Chapter 2429: The Immortal Path of This Era Has Been Severed

The Dao of Immortals is dead!

In this era, the Dao of Immortals is dead!

"The Dao of Immortals—"

Jiang Ding sat quietly beside the sleeping empress, a thread of scarlet emerging from the light, he whispered.

After ascending to the Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor and defeating the Solar Ancient Emperor, he finally had time to conduct the derivation of the Eight-Character Immortal Scripture, originally thinking it would be difficult, as the initial derivation of the Nine-Character Immortal Scripture had been so, with countless threads and countless problems, but he was wrong, completely wrong.

Deriving the Eight-Character Immortal Scripture was not difficult at all; a slight derivation and the result came out.

A dead end.

A complete dead end, with not a shred of hope, not even the slightest possibility existing.

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang walked among the Dao of Immortals, reached out, and touched a thick, thick barrier, so close, so high, not a single thread of light seeping through.

This is the shared despair of all Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors throughout history.

"Heavenly Timing—"

"Heavenly Timing, not right.

Jiang Ding whispered: "Could it be, if Heavenly Timing is not right, then there is absolutely no possibility of becoming an immortal?"

Becoming an immortal is not merely a qualitative change of a single cultivator, but also the sublimation of the universe; the two are not isolated events. Without Heavenly Timing, it means the cultivator must defy the universe to attain the Dao—this is entirely a zero-probability event.

Only immortals can accomplish this.

In Jiang Ding's current calculations, conducting a single simulation experiment of the Eight-Character Immortal Scripture requires resources a hundred thousand times that of a single Nine-Character Immortal Scripture experiment!

A hundred thousand times!

A hundred thousand times, ah!

This result makes people utterly unable to believe it; the gap is too vast—this should not be an answer, but rather like a calculation error.

Yet, Jiang Ding repeatedly calculated again and again, and the final result remained the same.

Only more, never less.

The external conditions for Immortal Scripture experiments are utterly unattainable; the entire universe fails to meet the experimental requirements. To conduct a single Eight-Character Immortal Scripture experiment, one must remodel the entire universe.

One Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang does not possess such capability.

This is the prerogative of immortals.

"All kinds of dreamlike illusions, already turned to emptiness—"

Jiang Ding whispered.

He suddenly wanted wine, to spend his life drunk.

This weak thought, for the first time in his life, arose in the mind of a sword cultivator who wished to anesthetize himself, unwilling to accept the cold reality.

The external environment cannot meet the requirements; the Eight-Character Immortal Scripture experiment has no possibility of realization.

Simplify and optimize the Eight-Character Immortal Scripture experimental model?

Impossible, truly impossible; the external environment is completely mismatched. Looking around, everything is unknown. In the Great Dream Sword Realm, it is fundamentally impossible to simulate an Eight-Character Immortal Scripture experiment—let alone a mere fantasy, it does not even qualify as Immortal Dao science. Under such circumstances, all talk of simplification and optimization is empty.

All Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors throughout history, in unison, began to completely abandon their efforts at the moment of promotion.

All Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors are preparing for the Golden Great Age.

The time of Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu flows like flowing water; unknown how many years, unknown how long has passed, when a special message came from outside the palace, only then did it interrupt the Ancient Emperor's dazed calculations.

"Five million years have passed—"

Jiang Ding sat upright at the overlapping point of the Solar Forbidden Zone and Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu, murmuring to himself.

For five million years, he has been calculating the Eight-Character Immortal Scripture, always seeking a path, having deduced a trillion possible roads, yet achieved nothing.

The special transmission from outside Tian Shu came before his face, radiant and shining.

This is a special transmission, concerning data observation of the River of Time; otherwise, the outside world has no permission to communicate with Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu.

As old friends gradually depart, Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang becomes increasingly ethereal, drawing closer to the Heavenly Dao; he will not appear before the mortal beings of Shen Zhou unless at a moment of life-or-death for the Immortal Dynasty.

