Chapter 880: The Great Sun Sword Son Inspects the Domain

The Great Sun Heavenly Pool flew through the Black Sinking Domain, its radiance dazzling, its crystalline walls forever flowing and spinning, extremely eye-catching.

"The Great Sun Heavenly Pool…"

"The Great Sun Heavenly Pool piloted by the Great Sun Sword Son…"

A Soul Transformation Heavenly Monarch of the Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Sect, traveling through the starry sky, paused.

He watched the Great Sun Heavenly Pool fly past on the horizon, ninety thousand kilometers in size, his eyes flickering with uncertain light.

Beside him, a Soul Transformation Heavenly Monarch of the Wuxingtian Sect also stood, atop a Heavenly Feather Tower Ship, saying nothing.

Several thousand True Monarchs and True Persons stood with hands bound, not daring to make any sound, holding their breath, watching the two elders at all times, only daring to glance sideways at the Great Sun Heavenly Pool receding into the horizon.

From the outside, it looked as though the Sword Son was making an outing, with all the Heavenly Monarchs, True Monarchs, and True Persons paying homage.

Everything was natural and harmonious.

Over the past several hundred thousand years, this scene had appeared again and again, an eternally unchanging tableau of this domain, merely interrupted for three thousand years—far from forgotten.

The two Xianzong Heavenly Monarchs stirred restlessly, exchanging a glance, each able to see a trace of coldness deep in the other's eyes.

"It should be early Nascent Soul. The opportunity is fleeting—should we…"

The Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Sect Heavenly Monarch transmitted in a low voice through secret divine sense.

"Sigh,"

"What 'should we'? This is the territory of the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect, watched over by a Void Refinement grand array."

The Wuxingtian Sect Heavenly Monarch heaved a long sigh, no longer looking at him, and piloted the Heavenly Feather Tower Ship, flying off into the distance, continuing to trade for the heavenly materials and earthly treasures he needed within the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect.

As relations between domains eased, and since many Soul Transformation Heavenly Monarchs were still unaware of the highly classified threat from extraterritorial demon races, the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect had opened up trading permits for many previously embargoed top-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures, in exchange for what they needed, to strengthen themselves as quickly as possible.

He had reaped quite a harvest these past days, making a killing.

"Greetings, Sword Son…"

"Paying respects to the Sword Son…"

The Great Sun Heavenly Pool traverses the starry sky of the domain.

Some were utterly horrified, brimming with killing intent.

Some followed the ancient Xianzong etiquette, bowing and saluting the Great Sun Sword Son—whose status was second only to Void Refinement—as though paying homage to a Crown Prince, leaving the immortal sect cultivators traveling alongside them dumbfounded and bewildered.

……

Within the Great Sun Heavenly Pool.

Jiang Ding completed his survey of the Sun Flame River and Moon Stream River, recorded all the various data, and then came to the edge of the Heavenly Pool, looking toward the other side.

What appeared to be empty space became, as his gaze arrived, transparent and hazy, revealing the true scene.

A verdant, dripping-green forest—grasses, flowers, shrubs, thick-trunked trees—together forming a forest thousands of kilometers across, where vegetation flourished and all living things had perished, becoming nourishment for the soil.

"The poison of Taiyi Qingmu,"

"The other side of vibrant vitality—the methods of a Void Refinement grand power of the Qingmuxian Sect…"

Jiang Ding said warily.

Such were the methods of Void Refinement.

Over three thousand years had passed, yet there was still not the slightest sign of dissipation—terrifying. A Soul Transformation Heavenly Monarch facing it directly would die from the slightest carelessness, utterly powerless to resist.

"Sword Son, do not come into contact with it."

Moon Spirit said softly: "This contains power you cannot handle, and may even pollute your divine soul and magic power."

"All the Heavenly Pool can currently do is temporarily isolate and seal it; it has no ability to process it. Perhaps when you ascend to peak Soul Transformation, things will change."

"I know."

