Chapter 796: Breaking Through the Third Realm of the Sword Dao, Forging the Sword into Silk

Several months passed in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Ding slowly opened his eyes, revealing weary orbs.

The injuries to his divine soul, meridians, and fleshly body were severe; repairing them to prevent deterioration consumed a great deal of energy.

In fact, Divine Machine Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun had once asked him whether he wished to take some risks, return to the Void Refining battlefield, and be sent back to the Immortal Sect for recovery, but he had refused.

His physical injuries could still be endured; ensuring they did not worsen was the main reason.

The secondary reason was that the Minor Thousand Worlds possessed a boundary wall that could prevent attacks by Void Refining experts; it was actually the safest place, even safer than the distant flagship.

These old monsters had lived for far too long.

For them, the demeanor of great experts and saving face were not things worth considering; their contemporaries, friends, relatives, and teachers from the same era were all dead. If they wanted to save face, they did not know before whom to do so, nor by whom to be mocked.

If such a thing truly happened, it might even bring a sliver of fun to their dull lives.

"The injuries have barely stopped worsening; I can move around a little."

Jiang Ding let out a sigh of relief.

Immediately after, his expression became excited; he poured his divine sense into his sea of consciousness, gazing at the changes in the space between his eyebrows.

Several months had passed; amidst the chaos and Lei Ting at the edge of the space, the space had grown slightly larger.

But this was not the reason Jiang Ding had been waiting for.

Based on experience, after slaying Shadow Demon Candidate Daozi and Tian Tian Xuanzi, a great explosion of inspiration should have occurred; this was a characteristic of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's Gong Fa and the path of sword cultivation, an inevitable event.

Previously, however, due to the severe injury to his divine soul and extreme weakness, this faint realization had been hidden; the basic conditions for expressing it were absent.

Now, with the divine soul injuries initially stabilized, a massive amount of realization could no longer be controlled and poured forth.

Jiang Ding's eyes fell into a trance.

In the haze, the heavens and earth, time, and the star river swept past before his eyes one by one; his divine soul became transparent and peaceful. His divine sense did not circulate quickly, yet it aligned with some law of the heavens and earth.

Every thought could perfectly analyze the rules of the heavens and earth, bringing forth many deep realizations.

"Great Sun Infant-Binding Secret Art..."

Even in this trance, Jiang Ding still remembered this matter clearly.

This was the foundation of his Great Dao.

If he could not advance to Nascent Soul, no matter how invincible he was for a lifetime or dominant among peers, it would be nothing but a dream bubble; when the time came, his lifespan would end, and he would pass away helplessly, becoming a handful of yellow earth.

In fact, being invincible among peers for a lifetime was merely arrogant speech.

Let alone a Soul Transformation Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, even the top Nascent Soul peak cultivators within the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong could defeat him; he was merely relying on the environment within the boundary and various restrictive conditions, having no rivals for the moment, which was not worth pride or complacency.

Moreover, outside the boundary, which must exist, there were surely even more brilliant Immortal Dao civilizations; even the children of True Immortals could crush him within the boundary.

Even Chong Chong Guang Zi, fighting nine opponents alone, was stronger than him.

If one truly sat in a well and looked at the sky, it would only invite mockery.

In this regard, Jiang Ding had a clear understanding.

Many thoughts appeared in the sea of consciousness, involving the Great Sun Sword Dao, involving electromagnetism, Immortal Dao physics, involving Immortal Dao artifact forging knowledge... and so on; many possible development paths for the Great Sun Infant-Binding Secret Art were contemplated by Jiang Ding.

Among them, the Great Sun Sword Dao and Immortal Dao electromagnetism were his main directions, and he was currently leading and participating in the research and development work of related disciplines within the Immortal Sect.

In these years, he had published many articles; in the eyes of many young cultivators, he was an old senior, an old professor, except... except for being a bit juvenile, he perfectly matched the image of a discipline leader at Qingfeng University in every aspect.

Of course, this was the prejudice of the little ones.

Jiang Ding considered himself merely a bit too talented; achieving so many results at sixteen, it was normal for others to misunderstand.

