to look away from.

At this moment her face turned deathly pale, yet she wore a gentle smile, as though recalling some memory from the past.

"Since that is so,"

"then this sovereign shall likewise join in, lest people look down upon me."

True Immortal Wan Fa sighed softly.

She extended her hand, and a terrifying seal emerged with a thunderous rumble from the nine heavens.

The knob atop this seal was a dragon-turtle bearing the River Diagram and Luo Writing; the dragon-turtle's eyes were inlaid with the Primordial Eight Trigrams; the turtle's shell bore the original ancient scripture passages of the River Diagram and Luo Writing; the dragon's claws gripped chains—legend held that within these dragon-claw chains was fused a sliver of a fragment from the immortal artifact the Heaven-Overtaking Seal. The seal's base was formed of the thirty-three layered heavens of the Mysterious Vault, containing infinite worlds of creation. Upon the seal's face was engraved the Decree of Ten Thousand Laws—countless variables of the endless starry skies, countless great Daos, all reduced to one beneath its decree.

The supreme treasure forged with the full might of the Immortal Court of Ten Thousand Laws—the Mysterious Vault Imperial Decree Seal of Ten Thousand Laws!

"Chaos!"

True Immortal Wan Fa said calmly.

Rumble…

In an instant, the three thousand great Daos of the endless starry skies all manifested, snapping taut like three thousand harp strings, humming and ringing. The immortal Dao universal constants churned like towering waves in a deep sea, heaving up and down without end, terrifying and formless, utterly stripped of order.

Beneath this seal-strike, the radiance upon True Immortal Wan Fa seemed to dim somewhat.

"Only within adversity can the great Dao be glimpsed."

"A mediocre path to emperorhood does not belong to this sovereign. My late father has already condensed the Emperor's Mark—if I follow the prescribed order, this sovereign has no hope of success…"

A wild frenzy shone in True Immortal Wan Fa's eyes.

Soon.

Soon, soon.

In the most recent tens of thousands of years, the number of star domains discovered had grown ever greater, and the difficulty of deducing star domain coordinates had grown ever smaller. They must be drawing near a star-ring belt dense with life-bearing star domains, and the likelihood of contact with another True Immortal was growing ever larger. The first step toward emperorhood was about to arrive…

……

"Madmen!"

"These madmen! They've all gone mad…"

One after another, waves of immortal Dao universal constant fluctuations arrived, and across the endless starry skies True Immortals roared in fury, unable to comprehend these frenzied beings.

This was purely harming others without benefiting oneself!

One must understand that becoming emperor was not something achieved by slaughtering every other True Immortal. The most important thing had always been deducing the true original ancient records, then merging with the Dao of the endless starry skies, condensing the Emperor's Mark—only thus could one become emperor, invincible beneath the heavens.

Throughout this process, deducing the true original ancient records was a thread running through everything—the most vital great Dao.

Yet now, two True Immortals had, one after another, deliberately stirred the immortal Dao universal constants, madly increasing the difficulty of deducing the immortal Dao universal constants—they had simply gone mad!

"Since that is so,"

"then let us welcome it together!"

Many True Immortals said coldly.

They likewise chose to further disturb the true original ancient records!

One True Immortal after another struck in turn, further adding fuel to the fire, causing the already chaotic great Daos of the endless starry skies to be thrown into yet greater upheaval. In the end the great Daos even grew blurred, impossible to see clearly; the true original ancient records flickered in and out of view, as if about to vanish at any moment, no longer easy to be seized upon.

Even one True Immortal—who cultivated the great Dao of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and was, for certain reasons, congenitally deficient—instantly entered a state of nirvanic slumber.

"Slumber for a time…"

"To weather this storm of great Dao chaos…"

"Otherwise I will fall from the Supreme realm. Supreme Great Sun—I will remember you forever…"

A figure, as true as it was illusory, so beautiful it was hard to believe, as if the embodiment of the concept of ultimate beauty in the hearts of all living beings, sighed softly, shifting from an active state of life into slumber, leaving all matters entirely to her subordinates to handle.

……

The Supreme Solar Heaven Palace.

Jiang Ding's aura plummeted all at once.

And it kept dropping, as if there were no end, until at last his whole person had dimmed.

His flying sword's spiritual light withered, and web-like cracks appeared all over his body; fresh blood and magic power gushed through the fissures, visible to the naked eye, like the Yellow River on the verge of bursting its dikes, ready at any moment to tear through the cracks and burst forth from his body, triggering an even wider-scale decay of his meridians and flesh.

A True Immortal's dharma body is like a god-tier civilization's super warship — once even a sliver of its motive energy leaks, it can trigger a terrifying catastrophe that shatters an entire star domain.

"Hahahaha!"

"These Daoist friends are really warm-hearted! The ones born in the Year of the Dog — poke them a little and they all strike at once, not knowing the slightest restraint, which leaves this sovereign quite disappointed… hahahaha…"

Jiang Ding laughed wildly, his mood exceedingly cheerful.

He had already spent several hundred thousand years comprehending the calm, unrippled constants of the immortal Dao universe, and long grown weary and bored of it; only in an environment of constant upheaval, like towering tsunamis, could he observe more detailed data on those constants and further perfect his own great Dao.

"Let's see who can recover first."

"This sovereign is confident — not only of recovering faster, but of growing even stronger…"

Jiang Ding thought quietly, a touch of killing intent stirring within him.

(End of this chapter)