Chapter 2726: The Immortal Ascent Shortcut Defies Heaven's Principles

Young cultivators fought in the void of time.

At first, the battlefield was in a stalemate; sometimes the celestial dynasty cultivators suffered crushing defeats with countless casualties, and sometimes the Golden Immortal Dao cultivators were utterly routed.

As the fighting continued, vast numbers of corpses and magical treasures of Fifth Golden Age cultivators were sent to the rear for analysis.

After a period of time, even some cultivators' souls were captured, and the restrictions were successfully broken, completing soul-searching; vast amounts of Fifth Golden Age Daoist inheritances were seized by the Tai Shang Da Ri Celestial Dynasty, inspiring many Daoist professions and opening up many research directions.

Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu.

Earth Immortals and many ancient emperors watched a scene from the time-void battlefield.

This was a battle between two Soul Transformation sword cultivators, both sword cultivators, with sword lights intersecting, sword Dao will and sword technique clashing fiercely, gaining enlightenment in the midst of death.

The emperors did not look down on this ant-like battle, watching intently and silently deducing.

Jiang Ding's gaze also fell upon that Fifth Golden Age Soul Transformation sword cultivator.

This sword cultivator was a typical Heavenly Fire Great Dao sword cultivator, his sword Dao will filled with the meaning of burning everything, skilled at prolonged combat, gradually burning enemies to ash, unlike conventional sword cultivators who seek decisive victory at a single point—this was quite unconventional.

However, this was not why the emperors paid attention to him; such sword cultivators, though rare, are countless in the Wu Jin Kong Kong.

What the emperors truly focused on was the source of this Heavenly Fire Great Dao sword cultivator's power.

Behind this sword cultivator, a world's fire was reflected—a world named Yun Hai Xiao Jie, where many regions had no human fire at all; people cooked food using geothermal energy, concentrated sunlight, and similar methods.

Or they ate raw food directly; this was the norm for most, while cooked food was a luxury.

Why?

Because in this Minor Thousand World domain, human fire cannot be ignited—whether you want to make a fire to cook or ignite something, it is impossible; you can use the Fire Sparrow technique, you can emit fiery sword qi, but you cannot ignite fire.

Even though the fire of the Fire Sparrow technique and the fire used to ignite flames for cooking are materially and energetically identical, you simply cannot ignite fire.

Because, in the Minor Thousand World domain, the heavenly and earthly concept of igniting fire has been stripped away.

This is precisely why this Heavenly Fire Great Dao Soul Transformation sword cultivator is so powerful—he directly stripped the concept of "igniting fire" from a Minor Thousand World, then integrated it into his own dantian and soul, becoming an eternally burning bonfire, thus forging a heaven-defying Soul Transformation sword cultivator.

"This is what is called 'seizing the marrow of heaven and earth, reversing the principles of heaven and earth,' right?"

"Indeed, it is profoundly mysterious—actually seizing the intangible concept of heavenly and earthly rules and integrating it into one's Dao foundation; such a person is dominant among peers, and crossing ranks in battle holds great possibility."

Jiang Ding praised.

He could immediately see the priority of this path.

A cultivator who has seized heavenly and earthly concepts and integrated them into himself, to a painstaking cultivator, is nothing short of a dimensional strike—one can defeat a large group of peers, and crossing ranks is no problem.

And do you think this relies on external objects, so this person would lose their Dao forever, unable to advance a single step in life?

No!

That is a heretical side path.

But reversing the principles of heaven and earth is establishing a glorious orthodox path of a Golden Age!

This Soul Transformation cultivator who seized the concept of "igniting fire" from a Minor Thousand World will surely have boundless prospects; his magic power will become purer, his soul more lively, his comprehension will surge, his treasures stronger, and the difficulty of breaking through to the next realm will be greatly reduced—

It is practically all benefits with not a single drawback.

It can be called the ladder to ascension.

"Indeed so."

"The path of the Yan Fa Xian Zun is truly extraordinary."

Bei Dou Gu Di praised: "Seizing the concept and authority of a Minor Thousand World is severely damaging heaven and earth; theoretically, it must inevitably be despised by the Minor Thousand World, and a mere Soul Transformation cultivator should certainly die—death from various qi deviations, foreign enemies, or even meteor strikes is highly likely."

