"Home..."
Jiang Ding murmured and slowly withdrew from the Immortal Sect Council meeting.
Even now, he examined his sword soul, flying sword, dantian, and meridians once more. He found nothing wrong. Everything was perfectly normal.
Was it an illusion?
Clang!
The Supreme Clarity Flying Sword hummed softly.
She had found nothing either. Everything was as it had always been.
The sword was just like its wielder. That much was true.
Around him, the Great Sun Celestial Pool spread out, a secret realm blazing with light. As an inherited treasure at the peak of Dao Integration, it had improved dozens of times over in every respect, while a luminous Heavenly-Law Network of rules suppressed the surrounding space.
"Sword Lord,"
"Is something troubling you?"
Moon asked.
"Sword Lord?"
Jiang Ding froze.
"Of course. Sword Lord."
Moon spoke as though it were obvious.
"You've reached the same realm as the Great Sun Sword Lords of past generations, and you've gone much further than any of them. You should begin revising the Dao Integration stage of the Great Sun Sword Scripture now. Every Great Sun Sword Lord has had to do it."
"The seventeenth Great Sun Sword Lord, Xi Yuan, already completed that portion."
"But to you now, perhaps the Dao Integration stage of the Great Sun Sword Scripture is no longer perfect."
This was a project the Great Sun Sword Lords had carried forward like a relay for hundreds of thousands of years, carving out the path of the Great Sun Sword Dao from nothing.
The first Great Sun Sword Lord had opened the way with only an early Void Refining stage Great Sun Sword Scripture. Now there were countless pages of sword arts, cultivation methods, movement arts, and sword-refining arts, all the work of successive Great Sun Sword Lords.
Some they had