"Sword Lord,"

"Following the Super Immortal Array of the River of Time you left behind, the Immortal Dynasty has already found the traces once walked by the Nine-Leaf Sword Emperor."

The current head maid of Tushan, the Immortal Realm cultivator Yu Ling, spoke respectfully, her voice filled with strong tension and apprehension, as well as deep anticipation.

She was born bathed in the Sword Lord's radiance, and attained the Dao bathed in his radiance.

Yet in this life, she has never seen the Sword Lord; all Tushan maids' sovereigns, upon first stepping onto the Dao, swore allegiance and devotion to the supreme Sword Dao King.

In the Tushan Maid Dao, if one lacks a loyal heart, one cannot ascend to a high position.

"Nine-Leaf Sword Emperor—"

Jiang Ding slowly raised his head.

In the next moment, his figure appeared within the Super Immortal Array of the River of Time; looking around, indeed, the mortal beings of Shen Zhou had once again all changed their faces, with not a single familiar being.

"Pay respects!"

"Sword Lord!"

One after another, Immortal Dynasty Immortal Realm cultivators, quasi-Imperial Supremes, roared in unison.

Everyone's gaze was fiery and bright, excited and trembling, firmly etching everything they saw deep into memory, for this is a lifetime's rare honor!

"I have seen you, fellow Daoists, young ones."

"Over the years, you have worked hard."

Jiang Ding spoke slowly.

"Not worthy!"

The many Immortal Realm cultivators and Supremes became even more excited, speaking respectfully.

The Super Immortal Array of the River of Time has operated for five million years, having endured generation after generation of Immortal Dynasty cultivators, only now in this generation bearing fruit; thus, they dare not claim full credit, for the descendants and disciples of those cultivators who once contributed are still passing on the legacy.

Jiang Ding offered warm words of comfort.

Even if he is now truly desperate, with the development of immortal cultivation and science stagnant, he would not vent his anger on these immortal dynasty cultivators; this is not the baseness a sword cultivator should have.

Handling everything in an orderly manner, Jiang Ding rapidly deduced in his mind the data accumulated in the River of Time Immortal Formation, calculating swiftly.

Compared to when he faced the Solar Ancient Emperor, his efficiency is obviously much faster now.

In just a few thousand years, Jiang Ding's black-and-white light flickering gaze turned toward the Wu Jin Kong Kong River of Time, looking at it with the rules of attaining the Dao and destroying the method to become an immortal; gradually, streaks of scarlet traces emerged, sinking and floating in the River of Time, intermittent, continuously stretching toward the future.

"Hmph————Nine Leaves."

"Indeed, there has been modification, but the cause and effect between you and me is deeper than that of the Solar Ancient Emperor, the longing of countless eras of human sword cultivators of the immortal dynasty."

Jiang Ding gave a faint cold smile, looking toward the downstream of the River of Time, a corner of future time.

There, a gentle stretch of the river exists.

As the gaze of the Nirvana Immortal Dual Pupil Rule fixed upon it, layer upon layer of the River of Time dissipated, revealing a handsome and demonic white-clad sword immortal within.

Nine Leaves Sword Emperor!

The Nine Leaves Sword Emperor, unseen for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, appears once again in Shen Zhou!

Countless immortal dynasty cultivators trembled; countless immortal dynasty human sword cultivators once again recalled history, killing intent, fear, and other emotions surging in their hearts.

"Supreme Great Sun————"

"Long time no see."

The Nine Leaves Sword Emperor, however, was not surprised, merely giving a faint smile.

He made no attempt to probe, instead taking the same decisive and resolute action as the Solar Ancient Emperor—burning away his entire self to the utmost sublimation, madly fleeing downstream toward the future of the River of Time.

He was certain he could escape; it was inevitable.

For even if it is the present era's Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor, he dare not dream of slaying a Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor who is single-mindedly fleeing!

Likewise, both are Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors, of the same rank—whose talent and skill, whose combat ability, is superior to whose?

Historical Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors would not engage in an unequal holy sword duel with present-era Ancient Emperors; such a holy sword duel holds no value and offers no possibility of breakthrough.