Chapter 2233

Jiang Ding quietly observed the soul-locking particle that had fallen into the Minor Thousand Worlds.

This thing, identical to basic spirit particles in every way, did not make a grand display; it naturally participated in the world's cycle, inherently existing in a form between matter and energy.

It was first unconsciously swallowed by a sparrow, becoming a minute part of the sparrow's body.

Months later, this sparrow was preyed upon and eaten by a gray hawk, the sparrow's body becoming part of the hawk's body—an extremely common scene in the natural cycle.

No one knew that, in this process of life and death, this soul-locking particle silently completed a replication.

No, not replication, or it could be called infection.

In this process, a normal spirit particle was infected into an extermination-law soul-locking particle, and the extermination-law soul-locking particle completed a replication increase.

The entire process took three months and eighteen days.

The shortest time is thirty days; this period cannot be shorter, because the soul-locking particle needs time to fuse with the host, otherwise the replication transfer process cannot be completed.

Is it long?

Long.

If only looking at the speed of this first-generation proliferation, the time for first-generation soul-locking particles to spread throughout the True Phoenix Star Domains would approach infinity indefinitely; it would be difficult to even replicate to cover a single Minor Thousand World in hundreds of millions of years.

But after one proliferation, the replication speed of the soul-locking particles doubled!

Now two soul-locking particles replicate simultaneously!

Next will be four soul-locking particles!

Thus, proliferation continues, proliferation continues, replication continues without end……

"How beautiful,"

"What a beautiful scene……"

Jiang Ding gazed with appreciative eyes toward a corner of this Great Thousand Worlds, a forest.

The extermination-law soul-locking particles, as life and death cycled, continuously replicated; within a few years they spread throughout this forest, then, as life gradually expanded toward the entire Minor Thousand World, wherever there was the cycle of life and death, there was the replication process of the soul-locking particles, never ceasing.

In just a few decades, the basic spirit particles of the entire Minor Thousand World were replaced by soul-locking particles.

These soul-locking particles spread with the ascension of the Minor Thousand World's cultivators of myriad races and bird cultivators, and with the circulation of the Minor Thousand World's heavenly treasures and earthly riches toward the four directions.

They spread covertly and carefully.

Jiang Ding slightly closed his eyes, then opened them.

After a thousand years, the soul-locking particles had spread into the star domains, filling many Great Thousand Worlds and Medium Thousand Worlds, and, as the strong beings of myriad races migrated and moved, they spread toward even broader places.

After ten thousand years, the soul-locking particles filled dozens of star domains.

After twenty thousand years, the soul-locking particles began to spread throughout the eight hundred plus True Phoenix Star Domains.

These soul-locking particles have no difference from the basic spirit particles existing in the universe; they possess all the functions of basic spirit particles, merely adding some minute structures, identical to natural structures, and each spirit particle originally had extremely minute differences.

This is the achievement of the Dao Court's hundreds of thousands of years of research into the Immortal Dao!

If the True Phoenix Master had not previously known this, and had not invested heavily in targeted research on the extermination-law soul-locking particles, it would be absolutely difficult to detect this change in the starry sky.

So far, Jiang Ding has never used soul-locking particles to change anything.

At this moment, as the soul-locking particles filled the True Phoenix Star Domains, Jiang Ding's heart trembled slightly, a sense of unreality surging upward.

The heavenly way's circulation throughout the True Phoenix Star Domains seemed to clearly appear in his mind—the rhythms of the starry sky's operation, the birth, growth, advancement, death, and so on of life in each world, all appearing before his eyes.

"Heavenly Fire Dao……"

Jiang Ding's gaze involuntarily fell upon the heavenly way.

In the three thousand great dao of the True Phoenix Star Domains, at some point appeared countless red filaments as fine as hair, these red filaments distributed like a spiderweb at each node of the three thousand great dao's operation, occasionally twitching, affecting the operation of this starry sky's heavenly way, the Heavenly Fire Dao moving the three thousand great dao.

That Heavenly Fire Dao, moreover, contained the will of a living being, making people dare not approach it by even a hair's breadth.

"Found you, lovely beautiful fellow……"

Jiang Ding spoke softly and gently.

He had no thought of disturbing the living being within this Heavenly Fire Dao; his gaze merely rested upon the world of the True Phoenix Star Domains.

Jiang Ding saw in heaven and earth the various fixed destinies of living beings.

On the treetop, a fiery red butterfly flapped its wings, drawing power from the flames; on its body existed the changes of the Heavenly Fire Dao, its life and death, how it lives and how it dies, will affect the True Phoenix Master's one Immortal Dao experiment, and the result of this experiment will influence the True Phoenix Master's exploration of the Immortal Dao universal constants.

In a human Golden Core sect, cultivators practiced fire-attribute techniques; these human cultivators, dying in battle and labor, their life and death similarly affected the True Phoenix Immortal Dao universal constants.

A phoenix that had broken its shell bathed in magma, undergoing a nirvana transformation; for the True Phoenix Immortal Dao universal constants, she was an important experimental step……

The True Phoenix Heavenly Fire Dao's myriad aspects were seen by the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden!

"Then let it be destroyed."

"This fire butterfly, originally destined to consume the fire spirit fruit, to advance or die, this is the fate planned in the Heavenly Fire Dao, an experiment."

"Now, this fire butterfly should be crushed to death by a giant stone."

Jiang Ding spoke expressionlessly.

The True Phoenix Master, after all, is not an immortal, not even an emperor, unable to completely influence the heavenly way and earthly way, much less completely master the Heavenly Fire Dao; her control over heaven and earth cannot be absolutely precise, only roughly precise, and from time to time accidents occur, unable to control everything.

What she can do is merely ensure the accurate conduct of the majority of living beings' experiments.

Dong!

Under the will of the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden, somewhere in heaven and earth, a basic spirit particle seemed to undergo some change.

Many things happened in an instant.

A weed swayed in the wind, a fire giant serpent, while rushing, twisted its body an extra time, a leaf fell to the ground……after various natural coincidences, a millstone-sized stone happened to fall, striking the fire butterfly that happened to fly past here, crushing it into a mass of minced meat.

This minor experiment involving the True Phoenix Immortal Dao universal constants thus happened to be aborted.

Similarly, a human Golden Core cultivator who, according to the fate of the Heavenly Fire Dao, should have died and should have been observed dying in different ways to explore the heavenly way, survived.

A phoenix undergoing nirvana let out a sharp cry, advancing toward an entirely different experimental direction.

This direction's advancement cannot be said to be useless, merely that it would cause this long-prepared important experiment to completely fail, and to achieve none of the predetermined research results.

The True Phoenix Immortal Dao universal constants made no progress……

Different experiments of the True Phoenix Immortal Dao, each with predetermined goals in fate, did not proceed toward their destined paths, each deviating from the planned direction.

The research data and the research process became completely chaotic.

It was like a Wudao Sect master instantly turning into a thug who only knows how to use crude boxing, the power originally used to concentrate strength for breakthroughs and exploration of the most advanced True Phoenix Immortal Dao technology now completely chaotic.

On this day, all phoenixes and myriad clan powerhouses participating in the contemplation of the True Phoenix Heavenly Fire Great Dao gradually felt that the current Heavenly Dao was becoming difficult to comprehend.

The True Phoenix Heavenly Fire Great Dao began to become difficult and obscure, each step forward being so arduous.

An invisible and unknown panic began to surface in the hearts of the True Phoenix various star domains' powerhouses.