Chapter 2232: The Lock-Spirit Particle Begins to Replicate and Proliferate

What does the Tushan Palace, which accompanied the Supreme Sun Sword Immortal Maiden through her humble beginnings for many years and witnessed her entire journey from insignificance to power, look like?

The Fusang Holy Maiden and the Zhu Que Holy Maiden entered the palace together, driven by curiosity.

Simple.

That was their first impression.

Along the way, aside from the necessary formations, everything they saw was made of white jade-like stone material, with no decoration at all—just a plain residence, almost devoid of any ornaments.

That makes sense, doesn't it?

The Sword Immortal Maiden is just like that—indifferent, rarely showing human emotions, like a celestial being from the nine heavens.

Seeing this, the Fusang Holy Maiden suddenly felt a surge of sourness in her heart.

How can a person lack so many emotions?

Delicacies, fine wine, beautiful people, splendid garments, lovely flowers… these and more are the beautiful things of the mortal realm—surely the Sword Immortal Maiden's heart has never known such things?

Has he been this close to the Dao of Heaven, this close to the Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotion, since birth?

"Your Highness Caiyu,"

The Fusang Holy Maiden twitched her nose, her voice tinged with sourness as she asked: "What does a palace older than this one look like? In the first ten thousand years of his life, what was his earliest dwelling like?"

She suddenly found herself unable to suppress her curiosity about all of this.

Surely, as a child, the Sword Immortal Maiden must have been very adorable?

"The original appearance of the palace..."

Gong Caiyu froze for a moment.

After a long while, she pointed her finger, and a brand-new palace appeared before them.

This palace was splendid, adorned everywhere with flowers and flames, a distinctly feminine palace; its building material was rather crude, at most only a Golden Core-level formation, many walls cracked and blackened, as if scorched by fire, bearing the marks of past battles.

Of course, these flaws did not affect the palace's formation, so no one bothered to clean them up.

"This palace,"

"Is this His Majesty's spoils from the Golden Core Stage?"

The Zhu Que Holy Maiden asked curiously.

So poor.

In his youth, the Sword Immortal Maiden truly was a penniless sword cultivator.

By comparison, opportunities to encounter Golden Core-level items in her lifetime have been extremely rare—such things hardly ever appear in her storage bag.

Nevertheless, a sword cultivator, even if destined to become a Sword Immortal Maiden, must fight and struggle through blood and mud.

With all one's will, strength, and awakening, to seize even a single spirit stone.

"Probably."

The Fusang Holy Maiden gazed at the palace with bright, sparkling eyes, as if seeing the Sword Immortal Maiden in her youth.

"This is the Tushan Demon Kingdom."

"The first Golden Core-level power destroyed by the Young Master."

"This is when he first fully controlled an independent territory, holding all power; thereafter, many things of the Dao Court, such as the 'Tushan Code' and the Tushan Maiden Corps, originated here and subsequently influenced the Boundless Starry Expanse."

Gong Caiyu revealed a look of nostalgia: "The Tushan Palace was like this from the beginning—for the Young Master, if it was usable, that was enough, so he would never waste any spirit stones on repairs."

"The second palace is named the Black Demon Palace—this is the palace the Young Master possessed after destroying the first Divine Transformation-level power..."

Gong Caiyu's hand conjured a gloomy palace; within it hovered a crude, clumsy illusion of the Six Paths of Reincarnation black hole—this is the Northern Origin Liu Dao Sect.

"The third palace..."

Gong Caiyu's gaze softened as she spoke gently, recounting the Sword Immortal Maiden's past to the two maidens.

The Fusang Holy Maiden and the Zhu Que Holy Maiden's eyes shimmered with alternating colors.

That cold, Supreme Forgetfulness-like Sword Dao Saint in their hearts gradually faded, replaced by someone flesh and blood.

"That's roughly how it was."

