In the blink of an eye, two hundred years passed.
Jiang Ding cultivated silently in the Solar Abyss, accumulating spiritual power and refining his flying sword. The refinement was painfully slow. It might take more than ten thousand years, perhaps nearly twenty thousand, for the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword to reach the peak of a Void Refining spatial treasure, possess nine Great Sun rule divine restrictions, and approach its limit.
"No. There's another terrible consequence to that..."
Jiang Ding murmured inwardly, "A Supreme Clarity Flying Sword refined step by step like that won't have the foundation to become a treasure beyond Dao Integration."
"A sword is like a person. Supreme Clarity is like me."
"I need to change."
"I must master the complete Sun Sword Sacrifice Method as soon as possible, and... kill more powerful people. Evil ones who violate Immortal Sect Law, of course. That accords with my Dao heart."
"Risk?"
"How could there be any risk? I'm invincible under heaven and across the earth. There's no risk at all."
Hum!
The Supreme Clarity Flying Sword trembled in agreement.
There was absolutely no risk. None at all.
At that moment, the faint sting that had persisted in Jiang Ding's soul, flesh, and blood for two hundred years vanished. His body, soul, and sword intent achieved perfect harmony in an instant, with no conflict remaining.
His body could now bear a sword soul!
At that moment, Jiang Ding's soul, body, and sword intent became seamless and whole. His soul and sword intent began to merge. His sword intent fell upon his soul like a drop of dazzling divine light, then spread through him in an instant, suffusing his deep-blue soul with the radiance of the sun.
Hum!
Hummm!
At that moment, the light across hundreds of thousands of kilometers of