The Great Sun Celestial Pool, Solar Abyss.
"Another thousand years or so, and I should reach the late stage of Void Refining..."
Jiang Ding cultivated in silence for a moment, then made his estimate.
A single rule-adjustment nirvana had transformed both his soul and his physical body. His cultivation speed had risen sharply, far beyond his earlier estimates.
For a Dao Child, advancing through ordinary cultivation was simply a matter of water flowing into a ready-made channel. It deserved little attention.
Jiang Ding focused instead on a second rule-adjustment nirvana.
A Void Refining Dao Child could make at most three minor adjustments. Those three adjustments would carry him beyond the limits of a Divine Lord at the Dao Integration stage, and they were the key to his chances of becoming a near-immortal powerhouse.
"Success rate for a second rule adjustment: sixty point three percent."
Jiang Ding frowned.
Compared with the first attempt's hundred percent, this was far too low.
Never mind sixty percent—even ninety percent, even ninety-nine point nine percent, could not be trusted when his life hung on the outcome!
A Dao Child of a great world needed absolute certainty. That was instinct. That was what his standing and abilities demanded!
Here, the Dao Children of the upper-realm Immortal Orders had once again pulled ahead.
"Inheritance..."
Jiang Ding murmured.
He knew what he lacked.
The upper-realm Immortal Orders' Dao Children possessed near-immortal scriptures, with inheritances that could guide them step by step to the near-immortal level. He had nothing of the sort. The inheritances of the Sun-Moon Sword Pavilion and the Netherbright Sword Grotto-Heaven reached only the peak of the Celestial Human stage. That was their limit.
"Still,"
"there's no need to lose heart."
The disappointment in Jiang Ding's heart vanished as quickly as it had come, and calm