Chapter 2434

"Sword Master,"

"Can you spare some time to explore a different direction?"

A representative of the citizens of a star-system immortal sect asked eagerly.

The surrounding crowd's eyes all gleamed brightly, as if they had seen a ginseng fruit of a technological explosion, all staring fixedly at the blue-clad youth without letting go.

"Let's talk later."

Jiang Ding politely declined.

Traveling through the spiritless universe's depths consumes too much time, and the gains are too meager, completely wasting one million-year lifespan after another in vain; even he cannot afford to waste too much.

Although the Upper Limit of Immortal Dao Science in the current Wu Jin Kong Kong Immortal Dynasty is locked, lateral development and application technology can still be researched, and the production of many top-tier immortal-rank factories still requires his participation in core processes; these are all important foundational reserves for the future Golden Great Age.

If he leaves Wu Jin Kong Kong, these will all be delayed.

In this spiritless universe, the development of the immortal sect's materialist technological civilization mainly relies on the immortal sect citizens themselves; he cannot help much.

If one day the immortal sect becomes a god-level civilization, that would be good.

After discussing materialist science with many immortal sect citizens, Jiang Ding bid farewell and departed, returning once more to the center of Wu Jin Kong Kong, to the Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu within the Ziwei Star Region's Nine Heavens.

Seated in the starry sky, Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang overlooked all of Wu Jin Kong Kong.

A feeling of everything being under control, all causality suppressed, all time flowing orderly—this is something the spiritless universe cannot give him; there is always a sense of illusory emptiness and hollowness.

This is the manifestation of lacking firm reliance.

That is, lacking a materialist foundation.

If a near god-level civilization from the materialist universe were to come to the Immortal Dao universe, it would likely have the same thought, another illusion that could collapse at any moment.

Is this truly an illusion?

"My foundation, after all, is forged in Immortal Dao————"

Jiang Ding whispered.

At this moment, he understood where the faint unease in his heart during his travels in the spiritless universe came from.

Perhaps he has already been touched by the tendrils of a near god-level civilization, but the ancient emperor of the forbidden zone's keen sense of fate and causality, as sharp as it is, has been severed by the entire spiritless universe, preventing clear perception.

The spiritless universe should still be visited less; there the ancient emperor is too fragile.

However, if it is truly a time of utter despair, that place should be the last resort; unknown whether consuming the entire achievement of a near god-level civilization could allow for analogy and breakthrough, leading to the true immortal path?

"Then, the reserved lifespan should be greater."

"At least reserve eight million years as a backup; otherwise, it might be impossible to cope with the spiritless universe's possible cosmic war, which is truly an incomparably vast universe, much larger than Wu Jin Kong Kong."

Jiang Ding silently calculated.

The Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dynasty successfully devoured most of the civilizational foundation of two forbidden zone ancient emperors, accumulating resources at a speed far faster than many forbidden zone immortal dynasties in history, requiring no ninety million years of accumulation.

Thinking of these, Jiang Ding paced slowly toward the Great Sun Forbidden Zone, each step crossing a layer of heaven and earth.

This is a place favored by the Extinguished Law Great Dao, where the river of time is relatively calm, constantly connected to the present world, drawing nourishment from the present world's offerings—the Great Sun Forbidden Zone, where emperors of the Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dynasty throughout the ages lie in eternal slumber.

The sky here is a dim yellow sun, constantly shedding dim yellow light from the heavens, drawing the origin of heaven and earth from the river of time, nourishing this land, maintaining all living beings here in a near-frozen slumber of time.

This is the supreme treasure of the Great Sun Forbidden Zone—the Time Sun!

This supreme treasure of the Time Dao comes from half the immortal body of the Sun Ancient Emperor, supplemented with countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures and the essence of Extinguished Law, refined and driven by the Sun Dao, thereby influencing time and establishing the solid foundation of the Great Sun Forbidden Zone.

In this twilight world, it is no longer a barren wasteland of death; instead, unnoticed, sparse patches of weeds have grown on the earth, tenaciously growing in the desert and Gobi, these weeds occasionally drawing vitality from the river of time, nourishing this land and nourishing the slumbering emperors of the immortal dynasty.

Within a certain time limit, as they slumber, the bodies and souls of the immortal dynasty's emperor-rank cultivators do not weaken but instead receive slow nourishment, their essence gradually improving, worthy of being called a foundation of immense celestial fortune.

This time limit falls within the Golden Great Age time range calculated by the Tai Shang Da Ri Ancient Emperor.

This is the second supreme treasure of the Great Sun Forbidden Zone—the Time Weeds!

The Time Weeds comes from half the immortal body of the Gan Jiu Ye Sword Emperor, supplemented with countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures and refined, granting the Great Sun Forbidden Zone boundless life.

With these two supreme treasures of the forbidden zone supporting it, the Great Sun Forbidden Zone is now distinct from the slumbering grounds of other forbidden zone ancient emperors.

Added to the terrifying productivity of the Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dynasty, the terrifying accumulation of heavenly materials and earthly treasures buried as grave goods from nine thousand million years of continuous full-load production makes the foundation ever deeper.

"All arrangements, exhausting everything."

"This all resembles greatly the many emperors of the Western Han period, who, from the very first day of their ascension, began building their own tombs, expending countless manpower and material resources, treating death as life, later generations and contemporaries—this all is too similar————"

"Could it be that those ancient emperors likewise believed they could live into the next life?"

Jiang Ding whispered.

"Will my Golden Great Age, in the end, be just like those ancient emperors, all becoming illusory bubbles? Become dead objects for future generations to dig up and rob?"

"Or perhaps become a museum, for future generations to visit, tourists to sigh a sentence about the delusions of ancient emperors, the limitations of the era?"

"

At this moment, a hint of confusion arose in the heart of the Tai Shang Da Ri Ancient Emperor.

The Golden Great Age, in his calculations, will arrive—this is derived from the cyclical regularity data obtained from observing the Wu Jin Kong Kong starry sky, all calculation results rigorous and conforming to Immortal Dao Science.

However, is this truly the fact?

Could there possibly exist minor data errors, losing a hair's breadth and leading to a thousand-mile mistake, letting him until death never see the shadow of the Golden Great Age?

Such things have happened too many times in history!

Too many!

In extremely ancient times, ancient emperors were not called ancient emperors but ancient emperors; yet now, almost all ancient emperors, including forbidden zone ancient emperors, have died out, leaving only the name of the Bei Dou Ancient Emperor passed down, unknown whether they died or are still barely clinging to life.

That entire batch of ancient emperors were sacrifices of the era, all having miscalculated.

Perhaps throughout history there has existed such a scene: one ancient emperor after another, like the present Tai Shang Da Ri Ancient Emperor, having calculated everything about the Golden Great Age, certain beyond doubt, walking toward slumber.

Yet in the end, they all died entirely within time.

"No."

"This will not happen."

"My heaven-endowed talent, as a peerless heaven-chosen prodigy born bearing the fortune of becoming immortal in the Immortal Dao universe, will surely become immortal in the future—how could such an error possibly arise————"

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang murmured.