"Your Highness, you are qualified to carry out a certain degree of renovation on the Forbidden Palace."

Gong Caiyu briefly introduced: "Next, the administrative department, tax bureau, military, and research institutions of the Fallen Realm will transfer their authority to you—please pay attention to the Grand Dream Sword Realm Administrative System."

"The Tushan Maiden Corps will henceforth only retain the duties of guarding the Forbidden Palace and supervising permits."

This was an unspoken understanding.

When the Emperor and Empress descend upon a place, they naturally assume partial authority over it—even if it is merely a minor thousand-world cluster, her right to power must be transferred; otherwise, it would be disrespectful.

In the 'Tushan Code,' the Tushan Maiden Corps originally had only these responsibilities; those past powers were merely temporary assignments.

"Thank you, Sister Caiyu."

The Fusang Holy Maiden gave a light smile.

……

Jiang Ding lay hidden in silence within the Vermilion Phoenix Star Fields, taking no action.

He remained concealed within the barrier of the Extinction Law Membrane, untouched by karma, exchanging no matter or spiritual energy with heaven and earth, nor influencing the great Dao of laws—merely observing the Boundless Starry Expanse with his twin eyes flashing black and white light, monitoring the operation of the Vermilion Phoenix Immortal Dao Technology System, and tracking the changes in the cosmic constants of the Immortal Dao universe in this star field.

At the same time, within the Extinction Law Dao, the Dao Court research team was likewise developing Lock-Spirit Particles day after day.

The patience of the Supreme Sun Sword Immortal Maiden is nearly infinite.

In such uneventful, water-like tranquility, time flowed slowly, moment by moment, and the passage of ages went unnoticed.

The Boundless Universe Starry Expanse is dynamic.

The expansion of the Dao Court and the Phoenix Heavenly Nest continues as before, with the two Boundless Starry Expanse-level powers breaking through one world after another, expanding the territory of the True Immortals.

In nearly the same time period, both major powers discovered new clusters of life-rich star fields, and the number of star fields under their control began to surge.

Not only the True Immortal Child and the Sword Immortal Maiden, but other powers are likewise experiencing this.

As the True Immortal Child's strength grows, one life-rich star field after another is discovered, and the True Immortal Child's power snowballs in surge—endless heavenly treasures, earthly riches, and human and material resources are gathered to the center of the True Immortal Child's rule, forged into steps toward imperial ascension, and then transformed into blades to strike down enemies.

Unknowingly, a hundred thousand years passed.

On this day, the star domains under the Dao Ting's control had already reached over a thousand.

On this day, the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Child, who had lain dormant in the True Phoenix star domains for a full hundred thousand years, slowly opened her eyes, and in her hand appeared an ordinary spirit energy particle.

At the moment this spirit energy particle appeared, the surrounding heavenly Dao faintly rippled, as if an age of Dharma's end were about to descend.

But before these terrifying omens could manifest, they had already vanished.

All of it returned to silence.

This spirit particle was utterly ordinary, with no difference from the spirit energy particles seen everywhere.

"First-generation spirit-locking particle..."

Jiang Ding Zi muttered.

He silently gazed upon his and the Dao Ting's countless star-domain pride's years of research, the current pinnacle achievement of the Wu Jin Kong Kong's extinction-of-Dharma great Dao, the highest immortal Dao science and technology, with no equal.

Its formal name is, Extinction-of-Dharma Great Dao's spirit-locking particle against the True Phoenix immortal Dao system!

This will be the beginning of the destruction of the True Phoenix immortal Dao technology system.

"Go."

"Let's see how much difference there is between my lord's research calculations and reality..."

Jiang Ding said lightly.

He gently placed the spirit-locking particle in his hand upon a nearby current of netherworld gang wind, letting this netherworld gang wind current, after many coincidences, finally fall upon a minor thousand world, entering its spirit-energy-filled environment.

In an instant, the secret replication of the spirit-locking particle began.