Chapter 2362

New cultivation methods cannot be practiced together, sacrifices are blocked, the New Method locks the spirit child!

Together with the sacred sword duel, it severs the sacrifice!

Since the appearance of the emperors of history, over a million years have passed; since Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang attained the Dao, over a million years have passed; the endless starry void has been drained of blood, and now, at last, four sharp swords have been honed, slashing toward the tentacles in the dark depths.

The entire Dao Court has been mobilized, all Emperor-realm cultivators are staring fixedly at the endless starry void.

Beneath them, the New Method Spirit Lock continuously replicates and proliferates through the Human Emperor's seal, the sacrifice passage is disturbed and twisted, and the New Method gradually can no longer be practiced together.

Everything lies dormant in the unseen deep sea, accumulating.

Until a thousand years!

All the new immortal techniques erupt together!

At this moment, the Tai Shang Da Ri Heavenly Pivot, Jiang Ding gazes at the light screen before him; within the light screen are individual figures—elders, children, youths, men and women, from various worlds, except for the Purple Wei Star Domain Human Emperor's garrison, basically everywhere, and their identities are diverse as well.

There are the governors of the middling thousand-world realms, there are the great beings leading regional immortal Dao research teams, there are diligent peddlers and laborers—

The number currently ascertained is one hundred and ninety million.

Many Emperor-realm cultivators are present, Lin Li among them; when they finally see these silhouettes clearly, each of their eyes turns red, killing intent chilling, as if they have seen thieves who would destroy their golden age dream.

"So many people?"

"This is merely the current estimate."

"The immortal techniques of the historical emperors: the ability to obscure heavenly secrets and causal fate by reversing heavenly principles is awe-inspiring."

Jiang Ding lets out a soft sigh.

In the past, he was not incapable of calculating the abilities of New Method cultivators, but he could only calculate individuals, and it consumed an enormous amount of soul computational power; estimating the speed of calculating New Method cultivators was still slower than the birth rate of New Method cultivators, a completely futile endeavor.

This is actually a trap set by the historical emperors, into which many ancient emperors have fallen.

Expending too much soul computational power on such inefficient comparisons will greatly delay the Human Emperor's cultivation and the deduction of the heavenly Dao.

"Fellow Daoist of the Union Blossom, may this sovereign view the excellent fruits of your fellow Daoists' arduous labor?"

Jiang Ding gazes at the charming and alluring Union Blossom Dao Master and inquires.

The Union Blossom Dao Master, the Beidou Emperor Sovereign, and a large group of Dao Court cultivators forming the Immortal Dao Research Team have chosen their direction: New Method cannot be practiced together.

"Yes, Sword Master!"

"We are deeply honored!"

The Union Blossom Dao Master, eager to try, rises with bare hands, lightly pointing; after receiving authorization, begins to view the endless starry void from the perspective of the Great Dream Sword Realm, and instantly sees countless threads floating between heaven and earth, representing the cultivation methods of each New Method cultivator.

"The cultivation method with the most practitioners is the《Great Wilderness Dragon Serpent Classic》, which emphasizes drawing the marrow of heaven and earth, refining the soul of heaven and earth, becoming a world-devouring dragon—number of practitioners: nine million two hundred ten thousand."

"Next is the《Heavenly Flower Dream Butterfly Classic》, exceptionally skilled in concealment and disguise, even able to evade scans by the Great Dream Sword Realm below star-domain level, disguising a new identity—number of practitioners: three million six hundred seventy thousand."

"Third is the《Chaos Heaven Classic》—number of practitioners: one million eight hundred thousand—"

The Union Blossom Dao Master lightly taps with bare hands; the practitioner counts of various New Method cultivation methods appear in the Heavenly Pivot, mostly appearing in clusters, few practicing solitary texts.

This is only natural.

