The outside world was in turmoil, and the situation across the stars was chaotic.
Jiang Ding paid no attention to any of it.
He remained seated within the Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace, comprehending the Immortal Path before the immortal body of the Six Paths of Reincarnation True Immortal. Drawing upon all kinds of data from Dao Court industry, he repeatedly calibrated his Immortal Path Universe Constant Empirical Formula, compressing this cumbersome empirical formula bit by bit and bringing it closer to a concise, beautiful Great Dao formula.
His progress was visible to the naked eye, and he was still nowhere near a bottleneck.
Only tens of thousands of years ago, Jiang Ding had barely managed to derive the Immortal Path Universe Constant Empirical Formula, the Law Annihilation Sun Immortal Scripture, down to one hundred characters—the minimum threshold for becoming an emperor.
Yet now, this immortal scripture had been compressed once more!
In just tens of thousands of years, it had gone from one hundred characters to eighty-five. The progress bar had suddenly leaped forward by a large stretch!
At the level of the Endless Starry Sky's foremost powerhouses, being able to advance so dramatically within mere tens of thousands of years was utterly terrifying.
No wonder Myriad Laws True Immortal called this living being "skilled at comprehending the Dao." It was simply far too overpowered.
He possessed none of the "Sacred Sword Combat path dependence" common to other sword cultivators, or even other Sword Immortals.
Sword cultivators had walked all the way through Sacred Sword Combat. If enemies became fewer in the later stages and Sacred Sword Combat was lacking, their Great Dao would progress slowly, even approaching stagnation.
This was a chronic ailment common among many sword cultivators, differing only in degree.
This was why the more powerful