Jiang Ding remained within the Great Yin Yang Sword Realm for another thousand-odd years.
Over those thousand-odd years, he did not do much. Each day, he merely sought guidance from the Sun Sword Master and discussed the Sword Dao with the Taiyin and Taiyang Sword Son.
The rest of his time naturally went to cultivation: comprehending and studying new Sword Dao Cultivation Techniques, drawing inferences from them to understand new Dharma cultivation techniques. Like a man starving for food and thirsty for water, he enriched his Immortal Path Heritage.
Among the techniques he comprehended was the supreme scripture of the Great Yin Yang Sword Realm, the Taiyin and Taiyang Sword Scripture.
The Sun Sword Master had not withheld this inheritance before out of stinginess.
Rather, he had feared that the fully mature Taiyin and Taiyang path would instantly crush and assimilate the newly born Great Sun Sword Dao, causing it to lose its own self. That would instead create a path neither fish nor fowl.
It would possess neither the Great Sun Sword Dao's destruction, self-burning, and indomitable advance, nor the Taiyin and Taiyang Sword Dao's mutual generation of yin and yang, immortality and indestructibility. It would be utterly malformed.
Now, the Sun Sword Master judged that the Great Sun Sword Dao had reached sufficient heights and would not be assimilated by the Taiyin and Taiyang Sword Dao, so he opened this aspect of the inheritance as well.
Jiang Ding returned the peach for the plum. Naturally, he also recopied the newest version of the Great Sun Sword Scripture and casually placed it in the Scripture Repository.
Every generation of Great Sun Sword Masters would revise the Great Sun Sword Scripture anew, and this generation was no exception.
Moreover, the revisions came even more frequently. Basically, every ten thousand years,