Regarding the Great Sun Sword Dao and electromagnetism, Jiang Ding was thinking; many difficult problems suddenly became clear, and many complex problems were converted into mathematical and physical problems that could be handed over to other Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun and Soul Transformation Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun within the Immortal Sect to solve.

Payment was required, mainly in library points.

After all, no matter how important the matter was, no one could work for free; everyone had their own path to walk.

The remaining Immortal Dao artifact forging knowledge was mainly from the "Nine Heavens Immortal Spirit Sword Casting Art," requiring the Great Clear Flying Sword to be recast with a Nascent Soul heavenly tribulation.

The main materials, the Brother Brother Xuanwu Divine Metal from the Brother Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace and the Sky Void Ten Thousand Hidden Black Gold from the Shadow Demon Abyss, were already in hand.

Jiang Ding mainly proposed design specifications: what level of spiritual energy affinity, attributes, material hardness, toughness, and other indicators were needed; the rest could only be done by acting spoiled and requesting help from Myriad Mechanisms Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, as he was truly not skilled in artifact forging.

All sorts of thoughts, all sorts of realizations, rose and fell like a tide in the sea of consciousness; in an instant, billions of information streams circulated within the sea of consciousness.

Unknowingly, several more months passed.

"I have gained a lot..."

Jiang Ding slowly opened his eyes, feeling somewhat regretful.

"The development time for the Great Sun Infant-Binding Secret Art, originally over nine hundred years, was drastically shortened through one epiphany to over four hundred years."

"Reaching this point, it cannot be pushed further, no matter what kind of epiphany."

This was inevitable.

Realization and epiphany were not creating unknown things out of nothing; they were a concentrated explosion of a cultivator's knowledge, life experiences, and Immortal Dao foundation, scientifically organized to solve problems that were previously unsolvable.

There was a limit here, which was the cultivator himself.

It was impossible for a small cultivator, through continuous epiphanies, to suddenly possess Immortal Dao foundations comparable to great experts or True Immortals; this was an absurdity.

"The remaining epiphany, I used on the third realm of the Sword Dao, forging the sword into silk."

Jiang Ding raised his hand; a wisp of thread-like sword qi appeared between his fingers, as fine as a willow branch, swaying with the wind, looking utterly weak and possessing no killing power.

In reality, this was a high concentration of sword qi and sword intent, even altering the attributes of the sword qi; the sharpness had reached its extreme, instead manifesting the appearance of softness.

This wisp of sword qi, soft as a willow branch, could easily cut through three Thunder Sound sword qi.

Forging the sword into silk did not mean discarding the sword qi and thunder sound; it was a further evolution based on the differentiation of sword intent and sword light, and the sword qi and thunder sound, possessing terrifying killing power.

The realization regarding the Sword Dao realms was extremely smooth; it seemed the realization was meant for this purpose from the start.

"I wonder if Yu Yu Qianzi will be able to break through to forging the sword into silk in the future and reach the fourth realm of the Sword Dao, the Undying Realm?"

Jiang Ding suddenly thought of another sword Dao peer in another realm.

After breaking through to forging the sword into silk, his Sword Dao foundation accumulation had been completely exhausted; he then attempted the realization of the fourth realm of the Sword Dao, the Undying, and immediately felt his scalp go numb.

All manner of difficulties, vast as Gaoshan, wider than the deep sea — just standing at the threshold is enough to make one despair, with no way to begin.

If only there were someone else who had walked the path ahead, to serve as a reference — that would be so much better.

"No, a reference?"

"Yu Yu Qianzi is so trash, what's there to reference?"

Jiang Ding shook his head, a longing rising in his eyes. "What I need is an inheritance!"

"The kind that is a complete sword Dao inheritance — otherwise, with everything having to be explored on one's own, even tens of thousands of years wouldn't be enough.

This is the accumulated brilliance of sword Dao prodigies across countless ages — how could a single person surpass it?"

Suddenly, the Great Sun Sword Sect rose more than fifty places in the ranking on his little notebook, nearly reaching first.

(End of this chapter)

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