Immortal Dao cultivation methods emphasize wealth, partners, land, and law; when many cultivate the same method, it means they can form a similar Immortal Dao industrial system—what you need, I also need, no need to build an entire Immortal Dao industrial system from scratch, cultivation costs can instantly drop to one percent or even one ten-thousandth of the original, no need to start from scratch to cultivate alchemy, build alchemy furnaces, nurture spiritual medicines, establish formations, etc.

This is why many cultivators establish sects.

As the Union Blossom Dao Master's causal threads establish connections, the cultivation methods of over a hundred million New Method cultivators appear one by one.

"Sword Master,"

"The following matters, I can no longer accomplish.

The Union Blossom Dao Master speaks in a soft, alluring tone: "You must use Human Emperor authority to make a minute alteration to the heavenly Dao, so that heaven and earth produce a temporary new rule: New Method cannot be practiced together."

This is a change to the essence of heaven and earth, to the heavenly Dao; only a true immortal has an extremely small possibility of achieving it.

Only a Human Emperor, and moreover one who is extremely powerful, can truly alter the heavenly and earthly rules at the fundamental level, making something as common as air, water, gravity, or wind, universally present throughout the endless starry void.

"Very well, fellow Daoist."

Jiang Ding smiles.

He pondered for a moment, then lightly placed his hand on the sword hilt at his waist.

In an instant, no energy or rule fluctuations were visible; the flow of time in the endless starry void seemed to become extremely slow, extremely slow, like jelly.

Many Emperor-realm cultivators, especially the Sword Emperors, had their pupils contract.

A million years have passed; over a million years have passed since a Sword Emperor last drew his sword—not unwilling, but because the mortal realm fundamentally lacks beings worthy of a Sword Emperor's strike.

And now, finally, once again to behold.

Jiang Ding gazes between heaven and earth; his black and white pupils reflect the sun, moon, and stars, the three thousand heavenly Dao, the endless river of time, the passage of ages, and within it, all manner of mortal realm beings.

Every mortal sovereign, every true immortal, possesses a method!

The method of the Woman Who Weaves Heaven is affinity—forcibly designating a powerful being as one's consort; any consort who attacks her will inevitably have most of their power weakened;

The method of the Myriad Laws True Immortal is yin-yang transformation, yin and yang united, giving birth to the slaying of enemies and the creation of fortune.

This is what a method is, what a rule is—every true immortal or Human Emperor harbors a brand-new rule, self-created.

And the rule of Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang is: Great Day Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul, Destroying Methods to Become Immortal Pupil!

Beneath the Great Day Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul, those who defy it become mortal, stripped of all immortal Dao characteristics; those who follow it become immortal, mastering the spirits of heaven and earth.

"Destroying Methods—"

Jiang Ding draws his sword, with the Destroying Methods Pupil, he slashes a sword toward the three thousand heavenly Dao of the endless universe starry void.

This sword is dark and obscure, unknowable and invisible, coming from the sword of the end of the Dharma-ending era, like a precise nanomolecular scalpel deeply embedded in the three thousand heavenly Dao, proceeding accordingly, modifying something within the three thousand heavenly Dao.

A flash of sword light, as if it were eternity.

After an unknown duration, all anomalies dissipate, the sword returns to its sheath, leaving only the slightly weary blue-clad youth on the crystal divine throne.

Has it succeeded?"

All Emperor-realm cultivators tremble in their hearts, hurriedly using soul perception to sense the heavenly Dao.

A trace, extremely slight yet truly existent, appears in everyone's soul perception, like air, sunlight,

Water, rivers, leaves, stones—just as commonplace as anything else, they are the most ordinary things that make up heaven, earth, and the universe.

This is a natural law; it is part of nature.

It exists by nature—do not ask why it exists, just as no one asks why sunlight, air, or gravity exist; existence is existence.

This natural law states: New methods cannot be practiced together!

New methods cannot be practiced together!

In this moment, beneath the starry cosmos, all cultivators who practice non-solitary-secret new methods fall into a horror beyond description.