Time flowed on, and another hundred years passed.
On this day, Jiang Ding arrived at the Middle Thousand World at the heart of the world. He took out the final jade pillar, towering like a heavenly pillar, and drove it into the central earth vein of the Middle Thousand World. Then his divine sense spread out and poured into the core jade pillar, beginning test after test.
Ming Guangzi, Mu Tianxue, and the other Dao Integration Divine Lords stood nearby alongside dozens of inheritance sword cultivators, as well as a great many Dao Integration Divine Lords. They held their breath, watching with tense focus.
This was the final installation stage of the Ninth-Order Formation Array, the Yin-Yang Lock Heaven Array.
Completing it in barely over two hundred years had truly exceeded everyone's expectations.
If this attempt succeeded, it would surely lay down an enormous advantage for the sect in contending for the Lingbao Realm inheritance. Everyone present would render great merit, and their future Dao Paths would become much smoother.
The Great Sun Sword Son kept his eyes closed as he tested it for a long time—several decades in all—before slowly opening them.
"It succeeded."
"Everyone's term of service is over. You may go wherever you wish."
Jiang Ding smiled.
"The array is complete?"
The many Dao Integration Divine Lords were somewhat dazed, unable to be certain.
Buzz!
At that moment, a tremendous change occurred within the Tiangong Star Chain World Cluster.
Dreamlike stars rose from one Minor World and Middle Thousand World after another. One black and one white, they revolved without separating, flying together toward the distant heavens beyond. The entire World Cluster was drawn into one whole, controlled by an invisible yet terrifying force of yin and yang.
The Taiyin and Taiyang Sword Master had taken control