Jiang Ding left the place.

He traveled along the wall of the Tian Chi Feng Yin, witnessing each grand power's methods in turn.

The endless abyss of Shadow Demon Abyss—countless cold, sinister demonic shadows layered upon shadows, rooted in the world like an ulcer clinging to bone, occasionally emitting eerie, cackling laughter. Were it not for the seal blocking them, every living being within tens of thousands of miles would perish the instant they heard the sound.

And the divine incense of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace—billions of Mao Shen, the phantom shadows of the Heavenly Palace layered upon layers, divine might like a prison, divine might like a sea, making one unable to resist prostrating in worship.

The Wuxingtian Sect's metal, wood, water, fire, earth—five kinds of heavenly phenomena constantly flowing and transforming, cycling endlessly without cease…

Such things,

Together formed the Eight Calamities of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool.

These things were like eight long nails driven into the body of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, constantly destroying it, preventing any possibility of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool recovering into a Void Refinement fortress dao artifact of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion.

"This is the Ninth Calamity,"

Moon Spirit seized the moment to introduce, not missing any precious opportunity to slander the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect: "Sword Son, look here—this region is shrouded by the Poison of Law Destruction, and it's the largest in scope, the most harmful. Nearly forty percent of the entire Great Sun Heavenly Pool was shattered by the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect's forbidden nuclear weapons."

"They are the culprits!"

"This Poison of Law Destruction greatly affects the Great Sun Heavenly Pool's circulation, preventing it from converting spiritual energy from the void chaos."

"Sword Son, you must remember…"

"These are very beautiful."

Jiang Ding gazed with appreciation at the boundless sea of radioactive dust before him.

Heaven and earth were a dull gray, utterly lifeless.

The ground still retained the remains of many bizarrely shaped animal corpses—what cattle with eight heads and three tails, birds with seventeen mouths, giant snakes sprouting hundreds of pairs of human palms…

All manner of things, every one a scene of grotesque horror.

One could imagine that the instant the top-tier forbidden nuclear weapons descended upon the Great Sun Heavenly Pool in those days, countless creatures underwent genetic mutation in an instant, suffering terrible deformities, and then—without any further effect—instantly perished, becoming mummified statues, their divine sense carpeting the radioactive dust.

"Beautiful—beautiful?!!"

Moon Spirit's voice instantly jammed.

"Release a single wisp of the finest seal. I need this."

Jiang Ding commanded.

Unlike the Wood-Toxin of the great powers of Qingmuxian Sect, or the demonic sound that pollutes the divine soul from the Shadow Demon Abyss, amid the all-pervading radioactive dust he sensed a feeling of kinship—and an extreme sense of danger—but the kinship existed alongside it.

This was not his death ground.

"Sword Child, you must not!"

Moon Spirit turned pale with shock.

"You will die, and die horribly—growing eight mouths, twelve arms, a thousand eyes. The Law-Destroying Poison of the East Extreme Demon Sect is the most insidious of all; even great powers of the Void Refinement realm would not dare act too wantonly here. You don't understand…"

"Do as I say."

Jiang Ding rolled his eyes.

This fellow kept harping on about the East Extreme Demon Sect, treacherous and cunning, base and shameless—did he not know where he himself came from?

"Fine."

Moon Spirit was helpless.

She could not defy the command of the Great Sun Sword Child.

She could only strain to manipulate the Great Sun Heavenly Lake Formation, controlling it bit by bit, bit by bit, releasing a single wisp of the thinnest radioactive dust energy and letting it enter the Heavenly Lake.

Heaven and earth instantly froze.

Jiang Ding held his breath.

In that instant, he clearly felt that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in all directions had undergone some kind of change—some deformity.

The spiritual energy no longer heeded his summons.

His body went numb and tingling; at the genetic level it was being attacked by an extremely high frequency, and dangerous omens kept appearing.

"The predecessors are truly formidable."

Jiang Ding drew in a deep breath.

(End of chapter)

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