Chapter 2288: Chapter 2255: He Remains a Citizen

The outside world was in an uproar, the Starry Sky situation in chaos.

None of this concerned Jiang Ding in the slightest.

He remained seated in the Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace, comprehending the Immortal Path before the Immortal Body of the Six Paths Reincarnation True Immortal, repeatedly correcting his Immortal Dao Universe Constant Experience Formula using all kinds of data from the Taoist Court’s industry, compressing this cumbersome empirical formula little by little, drawing it closer to a concise and beautiful Great Dao formula.

His progress was visible to the naked eye, still far from reaching any bottleneck.

Clearly, only tens of thousands of years ago Jiang Ding had barely deduced the Immortal Dao Universe Constant Experience Formula, the Sun Immortal Scripture of Destruction, to a hundred characters—the minimum threshold for Becoming Emperor.

Yet now this Immortal Scripture had been compressed once more!

In just tens of thousands of years it had been compressed from a hundred characters to eighty-five; the progress bar had abruptly jumped a whole segment!

For someone standing at the height of the top experts of the Endless Starry Sky to advance so much in tens of thousands of years was genuinely horrifying.

No wonder that, from the mouth of True Immortal Wanfa, this being was called "adept at Enlightening the Dao"; it was simply far too over the top.

He was completely free of the usual "Holy Sword Fight path dependence" that other Sword Cultivators and even other Sword Immortals possessed.

Sword Cultivators walk their path through Holy Sword Fights; if in the later stages enemies grow scarce and Holy Sword Fights grow lacking, their Great Dao progresses slowly, even approaching stagnation.

This is a chronic ailment common to many Sword Cultivators, differing only in degree.

This is the reason why the stronger the Sword Cultivator, the more twisted and mad they become.

The Human Race Sword Cultivators rose because of Holy Sword Fights, and in the end also walked toward their doom because of Holy Sword Fights; as Sword Cultivators rise by this, they must also perish by this.

This heaven and earth, this Yin Yang, are far too rigid—so rigid one cannot help but shed tears.

Almost all beautiful things are terrible on their other side: like love—today you gain the sweetness and intoxication, and another day you are doomed to receive boundless pain and sorrow.

Conservation of matter, conservation of energy, heaven and earth have Yin and Yang, the moon has waxing and waning...

From ancient times to the present, from the barbaric era to the modern age, almost all thinkers and scientists have, without prior agreement,提出 a similar shared view: whether emotion, the survival of states, or wealth, everything you gain is at the same time destined to be lost.

Nothing at all is eternal!

They all sensed the same something.

Yet now, in this Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace, on this being there did not exist the slightest trace of "Holy Sword Fight path dependence"; even if he were the only True Immortal in the Endless Starry Sky, he could calmly push forward the development of the Immortal Path, standing at a height no one could look up to.

He was even more of a Magic Cultivation True Immortal than the Magic Cultivation True Immortals themselves.

In just an instant, Jiang Ding’s aura suddenly soared by a great margin; his pressure suppressed the Three Thousand Great Paths in the Star Domain, almost pushing thousands of Star Domains into the End of Dharma.

He slowly opened his clearly black-and-white eyes.

"I’ve digested most of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Ancient Scroll."

"Many of the Immortal Path insights within have given me great inspiration."

"From the perspective of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, there is much knowledge in the Endless Starry Sky that I did not know."

Jiang Ding sighed, a note of satisfaction in his voice.

This was why he so needed people like True Immortal Wanfa; different Great Daos have different landscapes, and these landscapes are of vital supplementary use to the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dao System.

It was hard to imagine: if one were born in the Golden Era and could behold a hundred, even several hundred True Immortals emerging together as Sword Cultivators, what kind of wondrous happiness would that be?

What a pity.

Such happiness was destined not to belong to the Da Ri Sword Immortal.

The desolation in Jiang Ding’s eyes flashed and vanished.

Tap.

Tap tap.

A few footsteps sounded outside the palace.

"Young master,"

"Senior Yuan, Cheng Zhen, Lu, and thirty-seven Xianmen cultivators have come to pay respects. They are escorting something."

Caiyu announced.

If it were only Yuan coming, there would be no need to report; this Senior Yuan was different. But there was not such deep sentiment with the other Xianmen cultivators.

"I will go meet them."

Jiang Ding nodded slightly and walked out of the palace.

"Ah?"

Caiyu and the Fusang Empress were greatly surprised.

One must know, even when Senior Yuan, this majesty’s own teacher, came, he did not go out to meet him. Now he was being so solemn, which was somewhat puzzling.

Puzzling as it was, the two women, along with a large group of maids, closely followed behind him, forming ranks to receive the guests.

When Yuan and the others arrived at the gate of the Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace, this was the scene they saw: a green-clothed youth was being surrounded by a large group of Female Cultivators, waiting at the gate for who knew how long.

"What’s going on?"

"What’s this fuss about?"

Yuan was a little confused.

He had come here countless times, and had also brought many Xianmen cultivators here, but each time he went in alone, walking into the deep palace to find the person; when had there ever been such solemnity?

What had happened?

Cheng Zhen, Lu, and a large group of Xianmen peerless Elites were all at a loss as well.

As Xianmen Elites, they had almost all been here, to seek advice and scriptures from the elder in this place.

In fact, they were not unfamiliar with Great Sun Senior; in the Xianmen Qingfeng University, the Sword Immortal’s avatar was always present, always teaching and nurturing, providing the Xianmen descendants with the finest education.

In recent years, Xianmen had produced one outstanding figure after another; Eight Tribulation Venerables and Quasi-Emperors had emerged in succession. Besides extremely abundant resources and the population base of hundreds of millions of Life planets, there was also the strongest Immortal Path education in the Endless Starry Sky.

"Could it be because of this Immortal Capital Library treasure we’re escorting?"

"Indeed, this treasure has quite a history..."

A young Xianmen Quasi-Emperor of merely over a million years old speculated.

"No."

Three voices came almost at the same time.

The many Xianmen cultivators looked toward the three who had spoken together.

The three who had spoken in unison were precisely Yuan, Lu, and Cheng Zhen—currently the three strongest and finest cultivators of Xianmen in this era. They had reached the same conclusion.

The three exchanged glances, all thoughtful. In the end Cheng Zhen spoke: "It’s because of Lu’s arrival."

"Lu?"

"That’s not right. I remember Lu has been here many times, hasn’t he?"

Many Xianmen cultivators were puzzled.

In Xianmen, the higher one’s position, the more one must speak politics—especially for Lu.

Before Lu held the position of Immortal Gate Governor in Xianmen, many addressed him as Senior, Quasi-Emperor, Professor, and the like; but once Lu became Governor, he should be addressed simply as "Lu."

Even a mortal, even a Qi Practitioner should address him this way; this was the most basic political logic at the bottom of Xianmen.

"But this time is different."

"This is the first time Lu has come in the capacity of Immortal Gate Governor."

"At the same time, this is also the first time in history that an Immortal Gate Governor has come to the Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace. In the past, the current Xianmen Governors always sat in the central hub or on the core of the battlefield; they have never come here..."

Cheng Zhen explained.

Immortal Gate Governor!

So that’s how it was.

The many Xianmen cultivators suddenly saw the light.

Regarding this posture shown by the Da Ri Sword Immortal, they vaguely understood something, and a warm current rose in their hearts.

That person should be a citizen.

Otherwise, why would he show such respect for the identity of Immortal Gate Governor?

They did not doubt in the slightest that even if a mortal or a Nascent Soul Cultivator held the office of Governor, the Da Ri Sword Immortal would show the same respect; this had nothing to do with Realm or strength.