"Not to mention Soul Transformation cultivators—even those who have united with the Dao or are human immortals are certainly doomed."

"But now it seems this path is filled with thorns, and every heavenly chasm has already been swept clean by the predecessors of the Yan Fa Xian Zun—this is someone with astonishing wisdom."

The surrounding forbidden-zone ancient emperors all felt a pang in their hearts.

This Yan Fa Xian Zun must be a being who made the heavenly pride of his era despair; even these forbidden-zone ancient emperors now feel somewhat suffocated.

Such a miraculous path—truly unknown how it was perfected one by one.

A sense of unease rose in everyone's hearts.

"So it seems, in battles below the supreme level, we are in trouble?"

Tai Yang Gu Huang frowned.

"The path of the Yan Fa Xian Zun is equivalent to, in the ordinary qi-refining cultivation of immortals, loading in a multiplicative weighting coefficient from nowhere; two cultivators of equal talent, one who has seized and integrated heavenly and earthly concepts, and one who has nothing, relying solely on their own effort—how would they fight?"

"It seems so,"

"Lower-level battlefields would be quite disadvantageous."

"Actually, in the original ancient scrolls' Dao-achieving method, there should be true immortals."

Bu Si Gu Huang smiled bitterly.

"This era, the mainstream path of the Seventh Golden Age is the original ancient scrolls' Dao-achieving method—whether human, demon, or sentient beings, all follow this path, because it is strong, overwhelmingly superior to any other path."

"But the problem is the threshold of the original ancient scrolls' Dao-achieving method is too high!"

"Too few cultivators practice it!"

"In many eras, the number of practitioners of the original ancient scrolls' Dao-achieving method is only a few, a few true immortals—this is this era's highest combat power."

"Below the supreme, the highest limit of combat power in the original ancient scrolls' Dao-achieving system should be true immortals."

"But now Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang is not dead!"

"Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang is not dead, so his original ancient scrolls will continue to suppress the world, restraining the birth of any true immortals—this is a flaw of the original ancient scrolls' Dao-achieving method."

"Hahaha!"

"Indeed, the front lines have indeed transmitted many defeats; seizing heavenly and earthly concepts and integrating them into the Dao foundation—this is indeed creation."

Jiang Ding smiled slightly, acknowledging this fact: "Our young people, when first facing such individuals, were somewhat at a loss; now they have chosen to reinforce formations and adopt a defensive policy."

The surrounding emperors felt a solemnity in their hearts, their immortal souls tensing.

Battles below the supreme level are not trivial—besides being able to seize the opponent's time to accelerate approach, they are also a collision of the high and low of celestial Dao civilizations!

If we cannot match them, does it mean that the celestial Dao civilization of the Seventh Golden Age is inferior to that of the Yan Fa Xian Zun of the Fifth Golden Age?

"Sword Master,"

"Why must you deliberately strike at us?"

The Ancient Emperor of Time laughed helplessly and said: "The path of the Sword Immortal is indeed extremely powerful, incorporating certain concepts of heaven and earth into the Dao foundation, comprehensively enhancing magic power, divine sense, potential, and so on, but in the end, everything ultimately depends on the sword cultivator's personal magic treasures, sword intent, sword qi, and sword techniques."

"It is not saying that whoever seizes the concept of heaven and earth wins."

"I have only one thing to say,"

"which is, even without the heaven-defying shortcut to ascension, our young sword cultivators will not be inferior to these heaven-defying cultivators in sword will."

The Sword Emperor's will rang out with a clear, resonant sound, full of confidence.

It is like two people: one has family background to rely on, starts from a high platform, and throughout the growth process can receive substantial help from their family background, while the other lacks family background but possesses other things.

The Ancient Emperor of Time believes that these other things are sufficient to offset the advantage of the heaven-defying shortcut to ascension.

The Ancient Emperor of Chronos believed that these other things were enough to erase the advantage of the shortcut to immortality.

The Solar Ancient Emperor, the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Ancient Emperor, the Undying Ancient Emperor, and others were momentarily stunned, then broke into smiles.

We ourselves were actually startled for a moment by the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang.

They were startled by the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang for a moment.