Chapter 2803

The river of time surged restlessly.

The river roared with a clamor, and countless illusory blades of time flew out like solid forms from within the river, forming a myriad of time-blade formations that slashed toward the green-clad youth in the star river; the formation's pressure was terrifying beyond measure, condensed with the formation and martial wisdom of countless golden ages, such that even an earth immortal of the Jade Emperor's stature would feel a chill upon facing it, unable to remain composed.

"Weak and feeble."

Jiang Ding glanced at the layered time-blade formation.

Silent and boundless, the rules of the degenerate great Dao descended; the myriad time-blade formation, having just stepped one pace out of the time river, suffered a major weakening, like a meteor that must burn and consume its own mass with every step forward, and after traversing tens of thousands of light-years, it vanished completely.

Seeing this, the Time Immortal Venerable within the time river ceased probing and waited calmly.

"Sword Master!"

"Your Majesty—"

One after another, powerful beings arrived before Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang, focusing their minds and holding their breath in wait.

"Fellow Daoists,"

"This sovereign wishes to enter the time river and slay the Time Immortal Venerable fellow Daoist."

Jiang Ding smiled faintly and said: "However, the time river is illusory and unstable, dark and inadequate, extremely prone to losing oneself in the past and future time-causality within the time river, leading to utter ruin."

"Therefore, this sovereign requests that you, in the present world, rely upon various worlds, the myriad stars, and construct a present-world Dao marker immortal formation using the combined fleet and soldier formation."

"Fellow Daoists, are you willing to help me?"

Jiang Ding presented a formation diagram, letting it expand continuously, enlarging until it covered the entire boundless starry sky, the diagram enveloping every world, every star domain, every node, like a construction blueprint projection, greatly reducing the difficulty of construction.

"Yes!"

"Sword Master!"

The numerous heaven's pride powerhouses of the Seventh Golden Age had no idle words; they immediately received the order and departed.

Even if there were strange individuals in their hearts, like the Nine-Leaf Sword Emperor and others, at this moment they dared not delay or hesitate, for their hearts trembled, quivered, and feared.

The green-clad youth appeared gentle in demeanor, smiling, even asking for their help rather than commanding.

But, whoever at this moment showed any opposition would instantly be struck down by Lei Ting!

The vast Seventh Golden Age expedition fleet began to disperse, splitting into construction fleets, each carrying vast amounts of heavenly

materials and earthly treasures, formation disks, formation bases, and the like, rushing to the four directions, laying down one formation after another, altering the coordinates of one world and one star after another, driving the creation of heaven and earth for their own use.

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang sat cross-legged in place, eyes closed, nurturing his spirit.

In past battles, he had already forcibly seized much of the Time Immortal Venerable's Dao data with his flying sword; now he was deducing, locking in, and planning the future life-and-death battle, which would be his final battle before attaining immortality, after which the path would be smooth.

Indeed, one could say this might be the final battle in his life worthy of making his sword heart surge.

For immortals are undying.

No living being can kill an immortal, nothing can kill an immortal—time cannot, the Dao cannot, the universe cannot, nor can another immortal.

Two hundred thousand years passed as Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang pondered and deduced, time flowing slowly in his contemplation.

Jiang Ding opened his eyes.

The boundless starry sky now underwent a tremendous change, no longer barren and lifeless, but teeming with vitality in many places; great formations stood towering between heaven and earth, drawing energy from the Dao and chaos, forming a great fixed formation base—a supreme immortal formation.

A colossal pillar of light piercing through everything shot forth from the heart of the formation, illuminating the three thousand great Dao, the cosmic star river, and even penetrating the myriad ages time river, so that all beings within the time river could see it, impossible to block, appearing like a sun star in all eras.

Within those formations, countless immortal-era heaven's pride bowed and paid homage toward this side.

"Good."

Jiang Ding gave a slight nod.

Thereafter, he placed his hand on the sword hilt, without a moment's pause turned, and took a step into the surging myriad ages time river; his figure vanished from the sight of all the expedition fleet cultivators.

At this moment, the time river differed from any other moment, as if it had gained life, no longer a natural wonder and secret realm of heaven and earth.

At this moment, the time river was the dojo of a perfect living being beneath an immortal!

Far more dangerous than before.

Jiang Ding had just stepped in here; what met his eyes was no longer the surging myriad ages time river, but a black-red space; looking around, blood flowed in the surroundings, and above, a giant heart throbbed with a pounding sound; everything was filled with a warm, lingering affection.

"This place is—"

"Inside my mother's body, before this sovereign was born."

Jiang Ding was startled.

Immediately, a chill arose in his heart.

The time river, completely controlled by an earth immortal, was too strange, too terrifying!

This place is hundreds of billions of years ago, during the era of the Immortal Gate's Jiu Ling Yu!

The Time Immortal Venerable actually forced time to reverse to his fetal stage—not even infancy, merely a cluster of undifferentiated embryo!

Jiang Ding could clearly feel that this place was his true body; once he died, every version of him across time would die synchronously.

Is this the ultimate human law of the time Dao?

If so, the Time Immortal Venerable could easily slay any living being?

Even the greatest existence, in its youth and embryonic stage, is weak and feeble—let alone Daoist immortals, even a mortal could kill the Seventh Golden Age overlord who once ruled heaven and earth and swept through myriad golden ages.

Such terrifying power inspires fear.

Yet, Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang's heart held no fear.

"If this is truly so, this is not something great love can achieve."

"This is something only a true time immortal can accomplish."

Jiang Ding spoke calmly.

Now, he is a cluster of embryo; this is his entire existence at this temporal node, all his wealth consisting of some embryonic stem cells, and the initially differentiated bone cells, flesh cells, muscle cells, and so on—this is all he possesses.

What can this bit of wealth do?

Weak and feeble, even inferior to a newborn babe, worthy of being called the poorest person under heaven, for no one is poorer than he, and even the poorest person possesses a complete form worthy of being called a living body, whereas myriad undifferentiated human embryos cannot even be called life.

Yet, due to his earth immortal nature, he can be called alive at the embryonic stage—but he is the poorest form of life.

What can a cell that has completed differentiation do?

It can form a sword.

Jiang Ding's earth immortal nature told him that a tremendous terrifying danger was approaching, making his soul tremble, yet it did not affect him in any way; instead, he remained calmly gazing at his cluster of embryonic cells, and after careful evaluation, he extracted some of the most resilient bone cells, muscle cells, and skin cells, slowly forging them into a sword of flesh and blood.

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