Intense pain burrowed into his marrow and seeped into his soul.
Jiang Ding's body and soul were constantly collapsing. His flesh had turned to pulp, a ghastly sight, as though the collapse of a living being's primordial genes had triggered cellular collapse and simultaneous self-disintegration.
Rule backlash?
"Sword Master..."
Great Sun Heavenly Pool Yue Ling said, her voice trembling.
She had prepared a great number of healing formations and healing talismans beforehand, but she had no idea how effective they would be.
This generation's Great Sun Sword Master, the strongest Sword Master in the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's history, had already reached the absolute pinnacle. He was the strongest living being in this World Cluster, in this era.
Should he suffer rule backlash, absolutely no one would be capable of saving him.
"Hahaha!"
"Yue, how could anything happen to me?"
Jiang Ding laughed loudly. "The Sun Rules composing my body have undergone an exceedingly tiny change. The rules no longer match my soul and Dharma body, so conflict has occurred. It will be fine after some time."
"A thousand years. Only a thousand years are needed for this adaptation process to end."
"By then, my strength will increase tremendously."
"The wisdom of the Past Patriarchs of the Great Yin Yang Sword Realm truly inspires endless admiration and profound conviction..."
Jiang Ding sighed in admiration.
Only now, having truly passed through the most dangerous stage of the first step toward Heavenly Being—the minute modification of rules—did he truly understand why the Great Yin Yang Sword Realm's inheritance insisted that one embark upon the Path to Heavenly Being during the Void Refinement Grade.
One had to know that Upper Realm Immortal Cult Dao Children possessed incomparably deep foundations. Upon reaching the Dao Integration Peak, they were fully capable of enduring repeated rule